Gravis Steve Forstner Trailer
Gravis just posted a short but brutal trailer for what looks to be a full Steve Forstner part coming out 10/25/11.
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Gravis just posted a short but brutal trailer for what looks to be a full Steve Forstner part coming out 10/25/11.
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It's week two of "The Ultimate Fighter," the episode where the fighters get their teams, their home for the next six weeks and we figure out which fighters will get the most air time. Who will be in the first quarterfinal fight of the season? What will the house look like? How will Jason "Mayhem" Miller creatively use a heap of tires? Join me for a recap and spoilers, won't you?
Reality TV show cliche of the week: The fighters moved into their house, shocked by the digs and availability of food. Then they eat. A lot. Remember that these are featherweights and bantamweights who will all need to weigh in for their fights soon. Foreshadowing?
Team picks of the week: Michael Bisping won the coin toss and chose the first pick instead of the first fight. The teams are (with some identifiers):
Team Bisping
Bantamweights: Louis Gaudinot (the guy with the green hair)
T.J. Dillashaw (Team Alpha Male guy)
John "Prince" Albert
Josh Ferguson (Guy whose brother didn't make the show)
Featherweights: Diego Brandao (Jackson's guy)
Akira Corassani (Best name in the house guy)
Marcus Brimage
Stephen Bass
Team Miller
Bantamweights: John Dodson (Team Jackson guy)
Johnny Bedford (Texas bro)
Dustin Pague (Heel-clicking dude, A.K.A. Ron Santo)
Roland Delorme (Canadian bro)
Featherweights: Dennis Bermudez (Maury Povich guy)
Bryan Caraway (Miesha Tate's boyfriend)
Dustin Neace
Steven Siler
Bisping claimed that Miller didn't take a single fighter who he wanted. Miller said that he chose based on his coaches' strengths. As they were leaving, Miller remarked that Bisping's fighters didn't look happy to be on his team. To the cameras, Bisping said, "Why wouldn't they be happy? I won the Ultimate Fighter. I've won 17 fights in the UFC. He's the Strikeforce reject."
Technology of the week: Miller stopped by the fighters' house to bring compression suits for each fighter to wear to recover from each practice. Something tells me these pieces of technology will be floating in the pool soon.
Fight pick of the week -- Bryan Caraway (Miller) vs. Brimage (Bisping): Brimage was already concerned about cutting his weight to 145 lbs., as he sat at 157 lbs. Bisping taught Brimage some of his weight cutting tricks, and both fighters made weight on their first try.
Prank of the week: Miller and his boys filled Bisping's room at the training center with tires. When Bisping did get into his room, he had to knock down the door, giving this season its first door casualty. R.I.P, TUF door.
Showtune of the week: As Caraway and Brimage faced off at weigh-ins, Corassani led Team Bisping in a chant that pumped up Brimage, but just made Team Miller laugh. "That was ADORABLE," Miller said.
Fight of the week -- featherweights: Bryan Caraway (Team Miller) vs. Marcus Brimage (Team Bisping)
Round 1: Caraway quickly went to his strength, wrestling, by taking down Brimage. He controlled him on the canvas, took his back and put his legs in. Brimage's active arms made it difficult for Caraway to slap on a choke, as he kept Caraway's hands from his neck and also landed enough punches that Caraway's eye swelled up. This is how the entire round went.
Miller and Bisping traded barbs in the first round. First, Miller laughed at Bisping's instructions in grappling, and when Miller said, "He's panicking," Bisping yelled back, "We're panicking!?!"
Round 2: Brimage came out with fast striking to start the round, but Caraway again answered with a takedown. He took Brmage's back with ease, but this time Brimage could get back to his feet. Caraway shot in a few more times, and when he was able to get him down, Brimage was able to get out. Halfway through the round, Caraway took Brimage down and landed a nasty elbow. He took Brimage's back, and this time was able to finish the rear naked choke.
Caraway is our first winner, but the two gave viewers a fun, active fight. This season is already shaping up to be an upgrade.
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Football has to take a back seat this weekend. That's not entirely true, but it has some company with a jam--packed fight weekend. Outside of short break Saturday morning, there's live fighting on television from tonight at 10 p.m. ET until late Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Titan Fighting 20 - Kansas City (Friday 10 p.m. ET)
Brett Rogers make his return after serious issues outside the cage to fight UFC veteran Eddie Sanchez. Former lightweight WEC champ Jamie Varner is also back.
Strikeforce Challengers 19 - Las Vegas (Showtime 11 p.m. ET/PT)
The card features prospects like Lavar Johnson and Lorenz Larkin. Ryan Couture and veteran Jason High are also on the televised portion live from the Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas.

DREAM 17 - Saitama, Japan (HDNet Saturday 3 a.m. ET/Midnight PT)
DREAM's had a light slate in 2011, but returns with a great card. It features the quarterfinals of a bantamweight tournament headlined by Bibiano Fernandez, Abe Cullum and Hideo Tokoro. Former WEC 135-pound contender Antonio Banuelos (18-7, 8-4 WEC) also makes his DREAM debut. Other feature fights include Shinya Aoki vs. Rob McCullough and Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Joachim Hansen. Gerald Harris, Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa and Caol Uno are also fighting.
UFC 135 preliminary fights -Denver (Facebook 5:30 p.m. ET)
Junior Assuncao vs. Eddie Yagin
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Cole Escovedo
James Te Huna vs. Ricardo Romero
Bellator 51 prelims - Canton, OH (Spike 7 p.m. ET)
UFC 135 undercard fights -Denver (Spike 8 p.m. ET)
Tony Ferguson vs. Aaron Riley
Nick Ring vs. Tim Boetsch

Bellator 51 main card - Canton, OH (MTV2 9 p.m. ET)
Like DREAM, Bellator has its own 135 tournament kicking off. Joe Warren, the promotion's 145-pound champion, begins his quest for the bantamweight title as well. If he wins the tournament, he'll get a date with champion Zach Makovsky.
Joe Warren vs. Alexis Vila
Wilson Reis vs. Eduardo Dantas
Chase Beebe vs. Marcos Galvao
Ed West vs. Luis Nogueira
UFC 135 main card (pay-per-view 9 p.m. ET)
Jon Jones vs. Quinton Jackson
Matt Hughes vs. Josh Koscheck
Travis Browne vs. Rob Broughton
Nate Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi
Ben Rothwell vs. Mark Hunt
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In one of the weirder looking fights in the UFC, the 6-foot-11 Stefan Struve submitted the 5-foot-11 Pat Barry in the co-main event of the UFC on Versus 6 in Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening. The fight started slow but had an exciting finish.
The two felt each other out for more than two minutes before truly engaging in the first round. With the unusual height difference, it was understandable, but not exactly exciting. Struve used a push kick to keep Barry from closing the distance, and while Barry did land a head kick and punch combinations. Neither fighter decisively took the round.
Early in the second round, Barry wobbled Struve with an uppercut then followed up with a head kick and leg kicks. Struve took Barry down, and tried to first grab a guillotine. He couldn't finish it, but as Barry got his head out of the choke, Struve transitioned into a triangle choke. Barry stood up with Struve still attached and slammed Struve onto his back, but that only tightened to choke. Barry was forced to tap at 3:22 in the second round.
This win puts Struve at 22-5, while Barry experienced his second exciting loss -- if there can be such a thing -- in a row. In his last fight, Barry was KOed by Cheick Kongo while being on the brink of winning by TKO. Barry, who started with a career in kickboxing, falls to 6-4.
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is, yet again, fed up with MMA. I guess that means it's time to rotate the tires on my Toyota and change the air filter in my furnace. Who needs a calendar or a planner for that stuff when you've got Jackson, whose frustration with this sport is the most reliable natural phenomenon outside of Yellowstone National Park? This time, Jackson told an ESPN UK podcast that, after his loss to Jon Jones at UFC 135, he's tired of "fighting people who are scared." "That's why I'm going to go to boxing," said Jackson. "I'm going to try boxing because they've got to stand with you. If I get knocked out I don't care, because at least it's a fight." Right. Because that was his big problem with Jones. The champ was "scared" to stand up and fight him. That must be how Jackson ended up getting kicked around the cage like a hacky sack at an Ani DiFranco concert. Not that any of us should be surprised to hear Jackson threatening to take his talents elsewhere. As recently as May he proclaimed that "as soon as movies start paying me more than I make to fight, I'm gone." A year and a half before that, when the UFC gave him a hard time for taking the A-Team role rather than fighting Rashad Evans right away, he declared he was "done fighting" and "hanging it up." His movie career must not be panning out like he'd hoped, because now boxing is his new frontier. Six months from now he may decide wants to be a male model instead, or maybe an astronaut. In other words, anything but MMA, the one thing he's made a reliable living at for the last decade or so. It's not that I don't understand the motivation behind comments like these. We've all romanticized the notion of a different career in our minds. No matter how good you have it in your current job, other people seem to have it better. Especially when you've never actually tried that line of work, the way Jackson has never tried to be a full-time professional boxer. Then it exists solely as an idea, wholly perfect and unmolested by reality. How else could Jackson have convinced himself that boxing is a sport where he won't have to worry about supposedly scared fighters running from him? Has he not heard that boxing has its share of "elusive" fighters? That even if opponents aren't shooting for takedowns or tenderizing his legs and ribs with kicks, there are still plenty of ways for them to avoid slugging exchanges in the ring? If he thinks boxing is a sport where men stand directly in front of each other and trade haymakers, he's about a hundred years late to the party. These days, boxing has its share of runners. It also has its share of skyscraper heavyweights who could jab him from across the street and give him the same distance problems that Jones did. That is, unless he thinks he can drop down to cruiserweight (quick: name your favorite cruiserweight, and no, Chris Jericho doesn't count), where there'll be less money on the table than he seems to think. I don't blame Jackson for feeling like he wants to do something else after the loss to Jones. That fight was so thoroughly one-sided that he has to know he'll never get his belt back as long as Jones is breathing air in the light heavyweight division. That leaves him with limited options. He could rematch "Shogun" Rua or Forrest Griffin, both of which he seems open to. But what then? And of course, there's always the need to find some excuse for a loss, a pastime that even Jackson will admit he's an old pro at. Jones dominated every second of the fight? So what. It's only because he was running scared. Things will be different in the faraway land of boxing, where the streets are paved with gold and there's not a college wrestling All-American in sight. Sure, it doesn't really make sense, but it doesn't have to. A few months from now the UFC will have given Jackson another fight, another guaranteed payday, and he'll have forgotten all about it. He'll be back to doing the one thing he knows and kind of hates, and all be well again. At least until the next time. And you know there will be a next time.
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Jon Jones is riding a high right now. He just defended his light heavyweight championship with a domination of Quinton Jackson, picked up a $75,000 fight of the night bonus and already knows that he'll be taking on former-friend-turned-rival Rashad Evans for his next title defense. Now, Jones will appear in the ESPN the Magazine's well-known "Body Issue," which asks athletes to pose nude or semi-nude.
This will be the third edition of the magazine's issue that celebrates the bodies of athletes. Strikeforce's Gina Carano appeared on the cover, while Randy Couture, Cristiane and Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos and Herschel Walker have all been featured in the past. Jones will be joined by gymnast Alicia Sacramone, soccer player Hope Solo, hockey player Ryan Kesler, boxer Sergio Martinez and football player Steven Jackson, among others.
Jones shared with Yahoo! Sports how he attained his form. Basically, it's through a workout that would make the average person beg for mercy halfway through the warm-up. Genetics play a part, too, as Jones has a freakishly long reach of 84.5 inches.
You can see Jones in ESPN the Magazine when it hits the newsstands Oct. 7.
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The light heavyweight division should be extremely scared.
Jon Jones is still learning on the job, yet he's putting the division to shame. Jones schooled Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in every area of the game and finished the former champ via rear-naked choke at the 1:14 mark of the fourth round in the main event of UFC 135 in Denver.
This was Jones' first defense of the UFC light heavyweight title, a belt he won back in March by destroying another highly accomplished veteran in Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.
The 24-year-old Jones (14-1, 8-1 UFC - only loss via disqualification) has barely been threatened in nine UFC fights. Keep in mind, Jones started his MMA career just three and half years ago. His control of the fight Saturday night was awe-inspiring.
The veteran Jackson (32-9, 7-3 UFC) is still a very good fighter, but he never found a way to ward off the versatile attack coming from Jones.
"The goal was to prove we can strike with Quinton Jackson," Jones said. "He kind of insulted me saying I have no punching power. So my trainer Mike Winkeljohn cleaned up my striking to prove a point."
During the lead up to the fight, Jackson said Jones was all hype. After three-plus rounds of absorbing dozens of nasty kicks, punches and elbows as well as fighting off takedowns, mark down Jackson as a believer.
"I'm in the best shape of my life. I expected to be able to close the distance. I couldn't do it," Jackson said. "He's great guys. I thought it was hype. The kid is good. I have to take my hat off to him."
[Related: Phenom Jones outclasses Jackson at UFC 135]

When Jones references his striking, he's talking about his hands, which are still a work in progress. But there's no denying his kicking game is as dangerous as anyone who's ever stepped into a cage.
Over the first 15 minutes, Jones brutalized Rampage's lead leg with kicks to the inside and outside. By the fourth round, Jackson was limping badly.
In the opening seconds of the round, Jones showed off some of that improvement with his boxing by landing a left hook that hurt Jackson. The 33-year-old backed up to the cage and Jones took him down. Rampage was sitting up against the cage when Jones delivered a big knee to his chest. It had to knock the wind out of Jackson because he slumped to his side. He was there for the taking.
Jones worked him to his back and rolled it over. He slapped on a choke and Jackson tapped six seconds later.
"Before the fourth round, my corner felt he was starting to break a little bit, so we came out and finished the fight," said Jones.
[Related: After yet another thorough win, can anybody stop Jon Jones?]
Jones' kicks really set things up over the course of the first three rounds, but Jackson was quick to point out the champion's wrestling pedigree also made him hesitant to attack.
"Jon is a great wrestler so you don't want to take too many chances. Jon keeps his fingers in your face so it's hard to get close to him," Jackson said of Jones, who possesses an incredible 84-inch reach. "Jon is good. I'm telling you, the kid's here to stay. I don't know ... whoever he fights next, I don't know who's going to beat him. He had me mesmerized."

Up next is Jones' former training partner Rashad Evans. Evans, also a former UFC 205-pound champion, had a bitter split with Jones and their gym in Albuquerque, NM. earlier this year. The trash talking between the two has been going on for the better part of nine months. It should make for a dynamite promotion.
The fight itself? Like Rampage said, who knows? If Jones keep improving and adding to his arsenal with each fight, the guy who'll eventually beat him may be in junior high school right now.
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