MMA judges or legislatures

Observing action in the fight then scoring it based on a set of predefined rules, that should be the MMA judge's job.

Instead, judges in our beloved sport observe the action, make up the rules and then score that action based on those made up rules each fight.

A mixed martial arts Utopia

Imagine if all the bouts in a card were all stand-up wars. Imagine if in almost every card you expect (and get) at least one head kick knockout and probably leg kick knockouts too.
Imagine all the spinning back fists and spinning back kicks, knees, technical striking and/or brawls, imagine people getting knocked out with Axe kicks.
No boring wrestlers or Jiu-Jitsu guys touching each other in inappropriate places and rolling with each other on the floor half naked. No more Lay and Pray.
Imagine if every fighter was like Mirko Cro Cop, if every one fighting Kimbo Slice will stand with him and won't try to take him down. If the referee will separate fighters every time they clinch.

Henderson to Strikeforce: A lose-lose-lose situation

For Henderson:

• Will Strikeforce pay him the money he wants? Mousasi doesn't think so.
• If Fedor doesn't get an immediate title shot, Henderson doesn't get one.
• Big fights (against big names) for Henderson in Strikeforce...,anybody?

For the UFC:

• The UFC invested too much in Dan Henderson (who is probably a future UFC hall of famer) from the Ultimate Fighter to spot at UFC 100 main card.
• Henderson at 39 is probably one or two fights away from being the second "legend" in the "To be a legend, you have to beat a legend" à la Chuck Liddell and Mirko Cro Cop.
• Even if he pulls a "Couture" and keeps winning past those "one or two fightes", then the UFC will lose the #2 or #3 middleweight (and probably top ranked light-heavyweight) in the world. It's bad enough they don't have Fedor #1 heavyweight (and probably #1 pound for pound).

For Strikeforce:

• If Henderson loses will he be willing to climb the ladder again AT Strikeforce!?
• Every win for the unmarketable Henderson at Strikeforce will stop the momentum of a rising, more marketable name (Strikeforce unlike the UFC doesn't have a lot of those).

If Couture thinks UFC 102's performance is not a disappointment, UFC 105's probably will be

(No Staph this time, huh?)

Ever since his fight with Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102, Randy Couture kept saying that the fight proved he can still fight and that he is not done yet. The fight (like every other Couture fight since the Tim Sylvia fight) really proved that Couture is ageless, still improvig (and has sick submission defense) but it also showed (shockingly) that The Natural actually comes up with bad game plans sometimes (not a single takedown attempt, come on).

A lot of the wrestlers in MMA have this thing where they decide to abandon wrestling and start boxing, Which sometimes results in them losing fights they could've easily won. Of course it's nessecary for fighters to be well rounded but come fight time why not take the easiest way to the win and fight where you're best at. Just see the second Georges St-Pierre - Matt Serra fight.

Couture says he is over it (the boxing thing) and he will try to make Brandon Vera wrestle him. I'm not sure he will though so I'm not gonna predict the fight, I'm still upset about the last one.

I'm not gonna leave you without a preditction though, Swick by the way of first round technical knockout. Hardy is not ready yet for Swick.

10 simple sure fire ways to beat the UFC and be the best mma promotion in the world

1. Throw your big name fighters into meaningless catchweight match-ups that no body wants to see and wouldn't do anybody any good.

2. Who said champions should defend their belts at least two, three times a year? I say once is enough.

3. If the champion wants to fight more than once a year, give him non-title fights. Don't worry, they're just as good as title fights.

4. But be firm, if a champion won't defend his belt for more than a year because he is busy or just doesn't feel like it, create an interim belt (but don't be cruel and take away his belt).

5. Once in a while let your champion hold the belt for two years without defending it, while fighting six times in other promotions (I still don't know why the UFC wouldn't do this).