Saturday night the UFC put on one of their weakest cards in a long time, but the main event was definitely no disappointment at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

It has been over three years since Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin met in the octagon. The much discussed bout at UFC 59 ended with Tito getting a marginal split decision over Forrest, and fans have been wanting a rematch ever since.

The rematch was worth the wait for Forrest, as he got a hard fought split decision victory over Tito. It was an all out war in the octagon, and it looked like Forrest was in trouble a few times, as Tito applied his world grade ground and pound. Vicious elbows rained down as Forrest tried to neutralize and sweep his opponent. Forrest managed to get up everytime Tito took him down, and as the fight progressed, Titos conditioning became a major factor. In the stand up department, Forrest was superior and picked apart a visibly gassed Tito.

After the fight Tito proclaimed that he came into the fight with a bulging disc and a cracked skull. If this is true, I commend Tito for his heart, but couldn't he have waited a little before making such excuses? Especially since he has been talking up how healthy his body is now and that we were going to see a different Tito. I guess there might be some truth to his statements, as Tito entered the octagon with a massive black eye. In the end it was clearly his conditioning that failed him.

Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson met in a fight that was riddled with fouls and controversy. First Johnson struck Koscheck with a knee to the head while he was on the ground (replays show that the knee was in fact blocked), then Koscheck answered back by poking Johnson in the eye twice. Koscheck ended up securing a rear naked choke for the victory 4:47 into the second round.

"Lil Nog" or Antonio Rogerio Nogueira had his UFC debut on Saturday, and got a very impressive TKO victory over Luiz Arthur Cane. Nogueiras striking was very crisp and Cane never really did any damage. The TKO stoppage came at 1:56 into the first round.

Also on the card we saw Amir Sadollah steamroll the "New York Bad Ass" Phil Baroni. After surviving Baronis opening onslaught, Sadollah picked his opponent apart with excellent striking. Sadollah obviously had the conditioning edge over Baroni, and the unanimous decision would have been a TKO had the fight gone on for much longer.

Paulo Thiago also won a unanimous decision over Jacob Volkmann, who tasted his first defeat ever and came off a 9 fight winning streak.

UFC 107 is shaping up very nicely and I will do a post about that upcoming event soon.