Educated Guesswork

The Sanchez/Florian fight was fairly lackluster. They're nominally the same weight but Sanchez was clearly naturally bigger and stronger. He dominated the entire fight, taking Florian down and then pounding him until the ref had to stop the fight.

The Griffin/Bonnar fight was outstanding. Both Griffin and Bonnar clearly wanted to stand and slug it out, which they did for the full three rounds. Midway through the second round, Bonnar opened up a cut on Griffin's nose, but the ref let the fight continue. Towards the end of the second round, both fighters started to look very tired, with Bonnar dropping his hands a lot and at one point they both just put their hands on their hips and stared at each other in some sort of de facto truce. Still, they started the action again and stuck it out through the entire third round, slugging the whole way. At the end, the decision went for Griffin, but UFC decided to give Bonnar a contract as well (though he didn't get the car, etc.) I was very impressed watching these guys. It wasn't so much that their skills were so good as that they just gutted it out despite clearly being completely gassed.

The Shamrock/Franklin fight was reasonably good as well. They initially traded punches and then Shamrock ankle picked Franklin and got very close to a heel hook but couldn't bring it off. Standing back up again, Shamrock went for a high kick and slipped and Franklin immediately got on top of him and just started punching. Shamrock seemed unable to defend himself and the ref stepped in and stopped the fight.