Ultimate Fighting Champion 3 - episode 6

This series is building up good, until last weeks episode where I decided to turn my wife on to the show - since it started to turn into a soap opera. If they want to create twists and turns in the show - fine - but give me a fight at the end. Noah crying about his girlfriend doesn't substitute for a fight. There are alot of good fighters left and I can't wait to see them face off - but I hope that the show isn't trying to change itself into more than what it is - a good reality based show with fighting every episode. I'd like to hear what other people think on this one. In the end I can't wait to see the shamrock vs. ortiz rematch.

On a side note I watched my first pride fight last night and I like that alot - the fighting is a little bit different - thicker gloves - but you can stomp, kick, knee... while a person is on the ground - much more realistic fight allowing the fighters to take full advantage of a person being on the ground.

Matt Hughs vs. Joe Riggs

Just finished watching the ufc 56 championship. Best fight of the night was the Matt Hughs vs. Joe Riggs Fight. Joe couldn't make weight so the belt wasn't on the line but they fought anyways and the weight proved not important. When I started watching the ufc fights I started at ufc 44 - mostly because it's hard to find the earlier ones to rent. I'm going to have to find a way of renting them though - because the earlier fighting championships were much more intense and had less rules. The Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Kevin Jordan fight was the least favorite - after about 1 minute of fighting - both fighters were exhaused and literally didn't swing at eachother or make a move for 90% of the fight.

Andrei Arlovski

I just finished watching UFC 53 and 1 fighter more than any other impressed me, Andrei Arlovski. This guy is a bull and the accuracy of his fists are astounding. He's one of the main reasons I enjoy the UFC so much - fighters like him are fun to watch and the fights usually end pretty fast. Best fight of the night for me was the Evan Tanner vs. Rich Franklin - both warriors and Tanner just keeps going and going - he's not young, but he's a tough sob. The acrobatic fight of the night was Karo Parisyan and Matt Serra - both really good grapplers and very entertaining to watch them move in and out of submission attempts, sweeps and reversals. I'm going to try to rent some pride fights from netflix and see a little more graphic fighting.