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Coming off the total officiating breakdown that occurred around his last fight, Georgia’s 135′er Bryan Goldsby is set to main event Warrior Challenge 5 in York PA against Justin Skiz Scott. The fight is a step up for Scott, as Goldsby had a four fight win streak stopped in incredibly questionable fashion (though I agree with the eventual scoring) in a great fight against Jessie Riggleman. Justin, who’s fought on every Warrior Challenge card, is at the forefront of a tidal wave of talent coming out of Central PA. Goldsby will give the 2-0 pro a fight, and will put Scott at serious jeopardy of losing his first MMA fight, amateur or professional. Also on the card, which was posted tonight at MMA.tv is Adam Dull, who’s put together a four fight win streak, most recently stopping Eric Steppe in :33 via armbar and John Roach who impressed in his debut with a first round TKO at the last Warrior Challenge.

The fifth, and one year anniversary edition, of Central PA Warrior Challenge will go down on Thursday April 15th at the Toyota Arena in York PA. Promoter Mark Jovich tells me this will be his only Thursday night show, but its working out well as it coincides nicely with his one year anniversary. I’ve had to recuse myself from attending the show because I’ll be at work way too early on Friday morning. But if you are a Central PA native (and I know a few of you are), I would definitely encourage you to get your tickets quick. Mark throws a great event, and there are always excellent fights on his card.

“If they think I’m going to go in there and get choked out or lay down and get my armbarred and all that, they got another thing coming to ‘em, you know what I’m saying? Like I said, yeah, you’re right, MMA is not like boxing because boxing is tougher, you know what I’m saying? I look at it like this, if a guy get in there and try to take me to the ground, he might see his head go into orbit. The head is going into orbit, for real. These guys in MMA, they good wrestlers and good grapplers and good kickers, like girls, but, you know, when it comes to throwing them blows, they ain’t got a chance in hell, you know what I’m saying? Then they say I don’t got a chance if I go to the floor. Hey, the only way you gonna know is if you tune in and watch. And that’s what I want you to do. Pay your $54.95, come see James Toney. If you hate me, come see me try to get beat, if you love me, you enjoy the ride, have a good time and eat your popcorn…Randy Couture, he respects my game like I respect his game. He’s the best at what he do in his sport; I’m the best at what I do in my sport. We gonna see who has the better style and everybody know it’s James Toney. If he tries to throw blow for blow with me, he definitely gonna get knocked out. That’s a given, you know what I’m saying? If he tries to take me to the ground, it ain’t going to be easy, you know what I’m saying? He’s still gonna get knocked out. Either way, it’s a lose-lose situation for him.”

—James Toney telling Fight Hype he’ll knock out Randy Couture wherever the fight goes

I’m not gonna lie, I couldn’t care less about James Toney fighting in the UFC (a boxer in their prime like Pacquiao, yes, Toney, no) and damn sure wouldn’t pay $55 just to see him, but if he fights Couture, it will be kind of entertaining to see what happens if Couture manages to put him in his clinch and dump him on the mat. Something tells me if that happens, it won’t be Couture who gets knocked out.

What do you think? Is Couture the right opponent for Toney? Would Toney knock him out?

"I know that I can give GSP hell when the times come. It’s so sweet stepping out into the Octagon on the other side saying, ‘I told you so.’ All these GSP fans that are betting the house on him, when they wake up Sunday morning ... they aren’t going to be too impressed with themselves."

Tough talk from welterweight number one contender Dan Hardy, who gets his chance at the Canadian uber-champ at UFC 111 on March 27 in Newark. "The Outlaw" gets to further burrow himself under the skin of St. Pierre fans when he debuts on "UFC Primetime" this Wednesday, March 10 at 10 p.m. ET on Spike TV. Is the Brit simply making the most of his time in the spotlight? Or is he genuinely confident in his ability to dethrone one of the greatest fighters in the game today?

Leonard Garcia

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March 27, 2010

Willow Knolls Theater, Peoria Illinois, late at night

Sierra Willis: Look Grandma, the theater is full! Aren't you glad that Grandpa sent Kodi and Steven ahead to save seats?

Grandma Dee: Oh my good Lord! We are so close to the screen...

Sierra: Well you always love to see Georges close up.

Grandma Dee: I enjoy seeing his shorts, not feeling like I am sitting between his legs!

Sierra (loudly): Grandma!!!

Grandma Dee: I didn't say anything naughty, Sierra, so cut me some slack. You know how I hate to leave the house.

Grandpa Mel (manipulating the wheelchair into a handicapped space between Kodi and Steven): There, closer than you could ever hope to be to your idol. I'm going to get some popcorn and drinks.

Grandma Dee: Nothing for me, I'd probably choke.

Steven: Just so Georges doesn't.

Kodi: Dad! He will probably choke Hardy out first thing.

Trevor: Look at me! I can "naked choke" just like Georges does!

Voice from the back of the theater: Just shut the f__k up!

Sierra (whispering): Some people are sooo rude!

Grandma: Shush, it's starting.

Loud booming opening music.

Grandma and her crowd holding hands over their ears: Good God!

Grandpa returns with popcorn and drinks to shouts of "Down in front!"

Grandpa (loudly): Can you hear anything?

Grandma Dee: Just you and the people yelling at you to sit down and shut up.

Grandpa: I have my hearing aides in...

Grandma Dee: Great!

Bruce Buffer makes the initial introductions in a booming, deafeningly loud voice and the crowd becomes abuzz with anticipation.

Steve Mazagatti starts the match...

"GSP. . .GSP. . .GSP!" (the crowd is chanting).

Grandma Dee to Grandpa: Give me a drink of your coke, please.

Grandpa: I knew I should have gotten you one.

Grandma Dee: Sh! My mouth is dry...I am so nervous for Georges.

Voice from behind: "Will you folks shut up?!"

On the large screen there is a flurry of striking and the crowd starts jeering...Come on Georges...he's got nothing...Take him down...!

Trevor: Choke him Georges!

Steven: Quiet Trev. Georges knows what he's doing.

Kodi: Wow! Look at that whizzer...oh oh...sweep, sweep!

Sierra: Grandma, those ladies are talking about how tight Georges' shorts are and how much you can see through them!

Grandma Dee (swallowing hard): Mm hm.

All of a sudden a fight breaks out in the back of the theater and popcorn and soda come raining down on those in the front rows.

Grandma Dee: Oh, great! Just what we needed!

The noise from behind raises to a crescendo as people in front of the Willis contingency stand and turn to watch the drama unfolding from the rear.

Grandma Dee (to no one in particular): Damn it! I knew I should have watched at home!

Police enter and begin ushering the crowd out, evacuating those in wheelchairs first—namely, Grandma Dee.

Grandma Dee (protesting loud and long as she is being wheeled "out of harm's way" by a burly policeman): Wait a darn minute! Is it over yet? Who in the hell won? Grandpa? Kodi? Steven? Sierra? Trevor!

Now how am I suppose to get home from here?

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Georges St. Pierre's 48-inch vertical leap is not impressed with BJ Penn's pool jump

George St. Pierre's 48-inch vertical leap is not impressed with BJ Penn's pool jump

Randy Couture has a message for Fedor Emelianenko

MMAPrime.tv spoke with Randy “The Natural” Couture, and Couture talked about Strikeforce heavyweight Fabricio Werdum’s last fight against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva.

He also took moment to put the dig on Fedor Emelianenko. According to Couture, Emelianenko’s status as the best in the heavyweight game should be under scrutiny due to his lack of top level opponents.

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Dan Henderson's debut on Strikeforce may have competition for viewers

Strikeforce is set to present an event on CBS from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville which has three showcase fights where titles are on the line; Jake Shields meets Dan Henderson for the middleweight title, Gegard Mousasi takes on Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal for the light heavyweight title and Gilbert Melendez squares off with Shinya Aoki for the lightweight title.

Dana White, never one to let a chance for some competition pass him by, has countered with Ultimate Fight Night 22 on Spike TV the same night.

Good for the fans, tough on the MMA writers.

While White is yet to confirm matches for the UFC show, UFC matchmakers were hoping to present a Kimbo Slice vs. James Toney fight as the centerpiece of the event but contract talks went nowhere. Vanderbilt University is the likely site for the event.

Strikeforce president Scott Coker threw his own counterpunch when he said CBS and Showtime are now talking about moving the April 17 show to April 24 and going head-to-head the World Extreme Cagefighting pay-per-view show.

“Moving to April 24th will be discussed,” said Coker. “That was the first date CBS wanted the show.”

Coker said this is only the first in a series of dates the rival promotions will clash because both companies are running more dates and there a a limited number of Saturday nights available.

“There will come a day when there will be a free show, with Fedor Emelianenko and or Dan Henderson, going against one of their pay-per-views,” Coker said. “That is going to be interesting.”

Going against a WEC pay-per-view which includes the explosive Jose Aldo Jr. vs. Urijah Faber featherweight title fight and it will be a huge test of the success of a WEC card billed at $44.95. A failure on this first attempt by WEC to establish itself on pay-per-view might be the result of taking on a free television show, and that would be a major disaster for the nascent hopes of junior ZUFFA partner.

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Before heading home from work, take a second and listen to UFC fighter Gerald Harris prank call Pat Barry and "King" Mo Lawal while they were on MMA Scraps radio.

Pat Barry is quite fond of kicks. In fact, when he stopped by our WEC 47 chat last week, Barry said that his favorite submission was to kick people in the head until they submitted. That makes Gerald's line of questioning perfect:

"If you gonna fight somebody, you gotta stand up and punch 'em in the face and fight him like a man ... Ya ever see somebody get kicked in the leg in football? NO."

Thanks to Cage Potato

Forrest Griffin comes off a big win over a whiny Tito Ortiz

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