Did UFC 101 Kill Our Theory on Tattooed Toughness?

We're gonna make this really short and sweet, straight to the point: Tattoos do not necessarily make one guy a better fighter than a dude without any ink.

Remember that little experiment we did the other night with UFC 101 going on, where we picked our winners based on who had the sickest ink? Didn't prove shit.

Forget about the fact that we were wrong about Kenny Florian upsetting BJ Penn and REALLY wrong about the Forrest Griffin-Anderson Silva fight, but in just the six matches where either one or both of the fighters had tattoos, we went a less-than-stellar 3-for-6 in our predictions—tattooed badasses Kurt Pellegrino, John Howard and Alessio Sakara all won, while Kendall Grove, Shane Nelson and George Roop should all be scheduling their appointments with Dr. Tattoff right about now thanks to their losses in the octagon.

So, our little theory about tattooed toughness needs a minor adjustment or two. Oh well. 

At least we didn't get knocked the fuck out like Griffin did.