Fight Game Blog

On F4WOnline/Wrestling Observer today, it was posted that the UFC and Jon Fitch have come to a settlement.

Here is a direct quote from the report.

Jon Fitch spoke with Lorenzo Fertitta today and agreed to sign the merchandising contract. He is back in UFC and will fight Jan. 31 against Akihiro Gono as scheduled.

Christian Wellisch has also been reinstated. He had agreed to sign the merchandising contract but was fired as part of the blow-up between Dana White and Zinkin Entertainment, his management company. Right now things are being negotiated regarding the other fighters affected but those aren’t settled yet.

Also on the site, Dave Meltzer said that it wasn’t only the video game issue, but more so an issue between DeWayne Zinkin and Dana White.

The videogame issue was part of it, but these have been problems simmering for many years, long before most of the fighters in question were even in the UFC.

Shane Prim says that John Polakowski is legally insane. He’s John “The Hugger”.

George Roop says that even though John is nice, he’s going in there with bad intentions and is going to make him bleed. He hurt his hand sparring. Mir says he hyper extended his finger at the knuckle. He can’t make a fist.

Someone stole the marshmallows from John’s box of Lucky Charms and he’s no longer John “The Hugger”. He’s pissed.

Mir says Roop’s hand is a dead fish. Dana White says John “The Hugger” is goofy, but he can go toe to toe. Mir says it should be an easy win for Roop, but because of that hand, the fight is harder.

Big Nog likes Roop and plays around with him.

John Polakowski vs. George Roop

Roop had the upper hand for more than half the round, but “The Hugger” got on top with about 1:30 left in the round. But Roop was doing just as much from the bottom as John was.

John was throwing the better punches and seemed to have hurt Roop in the second. Then Roop took over and controlled him for the rest of the round and then got his back, but couldn’t get the choke in.

Winner: George Roop by way of unanimous decision

Dana White says bad judging killed the fight because “The Hugger” won the second round.

Junie blew up again because the guys were messing with him and throwing eggs at him while he was at the pool. Not sure why it was even necessary to show it.

They are picking the semi-final matches.

The semi-finals are:

Ryan Bader vs. Eliot Marshall

Philipe Nover vs. George Roop

Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Vinny Magalhaes

Junie Browning vs. Efrain Escudero

Next week, we get two fights and they are the first on the list.

Brock Lesnar talks with ESPN about his fight with Frank Mir standing to his right.

Dave Meltzer says it’s a changing of the guard.
Meltzer says that when Royce Gracie won the first UFC, it showed that size didn’t matter. Fifteen years later, Brock Lesnar shows that it does.

UFC gives out fight bonuses for UFC 91.
Knockout of the Night — Jeremy Stephens
Submission of the Night – Dustin Hazelett
Fight of the Night — Aaron Riley vs. Jorge Gurgel

Dana says they’re still waiting for the “right” TV deal at the post fight press conference.
He says the network deals are helping put some of these companies out of business because they are bad deals. He won’t let that happen.

Josh Gross wants to see Brock vs. Fedor.
Gross live blogged the main event and said he’d put Fedor as a 3-1 favorite.

This is the biggest UFC show of the year, and if you believe Dana White, the biggest UFC show of all time. I’m not so sure about that, but this is definitely the most interest I’ve had in a big time main event since probably Chuck Liddell vs. Rampage Jackson. And I might be more excited for this one.

Brock Lesnar punches Heath Herring

1. Demian Maia vs. Nate Quarry

It didn’t take long for Maia to get Quarry down. He got his back, put on a body triangle and eventually got the choke. Quarry never had a chance.

Winner: Demian Maia by way of 1st round submission

2. Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Josh Hendricks

Gonzaga just overpowered Hendricks in the clinch and was hitting him with knees. He knocked Hendricks down with a right hand and Hendricks just laid on the ground waiting for it to be stopped.

Winner: Gabriel Gonzaga by way of 1st round TKO.

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I really need to start watching this show on Wednesdays. It’s actually getting pretty good.

The preview says that a fighter gets knocked out in the house. Uh oh.

They recap the fight from last week and Team Nog chants, “Assassin Phillipe!”

Krzysztof Soszynski is in the last light heavyweight fight and his thumb is jacked.

Tom Lawlor and the just defeated Dave Kaplan are drinking and Kaplan is getting ripped. Kaplan says he’s never been knocked out. Shane says that Kaplan and Lawlor only brought speedos to the house because that’s all they wear. Shane talks exactly like BJ Penn.

Junie is all for the drinking because it takes the attention away from him. A drunken Kaplan begs Lawlor to hit him and he finally does and Kaplan just goes out. Kaplan says he wasn’t knocked out. But he really was. He couldn’t stand up straight. Kaplan says he wasn’t unconscious. He must watch the tape of himself.

Vinnie says Krzysztof has good stand up, but can’t stop takedowns. He faces Kyle Kingsbury in the fight. Team Nog pranks Krzysztof by putting any movable object in the house into his room. Dan Henderson comes in and train with Krzysztof, but it’s a short segment. They don’t really put him over like they put over Silva.

Krzysztof enjoys the prank, but his team doesn’t look like they’re going to help him clean up his room.

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I’ve heard about some disgusting things going on this week. I’m almost afraid to watch.

Team Nog steals Tom Lawlor’s fruit tray. Who knew that the TUF house would become the house of pranks? Lawlor wants to urinate on the fruit tray for the next time Team Nog eats his fruit. Four guys peed on it. I hope Team Nog doesn’t test positive for steroids if they eat the fruit.

Team Mir chooses Dave Kaplan to fight Phillipe Nover. Isn’t Nover the guy who fainted on the first show? Mir says Phillipe must die.

Team Nog immediately grabbed the fruit tray and started eating. When Kaplan told them it wasn’t extra juicy, it was extra urinated, they tried to make themselves gag and throw up. Kyle says the fruit might’ve even tasted better than normal.

Kaplan said he was in Holland for 7 months, working out with Ernesto Hoost.

Phillipe is a sushi lover, but whenever he gets back from training, his sushi is already eaten. Kyle came up with an idea to ejaculate on the sushi for whoever eats it. Guys are disgusting.

Junie is upset that Kaplan doesn’t want to roll that much.

Kyle puts some special sperm sauce on Phillipe’s sushi. And Kaplan ate it. Kaplan says that he’s going to put his fecal matter on anyone who had something to do with his semen sushi.

Kaplan says that Phillipe is better at being Filipino than he is, but he’s a better fighter.

Junie decided to tell Phillipe about Kaplan, which isn’t a good team move.

David Kaplan vs. Phillipe Nover

Nover is three inches taller and has a big time reach advantage.

Nover knocked Kaplan down thirty seconds into the fight with straight right and lefts and Kaplan goes down. Nover got his back and sunk in a rear naked choke for the submission win. Junie was happy.

Winner: Phillipe Nover by way of 1st round submission

Dana says that Nover reminds him of Georges St. Pierre. Kaplan says he let his pride get in the way of his technique. Kaplan says he’s still the better fighter.

Next week, Kaplan goes crazy. And the coaches challenge is a penalty kick soccer match. They need to bring back the ping pong.

I’m back with the play by play of Episode 4.

Dana White shows the guys UFC 84, which I attended live in Las Vegas.

Krzysztof Soszynski (he needs a nickname by the way) says that Junie and Shane hit the wine bottle and the tequila and then start riling up the red team. Junie throws a glass at Kyle and cuts his arm. Junie thinks he’s gone for throwing the glass. But then he says that he doesn’t care because he’ll beat anyone who wins if he doesn’t.

Shane starts challenging all the 155′ers on the red team and starts pushing people. And he’s way drunk. Together, they start breaking stuff and throwing furniture in the pool. Krzysztof has enough of it and gets in Junie’s face. He then put Junie’s clothes in the pool when he decided to take a swim. Junie pushes him and Krzysztof calls him a bitch. Bader throws his clothes back in the pool and Junie tries to pull him into the water. He then kicks one of the guys down who is trying to control him. He breaks down and tries to sober up.

He says he’s destined for failure and calls himself a screw up.

Dana calls him a punk and possibly an alcoholic. He calls Shane a drunken retard. But he’s not kicking anyone off. He tells Junie to be a fucking man.

Big Nog chooses Efrain against Shane. In the house, Shane tried to challenge him and now he gets his opportunity.

Efrain says he came into the house undefeated and he’s going to leave the house undefeated.

Junie says if Efrain beats Shane it will be boring because all he will do is take him down and hold him. Junie and Efrain talk mess to each other and Junie gets heated again. He tries to get Efrain to submit him in the house. This had to be just a day after Dana told him he had one more chance.

Mir says that Shane is a purple belt under BJ Penn and he thinks it’s a good match-up for Shane.

Shane Nelson vs. Efrain Escudero

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Thanks to whomever’s fault it was, TUF didn’t record for me last week and I had to find it under CSI - NY on my DVR. But I have it now and though we’re a few days later, better late than never right?

The guys are finally in the house now.

Junie Browning is already drinking a beer. He even looks like a mini Chris Leben. They show him chugging whiskey in the hot tub.

Krzysztof Soszynski looks like a badass by the way. He was a former pro wrestler.

It’s time to pick sides. Dana asks Brian and Karn to step forward and tells them they have to leave the house because of nose fractures. The Nevada State Commission won’t let them fight. They didn’t want to leave and Dana made them leave.

Dana brings back Kyle Kingsbury. The 155 pounder who is invited back is already flying home and they have to fly him back to Vegas. He’ll be the last 155′er chosen.

Frank Mir chooses Krzysztof with his first pick.

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I listened to the press conference earlier today and took some notes.

Here are the highlights.

- Randy Couture is back in the UFC (duh).

- Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar is taking place in November in Las Vegas, not Portland. Portland was never official and was just some place they were looking to run UFC. Dana White said they’ll eventually run it. It is a title fight and will be five rounds.

- Win or lose, Randy is still in the UFC. He signed a new three fight deal.

- Fedor Emelianenko is under contract to Affliction and thus, the UFC can’t deal with him.

- The winner of Couture/Lesnar will fight the winner of Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera (which is taking place in December) for the undisputed heavyweight championship belt, sometime in 2009.

- White said it will be the biggest fight in UFC history and that research tells him it will do between 1 million and 1.5 million buys.

- Lesnar said that he wondered if he’d fight Couture and just days after, Dana White called him to offer the fight.

- Couture said he’ll fight at 225 pounds. He also said that fighting Lesnar helps with his resolution with UFC and also can help him get closer to fighting Fedor.

- Dana said Fedor needs to prove his greatness and that Affliction is dying on the vine. He said that Fedor doesn’t fight the best so shouldn’t be called the best. Lesnar said, “Who gives a shit about Fedor? I don’t give a damn about Fedor. I’m tired of hearing about fucking Fedor. I’m sick and tired of sitting on the phone, listening to people talk about Fedor.”

- White said he wants to do a countdown show with Brock and Randy, but instead of a one hour show, he wants it to be a two or three part series. This would be similar to the series that HBO did with Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather.

- Dana said, “Randy Couture is relevant, Fedor is not. Fedor is irrelevant.”

- Lesnar said, “Comparing me to Sylvia and Gonzaga is like apples and oranges.”

News and notes from around the MMA, pro wrestling, and boxing world …

- Big Daddy V and others were released today by WWE.

- Is Lance Storm the most talented WWE superstar to never have a match at Wrestlemania?

- Good ol’ JR talks about Ric Flair’s break up with WWE.

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