Really Big Deal MMA Fightcast

Our own countdown to UFC 104, we talk only UFC and keep it on point.  Steve and Tony go on location in Columbus Ohio, where it all began.  Chip joins us from the frozen north. Fight picks and in depth analysis abound, TAKE A LISTEN!
Lyoto Machida (15-0)* vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (18-3)
Cain Velasquez (6-0) vs. Ben Rothwell (30-6)
Josh Neer (25-8-1) vs. Gleison Tibau (17-7)
Joe Stevenson (30-10) vs. Spencer Fisher (23-4)
Anthony Johnson (7-2) vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida (11-3)

We talk Fedor, Fedor, Fedor, Fedor... Fedor?
What is Strikeforces next move?
Possible outcomes for Tito Ortiz
What type of fish does not need to be scaled?
UFC 101 picks, Silva, Griffin, Penn

More UCE related comment drama
UFC 100 worst case scenarios and fight picks
Tons of Diaz brothers news
Weed vs. cocaine in the UFC
Don Frye going "real" Hollywood in Public Enemies
lookoutawhales latest treat "Bispings Island"
Delayed excitement over TUF 10
Chip calls out a greasy pirate hamburgler

We wrap about the latest news in fight science
The Dana White Cro Cop controversy and what UFC 99 was
Take a trip down podcast memory lane
We talk Showtime and Fight Night picks for this weekend

Chip and Tony fly the good ship solo
We talk Mike Stidham's UCE on MAV tv
News including all the fatties on TUF, Cyborgs, Strikeforce, WEC
Is the Hammer House on life support?
Our in depth and short on phone card time UFC 99 Picks

Chip refers to Mark Coleman as "the old man from Up"
Tony refers to Steve as a sleeper
Steve refers to bad cell service
Is this the return of Hammer House?
Who needs to hang it up?
Why is Phil Baroni so lovable?

We are deep in the slow news cycle, weeks from great MMA content
Chip says Dana White is a bigger dick than anyone expects
Will Liddell fight again?  Coleman?  Randleman?
Why UFC Undisputed is going to keep everyone busy for a while
Too much for me to remember for this description...
Season 6 begin!

Special episode dedicated to the MMA Blogosphere
We expound on VaselineGate and the state of the MMA union
UFN 17 Lauzon, Stephens, Velasquez, Neer, Danzig, Fiorivanti
Transparency, rules, sports scandal and "the blog effect"
Fightlinker, Cagepotato, FiveOuncesofPain, HDNet Fights
Shamrock vs. Diaz and more UFC cuts
Top 10 least seen fight ending moves
MMARated, uggs and wow accounts?

We talk UFC 93, Henderson, Franklin, Tony illustrates why we need a Coleman Shogun rematch
Affliction Day of Reckoning, Fedor, Arlovski, Buentello, Yvel, the state of the heavyweights
Really Original Guys! Sherdog Edition
A suprise Top 10 list
Our fight picks for UFC 94 and the great GSP Penn debate
All that and more as Steve is dropped from the call more times than all the opponents of Anderson Silva combined!

Steve and Tony go solo for the first half
We talk about what was UFC 92
What now for Silva, Forrest, Nog, Sakuraba, Lister?
Chip joins us for picks and a power outage Canada update
Picks for UFC 93 and one for Affliction 2
Mini preview of Penn St. Pierre

Our winter fight pickstravaganza
Top 10 Best Possible Fights at UFC 100
2% of people die watching Lebanner highlights on Youtube
100% get a nose bleed after just 2 minutes
Steve and Chips hidden hate for Tony is finally exposed!

Our Worst Case scenarios for the next three months of mma
Mir, Fedor, Nogueria, Randy, Barnett, Rampage, Silva, Evans, Griffen, Penn, St. Pierre, etc.
Props to Matt Miller, our one and only positive poster in more than a year
Dana White's unmatched professionalism and even keel
The worst card ever in the UFC
Hawaii greedily screws its peoples out out of mma events
Terrible audio, terrible inside jokes, and prolonged sequences of incomprehensibleness

Couture v Lesnar and UFC 91
The corn-fed mutants effect on the sport
Steve being a comedy soundboard and possibly imaginary
Dana White video blogging his fat face
Phil Baroni's inability to get out of a turtleneck
Pete Sell looking like Toad from Super Mario Bros
Lil'Bill O'Reilly politics & Obama's C-C-C-Combobreaker!

Chip is MIA so Steve and Tony talk about the CNBC documentary ultimate fighting: from blood sport to big time, will mma ever overcome the baggage (human cockfighting in 1995 by john mccain) of the early ufc? "it wasnt nowhere near what it is today..." -punkass from Tapout, is it a real sports fanchise? oh you want full recognition and real sponsors? Get rid of elbows! griffen v jackson, melendez v josh thompson, amir sodallah v cb dolloway and the rebirth of the front kick. Counter-programming! Ufc puts Silva v Irvin up against Affliction, Ufc will play ufc 84 during the next elitexc show. Nobody loses!  We have DVR's you morons!

We talk all about our personal issues, punchdrunkgamer.com, Takanori Gomi and Chris Horodecki, Strikeforce, Ishida v. Uno, the TUF finale, Silva moving to 205 to fight Irvin, the top 10 fighters we want to see left on a deserted island in honor of the late great George Carlin. 

1:00 - Thanks to the readers and listeners for all the comments!
3:00 - "Balls Deep" Thomas Morton follows Matt Ruskin - Right now is the Golden Age of MMA?
9:40 - Steve hearts vbs.tv
11:0 - supercrap on Martial Farts (mmabjj.wordpress.com) found the Fighters-Only Fan Voted MMA Awards
16:2 - Cagepotato v. Fightlinker nomination for media of the year
20:0 - UFC 84 BJ Penn Master of Trash Talk
22:3 - Does anyone feel bad for Shawn Sherk?
27:2 - UFC 84 Prelim Picks
28:2 - Steve puts the community on speakerphone
32:5 - Tony and Chip are racists
44:1 - Chip does not believe in UFC matchmaking
44:5 - UFC 84 Main Card Picks
72:4 - Double Top 5 - Best Things for Tito To Do If He Wins/Loses

News for the first 39 mins followed by the UFC 83 Angry Canadian picks, 74th minute for the Top 10...  Nogueira and Mir coaching TUF 8?, Iron Ring episode 5, Sam Vasquez, Renegades Extreme Fighting, Kimbo v James Thompson, Evan Tanner, Kendall Grove, who will get casual audiences interested in MMA?, UFC 83 Picks, Top 10 Biggest MMA Monkey Wrenches

Strikefore picks, Frank Shamrock vs. Cung Le, Gilbert Melendez, Gabe Lemley, Joey Villasenor, Cyborg Santos, Nick (not Nate) Diaz, Jae Suk Lim, Luke Stewart, Tiki Ghosn, Iron Ring episode 3 was not good, Rashon Khan, the Pride Decade documentary, The New York Times article on undergrounding fighting and the growth of mma, Damon D on BETus fight talk radio, our new segment "really original idea guys", Top 10 Greatest Rivalries in Pride History

Fedor, Randy, M-1, BET's Iron Ring, Busta Rhymes, are tv deals good for mma?, NBC+Strikeforce announcement, deep's Megaton GP, chip defends his 120 lb belt against coleman's daughters, Minowa "the manboob hunter", nightmareofbattle.wordpress.com, Crocop v. sergei kharitonov, Dream.2, World Victory Road Sengoku 2, no Shamrock v. Shamrock, there is a God, Paulo Filho, Jarry Park Lindland interview, whats the deal with Dana and the UFC, Arlovski, top 10 things never said to Keith Jardine

Heath Ledger, Evan Tanner, Dream and the March 15th tourney, Gilbert Melendez, Caol Uno, Kawajiri, Ishida, Eddie Alvares, Calvacante, Aoki, Hansen, Mirko Cro-Cop, Check Kongo, Mark Hunt, top 10 largest heads REDUX, XFL on HDNet, Wes Simms sighting, Cage Rage 25, Ken Shamrock, Buzz Berry, Phil Baroni, Kala Kolohe Hose, Icon Sport, Anderson Silva vs King James + Roy Jones Jr., mma + boxing = epic fail, XFL, Kimbo Slice, Bas Rutten, fake sports, Floyd Mayweather, BET Iron Ring predictions, Zuffa and mma in NY, Elliot Spitzer, Democratic donations, CBS, EliteXC, Showtime, Top 10 Potential Surfaces for Yamma Pit Fighting

a change of pace as steve hosts, we talk about world victory road sengoku, barnett, yoshida, gomi, ludwig, chip has yet another haiku, ufc 82 results, henderson, silva, franklin, okami, arlovski, kongo, crazyhorse, the rancid heavyweight division, dream lightweight tourney, the top 10 senior citizen beatdowns, tank abbott, don frye, shamrock, coleman, ortiz, yamma pit fighting, bob meyrowitz, john mccain, the state of the sport, chips future at 120 lbs, butterbean, big daddy, and much, much more.

more chip haikus, elite xc 4 fight deal on cbs, espn sucks, we dont care about brett farve, bud light now sponsor of ufc, tuf, and wec, ufc 82 picks, out list of the top 10 most entertaining facial hair

Tatsuya Kawajiri, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Andre Amade, Caol Uno, Bu Kyung Jung, Kazuyuki Miyata, Joachim Hansen, Artur Oumakhanov, Gilbert Melendez, Luiz Buscape and Kotetsu Boku, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kiyoshi Tamura, Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto, Denis Kang, and Hayato "Mach" Sakurai, Takanori Gomi, USA vs JAPAN, UFC vs. DREAM, WORLD VICTORY ROAD, M1-GLOBAL, Team Russia vs Team Extreme Couture (Fedor vs Randy), Elite XC Street Certified, Kimbo Slice, Tank Abbott, Ricco Rodriguez, worst Sherdog post ever, top 10 largest heads in mma

ufc 81, fight pick stats, big nog, lesnar, mir, the top 10 pastiest fighters, joachim 'hellboy' hansen, tim 'the maineiac' sylvia, mirko cro-cop, josh barnett, butterbean, kharitonov, aleksander emelianenko, jeremy horn, matt hughes, nick 'the goat' thompson, did nog or randy put a better beating on sylvia? werdum, andrei arlovski, whats next for the heavy-wieght division?

mma update haiku's, armenia, st pierre, hughes, bj penn, upcomming ufc 81, lesnar, mir, sylvia, antonio rodrigo nogueira, griffen, marvin eastman, our favorite fighters, wes simms, takanori gomi, kazushi sakuraba, and a voicemail give-away