Plus I really wish people would quite complaining about how many UFC fight are on each year. Yes they put on a lot and when you have the roster they have you make it posible. I am sure if the UFC when to shows every 3 months we would all be complaining that we dont see enough good shows or that because the shows are so spaced out we dont see any other up and coming talent. All it will take is for the UFC to get over the injury issues they are having put together 2 or 3 good PPV and everyone will say that they are doing awsome.

“UFC 109. Coleman. Couture. Winner gets a free motorized wheelchair, loser forfeits his Medicare benefits for a year!”

Dana: You know, the public wanted to see this fucking fight 12 years ago, and my job is to bring you fucking fans whatever the fuck you want to fucking watch. I make the fights you want to see. Fucking Strikeforce is going out of business. I don’t want fucking Dan Henderson, he sucks. I have Chris Leben, Matt Mitrione and James McSweeney. Those guys can fucking swing! Dan Henderson is going to fucking ruin Strikeforce. Nobody wants to see him fucking fight, they want to see Tito vs Chuck again! But UFC 109 isn’t the only fucking huuge show we have coming up. Make sure you fucking order UFC 108, we got Rashad Evans, he got knocked the fuck out his last fight, against Thiago Silva, who got knocked the fuck out 2 fights ago. This isn’t a number 1 fucking contender match because nobody would ever think either of them can fucking compete with Machida, so, umm, it is a number 2 contender match. It is just a great fight. Fans come up to me wherever the fuck I fucking go and don’t say anything about Fedor, they just beg me to put Rashad and fucking Thiago together. I love the fucking fans! Fedor sucks!”

You should head over to mmablog Bloody Elbow for the self righteous backslapping and congratulating going on over there about it too. They had TWO blog posts about em in the last week, while numerous other websites have been on it for much longer and much harder. But the UFC banned it the day after their most recent “article” where they posted links to the other sites who did all the heavylifting.

I didn’t mind it at first because it enabled more money to stock the cards with the actual best fighters in addition to the pop ones.

Honestly, with other Nog/Vera on the UFC 109 card, the televised portion has 5 fairly interesting and fun fights, even if they are not necessarily supremely important in their divisions. Not as good as this weekend’s event, but better than UFC 108 in my mind.

Also, Hoelzer Reich is apparently banned from Zuffa events now. Never should have gotten on TV to begin with, but its good that they did something before things could have gotten ugly.

Couture, Ortiz, Coleman, Liddell are all mistakes. Other fighters are now gauging their paydays by guys that UFC shouldn’t have brought back anyway.

Henderson isn’t particularly far off from that group either, although his skills have certainly aged better than any of the others, and his desire to compete seems to be stronger (probably goes hand in hand).

Measured against keeping them, it looks like a bad idea, measured in a universe where UFC didn’t keep them, and didn’t re-sign him, it’s bad, but not THAT bad. Maybe they’re going to turn over a new leaf and start letting these old dogs lie.

Boxing’s biggest upcoming fight will take place May 5 when Oscar De La Hoya defends his junior middleweight championship on HBO PPV against welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. White predicts the UFC’s show on Dec. 30 featuring superstar Chuck Liddell versus Ortiz will challenge that fight for pay-per-view buys.

“When De La Hoya leaves,” White says, “it’s over for boxing.”