A quick look at the card will give you all you need with this DVD. Boasting big names such as Matt Hughes, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva and Georges St. Pierre, this card had a lot to offer. Don’t be fooled. It was a mixed bag of MMA action.

The preliminary card was average. If you’re looking to buy this DVD for these fights, then don’t bother. With the exception of Mark Bocek, Dean Lister and Manvel Gamburyan, it left a lot to be desired and I couldn’t help but feel that this PPV was going to be a let down.

When the highlights for the first forty five minutes of this DVD are the Octagon girls, you know you have a problem. It began to irritate me. Mike Goldberg’s continous reference to the lovely girls was almost overshadowing the “six years in the making” fight between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlai Silva. Please Mike, save us the headaches.

Spike TV sent along the following:

New York, NY, May 12, 2008 -- The coaches for season eight of Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter,” the most successful original series in network history, will feature two of the UFC’s all-time top heavyweights. Interim UFC heavyweight champion, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, will star in the new season featuring light heavyweights (205 lbs) and lightweights (155 lbs) premiering Wednesday, September 17 at 10:00pm ET/PT. Nogueira and Mir will square off in the Octagon™ for a to-be-announced UFC pay per view event. UFC President Dana White will once again serve as the show’s host.

Jason Day will step in to replace Chris Leben in a proposed bout with Michael Bisping on June 7 at UFC 85 in London.

The end of the journey for “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy,” Tito Ortiz, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship seems to be drawing near. The former light heavyweight champion has all but packed his bags to leave the company after his May 24 fight against Lyoto Machida.

“I really think it’s time for me to move on,” said Ortiz during an appearance on MMAWeekly Radio. “I’d love to finish my career with the UFC, but the way they treat me, it’s just… it’s really, really bad. It really hurts me. It’s really disrespectful towards me. I’ve given them 11 years of my life, blood, sweat and tears in that Octagon, putting my heart on the line, putting my life on the line, and they give me no respect for it because I’m outspoken.” 

The outspoken nature of which Ortiz speaks is his tendency to try and fight for fighters to receive a higher salary from the various promotions, a battle he has been fighting for many years.

“I believe the fighters should get a fair cut of what they (UFC) make. They’ve made their money back time and time over, now it’s time I think for the fighters to start receiving revenue that they get because of us,” Ortiz stated. “I’ve been a person to be outspoken about that, and no one else has.