Another TUF was crowned on Saturday, June 19, 2010.  It was Court McGee lifting up the worthless glass trophy this time.  Actually, just the trophy is worthless.  The six figure UFC contract ain’t too shabby of a prize.  The other The Ultimate Fighter 11 freaks put on a good display.  The Yager/Attonito fight was kind of disappointing.  I kind of wanted to see Yager go against Hammortree to settle all the crap that happened in the house but whatever.  Yager’s fight ended with another loss.  I don’t know what happened to this guy.  Out of all the loudmouths in the house, he looked like he could go the furthest.  Maybe he should loose the fro and get serious about fight training?  The Hamill/Jardine fight ended in a bloody mess.  I couldn’t believe what happened to each fighter’s eyes.  At one point, Jardine poked Matt’s eye then after a long clinch and a few strikes, Jardine looked like he needed to get the RED out.  Jardine’s days as the “Mean” one are very numbered.  I think this is loss four in a row.  He’d probably make a good spokesperson for Scared Straight or something.  The Octagon hasn’t been to friendly of late.  Here’s the results of this (I kid you not, I couldn’t stay awake both times I attempted to watch these fights.  Maybe it was the lack of Joe Rogan yelling out “oumaplata!” every other move!) snooze-fest:

No Wanna See You Undercard Fights:

* Middleweight bout:  James Hammortree vs.  Chris Camozzi
Camozzi fooled the judges and beat up Hammortree via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)

* Middleweight bout:  Kyle Noke vs.  Josh Bryant
Noke put the hurt on Bryant via TKO (strikes) at 3:12 of round 2.

* Middleweight bout:  Brad Tavares vs.  Seth Baczynski
Tavares fooled the judges and beat up Baczynski via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).

* Lightweight bout:  John Gunderson vs.  Mark Holst
Gunderson fooled the judges and beat up Holst via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Main Drunk on the Couch or Pub Spike TV Fights:

* Middleweight bout:  Jamie Yager vs.  Rich Attonito
Attonito put the hurt on Yager via TKO (strikes) at 4:25 of round 2.

* Lightweight bout:  Spencer Fisher vs.  Dennis Siver
Siver fooled the judges and beat up Fisher via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28).

* Middleweight bout:  Chris Leben vs.  Aaron Simpson
Leben put the hurt on Simpson via TKO (punches) at 4:17 of round 2.

* Light Heavyweight bout:  Matt Hamill vs.  Keith Jardine
Hamill fooled the judges and beat up Jardine via majority decision (29-27, 29-27, 28-28). Jardine had one point deducted for a pokey in the eyehole.  OUCH!

* Middleweight bout:  Court McGee vs.  Kris McCray
McGee choked the fight out of McCray via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:41 of round 2 to become The Ultimate Fighter.

* Heavyweight bout:  James McSweeney vs.  Travis Browne
Browne put the hurt on McSweeney via TKO (punches) at 4:32 of round 1.

This was a pretty packed card for a freebie.  I could argue that it was an even better card than the last few Pay Per View UFC fights what with Kenny Florian, Gomi, Roy Nelson, Nate Quarry and Gleison Tibau.  I gotta say, Roy “Big Country” Nelson is another of those fighters that I have to eat crow about.  Nate Diaz is one that I’ve really really come to respect after talking a bunch of trash about him.  Nelson just does NOT look like the kind of guy that can lay you out but he’s proven it in match after match that he belongs in the Octagon, big stomach and all.  Guess we’ll be seeing a LOT more of this guy.  I think a Kimbo rematch is in order.  Oh yeah.  Remember THAT guy??!?  He *is* still under contract if I’m not mistaken.  Let me know if I am…  Here are your BIG results.

No Wanna See You Undercard Fights:

* Welterweight bout:  Charlie Brenneman vs.  Jason High
Brenneman fooled the judges and beat up High via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28).

* Middleweight bout:  Gerald Harris vs.  Mario Miranda
Harris put the hurt on Miranda via TKO (punches) at 4:49 of round 1.

* Middleweight bout:  Yushin Okami vs.  Lucio Linhares
Okami put the hurt on Linhares via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 2:47 of round 2.

* Lightweight bout:  Rob Emerson vs.  Nik Lentz
Lentz fooled the judges and beat up Emerson via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 29-28).

* Lightweight bout:  Jacob Volkmann vs.  Ronnys Torres
Volkmann fooled the judges and beat up Torres via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 30-27).

* Lightweight bout:  Andre Winner vs.  Rafaello Oliveira
Winner fooled the judges and beat up Oliveira via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27).

Main Drunk on the Couch or Pub Spike TV Fights:

* Lightweight bout:  Ross Pearson vs.  Dennis Siver
Pearson fooled the judges and beat up Siver via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

* Middleweight bout:  Nate Quarry vs.  Jorge Rivera
Rivera put the hurt on Quarry via TKO (punches) at 0:29 of round 2.

* Lightweight bout:  Caol Uno vs.  Gleison Tibau
Tibau put the hurt on Uno via TKO (punches) at 4:13 of round 1.

* Heavyweight bout:  Roy Nelson vs.  Stefan Struve
Nelson layed the smack down on Struve via KO (punches) at 0:39 of round 1.

* Lightweight bout:  Kenny Florian vs.  Takanori Gomi
Florian choked the fight out of Gomi via submission (rear naked choke) at 2:52 of round 3.

The Ultimate Fighter Heavyweights Finale rumbled in on December 5th, 2009 with a whimper and left with a big HONK! er Country. Yes, horror of all horrors, Roy “Big Country” Nelson emerged victorious and is now the newest Ultimate Fighter winner. I keep forgetting and, I think, everyone else keeps forgetting that this is a *GAME SHOW*. So Brendan Shaub getting nailed in the temple shouldn’t have been a surprise. He just doesn’t have the ring experience that Nelson has. At least he didn’t get his face smashed by Roy’s belly like all the other losers on TUF that got schooled by him. “Meathead” Mitrone took down “Big Baby.” I was really pulling for Marcus to redeem himself but he showed his inexperience as well. He’s got a few years to get better though. Kimbo won his first match as a UFC fighter. This shouldn’t have been such a snoozer. You can thank Houston Alexander’s camp for sticking to the most boring gameplan ever: Circle, circle, circle, smack Kimbo in the knee, circle, circle, circle, smack Kimbo on the knee, Oops! get owned by Kimbo Slice’s *ground game*??!?! The headliner fight between Matt Hamill and Jon Jones was easily the most exciting if you remove the win by DQ for Hamill. I’ve won by DQ before. You really feel like a bitch raising your hand in victory while you are bleeding your nose out. Hamill is better than that but Jones is something else. Watch out UFC, Jones is not going away!

Here’s your results in all their inglorious crappitude…

No Wanna See You Undercard Fights:

* Welterweight bout:  John Howard vs.  Dennis Hallman
Howard put the hurt on Hallman via KO (Strikes) at 4:55 of round 3.

* Light Heavyweight bout:  Brian Stann vs.  Rodney Wallace
Stann fooled the judges and beat up Wallace via unanimous decision. (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

* Heavyweight bout:  Jon Madsen vs.  Justin Wren
Madsen fooled the judges and beat up Wren via split decision. (30-27, 28-29, 29-28)

Main Drunk on the Couch or Pub Spike TV Fights:

* Heavyweight bout:  Marcus Jones vs.  Matt Mitrione
Mitrione put the hurt on Jones via KO (Punches) at 0:10 of Round 2.

* Lightweight bout:  Frank Edgar vs.  Matt Veach
Edgar choked the fight out of Veach via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:22 of Round 2.

* Lightweight bout:  Mark Bocek vs.  Joe Brammer
Bocek choked the fight out of Brammer via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:36 of round one.

* Catchweight (212 lb) bout:  Kimbo Slice vs.  Houston Alexander
Slice fooled the judges and beat up Alexander via unanimous decision. (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)

* Light Heavyweight bout:  Matt Hamill vs.  Jon Jones
Hamill dropped his hands and used his unguarded face to win against Jones via DQ (illegal elbow) at 4:14 of Round 1

* Heavyweight bout:  Darrill Schoonover vs.  James McSweeney
McSweeney put the hurt on Schoonover via TKO (Strikes) at 3:20 of Round 3.

* Heavyweight bout:  Roy Nelson vs.  Brendan Schaub
Nelson put the hurt on Schaub via KO (Punch) at 3:25 of Round 1 to become the The Ultimate Fighter 10 Heavyweights Winner.

Nokaut is reporting that Chris Leben, who was scheduled to fight in UFC 85 after Chuck Liddell pulled out due to injury will be going to jail. It’s not as though we were all googoo gaga about seeing him fight instead of Chuck. It is an indication that MMA has its share of losers just like the NFL has as of late. After watching a few The Ultimate Fighter episodes it shouldn’t surprise me but it does. What a lunkhead..

Speaking of TUF, I’m finding it hard to get into this season. I don’t know, maybe it’s the weight class but it seems like these guys aren’t hungry for the fight. Certainly, if you’ve watched any of The Iron Ring on BET then you’ve seen some **hungry** fighters looking for a shot at some MMA money. They recapped the last fight as they always do and the young kid without a car, Matt Riddle, was almost happy that he lost because his opponent, Tim Credeur promised him an XBox360 for his efforts! “Yeah! I totally bitched out and lost but the new UFC Game is coming out on Xbox and now I get to pretend to be in the UFC for real!” When his team-mates gave him some flack (“You don’t defend the armbar, you get an Xbox!”) for this he seemed miffed. I’m incredulous that he wasn’t upset at losing.

The next match between Team Forest’s Dante Rivera and Team Rampage’s Brandon Sene was pure torture. Thank you for fast-forward! Even Dana remarked that no one is going to say, “Thank God *THESE* guys are in the UFC!” after watching that fight. Dante won the fight but I think he lost the war. Unless he kicks some major aisssh next time, look for him on the long ride back to Palooka-ville. I hope rest of these guys give me a reason to watch the next show. It should be good since someone did the unthinkable and squirted lime juice in another guy’s chewing tobacco. I didn’t know people were still “chawing?” What is this the 1800′s??!? Anyway, them’s fightin’ words and the shoot-out is a coming this week.

The UFC Fight Night 13 has come and gone. I’ve been able to watch it, watch it again, and then re-watch it for good measure. I’ve come away with a few thoughts. The match ups were actually not too bad. There was a really good mix of fighters this time out and very few couch potatoes if you don’t count Tim Boetsch who got dropped in the second round of his fight. Our Ultimate Fighter Alumni fare ok although some of them could have done much much better. I’m talking to you Farm Boy! Just don’t hurt me or try to find me or… hey, how about I buy you a few beers buddy old pal! We also got to see the debut of the new season of The Ultimate Fighter. Was it everything we hoped and dreamed for?

Joe Lauzon was handled without mercy by Kenny Florian late into the second round of their fight. They were pretty even for a while there. This match easily scores as best of the night. That is, unless of course the un-aired Clay Guida or Manny Gamburyan fights were as action packed as this one. I remember Joe on the Ultimate Fighter 5 and he was one of the short listed guys to win it all. It’s funny that he headlines this event while the guys that advanced further than him are second and even no-billed at all.

Tommy (The Farm Boy) Speer was handed an embarassing loss to Anthony Johnson. It wasn’t a good sign when we saw Matt Hughes in his corner. Hughes probably handed Speer a Bible and his patented “gameplan” for Johnson. It was obvious that Tommy was going to try to take this one to the ground and then do some pounding or submitting from there. He did so by charging in with his head wide open and just got rocked by punches that kept coming. He ended up in a little ball on the side of the Octagon. He should have abandoned the gameplan when he discovered that his head was hurting a bit. I hope Tommy does better. He certainly was my pick to win last season. Of course, the mad Vegan Big Mac Danzig had something to say about that.

Nate Diaz is the real effing deal. As much as I can’t stand the guy and believe that he walked away with a fake win on the Ultimate Fighter 5, he is proving himself to be one of those elite fighters. His match with Kurt Pellegrino really proved that he can’t be beat even when he is soundly getting beat. Kurt controlled and layed the beat down on Nate for almost his entire match. Then somehow, he found himself in a triangle complete with double birds for good measure. Manvel the Anvil won his match as well. I will scream at the top of my lungs until it happens: NATE DIAZ VS MANNY GAMBURYAN MUST HAPPEN NOW!!!!

After all this bone crunching goodness, we got to see the new season of The Ultimate Fighter unfold. In a word best used by Forrest Griffin: Garbage. This was just the preliminary fights. 32 guys started shuffling into the gym and none of them had a clue what was going on. “Uh… usually there are only 16 guys on the show but all these other dudes kept walking in the door. We were all like, ‘WTF??!’” Hmmmm… you signed up for a show called “The Ultimate Fighter” and you know only 16 guys are on the show? Duh. So we saw some more fights by guys that were really really raw or “garbage.” So if they drag this part of the show out more, we’re looking at 2 more weeks of this junk. I can’t believe I’m jonesing for an upper-decker or a foosball table in the pool right now!

UFC‘s Fight Night 13 is upon us tonight (Wednesday, April 2nd 2008). This event features a full stack of fighters from a number of different Ultimate Fighter shows as well as some other UFC guys under contract looking for a brawl. The fights will be aired on the SPIKE network as usual and the whole thing will last about three hours. After that, we will be treated to the next THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER. This fight card really pisses me off. You can see the entire card HERE. It doesn’t include a fight I’ve been waiting for for a LOOOONG time, so like some of the past Ultimate Fighter contestants I’m going to bitch out of doing an entire fight card analysis.

WOW! It seems like an entire world ago when we were finding out what “upper decker” meant and that Big Mac didn’t like being in the house and that grown men are always crying about something and… ok I’ll stop there. Suffice to say, I like what I saw in the tiny preview of TUF. Especially the part about fighting your way out of the house if you want to wuss out. There’s been too much whining and complaining from these guys. I already outlined just a few steps that could improve the show a while ago. I don’t think Dana got the call… at least if they get tired of getting drunk and trashing someone’s house on the UFC’s dime, they can fight their way out to palookaville.

I don’t know what to make of this card. The featured bout is Joe Lauzon vs. Kenny Florian. Bringing up almost the absolute rear is Clay Guida vs. Samy Schiavo. Clay was the featured fight in UFC Fight Night 12 with Ray Huerta in a match that you *really* must see again. Oh yeah, we finally get to see Manny Gamburyan and Nate Diaz in the same octagon BUT not in the SAME fight. Also, we probably wont be able to see Manny. Just Nate. I *know* Nate won TUF5, but only because Manny couldn’t continue. There has been NO rematch since and here they are together and they still aren’t fighting. I’ve already ranted about this too. UFC83′s match with GSPII vs. Serra is a part of that rant about fights we aren’t going to see. There are also other good matches like Roman Mitichyan vs. Georgie-boy Sotiropoulos that won’t be televised.

I *must* be a complete newbie biiatch not to see the genius that is Ultimate Fighting Championship. The lineup is good and has some great fighters but they could use some shuffling about. Especially if they want to promote this next Ultimate Fighter show. Hell, one of the fighters was Tim Boetsch who they dusted off the couch for UFC 81, another event with a dubious fight card. Well, I’m going to watch this… for the entire 4 hours… but, I’m not going to like it!!!

Mac Danzig brought it to Tommy Speer last night on the Ultimate Finale.  It was a result that was hard to fathom going into the fight.  Tommy had shown no signs of giving up at all on The Ultimate Fighter.  That Mac was able to submit him shows that all the brooding talk (from Mac himself) of how he was better than everyone else was true after all.

The featured fight of the night was Roger (El Matador) Huerta vs. Clay (The Carpenter) Guida.  As predicted in my rant, The Carpenter hammered away at El Matador but in the end, Huerta won out.  It was a truly exciting match and from all appearances, Guida looked like he was going to win it all.  Huerta never lost composure, however, and came away with a victory by rear naked choke.

The fight between Ben Saunders and Dan Berrara didn’t match the bloodfest that was their fight in TUF6.  Both came back stronger and better trained but Saunders long legs helped to defeat Berrara in both the standup and ground games.  Ben didn’t finish it like he wanted but he got the decision which is really all that matters.

George Sotiropoulos completely outclassed Billy Miles with his ground game although he did a great job of trading punches.  Miles has a much better standup game and George was curious as to why Miles brought it to the ground.  Luckily for GeorgieBoy, Miles made that mistake.

Troy “Rude Boy” Mandaloniz vs. Richie Hightower:Upper-Decker Extreme Match1 2K7.  Rude Boy and Hightower traded some fierce blows in this mostly standup game.  Troy came out ahead with a great series of knees and punches.

Upper-Decker Extreme Match2 featured Jared (JRok) Rollins vs. Jon (Warmachine) Koppenhaver.  This was a truly bloody mess of a fight.  The ground and standup games of both of these guys were top notch.  JRok had Warmachine in submissions a number of times.  War just wouldn’t give up and a la Tommy Speers, came up with a bloody win.  Easily one of the best matches of the night.

All in all a great finale.  We got to see all of our favorites from TUF6 come back better and stronger.  We also saw a fantastic UFC match in Huerta vs. Guida.  Be on the lookout for all of these fighters.  They will be forces to be reckoned with for sure.

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