Lord of The Curry

Working in the financial industry I can tell you one certain thing: If you move to Alberta you'll be thrilled about getting a job at McDonalds for 17 bucks an hour but once the bills come in real estate-wise you'll be questioning why you ever moved there in the first place.

OH SHIT OH SHIT OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT

Rashad needs to learn Cuba's celebration dance from Jerry Maguire. He can spike his mouthpiece instead of a football.

I'll second that one.

Having failed to work out their differences, Zuffa, LLC, and Randy Couture (Pictures) appear to be headed to a Las Vegas courtroom. A suit filed in Clark County District Court Monday on behalf of Zuffa, which owns and operates the Ultimate Fighting Championship, alleges Couture made comments regarding the UFC that caused the business irreparable damage, and it says the current UFC heavyweight champion is in breach of the contract he signed upon his return from retirement in December 2006, Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday. Couture announced his resignation from the UFC -- as an active fighter and champion, as well as an ambassador for the company and on-air personality -- in October, citing the desire to fight Russian Fedor Emelianenko (Pictures), who is not contracted to the UFC, and a history of "swimming against the current with the management of the UFC" as reasons for his decision. Seeking damages -- both compensatory and punitive -- in excess of $10,000, the suit against Couture also seeks an injunction against "The Natural" that would prevent him from working with any organization deemed to be competing against the UFC. The suit alleges conspiracy against several unnamed parties that aimed to work against the UFC. A group of fighters from Xtreme Couture are scheduled to fight a squad led by Mario Sperry (Pictures) in an International Fight League matchup Feb. 29 in Las Vegas. According to the Review-Journal report, the IFL commitment would be in direct conflict with a stipulation in Couture's deal that prohibits him from being in "direct or indirect competition" with the UFC for the 12 months following the termination of his contract. However, an IFL official told Sherdog.com that the league doesn't have a formal relationship with Couture. "Randy is not a signed IFL coach like Pat Miletich (Pictures) or Matt Lindland (Pictures) or Renzo Gracie (Pictures)," IFL Senior VP of Communications Joe Favorito told Sherdog.com. "We are not using Randy's full name or likeness in any advertising in any way (outside of the Extreme Couture camp brand), our focus is on the athletes and their camp, since that is what fans want to see." Sean O'Heir, public relations director for Xtreme Couture, told Sherdog.com that Shawn Tompkins (Pictures) would lead the squad into battle, not Couture. Couture (16-8-0), the only two-division champion in UFC history, has seen his Xtreme Couture training facility in Las Vegas explode into one of the busiest mixed martial arts factories in the world, training fighters across promotional lines. In March of 2007 Couture returned from a one-year "retirement" to out-point Tim Sylvia (Pictures) for the UFC heavyweight belt. Couture defended the title in August, stopping Gabriel Gonzaga (Pictures) in the third round. Following his resignation, Couture and UFC management publicly traded barbs about respect and money. "I expect Randy to honor the obligations in his contract that he signed (a year ago)," UFC president Dana White told the Review-Journal. "I tried to resolve it by talking to this guy that I've had a relationship with for eight years and was unsuccessful. Now this thing's in the hands of the justice system." Calls to Couture and his agent Matt Walker were not immediately returned.

In other news I just joined American Top Team.

Ask Randy if Xtreme Couture North is hiring. I need out of my current job and would take a decent paycut to work there.

Alessio is off the card.

GSP/Sera J-Mac/Dirte Alves/Karo Bocek/Danzig Joslin vs TBA Goulet vs TBA Franklin vs Lutter Stout vs TBA GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO indeed. Dream opponents are the following: Stout vs Huerta, Joslin vs Marcus Davis, Goulet vs Somebody with striking power.

Fighter of The Year who really isn't Fighter of The Year aka Sentimental Favorite Award: Clay Guida. Poor dude ends his year at 1-3 in UFC whereas he should at least be 2-2 as I thought he beat Griffin and some people would even put him at 3-1 as there was a sizeable amount of fans who thought he beat Thomas too. Add in him solidly schooling Huerta for 2 out of 3 rounds and Guida take this in a walk.

Hey YPOV, two questions....... 1) Is the blonde chick that GSP gave a peck on the cheek to after beating Hughes his current lady? 2) Read an interview where GSP says amongst the other "personal issues" before the Serra fight that the government was going after him. What's the deal?

Unless you live in downtown Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver you'll be waiting on this one.

Oh man did Jen ever piss me off this episode with her "I cannot take this right now" attitude towards Rachel and TK pulling through. That, coupled with it being her birthday had me pissing myself laughing at the end. Nate has that pussy on lock though. After shit-talking the girl on her b-day he busts out the crybaby act to slay that poon in the end.

That's about as close as you can get to a performance overwhelming a movie. I loved the film but damn if Lewis doesn't just make everything else about it look pedestrian by comparison.

T-DOT NIGGAS. Fuck that was an awesome game. So much drama from "Moon you FUCKED UP" to Calderon dropping the tre to Roy deflating to crowd. Double OT was madness, Moon making amends with the huge block and CB4 stepping it up.

Looks like it's gonna be The Athlete vs El Dirte in Montreal.

Slave_To_The_Riddum

I'm down.

Yeah, that was me. Thanks for following up.

If Silva can stop the takedown then he should light Rashad up standing. Having said that I've learned that betting against Rashad somehow leads to victory (or draws) so I won't be surprised to see him pull it out though he'll be dealing with a reach advantage against a damn solid striker.

Not after he straight-up admitted that he's ducking Fitch.

Fuck. I can't concentrate at work after reading about Karo/Alves. That's too much.

MMAJunkie has SHOGUN returning at this show. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHIT SON.

Montreal '08 Update!@!~ - MMA Agent Ken Pavia confirmed on his MMAJunkie.com column that he's got Jonathon Goulet a fight on an upcoming UFC show which pretty much guarantees his participation in the Montreal card. - Joslin is touch and go, injury-wise. Let's hope he makes it. - Sherk said in a recent interview that UFC has told him to be ready for April so we might just get BJ/Sherk on top of GSP/Serra - Rumors are putting Rich Franklin vs Travis Lutter on this card - Diego did an interview recently where he stated his intentions to remain at 170 and also mentioned April as a possible comeback date.