News and notes from around the MMA world on Halloween …

- Sean Sherk appeals his positive steroid test today before the California State Athletic commission.

- Here’s the meeting agenda for the CSAC meeting.

(After I posted, it came out that Sherk’s decision was postponed until November 13th.)

- Dave Meltzer talks about the evolution of the heavyweight division.

- Where are you Andrei Arlovski?

- Meltzer covers the latest UFC press conference in which Dana White and Lorenzo Fertita refute Randy Couture’s claims.

- Adam Swift covers both the UFC bonus system and UFC contract in detail.

- Din Thomas was arrested on Tuesday.

- Time magazine covers the Randy Couture/Dana White saga.

- The IFL will ditch the city based teams in favor of fight camps.

Talking Points

I will have The Ultimate Fighter Season 6: Episode 7 report up here later tonight.

Dana White and Lorenzo Fertita held their own press conference yesterday to refute the claims of Randy Couture, that he was underpaid. In my mind, Randy is someone who felt that he gave his all and that as the face of the UFC, they should’ve taken care of him a little better. He’s simply a disgruntled employee. Now does he have a right to be? I’m sure in his mind, it’s justified. I think the public is currently split with the he said she said. It’s probably half who feel that Couture should honor his contract, and half who feel that he’s justified in leaving the company.

Sometimes as fans of the sport, we tend to forget that this is also big business. It was big business enough to be written about by Gary Andrew Poole from Time Magazine. The article doesn’t really break any ground, but does show that the UFC is in very much in the public eye. I have definitely noticed that Dana White has been very respectful towards Couture, and understands that the best thing for the UFC and the fans is for Couture to agree to come back. He doesn’t want to completely burn bridges with Couture, because by doing that, the UFC will look like the bad guy and possibility lose out on Couture coming back for good. For some reason, it just fascinated me that Time Magazine was covering the Randy vs. Dana story.

On a completely different note, a friend sent me a YouTube video of a crazy finish to a fight. You think Anderson Silva is unstoppable? Check out Ryo Chonan’s heel hook out of nowhere on Silva in Pride some years ago. Josh Barnett narrates. It might take a crazy fluke like that to beat Silva again.

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Garrett M. Gonzales
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