Aye, also Vitor Belfort has been brought back to fighting Rich Franklin at 205 and will eventually got a shot at Anderson Silva.

ESPN has got the new UFC tv rights and will be shown over here starting with UFC 101. I don't know if it's deffinately going to be free but I know that it is for August.

Dana White also made a huge offer to bring Fedor to the UFC with an offer no one else would compete with but he's managers still turned it down. Fedor will eventually turn out in the UFC but who knows when.

Wanderlia Silva will take Bisping apart and show him up more than Henderson did IMO stupid fight for him

I've noticed that the ESPN channel is already on Sky, but when I've tried to watch something on it. It says that I have to call Sky to recieve this HD channel?

Why should I have to do this if I already have sky HD?



If this is the case then it doesn't look like I'll be watching UFC 101...!

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Why do you have to watch it on HD? I have ESPN HD and just the normal ESPN.

griffin got totally dominated by silva that jab knockout apparently dislocated griffins jaw and has given him sights problems which if true just shows the concentrated force and accuracy of it.

florian had a good gameplan against BJ but executed it poorly as BJ was never going to tire without being pushed or made to work, i think if florian had used some more of those leg kicks he would of had a better chance as he is very good at delivering them

Silva vs Griffin was hilarious, Silva took the p*ss out of Griffin then dropped him with the simplest of jabs. The difference in class and ability shown, Silva is just way out of Griffin's league.

Wow, a rare bad show by the UFC.

Two real stinkers started the event, just terrible clashes of styles.

Anderson Silva is just awesome, no wonder Forrest done one straight after the fight, because I'd be embarrased aswel.

do any of you guys train in MMA?

i've got no fighting experience at all and was thinking about going to caged steel in dewsbury to see what it was like, does anyone train there or know it?

I think tm-tl does so it might be worth speaking to him.

I've seen that gym before and it looks pretty impressive.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...

See that I would like to learn.

Not to fight, just for a bit of fitness and technical insight.

Well if I've got Sky HD I may aswell watch it in HD!

I wish I had done MMA a couple of years ago, but haven't got the motivation to start it now. My mate and his brother both train in MMA at the Slaughter house, Hull.

My mates brother who is about 22 has had 3 semi pro fights winning 2, and is set to turn pro within the next year I believe. When he was younger around 12 I think he was British champion in Judo I think which helps.

Does anyone watch WEC?

I'm just about to settle down and watch last night's show.

If you've not see any they are well worth getting hold of, there's some great fighters including Miguel Torres, Urijah Faber, Mike Brown and Paulo Filho.

Actually scrap that, Torres just got KTFO!

It runs constantly on US TV every night for about 5 hours showing back shows. I think the UFC own it.

WEC was a great show. Usually is better than UFC. I stayed up till 8 am watching UFC on the Saturday and then till 6 am on the Sunday watching WEC last weekend. Great weekend of MMA.

And, yeah, Zuffa own both the WEC and UFC.

The current rumoured card for UFC 105 in Manchester is;

BJ Penn v Diego Sanchez
Michael Bisping v Dennis Kang
Dan Hardy v Dong Hyeun Kim
Ross Pearson v Aaron Riley
James Wilks v Matt Brown

Not sure what to think of that really. The main event should be a cracking little scrap.

Dennis Kang isn't as easy a fight as you would expect on paper for Bisping, there's a chance he could come unstuck if he's not at his best.

I also like the Hardy/Kim fight, both are 3-0 in the UFC and whoever wins could be on his way to a title fight.

The two TUF winners are set for big tests in their first fights. Wilks in particular will find it tough, Matt Brown is scary.

Can see Pearson hes an animal he looked unstoppable in TUF

Aaron Riley is no slouch, that's a tough first fight considering he was lucky to get the decision in the TUF finale IMO.

Wilks would destroy Pearson.

Aside from the fact he's almost two weight classes heavier at walking weight

I dont know what weight either of them are, but Wilks is a better fighter from what Ive seen.

Will be very good to see them go i think if he is conditioned right Person will take him