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Yeh, Johnson was massively over-rated. He was hyped up from the start by the show and by himself, mainly by himself. He never looked particularly good throughout the show and only got through as far as he did because the competition was pretty weak. Wilks didn't look much cop either though tbh, but has clearly put some serious work in, and looked excellent in the Finale.

I can't see either winners having long and fruitful UFC careers if I'm honest. Wilks may have a decent run but I can't see him getting into title contention. As for Pearson, he's going to need to put in some real work to get anywhere in the UFC. He seems to have the fire to make something out of himself, so we'll have to see. On current talent alone though, I don't really give Pearson much of a chance.

Fedor would hammer Lesnar. I'm not a Lesnar hater like alot of MMA fans though tbh. I think he's an entertaining dude to watch, and he's got some serious power. Did he deserve a title shot so early? Definitely not, but he won the title fair and square against Randy and performed well. I can see Mir beating him, and it'll be submission if he does win, but I'm not completely counting Brock out. If he's put some serious work in (which he will have done, rumour is he's done alot of work on his BJJ and more specifically his submission defence), then it'll be 1 hell of a fight. He was probably on top in the first Mir fight and was unlucky to get caught in a knee bar, probably due to inexperience, so it's going to be a class fight at 100.

GSP-Alves is the fight I'm looking forward to seeing most at 100. GSP's my favourite fighter in the UFC and he's got some serious skills, but Alves is going to be a seriously tough opponent. He's built like a LHW and is on the back of a 7 fight win streak, including that domination of Matt Hughes. I'm hoping that GSP wins, because then we'll get to see a dream fight most likely at a catchweight between GSP and Anderson Silva next year. Now THAT is a fight I'd pay to see.
 
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Lesnar's next fight is his first Heavyweight Title defence against Interim Heavyweight Champ Frank Mir on July 11th. Lashley's had 3 professional MMA fights, winning all 3 of them. 1 by TKO, 1 by Unanimous decision and the last via a Guillotine Choke. His next fight is against Bob Sapp on the 27th, and will probably be his first real test in MMA as the other guys he's taken on have been pretty crap. Sapp's hardly Fedor though tbh, so if Lashley's got any skills he should beat him. Wouldn't be surprised if he got signed up to the UFC at some stage in the near future.
 
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Just read that UFC 105 is returning to England. Unfortunately for me it's not to London or somewhere near me, but Manchester. Hopefully we'll get a decent event. Could possibly be Michael Bisping-Anderson Silva for the Middleweight title if Bisping gets past Hendo at UFC 100. Anderson Silva's got a fight with Rich Franklin at UFC 101, so that could definitely be booked for 105, if Bisping beats Hendo of course. Now that would sell like hot cakes, especially in Manchester!
 
Ultimate fighter 9 final was on the other day. It was bliss. Diego Sanchez won and I would have to agree. Came out all guns blazing in the first round and absolutely rolled the other guy. The second round went to Guida and in the 3rd round Sanchez had to stay on his feet and he did a majority of the round and gave him the win. He did about 10 elbows in a row when on the ground and Guida had a massive cut and was bleeding everywhere. UFC is swell. Boxing, Kick Boxing and Wrestling but actually being real ftw. Can't believe a judge actually thought Guida won though tbh.

How long ago was the UFC 9 finale actually on?

Oh how could I forget Diego's face kick. Thought Guida was down for the count.
 
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The TUF 9 Finale was on a couple of weeks back, the week after UFC 99, so June 20th. Was a seriously good event, not quite as good as UFC 99, but still a very decent event.

Rumours about UFC 100 being shown in the UK are indicating that the event'll be shown live on Virgin 1, and then after that the rights will go to ESPN. Reason ESPN can't host 100 is due to the time scale, meaning Virgin 1 will step in for UFC 100 only, and it will apparently be live. Roll on July 11th!
 
Yeah I saw that the UFC wasn't on ESPN or Fuel TV here which was annoying. It's on Pay Per View instead. :( I guess I'll see if Fuel TV will have a replay within the following days that I can watch then. I sure hope so. Starting to get into UFC and I don't want to miss the big events.
 
Just found this immense MMA Simulator, made by the same guys that make the Wrestling series TEW. The game database doesn't have any real fighters on it, but as with the TEW one there is a patch for the real fighters, so here's the links to download the demo of the game and the patch. I'm very tempted to buy the full game. Love these types of games:

Grey Dog Software
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Give it a download. I've only just finished downloading it and abit to launch into the Demo, and if I get into it, and get a decent save going before the demo finishes then I'll be buying the full version that's for sure. TEW 05 is immense, so I expect this to be the same. Enjoy.
 
Yeah I'll give it a download when it's off-peak download time so we don't run out of downloads and get slow net lol. I guess you would have played it a bit now so is it any good?
 
Yeh it's really good. Turns out that if you want to use the modified database you need to pay for the full game, so I did :D. $35 works out at about ?20, so it's all good. Just started playing it this morning, and have set up my UFC 97 card with the event in a few days. Here's the card, it's basically the proper 97 card:

Main Card:

UFC Middleweight Title fight: Anderson Silva vs Thales Leites
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua vs Chuck Liddell
Antoni Hardonk vs Cheick Kongo
Sam Stout vs Matt Wiman
Krzysztof Soszynski vs Brian Stann

Prelim Bouts:

Denis Kang vs Xavier Foupa Pokam
Junie Browning vs Joe 'Daddy' Stevenson
Junior Dos Santos vs Mostapha Al Turk

Pretty solid card I think. I may add another bout to the main and prelim cards, but not sure yet, depends if I can think of another decent lower ranked bout.

I've offered deals to a few decent guys outside the UFC as well. Offered deals to Renato 'Babalu' Sobral, Jake Shields, Alistair Overeem, Jon Fitch, Jeff Monson and Andrei Arlovksi. Currently negotiating with Vitor Belfort as well, looking to sign him to a 4 fight deal.

Edit: Get in, just signed Belfort to a 4 fight deal as part of a 21 month contract. Nice.
 
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UFC? 100 TO AIR LIVE IN UK London, England ? UFC 100, the biggest mixed martial arts event in history, will be televised live on multiple platforms in the United Kingdom this coming Saturday, July 11, the Ultimate Fighting Championship? organisation has confirmed.

British UFC fans have two ways of experiencing the greatest night in mixed martial arts history live: on Sky Channel 433 and online at UFC.com. Fans will be able to catch all the action from the biggest fight night of the year completely free of charge.

As an exciting bonus to British fans, Sky Channel 433?s UFC 100 coverage will begin at 9pm, Saturday, as a 9-hour UFC marathon gets underway with all five episodes of the ?UFC?s Top 100 Fights?.

This will be followed by the official ?Countdown to UFC 100? program which then leads into 3am, where the spotlight turns to Las Vegas, as the biggest MMA show of all time goes LIVE.

UK fight fans unable to join the televised action on Sky Channel 433 need not worry, though, for they can also catch every punch, kick and submission at UFC 100 by logging on to UFC.com.

Those fans are encouraged to log-on to UFC.com for details on how they can watch UFC 100 live online.

Included on the historic UFC 100 card are UFC Championship(R) battles between heavyweight juggernauts Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir and welterweight wrecking machines Georges St. Pierre and Thiago Alves.

Plus, Ultimate Fighter(R coaches collide as British superstar Michael ?The Count Bisping and former PRIDE champion Dan Henderson throw-down in a middleweight showdown.

Beyond UFC 100, there are further exciting announcements in the pipeline for British UFC fans.
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Sweet news. Can't wait for this, have the 2005 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix on dvd to watch as well. That's 8 hours of old school PRIDE action, oh yeh. Think it's Rampage-Wanderlei 1 at that event, got Fedor vs Cro Cop on the dvd as well. Sweet.

I am starting to feel like Vaughan in this thread though :p
 
Osasuna have signed felipe divface.

Surprised it isn't on ppv tbh.

The fights will go Hendo, GSP and Mir. The only one I'm not 100% sure on is Mir-Lesnar.
 
I hope Mir wins, I really like Mir alot. Have so much respect for his talent and the way he managed to fight back from the adversities he faced after his motorcycle accident, and the terrible performances against Vera and Cruz. He had problems with pain killers and alcohol, but managed to battle through it and get back to his best. He was superb against Nogueira being the first man to knock him out, but he'd be mad to stand up with Brock. Brock's only been doing BJJ for 2 years, and he showed his inexperience in that first fight, and the test will be how far he's actually come since that first fight. As Frank has said in the build up, Brock's still working on Sub Defence, Mir's working on refining techinques Brock's never even heard of. If it goes to the ground, and stays on the ground, then Frank Mir will win the fight by submission. He could have had Lesnar 3 or 4 times in their first fight.
 
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