Still can't believe that comeback last night, I swore that Kongo was out twice, unreal recovery.

According to Nate's twitter, I was reading this on Yahoo, he will discuss the situation sometime Tuesday. My thoughts are now this, it is something trivial that he had time to take care of and didn't. The UFC gave him a headliner, welterweight debut, and Spike ran the Marquardt marathon then he doesn't clear meds f'ing the UFC a day before the event, scrapping a headliner and running a marathon for a guy now not fighting and that pissed Dana off! Hopefully he will disclose it. I have always like Marquardt and hope the best for him, we shall see.

Well here is our awnser. http://mmajunkie.com/news/24189/nate-marquardt-blames-testosterone-replacement-therapy-for-ufc-on-versus-4-scratch.mma

As for being cut it looks like it was more personal from Dana then anything else. This is basically the same thing Sonnen did. Dana has never liked Nate and used this as an excuse to cut him. Dana can say whatever he wants but two fighters did basically the same thing and one got cut the other gets to keep fighting. I love Dana White but he needs to keep his personal feelings out of business.

Sonnen is a draw, has come closest to beating the current #1 p4p fighter in the world, and works like hell to promote any fight he's in. Marquardt has the promotional abilities of a doorknob, and will never be a legit top 3 guy, whether at MW or WW. Of course the person who makes you more money will be given more leeway, it's the same in any business.

Marquardt cheated(lol at anyone who believes the excuses) then lied about his ablity to handle it, costing Dana a ton of money that he spent promoting Nate as a main event. I'd be pissed too.

Yeah but dana cant come out and act like what he did was the end of the world while another fighter did the same thing without much punishment from the ufc.

sportchampps;816958 wrote:Yeah but dana cant come out and act like what he did was the end of the world while another fighter did the same thing without much punishment from the ufc.

If it's a privately-owned company that he's a big part of, he can. Might not be "right", but he can. Take, for example, a couple years ago, the season of TUF that Amir won over Dollaway. That Jesse dude who was supposed to be in the finals got fired for making a drunken scene. Then brought back and fired again after losing to Dollaway, supposedly for complaining about a double standard. While Rampage has always had a home in the UFC even though he had an incident around that time for a hit-and-run and then blew off the UFC because he decided to be a movie star (he might have been the "double-standard" Jesse was complaining about).

Or how a low-talent guy like Junie Browning got a handful of fights (including at least one on the main card) because he creates controversy, while more skilled also-rans from TUF seasons struggle to get a foot in the door.

People can complain about how one guy was treated over another, but what's the difference between this and, say, us bitching about Goodell's inconsistencies in fines and suspensions in the NFL?

Upcoming cards with big fights listed:

UFC 132 - July 2nd on PPV from Las Vegas, Nevada
Dominick Cruz (c) vs. Urijah Faber II for UFC Bantamweight Title
Wanderlei Silva vs. Chris Leben
Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader
Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Denis Siver vs. Matt Wiman

Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson - July 30th on Showtime from Chicago, Illinois
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Dan Henderson
Marloes Coenen (c) vs. Miesha Tate for Women's Welterweight Title
Tyron Woodley vs. Paul Daley

UFC 133 - August 6th on PPV from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis
Rich Franklin vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Vitor Belfort
Jorge Rivera vs. Alessio Sakara
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Alexander Gustafsson

UFC on Versus 5 - August 14th on Versus from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dan Hardy vs. Chris Lytle
Ben Henderson vs. Jim Miller
Karlos Vemola vs. Stephan Bonnar
Amir Sadollah vs. Duane Ludwig

UFC 134 - August 27th on PPV from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anderson Silva (c) vs. Yushin Okami II for Middleweight Title
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub
Shogun Rua vs. Forrest Griffin II

Strikeforce 36 - September 10th on Showtime from TBA
Jacare Souza (c) vs. Luke Rockhold for Middleweight Title
Muhammad Lawal vs. Roger Gracie
Josh Thompson vs. Maximo Blanco

UFC Fight Night 25 - September 17th on Spike TV from New Orleans, Louisiana
Alan Belcher vs. Jason MacDonald
Dong Yi Yang vs. Court McGee

UFC 135 - September 24th on PPV from Denver, Colorado
Jon Jones (c) vs. Rampage Jackson for Light Heavyweight Title
Matt Hughes vs. Diego Sanchez
Takanori Gomi vs. Nate Diaz

UFC 136 - October 8th on PPV from Houston, Texas
Jose Aldo (c) vs. Kenny Florian for Featherweight Title

UFC 137 - October 29th on PPV from Las Vegas, Nevada
Georges St-Pierre (c) vs. Nick Diaz for UFC Welterweight Title

UFC 138 - November 19th on PPV from San Jose, California
Cain Velasquez (c) vs. Junior dos Santos for Heavyweight Title
B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch II

The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale - December 3rd on Spike TV from Las Vegas, Nevada
Jason Miller vs. Michael Bisping
Finalist #1 vs. Finalist #2

UFC 140 - December 10th on PPV from Montreal, Canada
TBA

I am pumped for almost every card on that list.

Jake Shields vs Jake Ellenberger headlines the New Orleans card, great fight.

Stacked card tomorrow night, can't wait!

robj55;819884 wrote:Stacked card tomorrow night, can't wait!

Just bought it. Pumped.

Decided to buy it tonight chilling watching prelims now

I can't wait until UFC 133 Rashad vs. Phil Davis.

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Gsot got knocked the f out, went from being a contender and a fight or 2 from a title shot to losing 2 in a row, that's mma.

said_aouita;820355 wrote:I can't wait until UFC 133 Rashad vs. Phil Davis.

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I think Rashad is going to win easily against Davis.

Hate Rashad, kinda hope he gets his ass beat. Doubt it happens though

Holy shit. Guillard DESTROYED him

saw that coming, roller has power and is an all american wrestler but he was standing still out there

Hb31187;820360 wrote:Hate Rashad, kinda hope he gets his ass beat. Doubt it happens though

I'd like Davis to win too but I don't see it, Rashad beats him on the feet or on the mat imo

Anybody got a good link to watch the fights?

I think Rashad has better stand up, But Davis is bigger and a better wrestler IMO.

Hmm they shut downt he stream i usually watch UFC on lol

Lol Condit dropped him

Dammit Tito, just go away already

for not having won in 5 years, hes awful fucking cocky

Holy shit Tito