UFC 82....

[Coach]

Is Saturday night... AND I'll be there. I hope Henderson beats Silva!

[Coach]

fight card


MAIN CARD

Anderson Silva vs. Dan Henderson (for middleweight title)
Heath Herring vs. Cheick Kongo
Yushin Okami vs. Evan Tanner
Jon Fitch vs. Chris Wilson
David Bielkheden vs. Diego Sanchez

PRELIMINARY CARD

Andrei Arlovski vs. Jake O’Brien
Luke Cummo vs. Luigi Fioravanti
Dustin Hazelett vs. Josh Koscheck
Jorge Gurgel vs. John Halverson
Chris Leben vs. Alessio Sakara

[count2infinity]

let me know how it was coach... i'd like to go see one one of these days

[The Ancient Enemy]

Okay, here's what I don't get. So you have fights to unify the UFC and Pride belts, right? Can you challenge a guy for ONE belt? What was the purpose of unifying them?

[Coach]

UFC bought out PRIDE. Henderson was their champ at that weight when the organization went away. Now that belt is in the dumpster.

The fights were pretty fun. I recommend paying the extra to sit close... I heard the floor stinks too though because you can't see what is going on inside the ring. Lower level seats in the middle are what you should try to get. The atmosphere was pretty neat, but it wasn't as wild as I expected (at least where I was). At times, I felt like I was at a Pirates game in terms of how the crowd was.

Prices were UNREAL.

Soda- $4
A beer- $8 for draft, $9 for 24 oz can
A hot dog- $4
Nachos- $7
Movie Theater candy- $3
Popcorn- $4

They also had shots and other mixed drinks for like $10. I think this led to a guy in my section throwing up then falling down a few rows. So dumb...he paid all that money to go and had no clue where he was.

[The Ancient Enemy]

Does Pride still exist?

[Coach]

nope...

[D-nice]

The UFC bought pride, but I was unaware that pride would be dismantled.

[Coach]

now...there is a new one starting in Japan called Dream that is going to have good fighters. If you guys are interested there is a great forum at http://www.mmaweekly.com

I'm there a few days a week reading.