Big D and I are back to talk about UFC 109 as well as early thoughts on UFC 110. We talk about the disgusting schedule starting in March and then segue into the news of Mayweather/Mosley, which just blows that schedule up even further. For the last 40 minutes of the show, we discuss the booking of WrestleMania XXVI.

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2010’s Super Saturday UFC show is now just a recent memory fading, fading, and fading into history. In fact, this show probably NEEDED to fade. But oh well, let’s see what the Gods had to say…

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Best Fight: Chael Sonnen vs. Nate Marquardt
Worst Fight: Demian Maia vs. Dan Miller

Well, this wasn’t exactly the kind of card we hoped for, but it wasn’t all bad. I did enjoy seeing Matt Serra get a knockout win. Frank Trigg didn’t look good at all and retirement may be in his future. I was befuddled that they’d put another decision on from earlier in the night right after Demian Maia’s boring win over Dan Miller, but they wanted to showcase Mr. Wonderful. They shouldn’t waited until after Swick vs. Thiago. Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt was very fun, but not your regular fun fight. There wasn’t a lot of back and forth and it was mostly a wrestling destruction by Sonnen. I think Marquardt made the fight by continuing to fight from his back, but Sonnen really schooled him on this night. And Couture knocking out Coleman was anticlimactic because the second you saw Coleman react slowly to Randy’s punches, it was only time before he was going to be finished.

Cactus Jim
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Nice, but they copy NFL a tad bit too much.

Hey, I was able to blog this live after all.

Call it Age In The Cage or whatever you want, just as long as you call it the main event of UFC 109. Some may think that this show is worthless, but I guarantee you that it’ll do a better buy rate than Rashad Evans vs. Thiago Silva, with Rashad being hotter than he’s ever been because of Rampage Jackson and The Ultimate Fighter. There’s just something about Randy Couture.

1. Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg

Serra said Trigg is a guy he’d smack for nothing. For whatever reason, Trigg has hair. I hope it’s not a wig. Serra looks a little better body wise than Trigg, which I didn’t expect.

Serra had troubles early on with Trigg’s reach advantage. He was going in and out trying to create some room to land. Trigg seemed a little too comfortable. Serra went low and then threw a looping right hand to the head and put Trigg out. He followed it up and Trigg was done. I wasn’t surprised, but I didn’t think it would happen so quickly.

Winner: Matt Serra by 1st round TKO

2. Dan Miller vs. Demian Maia
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Thanks to Heyman Hustle, we now know that Brock Lesnar is the cover athlete for UFC Undisputed 2010, like was heavily rumored. Heyman is a great source for all Lesnar information as he’s friends with Brock, going back to their WWE days when he was managing the Next Big Thing. I fondly remember Heyman as Paul E. Dangerously from my younger WCW fan days.

Even though I didn’t love UFC Undisputed, the game definitely has promise. And it looks like there’s going to be a yearly update now like WWE’s Raw vs. Smackdown and EA Sports games like Madden and NBA Live.

As long as the game continues to improve, I don’t see why it can’t be a successful franchise, especially in 2010 with Brock Lesnar on the cover.

Heyman also had an exclusive interview with Brock Lesnar about Canadian Health Care which is a very interesting read.

After UFC 108 saw one of the lower UFC buyrates of recent memory, UFC comes back with Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman in the main event. Because of Couture, this show won’t do as badly as 108, but it’s only because of Couture. The show has some very interesting fights but not too much that is must see.

There’s some of us on the FGB crew who aren’t really looking forward to this show, but others who are at least intrigued. Stevie J from Angrymarks.com joins us.

Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg

Duan: Trigg by decision
Alan: Trigg by decision
Big D: Serra by 1st round TKO
Stevie J: Serra by decision
Cactus Jim: Serry by 2nd round submission
GG: Serra by 3rd round TKO

Duan says:

Both of these guys are just lost in the shuffle at welterweight. Trigg to ride out a convincing but uneventful three round decision.

Alan says:
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It has been reported everywhere that the very first WEC PPV will be from Sacramento and if they run Sacramento, you know Urijah Faber is going to be there. He faces Jose Aldo in the main event and so far, there are two pretty compelling fights on the undercard.

The announcement was pretty big, but the reaction to many who watch WEC on Versus, the price point was a huge deal. The PPV is scheduled to be priced at $44.95, which is what the UFC is priced at. It’s going to be tough to turn WEC viewers who are used to free shows to pay for something at any price, let alone $44.95. However, the people who would buy the show at say $34.95 and wouldn’t at $44.95 is probably low enough to where they’ll recoup the money with the higher price.

Also scheduled for the show is a title fight between Ben Henderson and Donald Cerrone and a fight between Mike Brown and Manny Gamburyan. The tickets go on sale this weekend.

More than likely, Sacramento gets even louder than they were when Faber fought Assunciao at the last WEC show.

So the 2010 WWE Royal Rumble is now in the history books. The winner this year was the returning Edge, whom I knew would return and eliminate his rival Chris Jericho, but really had no clue that he was going to go on and win the damn thing. There were numerous people who could’ve won and numerous top guys that made sense and it seemed like the WWE overly telegraphed Shawn Michaels to win the thing and he infact did not.

Unfortunately for me, I missed the first 90 minutes or so of the show because DirecTV is run by a buncha Helen Kellers. Amazing that a company that has been around for 2 decades manages to make the same mistakes they made then. Is Michael Cole a VP? I was extremely pleased when Triple H got eliminated and wasn’t one of the final four like he always is, much less the winner. You know how much I hate that man and more importantly you all know how happy I am to see Edge back and what a huge Edge fan I am so yes, it was indeed a good night for me.

What about the rest of the Fight Gamers?

Let’s take a looksie!

Duan a.k.a. “Tall D”
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Props to FGB friend Tim Starks at The Queensberry Rules for posting that Floyd Mayweather has now signed the contract for his fight with Shane Mosley (including the Golden Boy press release).

Yesterday, Dan Rafael posted that Mayweather’s delay was frustrating all of the parties involved because they wanted to start hyping the fight in Miami at the Super Bowl. That frustration has probably subsided.

The fight is scheduled for May 1 at the MGM.

I consider the Monday after the Royal Rumble to be the start to what the WWE likes to call, “The Road to WrestleMania”. It’s generally where the the booking to the biggest show of the year becomes more clear and since the winner of the Rumble dictates at least one of the main events for Mania, it’s a good place to start.

With Edge winning the Rumble, we were all thrown a bit of a curve ball. One would think that it would be logical to assume that Edge was going to face Chris Jericho since they seemed to be leading there ever since and even before Edge got hurt last year. Jericho cut a promo on him that Edge referenced in his comeback interview on Raw last night. Injuries suck for the performers, but it’s actually ok for the product. Edge came back as a fresh character and the fans loved seeing him back. His promo was just the beginning of his storyline and it didn’t need to be anything other than the beginning of what they have planned. It was good to see Sheamus in the ring with him as they need to continue to get Sheamus in there with the big stars and show him as their equal.

I really like what they’re doing with Shawn Michaels and I think it’s an interesting parallel to the Bret Hart storyline. Though I feel that we saw this broken down Shawn last year during his angle with JBL, he plays the guy who has to overcome odds better than almost any guy can. He gets sympathy very easily. But it’s a interesting parallel in that Michaels wants something so bad and can’t have it, seemingly a bit down on his luck and Hart is trying to gain respect from Vince McMahon and is being manipulated and comes off a bit weak. However, because he’s so good at being the Bret Hart character, you desperately want to see him succeed, just like you do Michaels. It’s going to be fun to see where both of these storylines are headed and with Batista and John Cena thrown into the Bret Hart vs. Vince McMahon angle, my intrigue went up. However, I don’t think they can go away from Hart and McMahon now settling their feud at WrestleMania in the ring. They can’t have Cena and Batista fight for them.
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