2/10/2012: Review of WWE Raw, UFC 143 Results, more

Hello everyone! I hope all of you had a great week this week. NFL season is finally over with Super Bowl XLVI concluding the 2011 NFL Season with a New York Giants victory. Also, I will giving my review of WWE Raw as well as the usual stuff.

NFL
The season finale of the 2011 NFL Season has come to a storybook ending as "The House that Peyton Built" crowned little brother Eli and the team of the New York Giants into a Super Bowl victory. Here are the highlights from the game.

This will be the last time that I will mention the NFL for a while, unless there is something newsworthy going on in the off season.

UFC
UFC 143 is now in the books as Carlos Condit became the Interim Welterweight Champion (albeit came with tons of controversy). Overall, there were 11 fights on the card. 2 were streamed on Facebook, 4 aired on FX, while the remaining 5 aired on PPV. Here are the results:

Facebook

• Stephen Thompson def Dan Stittgen via KO at Round 1
• Rafael Natal def Michael Kuiper via unanimous decision

FX

• Matthew Riddle def Henry Martinez via split decision
• Matt Brown def Chris Cope via TKO at Round 2
• Edwin Figueroa def Alex Caceres via split decision. Caceres was deducted 2 points for repeatedly kicking the groin area
• Dustin Poirier def Max Holloway via submission at Round 1

PPV

• Ed Herman def Clifford Starks via submission at Round 2
• Renan Barão def Scott Jorgensen via unanimous decision
• Josh Koshcheck def Mike Pierce via split decision
• Fabricio Werdrum def Roy Nelson via unanimous decision
• Carlos Condit def Nick Diaz via unanimous decision to become the UFC Interim Welterweight Champion

After the event, Nick Diaz announced that he was quitting the UFC, and planned to retire from MMA saying "I don't need this s%*t". Later in the week, it was announced by the UFC that Nick Diaz was tested positive for marijuana, thus failing a wellness policy violation. The UFC has suspended Diaz for 1 year.

 

WWE

This past Monday on Raw started off with Triple H's thoughts on the Undertaker's return last week. The main event was a 6-pack challenge between the Raw participants of the Elimination Chamber on who will enter last in the chamber. Chris Jericho won the 6-pack challenge, therefore starting last. Before the match, Jericho started a feud with CM Punk over plagiarism and who deserves the moniker "The Best in the World". Here is a promo of Jericho "breaking his silence".

Also, here's a clip after Raw ended of Chris Jericho talking to WWE.com backstage:

Overall, it was an okay show. The one thing that I didn't like was the ending when Kane scaring Eve backstage. Was that really necessary?

Earlier in the week, it was announced that February 21st will be a live SmackDown special via PWTorch.

And speaking of SmackDown, here's a preview of tonight's episode:

Ring Ka King

During the gap between writing these blog posts, and the other time I mentioned Ring Ka King, I saw the other 3 episodes and I gotta say Ring Ka King is showing progress. Yes, it's not perfect but it will get better over time. I liked the fact that Matt Morgan became the inaugural Ring Ka King champion in episode 4, even though he said "dhanyavad" in a funny way to the crowd in Pune.

When more episodes show up on YouTube in the coming weeks, I will give more thoughts.



That's all I have to say for now. Bear with me for the next few posts if I talk a lot about wrestling and mixed martial arts. The reason why is mainly that NFL season is over, and MLB spring training doesn't start until March.

Have a good weekend!

- NYCKNP