UFC 74 Tonight 9pm on Bravo (spoilers as they unfold on tv)

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Just a heads up for all you scrapping fans. Main event tonight is 44 year old Randy Couture defending his heavyweight title against Gabriel Gonzaga. Gonzaga won his title shot by beating Mirko Cro Cop in what was a bit of an upset at the time. The undercards not too shabby either. The actual event was last night and this is a replay so could we have no spoilers until they unfold on bravo please?

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GSP is the on there versus koscheck (sp?) I cant remember who else and Im avoiding the ufc websites as theyll have spoilers.

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yay, the fighting has started

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Bloody hell! I want to see the undercard fight that made that huge blood stain on the octagon mat!

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Why is joe rogan saying sean sherk is an example for his training levels? He failed a drugs test after ufc 73...

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GSP fight now, this could be interesting, is he really as good as all the hype?

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gonzaga looks huge compared to randy! nice take down though!

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Brock lesnar was in talks with dana white over the weekend and has been making noises about taking on randy. Id love to see randy hand that plonker a good beating.Randy was really good tonight though, theres too many people in the heavyweight division carrying a bit too much flab, gonzaga looked slow. Cro cop will be back too, if he manages 2 wins then he could be looking to fight Randy if hes still the champ.

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ufcdaily.com is saying randy has asked to fight fedor Emelianenko next assuming they can finally get him to sign!

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jenna and tito I think theyve been together for a while now. Brock lesnar recently made his mma debut and battered the 1996 olympic judo silver medallist and made him submit to punches. It was a bit of a dull fight really
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLkqQwIT2k&mod...

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That was disgusting, not releasing the hold was pathetic and he should be banned for a very long time. If the UFC really wants to protect itself from the allegations of human cockfighting it'll have to come down heavily on babalu.

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g4ry13 said:

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That was disgusting, not releasing the hold was pathetic and he should be banned for a very long time. If the UFC really wants to protect itself from the allegations of human cockfighting it'll have to come down heavily on babalu.

The UFC is so much tamer than it was at its introduction - they now wear gloves which is one major factor for a start. I don't believe UFC can be so deeply scrutinised without taking a long look at Boxing - there's far more chance of serious injury in Boxing getting knocked down repeatedly than the single knockout permitted in UFC. Sure it's bloodier in the UFC, but that's skin and on the rare occasion a broken bone. 36 minutes of getting bashed in the head is far more likely to cause serious internal injury.

Babalu's not the first fighter to keep a hold on for too long, I believe BJ Penn is another to have previously done so - although in no way was it right. He was fined half his purse by the Nevada state commission and I think the UFC was going to investigate it and see where they go from there.

Its true that the ufc is far tamer than it was previously before zuffa got involved but its also far more exposed these days, if it wants to be taken seriously as a sport its to make the running. Boxing is far more dangerous though, averaging 7 deaths a year whilst theres been none in the ufc although I dont know about the mma world in general.