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Reem/Velasquez, The Reem wins by consistent knee strikes to the everywhere. I am going to be such a happy boy when 'Reem turns into the Anderson Silva of the Heavyweight division.

Those knees to the nuts are pretty killer..

Oh hey, I have one even better.

ALISTAIR

FUCKING

OVEREEM

IN THE UFC

Goodbye, any future Heavyweight title reigns for anyone else but him.

Reem/Velasquez. Bring it.

Jacare is another one I'm dying to see in the UFC. He will grapple-fuck and sub his way to Anderson Silva (and then not fight him because they're from the same camp, lolz). Oh, and Melendez. Dude is young, talented, Mexican AND marketable. Cha-ching!

Justified is just such a good TV show right now. This entire 2nd season has been fire, it's giving Breaking Bad a run for it's money.

Boyd is definitely a fun character and his relationship with Raylan is a story in itself.

The Bennett's are a great foe for Givens this season.

The Bennetts - Mama Bennett in particular - are really making this season for me, but the crook-of-the-week characters and everything else is damn good, too.

I love the move for the sport, I hate it for the fighters. The UFC will be able to basically regulate how much money the major players get (outside of, well, Brock Lesnar, who will always have Vince to fall back on), but like someone else said - MMA is not professional wrestling. I want all of the best fighting each other as much as possible, and this is one major leap towards that, even if the true ramifications of this purchase won't be felt until a year or two from now.

And make no mistake about it - Strikeforce is not long for this world. As soon as it becomes legally possible (or fiscally responsible) to dissolve it and absorb the fighters they deem worthy of fighting in the UFC, they will pull the plug. It makes no sense to finance their own competition, and if Dana White is at all serious about running at least one show per week all over the world (under the UFC banner), it likewise doesn't make much sense to keep a feeder promotion around as they'll need the able bodies, though SF will definitely serve that purpose from now until it's gone.

And yes, Zuffa now basically owns 95% of the entirety of the MMA video library worth owning. Hell, they could probably run their own channel at this point, since they just have SO MUCH footage at their disposal.

I agree that there are worries and some of them are being voiced here and I appreciate despite my positive attitude that this will not be everyone's cup of tea, however less free shows are unlikely as even Dana himself has said that the UFC has reached saturation with 15 events on PPV a year, he he has been trying to enter the premium cable market to offer more fights for a few years, but he has always said that they will produce the event and do not want to give up any creative control to sign with a network, he has so far held to this while other organisations have aquiesed and even been partially controlled by their tv networks, eg Strikeforce

Yup. The UFC is the ultimate niche sport in this hemisphere; they do terrific business all on their own, it makes no sense to enter a contract with a network who wants to meddle in the booking of the shows. As soon as either side can end the current Strikeforce/Showtime contract, they will - it likewise makes no sense for Showtime to promote and produce shows for what is basically now their competition. Alongside the fighters' free agency market, they're the biggest losers in this.

And something that I haven't seen anybody posted yet - Bellator's women division(s) will be STACKED once SF goes under. Can't imagine Dana White opening up Women's divisions for the UFC.

Not going to happen. At best, the next season will be played under the previous season's rules. In the long run there will be a rookie cap, a 17 or 18 game season and players will still not be playing with guaranteed contracts. It's just a lot of grandstanding that will ultimately end up with the players losing since this isn't MLB.

The extended season is reportedly off the table now.

Sadly, this was expected. I'll be surprised if DREAM doesn't follow suit sooner rather than later, I don't think they've managed to get the financial support they were looking for yet, have they?

Taboo?

Heat. Michael Mann at his best featuring one of the best modern casts, and including some of the best shootout scenes in any movie. Great, great movie, and what Public Enemies should have been (only set during the Depression, obviously).

From Dusk Til Dawn. Just a good, fun time to be had. By that same token, Desperado and Once Upon A Time In Mexico, though I like From Dusk til Dawn better than those two.

Once Upon A Time In America. I recently caught the original, 4 hour-ish cut of the movie. Oh, damn!

Universal Soldier: Regeneration, and I am totally serious. The original Universal Soldier's one of those childhood favorites of mine, and this movie actually comes close in terms of just being entertaining. Stars Van Damme, Lundgren, Andrei Arlovski and Mike Pyle.

Black Dynamite. One of the funniest movies of the past decade. Go watch it.

And finally, Big Trouble In Little China. Because, seriously. That movie rocks.

Justified is just such a good TV show right now. This entire 2nd season has been fire, it's giving Breaking Bad a run for it's money.

And Angel's the shit. I've been watching the re-runs on TNT for a while now (since I never bothered with it, or Buffy back in the day). Good stuff.

Very funny.

Mainly because it's fuckin' Matt Lindland, of all people.

I assume he spent all day in just his underwear.

House was very sad this episode, but it was a fun episode for the most part.

Btw did anyone notice how they killed off three characters on Supernatural? I wonder if this is really the end..though they have done this before. R.I.P Rufus =(

Because if Supernatural has shown anything throughout it's run, it's that death is permanent. =P

(spoiler warning just in case)

If any of the three are needed in the future, they'll be brought back. Their deaths just gives the episode (and the Mother of All) some weight, and helps show just how dangerous she is. I just hope this doesn't become a recurring pattern - I hope they realize they can have a new big bad without having to out-do the entire "Demons and Angels planned your entire life story out, rebel" aspect of the first five seasons in order to give it that personal, dramatic touch, since that's a great way to eventually jump the shark.

The episode itself was pretty good, and opens up for some real fun possibilities in the future in terms of new monsters. I doubt Supernatural gets canned, the CW pres has even gone on record as saying he loves the show and expects it to be back for an 8th season, or something to that effect.

Big name weekend winners include Jens Pulver (second straight win, a split decision over 13-13 Wade Choate), Chase Beebe, Keith Jardine, Luigi Fiorivanti and Zelg Galesic.

His first back-to-back wins since about 2004, no?

So, there's still some dynamite in that right of Hendo's.

Wonder if he'll be the first Strikeforce champ to actually defend the belt now. Who could he possibly face, though - Mousasi? Is there anybody else out there?

Oh right, I remember now. Yeah, seasons six was basically just a really obvious way of bridging 5 and 7 together, which admittedly was weaksauce watching it "live" (compared to the rest of the series), but shouldn't be much of an issue if you're just going through the DVDs.

According to wiki:

Season 6 was originally intended to be aired as the second half of Season 5 (in the same way that HBO split up the last season of The Sopranos); FX decided to refer to these ten episodes as "Season 6" instead.

Which explains why season 6 didn't really feel as it's "own" season.

Episode 7 of Boardwalk Empire bothers me. Every week the only complaint I've had is that they seem to be obsessed with showing tits on the level of a 13 year old boy who just discovered porn. Now all of a sudden in episode seven they insist on introducing a bunch of new or increasing the visibility of rarely used characters and I don't understand what the character's motivations are because they seem to have just been thrust into it.

Remind me, what characters are these again?

The Shield's one of those shows that only gets better with every passing season, so you're in for some good TV.

I put my Shield comment in the wrong thread, but I must say this as well....

My newfound man love for Walton Goggins is closing in on the same levels of man love I have for John Barrowman. Whether it is Predators, Justified, or now The Shield he is awesome in whatever he does.

Haven't watched Predators, but I have recently rewatched The Shield, and I am a big Justified fan, and I gotta agree, the man is awesome. The Shield was such a awesome show, and everyone on that show deserves credit for it, but I honestly thought he was the best thing on it. And on Justified, as well.

The Shield - especially the last two/three seasons (which were the best) definitely would not have been the same if not for him.

Jesus, the amount of camping on Hardcore is pretty insane now. Shame, Hardcore is so much better than the regular game modes in theory.

Just did a quick run through, and there's at least 20-ish characters who would make sense in the context of the show and a Mafia game, and I left plenty of quality characters off.

It was before my time but wasn't one of the first year games, supernatural themed?

Nah, as in Supernatural, the show. It's ripe for the Mafia treatment, and I think there's a pretty decent amount of fans here.

Just curious here, but has there even been a Supernatural Mafia?

Because this seems like a huge oversight if not.

so how soon till Bob Sanders gets injured this time? he didn't last 1 game last year. keep him out of preseason just in case....

I'm thinking training camp..

Hopefully there is none, for his sake. Maybe he'll make it past the trading deadline in that case?

And Bob Sanders with the Chargers.

And Shaun Rogers with the Saints, which I really like for them.

Just thought about it. Assuming they don't air TUF 14 until the Fall/Winter, does that mean they're really going to put their new division's inaugural title match off until basically a year after it was introduced?

Yes, but Cruz is out until late Summer at the earliest following hand surgery, so really it is only delaying around it by around 3 months anyway.

I was under the impression the surgery would only sideline him for a couple of months, and that he would be okay to hit the gym again in 2-4 months at the most (March-May).

Carry on, then.

Oh damn, why did I not see this in time? =\