I’d rather have Bill Goldberg back for the pure insansity.

Um, no. Thanks for playing.

Carano/Cyborg will be booked at 170 just to be safe.

At all the negativity…they have more than enough at MW.

MW:
Cung Le
Robbie Lawler
Jake Shields
Jorge Santiago
Kazuo Misaki
Mayhem Miller
Nick Diaz
Frank Shamrock
Benji Radach
Scott Smith
Joey Villasenor
Cyborg Santos
Eric Lawson
Luke Rockhold
Cory Devela

Nick Diaz is truly the top P4P jackass in the sport. He dominated his fight, but crapping all over Scott Smith’s camp crossed a line that I don’t think has ever been crossed before. So I guess I’m an even bigger Nick Diaz fan today than I was yesterday.

Gotta love Diaz. If something is on his mind, he spits it out. no BS about it.

I heard Mauro call Jake Shields “Hughes” during the fight.

I don’t mind Johnson but he didn’t seem on his game tonite, seemed distracted. Not sure why, the card was pretty good.

I will agree, the camera work was pretty bad, more than one occasion they were shooting Big John’s back instead of the action. This is something you really notice, the UFC camera work and transitions from camera to camera really is top tier.

I’m sort of sad that Strikeforce has to have WW come up to catchweight, esp for Lawler. I’m sure Shield would love to go to the UFC but sadly that really isn’t his call is it. I’m not confident he’d do really well against the top tier UFC WW, I’m more interested in seeing Diaz back in the UFC than Shields.

Diaz had nothing but disrespect for Smith which I found amusing, he really can be a douchebag but whatever gets him fired up, I really think he is a great fighter. Nearly every punch landed, at that rate that is amazing feat.

Interested in Carano/Cyborg except I’m more interested if they set a higher weight because neither have had a lot of success making weight.

Arlovski didn’t get started and paid the serious price. I’m still not convinced that Rogers is ready against top tier, but he had an opportunity and capitalized on it. I’ve been a fan of his and I’m glad to see he’s doing all he can to take his career to the next level.

Baroni and Randleman really haven’t changed and both really need to take a long look at where they want to go with their career. I don’t know if I’d say they’re finished but neither showed they deserved to be in the big show any more.

I would have loved to see video of Kyle KTFO Feijao, not because I’m a Feijao hater but because of the barking he did after the fight against Silva. I wonder what he said, maybe something like “are you teaching all of your counterparts” to put on terrible performances?

1. Diaz entertains me. Like he said its a show nothing serious. He toyed with Smith.

2. Gus Johnson does a good job, calm down.

3. A bar arm choke… It’s called being human and making a mistake.

4. Someone here is a UFC nuthugger lol

5. Tsk Tsk, AA. No flying knee yet the same outcome?

6. Rogers better not get a big head. Overeem will murder him!

7. Baroni. Worst Gas Tank EVAH! No heart!

8. Riggs should me some new stuff out there. Props to him.

9. Randleman, oh poor Randleman. I’ll give you a free pass because you looked rusty (which isnt surprising), afraid to pull the trigger and should have won that fight when you dropped him.

10. Shields as their new WW and Diaz as their new MW champ should be good for SF.

11. Good show overall even though 3 of the fights didn’t go the way I wanted. AA, Baroni and Monster. *sigh

BONUS*

Tito Ortiz

Either I missed him when they showed him on cam or he wasn’t there at all. Hmm, Dana and Lorenzo had a meeting in Cali… Tito back in UFC?

But I think he looked a lot better than I expected…. He was able to really neutralize Riggs on the ground outside of the triangle, landed more ground n pound than Riggs and was able to use his wrestling defensively, and a bit offensively. I think at this point he’s at the very least trying to become a better fighter…. Randleman on the other hand looked much worse than I expected, and outside of the knock down was more dissapointing.

1. When her husband’s victory was met with a cacophonous roar of boos from the adamantly pro-Arlovski crowd, Mrs. Rogers dug deep, and pulled out a major victory of her own: he performed what can only be described as a “Fuck You St. Louis” dance. If there is justice in this world, there is some video of it.

2. The Feijao knockout was very odd. If I recall correctly, he was knocked out by a pair of weak looking jabs. And Feijao didn’t look very impressive earlier in the fight either, with his shoulder roll defensive posture. Though he was clearly winning the fight, it was a very disappointing performance for him.

3. Jerry Millen was walking around pre-show like he thought they were playing the music for him. It was surreal.

The commentating and camera work were bad enough to be annoying but those are things that will hopefully get better in the future. Not a fan of Gus at all but I guess it could be worse.

Brett Rogers impressed but I don’t think I’m ready to annoint him as the real deal quite yet. His future looks very interesting. Arlovski’s future also seems to be very interesting too but for all the wrong reasons.

Was impressed with Joe Riggs, considering that he broke both his hands. Still can Riggs get through a fight without falling apart? It seems like his body is older than 26 years old.

I’m a bit closer to jumping on the Jake Shields bandwagon.

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