Caught the PFC on sherdog.com last night. A pretty decent show. The main event was razor close. I probably would have scored it for Jara from what I saw (I lost my feed for about half the second round so I couldn't really score the bout) but it was close enough that it could have gone either way. Marshall was swinging for the fences and just couldn't land. Kyle Pimental looked pretty good, although it's hard to really judge against Olaf because Olaf is so inconsistent. I was really shocked that Yagin beat Olsen. I knew Yagin was a decent fighter, but as I said the other day, Olsen is someone I believe will be in the big show someday and Yagin beating him that quickly was quite a shock.
The fight I was most interested in was the Cole Escovedo fight. As I said, Cole just making it back into the ring was a huge victory as two years ago he was confined to a wheelchair. He had a tough opponent for his first fight back and he stepped up to the plate. I thought MacDonald did tap at the end of the first round but the ref didn't see it. In the end, it did not matter as Cole won via TKO midway through the second. I couldn't pick Cole in this fight because I thought the three year layoff and the staph infection would be a bit too much to fight back from. I really had no idea what Cole to expect. The Cole who was at one point 11-1 or the one who had dropped his last three. I was very happy to see the old Cole back and I really hope he can build from this win and make a successful career out of it. I don't think he will ever be world champion or anything, but I can see him cracking the top 10 someday... maybe in the not too distant future.
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