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With the dismal and miniscule Hard Rock Café thankfully behind them, the latest Spike TV special will be shown live from the Fertitta brothers' own Red Rock Casino and Spa Resort outside Las Vegas. Hopefully this means the end of live specials that are supposed to promote the hottest sport in North America but appear to be held in somebody�fs dingy neighbourhood bar. There�fs also a name change with the word �eUltimate�f being dropped. The final two UFNs weren�ft exactly major successes. UFN4 was almost two hours of unremitting dullness with 4 fights that went the distance and only the fight between Joe Stevenson and Josh Neer and the controversial scoring of Bonnar-Jardine offering much of interest. UFN5 was far better, featuring the stunning 49-second UFC debut of Anderson Silva along with a gripping scrap between Luke Cummo and Jonathan Goulet. It was also the lowest rated live show on Spike TV yet, sandwiched in-between the TUF3 Finale and the much-hyped UFC 61. The last few minutes of the Cummo fight actually drew an immense audience but that was down to all the vampire and comic book geeks tuning in to see the premiere of the Blade TV series the UFC broadcast team were forced to shill endlessly for.

Fight Night should do better in the ratings and with a very solid card should be well worth putting up with the incessant ad breaks. The main event should decide the next challenger for the welterweight title as Diego Sanchez meets Karo Parisyan in a battle between two of the sport�fs most talented and energetic younger grapplers. The televised portion of the show is also scheduled to include Chris Leben�fs return from the Silva demolition, Yuki Sasaki�fs UFC debut against Dean Lister and Goulet facing one of UFC�fs elite wrestlers, Josh Koscheck.

[Kamatari]

Read it!!
I did.

I want Sasaki to win, but have a hard time believing that he will. If he does I'm just going to act like I knew it all along. Anyone got any details on the WCFC show? The esteemed Mr. Garvey mentioned that it was a controversial one.

[FieldingMellish]

I did.

I want Sasaki to win, but have a hard time believing that he will. If he does I'm just going to act like I knew it all along. Anyone got any details on the WCFC show? The esteemed Mr. Garvey mentioned that it was a controversial one.

Esteemed? lol

WCFC was basically controversial because of the abhorrent way they marketed it. They courted all the kind of "STOP THESE DEATH FIGHTS!!!!" publicity they could get. Which had potentially scary ramifications for UK MMA as a whole and in any case totally backfired on them as they drew a vicious crowd that knew nothing and wanted to see people die. The show itself was all submissions and decisions so they had no KOs at all, lol. They also endangered the safety of two of the fighters by having a clueless Mike Tyson referee a fight and in another fight they opened the cage up to make running repairs, while two guys were still fighting. The show was the closest any MMA event has ever been to where I live but I chose not to go becuase I was so disgusted by their marketing.

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This will be interesting, only i think that Sanchez will beat Karo.
At UFC 60, Alessio was just concentrating on defending takedown, while Karo is much more agressive fighter than Diego.

And good job, as always :)

[restless_438]

lets go Dean.... :)

As usual, thanks are due for the preview

[buffalo_66]

Sanchez clung to Alessio’s back like a Koala to the last eucalyptus tree on Earth

I read these things just for the metaphors

[AKA]

Midoux will get the Ko win!