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Some thoughts while I recover from my Sanchez vs. Guida hangover...

- Diego Sanchez looked so much better at lightweight this time then he did in the Stevenson fight. Then again anytime you don't look like a skeleton is a positive. 

- Diego has a great mean face, I just hope it isn't his "oh face". 

- The opening minute of Sanchez-Guida was probably the best opening of a main event fight in a long time. 

- For those of you who like to make Clay Guida is a caveman jokes, this fight definitely proved that he does have the chin of a caveman. No normal homo sapien could of survived that round. 

- Still I don't think it was a 10-8 round. Look the first minute was insane but Guida was fighting back. Yeah he got rocked but he had enough sense about him to take Sanchez down. Diego did respond with the big head kick but once again Guida survived and put up an active defense. That's 10-9 in y book. 

- Rogan talking about Shinya Aoki? That is an odd reference for the UFC announcer to make. 

- Diego Sanchez and cage toe holding for the win!  

- Final round was extremely close. I had it for Sanchez but if Guida would've been more active once he got into Diego's guard he could of won that fight. Credit to Sanchez though, his kimura and submission attempts were enough to neutralize Guida's offense to give Diego the round. 

- Clay was still bouncing around after the fight. Was that due to excitable personality or all the adrenaline from the blood loss. Who knows?

- James Wilks crushes DeMarques Johnson. Fail America. 

- Joe Rogan talking about Nick Diaz positively? Rogan also mentioning Frank Shamrock and Scott Smith, Bas Rutten and Kevin Randleman. WTF is going on here?

- Stop talking about James Wilks like he is a U.K. fighter. He has lived in the U.S. for nine yeas! That is back when the Unified Rules were still being written. In no way does he represent U.K. MMA other than it being the place of his birth. Basically he is the equivalent Giuseppe Rossi. For those that don't know who Rossi is,  he is an American who plays for the Italian national soccer team. Why, because he is good at soccer and everyone know the U.S. sucks at  developing soccer players. So Rossi, whose ancestry is Italian, got dual citizenship and entered Italian soccer farm system. Now he plays for the Italian national team and scored two goals against the U.S. in the Confederation Cup. 

- If there was ever any doubt that Kimbo Slice's presence on TUF 10 to generate ratings than his appearance in the TUF 10 commercial is all the evidence we need. 

- See what happens Mr. Joe "Daddy" when you use your wrestling? You win fights. 

- According to Joe Stevenson Greg Jackson is Chuck Norris. That's suppose to be a compliment right?

- Amir Sadollah interviews Dana White and White mentions Vitor Belfort? Again, WTF is going on here? Also the whole interview felt like Fox News interviewing Karl Rove. Not very compelling television.  

- Quote of the night, "one's a white guy one's a black guy." ~ Joe Rogan

- Runner Up "Are you not entertained!?" ~ Diego Sanchez. I mean who hasn't wanted to do that. 

- Honorable mention "Got to love that these guys speak English but...[pause]...you still need...[pause]...[pause]...subtitles" ~ Joe Rogan. 

- Honorable mention II "Come on Joe, get to work b#tch!" ~ Nate Diaz.

- Boos for Micahel Bisping! Remember the Alamo-err, I mean, Matt Hamill! 

- If Winner and Pearson are the two best lightweight prospects in the U.K. then god save English MMA. 

- The Winner-Pearson fight was basically a commercial for everything except the WInner-Pearson fight. Rogan even pimped Forrest Griffin's book during the fight. 

- Stop the F#@^ING! TWITTER COMMERCIAL! I DIDN'T TUNE IN TO HEAR ABOUT TWITTER!

- I made a subtle observation that I am not sure the average viewer picked up on. Ross Pearson is like a bulldog. I know it sounds odd but hear me out. He looks like a bulldog, trains like a bulldog and guess what? His nickname is the bulldog. How totally weird is that? 

- Thank god Lytle is fighting after Pearson and Winner, I sound like such a  meat head right now. 

- There are so many commercials on fight nights.  Something that is hard to cope with when your 7 beers deep. 

- Chris Lytle delivers like he always does. 

- With all the Transformer 2 commercials I feel like I should mention that Micahel Bay will be leaving the Transformers franchise after the sequel. Rejoice movie purists, rejoice!

- Speaking of Transformers let's talk about Megan Fox. She made an appearance last night and almost made me forget about the Pearson-Winner fight. Megan Fox could make anything better, as long as she doesn't have to act.  

- What is it about Kevin Burns and hitting people illegally? First it was the blatant eye poke of Anthony Johnson. I mean who throws jabs with the fingers pointing straight out. In tonight's fight there were four low blows to Chris Lytle's crotch. Was he trying to help him out with birth control?

- The fact that Jason Dent was the second best American fighter on TUF 9 is evidence that the UFC staffed the season in favor of the Brits.

- Frank Lester meet Tommy Speer.

- Apparently the judging on the undercard was bad. More on that later. 

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