UFC 89 Liveblog!

Thanks to the miracle of the interweb, welcome to my UFC 89 liveblog.  I’m at ringside so will be bringing you plenty of stuff throughout the night.

So it’s 5.30pm, the UFC has kicked off, and the thing that immediately stands out is that fact the sound system has both ear-splitting and bowel loosening capabilities.  If I start bleeding from orifices both top and bottom, I hope one of the friendly media liaisons will assist in the cleaning up of bodily fluids.

Samy Schiavo and Per Eklund are kicking off the night.  There was some worry that Eklund would leave a shit-taste in the Octagon like in his last fight with Stout, but thankfully this isn’t the case.  The first round saw Schiavo tag Eklund, the second Eklund outgrapple the tired Frenchman (Schiavo cut a shitload of weight for this fight, and it shows).  Eklund took it to him in the third and broke him down before slapping on a rear naked choke.  As Rogan noted, this was the first time a fighter ever appeared in the Octagon with a peace tattoo.