What felt like a pedestrian Thursday leading into a pedestrian UFC PPV weekend ended up as a fun news extravaganza. Five rounds! Flyweights! Nick Diaz dumping his Strikeforce belt in the trash! Awesome!!!
- Dana White announces all UFC main events will be five rounds from here on out. Let's just say Anthony Weiner has nothing on me at the moment.
- Nick Diaz vacated his Strikeforce welterweight title, which, to my mind, all but invalidates that bizarre "UFC or Strikeforce" clause in his contract.
- Kid Nate wondered if the UFC's relationship with Spike TV is all but severed. He also suggests that Bellator would become a viable contender with a Spike TV slot. I suggest they'll need more than five fighters that I care about to even begin to think about competing with the UFC.
- Despite being one of our top stories, it looks like the media is going to ignore Shane Carwin's "no comment" about the feds implicating him last August as a purchaser of various steroids.
- Speaking of Bjorn Rebney, the Bellator CEO joined Matt Bishop and co. on Bloody Elbow Radio.
- More details emerged regarding the UFC's negotiations to purchase a controlling interest in the G4 cable network. Is this Dana White's XFL/World Bodybuilding Federation/WWF New York moment?
- Fraser Coffeen looked at the standup games of Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin.
- UFC 130 is trending around 300,000 buys. That's...not good.