Quick UFN Re-cap

Here's my quick take on the televised fights.

Nate Diaz has sick jiu-jitsu skills and will be a force in the lightweight division. He's not on the level of BJ Penn yet but he's so young and extremely talented that he will contend in the future.

Patrick Cote has some heavy hands and his career is completely turned around since his loss to Travis Lutter. The middleweight division has Anderson Silva, and then everyone else. Patrick Cote just rose to the top of the 'everyone else' rank and could be in contention for a shot within the next two years.

Kurt Pellegrino avenged his loss to Joe Stevenson with heavy hands as he knocked out Alberto Crane. Pellegrino got blasted with a head kick in the opening seconds but got his bearings back and began a great show of stand up and ground and pound. Crane is a submission specialist and didn't come close to catching 'Batman' at all. Even with the initial leg kick to the head, Pellegrino wasn't in any trouble during the fight. He's probably just a peg down from the elite level.

You couldn't learn anything from the Swick-Burkman fight. Neither fighter looked comfortable as the fight was lots of leaning against the cage. Both fighters were timid and fighting extremely cautious. It seemed as the fighters were feeling out each other the entire fight.
That being said, it looks like Burkman got hosed in this fight. He was the busier fighter and was pressing the action against the cage. Swick didn't look good at all in his first fight at 170. He never let his hands go and appeared weaker than Burkman.

This gives Burkman a two fight losing streak with his loss to Karo Parysian, and now Swick. It doesn't tarnish his credibility at all though, considering the level of fighters he lost to. Both fighters will be back and be better. Swick should come back and be stronger at 170 if he can figure out the proper weight cutting issues.

Overall a decent televised fight card but it would have been nice to see some of the TUF alums be televised.