Final MMA post of 2008

This is my final MMA post of the year. There is still one big event on the 27th that I hope to watch, but I may not get to comment on it. This week there were two big free events on Spike, the fight for the troops and the Ultimate Fighter Season Finale. Both were really good and the fight for the troops was really special because it was generating money for a new facility to help troops who had suffered brain injuries or post traumatic stress disorder. It seemed like a really good cause and you can also buy a UFC shirt with all of the proceeds going to the troops. Kudos to UFC for this effort, the execution of it and the fights that they had on the show. Josh Koschek had one of the better KO's I've seen and Steve Cantwell actually broke a guy's arm. So it definitely didn't lack for action.

As far as the finale, it wasn't quite as good, but it was still entertaining. As always the UFC does a good job of filling the time and they had all the fighters on that I wanted to see. I thought that the polish experiment wasn't going to be on, but after the light heavy weight contract fight his fight was on. He won and Junie Browning won, which was good because he got a chance to apologize to Mir, so it probably won't be the last we see him in the UFC. Efrain ended up winning the light weight contract and Bader the wrestler from ASU ended up winning the Lt. Heavy weight contract. The way that Bader won looked really funny as he threw a punch that kind of glanced off of the other guy's hands, but ended up dropping him, then he was able to just kind of jump on him and TKO him. Efrain Escudaro won via decision over Nover who some were comparing to Rush St. Pierre. He has a lot to work on from the wrestling stand point if he wants to be anywhere near St. Pierre.

The last event of the year I expect Forrest to defend his belt against Evans, Mir to upset, and Rampage to avenge early defeats to Silva. Will see how I did next year. Have a happy new year.