That's bad for the UFC, between him and Shelby they had a great team.

"hey Shelby, here is Donald Cerrone's phone number. If your main event falls out and the rest of the card is weak, then call him. Thats all you need to know, I'm out"

GSP/Connor being rumored.

Good lord, that would be terrible. I've never been a big GSP fan and I really don't want to watch him lay n pray on Conor for 25 minutes.

That's about the sum of it. That and never count on Cain Velasquez to make or break a card, never mention the word blow around Jon Jones, and never, ever under any circumstances utter the name Tito Ortiz in front of Dana White

This cool gimmick begins tonight

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Totally agree.

Apparently there isn't any kind of issue between Joe Silva and Dana or the UFC/new owners. His decision to leave is simple: he wants to retire. His job is insane, he puts in at least as many hours as Dana, and after the sale he got so much money as a senior executive in the UFC that he figured he could retire at a fairly young age. So, its all amicable, he's staying on as long as the UFC needs him to transition for a few months, then he'll go enjoy his retirement.

This isn't 100% done yet, but Helwani says that the UFC is working on a Cerrone vs Lawler fight for UFC 205 in New York.

We dont need to see GSP fight again, he just needs to stay retired. If this fight does happen I hope GSP cant land his take downs and Conner beats the @$#% out of him.

I would LOVE to see that fight.

That would be a great fight to see. Lawler goes all out, Cerrone never backs down. It would be epic (unless Cerrone gets kicked in the body)

I find myself really hoping the CM Punk hype train gets derailed Saturday and I have no legitimate reason why. I never saw him wrestle, no personal fan of Mickey Gall. I just really hope he gets beaten into submission. Tap to strikes would be the best possible outcome IMO

The bout agreement has been signed, Cowboy will fight Lawler at UFC 205!

Bad ass! That should be a great fight!

His job would be badass.

It would be a lot of fun, but I don't think I could do it for long. Every jamoke in the UFC feels like they deserve a title shot. Very few fighters are willing to fight down in rankings without some type of incentive. It would be tough dealing with all the egos.

Well, this is a full, fun schedule especially if you have Fightpass

Tonight:

6pm - TitanFC 41 (MMA)

7:30pm - Glory 33 (Kickboxing)

Saturday:

All Day - College Football, if you care

3pm - Cage Warriors (MMA)

6pm - UFC 203 Fightpass Prelims, FS1 prelims at 7pm

9pm - UFC 203 PPV

Sunday:

1am - Pancrase (MMA, with slightly different rules)

noon - Chiefs

8pm - EBI 8, 16-man Middleweight Tournament (submission-only grappling)

I love the Eddie Bravo tournaments. There was a 10th planet school in Springfield that I went to for a few years until I moved up here to KC. There's a school up in Platte City but that's too far for me to drive three times a week.

Everyone made weight except for some random lightweight on the prelims. (probably not his fault, he's a last-minute replacement)

I know they were making a big deal about Punk being at 200 lbs early in the week.

He made 170 on the nose.

Apparently Overeem was late to the scale and fined $500 by the Ohio commission. He was nowhere near the heavyweight limit, he just flat-out failed to show up on time.

lol, Michael Bisping's first title defense at home in the Manchester Arena reportedly sold out in 6 minutes. Capacity is 21,000

edit: one thing making this a bigger deal is that the main event will probably be close to 5am local time, to allow for the US PPV sale. Because of the terrible local time, they were thinking it might take longer to sell out.

And three days later Lawler is out of the fight, no reason why yet.

Lawler backed out because "he needs more time "

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Just stumbled upon tonights freebie on FSN

2nd round, and it appears some girl in blue is fighting a rather brutish looking man in yellow

Bitch Correia everyone!

I really, really hope Werdum doesn't get KOed by Travis Browne tonight. Also, can't wait to see Reem vs Stipe.

The jiu-jitsu brown belt strangles the white belt.

In other news, the sun set in the west tonight, and water is wet.

LOL this card

If Werdum somehow loses this fight, I think he might be able to successfully protest the result.

Travis Browne went to the Andy Reid school of clock management

This crowd is ****ing reeruned

edit: I hope Miocic gets starched now, to hell with these Cleveland fans

God, Werdum looks fat and slow. Nothing like the fight against Cain. Shit he's afraid to engage with a one armed man. Not impressed.

Yeah, he sat on an obvious lead in the last round, so its understandable that the crowd might be unhappy about that, but they were angry with Werdum for continuing in that weird "I call time out, ref not stopped yet" situation which was bullshit in the first place because the ref is not supposed to stop the fight in that situation. Werdum had every right to keep fighting just like when Silva blasted Bisping when he was complaining to the ref about his mouthpiece.

they are booing Werdum and he's trying to say something that's important to him then they show a shot of Forest Griffin and that kid that thinks he can beat Cruz lol and the crowd pops

Nothing personal Miocic, but you gotta be sacrificed to the Reem now to atone for the sins of your hometown crowd.

Exactly. His goal is to get that belt back. He's not risking a freak KO. He was still pretty active anyway, just wasn't going for the kill.

I just realized that Overeem came out to the Pride theme. I was wondering why it was familiar.

Yeah, of course. The fight should been over and I thought Werdum looked impressive until that point.

He gassed himself on the ground then danced around for two rounds with a guy who didn't throw a right hand for two rounds. He looked nothing like a guy ready for the next Title fight.

well shit.

Oh well, Miocic definitely earned that win. No hate for him, Cleveland doesn't deserve him.

The first four fights were not good at all. That main event upgraded this PPV from "shit" to "a bit below average"

When Overeem caught him the first time he should of just keep punching him instead of trying to choke him out.

Werdum front kicking Edmund was the greatest....what a whacky ass night even by UFC standards....

oh no, Overeem, you can't do that.

edit: nope, no ****ing tap.

LOL this is a clownshow card with these post fight antics

LMAO Overeem

Way to look like a jackass in front of a million people.

Welll..... it was entertaining, thats for sure.

We did not see a martial arts clinic at all, but it was kind of fun, and funny to watch that silly shit in the last 3 fights.

If he would have been correct, it would have been huge, and he would have been considered the shadow champion, but you CAN NOT accuse your opponent of tapping out unless you are 100% ****ing sure of it. If you are wrong, you look like a douche, and the UFC could not let him go with saying that they had to go to the video in front of everyone.

If Overeem could take a punch, he'd be a devastating Heavy Weight.

Think Overeem got knocked out to hard.

Its moments like that which make Rogan invaluable. His replacements probably would not have had the balls to ask for the video and demand that Overeem defend his accusation right then and there, in front of the world like that. They would have awkwardly concluded the interview and left Dana White fuming and ready to yell impotently at the media that he was wrong. Rogan did the UFC a huge favor there.

Absolutely, they have no idea right now how much they will miss him.

CM Punk has a great attitude in the post-fight presser. He said his original plan was to start out in a lower-level local MMA promotion and work on his skills from there until he was ready for the show, but the UFC presented him with an offer that he just could not refuse. If he gets cut, he'll keep going.

Listening to the press conference, wow. Mickey Gall is incredibly mature for his age, I'm more interested in what he can do.

For those with Fightpass, EBI 8 starts soon

Mighty Mouse will defend his belt against TBD on 12/3

He's not a natural heavyweight.

That's the problem.

"Smile'n" Sam Alvey is quietly trying to be another Cowboy. He just signed up for his 4th fight in 5 months, in Manila next month.

He couldn't take a punch at light heavyweight either. Shogun KO'd him twice, Arona KO'd him, Lil Nog was a corner stoppage I think, Chuck Liddell KO'd him.

If he strikes first, he's got a good chance. But if a strike lands on him, there's a good chance he's done.

I'm looking forward to the Poirer/Johnson fight this weekend. Both those guys bring it. On the other hand the Bisping/Hendo card is incredibly weak. I love Hendo but I won't buy that card just for that fight.

OSP vs Manuwa looks interesting, and hopefully they find a new opponent for Struve.

There aren't big names (other than Belfort lol), but a lot of those guys put up good fights

Depends on a fan's annual budget. For people who only pay for half the PPV's each year, yeah 204 is clearly a skip. I usually buy any PPV that I can sort of justify, and this barely gets there for me.

That's where I'm at. I buy most of them, this one doesn't do anything for me.

The UFC found a new opponent for Cowboy. He'll fight Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 205.

That would have been a fine announcement if we hadn't already been teased with Cowboy vs Lawler.

Tim Kennedy vs Rashad Evans UFC 205 Nov.12th @ NYC - Madison Square Garden.

@ 1hr 37min mark - signs his fight deal on the Alex Jones show.

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UFC Title History updated, with a new tab for the WME era.

Odd time right now, we only know when 2 of the 10 belts will be contested next, and for those 2 we only know the challenger for one of them. I assume the next few weeks will be full of news about UFC 205-207

Chael signed with Bellator

Boom, that only took a day. Tyron Woodley will fight Wonderboy in NYC.

Can't wait to see Wonderboy's hand raised.

yeah, no disrespect to Woodley, he is the champ and earned that title, but Wonderboy has looked incredible. You never know with those 3 ounce gloves, but I have to think the champ should be the underdog.

Pretty good fight night tonight

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Did gomez break his hand, is that why he paused there?

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Fantastic guillotine

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Fantastic performance in the first fight of the main card!

I think that was a good stop.

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Hassy weighs in on next weekend's card

http://tinyurl.com/j8zey3c

Wow. Between today and Friday morning, Cyborg has to cut 24 pounds to make weight for the weekend.

In other MMA news, Legacy and RFA are merging, the new organization will be Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA), targeting 30 shows per year on something called AXS TV, which I don't have on my cable subscription so why I'm even posting this I'm not sure.