[Music] Welcome to Hammer. It is April the 14th and I am your host Dave. Joined as always by Greg. How's it going guys? And Steve. So we've got an interesting little show. You're hearing us live on 93.3 CFMU. We can also be found on iTunes and Facebook at thehammer.com. That's a hammer with two A's, H-A-M-M-A-R. So we've got an interesting little show for you. We've got a quick review of the UFC 112. That was a pretty controversial. Followed by some news and some strike force. And UFC 112, a show we really should have done a follow-up show immediately. We probably should have. We all were tied up that night. We all missed the boat on that one. Fairly, fairly newsworthy. So we're going to start. We're going to go through this pretty quickly because we've got a lot we want to talk about. We have the preliminary card and unfortunately most of the fights in the preliminary card did not get aired due to time constraints. But we had John Madsen. There wasn't a spike special on this one either. So we had John Madsen facing Mustafa Al-Turk, the wrestler from the Ultimate Fighter last season. Came up with the name, decision victory, 28. That was voted as a spike I at least wanted to see. Certainly with a good reason. We all agree with that. Matt Veitch unfortunately has a second loss in a row with guillotine choke loss to Paul Kelly at three minutes and 41 seconds in round two. That shocked me a bit. That's a little bit painful for Veitch. That's two in a row for him. He had some real potential there. He was undefeated up until he fought Edgar. But once you reach that top level and the competition gets a little bit stiffer, it gets harder to maintain that. So we'll see if you can bounce back. He's going to have to regroup. So then we had Nick's story defeating Mark, Rick's story defeating Nick Ossipac by a split decision, 29-28. This was apparently a good little fight, fairly equally matched, fairly technical. So that won't be a fun one to check out. It will most likely be on Spike unleashed, UFC unleashed tonight. And then we had Demarcus Johnson versus Brad Blackburn. I really wanted to see this fight. I'm really on board the Demarcus Johnson. This was apparently an extremely good fight. Dana was giving nothing but props to Demarcus at the press conference after the show. And it just made you want to watch that fight even more. Well Blackburn came out. He was very dominant through the first two rounds. But he could not quite handle the power of Demarcus. Demarcus climbed in the third round with a good shot, knocked him down, and then got the TKL win at two minutes and he seconds in the third round. It's really a shame. Like, it's a shame Demarcus lost to Wilkes and the Ultimate Fighter, or else he wouldn't have had to sort of regroup here. I mean, I'm surprised he lost that because he was my pick to win that whole tournament. And he just didn't win it. He's rebuilt himself fairly well. Andy got himself a $75,000 bonus for... Knockout of the night. So with it being a knockout of the night, you can expect him to be starting to get onto the back, and the main card sometime soon. And as I said, this is another one that was most likely going to be on the U of C at least on Spike TV, because it's apparently a very good fight. So then we go to another interesting fight. I don't know if it's very good. Phil Davis versus Alexander Costas. Oh man. This one actually made the card. This one was a short fight. This was the only short fight on the card. And it had four minutes and 55 seconds in round one. I got to say, I much prefer the whitest skintite shorts on Misha Tate than I do on Costas. Because that was way more of Costas than I needed to see. Unfortunately, Phil Davis and Alexander Costas both made the decision to fight in bikini bottoms. And Phil Davis's was brightly on pink. Versus Alexander's, who was nice white. It takes a real man to wear pink. So this was a grappling match. Phil Davis was a wrestler. He tried for several shoots. Finally got it at the end of the round. Locked in at Darce Choke. He tried to defend it. But Phil Davis hit a beautiful role and managed to turn it into Anaconda. Locked his feet right at the cage to increase the pressure. Costas had now a choice to tap out. This was under 10 seconds to go and he still couldn't take it. He tapped out with five seconds to go. That was an excellent role in submission. Great submission. Great submission. This submission was incredible. It may well have been, you know, submission the night, but except for this one. They're saying that Phil Davis is like another bones with regards to how much of a prospect that he is. I've not for us to stand up before his wrestling. Before his wrestling, yeah. Well, he's as good as a wrestler as bones is and he's got a really good submission game. So I mean, I think that Phil Davis is another up-and-comer. He hasn't had as many fights in his belt as Jones, but he's now six and oh, so. I've heard rumor of him taking upwards of a year off to work on his striking game before he moves any further up the card. Because he has. Because he has none. He's not that old as easy. He's young. He's straight out of it. You know what? This actually makes sense to me because he seems like he has a big future. But if he starts facing better strikers and gets knocked down once or twice, his career will be, he loses confidence. Yeah, I don't know if this will happen or not, but it's been talked about by him and his trainers. It might not be the worst idea in the world. I think it's a good idea. If he really has no stand-up game. So we look forward to seeing more of Mr. Wonderful Phil Davis. Hopefully in different shorts. Hopefully in different shorts. But he is a prospect. Very, very serious guys. Keep an eye on him for him. Gustafson did not shame himself, this is his first loss in three. So I expect to see him back, but he's probably not in the main card any time soon. No. So we go to the guys that were on the main card. We started with the middle weights. Kendall Grove versus Mark Munoz. I'm a big Munoz fan. He has some impressive Kendall ground and pound. Grove is very, very tall with a great submission game. He came out, showed some really good counter punches. Knocked Munoz down. Walked in a couple of rear-market chokes, and then two get from power gillotines. Munoz barely survived pounding in the first round. And the second round he came out again. Grove got him with a couple of counter knees. Rocked him a couple more times. However, this time Munoz managed to get the drag takedown. Got into the top position. Just tapping him out. Avastating shots to the body. Grove looked like he was about to cry. Those things hurt me. Those body shots hurt me. I was grabbing my side like, "Oh." Yeah. And then Grove dropped his hands to try to protect his body. Not the best decision. Munoz postured off, clubbed him in the face. Grove goes out in two minutes and 50 seconds of the second round. Devastating TKO knockout from Mark Munoz. That's three wins in a row for him. Yeah, he's looking good. Very, very good. Another thing I know, the crowd was really, really reacting to him. They really into him. He's an exciting fighter to watch. And then his post-fight interview when he was like, "You know, I admit he hurt me, but I got higher. I want to fight more." Yeah. The crowd loved him. So I think the Filipino wrecking machine is definitely moving up the car because he's going to wait and eat some new guys. It was really impressive. A really good fight. The second that fight ended. Just remember, this is the first televised fight of the night. I said it loud. This is going to be fight of the night. I had no idea how right I was. That's going to be. Those guys deserved it. I think Grove just got knocked off the main card again. Good performance though. You know what? He had a good enough of a performance. That's not your fire kind of performance. Yeah, not fire-bent saying back into the prelims. I think he'll be her opening card that put on the main card or in the prelims. It'll depend on who they match him up with. I think who knows is the guy who's going to move forward from this. Yeah. So fight of the night. Each one picks up $75,000 bonus. So good work, guys. Then we go to Terry Edom versus Rafael Desanios. Edom came out with... He's come off a win over Shanguuridi by a guillotine choke. He managed to catch de Desanios in another guillotine choke in the first round. This was beautiful. He held him in it for a long time. Desanios' eyes were bloodshot red. He looked like he was going to cry blood. His eyes were so bloodshot. But because he's such a great BJJ guy, he knows how to deal with guillotine chokes, right? So he just kept it calm, kept himself composed, and he wound up lasting it out. He kept his hand in there. Yeah, prevent it from getting choked. So in the second round, he came out strong, went in a lot of strikes, and took the fight to the ground, got in top position, achieved them out. Edom tried to ward off the Kamura, but Desanios stepped over and turned it into an armbar. Tapped them out four minutes and 30 seconds in round two. This was submission of the night. Beautiful submission. He looked just like a master on the ground. Now they make a big deal of that because Terry Edom is also supposed to have a good submission game. I actually asked for a question that. I think if you hold Shanguuridi for a guillotine choke for a minute and 30 seconds, how do you hold Desanios in a guillotine choke for over a minute? Don't get the tablet victory over either one. I got a question to ground game. You're not locking in enough. You're missing something. Well, I find that guillotines are of all the submissions. I see guillotines are the ones that I think are the least effective and that people don't finish fights enough with. It's not like a rear naked choke where you're basically cutting the guy's air completely off. I mean, the guillotine really has to be done properly. And making the choice to finish a fight with a guillotine is not really the best of strategies. I like it so I think it's also, well, you wear yourself out. So I think Edom is still a good submission guy. I just think he's a good submission guy. It's a good submission guy. I don't want to see a fighter make the guillotine choke his submission of choice. No, God no. Particularly when he's not able to finish a guy in under a minute with him. Yeah, I mean, if you're doing it like Ben Henderson, where you jump on the guy, and 10 seconds later, he's like, okay, I can't take you by all means. But if it's taking you a minute and a half each time, you learn a heel look, you know, move on. So speaking of moving on, let me go to Matt Hughes versus Renzo Gracie. And this is Hanzo's UFC debut. I wouldn't go so far to say, I mean, I didn't hate the fight. This was expected to be a very technical match between a wrestler and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert. Neither guy is known for her stand-up. Unfortunately, both of them decided that neither one wanted to take the fight to the ground for fear of the other's ground game. Instead it was the beginner's kickboxing match. So this moves. You know what? I do not like it. Gracie didn't look that great. But I think Hughes looked decent. I mean, he did something that he's not used to doing and his light kicks were quite punishing. I mean, the fact that he kicked Gracie right off his feet using a light kick, I mean, a couple of times, you know, I liked the way Hughes looked in this fight. For round three, definitely. But those first two rounds were absolutely painful. Well, very slow pace. A lot of light kicks. Gracie mentioned to come up as a couple of big looping punches. Not enough to put Hughes away. He's got a very solid chin. And then at four minutes and four seconds in round three, Hughes had managed to knock him down a couple of times. At one point, Gracie said, "I'll get back up, but you're giving me a hand." Yeah. Gracie Graham gave him a Gracie, took Hughes's hand, used help to his feet, and then kicked him right back down. Mm-hmm. That's a much more charge for you. I don't know. There were a lot of high fives and handshakes on this one. Yeah, I found that maybe there was a bit too much respect in this fight. You know, that might have slowed it down a little bit. Neither guy really wanted to destroy the other one. Yeah. You know, it was kind of sort of this, you know, you didn't feel the intensity. I still was moderately entertained by it. I mean, it wasn't horrible, but like the fight we're about to talk about. But it was, you know, it was all right. It was a nice little fight. I just think, yeah, there was way too much respect on both sides. They needed to have a little more direct thing. Too much respect, too much of a technical striking match from two guys that are well known technical strikers. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't what I think anyone really expected to see. So, Hughes picks up the TKO victory at four minutes and 40 seconds. Hands over Gracie, unfortunately, at 43 years old. And, you know... With a six-fight contract. With a six-fight contract. Yeah. I question what you do with it. Wow. You know, in the World Trade Division, I question what you do with it, guys. Such a slick division right now. A six-fight, really? A six-fight contract. Yeah. That's going to be cut. Man. Shortly. Yeah. Oh, Dana, what are you thinking? He's a Gracie. You know, you have to expect. He's a Gracie. Yeah, that's true. And an excellent trainer, but I don't want to see him fighting anymore. A six-fight contract. Okay. So, we go forward to BJ Penn versus Frankie Edgar. I was very much looking forward to this fight. We were very excited for this one. We figure that BJ Penn was probably going to win because of his incredible stand-up game. But we had the best wishes for Frankie Edgar, who we think is an exciting up-comer. I said that this fight was going to go to the decision, but I said that it was going to be Penn finishing. David and I said that it was going to end in the 3rd or 4th round and to go to the decision, and not the way anybody expected. Not the way anybody expected. He came up with a tape knee. He looked a little bit sluggish. Frankie Edgar, who does not cut weight to make 150 A5. Which is a big advantage, I think. He has three pounds. He has three pounds. Yeah. He has three pounds. That's a big advantage, and it's an advantage that's not often talked about. Particularly because in Abu Dhabi, where they were fighting outdoors and it was extremely hot, Penn looked slow and sluggish. Edgar was very, very quick, very light on his feet. He managed to keep lunging in and landing light kicks and punches, and then diving out of the way of BJ's counter punches. It was excellent boxing. The Edgar was lightning. And then in the 2nd and 5th round, even though BJ Penn is known for his incredible takedown defense, Frankie Edgar managed to achieve takedowns. First, the first time it was a drag takedown, he managed to get him off his feet. But BJ Penn jumped right back up. In the 5th round, Frankie Edgar managed to charge him and get the double leg. Pulled him down and actually landed some shots from the top. Yeah. And these are the first takedowns in lightweight on BJ Penn in what, 6 or 8 years? 6 years. 6 years. So with that said, according to my judging, I would say that you have to give the 2nd round and the 5th round to Frankie Edgar. I agree. Because you have the takedowns in those rounds. And I considered the 1st and the 4th round close enough to be on the bubble. Yep. The 3rd round, I would say, BJ Penn was a little bit more dominant in. But by the 4th and 5th round, he looked to be gassed. He looked to be tired. And Frankie Edgar was definitely outstriking him. The judges called it in a very similar way. 48, 47 for Penn. I'm sorry, 48, 47 for Edgar. 49, 46 for Edgar. And an unusual 50, 45 for Edgar. That's preposterous. 50, 45 for Edgar. No, not a chance. BJ Penn's definitely picked up around. I'd give it 48, 47. I gave the 1st round of Penn personally. I gave the 3rd to Penn and then 2, 4, and 5 to Edgar. But 50, 45, are you kidding? No. This is ridiculous. This is a little bit of a controversial decision. Penn is very popular, very respected. A lot of commentators are calling that Penn won that. And some of them are saying that he won all 5 rounds. In my opinion, that's ridiculous. He got taken down twice. He did not take down Frankie Edgar. He can't say he won round. He got taken down and grounded and pounded in. So he definitely didn't win all 5. He may have won one or two of them. I have to say that Frankie Edgar was the one pushing the pace. He was moving around and he was punching it. I know it's a close decision. And I said this before. A close decision doesn't mean it's not the right decision. Absolutely. To my mind, this was the right decision. Frankie Edgar came in with a great game, Penn. Took advantage of BJ Penn's. A little bit of a slow down. A little sluggish. The weather. He won the fight. What are you going to say? He won the fight. And you know what? It was a close fight, but that still means you win. And one thing that's really annoying me is the fact that now it's coming out that Penn was on antibiotics and that he wasn't at his best. And you could sort of see he wasn't. But I think BJ Penn is way way way too good of a fighter to say stuff like that. I mean, the same thing with GSP and the Vaseline sort of Vaseline gate controversy there. But I think Penn is way too good of a fighter to be saying this. All you got to say is, "I lost, but I'm going to win the next time." Because you're definitely getting a rematch. Well, with that being said, I actually want to make a comment here. I question whether it is actually a smart idea to give BJ Penn a regi-match. I know a lot of people are saying, "Let him fight Tyson Griffin." It gives one football fight back and put him back in the title of the catchant. Penn was saying, "For this match, if he won, he was going to vacate the belt and move up to welterweight." I do not see the point of giving the guy back the belt, letting him beat your champion. Only you have him take the belt off, throw it on the ground, walk out and move up to welterweight. That to me is bad decision-making. Yeah. If BJ Penn wants to move up to welterweight, you lost the title, you lost a fair and square. If you want to move up, now move up. This is if he wants to move up to welterweight. If he's made that committed decision, then he should do it right now, I agree. But, I mean, if he's going to- If he's going to get a rematch, and if he does beat Edgar in a rematch, then he needs to defend that belt a couple of times for sure. He needs to make a commitment that if I'm going to go back and break a champion down and try to get my win back, that's fine, but you make a commitment to the division. You stay there. If you tell- If you're saying, "Okay, I don't care about this division, I've already taken all my challenges in it," that's fine too, but move up. Don't try to break the division before you go. Well, both Penn and Edgar have been approached about a rematch in August. And you know what? I hope that's fine. B.J. Penn deserves a rematch, but if he takes it, I want him to stay in lightweight. He deserves a rematch if he wants it. But if you don't want it, you know, if you don't- If you want to go up to welterweight, you want to try your luck with GSP again, if you want to try a new division, keep in mind that on his way up, Frankie Edgar did not beat Kenny Florin, Clay Guida. He lost a great manger. He lost a great manger. He lost a great manger. He lost a great manger who's a number one contender right now, and I don't believe he fought Tyson Griffin either. And he also has him fought and go, go me. So there's six guys that he has not beaten as a champion, low, low, low on his way up. It's now a fast division. You've got six guys that are title contenders against a guy who just won a title, who's a little bit smaller. Yeah, there's some great fights there. So, I mean, I don't see any point in having B.J. Penn Choco the division, particularly if he's going to win the belt back and then throw it on the ground. No, if he wants to stay there and secure his legacy as the best lightweight ever, fine. But to come back, win the belt, vacate and leave, I've got no interest in seeing that. I'd like to see a lightweight tournament, personally. I mean, that would be interesting. It does take too long. It does take too long, unless it's in one night. One night tournament, just like the old days. But, yeah, so that's my opinions on B.J. Penn, and I think we've covered it. And good for Frank Yeager. Yeah, good honest Frank Yeager. Good job, Frank Yeager. And then, unfortunately, we ended with Anderson Silva. This was the fight I was referring to earlier. We expected this to be a very one-sided match. I think I said last week that I expected Anderson Silva to dance a lot and get a good decision. I'd never expected my call to be this right. Anderson Silva came out in the first round and began taunting Damian Maya, dancing, doing unusual monkey-ish dances before lunging into Superman punches. He was doing poses of other fighters, crouching on the ground, slapping the mat, swearing in Portuguese. He was just... He played an air guitar at one point. Yeah. Yeah. After Maya... The first two rounds, I gotta say, the first two rounds, I prefer to the last few, because at least he threw a couple of things. And the first two rounds... You made the argument that he was entertaining. Well, he was... Yeah, I found the first two rounds. It was a clown and he was acting like an idiot. But it was still entertaining, kind of. But by the third round, it really got old for me. Well, what I was hoping to see there is he jokes around for two rounds. Yeah, exactly. She just proves that, you know, I'm completely out of this guy's league. And then... Finish them. And so the second round, we go forward to Anderson Silva doing some capoeira moves. And then swearing at Damian Maya, dropping his hands and waving the guy in. Then from the third, fourth, and fifth round, Anderson Silva, he won the third round with a couple strikes. Looked to a broken Damian Maya's nose. And the fourth and fifth round, knowing that he'd already won the decision off the first three rounds, Anderson Silva refused to engage. He just ran around the doctor. He... He hit behind the ref. He hit behind the ref. He turned his back and ran, didn't engage at all. I have to say, in the fifth round, Maya did something very unusual. He broke his nose in the third round. As a cardinal rule of fighting, if you break your nose, you suck it up and you live with it. You don't clear your nose, because if you do, your sinuses will swell and your eyeball will shut. His eye just closed right up. In his fifth round, Damian Maya said, "I have one last chance. Blow my nose out so I can breathe because I don't have a chance against the sky otherwise." I'll go out there with one eye, face Anderson Silva. With one eye and a broken nose, Damian Maya walked out, caught Silva with some great punches, fought him off his knees, Silva just jumped out of it. I think Maya won that last round. Absolutely. I think so too. But unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win the decision. Obviously not. This was the disgrace. The Anderson Silva came out afterwards and said he should apologize for not being humble enough, but he felt that he was disrespected morally. Which is ridiculous, because Damian Maya said nothing of the sort. Damian Maya bowed to the guy, he was very polite and respectful. Dana White said he was ashamed and that he didn't even refuse to give the belt to the guy. Dana was very unhappy. After the fight, he said it was the worst he has ever felt after a show, saying he was upset with Anderson Silva the most. He talked about making Anderson Silva's next title defense, a pre-limge match. Yeah. And then a white actually walked out during the fourth round, handed the belt to... To his trainer. To Anderson Silva's trainer and said you give it to him and just walked off. He was just so embarrassed. This show in Abu Dhabi was not just a big UFC show. It was also to celebrate the selling of the company, 10% of the company, to a bunch of Abu Dhabi government guys. Yeah. And this was to show this new market and these people and these new business partners what UFC can be. This is the UFC opening, the ease stuff based on it. And Anderson Silva made it into a joke unfortunately. Yeah. I mean, I was extremely disappointed with this. I thought that it was coming. But what really, really infuriates me about this, and I think we need to say, Anderson Silva throughout the fight made it clear that he was not going to engage Damien May on the ground because Damien May is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a black belt. So he kept waving him and saying throw punches at me because Anderson Silva's counter-punching. Yeah. The counter-punching guy and he made him the way he did force it. Putting his hands down and insisting that Damien May comes to him and plays his game. If Damien May had lied on his back and waved Anderson Silva in and said come fight me on the ground, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu style, we would have panned Damien May on the other building. He would have been canned from the UFC. Yeah. You know. It would have been like the tellest lightest fight. Exactly. And then with Anderson Silva saying beforehand, oh, this is an Jiu Jitsu match, you have to fight in whatever way you can fight. Well, it's not a kickboxing match either. Yeah. And then what really infuriates me, other than that, is you declined to fight with Dan Henderson, who was an extremely good striker, who struck with you before and took your best shots. You declined to match with the main bar cart, who was an incredible striker. You, you know, dogged the fight with Belfort and said that you didn't think he was worthy of the division, but the fact that he's an incredible good boxer. And then waited for him to get a knee injury. And then took a guy who's, what, fifth or sixth ranked in the division? Some of ranked. Some of the 10. Yeah. He's picking down the list. He's basically just, he's, he's picking his own opponents. And I'm really, I'm getting tired of the pick your own opponents thing. Like, it's getting, like, I understand not fighting guys in your camp. I get that. That's respectful. But to say, oh, I want to fight only this guy and this guy, or I'm not fighting. That's ridiculous. You work for the UFC, Dana, or, or Silva, Joe Silva, or whatever, tells you what to do. You do it. You're a champion. You're a champion for every guy in the division. If, if Dan Henderson's in that division, you fight Dan Henderson. If Anderson Silva is, is the pound for pound best fighter in the world, you fight who they put in front of you and you knock out or finish your opponent. Yeah. You do it. You don't, uh, like, unfortunately try not to finish them, which is what I think you did here. Um, and just, yeah. The fact that if you want to have these striking fights and they're strikers is number one contenders, fight them. Yeah. Yeah. Don't dock the fights with other strikers. Again, we'll fight with a guy that's, you know, is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert who has no striking game and then say, oh, well, I feel disrespected because he didn't want to strike with me. I wouldn't want to strike with you either. Yeah. Particularly not if I was a submission expert. I feel so bad for Mark. Well, there's a game you might get to do. Do you have a little jump kick the guy? Well, just like how I wouldn't want to fight or nobody should want to fight Danium I on the ground. You know, fighters have their strengths and their weaknesses. Mm-hmm. They don't, your opponent doesn't do what you want him to do. Yeah. He's not obligated to fight your fight. You know, it is mixed martial arts. And I mean, if you're going to call him on that, you're just as guilty of it. Like, I am thoroughly fed up with Anderson Silva. I'm tired of the way he was dogging fights before. Yeah. You know, now this is just, it takes it to a new level. Afterwards, there was tons of excuses. As we said, he said, so he felt like he was disrespected. His manager Eddie Suarez said that he couldn't find his range after the third round. Where do you want to fight the guy in a man in parking lot? Yeah. You're the best. You can't find your range in a cage. It's 20 feet across. Get out of here. You know, like terrible. But Silva did look like he was, like he was not the same in those last couple rounds. And that was common during the show. This fight was in, like these fights were in Abu Dhabi. It was 100 degrees out. It was an opener. Human 100 degrees. A lot of people think that Abu Dhabi, it's going to be, you know, all, you know, United Arab Emirates. It should be dry heat. Don't worry about it. No, this is human stuff. They're on Yaz Island. Like this is a huge area. There's a reason there were a lot of decisions on this card. People weren't, people were sweaty. There was no, there was no grapple game going on. The guys were getting tired. BJ didn't look himself. Anderson Silva was looking for him. That was a big thing. Because Anderson Silva was sweating so much. He was so slippery. Every time Damien and I went for a shot, you know, even though he grabbed his legs and tried to drag him, Anderson Silva was quick. And he, you know, greased up. He was just diving out of it. I think there's no way that the fight was going to go to the ground. Um, but actually, I kind of like, this is good for you, Greg. Chell Sunin. After UFC 112, he, he said, "There are people out there that need to be beaten up. And Anderson Silva is one of them. And I have a moral obligation to society to beat him up." I gotta say, you know what, as much as I've not been the biggest fan of Chell Sunin, Anderson, I would love to see him grind the hell out of Anderson Silva. Like, he's, it's like, the, the, the better of the two evils here. This is like, total heel heel. And it's bad guy versus bad guy, but I want, I want Sunin to win. I can't believe I'm saying that. He has a moral obligation to society. He does. And I want to see it. That's a real, that's a real, like, presidential candidacy. I was surprised he didn't put up the hand, like the, the Barack Obama or the George Bush and be like, "I have a moral obligation to beat him up." Like, it's, it's, it's Chell Sunin. The other guy who's come out and said that he has a moral obligation to beat him up and not so many words. Vida Belfort has said, "I'm recovered. I want to fight him. He's been on Dean's Twitter every day since his fight saying, "Give me bad game, Anderson Silva. If he, the guy wants to fight other striker, I'm willing to strike with him." Cool. And in some other news, UFC one, what, 14 in, in Vancouver. 15, 115. Oh, 115, sorry. It's now Chocolate L versus Rich Franklin. Yeah. We kind of saw that coming. Yeah, we talked about the rumors for weeks and weeks. And yeah, it turns out that Dina did a good job shucking and jiving on that. But I think that the cat finally came out of the bag. In the end, you have to announce the main event. Yeah. And when you put tickets on sale and they did. So Tito was going to vanish at some point during the season, apparently. The show sold out in 30 minutes, the fastest solo in UFC history. I think who was definitely hungry for UFC. See, also the upcoming WEC show is going to be an Edmonton. Edmonton. That's right, June 20th. That's exciting. That'd be really cool. I would actually really like to see a WEC show. I could see Edmonton being a big market for UFC as well. Yep. And actually talking about, talking about BJ Penn earlier. Gray Mainer is lobbying for Rematch because he's the only guy that's ever beaten, Edgar. The other guy who is a logical opponent for, for Frank Yeager is Kenny Florane, who is just hospitalized with a staff infection. Isn't he coming out of the hospital soon? No, he should be out of the hospital a couple days. Either right now or very soon. And he thinks he'll be able to fight again by August, which is in Boston. And it could be a perfect title fight if Penn doesn't take it. So yeah, lots and lots of interesting lightweight title matches coming up if they decide to do them. So we move forward from the news. We're going to be very quick here. First of all, we want to say for the ultimate fire last week. Clayton McKinney faced Kyle Noke. Clayton, we've dumped Mint Oreo. Or my friend Greg is dubbed Mint Oreo. Dude, he was green in black hair. Yep. Unfortunately, you did not protect him from a triangle choke as spiky as it was. He was topped out in 45 seconds. It looked very disappointing. If throughout the show, they made a lot of comments that Frank or that Chuck Liddell had picked a lot of smaller guys. And they were like, well, that's one usual. Chuck is normally a very good strategy guy. I actually looked back at the last season that Chuck Liddell coached. When he coached last time, his team consisted of Diego Sanchez, Joss Kosschek, Kenny Florian, and Forrest Griffin. Yeah, and Forrest Griffin. So he coached both winners of the first season. He was coaching Walter Waite and White Heavy. At the first season, they had two different Waite classes. Yeah, they were two Waite classes. Was it middle and Walter? Yes. I think it was White Heavy. I'm sorry, yes. It was White Heavy and then Walter. So you're picking Diego Sanchez, Walter Waite. You're picking Florian, Walter Waite. Like, these aren't big guys. He picked small guys at a time, and all the small guys he picked ended up being some of the best in the world. Yeah, Liddell, I got faith in Liddell's picks for sure. So let me go forward to this Saturday, which is Strike Force in Nashville. We're going to be very, very quick about this. This is a weird card because it's only a two-hour show. There are three title fights. There are five round title fights. So on the undercard, which we'll probably not see the light of day because the title fights are the potential to go so long. The only ones of real notes are Dustin West versus Andrew Ollick and Jason Mayhem Miller versus Tim Stout. Now Mayhem is an incredibly exciting fighter to watch. A really fun guy. So keep a look out for him. He's going to find the middle. Oh, he hates bullies. He hates bullies. I hate bullies too. So I'm with Mayhem Miller on that one. He's a middleweight. So we'll put him with Anderson and so on. Then we go to the main card where we have the Lightweight Championship. Gilbert Melendez, who's coming off a fight of the year contender, is going to be facing Shinya Oyoki. This is going to be great. Dream Champion, I believe. Yeah. Dream Champion. And he is a dirty submission fighter. Oh, yeah. This is going to be great. I'm looking really forward to this fight. I'm calling Melendez. Melendez and Adam Thompson had this excellent stand-up fight. Oh, yeah. Of what? Four months ago? On the last CBS special, I believe. And it was excellent. If you can keep his fight on his feet, I think he'll win it. But Oyoki's no joke. On the ground, his submissions are incredible. They're ridiculous to watch. So I'm calling Gilbert Melendez to win as well. Because he's a big guy. The fight started on your feet. As long as he can stay off the ground. But I'm telling you, this is going to be really close. If that fight goes to the ground, he's screwed. I think Melendez is going to have that belt for a while. Yeah, I call him as well. But I think it's going to be an excellent fight. So then we go forward to one of my favorites. Gagard Musase versus King Mo Muhammad Law. You know, King Mo has been saying that he feels that any man can be beaten. And he thinks he's got the formula to beat Gagard. Good luck, buddy. With that being said, I have to call Gagard. Gagard has an incredible stand-up game to match King Mo's. And his ground game, I think, is far superior. Mo's an excellent wrestler. Like a fantastic wrestler. But you know what? I just can't see anybody beat Musase right now. He's superior. Like, yes, Mo, King Mo's a great wrestler. But Musase is superior in every way to King Mo. So this is going to be... Musase is going to distract. Oh, we could go. We just said the same thing about BJ Penn and Frankie Eggers. So anything can happen. We'll see. I'm calling Gagard Musase to win by TKL. I'm thinking round two. For the record, Egger is quicker than Penn, though. So you can always say Egger is quicker than Penn. But King Mo's not quicker than Musase. So, uh, cultural mismatch, everyone calling? Musase, yeah, of course. I'm going to go Musase, but I actually think it's going to be a lot closer than everybody else thinks just because, you know, King Mo, he's strong. He's a good wrestler. He's undefeated. It'll be a good fight. But Musase is the golden boy right now. With that being said, King Mo is incredibly fun to watch as well. Oh, yeah. He's known for his wild celebrations. He's throwing corners on his drink over his head. So he's a fun guy to watch. So we'll see. And we go to the Marlin of the match. Jake Shields, the middleweight champion. Defends his belt against Dan Henderson, and one of the toughest competitors in the world, a former pride champion and a former UFC contender. I'm looking forward to seeing Henderson back. I'm looking forward to seeing Henderson win. I don't really like Jake Shields very much. I don't dislike Jake Shields. I think he's an excellent wrestler, but I just don't find him all that interesting. I'd love to see a knockout. And he's beaten up a bully, too. Unbelievable. Well, with that being said, even though, you know, Dan Harrison has a great striking game and some pretty solid wrestling, I'm thinking that because Jake Shields wrestling is so good, he's going to try to take this fight to the ground and grind it out. Definitely. I have to call Shields by decision. I'm going to call Hendo. I think that Hendo can overcome it. I think that Hendo is better than mayhem, and that was a pretty close fight with Shields and mayhem, so I think Hendo is going to take this. And he's looking to prove something. I mean, he's got the big contract. He's older, though. He's older, but yeah, he's older. And he's been what, a year since he just destroyed this thing. So, I mean, he's not that old. He can still go. So you're calling Hendo by? Yeah. I'm a TKO. That's what I would like to see. I'm calling that, too. Yeah. Okay. So we've got two calls for Henderson. I've got some faith in Shields wrestling. I think he has it in them to wrestle Henderson. So we'll see you next week, and we'll give you some results. Thanks for tuning in, everyone. Remember, check us out on iTunes at the hammer. Have a good week. See you.
