Anyway, I’ll admit, at least Travis Lutter made it an exciting fight, but the Rich Franklin fight was also exciting, so for whatever that’s worth… but yeah, props to Lutter for doing what Chris Leben and Rich Franklin couldn’t do before him, he made Anderson Silva look human in front of UFC fans (Silva has had his ass kicked before, just not in a UFC octagon).

Other thoughts on UFC 67, CroCop performed as expected. He almost landed his trademark high kick, in fact it did stun Eddie Sanchez a bit. The fight eventually went to the ground and I almost thought we were going to see Mirko CroCop win by submission, he almost had an armbar set up.

Blah to the John Halverson and Roger Huerta fight. Who cares. I hope Roger Huerta gets destroyed soon.

Rampage and Marvin Eastman had one of the best staredowns in history, Rampage won by KO.

I was disappointed to see Jorge Rivera lose, I really like the guy, and I don’t really like Terry Martin very much, except in that fight where he got KO’d by a knee, I liked him then. Terry Martin ended up calling out Mike Swick for a future fight. Swick by KO.

What a dumbass. I mean that in the nicest way. I was really pulling for him to win, I enjoyed watching him get the takedowns on Anderson Silva, up until about the time he got mount and didn’t do shit with it. And the the near armbar he got, and couldn’t do anything with it.

Give Travis Lutter credit though, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, he took him down and made it a grappling match, and got his ass whipped at his OWN game. HAHAHA!

Anderson Silva by triangle choke. Now that I think about it, I’m happy Silva won. Silva said Travis Lutter disrespected the UFC championship title by not making weight, and he is exactly right. Travis Lutter did not deserve to even be in this fight. This opportunity should have went to someone that actually wanted to be champion.

-1 for Travis Lutter.

The fight will still happen, but he failed to make weight. By one half pound.

So…it won’t be a championship fight.

I think it’s ridiculous that he wasn’t able to cut a half pound, I mean, he’s known about this fight for several months, right? Travis Lutter had a chance to fight for the UFC CHAMPIONSHIP, a chance to be an instant star, million dollar endorsements, but a half pound ruined that chance.

First, Travis came out to the weigh-in and stepped on the scales at 187 lbs, and the cut-off is 186lbs. They gave him 2 hours to lose the extra pound, but he comes back to the scale at 186.5 lbs. I hate to keep rubbing it in, but damn, you only get 1 life, and some chances only come around once in a lifetime. How will this affect his mindset tonight? He looked really bad at the weigh-in also, dehydrated and emaciated, although I’m sure he’ll have gained probably gained 20lbs back by fight time.

Anyway, I feel sorry for Travis Lutter, he blew his opportunity at a championship, but I still hope he can win and make some kind of impact for himself tonight.

I think he has a good chance at doing it if he can get the fight to the ground where he wants it. Anderson Silva seems like an OK guy, but I hope Lutter takes him out.

All in all, UFC 67 seems like it should be a good event… so as usual, here are my picks.

Halverson -vs- Huerta.. meh.. I don’t really care, I think I’d like Halverson to knock the arrogant look off of Huerta, but that look might just come naturally. Halverson by decision.

Mirko “CroCop” Filopovic -vs- Eddie Sanchez – Yeah, I might be stupid.. i put money on Sanchez.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson -vs- Marvin Eastman – I just hope this is a good fight. Marvin beat Rampage back in 2000, but of course that was Rampage’s first fight. I’m thinking Rampage will win this fight Saturday night, but you never know… Look what happened to Heath Herring.

Patrick Cote -vs- Scott Smith – Wow, this could be a good stand up war, both dudes like to throw punches, and Scott Smiths last fight had one of the most amazing endings I’ve ever seen. This is another tough fight to call, it could go either way. I’ll go with Scott Smith by KO.

Terry Martin -vs- Jorge Rivera – Jorge Rivera will win. By something.

Sam “Sausage Tits” Hoger -vs- Lyoto Machida – Lyoto Machida by whatever he wants. WAR KARATE!

and hopefully Dustin Hazelett will TKO or KO Diego Saraieva.