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The most awaited event for hardcore MMA fans is UFC 129 St. Pierre vs Shields which will take place at the Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 30th. This event is the sixth for UFC to be held in Canada. This event is believed to be the biggest UFC event in the history of mixed martial arts. The main event, which is a UFC welterweight championship, is the match between Georges St. Pierre and Jake Shields. But it is not only the match between St. Pierre and Shield that is in the main event, there is also the battle for the UFC featherweight championship between Jose Aldo and Mark Hominick.
UFC 129 is mostly a match up between Americans and Canadians. St. Pierre, who is from Quebec, Canada has a record of 20-2-0. Shields, who is from California has 25-4-1 record. Who will emerge as the victor? It is not really easy to make a prediction because the two fighters are really a good match up but I dare say that it would be safe to hope that St. Pierre will win via decision. But if things get bad for St. Pierre, he could lose via submission in the early rounds. Yeah, Shields has a very deadly wrestling ability.
UFC fans from around the world can actually watch the UFC 129 fights live even if they won't come to Canada on the day of the event because UFC has decided to air the entire UFC 129 Fight Card via Facebook, Spike TV, and PPV. Yes, that is correct, some of the matches can be viewed by MMA fans for free on Facebook, here is a tweet given out on UFC's official twitter account:
From the UFC twitter account:
Take two: 5 reasons to "like" us at http://www.facebook.com/ufc: we're airing ALL FIVE UFC 129 prelims on 4/30 live and free on Facebook.
Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts and Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia were earlier announced to be streamed on Facebook, and now more Canada vs. USA match ups, Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen, John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson, and Yves Jabouin vs. Pablo Garza have been added to the streams on the popular social networking site.
