Full Results of the EliteXC Unfinished Business Card!
Dana White’s “Big” Announcement?!
As mentioned in an earlier article, Dana White had a “big” announcement to make during the replay of UFC 84, last night. Of course, obvious to all is that it wasn’t going to be “big” at all, but a ploy by Dana to draw attention away from the EliteXC “Unfinished Business” card, in what he feels is another attack in his efforts to establish a monopoly. His last “big” announcement that was supposed to shock the MMA world was that Lorenzo Fertitta was stepping down from his position and going to be assisting Dana in a more active manner with promotions. For that we got lead on for days and weeks, in the interim while he had our attention he told us about UFC Lighters, Credit Cards, and figurines.
Pretty sneaky.
Anyhow, this “big” announcement was that UFC 89 will be televised on free TV on Spike. I imagine the next big announcement he’ll have is that his nickname is BLAF. I can tell you when this announcement will be if you can tell me when the next DREAM, EliteXC, or Affliction card is, whichever comes first.
Antonio Margarito TKO’s Cotto!
Antonio Margarito is as one of the commentators said, “a moving WALL that hits you and keeps coming forward”. Weathering the early storm of fast paced movement, and power shots by Miguel Cotto, Antonio kept coming forward, punching and kept right in Cotto’s face, never giving him a chance on his way to a TKO victory in the 11th. In the early rounds, while Cotto kept lateral movement and punching, Margarito had a difficult time landing solid blows, but did accumulate a fair amount. The pace was too much for Cotto, for every time he would stop moving Margarito would be right there, landing combos and hard power shots. By the time the 11th round came around, a few hard shots forced Cotto to take a knee. A combination of being smothered, constantly stalked and hit, and fatigue followed by hard shots, made Cotto wisely take a knee to get a break. However, it only delayed the inevitable, for as soon as he stood: there was Margarito right in his his chest. Another knockdown and it could be seen all over Cotto’s. He was nodding as if to tell the ref or his cornerman, that he wanted no more and after his corner threw in the towel the ref waved off the fight.
As people have been saying for months, THIS is why Mayweather has been dodging Margarito, before finally convincing even the biggest Mayweather fan, he definitely wanted no part of Margarito and instead took on Baldomir for a quick and easy pay day, before finally retiring.
Floyd, we all know. It’s obvious.
What’s next for Margarito?
Anderson Silva to defend title against Patrick Cote at UFC 90!
In what was tentatively scheduled for UFC 89, has been officially moved to UFC 90 in Chicago, on October 25th: Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote for Silva’s middleweight belt and return to the middleweight division after a foray into the Light Heavyweight Division at UFC FN 14 in his destruction of James Irvin. Cote is coming off of a VERY impressive win over Ricardo Almeida at UFC 86. However, does anyone think this fight will be competitive? No offense to Cote, as I’m a fan. How about BLAF drops his Napoleon complex and allows some Middleweights from other organizations have a go? Kind of like when he sent Chuck over to Pride?
Though not saying these guys would beat Anderson, they make for far more exciting fights: Paulo Filho, Robbie Lawler, Matt Lindland, Yushin Okami, Ryo Chonan rematch and revenge, Jason Miller, Kazuo Misaki, or Akiyama?
WEC to head to Florida: Faber and Filho to headline!
Scheduled for Wednesday, September 10th, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida will be WEC 37. Headlining will be Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown and the long awaited rematch between Chael Sonnen and Paulo Filho. The remainder of the card is yet to be announced. The event will be televised live as usual on Versus at 9 P.M. ET/6 P.M. PT and tickets go on Sale Monday, July 21 at Noon and are priced at $175, $125, $100, and $50. Tickets are available at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino box office and all Ticketmaster locations. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (954) 523-3309. Tickets also are available online through www.wec.tv or www.ticketmaster.com.
WEC 35 Full Card!
Main Card:
Carlos Condit Vs. Hiromitsu Miura (Welterweight Championship)
Jamie Varner Vs. Marcus Hicks (Lightweight Championship)
Brian Stann Vs. Steve Cantwell (Light Heavyweight Championship)
Brian Bowles Vs. Damacio Page
Micah Miller Vs. Josh Grispi
Undercard:
Brock Larson Vs. Carlo Prater
Cub Swanson Vs. Hiroyuki Takaya
Blas Avena Vs. Dave Terrel
Alex Karalexis Vs. Todd Moore
Greg McIntyre Vs. Mike Budnik
Scott Jorgensen Vs. Kenji Osawa
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