i wonder who is going to ref that match. there’s already a shortage of decent refs. now with two big show on the same night, they’re gonna be spread pretty thin.

who’s the worst ref of all time? i say steve mazz. by a landslide.

I just can’t stop laughing when mazzagati says, “lets hook em up!” haha

Is there anway of finding out who will referee certain fights before hand? Because i dont ever want to bet a fight again where Dan Migrioratta is refereeing, that guyt is just too inconsistent, and I dont want my money riding on any fight involving that Dude!

no herb dean either. hes had a few strange calls. mario yamasaki would be fine. even yves levine, just no miragliotta.

btw, has anyone else seen the vid floating around the net with dan miragliotta raisng the wrong guys hand in a fight? they announced the winner and dan raised the wrong guys hand and neldit up for a few several second until the loser pulled his hand away and dan noticed the other guy had raised his own hands and was celebrating. it took him awhile to figureit out, it was like duh duh oh! i got the wrong guy. me prsonally i have not seen that ever happen before in mma, but a few times in boxing. pathetic.

yeah I dont mind Levine or Yamasaki. Herb Dean is solid at times and then other times, NOt so much….He is just inconsistent.

Miraglitta has got to go…. In the infamous words of Donald Trump “YOur FIRED”!!! Kick dude to the curb!

I would like to see miragliotta and Goldberg just beat each other senseless!

hey John, I tried to answer your question about Dana yesterday I got to say, this is by far my favorite website, and the best mma site out there. There honestly isn’t a close second out there. 99% of the time my posts and comments go through within a minute, and if they don’t, mania is usually getting ready to post front page news. The other 1% of the time, I can’t get anything posted, I don’t know if there is one particular mod that doesn’t care for me for whatever reason, but it is disappointing when I have a story, John obviously was interested, and I still can’t get it through. OK, I’m done ranting, sorry!

Dana said that the stair case that the TUF guys wrecked cost 70,000 to repair. He said he told the new cast members that anything they broke, they would have to pay for. He also said any cast member who says they are encouraged to ruin things are lying. I personally call B.S. What exactly do you expect to happen when 16 “alpha males” in a house with nothing to do, and unlimited quantities of alcohol, was going to happen? I for one say let these guys play video games and watch movies, and do away with the alcohol!
He also said that Jesse Tayler pisses himself, and now he has to make this kid a star…why?? Again I call B.S. and think the “most shocking moment in TUF history” was a set up. Ti say this kid is out of the finale, but yet put him in a match with the loser of the finale three weeks later is bogus to me! The UFC and spike needed something to make this boring season a little controversial, and got it from JT. They also were hanging off of CB’s nuts (I don’t know why) and saw an opportunity to put him into the finals!
The last thing was touched on, a LW that will be like anderson silva is on the next TUF season. I didn’t realize BJ demoted himself to be on the show!! LOL.
This has been Tuesdays edition of
KEVIN’S CONVERSATION

THanks Kev! Is the kid being compare to Anderson Silva a known fighter? Like Mac Danzig was? Because if so, the fighter that comes to mind is “Semtex”

Probably just wishfull thinking because I havce been wanting to see him in the Octagon for a long time now.

I am with you, do away with the Alcohol and let the kids watch TV and play video games, give em a basketball hoop or something.

He didn’t say, obviously he already said too much, in my opinion. I’m with you, these guys have an opportunity of a life time, the booze and nothing to do is just asking for trouble. If you need controversy to have a good show, cancel the show. The fights were boring and the guys they hyped (matt brown and CB) were well over hyped. anyways, sorry my morning “piece” was late, didn’t get home until 6 am. tomorrow morning I’ll preview UFC 86

Spida, you think The Moustache is a worse ref than Mirgliotta? That dude was front and center for the Kimbo-Thompson fix.

yeah, that was ridiculous on mirgliotta’s part. he’s definitely part of the hall of shame, but i’ll never forgive mazz for stopping the lesnar fight and taking a point. that was the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen by a ref in an mma fight. maybe i just wanted lesnar to win, but i’ll forever hate steve mazz for that reason. plus he just looks like a toolbox…i can’t stand that guy

Spida: What happened to Brock was shameful. I was a brock basher, but he got jipped out of a win. Mir was 1 hammer fist away from being DEAD and the ref stopped it, took a point away, and for what? 1 hammer fist to the back of the head….shamefull considering Ken Flo split the back of lauzon’s head open with like 15 illegal elbows.

Mazzagatti robbed Brock Bigtime, and it catipulted Mir into an undeserved title fight, where he will get completely out classed.

SHAMEFULL!!! i wanted Lsnar to loose that fight and I still agree with you!

I am with you all, but I wanted Brock to win. I wrestled at Michigan State when Brock was a Junior and Senior so I wanted to see him do well and he did. The point deduction was ignorant. Brock was putting a hurting on that boy. The same is going to happen to Herring. It will be similar to the Jake O’brien fight but heath will be getting hit a lot more and harder.

I guess you’re right, Haze my man. Pride did come close…So do I smell Affliction selling out to UFC?

I heard a rumaor that Dana White is a silent partner of Affliction..it wouldn’t make sense to us..but it’s one heck of juicy rumor.

I honestly believe that Tim Sylvia was sent to Affliction to beat Fedor to show that he is “Not a Top 10 Fighter”

This in turn will cause Randy to think, “Wow I can beat Tim and he can beat Fedor…what now? Maybe I’ll return to the UFC and fight Nog and finish my contract”

…that’s exactly how Dana White would like to see it go down anyway!

Totally..he is a UFC/MMA hall of famer.. He was an important factor when the UFC went from " Human Cock Fighting " to UFC Free on SpikeTV..people will recognize him before many of the UFC fighters. The UFC is runned like the flick " CASINO "..it’s a grimmey MMA business network.. I love it. Cuz it is what it is.. the best MMA on a consistant level has to offer..The UFC Brass is like the Colombian Cartel..you do not F’ with them. Joe is on the payroll..he says what he is suppose to say. BigJohn is one smart dude..about being one of the best MMA commentators along side the MMA legend Bas Rutten..brotha..your right. Once "JOhn settles in his new position..he’ll be really good at it..I’m intrested in hearing his commentating during the fight..he knows MMA as much/more then most. Affliction has BigJohn..that’s is F’n smart. Some reader’s may think..yeah..Affliction 1..2…shows and the towell will get thrown in…that won’t be the case. Their 1st fight card is pretty damn good. I expect the production to tight. I hope Trump has a pep talk with every fighter..to have them put on a nitro fueled performance. I’m rooting pulling for Affliction. I’m getting that PPV. Cuz of peeps like john,VM,Kev,NC17,Haze,Linx,Sticky,and every other MMAfan/Maniac I may be forgetton..that loves MMA.

to bad they cant get randy to do the color, he was the best ever imo. he kept rogan on an even keel, and helped me forget about goldie.

As much as I dont like the Old man, he was very good at commentating.

Ref’s’ll be drunk too, they’ll probably open up a can of woop ass on all the fighters and leave the production crew out there like “WTF JUST HAPPENED?!”

haha no way! and yeah now that I look back it does sound like a country song. well if so, it captures my feelings perfectly.

They are competition enough to have Dana give us all these free events trying to squash them!

Imagine, if they became a REAL competitior how goood us fans would get treated? UFC would have to super stack all the fight cards…. we should be praying for Affliction to succeed!

no arguements here. look how things have already changed for the good. if not for affliction, ther would be no ufn 14 or a free card on the 26th against elite. dana said it best, this is a great time to be a mma fan. i dont know that affliction or elite will succeed for good, but for now mma is going to be off the charts for the rest of this year. it will be awesome to see dana continuing to try and top these guys every time. whats going on right now is only a huge plus for mma and its fans!