Bas Rutten is back!

Too bad Kimo was pulled out due to testing positive for some drug…I knew he was a juice bag.

You gotta give it to Ruben Villareal though, he has a chin like Fujita, but his legs…well, check out the video:

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Kazushi Sakuraba beats Rickson Gracie!

I always knew he would win…he is the “Gracie Killer” after all.

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Wow…check out what happened backstage after Pride 31 between Mark Coleman and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (this is where Coleman when berserk after Shogun dislocated his elbow, and there was mayhem in the ring between Hammerhouse and Chuteboxe).

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Silva looks pissed, even though Coleman apologized to Chuteboxe, saying that it was his fault. But heck, I would be pissed too I had my neck stepped on.

I wonder if things will ever be what it was before between these two…

From the Yahoo Buzz Log:

The World Cup wasn’t the only sporting event kicking up buzz over the weekend. Elbows and knees were also flying at UFC 61—the latest mixed-martial-arts extravaganza. We’ve already covered how the UFC has kicked traditional boxing to the curb in terms of buzz, and we see no signs of it slowing down.

The main attraction at UFC 61 was the grudge match between beyond-brash Tito Ortiz and living legend Ken Shamrock. Searches on both men were up over 150%, but Ortiz won the battle—both in Buzz and in the cage, scoring more than double the number of searches as Shamrock. “Tito ortiz pictures” and “tito ortiz and ken shamrock video” were especially hot.

Other fighters putting a chokehold on buzz included Tim Sylvia (+211%), who vanquished Andrei Arlovski (+96%); intimidating Brazilian Wanderlei Silva (+444%), who will return to the UFC this fall; and legendary Chuck Liddell (+175%), who is set to throw down at the upcoming UFC 62. We’re sure buzz will be beaten to a pulp yet again in late August when the countdown to 62 ends.

What’s the Yahoo Buzz Log?

A subject’s buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.

Yahoo is right…UFC is picking up momentum and is becoming a Juggernaut.

Here’s a video clip of Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock at UFC 61…

Ken lost, but there is some controversy over an early stoppage.  Shamrock lost to an early stoppage against Sakuraba earlier, and that was understandable.

But if you look at the full force elbows coming from Ortiz, I personally don’t think the stoppage was early at all.  It looked as though Tito could have rained down elbows all day long if the Herb Dean didn’t step in.

Good call by the ref.

What do you think?

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