My Take Radio

The great month of MMA con­tin­ues with  Ulti­mate Fight Night 21 as well as the pre­miere of The Ulti­mate Fighter 11: Lid­dell v Ortiz. Takanori Gomi aka The Fire­ball Kid was the last Light­weight Cham­pion for Pride and makes his Octo­gon debut against the always excit­ing Kenny Flo­rian. I have always been a Gomi fan from his Pride days, sim­ply because he’s had excit­ing fights. Here are my picks for the main card:

Main Card

• Light­weight bout: Kenny Flo­rian vs Takanori Gomi — I never take Flo­rian lightly, and even though I like Gomi his weight cut looked tough and I don’t know how he will adjust to the cage. Ken Flo wins
• Heavy­weight bout: Roy Nel­son vs Ste­fan Struve — Struve wants to stand with Nel­son and I am sure Roy will gladly do so. I see Roy tak­ing it to the ground and smoth­er­ing him. Big Coun­try is tak­ing this one.
• Mid­dleweight bout: Nate Quarry vs. Jorge Rivera — I like both fight­ers and Quarry seems ready to go to war. I am gonna go with Rivera though because I am see­ing an upset. Rivera Wins.
• Light­weight bout: Ross Pear­son vs. Den­nis Siver– Ross Pear­son made a fan with his last UFC per­for­mance and I think he’s going to con­tinue run­ning through light­weights. Pear­son Wins.

March is a great month for UFC fans, with a ton of great events lead­ing the way towards this year’s install­ment of The Ulti­mate Fighter. With the UFC on Ver­sus on March 21st,  fol­lowed by UFC 111 - St. Pierre vs. Hardy on March 27th, and of course, Ultimate Fight Night 21 on March 31 ‚the UFC has all the bases cov­ered in terms of pro­mo­tion and great events lead­ing towards TUF’s Sea­son 11 pre­miere — also on March 31st.

This sea­son, a new for­mat will debut that plans to freshen up and rein­vig­o­rate the TUF pro­gram. With coaches Tito Ortiz & Chuck Lid­dell, you can expect great coach­ing, great fights and bad blood between these two that will make this another must-see season.

It’s a  great time to be a UFC fan. Here are this season’s competitors:

The Ulti­mate Fighter pre­mieres on SpikeTV on Wednes­day, March 31st — check your local list­ings for showtimes.