Rampage and Rashad continue to make fun of each other being knocked out, which seems kind of odd when you think about it being that this is a violent sports.

Rampage calls Evans, “Gayshad” while he calls Rampage, “Wahhhmpage, the whiny bitch.” These guys are getting too immature.

Rashad picks the fight and it’s Matt Mitrione, aka “Meathead” versus Scott Junk. Dana says he’ll take the fighter over the NFL guy (Mitrione) any day.

That makes the last fight between Mike Wessell and Marcus Jones.

Rashad tells Rampage that he’s going to make him quit. They get into it seriously and it gets ugly. It’s an awesome segment to set up a fight. Too bad they won’t fight for a while.

Junk says that Mitrione told him that the reason they’re fighting is because Wessell was scared to fight Junk. It went back to Junk and Wessell says it didn’t happen that way at all.
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DREAM was back once again this past weekend. Just 19 days removed from the Featherweight Grand Prix finals, FEG presented DREAM 12 live in Osaka, Japan. This show was noteworthy because for the first time DREAM opted to use a hexagon shaped cage as opposed to a ring. Gone to was the marathon first round, instead being replaced by the 3 five minute round structure of the unified rules.
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Thanks to Yahoo! Sports for showing HBO’s 24/7 series.

If I get whooped, play it back, because I’ll be a fool.

Back in the mid-80s, we had HBO and I was able to watch many of Larry Holmes’ heavyweight fights. Because I saw Larry most, he became my favorite fighter. When he lost to Michael Spinks, I was heartbroken, and when he lost again to Spinks in the rematch, I was bummed out again. This was before Mike Tyson came on the scene and took Larry’s spot on my list.

Before Holmes lost to Spinks, I learned that he actually fought the legendary Muhammad Ali. My dad would tell me stories about Ali and I pretty much knew Ali’s career. My next-door neighbor was also a big boxing fan and had a few of Ali’s later fights on video cassette tape.

I asked my dad how come the fight wasn’t legendary and spoken about. He said that it was the worst fight he’d ever seen in his life and that it should’ve never happened. To me, this fight was a mystery. It was a fight I wouldn’t want to see because a heroic figure in boxing was on his last legs getting beaten by the hungry tiger. My dad said it also hurt Holmes and even though he was in Ali’s shadow and should’ve come out of his shadow by beating him, what actually happened was that he became disrespected and even less popular. No one wanted him to beat Ali. It was a no win situation for Holmes.
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UFC 104 will be remembered not for any particularly stand out performance or fight, but rather for the controversial scoring of the main event. Ultimately this card did very little to shake up the UFC rankings, and the consensus amongst the Fight Game Blog crew seems to be that the show was a disappointment. The full FGB team weigh in with their thoughts:

Alan
Thumbs Down
Best Fight: Velasquez vs. Rothwell
Worst Fight: Tibau vs. Neer I suppose, although there were three fights all around that standard.

Boring show for the most part.

Big D
Thumbs In The Middle, leaning down
Best Fight: Cain Velasquez vs. Ben Rothwell
Worst Fight: Chael Sonnen vs. Yushin Okami

A bit of a lackluster show that will be remembered for it’s controversial finale rather than being a good top to bottom fight card. The main event was a fun kickboxing exhibition turned screwjob (we detailed this on our recent edition of FGB Radio), but the most entertaining moment was Velasquez annihilating Rothwell. Everything else was ehh… just there. Keep this on the bottom of your DVD wish list.

Cactus Jim
Thumbs slightly down
Best Fight – Valasquez versus Rothwell
Worst Fight- Neer versus Tibau

There wasn’t much noteworthy about the show. Anthony Johnson showed up
WAAAAAY over weight and destroyed his opponent. Cain Velasquez is
starting to look like the guy the UFC has been hyping him to be. Shogun
got the short end of the stick on the decision. Other than that, it was
plodding fights with no real meaning outside of Okami being removed from
a title shot after his loss to Sonnen. Not worth the replay.

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The first ever WWE Bragging Rights PPV is in the books. I don’t think any of us here at the Fight Game Blog were particularly enthused when the line up for this show was first announced. It looked like just another weak theme driven PPV offering from WWE. However, there were some polarizing views amongst our staff about how the show played out. So let’s get right in to it:

Big D
Thumbs Down
Best Match: Smackdown vs. Raw 14 man tag
Worst Match: Divas

Kind of an unusual show. Again, to me, almost no PPV WWE has put on is really worth the hefty 39.95 price tag, but this one certainly wasn’t close. Cena and Orton did the best they could to mask their lack of working ability behind gimmicks, but an hour of these two is too much regardless. They can barely entertain for 15 minutes. The 7 on 7 wasn’t as good as I expected and neither was Miz & Morrison. This wasn’t a B show, it was a C show

Duan
Thumbs up
Best Match: Cena Vs. Orton
Worst Match: Divas match (not even particularly bad)

I know that I am probably in the minority here, but I thought this was a really enjoyable show. All the undercard matches were fun. The 4 way and the big 14 man tag both far exceeded expectations. I was satisfied with how they handled the Batista turn, and I thought the beat down on Rey was pretty convincing. Jericho celebrating with the Bragging Rights trophy was, as Big D would say, Godlike.
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