I was unaware that Anderson Silva plans to retire soon. Is this old news, is it still true?

http://www.mmalinker.com/xExternal.php?vidid=9277

he's a cool fellow.

Still true, although I think he has like five fights left on his contract, he just wants to fight every other month meaning he'd retire soon, when in reality the UFC will only let him fight like twice a year.

Is there an over/under on the main fight for Saturday? 2:30 in the first sound about right? If Rampage has learned to defend the low kick this fight ends abruptly for sure.

Frank Mir out or rematch with Brock Lesnar due to back injury.

Lots of bets on tomorrow.
Brown
Gonzaga
Maynard
Grove
Hamill

reports everywhere are minor knee surgery, not back, which is good news.

FWIW, I have a big play on Rampage and small plays on Madigan and Munoz. Basically junkie bets based on Perfomify's analysis. Really didn't get into this card much and won't be buying it.

I don't think you're alone.

Funny enough, I was looking at the card and their seems to be more "name" fighters on the undercard. After a couple of stacked card, the pickens are getting slimmer, and I actually know a decent amount of fighters. I'm worried that with all the wrestlers on this card, it's gonna be a boring card. Hopefully I'm wrong. Not enough hardcore jujitsu guy for me tonight. Oh well, heading to the bar to watch.

Senior Mexico, I know you are bar-bound so this is more for Big Lew.

Here is a great link for the card...

http://pages.tvunetworks.com/channels/#

Download the tvu player....then in the search engine after you download type in MMA-TV.

YW!

THIEF

Nothing gets my panties wet for UFC 99 right now. Some solid fights, but nothing screams "PURCHASE ME"


* Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva
* Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno
* Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy
* Ben Saunders vs. Mike Swick
* Heath Herring vs. Cain Velasquez
* Alan Belcher vs. Alessio Sakara
* Justin Buchholz vs. Terry Etim
* Mustapha al Turk vs. Todd Duffee
* Peter Sobotta vs. Paul Taylor
* Denis Stojnic vs. Stefan Struve

Guilty your honor!



I like this card better than tonight's card tbh.

Oh, for sure, but that's the point about the clunkers they are sending out right now.

Agree tonight and 99 seem lame, and 98 could turn out bad with Okami, Sherk, and Kos vs. no name. Looks like they're treading water until 100.

Apparently they are going to announce a new main event for 98 tonight, seems to make sense to move GSP/Alves up to 98 and switch Brock/Mir to 100.

Great news about the new main for 98. Hope Page is cleared for it.


What an exchange between him and Evans. Woah. All I could think was, "AIM HIGH WILLIS!!!"

I definitely have Evans by superior evolution of the sport.

I thought the stare down was corny and unnecessary. Went 4-5, Gonzaga surprised me when he couldn't finish from the top. So... Grove, Carwin, Brown, Hamil, who wins KO of the night?

Few early lines I found interesting:
Matt Hughes -215
Matt Serra +175

Yushin Okami -205
Dan Miller +165

Dan Henderson -365
Michael Bisping +285

GSP -250
Thiago Alves+190

Jumped on Hughes, Bisping, and Okami, the GSP interests me though.

Wow....I like Hughes and GSP at those lines. I really really like Okami at -205.

Lost quite a chunk on Gonzaga. Won with Hammil and lost small with Day. Actually was driving home from the airport during the card after 5 nights in Vegas. I noticed they Wynn has the best MMA lines on the strip with alot tighter spreads between the fighters so check them out if your in town when a UFC fight is on.

Junkies front page says Rashad and Rampage to headline 98 now and Mir and Lesnar are going to the stacked 100 card.

For a card I wasn't excited for I must admit that the action was pretty good. Any time you have a ton of fights end in KO's it's never a bad thing. A few thoughts.

I like watching Matt Hamill fight and I think his ability to fight through disability is admirable, but must they give him mic-time after his fights? Can't we get his interpreter to tell us what he is saying? I don't mean this in a crass way...the poor guy has a disability, why make him and us suffer? That was a very sick head kick fwiw!

Good to see Grove get a KO win. His win over the late Evan Tanner was hardly impressive, but this was a good start for him on the road back in the UFC.

Yves Lavgine...LMAO! WTF was that? He steps in AND PULLS BROWN OFF OF SELL TO STOP THE FIGHT, then realizes...OH SCHIT Sell isn't hurt that bad and let's it continue? RU SERIOUS? Then later after Brown looks at him a solid 3-4 times with a "Dude...how bad do I have to pummel this guy before you stop it?" face, he mercifully stops the fight. Can you imagine if Sell somehow came back to win that fight after Lavigne didn't stop it AND didn't let Brown finish him when he was about to/already did? Where is HoosierAlum when we need him!!!!

Shane Carwin...wow! 1st off the dude has a granite chin and was clearly rocked by Gonzaga early. Then that right cross he KO'd Gonzaga with was just scary. Mostly because it was such a short punch. Rogan nailed it perfectly...that is just wicked power when u can drop a guy while barely loading up.

Rampage/Jardine was waaaay closer than I thought it would be, but was a pretty good fight. I can't wait for the Rampage/Evans fight. The postfight stare-down was awesome imo. Should be great "black on black crime" as Rampage eloquent as always put it.

I bought the card, thought it was ok. Didn't have any action on it.

Rampage and Evans were funny. I actually like Evans in the fight. He sounded really intelligent when he was doing commentary.

Just watched a replay of the Munoz/Hammil fight. That thud when the head shot landed was so sick.

Anybody watch the Vera fight? Yeah he was fighting a nobody but he looked amazing. I don't think I've seen him that fired up in a long time and he destroyed that guy's legs. It sure would be nice to see him back in the picture.

meh Vera doesnt do it for me. I know he beat Mir but has done little since. With the WEC converts now in the LHW picture Vera Has to win about 3 more against proven guys to even be considered for a ME fight. Looking forward to see how Cantwell and Stann makeout next month.

I'm not a fan of Vera either really. He's never really impressed me at all, especially in the lhw division. I think that was by far his best fight though in the last two years or so. Probably since the Mir fight, although Mir was sooooo out of shape for that fight.

I just started getting into this. Highly addicted. My girlfriends brother paid for a channel that focuses mainly on MMA. Been watching UFC 4-8. I have a huge mancrush on Marco Ruas. Did he become a big as legend as it appears he should?

Watched re-run of 96. Did not understand the referee in the Sell's match but was quite entertaining. The kick from the deaf guy was awesome, his interview could be a bit cringy but I like how he speaks for himself even if I didn't follow all of it.

Carwins short punch was crazy, if Gonzaga kept swinging after that punch that had Carwin reeling it could have been a different fight.

The standoff after the rampage fight felt a bit cheesy but Im yet to grasp UFC fully.

Yea it kinda felt like something out of WWE. They don't usually do that.

I'm gonna jump around a bit here.

Vera is an interesting fighter. I think he can hold his own with anyone in the division. But I don't think he has the heart of a champion. They have been throwing really easy fights at him lately. So a person can look good when that happens. I think he has talent and plenty of tools. But he never really goes for it anymore. Meh, I could be wrong, just how I see things.

Matt Brown showed a ton of class in his fight. I generally like Yves Levigne a lot because he never stops fights too early. But what he did was just as bad. To take away a fighters momentum like that, even if it was for a split second is just wrong.

Rampage looked "ok" in his fight. But honestly he needs to learn how to check leg kicks. Very surprising to me. Jardine looked like Jardine, lol. Almost a characture. Perhaps one day he will learn a better technique. Jardine actually seems like a very nice guy.

Carwin hits really hard. I think his next match will be against Kongo. Just speculation on my part.

Grove looked so skinny in this fight for some reason.

Could Carwin/Dos Santos make sense? Both hit hard enough to put on an exciting fight. I think Kongo is a fight away after Hardonk but will get the shot at the winner of 100, just seems to be the best candidate.

I agree. Dana seems high on Congo even though he lost to the Texas Crazy Horse. He has had a couple of big stoppages since though.
I loved the Carwin post fight interview.
Interviewer asks So did he hurt you with that punch? then Carwin "Let me tell you this, this is my first broken nose, he hits hard"
It was great. Amazes me that he is still only training part time as he has a FT job.

Oh shit Don King is getting into MMA promotion. I am all for competition for the UFC but this guy is bad news. Cant count all the times I was so pissed paying for a Don King promoted boxing card. Hopefully Dana goes as hard at him as he did with Affliction.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/14234/its-offici...n-at-ufc-98.mma
Lyoto, not Rampage, will fight Rashad at 98. Still like Lyoto as a good favorite here although the line will be interesting.

Thats awesome. Yea Lyotto all the way here.

I am very interested to see what the line comes out at. I might be risking a very large chunk of the roll on Machida. I hope the line is good enough to entice me.


D!! Mask from Tapout died in a car accident this morning. Article makes it sound like he was drag racing with some drunk at 1AM. I've always thought he was a pretty big idiot, but that is pretty sad. Guy was so young and had built quite a nice company for himself.

I'm guessing Machida opens at -220.

Check out the pictures - ferrari got chopped in half, crazy. http://news.aol.com/sports/article/charles...in-crash/379365

Former WWE star and current MMA fighter Ken Shamrock has been suspended for a year for testing positive for steroids

Big surprise!!!

The words "washed up" come to mind.

As do 'embarrassment' and 'disgrace,' as well as 'disappear forever plz'


Opening Bodog line for Lyoto is -180. Got on it.

Nice bet on Machida

What do you guys think about Wanderlei/Franklin. Wandy is +110 right now and I am pondering a bet on him. I dont think Franklin has the power that Rampage, Henderson has so I dont think he can flash KO him.

I don't think he KOs him either, but I'm staying away. Franklin staying away and not engaging too terribly much is the way this fight ends more times than not in my opinion. Or he could frustrate Wandy and catch him, but I planned on making a Franklin bet if it came out even but now will stay away.

Forrest vs Thiago Silva at 101. That should be a very intresting fight. I think Forrest has to take these sluggers down to the ground to be succesful against them.

Still don't think Thiago Silva is anything special. What's his biggest win, Houston Alexander? Antonio Mendes? I think it's the UFC's way of trying to give Forrest a W.

Well Silva hits really hard. And Forrest has a suspect chin. Could be a tough fight.

OMG BJ Penns Mother addresed the hearing into "greasegate". Any respect I had for BJ before has gone out the window in the last couple of months. I hope Florian beats his ass if BJ ever gets his ass back into the gym to get this fight happening.

He turned down the fight with Florian for UFC 99

I mean, I can see the point a little, he feels as if he was robbed, but still, let it go, train, defend your belt against Florian and get your GSP rematch at the end of the year. Case closed, but I agree, he's dodging

He denied the Florian fight at 99 because oversees cards don't draw as well. It was the $, he will defend the belt against Kenny, just not outside of the US.

As a BJ fan, this is ridiculous. Let them make the decision and that's that. His mom being there is so over the top.

Didnt he also refuse to be on the 100 supercard? With 101 already with 2 high profile fights I dont see this happening till September

He wanted to do 100, UFC didn't want it there with everything else going on, I guess it can headline a 102ish card

i know some of you guys bet mma, who do you use and why?

i have an aquaintance at a site that does mma betting and told him i would ask

I heard he's fighting KenFlo over in Europe in the Summer on one of those UFC cards. BJ Penn is still dominant in his weight class, but I think Florian can pull off the upset if and when they fight.