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  1. Don't know if I actually wanna see this or not.... :(

    Had a feeling she was gonna get pummelled. Cyborg is freaky looking.

    It was the equivalent of watching Silva vs. Griffin. (except for that Carano was more involved in the fight)

    Scott Coker can’t be happy that his prized women’s fighter lost.

  2. Penn and Forian fight was good.

    It's a technical game. If you didn't like it, then you arn't a true fan of mma.

    I consider myself a hardcore MMA fan and I love technical fights, but it was so dull in one of the bouts that Joe Rogan was talking about a scrap that was going on in the crowd for a solid minute and he even acknowledged that what was going on between two of the fans was more entertaining than the actual fight taking place in the octagon.

    You see what I mean?

  3. Not a great night of fights, unfortunately.

    Next card at UFC 102 in Portland on August 29th should be better, though.

    * Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

    * Light Heavyweight bout: Keith Jardine vs. Thiago Silva

    * Middleweight bout: Chris Leben vs. Jake Rosholt

    * Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Demian Maia

    * Light Heavyweight bout: Brandon Vera vs. Krzysztof Soszynski

  4. Having a UFC fight in Vancouver isn't the problem. The problem is having thousands of Ed Hardy toting dbags conglomerating in one small area. Too many people get roid rage after seeing a fight and the only thing on their mind is trying to find someone to punch out.

    I went to a Muay Thai fight at the Maritime Centre in East Van. Some heavyweight from Surrey landed a huge knockout via leg kick (was awesome). When I was outside all these tools were talking about how badly they want to fight somebody after seeing the big knockout. UFC isn't the problem, Vancouver is the problem.

    There is nothing good about Ed Hardy or Affliction. The only MMA related clothing that I've ever purchased was a TapouT sweater and I only bought it because it was cheap.

  5. UFC coming to Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal: Dana White

    Outspoken president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship Dana White told the world something that he'd been telling The Sun for some time Thursday when he announced that the UFC would hold major mixed martial arts events in three Canadian cities in 2010.

    The fact that two of the announced cities - Vancouver and Toronto - don't have regulatory bodies in place to handle such events, doesn't seem to be something that will stop the largest promoter of the world's fastest growing sport.

    "We're coming," White told reporters earlier this week. "The UFC will be in Canada in 2010. We're coming to Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal."

    The UFC is enjoying unprecedented growth and interest in Canada right now, with 16% of ticket sales for last month's UFC 100 event in Las Vegas coming from BC and Alberta alone. TV ratings and pay-per-view subscriptions in Canada are regularly touted by the organization as being the strongest in North America, and the city of Montreal, which has already hosted two UFC events and will host another next year, is the hub of a thriving local industry in the sport.

    "We're softening up a lot of the provinces up there," White said at a press conference promoting UFC 101 in Philadelphia. "We're definitely going to Vancouver."

    UFC officials told The Sun last month that June 2010 has been circled for a pay-per-view event at GM Place.

    "Canada's been really difficult to navigate in," co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta told fans at the UFC Fan Expo last month. "It's an interesting situation because I think, pound for pound, the UFC is more popular in Canada than any other country including the U.S.A. I mean, it's amazing."

    Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has stated the city is behind the UFC bid to come to the northwest, but remains committed to convincing either national or provincial government to step up to regulate such an event, and others like it.

    "We're hopeful we can resolve all this and host an event in 2010, but we still got some work to do," Robertson said to reporters recently.

    Failing that, the mayor suggested a UFC event could be run as a 'test event' under the auspices of the Vancouver Athletic Commission, which oversaw the sport previously until Sam Sullivan's NPA-led council got cold feet on the topic of liability.

    Councilors David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth remain against the regulation of mixed martial arts, with Cadman recently complaining about the cost of policing such an event.

    "I personally don't feel that the residents of Vancouver want to pay taxes to police this kind of event," Cadman told the CBC.

    But those dissenting voices look destined to be drowned out. Councilor Heather Deal told The Sun earlier this year, "Within any group, there’s a spectrum of opinions, but the mayor has been quite decisive on this. There’s a difference between having an opinion and making appropriate policy decisions. Sometimes you vote for things you don’t personally want because a majority clearly think differently."

    “We’re fairly united on this."

    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/coming+Va...7378/story.html

    Sounds good to me.

  6. Early predictions for UFC 101:

    Kenny Florian over BJ Penn

    Anderson Silva over Forrest Griffin

    Amir Sadollah over Johny Hendricks

    Ricardo Almeida over Kendall Grove

    Josh Neer over Kurt Pellegrino

    Although I may change my Silva over Griffin prediction before the fight. (as crazy as it may sound)

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