Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – This is the biggest event in UFC history. UFC 100 is a stacked card with 2 title fights and a whole lot of hype. Basically, it is the culmination of my manhood. It’s so big Bill Simmons* did a podcast about it. Earlier this week UFC 100 was on the front page of ESPN.com for a few minutes. (And again today.) Heck, last night “UFC 100″ was even a trending topic on Twitter. That’s when you know something is major.

The co-co-co-headliners are Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Georges St. Pierre vs. Thiago Alves and Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson. The first two are for belts and the third might lead to another championship fight. There are so many story lines. So many big names. Oh, and Holly Madison will be an Octagon Girl. Onto the main card!

Champ Brock Lesnar vs. Interim Champ Frank Mir – Lesnar won the title after just his third career fight. Mir is a former heavyweight champion who lost got into a motorcycle accident that almost ended his career. Mir is the only man to have ever beaten Brock Lesnar in un-fake fighting. In their first fight Lesnar was destroying Mir before the fight was stopped because of a strike to the back of the head. When action restarted, Mir put Lesnar in a knee bar. Both fighters expect much of the same in the rematch, except Lesnar doesn’t see another submission for Mir.

No matter who wins, it’s validates his career despite the fact that they’ve taken such different roads. Lesnar would have the unified belt and will have won the heavyweight tournament that started a year ago when Randy Couture un-retired. A win for Mir will mean he’s again at the top of the sport. He’ll again fulfill his seemingly unlimited potential.

I’m so torn on this fight. Mir is so much more skilled, but Lesnar is so… effin’ BIG. He’s a freak. No better way to say it. I’ve decided that it is my professional opinion that Brock Lesnar will redeem himself without that dickhead, Steve Mazzagatti messing things up. Seriously though, I think Lesnar does it.

Champ Georges St. Pierre vs. Thiago Alves – Another fight between a guy with a superior skillset and a big powerful guy. GSP is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters alive and “The Pitbull” is a monstrous 170-pounder. Alves thinks he’s going to knock out St. Pierre. GSP is focused and not looking past his latest challenger. He’s a 6x welterweight champion and the two times he’s lost were kind of surprising. (Looking back, the loss to Hughes was a bit surprising. At least I think so.)

This one comes down to whether or not GSP can get the fight to the floor or not. Alves needs to get lucky and catch GSP with a knee or big shot. (Both Matt Hughes and Matt Serra set up their stoppages of St. Pierre with shots that stunned him.) I’m taking St. Pierre to successfully defend his belt again.

Jon Fitch vs. Paulo Thiago – This could determine who gets the next shot at the welterweight title. Thiago is an undefeated fighter who burst onto the UFC scene in February with a first round (flash) KO of Josh Koscheck. Fitch’s lone loss in the UFC came at the hands of GSP. He’s also the last person to beat Thiago Alves. I like Fitch (pictured) in a 3-round war.

Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson – These two guys don’t like each other. If you watched the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter, you know why. If you didn’t, they were the opposing coaches for the UK and US teams. Throughout the season, Bisping, as he is most of the time, was kind of a cocky prick. Dan Henderson made mention of that out loud, calling him “a douche bag.” Bisping thought that was rude. It’s basically the consensus of those in and around the sport (and those that watch the sport) that Bisping is, in fact, a douche bag.

All the pros are picking Hendo to expose Bisping for the fraudhack that he really is. Pretty much everyone feels this way. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I think Bisping can pull this off. I don’t know if he’ll be the first one to knock out Dan Henderson, but I’m going with Bisping. I guess this is my big upset pick.

Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alen Belcher - Belcher is a UFC veteran with a 5-3 inside the Octagon and he’s on a 2 fight win streak. Akiyama is a UFC newcomer from Korea who has only lost once in his career. Dana White and the rest of the guys running the UFC are very high on Akiyama who has fought in the K-1 and DREAM organizations. (A sucessful Akiyama may be the UFC’s ticket into the bigtime in the Asian markets.) They must be really high on him to put this bout on the main card ahead of a couple appealing match ups on the preliminary card. Belcher will have the crowd behind him (I can hear the “U-S-A” chants now.) and I’m going to pick him to upset the prize recruit.

Stephan Bonnar vs. Mark Coleman (Bonnar is my lock of the night.)
Mac Danzig vs. Jim Miller (Danzig gets back on track.)
Jon Jones vs. Jake O’Brien (Jon Jones impresses again.)
C.B. Dollaway vs. Tom Lawlor (Dollaway by some submission I’ve never heard of.)
Matt Grice vs. Shannon Gugerty (Grice wins for the first time as a cop.)
T.J. Grant vs. Dong Hyun Kim (Grant hands Kim his first ever loss.)

*Sure Simmons and Dave Meltzer ended up talking about professional wrestling for most of the 63 minutes, but the effort was there.