UFC 160 Fighter vs Writer Picks Challenge - The Result

Kingdom MMA's Ben Heather defeats UFC fighter Luke Barnatt again in Kingdom MMA's picks challenge

At UFC 160 Luke Barnatt was out for revenge in the Kingdom MMA fighter vs writer challenge, after defeat in the inaugural challenge at UFC 159. It was that first event when our very own Ben Heather defeated UFC fighter Luke Barnatt 7-1 in points. Not long after this Luke tweeted Ben to say he wanted a rematch at UFC 160 and to make it a best out of three series. If needed the decider will be UFC 161.

This time the pair had to predict the fight outcomes from last nights UFC 160 which was headlined by Antonio Silva challenging Cain Velasquez for the UFC heavyweight championship. 

The stakes were upped as well as a wager was put on the best of three series. If Luke lost at UFC160 he will give Ben a signed t shirt, however if Ben lost at UFC 160 and UFC 161 he has to send a signed t shirt to Luke.

The Scoring

The scoring was the same as always, if you predict the correct winner of the fight you will get one point. If you predict the correct method of victory you will get a second point and if the fight ends in a stoppage and you predict the round as well you could earn a third bonus point. If the fight goes the distance you can only earn a maximum of two points.

So at UFC 160 the maximum either guy could score would be 15 points, if all fights ended in a finish. As it turned out we got four finishes and only one decision so for this event the maximum score was 14 points.

The Results:

Donald Cerrone vs. KJ Noons

Luke's Prediction: Cerrone by TKO Round 2

Ben's Prediction: Cerrone by Submission Round 2

Both men scored one point each for this for both predicting that Cerrone would win the fight.

So its 1-1 going in to the second fight.

Gray Maynard vs. TJ Grant 

Luke's Prediction: Maynard by Decision

Ben's Prediction: Maynard by Decision

Both men were incorrect in predicting that Maynard would win so no points won on this fight.

Still 1-1 going in to the third fight.

Glover Teixeira vs. James Te-Huna 

Luke's Prediction: James Te-Huna by Kiwi Beatdown!

Ben's Prediction: Teixeira by TKO Round 3

In this fight Ben managed to correctly predict that Teixeira would win the fight but didn't predict the correct outcome so scored one point.

Score 2-1 to Ben going in to the co main event.

Co Main Event: Junior Dos Santos vs Mark Hunt

Luke's Prediction: Dos Santos by TKO Round 2 

Ben's Prediction: Dos Santos by TKO Round 3

Both men correctly predicted that Dos Santos would win by TKO scoring two points each however, Ben predicted the correct round as well and in the process picked up a third bonus point.

Scores going in to the main event: Ben 5 points Luke 3 points.

Main Event: Cain Velasquez (c) vs. Antonio Silva

Luke's Prediction: Velasquez TKO Rounds 2/3

Ben's Prediction: Velasquez by TKO Round 2

Again both men correctly predicted that Cain Velasquez would win and how he would win but neither man got the correct round to pick up any bonus points so two points go to each man for the main event.

Final Score:

After a very closely contested predictions battle in which between both competitors did very well with Ben predicting 4/5 fights correctly and Luke predicting 3/5 its time to announce the final scores.

Luke Barnatt correctly predicted three fight winners and on two of those he got the correct method as well. This led to him scoring a respectable 5 points.

However, Ben Heather manged to predict four fights correctly and like Luke he predicted the correct method in two of those fights as well. Ben also managed to predict the exact outcome of the JDS vs Hunt fight and in doing so picked up a bonus point. So in total Ben scored 7 points.

Ben Heather defeats Luke Barnatt 7-5.

This means that for the second event in a row Ben has beaten Luke in the Kingdom MMA Fighter vs Writer Challenge. It also now means that Ben will be awarded a signed T-Shirt from Luke for winning the wager that they put on the challenge.

We would all like to thank Luke again for providing us with his picks for this weekends fights and maybe next time he may come out on top.