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Georges St. Pierre – Doing Work

March 30, 2010 Matthew Wheeler (Staff Writer)

Many MMA fans like to hate on George St. Pierre and say he is a boring Lay and Pray fighter who doesn’t finish his opponents. What I took from the fight on Saturday night was a champion who gives his best effort while sticking to his corners game plan, and trying to finish the fight for 25 minutes. After all submission wins usually come about when one fighter makes a mistake, GSP was trying to make it happen even when it wasn’t there to take. His stats for this fight were nearly perfect, let me break it down.

Spoiler alert! Who made it in the TUF 11 house?

March 30, 2010 Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)

Warning do not read this if you don’t want to know what happens Wednesday Night during the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter Season 11. Did Spike today let the cat out of the bag by posting the picture with the 14 guys by their coaches? We all should know by now the cast is made up of 28 fighters as the UFC has been running promos for the show now for a few weeks. Those 28 fighters will have to fight their way into the house as had been done in prior seasons, so 14 fighters will be living in the house and the teams will be 7 on 7. There will be 7 first round fights leaving 7 winners moving onto the next round, here is this years twist. The coaches will then choose 2 fighters to fight in a wild card fight to fill that 8th spot in the 2nd round. The 8 will fight leaving us with 4 fighters left in the semi-finals with the winners in the two semi’s moving onto fight live for the 6 figure contract.

MMA Madness – Ultimate Fight Night

March 29, 2010 Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)

Wednesday brings us the Ultimate Fight Night the third of five events in out MMA Madness giveaway. The night will be showcased by the Kenny Florian vs. Takanori Gomi and Roy Nelson vs. Stefan Struve. The fun and games will be sponsored by our friends over at crooked Jaw make sure to follow them on twitter here. We will be giving away some shirts throughout the night with the last one going during the main event.

Ultimate Fight Night 21 Predictions

March 29, 2010 Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)

The great MMA Madness just keeps coming as 4 days removed from UFC 111 we get Ultimate Fight Night 21 plus the start of season 11 of the Ultimate Fighter. Still having a hangover from my 9-1 performance on my UFC 111 predictions these picks seem so hard to choose. I’m looking forward to the final two fights on this card for totally different reasons. The Roy Nelson vs. Stefan Struve fight interests my mainly for the oddity that is the tallest fighter (Struve) vs. the widest (Nelson) an how each handle it. The main event between Kenny Florian and Takanori Gomi should be of interest to any MMA fan out there. The MMA legend Gomi will be making his long awaited UFC debut and will try to take down the always dangerous Florian. Coming off his impressive win over Clay Guida Florian will be looking to get back in the title hunt.

Diaz successful in welterweight debut

March 27, 2010 Jake Russell (Staff Writer)

The preliminary fights on Spike TV didn’t disappoint as Stockton’s own Nate Diaz made his welterweight debut against hard-hitting Rory Markham. Size was a disadvantage for Diaz as Markham weighed in seven pounds over the 170-pound limit, though it had no affect on the outcome of the fight. Nate and older brother Nick may not be the biggest in their weight class, but they are scrappers and that’s exactly the attitude that Diaz brought into the Octagon. From the sound of the bell in the opening round, Diaz completely overwhelmed Markham and made the best of his five-inch reach advantage. Diaz utilized a mixture of combinations of punches and kicks to keep Markham backing up. After a knee that dropped Markham, Diaz used his superior grappling and jiu-jitsu skills to control him on the ground and finished with some ground and pound. This was the best Nate Diaz we’ve seen in the Octagon, and welterweight seems to be the perfect weight for him.

Strikeforce challengers recap

March 26, 2010 Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)

Before the event even started two of the undercard fights were removed, no big deal but it is a reoccurring thing with strikeforce. Fights were scheduled to start around 6:30pm but they have been pushed back to start at appox. 7:15pm. The Save mart center is still filling up with only 15 minutes left tell fight time. The first three fights of the night will be Amateur fights and the rest will all be professional.