I wonder what Chael Sonnen and Michael Bisping were saying to each other?

TITO. He’ll be fighting Mark Coleman sometime in the near future.

Kendall Grove almost broke Ricardo Almeidas arm.. who woulda thought. Ricardo Almeida still won a decision.

Referee Dan Miragliotta still sucks.

LOL @ Forrest Griffin running out of the cage… and why does it seem like Anderson Silva’s punches hurt everyone so much worse than other people? I remember a straight right hand that sent James Irvin to the mat holding his face and curled in the fetal position. This one on Forrest was a backpeddling right jab that sent him down…WTF?

I felt embarrassed for Forrest.

BJ Penn vs Kenny Florian was a good fight, as I expected. Penn choked Florian into a tapout with a rear-naked choke. Penn is still dominant at 155lbs, because I believe Florian was the legit #1 contender.

Dana White wants to have a UFC event at Fenway Park in Boston sometime in the future.

George Roop over George Sotiropoulos (seriously?)
Alessio Sakara over Thales Leites
Tamdan McCrory over John Howard
Aaron Riley over Shane Nelson by KO
Kurt Pellegrino over Josh Need by decision
Ricardo Almeida over Kendall Grove by submission
Amir Sadollah
Forrest Griffin over Anderson Silva (what!?)
Kenny Florian over BJ Penn.. by doctors stoppage.

The official fight line-up for The Ultimate Fighter finale show that takes place on December 13th:

• Phillipe Nover Vs. Efrain Escudero
• Ryan Bader Vs. Vinicius Magalhaes
• Jason MacDonald Vs. Wilson Gouveia
• Kevin Burns Vs. Anthony Johnson
• Junie Browning Vs. Dave Kaplan
• Krzysztof Soszynski Vs. Shane Primm
• Eliot Marshall Vs. Jules Bruchez
• Kyle Kingsbury Vs. Tom Lawlor
• Shane Nelson Vs. George Roop
• Rolando Delgado Vs. John Polakowski

The Ultimate Fighter wasn’t on last week due to the holiday, but this week they showed two episodes back-to-back to catch us up.

I think at the beginning of tonights episode, the narrator Mike Rowe called Ryan Bader “Bryan”.. not that it matters, just what I noticed. I also think Nogueira calls him Bryan sometimes.

Anyway, first fight of the show is Ryan Bader vs. Eliot Marshall. Gawd what a shit fight, imo. Bader score tons of takedowns, but did ZERO with any of them, I kept expecting him to ground-and-pound, but he didn’t do shit. Sure, he controlled the fight, and won, but damn. I sure hope we don’t see him win like that much more. He literally looked almost asleep laying & praying on Eliott’s chest.

Phillipe Nover defeated George Roop, as expected.

Vinny submitted Krysztof Soszynski with an armbar. I was hoping Krysztof would win this, but now I really hope Vinny submits Ryan Bader quickly at the finale, or we’re in for a long boring fight with Bader on top avoiding submissions. However, if Bader had been fighting Vinny earlier instead of Eliot Marshall, he would have been submitted already. Where Marshall was having trouble pulling an omoplata, Vinny won’t have a problem. As soon as Bader is just being lazy in Vinnys guard and puts his hand on the mat, Vinny will get the omoplata and at least take control — in other words, I don’t think Bader will be able to lay-and-pray to control Vinny like he did Eliot Marshall, but we’ll see.

And finally, it was nice to see Junie Browning choked to submission.