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“The Main Event”: This is MMA, nobody knows what might have happened. And even if Silva was just playing around, don’t blame him for not having finished the fight. He still got almost three rounds left. I dislike 20sec-fights, that’s boring in my eyes. One shot, lucky or not, that’s not what i come for.
Well, like Rogan pointed out over and over, just seeing Silva move makes you wonder how the hell any of the 185p-Fighters could ever win against him (even with a lucky punch that maybe once could graze his smoothly hovering head)… but nevertheless Cote seemed to do pretty well in Silvas occasional attacks and evaded many situations that might have looked bad al of a sudden…
This was a legitimate fight – and unless Silva tries himself at 205, whom else should he fight? Bisping the hype? No idea who could do better than Cote…

What I really dislike is the guys like Alves, and to a lesser extent Sherk and Griffin. Alves is not a welterweight. I have no clue what kind of drugs he takes to make 170 but that’s not real. The officials really should do something about these cutting weight monsters. It is not possible to cut as much as Alves did and look like him: all pumped-up muscle, and still be able to perform that way. More or less the same goes for Shean “Steroid” Sherk and Tyson Griffin. Maybe the weight classes should be based on cosecutive weighings over a long period of time or something…
Anyway, I’m sick of all these pumped-up monster-like guys running into the ufc. Beginning with Lesnar who stated “I never tested positive in a drug screening” instead of saying “I (never) have taken steroids and the like in the past” to the ridiculous measures against “steroid-sharks” up to the amounts of punishments some of these guys can take… It now reallyseems to be a war of nutrition in another sense. Maybe Pro Wretling is fake due to drugs and scripts; mma is becoming fake due to drugs as well, i’m afraid.
So, I won’t praise this business and for sure not the most obvious representatives of this kind of bodybuilding.

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Add to that refs that were seemingly the most inexperienced I have watched in a long time. After going through more than a round of that ref in the Maynard/Clementi fight saying “Come on gentlemen, do something or I’ll stand you up,” I was actually hoping Dan Miragliotta would show up! It was as if the refs had never seen a professional MMA fight in their lives! They were threatening the stand-up while Maynard was working for mount! Just inexcusable!

And Drew McFedries was in there because he was a replacement. He certainly is a mid-range fighter with some decent power, but little more to his game. But cut the guy some slack for stepping into a dangerous fight on semi-short notice.

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Like you, I loved the Sherk/Griffin fight, but I’m not quite ready for an immediate rematch. If BJ Penn does decide to stay up at 170, I think a better scenario is to have Sherk fight the winner of next month’s other LW contender match in Joe Stevenson vs. Kenny Florian for the vacant title. Also, have the loser of the Stevenson/Florian match fight Tyson Griffin for the next #1 contender match. If Sherk wins his fight, and Griffin wins his, then we could see the rematch you are asking for. How about that?

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How can you say that the fans are uneducated. You can’t sit there and tell me “I wanted to see Maynard lay around all day”. “I wanted Silva to dance around and not suck Cote in and trade”. I wanted Franca & Aurellio to respect each others ground game so much that they never take it to the ground.” Even Dana said that he felt like he was in Bizzarro land. Come on, Cote’s knee blows out & I’m supposed to feel content with that, and graceful that UFC blessed the midwest with their presence. You cannot argue, that was the most un-climactic ending in the history of the UFC.

Go to any city that takes their sports seriously and you will find a brutal crowd. Go to Phillly, go to Boston and you will find a relentless crowd. Wear your hometown jersey and see the verbal beating you’ll get. You’ll get every stat thrown against you’re team. I know this because everyones record breaking highlight is usually against a Chicago team.

I also agree that you should get the prelims with the ppv. I’m sick of paying 45 bucks and then having to go online to watch em.

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This one was 3 hours but the first half hour was 15 minutes of fight hype played twice. Is that new?

Then came the beginning of the show which always takes a while as well. All I am thinking is “They could be showing pre-lims right now”

The other thing is they showed the result in an unaired prelim by letting us see the submission of the night. I wish they would show the main card and then after show the whole under card.

I have no interest in watching prelims in a youtube style window for 2 bucks a piece.

What do y’all think?

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As for the article, I’d agree with you Adam. I think Silva was just having fun out there with Cote. Silva offering Cote a hand to get up was great, Cote deffinately does not deserve a rematch. Marquardt if anything does, hes been impressive. And Fabricio looked like he added on a few pounds???

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One thing I never get caught up in is the whole “weak card” talk. The fighters make good fights. A big name isn’t necessarily a guarantee for a good fight. In fact, if you want all out wars go to the lower teir events (such as Cage Rage Contenders in the UK). Lets also remember that for the sport to succeed it needs casual fans by the bucket load. It may upset some of the hardcore fans, but the casual fans are the ones who will eventually make or break the sport. They will also make up a large proportion of crowds that are over 10,000. You can moan about it, but there is no point. You just have to accept it.

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