Review by Adam Stephen Kelly
UK Certification E | UK RRP £17.99 | DVD Region 2 | Runtime 298 minutes
The UFC returned to London, England to a capacity crowd of over 16,000 at the sold out O2 Arena for UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama, a freebie event that took place just one week before Brock Lesnar's Heavyweight Title defense against Cain Velasquez as the marquee fight of UFC 121 on pay-per-view. And if it wasn't for a brilliant main event and a knockout of the year candidate just before it, the headline card would have almost been a dud, failing to produce much hard-hitting action in the excitement department and leaving many British fight fans a little po-faced after a disappointing showing from the boys on their home turf. 
This was not a good start to the main show both in terms of fight quality and the hometown factor for the London fans in attendance. England's own James Wilks suffered a dominant defeat at the hands of the Canadian Claude Patrick in a fairly simple three-round exercise in how to outclass your opponent. So he didn't get a knockout or submission victory, but a unanimous decision win for Patrick was the obvious outcome for this slow-paced and generally boring kick-off to the card.
Heavyweight Bout: Cheick Kongo vs. Travis Browne
This fight picked up from the last in terms of pace, but still wasn't the most exciting of pairings. This heavyweight slugfest pitting French kickboxer Kongo against the United States' Browne, a man who now trains in Liverpool, went the distance and was decided by the judges in a 28-28 draw. The fight was all Browne to begin with, but the Frenchman retaliated in the second as his opponent was getting more and more tired and his mouth hung open, sucking in oxygen. With one round a piece, it was all to play for in the third and final, but Kongo's decision to continually hold onto Browne's shorts for leverage cost him not only a point at the British referee's discretion, but the entire fight as well.
Welterweight Bout: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle
Fellow Brightonian Hathaway met his match at UFC 120 by suffering his very first defeat against Mike Pyle from the US of A. Another disappointing watch for the UK crowd, the veteran Pyle, 13 years Hathaway's senior, put on a dominant display inside the Octagon and delivered in all three impressive rounds where he rocked a solid defense against the Englishman. He beat him on a vertical base and he beat him on the ground, the latter especially in the second round when he had the Brit locked in a modified Triangle choke for close to two minutes, all while pounding on his head repeatedly with a sharp series of fists and occasional elbows. And when it was all said and done, the hometown fighter would lose out by three points in the final scores.
Welterweight Bout: Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit
Incurring his second successive defeat inside the proving ground known as the Octagon, Dan Hardy's fourth UK fight in the UFC yet again put a sour note on all things England at UFC 120. Going down in the closing 30 seconds of the very first round, “The Outlaw” succumbed to the knockout of the night, a huge, venomous left-hander from Condit that sent him crumbling to the mat. Hardy threw a left at the exact same time as his opponent, but had no where near as much power behind it and it turned out to be his last strike of the fight after the opening minutes were an evenly matched affair, with both competitors trading right and left combinations and low kicks. Condit entered the cage for the co-main event of the evening to a chorus of jeers from the crowd and left to stunned silence.
Middleweight Bout: Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
The main event of UFC 120 truly was the biggest and best attraction of the evening. Going the distance in fast and furious fashion, the UK's own Bisping finally got the much needed hometown hero victory of the night by defeating Japan's Akiyama via a unanimous decision of 27-30. “The Count” quickly bounced back after being tagged right at the beginning of the fight by a left hook and began taking it to Sexy-Yama with some excellent combinations that packed a hell of a lot of power. That also reigns true for Akiyama, whose punches could be likened to hand grenades in this battle, although he could never quite catch Bisping with a knockout shot, despite certainly having one-punch KO power in his rights and lefts. Manchester's MMA pride showed off his awesome conditioning by remaining lightning fast throughout all three rounds, enabling him to break through Akiyama's continually weakened defense as he proved unable to sustain himself as well as his opponent. All in all this was a terrific final contest that was capped off with an absolute bull-rush by Akiyama in a last ditch effort to capture some points, but unfortunately for him, only a defeat remained in his near future.
The entire five-fight preliminary card is featured on the first disc of this double-DVD release, alongside the main show:
Light Heavyweight Bout: James McSweeney vs. Fabio Maldonado
Lightweight Bout: Spencer Fisher vs. Curt Warburton
Lightweight Bout: Paul Sass vs. Mark Holst
Heavyweight Bout: Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Queiroz
Light Heavyweight Bout: Cyrille Diabate vs. Alexander Gustafsson
EXTRAS ??? The second disc's bonus material is made up of a preview show; the weigh-ins; a behind the scenes feature; fighter interviews; and a 10-minute Q&A with senior UFC referee Dan Miragliotta.