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I watched clips of that, he can be pretty unintentionally funny and then he just rolls with it. He was definitely nervous too earlier. Also:

I completely missed the card last night, can anyone tell me what the need to watch fights were?

Chad Dukes is a dick, and doing it to GSP of all people... if a host of a show has to interview someone, it's reasonable to assume that some research should be done on the person you are interviewing. Obviously, Dukes didn't really give a poop in the first place. Also, this is interesting. Props to Dana. Dana White: If there was a gay fighter in UFC, I wish he would come out

UFC 136 Judo Chop: Uppercuts in Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard 3

I hope this week the overall stream quality is better than last week, but beggars can't be choosers ^ that's a great one so far!

watchthegame is shut down too

I love this matchup too, although I don't wanna see Machida/Shogun again. If Machida wins, I expect a rematch with Jones. If Jones wins, then I completely agree that the winner of Shogun/Hendo gets the shot (unless Rashad heals up and the timing works out). Otherwise, Jones/Machida 2 and winner of Shogun/Hendo vs Rashad as the next eliminator.

http://www.kiwisportz.eu/stream-1.html will have it for now

I second this. I don't know how to find sopcast links but usually someone awesome posts one in here; I usually end up watching those. The streams on mmashare are good too but they're really unreliable. Tony Ferguson is really good.

This is an impatient Denver crowd, it's immediately making me think about the differences from the ridiculous Rio crowd.

Brock's also one ass whooping away from retirement imo. Maybe two ass whoopings. I don't think he's gonna be a factor in HW anymore with the way the weight class has evolved to quicker, younger, and more technical fighters. As I was typing that I realized that the "evolution" is basically JDS and Cain (maybe Schaub too). Reem is obviously a huge contender still but he hasn't really done anything in a major MMA promotion in a while (Brett Rogers is a typical one dimensional fighter).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXGlbpFyb4M :ols:

I had a dream last night that Rampage comes out ridiculously sharp and in shape, and fight's off Jon Jones' aggression then knocks him out hard and like a boss. I've never had an MMA dream before honestly I think it's going to be the other way around. The blog was awesome, I love the behind the scenes stuff and the fighters, the things that we don't see ever. I love how the woman at the end asks if they've been paid before they leave. Great insights behind the scenes. I love watching the press conferences and the weigh ins from inside their angle as well as the actual broadcast. It adds such a great dimension to the whole experience. Jon Jones comes across as really passive and directed; he's still young. Maybe he just looks really passive standing next to Rampage. The height advantage and the reach advantage are really noticeable when they are standing next to each other.

Works for me, thanks!

Amazing knockout. ---------- Post added September-10th-2011 at 11:28 PM ---------- Hahaha jacked up his hand on the first right that knocked Silva down, but "oh well, still got the knockout"

This situation to me is Nick being Nick and screwing up the press conference, then actually talking to Dana and the UFC guys and maybe apologizing. This sounds like a demotion on good faith that he will change his ways. Obviously winner of Penn/Diaz gets GSP.

So he just didn't go to the press conference because he didn't want to... even though everyone else goes, regardless of who they are.

JDS and Cain are also extremely easy to relate to for the a lot of people. Cain is young, Mexican (getting that Latino demographic really well), and he is the force that stopped Brock Lesnar and made him seem like a 4th grader in high school. JDS has that "nice guy" image that GSP has too, except not as exposed as GSP. He is also young since comparatively, 26 is still young in MMA. I'm bringing up their ages because these guys will be in the UFC for a while, so why not start the FOX deal with guys who the viewers will be following for the next decade. This is better than starting with established guys who may or may not be in the UFC in the next couple years. Plus, as everyone has said, both guys like to actually fight and throw down rather than fight to win (like GSP). Zuffa will be hyping this fight up showing Cain stopping Brock and the KOTN he had on Big Nog (which after Nog's win last weekend is pretty huge), and for JDS showing his KO of Gonzaga, the striking clinic he gave Roy Nelson, and the destruction of Carwin. IMO the easiest way to get someone into MMA is to show excellent striking and "badass" status.

I say we have an "ES Anything MMA thread" trip to Brazil. I'll chip in 5 dollars!

I thought the Barboza fight was super close, but the edge would go to Barboza for home field advantage. UFC NEEDS to go back to Brazil. American crowds only know how to cheer, boo, and shout USA USA. The Brazil crowds are dynamic and super energized. I loved it when after the fights Florian would interview the fighters and they would start in English but then their emotions would take over and they would switch to Portuguese and the energy would just shift. I didn't even care what they were saying, it was more just how they were saying it.

That event was a huge success, great fights.

That was perfect striking. Anderson wanted to beat the **** out of him.

The crowd made that fight feel a lot more awesome than it would have, even thought it was a great fight for Paulo.