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Well its hours away from the finale, and I gotta be honest, what was allegedly “The best season yet” according to Dana White, while having a few interesting moments, has been somewhat lackluster overall.

Top 3 moments:

• Rampage being wound up by CB, and challenging him (100% seriously) on camera to a grappling match and being tapped out like a bitch in 3 seconds.
• JT pissing all-over himself, twice.
• CB getting his ass handed to him by Amir

The Coaches:

Rampage:

I am sure nobody will have any argument when I say Rampage was a let down. When he wasn’t sleeping, he was cracking annoying, predictable “whoop your ass”, “your so ugly”, “your breath stinks” jokes and getting wound up and tapped out by his trainees?

Forrest:

Definitely the “dark horse coach”. Unassuming, hardworking and humble. Despite stating he has no affinity to training fighters, he is no doubt an awesome coach and without knowing it. Getting in there and mixing it up, Forrest showed coaches how its done, and the number speak volumes, with only 1 of his guys loosing their fights before the semi finals.

Final Amir Sadollah vs CB Dollaway 2:

Only hours away now, this should be a great fight. Although a close fight, Amir won the first encounter. Amir with his inherent heart, talent and ability, (that he seems to overlook, most likely due to his own, misplaced insecurities). Quite juxtaposed from the arrogant, one dimensional, albeit strong and hard working CB. My pick for the winner later today is most definitely Amir.

Honorable Mention: Jesse “JT Money” Taylor

What a douche. Thick as a brick JT probably has more physical talent than I’ve seen yet. He has the heart and tools. Yet he still finds a way to sabotage himself through stupidity and self destructiveness.

Closing Note

After the over hype of the limo incident and the promising of this being the “greatest season ever”, I have got to say I am not impressed with TUF. Sure they have to attract viewers, but there is no need to irresponsibly over-hype and continual over-promising and under-delivering, thus pissing all over the existing loyal fan base.

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Update: This aint happening. Chuck Liddell is facing Rashad Evans.
Update: Anderson will face James Irvin (yawn). Expect a quick KO/sub from Silva.
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=eventDetail.FightCard&eid=1461

According to an article that appeared on wrestlingherald.com today that very well may be the case. The following was sent along to mmanews.com by Angel Aramboles: “I just got off the phone with a source very close to the situation and I am told that UFC is expected to make several announcements on Thursday.

1) Anderson Silva will be fighting in the light heavyweight class
2) Chuck Liddell will fight in the main event on the September pay-per-view in Atlanta”

Anderson, Undefeated UFC MiddleWeight champion:

Chuck, ex-UFC Light Heavy Weight King:

Is this indicative of a potential super fight? I think so… This would make for an exciting match up, and I think UFC will be making the right choice if they proceed with this. Anderson, while exceptionally skilled as a fighter is somewhat lackluster in terms of star power and defeating Chuck is just the guy to launch him full swing into stardom.

Anderson has all the tools to put away Chuck, better jiu-jitsu, sharper standup albeit I do have to give the strength and comfort factor to Chuck having fought at lhw for the bulk of his career.

Its slated to go down in September at UFC 88, so lets just keep our fingers crossed and eyes peeled.

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I’ve made a host of updates and improvements to the gymdb.com some of the highlights include, built in Google map functionality.

• Improvement: Google Maps built into gym viewer.
• Improvement: Option to specify extra address details or directions for gyms.
• Improvement: Logs now visible on gym manage page.
• Improvement: Beefed up invite system, also added more info and a personal message section.
• Improvement: Added meta descriptions to prettify Google results.

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Wow. So this is the headline, live network bout that has finally pushed Mixed Martial Arts to mainstream. While I am glad its happened, I am incredibly sad and disappointed that this was the fight that took it there.

Don’t get me wrong, I thought the actual promotion EliteXC put on was decent. The problem was both the sub-par professional skill of Slice and Thompson and the utter, blatant favoritism that was enjoyed by EliteXC’s hype machine AKA Kimbo Slice.

• The fight certainly could have been stopped in the second round by Thompson from his unanswered ground and pound on Slice.
• Thompson had full side control and was doing good on the ground yet they stood them up continually, TV ratings are one things, a fair fight is another.

Thompsons Swollen Ear
Yes this was a particularly weird and integral part of the fight. Firstly, its extremely odd that Thompson came in with the swollen ear. Why on earth wouldn’t he drain it before the fight? It was evident that it would pop. If you look at the weigh-ins and pre-fight interviews there was no evidence of any problems with his ear, did this happen in the changing rooms warming up? Or more sinister, is this evidence of a potential fix?

Either way he is going to have serious problems with the piece of ham hanging off the side of his head he calls an ear from here on out.

Is Kimbo legit?
Is Kimbo a threat to other pro mma heavy-weights right now? Not really.

Will he be? Probably. His stand-up is sharp and he has the natural talent and the inclination to improve, however it was evident he has MANY holes in his game. With Bas at his side I see him being a force in a year or two, provided he consistently trains and focuses on his wrestling and ground-game. Right now he is nowhere near top 10, and would ass handed to him by most of the talent at Heavyweight.

Images courtesy of sherdog.com

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A couple more fixes and improvements here and there have been made to the gymdb.

• Bug Fix: Area code only worked for numerical values.
• Bug Fix: Gym logo breaking when uppercase characters were in filename.
• Bug Fix: Creating gyms would fail if “Gym Tags” (gymdb addresses) were not unique, now it auto appends “-1″ to the gymdb address
• Improvement: Added “Admin” flag to members, so any selected can manage listing, instead of hard coding it to owners / web-masters.
• Improvement: Added “secret hash” to invite system. So invites aren’t tied to email addresses and can only be used once for added security.
• Improvement: Second gym email address field.
• Visual Improvement: Gym manager hides long content and makes it expandable/collapsible to save space.
• Bug Fix: Smoothed the profile viewer out and made it a touch more visually pleasing

Much more coming

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