Overall UFC 132 was a good show.

Dominick Cruz beats  Urijah Faber

The main event fight was decent, but I’m still not really a fan favorite of anyone specific in this weight class. Maybe after a few more fights.

Wanderlei Silva knocked out by  Chris Leben

For sure the real main event fight of the night. Both guys are great. They could have this match-up on every UFC fight card.

Tito Ortiz beats  Ryan Bader

Finally a great fight for Tito since his return from injuries. I’m hoping he can win a few more in a row. A small thing would be that not many new fighters do a winning dance routine after the fight, maybe he should drop it.

Overall UFC 32 looks good. I am hoping the main event turns out great so I have  a whole new weight class to follow.

Dominick Cruz (c) vs.  Urijah Faber

It’s the main even so I’ll watch, but still pretty in-different to the Bantamweight class for now.

Wanderlei Silva vs.  Chris Leben

Probably the real main event entertaining fight of the night. Both guys are great. Really looking forward to this one.

Tito Ortiz vs.  Ryan Bader

This fight could be great one. Tito needs a win, but Ryan Bader is awesome. Bader’s on loss to Jon Jone’s shouldn’t really count against him in any way.

- Powerful lessons from leaders who endured setbacks and recaptured success on their terms -

Authors: Andrea Redmond, Patricia Crisafullu

Rating: 5/5

Inside Jacket Snippet: ‘… ten business leaders who have endured career setbacks … then reassessed and moved ahead with new purpose. …’

Comments: This book is a nice change from quite a few of the business books I have been reading lately, they were all positives about everything. The interviews in this book are great reads, and even if the events were extremely rough going for the actual person involved, I am glad they shared their adventures and this book was made. Definitely a business book worth reading.

An average looking fight card… kind of turned out average.

Heavyweight bout:  Junior dos Santos beats  Shane Carwin

The main event might have been better if it was stopped in the first round. Shane Carwin used the Brock Lesnar ‘turtle defense’ to survive the first round and tire out the arms on Junior dos Santos… strange. Maybe the UFC should have a rule update that if one fighter ‘turtles’ and the attacker punches him twenty times super-fast right in the head… the fight is called. Even though that technique helped Brock keep his title for a fight against Shane Carwin.

Looking forward to UFC 132, more for the two fights ahead of the actual main event.

The last UFC 130 show was good enough, that even though UFC 131 basically looks average, I am still looking forward to it. Maybe there is less celebrity hype and more solid good fights.

Heavyweight bout:  Junior dos Santos vs.  Shane Carwin

The main even looks great. I am only slightly more cheering for Shane Carwin to get a decisive win and another title shot.

For the rest of the fights I don’t have any fan favorites… I might have cheered for Florian before, but not lately. The whole show is being carried by the one heavyweight main event.

Overall UFC 130 was pretty good. Somehow during the show I thought the Frank Mir fight was the main event… and then was so happy to find out Rampage was still up next.

Quinton Jackson beats Matt Hamill

Quinton did great. Matt Hamill must have been dreaming to think he was at the top fighter level in the UFC.

Frank Mir beats Roy Nelson

Poor Roy. It was a good fight for Frank and I might even cheer for him in his next fight.

Thiago Alves loses to Rick Story

I think this was the upset fight of the night. Some sort of wake-up call for Thiago. Rick looked great.