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Damn this was a pretty great card.

JDS looked absolutely fantastic and just boxed Mir up badly.

Cain absolutely demolished Bigfoot. Probably one of the top 10 bloodiest UFC fights, especially considering how short it was.

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The Ultimate Fighter: Live Finale is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. While not officially announced by the organizations, it is expected to take place on June 1, 2012 at the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada, United States.

Main card

Welterweight bout
Jake Ellenberger vs. Martin Kampmann

Lightweight bout
Mike Chiesa vs. Al Iaquinta

Featherweight bout
Jonathan Brookins vs. Charles Oliveira

Featherweight bout
Max Holloway vs. Pat Schilling

Lightweight bout
Justin Lawrence vs. John Cofer

Preliminary card (Fuel TV)
Daron Cruickshank vs. Chris Tickle
Myles Jury vs. Chris Saunders
Cristiano Marcello vs. Sam Sicilia
Jeremy Larsen vs. Joe Proctor

Preliminary card (Facebook)
John Albert vs. Erik Perez

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These cards with less known fighters are always crazy difficult to make picks for.

Jake Ellenberger
Mike Chiesa (hardest fight of the card to pick IMO, Iaquinta looks good, while Chiesa has looked like he was in pretty big trouble in his last 2 fights, but I think he lost the Jury fight and the Pichel fight should have had a round 3.)
Charles Oliveira
Pat Schilling (another hard pick since both men have beaten a whole bunch of nobodies and lost to their 1 known opponent.)
Justin Lawrence

Daron Cruickshank
Myles Jury
Christiano Marcello
Joe Proctor

John Albert

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I only got 4/12 last time. Terrible.

Jake Ellenberger
Al Iaquinta
Charles Oliveira
Max Holloway
Justin Lawrence

Daron Cruickshank
Myles Jury
Sam Sicilia
Joe Proctor

John Albert

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Cofer keeps running in head down swinging and the top of his head keeps colliding with Lawrence's face. This is definitely illegal and happened something like 5 times in round 1 alone.

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HOLY SHIT THAT KO WAS FUCKING SICK!!

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Martin Kampmann proved how underrated he was tonight. The guy should be on a 5 fight win streak but got robbed 2 fights in a row (Shields and Diego Sanchez).

He either needs to fight Hendricks next or get a title shot. It depends on GSP. I want Condit to defend (likely against Hendricks since Kampmann's nose appears to be shattered) but if GSP is coming back soon enough that it doesn't make sense for Condit to defend (which I do not believe) then Kampmann vs Hendricks to determine the #1 contender makes sense.

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7/10. Nice. And yes, that Lawrence KO kick was SIIIIIIIIICK!

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UFC on FX: Johnson vs. McCall is expected to take place on June 8, 2012 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.

Main Card

Flyweight bout
Demetrious Johnson vs Ian McCall

Welterweight bout
Erick Silva vs Charlie Brenneman

Welterweight bout
Mike Pyle vs Josh Neer

Bantamweight bout
Eddie Wineland vs Scott Jorgensen

Preliminary Card (Fuel TV)
Jake Hecht vs Sean Pierson
Henry Martinez vs Bernardo Magalhaes
Buddy Roberts vs Caio Magalhaes
Tim Means vs Justin Salas
Dustin Pague vs Jared Papazian
Leonard Garcia vs Matt Grice
Mike Pierce vs Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Seth Baczynski vs Lance Benoist

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Man I really hope McCall can pull of the win this time. I can't stand MM's style. Either way I think there is a very good chance that Benavidez wins this whole tournament but I love McCall's story/personality.

Ian McCall
Erick Silva
Josh Neer
Scott Jorgensen

Sean Pierson
Bernardo Magalhaes
Caio Magalhaes
Justin Sales
Dustin Pague
Leonard Garcia (While I think he should currently be on a 7 fight losing streak I find his fights exciting so I want him to win this to avoid being cut)
Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Seth Baczynski

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Demetrious Johnson
Charlie Brenneman
Josh Neer
Scott Jorgensen

Jake Hecht
Bernardo Magalhaes
Caio Magalhaes
Tim Means
Dustin Pague
Leonard Garcia
Mike Pierce
Seth Baczynski

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The ref in this fight might be the worst ref ever. Benoist has landed 2 illegal knees and has not lost a point. Both of them should have been a point deduction and potentially a DQ. Fucking insane.

Also in an earlier fight he reset the fight because one fighter was pushing off the cage with his feet and was warning fighters not to throw elbows to the top of the head (fully legal).

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Weird. Jorgensen is now almost completely white. I guess his Vitiligo has almost ran its course.

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Once again the judges disappoint. Should have been a 29-29 and we should have gotten the 4th round. I think 1 was MM, 2 was Uncle Creepy, and 3 was a 10-10.

I fucking can't stand MM, I hope Joe knocks his block off. Also to be honest I think Joe B beats either guy. This kind of sucks cause I think McCall clearly won the first fight so this feels like a bit of a robbery to me. If MM is the FlW champion I think it's terrible for the division. His fights over Kid Yamamoto and Miguel Torres were two of the most frustrating fights I've ever watched. Against Kid he just took him down, laid on him a bit, Kid got up, repeat for 3 rounds. Against Torred MM laid for 3 rounds while Torres was massively active from his back, Torres should have won 29-28 or 30-27 but the dipshit judges gave him the fight based solely off of his take downs. I kind of feel the same about round 3 in this fight. I feel like they gave MM the round for his 1 takedown, with which he did absolutely nothing.

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UFC on FX: Maynard vs. Guida is expected to take place on June 22, 2012 at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Main Card

Lightweight bout
Gray Maynard vs Clay Guida

Lightweight bout
Sam Stout vs Spencer Fisher

Welterweight bout
Brian Ebersole vs TJ Waldburger

Featherweight bout
Ross Pearson vs Cub Swanson


Preliminary Card (Fuel TV)
Hatsu Hioki vs Ricardo Lamas
Ramsey Nijem vs C.J. Keith
Steven Siler vs Joey Gambino
Rick Story vs Brock Jardine
Nick Catone vs Chris Camozzi
Matt Brown vs Luis Ramos

Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Dan Miller vs Ricardo Funch
Ken Stone vs Dustin Pague

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The sad thing is that this card almost looks better than UFC 147 which takes place the next night and is a paid card.

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Also to make things worse for UFC 147 now one of the TUF: Brazil MW finalists Daniel Sarafian is injured so now the guy he KOed in the first round is in the finals.

Look at this main card and try to tell me that it is worth $60.

Main Card

Wanderlei Silva vs Rich Franklin
Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira vs Sergio "Serginho" Moraes
Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira vs Rony Mariano
Fabricio Werdum vs Mike Russow
Yuri Alcantara vs Hacran Dias

Preliminary Card

Anistavio "Gasparzinho" Medeiros de Figueiredo vs Rodrigo Damm
Delson "Pe de Chumbo" Heleno vs Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo
John "Macapa" Teixeira vs Hugo "Wolverine" Viana
Thiago "Bodao" Perpetuo vs Leonardo "Macarrao" Mafra Teixeira
Marcos "Vina" Vinicius Borges Pancini vs Wagner "Galeto" Campos
Felipe Arantes vs Milton Vieira

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Yeah I only care about Silva-Franklin and Werdum-Russow.
Lots of Brazilians will probably want to watch it though.

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I'm kind of pissed that I'm going to miss most of the Friday card because I have an exam from 7pm to 9:20. Hopefully I'll be able to find the majority of the card online later.

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Gray Maynard
Sam Stout
Brian Ebersole
Ross Pearson

Ricardo Lamas
Ramsey Nijem
Joey Gambino
Brock Jardine
Chris Camozzi
Matt Brown

Dan Miller
Dustin Pague

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Maynard (I'd love it if Guida pulled it out though)
Stout
Ebersole
Pearson

Hioki
Nijem
Siler
Jardine
Camozzi
Ramos

Miller (I really hope he gets back on track)
Pague

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I don't even know if I'm going to do picks for 147 yet because I really don't care about the majority of the fights.

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Unfortunately I had an exam tonight and I missed all of the fights until 3 minutes into round 3 of Ebersole-Waldburder. I DRVed the rest so I'll watch them later. Pretty upset Hioki lost cause that just really proves that most of the high ranked fighters who fight in Japan aren't as good as their record seems.

It sucks for him to cause he was offered a title shot but turned it down to get more practice and then lost his next fight. Also I think the fact that flying West to East (Japan to America) is much harder on your body than going East to West definitely could play a role in this cause Hioki looked pretty bland against Roop (I still think Roop won that) and now he's lost to Lamas, both in America yet he looked fantastic against Palaszewski in Japan. I would be interested to see what happened if he were to live in the US or fight in Japan more often against a similar level of competition.

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Clay Guida put on his running shoes tonight...never saw anyone get a warning for running away before haha. I am glad Maynard won.

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Wow I think those judges fucked up badly. I had Guida winning the first 3 rounds. 4 was a lot closer but I think I might give it to Guida as well, Gray's guillotine would have made it 10-10 if he had not stood there and eaten 3-4 bombs before it. The 5th was clearly a 10-9 for Maynard.

Also Maynard acted like Guida was being a pussy/bitch but he was the one who could not adapt to Guida's style until the 5th.

Oh and the craziest shit was that warning from Mirgliotta. Guida was running to avoid punches and he threatens to deduct a point. If anyone deserved a point deduction it was Gray. He's the one who bitched about Guida's hair and forced it to get braided/ponytailed then during the fight he grabbed the ponytail to clinch at least 3 times and grabbed it while Guida was on top of him. At first I thought it might have been on accident but then he was clearly attempting to close his hand around the ponytail.

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