Bloody Wraps - June 9: Non-UFC 131 News Leading Into UFC 131
by Mike Fagan on Jun 9, 2011 9:30 PM EDT
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What felt like a pedestrian Thursday leading into a pedestrian UFC PPV weekend ended up as a fun news extravaganza. Five rounds! Flyweights! Nick Diaz dumping his Strikeforce belt in the trash! Awesome!!!
- Dana White announces all UFC main events will be five rounds from here on out. Let's just say Anthony Weiner has nothing on me at the moment.
- Nick Diaz vacated his Strikeforce welterweight title, which, to my mind, all but invalidates that bizarre "UFC or Strikeforce" clause in his contract.
- Kid Nate wondered if the UFC's relationship with Spike TV is all but severed. He also suggests that Bellator would become a viable contender with a Spike TV slot. I suggest they'll need more than five fighters that I care about to even begin to think about competing with the UFC.
- Despite being one of our top stories, it looks like the media is going to ignore Shane Carwin's "no comment" about the feds implicating him last August as a purchaser of various steroids.
- Speaking of Bjorn Rebney, the Bellator CEO joined Matt Bishop and co. on Bloody Elbow Radio.
- More details emerged regarding the UFC's negotiations to purchase a controlling interest in the G4 cable network. Is this Dana White's XFL/World Bodybuilding Federation/WWF New York moment?
- Fraser Coffeen looked at the standup games of Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin.
- Dallas Winston dissected the fights on the Spike TV portion of the UFC 131 card.
- UFC 130 is trending around 300,000 buys. That's...not good.
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what a win of a day
"I have smoked weed with alot of UFC champions" - Joe Rogan
"Você ta fudido. Se vai levar muita porrada, ta ligado?" - Anderson Silva
"Clean-up on Aisle Brookhouse"
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
goddamn. Aisle Fagan
I am going to go drown myself in a bucket.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
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what is going on here?
Bob Sapp vs. Rodrigo Nogueira Bob "The Beast" Sapp is 400 pounds, and if 300 pounds of it aren’t pure steroids, then someone has got to be fucking kidding. -SeanBaby
I do believe that is wrestler Madusa/Alundra Blayze (sp?) dropping the WWF women’s title in the trash, just as Nick Diaz has metaphorically dropped the Strikeforce title in the trash?
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by Fraser Coffeen on Jun 9, 2011 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
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