Mik

So...Jake O'Brien's injuries, that were once thought to be career threatening, apparently aren't and he's set to resume training in early 2008. I guess whoever the ball of sunshine it was that was glad his career is over is disappointed.

Chuck is talking retirement.

Yeah... that's another question: who is next for Rampage? All the fights I'm coming up with would be a #1 contender match, which only leaves the question of who the #1 contender is NOW. I got nothing.

Keith was looking pretty badass when he was bleeding from both sides of his face. But Chuck is probably not even walking today. Or if he is, it's very gingerly.

Well, if Fedor does sign his first opponent will be Randy. And that's the day the world asplodes.

We didn't have a thread for this last year and there were a few times I wanted to comment on Family Guy. Glad this is here.

Houston Alexander needs to fight someone towards the top of the division. He's 36 so if he's gonna make a move it needs to be soon. That would be dope if he got Wandy. Yeah Tyson Griffin is the man...of course Curry is right. Always a great fight. I thought it was the 3rd best fight last night and that's saying something because it was a GREAT fight. Who do we all think Chuck is going to fight next? It's a must win so they'll feed him someone. I don't know.

Love slugfests like that main event. Jardine killed Chuck. Again, how do you give Chuck the fight 29-28? Even using boxing scoring Chuck only won 1 round. Sometimes I wonder. What now for Chuck? I mean, obviously that Wandy match ain't happening with Chuck coming off two losses. Nuts PPV but very good overall, except the Machida snoozefest.

FORREST bitches. Man, Shogun was gassed. Great fight. Great win. Good show so far. Griffin vs. Thiago was good, of course. Nakamura vs. Machida was terrible - it practically put me to sleep and it's always nice to see Diego lose. Hopefully a KO in the main.

I laughed at that one harder then any in many pages.

How was the Affliction event? I just ordered two sweet non-UFC affiliated hoodies from them. When it's $50 for a t-shirt, I found $77 for one of the hoodies not that bad.

I figured I'd start a thread for this since we already have threads for some events taking place at much later time points. This is shaping up to be another great Spike TV card. Here is the lineup as of now... Chris Leben vs. Mike Swick Spencer Fisher vs. Din Thomas Thiago Alves vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka As well as fights with Luke Cummo and "The Emotional Fighter" Nathan Diaz. I'm big into the top 2 just because. I think that since the WEC bout that Swick has progressed much more than Leben and he will win in the 1st TKO by strikes. First glance I figured Fisher easily over Thomas, but Din has been bringing his A game since dropping to 155 and that was a sick armbar he put on Stephens in his last bout. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Din win via sub in the 2nd round. I'm not familiar with Hironaka so I can't comment. And Nathan Diaz via 1st round sub vs. whatever tomato can they give him and hopefully Luke Cummo loss via strikes in 15 seconds to whoever.

The Miller/Garcia fight was super dope. Great relentless sub attempts by Cole. Great exchange at the end where they are complimenting each other while punching each other in the face in the body triangle.

Thanks. I really wanted to see the Maynard and Garcia/Miller fights.

I am going to ignore some of the more obvious gayness and ask, Where is it fashionable to wear large multi-colored patches on your jeans?

KenFlo has got to be next in line for the winner, right?

Remember when I said I wasn't going to buy this? LOL. Of course I am. So, Fitch didn't make weight. I can't find anywhere if he lost the 1 pound in the hour he got. I'm guessing that he pretty much had to have. It's only 1 pound. But that would suck if he didn't.

Oh yeah - that was great. I love Leon. "Revenge masturbatory action"

Some little 5'4'' guy telling me that I can't fight in there.

I already hate Dan Barrera because of that line.

I love all the condomdepot.com ads all over the place. Quarry vs. Sell and Leben vs. Martin were both great slugfests. Miracle shot by Leben. He wasn't winning the scorecards and he was practically rocked... just lucky. I had a feeling something was wrong with Din before Joe pointed it out... he didn't even try to defend himself. That looked pretty bad. He probably tore a few CLs. Another great Spike card.

The fact that it's a girl is not necessarily bad. Karen Hayes or Sandra Palmer = very very bad. I'm just very thankful it didn't go in that direction. And I'd call Wayne Palmer gimmicked.

They thought about it for last year. TV Guide even hinted at it, but they backed out at the last minute. I can buy it. It wasn't definitive in the least. I'm very excited for the season, overall. The lack of CTU should give a much needed breath of fresh air.

That entrance was simply spectacular. I'm still rooting for the Barn Cat.

Beware of Barn Cat, mofos.