UFC Fight Night 13: Preview Plus We're Never Going to See This Fight!

UFC's Fight Night 13 is upon us tonight (Wednesday, April 2nd 2008). This event features a full stack of fighters from a number of different Ultimate Fighter shows as well as some other UFC guys under contract looking for a brawl. The fights will be aired on the SPIKE network as usual and the whole thing will last about three hours. After that, we will be treated to the next THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER. This fight card really pisses me off. You can see the entire card HERE. It doesn't include a fight I've been waiting for for a LOOOONG time, so like some of the past Ultimate Fighter contestants I'm going to bitch out of doing an entire fight card analysis.

WOW! It seems like an entire world ago when we were finding out what "upper decker" meant and that Big Mac didn't like being in the house and that grown men are always crying about something and... ok I'll stop there. Suffice to say, I like what I saw in the tiny preview of TUF. Especially the part about fighting your way out of the house if you want to wuss out. There's been too much whining and complaining from these guys. I already outlined just a few steps that could improve the show a while ago. I don't think Dana got the call... at least if they get tired of getting drunk and trashing someone's house on the UFC's dime, they can fight their way out to palookaville.
I don't know what to make of this card. The featured bout is Joe Lauzon vs. Kenny Florian. Bringing up almost the absolute rear is Clay Guida vs. Samy Schiavo. Clay was the featured fight in UFC Fight Night 12 with Ray Huerta in a match that you *really* must see again. Oh yeah, we finally get to see Manny Gamburyan and Nate Diaz in the same octagon BUT not in the SAME fight. Also, we probably wont be able to see Manny. Just Nate. I *know* Nate won TUF5, but only because Manny couldn't continue. There has been NO rematch since and here they are together and they still aren't fighting. I've already ranted about this too. UFC83's match with GSPII vs. Serra is a part of that rant about fights we aren't going to see. There are also other good matches like Roman Mitichyan vs. Georgie-boy Sotiropoulos that won't be televised.