http://www.yardbarker.com/content/player/58658 Recent articles about Evan Tanner en-us Running thoughts and results from an important night of matches at the UFC's Ultimate Fighter finale Saturday night from the Palms in Las Vegas. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:49:27 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280819 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280819 GOING HARD FOR THE YARD: Andrew (aka Mr. Machine aka Mr. Mortgage aka Shadow Machado) recaps Saturday night's UFC Fight Night, which included the finale of The Ultimate Fighter: Season 7. Andrew also talks briefly about July 5's UFC PPV event, which features Rampage Jackson and Forest Griffin. Clearly he supports Rampage, which is why he sports the chain. He asked me to let you know that you shouldn't pay $30 for a cheap-plastic Rampage chain when you can build your own for $4 at the hardware store. Going hard. Darkness. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:45:47 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280748 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/280748 The main event this Saturday in the Ultimate Fighter Finale features former Ultimate Fighter Winner Kendall Grove vs former UFC middleweight champ Evan Tanner. Kendall Grove was undefeated in the UFC until he got violated by Patrick Cote in UFC 74. Grove looked to bounce back against Jorge Rivera in UFC 80 and this time the difference was he was TKO'd rather than being KO'd. Now he faces the possibility of being the second Ultimate Fighter winner to be given his marching papers from the UFC. Tanner is a much more ridiculous story. He won the UFC middleweight title at UFC 51 only to then lose it to Rich Franklin at UFC 53 where he was annihalated. And from their it got wierd for Tanner. The story is he drank and blew away all his winnings and that was culminated with him drunkenly sinking his 1939 boat. Now he comes back to the UFC without any sponsors to try to get himself back on track. Whoever wins the fight stays in the UFC the loser is gone. My bet if Tanner can avoid the doctors stopping another one of his fight (he has lost several due to getting bad cuts) I think he stops Grove. Thus opening the door for Grove and Travis Lutter to tag team Khalib Starnes and Kimbo Slice at the next Elite XC. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:36:11 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/278897 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/278897 I'll be having fictitious matchups between Anderson Silva and myself in no time...hopefully they have a referee figure so he can get Anderson Silva off me after I'm unconscious. So why are my action figures outdated? Dana White recently announced that UFC action figures are coming next fall. I just spent $50 getting the only 4 US Action Figures for MMA I know of. Pictured below is a shot of the Tito Ortiz and the Randy Couture ones..... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:13:04 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/277679 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/277679 Rich Franklin is considering moving up in weight class from middleweight to light-heavyweight. Franklin, the former middleweight champion, is clearly the second best fighter in the division, but in two fights against Anderson Silva he shows no signs of even coming close to defeating The Spider. Thu, 01 May 2008 14:21:30 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/262354 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/262354