Forrest Griffin Wins UFC 86
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Forrest Griffin just beat Quinton Rampage Jackson in UFC 86 in a stand up battle that was only seriously taken to the ground, one time. That exchange ended in Griffin with full mount pounding Jacksons face into the ground for the last minute of the round.
Griffin, the winner of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Season 1 has legitimatized The Ultimate Fighter Series and I don't think Dana White could be any happier at this moment. His brain child, the reality series TUF has a champion at 205 after beating the two best 205lbers in the world, in a row.
Can you script this any better?
WEC 34 Destiny (Faber vs Pulver) Torrent
Monday, June 2, 2008
If you missed last nights epic battle between Jens Pulver and Urijah Faber, you need to have your head examined. Or at least download the TORRENT
WEC 34 Destiny was everything that CBS FightNight May 31st had hoped to be. It was all action, all the time from a card that was damn good. Especially for cable television.
Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Chuck Grigsby vs. Mark Munoz
Kenneth Alexander vs. Rob McCullough
Donald Cerrone vs. Danny Castillo
Torres vs Maeda is an epic fight as is Pulver vs Faber. I won't spoil it for those of you who read the blog and don't want to know what happened in the MMA world just one day ago. I will say, you will not be disappointed.
Furthermore, I would like to express my utter lack of excitement for CBS FightNight to happen again. Headlining Kimbo Slice, a man that wouldn't know MMA if Bas Ruten trained him (oh wait) in the first ever PrimeTime network cable slot, was just a bad call. Headlining him versus a scrub ass "Colossus" and making the entire production feel like a lackluster "RollerDerby" from the 1970's was not exactly what MMA fans or anyone with a fucking brain would like to see. Frank Shamrock was a good call but he's not an announcer. The rest of the calls, the dancing girls, the guys being led out from a WWE style entryway, all of these things just make MMA look (to the average person) like a spectacle of entertainment. As if these fighters haven't put tireless hours into their art and like the entire thing is set up. Remember if you have to say it's real, most people will assume that it's not.
So thank you CBS and EliteXC for sucking so badly and ruining what Zuffa has worked so hard to build.
Labels: 34, DESTINY, JENS PULVER, Torrent, URIJAH FABER, WEC