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The Monday Crunch
Published 7/7/2008 by Bobby Deren at MMA Crunch
UFC 86 is now in the history books and it is onward to the future in the sport of mixed martial arts. However, Saturday night’s event is still grabbing headlines in the wake of one of the biggest upsets of the year. It’s time to get crunching with all those stories and more. Watch the final two rounds of Forrest Griffin’s stunning upset victory over Quinton Jackson as he claims the UFC light heavyweight championship. Yahoo Sports writer Dave Meltzer writes about the UFC’s success but how the organization is still experiencing some growing pains. UFC.com’s Thomas Gerbasi examines the top five ...

The specifics of how Griffin/Bonnar saved TUF and the UFC
Published 7/7/2008 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap
The specifics of how Griffin/Bonnar saved TUF and the UFC July 7, 2008 – 1:10 pm by fightlinker [image] With Forrest Griffin being hilariously labeled the first ‘real’ TUF champ (oh, the indignity of being Matt Serra), there was a lot of TUF talk at Saturday night’s post-event press conference. We’ve all heard Dana White talk up Griffin/Bonnar as the most important moment in UFC history, but this time he gives a little more of the back story behind how it changed the fate of the company: “Going into that finale, we didn’t have a deal,” said White in a sobering moment of candor. “Spike TV was in turmoil. The president of the company had just been fired. I was ...