Your picks for Leben V. Bisbing?

Michael Bisping Vs. Chris Leben
Keith Jardine Vs. Brandon Vera
Paul Taylor Vs. Chris Lytle
Paul Kelly Vs. Marcus Davis

Should be a good card. I'm pretty sure all of these fights are gonna stay standing, should make for some good knock outs.

I really don't know about Bisping/Leben.....the rest of those I agree with you though.

On a side note Vera/Jardine would have been a better main event imo.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing about Vera/Jardine.

Anyway, I can't see Bisbing winning tonight by anything other than out pointing Leben. Bisbings strength is stand up, as is Lebens. Bisbing, however, doesn't have nearly as much power as Leben. That, and his chin is relatively untested. Nobody questions Lebens chin though, there is absolutely no way Bisbing of all people is gonna KO/TKO him (of course anything could happen, but yeah it shouldn't). Also, Leben has matured immensely as a fighter. He's gotten serious with his training, stopped drinking, etc. He did pretty fuckin good as a pudgy brawler that swung his arms around wildly, tonight we'll see how much better he is as an in-shape, serious fighter.

This cards off to a great start.

Marcus Davis was extremely impressive with his boxing. He has probably some of the best technical stand up I've seen in MMA. This fight should definitely take him out of the gatekeeper spot and set him up for some bigger name fights. The guillotine finish was a nice surprise.
Lytle vs. Taylor: ...wow. Absolutely insane fight, the pace was simply ridiculous. Lytle surprised me with how wildly he was throwing his punches. Taylor was definitely a lot more technical, and had insane cardio. He didn't slow at all the entire fight and kept up the furious pace, while Lytle was noticeably gassed midway through round 2. Still, I had Lytle winning every round. Taylor was a lot crisper but it looked like Lytle landed a lot more and did a lot more damage. I'm glad they didn't rob him of the decision to appeal to the UK crowd. Fuck those people that booed.
Sokojuo vs. Cane up next. I'm going with Sokojuo.
EDIT: Wow, Sokojuo looked amazing for most of that round. Extremely fast and explosive, but man Cane's got one hell of a chin. Sokojuo definitely started to gas near the end of the round, I don't know if he can last much longer at that pace he's set.
EDIT2: Luis Cane is a monster. Sokojuo was pretty obviously gassed throughout the round, and still managed to throw full out rib-breaking body kicks. Cane took them without even flinching, I think that had a big part in breaking Sokojuo mentally. I mean if you throw everything you have at someone for a round and a half and they don't show any signs of being remotely hurt, thats something that is really hard to deal with. Probably the most impressive thing in that round though, was Mike Goldberg saying something that wasn't retarded haha. Also I think I see Krystof from TUF8 in Sokojuos corner.
EDIT3: Jardine v. Vera: Pretty awesome war. Vera looks great as a LHW this time, definitely in better shape. Close fight, but Jardine clearly did more damage. I can't fucking believe people booed that fight, that made me so mad.
EDIT4: Yep, Bisbing outpointed Leben. Great fight though, Leben looked a lot better than he has before. Bisbing out pointed him, but did not hurt him at all throughout the fight and that pissed me off that he still won it. I liked at the end where Leben put his hands behind his back and let Bisbing kick him in the head and didn't even blink. Can't wait for Silva to take that fucker down a couple notches.

Three things I'd like to point out-

1)Who saw Davis as winning that fight by submission?
2)Lytle/Taylor was an all out war. Great fight all around.
3)The rest of the card was a little bit boring.

I didn't happen to catch it, who got fight of the night?

I'm guessing Lytle/Taylor. I think Davis is going to fight Lytle next, then maybe he'll get some more high profile fights. IMO it would be an awesome fight, two former pro-boxers that also have great ground games(Lytle has a BJJ black belt). Davis would definitely have the stand up edge though. He's way too technical for Lytle to get away with those wild punches.

If Lytle tried to fight Davis the way he fought last night, it would never get out of the first minute of the first round. On the other hand, if Davis ended up on the ground, it would work out the same way in favor of Lytle.

I don't know how horrible your sub defense has to be to let Davis lock in a guillotine, but hey, I like Davis and really don't care how he wins.

I don't know, Davis has a pretty underestimated ground game. Lytle obviously would have an advantage but I don't think it'd be a longshot to say Davis could hang with him on the ground. He is primarily a stand up fighter, but I mean over half his wins are by submission.