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UFC 90 takes place on Saturday, October 25th at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. which is the first UFC event held in the Chicago area. Diego Sanchez has been injured and canceled his fight with Thiago Alves, and has replaced by Josh Koscheck. Melvin Guillard, also injured was replaced by Shannon Gugerty and the last injury was Goran Reljic and he was replaced by Drew McFedries.

Main Event
185#s: Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote (UFC Middleweight Title) wins by TKO/Injury in RD3!

Televised Main Card
170#s: Thiago Alves vs. Josh Koscheck wins by unanimous decision!
155#s: Tyson Griffin vs. Sean Sherk wins by unanimous decision!
HWYs: Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos Santos wins by TKO in RD1!
155#S: Gray Maynard vs. Rich Clementi wins by Unanimous Decision!

Preliminary Card
185#s: Dan Miller vs. Matt Horwich wins by Unanimous Decision!
155#s: Hermes Franca vs. Marcus Aurelio wins by Unanimous Decision!
185#s: Thales Leites vs. Drew McFedries wins by RNC in RD1!
170#s:Josh Burkman vs. Pete Sell wins by Unanimous Decision!
155#s: Spencer Fisher vs. Shannon Gugerty wins by Triangle Choke in RD3!

Card subject to change. All matchups are rumors unless otherwise stated.

Main Event Summary
The best way to summarize this fight is one of the greatest PFP fighters in the history of the sport is fighting a “journeyman” who has great punching power and one of the best chins in the sport. The X factor is Anderson has stated he has his eye on retirement, and the question is whether he still has the same passion and motivation, and Cote is not intimidated in the slightest and REALLY wants the win. On paper this fight should be a slaughter and Silva the victor and that’s how I picked it, but this is MMA and when you have a good punch and wearing 4-6 oz gloves anything can happen., i.e. Serra/GSP I or Randleman vs. Cro Cop I. Then there’s that ugly X factor….

Televised Main Card Summary
I really don’t know what to make of the Koscheck.Alves fight. Alves doesn’t have the best takedown defense, and Josh has shown in every fight but the GSP fight that if you are fighting him and he wants you down, you’re going down. Alves hasn’t shown to have made the transition as a sport BJJer into an MMA submission specialist, and has demonstrated by his record that he’d much rather knock your head into the stands. He certainly has the power to put Josh away and I think if he can stay on the outside away from Josh’s shots he can KO Josh, maybe even with a long or flying knee. His best chances for a KO are in the first round. I think Josh will have to weather an early storm, but once he gets rolling he should pull out the decision and possibly the TKO from G&P.

In the Griffin.Sherk fight, we will see a fight by two great wrestlers. What will separate the two will be Sherk’s non-stop pace and work ethic along with his speed. While Tyson is certainly capable, I just think Sherk is too much of a machine.

Gray Maynard.Rich Clementi has FOTN written all over it and so I picked the fans to be the “winner”. I am a fan of both of both fighters and honestly just want to see a great fight. Maynard will certainly be tested in this fight as Clementi is a veteran of over 45 fights with lots of KOs and submissions to his credit. More importantly in the past 2 years he really has seemed to mature as a fighter and has been more dynamic than ever. Maynard has only had 5 fights, but has sent a clear message that he belongs with his win over Frankie Edgar. Gray’s wrestling pedigree insure that he will be a challenge to anyone at 155#s. I give a slight edge in this fight to Clementi, and think he may pull out the win.

Have fun watching the fights guys!

Short and sweet without the fluff!!

Randy Couture Announcement at Noon Today!!!
EXACTLY what it says! Stay tuned….in the mean time enjoy these Fedor and Randy pics:

WEC to drop 205# & 185#s!
WEC will be dropping the light Heavyweight (205#s) and Middleweight (185#s) divisions and those divisions and their fighters will be merged into the UFC. It seems BLAF wants the WEC to purely be a showcase for the lighter weight classes. That leaves a few questions: with less fighters how will the WEC maintain it’s schedule and fill it’s cards with LESS fighters? Will it be scouting for more fighters to pick up the slack? Also, what will happen with the fighters in those divisions moved over to the UFC? Will they ALL have UFC contracts or just the big names like Steve Cantwell, Brian Stann, Paulo Filho, Chael Sonnen, etc.? Things that make you go “Hmmmm?”

UFC 90 news: Tibau injured; Aurelio to be replacement!
Gleison Tibau has received a shoulder injury during training and had to pull out of his anticipated match with Hermes Franca on Oct. 25 at UFC 90, which is headlined by Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote, and will take place at the Allstate Arena near Chicago in Rosemont, Ill. . His replacement will be PRIDE veteran Marcus Aurelio who despite losing 4 of his last 6 fights is still someone you better watch out for.

UFC 90 Fight Card
# Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote
# Thiago Alves vs. Diego Sanchez
# Tyson Griffin vs. Sean Sherk
# Spencer Fisher vs. Melvin Guillard
# Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos Santos
# Rich Clementi vs. Gray Maynard
# Thales Leites vs. Goran Reljic
# Marcus Aurelio vs. Hermes Franca
# Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Horwich
# Josh Burkman vs. Pete Sell

Jason Lambert drops down to 185#s!
Jason Lambert will debut at 18#s to take on Jason MacDonald at UFC 88 on Sept. 6 in Atlanta in which has all the makings are a darn exciting fight. Has either guy been in a boring fight, even in their losses?!? Lambert is a BIG man and dropping to 185 should make him one of the bigger, stronger athletes there. Lambert has said that his power has come down with him and is still evident in training. This is the same power that sat Babalu down on his ass.

Amir Sadollah added to UFC 91 card!
TUF fighter Amir Sadollah has been added to UFC 91′s card on Nov. 15 at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Ore. in a fight against TBA who has been fighting quite often since Boxing and MMA has been around. He is the the most busy fighter on Earth.

WAR TBA!!!

Tim Sylvia to be killed at Affliction 3?
MMAnews.com has reported that Tim Sylvia may fight Jerome LeBanner at Affliction 3 in January of February of 2009. The article also mentions that Atencio is trying to get Sergei Kharitonov on board.

Ozzy Osbourne to play at Affliction 2!
Keeping with their theme of having a live musical guest as they did at Affliction: Banned with Megadeth, it seems Ozzy will be playing!! LOL….

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