Bobby Lashley - Image: Zuma Press

Bob Sapp came into this fight at a relatively svelte 322 pounds – a big drop from his typical 375 pounds. Here I was hoping that this meant he was finally starting to take his training seriously but the story he told before the fight revolved around the embarrassment of sitting on a toilet and breaking it rather than any desire to seriously compete in mixed martial arts.

As for Bobby Lashley, Sapp is a nice recognizable name on his record … much better than the second biggest name, Jason Guida. Guida is the older brother of UFC fighter Clay Guida and is best known for his appearance on the Ultimate Fighter where he cramped up trying to cut weight and exposed his junk to the world while rolling around the floor in agony.

Speaking of TUF, earlier this year Lashley was considering breaking into the UFC via TUF but his management has decided to take it slow and let Lashley develop – a good idea in my opinion considering Lashley is still looking pretty one dimensional at the moment. I don’t expect him to be finishing guys with flying elbows off the top rope or anything, but thus far we haven’t seen much from the young prospect past some okay wrestling and not so okay ground and pound. Still, with his record standing at 4-0, he’s gotten off to a good start.

In other Ultimate Chaos results, Gilbert Yvel knocked Pedro Rizzo out in brutal fashion 2:10 into the first round, Chris Horodecki defeated William Sriyapai via rear naked choke at 4:02 of round 1, and Affliction promoter Tom “T-Shirt Guy” Atencio came back from some serious blows in the first round of his fight against Randy Hedderick to win in the second. Well, in between the second and third … Atencio beat on Hedderick in the second that the fighter refused to answer the third round bell. Din Thomas was also originally supposed to fight on the card, but missed weight by half a pound and before he realized it wasn’t okay had already started to rehydrate himself. Oops.

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Bobby Lashley Takes Out Bob Sapp

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Guida came close to winning in the third with a guillotine, but Lashley held out. Guida took the fight after Lashley’s original opponent, Ken Shamrock was suspended after failing his drug test after his last fight.

Jason Guida, brother of Clay Guida of UFC fame took the opportunity with less than a weeks notice. Guida also talked an enormous amount of trash before the fight and Lashley admitted that he let it get to him and threw off his game. Lashley now has a professional record of 2-0 and is just at the beginning of his career and I believe he could go far. As for Jason Guida, his record now stands at 17-20. After seeing Guida get disqualified from the last season of The Ultimate Fighter and seeing his record, it kind of makes you wonder how seriously he takes his training. You can view a video of the fight at Megavideo.com.

Image: Newscom.com

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Bobby Lashley Wins At March Badness, Video

• Forrest Griffin Is the poster child for THQ’s upcoming UFC Undisputed game. You can check out pictures of that at THQ.com.
• Jason Guida has been named as Ken Shamrock’s replacement at March Badness on March 21st. Ken Shamrock was scheduled to fight Bobby Lashley but was recently suspended for popping positive for 3 banned substances by the California State Athletics Commission after his last fight.
• MMA Junkie reports that David Kirby, the other driver involved in the crash that took the life of Tapout founder Charles “Mask Lewis, will indeed be charged with Felony Vehicular Manslaughter as well as his third conviction of DUI added to his laundry list of traffic offenses from over the years. Kirby is still being held on 2 million dollars bail.

Image: Newscom (Caption: A memorial has been setup by friends and well wishers at the scene of Charles ”Mask” Lewis’, founder of TapouT clothing, crash on Jamboree Road, near Eastbluff Drive in Newport Beach, Thursday morning, March 12, 2009.Photo: KEN STEINHARDT, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER )

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