Archive for June, 2006
Another Ultimate Fight Night at the Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. I am hoping that they show more than the 4 fights we were given for the TUF 3 finale. Main events: Chris Leben Vs. Anderson Silva Rashad Evans Vs. Stephan Bonnar Jonathan Goulet Vs. Luke Cummo Additional fights that may [...]
Here is an excerpt of what is pankration taken from Reference.com: “Pankration is a sport or martial art introduced in the Olympic games in 648 BC. It combined striking and grappling, and a match would be won by submission of the opponent. A contestant could signal submission by raising his hand, but sometimes the only [...]
Though the finale was 3 hours long and only showed 4 fights, it was probably one of the best shows I have seen in a while. The first televised bout of the night was Keith Jardine (from TUF Season 2) taking on Wilson Gouveia, a newcomer to the Octagon from American Top Team. Though both [...]
Main event: Kenny Florian vs Sam Stout TUF Light Heavyweight: Michael Bisping vs Josh Haynes “I am looking forward to this match-up. I really think Bisping has the ability to the dominate this fight, hopefully Josh has stepped up his ground game.” TUF Middleweight: Ed Herman vs Kendall Grove “This should be a pretty good [...]
This is the big wrap-up episode till the season finale. We get two fights for one episode. The first fight is between the middleweights Josh Haynes vs. Jesse Forbes. Jesse was the replacement for the guy who ran home to his girlfriend. Jesse is a wrestler and is hoping to takedown Josh a striker. Round [...]
This episode had a lot of house antics. Rory’s anal retentiveness about the cleanliness of the house and everyone’s messiness was rubbing people the wrong way. All of Rory’s stuff in the house that had his name on it was followed by “is gay”. Rory took it in stride but was suspecting that it was [...]
As usual the episode starts with a recap of last week’s show and the last we saw was an injured Matt Hamill being rushed to the hospital. Somehow Matt injured his elbow and has a bump on his head, probably a concussion or something. Anywho… Matt is out and Mike Nickels has a broken nose, [...]