Overall this looks like an up-and-comer fight card. Can the vets that are slipping turn it around? Looks like a good show.

Quinton Jackson vs. Matt Hamill

Hopefully a good fight for Quinton to dominate and get ready for another title shot.

Frank Mir vs. Roy Nelson

This one should have the same comments as the main event, but I’m hoping Roy Nelson can pull out a win somehow. Roy has to be the super fan favorite.

Thiago Alves vs. Rick Story

Always great to see Thiago fight. This one has a good chance for fight of the night.

- A leadership Fable –

Author: Patrick Lencioni

Rating: 5/5

Inside Jacket Snippet: ‘… Refreshingly original and utterly compelling, Andrew’s story (written to be read in one sitting) will be enjoyed, remembered, and reread …’

Comments: A quick and informative book worth reading. One of the few times I will search for more books by the same author. I’d like to throw in something that could have been done better, but there really isn’t anything.

- The Role of the COO -

Authors: Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles

Rating: 3 /5

Inside Jacket Snippet: ‘… provides a new understanding of the person who is in the office next door to the corner office. …’

Comments: ‘… The book is informative, but contains too many interviews. Since the interviews are planned to be part of a published book they come across a bit light or overly politically correct. You can pick out some undercurrents of what they could be hinting at, but then they back away to light safe answers. Maybe they needed the big names to have the book published, but possibly anonymous interviews could be more helpful/revealing?…’

This is one of those UFC’s where the main fight should be great enough to carry the rest of the card… but with GSP having blurry vision in round 2… it was only average.

Georges St-Pierre beats Jake Shields

Once GSP had bad vision he almost fuahg t a little like Anserson Silva. Easily good enough to win the fight, but cautious and tentative. Maybe even Jake Shields would prefer a more explosive loss to GSP instead of this drawn out cautious way.

Randy Couture loses to  Lyoto Machida

A great fight, but I was hoping Randy would front-kick knock-out Lyoto instead. Of course Randy should retire, but I’d still cheer for him in a couple more fights.

Jason MacDonald beats  Ryan Jensen

A big win for Jason. A couple more and he’s back on top.

UFC 129 has been promo-hyped up lots and hopefully can pull it off.

Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields

Always great to watch GSP fight. We need a ‘Pride’ style super tournament fight so GSP could fight three guys in a row…  If Jake Shields was only fighting anyone else then I would be cheering for him to win.

Randy Couture vs.  Lyoto Machida

Always great to have a celebrity Couture fight in any line-up. Even if they end up with Randy’s boring ‘press him into the cage’ attack for fifteen minutes and point win by ‘dominance’.

Jason MacDonald vs.  Ryan Jensen

Come on Jason. Win three big fights in a row to get back up in the UFC mix.

- The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do -

Author: Albert-László Barabási

Rating: 4/5

Inside Jacket Snippet: ‘… We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. …’

Comments: This book reads like three good mini-books combined, but maybe a bit light on the main ‘Bursts’ topic detail. The details included about the Crusades and an odd guy’s travelling choices are in-depth and great. I’m glad I read the book, and would recommend it, but possibly more for the historical war stories than the main title topic?