Middleweight bout: Ryan Jensen vs. Demian Maia – Maia defeats Jensen by submission at 2:40 of the first round with a rear naked choke

Middleweight bout: Kalib Starnes vs. Alan Belcher – Belcher defeats Starnes by TKO at 2:39 of round two due to doctor stoppage.

Light heavyweight bout: Eric Schafer vs. Stephan Bonnar – Bonnar defeats Schafer by TKO (strikes) at 2:47 of round two.

Lightweight bout: Jorge Gurgel vs. Alvin Robinson – This fight started off great. Some slick groundwork, then after the 1st round it went to shit. Gurgel just got sat on and pounded for the final 2 rounds. Needless to say Gurgel lost via unanimous decision.

Heavyweight bout: Brandon Vera vs. Tim Sylvia – Sylvia defeats Vera by unanimous judges’ decision…boooooring

Middleweight Championship bout: Anderson Silva vs. Rich Franklin – Black Jesus destroyed Rich Franklin in Franklin’s hometown as expected. It wasn’t brutal as last time, but it was still a hell of a beat down. Franklin wore Bengals colors, and Black Jesus in his infinite and all knowing wisdom, wore Steelers colors to further upset the already hostile crowd. It was glorious.

Randy Couture up and quit the UFC couple days ago after Dana White(douchebag extraordinaire) was unable to sign the baddest man on the planet, Fedor Emelianenko. Randy, was upset that Dana(douchebag) was offering Fedor a fuckload of money. Couture felt Dana should have given some of that money to the top guys who helped build the company to where it is. So Randy quit and relinquished his heavyweight title. And now the heavyweight division is a fuckin’ mess.

Side note…Fedor Emelianenko has signed with the Russian M-1 Mix-Fight Championships, a group reportedly being funded by an American entertainment related company.

Lyoto Machida vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura was a bad fight. Nakamura got no offense and Pride FC is looking worse and worse after every UFC event.

Diego Sanchez vs. Jon Fitch was a good fight, and another one that could’ve gone either way. I actually had Diego winning but the judges saw it another way and Fitch won via split decision. Best part was Diego actually being gracious in defeat. Good to see.

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Forrest Griffin was pretty good as well. Mostly a slugfest, with Forrest dominating on the ground. Rua opened up a nasty gash on Forrest’s head in the second but Forrest loves the sight of blood. He just wiped it off and spelled Rua’s name in blood across his stomach as he let out a war cry that would make the manliest of ninjas cry…or not. No he just whipped Rua’s ass, out-conditioned him and submitted him with 15 seconds left in the fight via rear naked choke….and another Pride guy loses.

…and finally your main event of the night *yaaaaaawn*. Chuck Liddell vs. Keith Jardine. A slug fest(shocker!) with Jardine nailing about 742 leg kicks, with Joe Rogan exclaiming, “..and Another Leg Kick!” every time. And that was the entirety of his commentary in that fight. Jardine was never in any real trouble, but had Liddell in trouble briefly once after a beautiful..ok maybe not beautiful, but a solid looping punch that downed Liddell briefly. Jardine won via split decision but I think he clearly and easily won the fight. Liddell is now officially at the crossroads. Maybe a Crocop/Liddell “loser leaves the UFC FOREVER” match. I’d be down for that.