Tag: Ufc Ultimate Fight Night

The suspension of Randy Orton, which went into effect on 4/12, for a 60 day minimum, has become the most trying personnel issue for WWE management.

Orton, who just turned 26 last week, was the youngest world champion in company history when he beat Chris Benoit at the age of 24 at the 2004 SummerSlam. He has been a discipline problem for some time, but his erratic behavior has really gotten out of control since the start of this year, and is the only reason he’s not champion right now.

There is no singular reason why he was suspended. He has been routinely fined, and has joked about it, for a few years, in many cases as much as $5,000 a pop,. The fines have been largely for his treatment of women both in and out of the company, and for overall rude, abusive language to people who didn’t deserve that treatment, and antisocial behavior.

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There have been many candidates for the best MMA show in recent years, usually big scale productions with the top name fighters clicking equals best show of the year nominations.

The 11/5 Ultimate Fight night special from Las Vegas on Spike TV hardly looked like anything more than a routine show. The main event, Diego Sanchez vs. Nick Diaz, looked good on paper, but the rest of the show, built around the finals of Ultimate Fighter season 2, looked like a show similar to the last Spike special on 10/3, where the fights may have been okay, but nobody really cared much about them when it was over.

Instead, after a good opener with TUF 1 semifinalists Kenny Florian and Muay Thai champion Kit Cope, viewers were treated to the murderer’s row of fights, making this the Canadian Stampede of MMA shows (Canadian Stampede was a 1997 WWE PPV show from Calgary that was only four matches and didn’t look like anything but a “B” show on paper and turned out to be one of the best PPV’s in WWF history).

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