For you to become the next Number One Contender for the MMATorch Prediction Championship, send in your picks for UFC 74: RESPECT, to be held Saturday August 25 to air on PPV. If you're able to correctly predict the most UFC 74 fights, you'll earn a head-to-head championship match-up with your picks against our champion at UFC 75 on September 8, to air on Spike TV.
At UFC 73, Lindley Hardie successfully defended the MMATorch Prediction Championship for the first time against John Taylor. In the first ever MMATorch reader vs. reader championship match-up, Hardie will attempt to defend the title against Rich Boles. Boles was the winner of the UFC 73 No. 1 Contender Prediction Contest. Now that Boles is getting his day in the sun, we'll need a new number one contender.
Below is the complete fight card for UFC 74. Please send in your predictions with the following format:
(Winner / Method of Victory / Ending Round)
PART A - Who wins?
PART B - How do they win? Methods of victory can be -- submission, KO/TKO, Unanimous or Majority or Split Decision, DQ.
PART C - What round do they win in? All fights will have 3 five-minute rounds. If you're predicting a decision victory, you do not need to include a round.
Here’s a recent example of our Prediction Format for UFC 73.
UFC 74: RESPECT
1 - Marcus Aurelio vs. Clay Guida
2 - Antoni Hardonk vs. Frank Mir
3 - David Heath vs. Renato Sobral
4 - Ryan Jensen vs. Thales Leites
5 - Patrick Cote vs. Kendall Grove
6 - Kurt Pellegrino vs. Joe Stevenson
7 - Josh Koscheck vs. Georges St. Pierre
8 - Alberto Crane vs. Roger Huerta
9 - Randy Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga {UFC Heavyweight Championship}
Your UFC 74: RESPECT Predictions can be e-mailed to mmatorch_predictions@yahoo.com
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The new number one contender for the MMATorch Prediction Championship will be determined by who correctly predicts the most fights at UFC 74. The winning MMATorch reader or writer will compete head-to-head against our champion in predicting UFC 75 fights. The championship match between MMATorch Prediction Champion Lindley Hardie and MMATorch reader Rich Boles will be detailed in our Staff Predictions article before UFC 74.
To be eligible, you must submit at least Part A above. Part B and Part C are optional. In the event of a tie, the winners will be determined by who correctly predicts the most combined methods (Part B) and rounds of victory (Part C). In the further event of a tie, winners will be determined by Part B alone. In determining method/round of victory scores, KO and TKO will count as one and the same, as will split, majority and unanimous decision. These methods of victory will only be differentiated between if a further tiebreaker is necessary.
Please send in your predictions by 6:00 p.m. EST on Saturday August 25. Entries can be resubmitted up until this time. Please make a note in your e-mail that your entry is a resubmission, which will void your original entry.
Remember -- you've got to play to win, so send in your predictions and show us why you deserve to reign supreme as the MMATorch Prediction Champion. It won't be an easy task securing a spot in the championship match, but once you're there, it'll be easier to stay on top. As the champion, you'll only have to compete with one other person. The rest of us, in the meantime, will be competing against each other to become the new number one contender for your title. Good luck all!
Your UFC 74: RESPECT Predictions can be e-mailed to mmatorch_predictions@yahoo.com.
MMATORCH PREDICTION CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Lindley Hardie
Champ from 6/23/2007 - Present
Defeated Matt Pelkey
Title Defenses: 1
Matt Pelkey
Champ from 6/16 - 6/23/07
Defeated Jerry Cattelane
Title Defenses: 0
Jerry Cattelane (2)
Champ from 6/12 - 6/16/07
Defeated Tyson Kubas
Title Defenses: 0
Tyson Kubas
Champ from 5/26 - 6/12/07
Defeated Mike Jarsulic
Title Defenses: 0
Mike Jarsulic
Champ from 3/3 - 5/26/07
Defeated Jerry Cattelane
Title Defenses: 3
Jerry Cattelane
Champ from 2/24 - 3/3/07
Defeated Shawn Ennis
Title Defenses: 0
