UFC 116 was a great show, in my opinion. I was hoping for a Shane Carwin win, but Brock Lesnar definitely earned respect tonight. He got his ass kicked in the first round, and came back to submit Carwin with an arm-triangle choke. Impressive.

The show started off good with the free prelims and the brutal fight between Seth Petruzelli and Ricardo Romero. Seth was tossing grenades at Ricardo Romero, but Romero was just eating them up and ended up damn near breaking Petruzellis arm to end the fight in round 2.

The results from UFC 166 are:

Jonathan Madsen defeats Karlos Vemola by Decision
Daniel Roberts defeats Forrest Petz by Decision
Gerald Harris defeats Dave Branch by SLAM KO 3rd round @ 2:35
Kendall Grove defeats Goran Reljic Split Decision
Ricardo Romero defeats Seth Petruzelli by brutal armbar 2nd round 3:05
Brendan Schaub defeats Chris Tuchscherer by TKO/RSC 1st 1:07
George Sotiropoulos defeats Kurt Pellegrino by Unanimous Decision
Stephan Bonnar defeats Krzysztof Soszynski first TKO/RSC 1st 3:08
Chris Lytle defeats Matt Brown by armbar in 2nd round @ 2:02
Chris Leben defeats Yoshihiro Akiyama by Triangle 3rd round @ 4:40
Brock Lesnar defeats Shane Carwin by Arm Triangle 2nd round @ 2:19

Brandon Vera defeats Krzysztof Soszynski by decision.

Demian Maia vs. Nate Marquardt – Holy shit Nate Marquardt hits hard. He drove a straight right hand into Demian Maia’s chin and put him out. Nate could have hit him several more times but stopped himself because he knew he was out. Demian Maia never even got a chance to show his jiu-jitsu. I suppose Nate will get a rematch with Anderson Silva now.

Chris Leben vs. Jake Rosholt – Round one ends with Chris Leben literally swinging to knock Rosholts head off. Big, wide swings from Leben, but none landed effectively. Man I was hoping for Leben to win this…but Rosholt ended up securing an arm triangle in round three and Leben goes to sleep, he’s left twitching on the ground, but he’s awake now and appears to be OK.

KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, Chris Leben, you’re still one of the most entertaining fighters in the UFC.

LOL, I think Bruce Buffer forgot Jake Rosholts last name, he announced the winner as “Jake……….Rosholt”

Add Todd Duffee to the list of people I want to see lose soon. He kind of seems like a dick. He KO’d Tim Hague in 7 seconds, and looked impressive, but like I said, he seems like a dick.

Joe Rogan mentions the UG’s hope of a Keith Jardine TechnoViking entrance, but it’s not happening tonight.

Oh hell, it’s on! Jardine with the pre-fight nipple tweak. That means this should be a tough fight for Silva… no it wasn’t…the nipple tweak failed, and Keith Jardine is KO’d in round one. He took a left hook and dropped to the mat, then Silva followed up with some punches on the ground to put Jardine unconscious.

Sign me up for the Ed Herman fan club. I’ve never really been a fan until tonight, but he’s a tough sumbitch. Unfortunately he got a knee injury and had to quit fighting in round two.

Who is this pony-tailed dude backstage warming up Randy Couture?

Well here we go, Randy Couture vs. Rodrigo Nogueira…I like both dudes, both legends, I’ll hate to see either of them go out on a bad note…but anyway, CAPTAIN F’N AMERICA RANDY COUTURE FTW.

This fight, after round one, is one of the most tense ever in my opinion. I like both guys, and they’ve both delivered their share of beating tonight so far.

Uh oh, Randy is in Nog’s guard now in round two. Will he GNP or will Nog get a submission?

Randy was in trouble several times but somehow survived everything, like CAPTAIN F’N AMERICA, this easily has to be fight of the night, and the winner is Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira by decision. GREAT FIGHT.

Randy says he wants to keep fighting in the future, he’s not ready to retire, says he feels great.

Other results from UFC 102 are:

• Evan Dunham defeats Marcus Aurelio by decision
• Mark Munoz defeats Nick Catone by decision
• Todd Duffee defeats Tim Hague by KO in 7 seconds
• Michael Russow defeats Justin McCully by decision
• Gabriel Gonzaga defeats Chris Tuchscherer by TKO in round 1

POST FIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE NOTES:

• Roger Clemens called Dana White yesterday to ask who he thought would win.
• Dan Henderson vs. Nate Marquardt for #1 contender spot in 185lb division?
• Randy Couture just signed a new contract with the UFC today, for 28 months and 6 fights.

Evan Dunham over Marcus Aurelio by decision
Mark Munoz over Nick Catone by TKO
Tim Hague over Todd Duffee by KO
Justin McCully over Mike Russow by decision
Gabriel Gonzaga over Chris Tuchscherer by KO (head kick)
Aaron Simpson over Ed Herman by KO
Krzysztof Soszynski over Brandon Vera by KO
Damien Maia over Nate Marquardt by submission
Chris Leben over Jake Rosholt by KO

I can’t make up my mind about Jardine vs. Silva… I’m thinking its a slugfest until someone gets KO’d in round 2.

I also am thinking that Randy Couture will knock out Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

Well, Chuck Liddell got KTFO again. Damn. Get well soon, Chuck. I wish he’d get back on a winning streak, somehow.

Anderson Silva was semi-impressive, in the fact that he didn’t get punched nearly at all, in five rounds of fighting. He won a unanimous decision over Thales Leites. Was Silva trying to finish the fight? Or is he just happy to get a decision?

Other results from UFC 97 are:
Sam Stout defeated Matt Wiman (robbery decision, imo)
TJ Grant defeated Ryo Chonan by decision
Mark Bocek defeated David Bielkheden by choke in round 1
Ed Herman defeated David Loiseau by decision
Nate Quarry defeated Jason MacDonald by TKO in round one
Denis Kang defeated Xavier Foupa-Pokam by decision
Eliot Marshall defeated Vinicius Magalhaes by decision
Luiz Cane defeated Steve Cantwell by decision
Cheick Kongo defeated Antoni Hardonk by TKO in round 2
Krzysztof Soszynski defeated Brian Stann by Kimura in round 1
Mauricio “Shogun” Rua defeated Chuck Liddell by TKO in round 1
Anderson Silva defeated Thales Leites by decision

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.