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Rd.1

Tim starts off the fight with a right followed by a knee that stuns Jason briefly.   Jason covers and moves back.  Tim responds with an uppercut that looked to break his nose….   A right kick by Tim, but Jason follows with a double hook takedown and gets guard.  Tim gets to his feet though.  Fighters in clinch.  A right, followed by an upper cut and another right by Tim hurts Jason.   The upper cuts is really working for Tim.    Great first round for Tim.

Rd. 2

Jason tries to show he has a ground game and goes for the take down with success.  Jason has half guard.  Jason not doing much from half guard, he needs to move to full.  The fighters are now in a 69 type position; Tim eats a nasty elbow and few good knees to his ribs.  Very No Homo.  Tim looks exhausted; Jason goes fro the reverse choke but can’t do anything with it.  They go back to half guard.    Tim gets to his feet but is taking some nasty knees to the side of his knee from Jason.  Fighters in clinch.  Jason is really doing a good job of leaning o his opponent and hurting him.  Ref brings the fighters back to the middle of the ring 10 seconds before the end of round 2.  Great round for Jason!

Rd. 3

Jason starts the next round again but getting into clinch.  Jason is putting his weight on him again.  He goes for the take down but is unsuccessful.   Jason goes for the 2 hand hook take down and is stuffed again.  Tim looks to go for a right hook but jumps in with a knee and Jason leans right into it.    Jason gets Tim to the ground and gets his back.  Jason has Tim’s back and goes for the rear naked choke but Tim defends.  Jason gets half guard.   Tim gets back to his feet.  Jason again goes for the take down and gets it this time.    From half guard Jason gets a few hammer punches and uppercuts from the ground followed by a knee.  Tim looks tired.  Jason is leaning on him using his body to cover his breathing and not letting him recover.   Tim’ right eye is now cut open and blood is starting to pour out, Tim tries to control Jason’ body but its unsuccessful.  Tim does a good job of not letting Jason get too much damage but the last 2 rounds defiantly go to Jason.

Jason Brilz def. Tim Boetsch via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).

This is going to be an exciting fight.  Brandon really has to show he still has it as he hasn’t had any really impressive fights since he fought Frank Mir, IMO.   His last fight was a loss to Keith ‘The Dean Of Mean’ Jardine.

Here we go….

Rd. 1

Brandon starts off the fight looking like the old Brandon vera.  Leg kick, solid right, leg kick.  He has a  fire in his eyes that we haven’t seen in a while.  Solid striking by Brandon, nothing yet from Mike.  Mike defiantly has a chin on him, taking a hard right.  Brandon is really setting up his combos.  Punch, then leg kick.    The leg kicks from Brandon echo throughout the arena.  I remember when I was a young Goat in the hills of the Himalayans I used to box with my brother and it was just like this first round.  I would try and hit him, but my Goat hands were just not fast enough.  Brandon is truly showing why he was once a top contender.

Rd. 2

Mike is coming out and trying to show what Ohio is made out of.  I hope he tries harder….

The leg kicks are starting to get to Mike, he looks like he has a torn ACL… he drops to the ground but Brandon doesn’t go for the kill.  He throws his hands up to say c’mon.  Waits for him to get back to his feet and starts to throw the right lower leg kicks again and drops Mike like a rock sinking after you throw it into a lake.  Mike is badly hurt and the ref calls the fight.  The Truth is back!  What is next for him, we will see.  I would llke to see him fight Mir again along with Jardine!

Brandon Vera def. Michael Patt via TKO (leg kicks) - Round, 1:27.

Aaron Riley vs. Shane Nelson

Rd. 1

In the first fight of the night we have a fellow Hawaii out of BJ Penn’s hometown.  Both fighters are notorious for being able to take a beat down and it looks to be an exciting fight.

Aaron starts the fight off with an leg kick but gest caught with a knee when he is going for the second kick.    Shane responds with leg kicks and follows with a right and Aaron appears to be hurt a little…  Shane jumps on top to try and take advantage of the situation and the ref is forced to call the fight.  IMO, it was an early stoppage.  The crowd feels the same way and reacts with booing and screaming about how the ref sucks.  

Shane Nelson def. Aaron Riley via TKO (strikes) - Round 1, 0:44.

Aaron Riley vs. Shane Nelson

Brandon Vera vs. Michael Patt

Tim Boetsch vs. Jason Brilz

Kendall Grove vs. Jason Day

Tamdan McCrory vs. Ryan Madigan

Gray Maynard vs. Jim Miller

Pete Sell vs. Matt Brown

Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz

Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Shane Carwin

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Keith Jardine

The first fights of the night are live right now.

PPV will go live at 10pm, Pacific time.

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Current Interim UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir injured his knee during training and will be out of his UFC 98 unification bout with Brock Lesnar.  

Mir had minor knee surgery and should be back sometime during summer.  No word on if Lesnar will face somebody else or if the fight will be postponed indefiently.

courtesy of MMAWeekly.com

Following the pre-fight press conference for this weekend’s UFC 95 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, UFC President Dana White answered questions for members of the media.

In recent days, White has voiced his disapproval on main eventer Keith Jardine’s stance that friend, training partner, and light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans was off limits if he won on Saturday.

From the sound of it, though, White believed Jardine had a good chance of putting him in an awkward position.

"Jardine is a tough, durable guy," he said. "He’s very unorthodox, and his style is pretty much the style that Forrest beat Rampage with. He’s very good a kicks to the legs and kicks to the body.

"Chuck Liddell is one of my friends. For twelve or thirteen years I’ve been to fights with him all over the world. I’ve never seen his body look like it looked after the Keith Jardine fight. I don’t think you guys saw it because he was back int he locker room. His whole body from under his arm pit to below the legs, he was covered in bruises. Jardine can kick and Rampage is susceptible to the leg kick and body kick."

In an earlier conference call for the fight, Jackson bristled at those who thought the same fate would befall him.

"I’m really glad that people think that I have a low kick defense, because I used to be a kick boxer so that’s how I trained in boxing," he said. "And I didn’t work on my kickboxing anymore. So now we’re just working on everything. I’m kind of happy if you think I have a low kick defense problem."

White said Jardine’s style made him impossible to count out. Going back to their first meeting at the second season of "The Ultimate Fighter," he expected big things out of the Albuquerque resident. And interestingly enough, it wasn’t Jardine’s kicks that drew attention.

"I knew coming into the fight that he was a tough guy," said White. "I had heard a lot of buzz about him before he even came in. What I had heard a lot about was his wrestling, his ground game. Obviously he’s been working on his stand up. He’s really an unorthodox fighter - the way he punches and kicks, the way he moves - He’s a tough guy to fight. That’s why I think for bookies to make him a 3 to 1 dog, he’s a live dog. That’s a good bet.

On Saturday, fans will see how many bruises Jackson walks away with, and, if White has a future as a bookie.

Many people believe Brock Lesnar to be an unstoppable force because of his sheer size and quickness, not to mention he has hands the size of a "lunch box" and many have said. Then again Frank Mir has beaten him before, has a more impressive record and more fight experience and isn’t much smaller.

Brock Lesnar stands at 6′3" tall and so does Mir, and Lesnar only has 25 lbs on Mir. So on May 23 the two will go head to head one more time to see who is the Heavyweight Champ.

Also featured on this card, Matt Hughes returns to the Octagon to face Matt Serra and Sean Sherk will go up against Frank Edgar.

Brock Lesnar Vs. Frank Mir

Matt Hughes Vs. Matt Serra

Yushin Okami Vs. Dan Miller

Sean Sherk Vs. Frank Edgar

James Irvin Vs. Drew McFedries

Phillipe Nover Vs. Kyle Bradley

Pat Barry Vs. Tim Hague

Houston Alexander Vs. Andre Gusmao

Yoshiyuki Yoshida Vs. Brandon Wolff

Dave Kaplan Vs. George Roop

Episode 37: March 2, 2009

Undefeated UFC Heavyweight Shane Carwin joined this week’s show days before the fight of his life against Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 96 on Saturday. We talked about the fight, an interesting opponent in Shane’s past and the challenge of working full time while pursuing a career in the UFC.

In the Opening Round, Pep was joined by Jesse Holland of MMA Mania to review WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia and break down UFC 96: Rampage vs. Jardine.

Check out the full replay here.

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