Scott's Blog of Doom

There were some REALLY close votes in this round, as you’d expect by this point, but you probably wouldn’t expect which matches were so close.

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I’ve been laid up this weekend with either mild pneumonia or H1N1 (medical science seems to be unsure at this point) so I figured that since I was on the couch all day anyway, I might as well brave the entire uncut Sengoku show from HDNet.  And it was really good!  Randleman looks damn good for a 38 year old (not, like, Randy Couture good, but good) and there was some entertaining featherweight matches with Japanese guys, and a couple of upsets, but mainly Michael Schiavello was awesome on commentary and totally made the whole thing enjoyable for the whole time.  He was coming up with crazy, off-the-cuff lines (“Those punches have less weight than Kate Moss!”) on a live TV show and it’s tremendous to hear someone who’s obviously such a fan of the sport.  I love Mauro Renallo, but “The Voice” is the guy that Strikeforce needs to lend more cred to their product.  Anyway, I think the edited three-hour version of Sengoku is repeating on HDNet Fights, and it’s well worth checking out, questionable judging aside. 

Also tonight, Strikeforce on CBS, and that went about as well as the network could have hoped for, I think.  All the fights went pretty much the time they needed to go, all the fights were mostly good (aside from the Shields-Miller match, which started hot and then dragged once both guys realized that it was a 5 round fight), and Fedor now looks like a guy who can carry a PPV.  Seriously, what a great fight, and did you SEE that punch?  This was no Kimbo situation where the great hype was exposed as nothing, he backed that shit up, man.  With a BROKEN NOSE, no less. 

So to sum up, coughing + fever + chills = bad, MMA = good.