Biggest upset in UFC history?

The UFC has seen her share of shocking moments... Jeff France battling Jeff France. Maryanne Whitis fighting for a week. Biju Matthew breaking his ankle. Wes Lukash crashing the field... but never had we ever seen a matchup with the potential to throw a bracket into a convulsion than we had today:

#15 Jan "Redbird Attack" Grundig vs. #2 (and defending champ) Travis "Back to Back" Gessley

First, let me address the question that has come up... how can a defending champ be a #2 seed? Well, I didn't make the seeds, but I can speculate. It's often a team comes off a title (St Louis Cardinals) without the same energy, desire, and focus that the team who won it all had. Was that the case here? Let's go to the battle.

Grundig sent out the notice on Robert's employee meeting to all of us Friday. But what you didn't see was the note sent directly to Gessley:

"Robert needs to see you 15 minutes before the 3 pm meeting. Just come down to the main lobby, and you'll get the full details."

So, Gessley lumbered down a few minutes early on Friday. He made it to the lobby but didn't see Jan anywhere. Then he looked up. Just in time to see Jan launch straight from the 2nd floor balcony like an angry hang glider delivering a painful smack to the right ear (she did miss slightly) of the defending champ. Gessley, stunned, backpeddaled. Jan took a 2-0 lead for the angry hangglide and bumped it to 4-0 by making the champ backpedal.

Grundig attacked again, through a series of ninja-like flying cartwheels sending Gessley back into the raised platform as he felt another pain with each step back (delivered nicely by Grundig - alternating between feet then hands then feet again)... The lead grew to 12-3.

Travis hit the ground then lifted his head in the air like a Cobra poised to strike. But it wasn't a Cobra... It was time for the Worm. And this worm charged Jan like no other, thrusting off the floor and sniping at Grundig from the ground. The gap tightened a smidge to 12-7, then 14-9.

But that's when gessley received the final news. Jan recognized that he was now looking up at her and she had that opening to attack, to deliver a final message. And it came in the form of a flying elbow drop that came crashing down on the champ at ground level.

Oh, and Jan cleaned up the scene just in time for that employee meeting, leaving no trace of the (former) champion. She had completed the largest upset in Rawlings UFC history, in style - a 21-9 victory over Gessley.

Jan advances to meet Barb "Pro Pain" Foerstel on Monday 8/27.

So, in closing, remember two things:

1. No one repeats in the UFC. No one.

2. Do the cool thing. Don't play with fire.

Up next: Double Dose Monday battles in the Sturgis Region

#1 Denny "Big Sexy" Whiteside versus #16 JoAnn "Special Delivery" Miller
#8 David "Pain Projector" Zumbach versus #9 Brian "Big Thunder" Dorsey

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