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The Nevada State Athletic Commission has fined and suspended the infamous UFC 109 bag of ice, which broke open and spilled its contents in-between rounds during the Melvin Guillard/Ronnys Torres – an act that delayed the resumption of the bout and required swift action by commission officials to clean up the resulting mess.

• Pitting Randy Couture against Mark Coleman was about as awesome as when the IFL had that faded fighter take on that has-been in a superfight.
• It took Matt Serra less time to knock Frank Trigg out than it did Robbie Lawler. Is it time for Serra vs. BJ Penn at 170? It was damn close when they fought at 155.
• Congrats to Chael Sonnen for utterly dominating Nate Marquardt, and a huge congrats to Sonnen for actually proving himself to be a viable contender for the 185-pound title. The dude went from zero to hero in the span of two flawless fights.
• Demian Maia… meh.
• Paulo Thiago is legit. Or Mike Swick has started to suck.
• Mac Danzig was tossed a softball and came ridiculously close to striking out.
• Is it me or was Melvin Guillard the recipient of a gift decision?
• One more loss for Brian Stann and he’s going to lose that GI Joe action figure modeled after him.
• Did Rolles Gracie not know he was supposed to fight in the UFC this past weekend? Was his Octagon debut some sort of prank? Dude, do some cardio.

Officials of the Ultimate Fighting Championship have released the official fight card for UFC 109: Relentless, taking place on February 6th, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

UFC 109 fight card is headlined by an exciting match featuring UFC Hall of Famers Randy “The Natural” Couture (14-7 UFC) and Mark “The Hammer” Coleman (7-4 UFC).  Couture and Coleman were originally scheduled to meet over a decade ago at “UFC 17: Redemption,” however,  an injury forced Couture to withdraw from the event. Coleman moved to Japan shortly after, to compete in the Japanese promotion PRIDE Fighting Championships, where he won the PRIDE 2000 Open Weight Grand Prix tournament defeating Masaaki Satake, Akira Shoji, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Igor Vovchanchyn.

The event will be co headlined by a welterweight rematch between welterweight contender Josh Koscheck and Brazilian fighter Paulo Thiago. Other fights on the UFC 109 card include former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg, and Nate Marquardt vs. Chael Sonnenn.

Tickets for UFC 109 are already available online. For more information, please visit WDIAV Tickets section or click here. UFC 109: Relentless, Saturday, February 6, will be broadcast live on pay-per-view on both Spike and Versus.

UFC 109 Card:

Main Card
Light Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman
Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs.  Paulo Thiago
Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Chael Sonnen
Middleweight bout:  Demian Maia vs. Dan Miller
Welterweight bout: Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg
Preliminary Card
Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Justin Buchholz
Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs.  Ronnys Torres
Lightweight bout: Phillipe Nover vs. Rob Emerson
Heavyweight bout: Tim Hague vs. Chris Tuchscherer
Heavyweight bout: Mostapha Al-turk vs.  Rolles Gracie

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• Maybe there was some sort of grand coincidence where everyone had a mortgage or car payment due, but it seemed like just about the entire main card was going balls-out to secure that “Fight of the Night” bonus. And yes, that’s a good thing.
• Nate “The Get Mauled But Still Beat The Hell Out Of You Rock” Quarry.
• For a first timer, Jake Ellenberger sure didn’t hesitate to pound the crap out of Carlos Condit. He definitely belongs in the Octagon.
• Because of the beating he took and the ability he showed in recovering and coming back to win, Condit never looked better. He, too, belongs in the Octagon.
• As last fights on contracts go, Roger Huerta kinda went out with style. He blasted Gray Maynard more than a few times, avoided the “Human Blanket” and refused to tap when his arm was nearly ripped out of its socket. He’s going to make a great addition to Strikeforce’s roster and will likely end up their champ.
• Melvin Guillard: so much talent and raw ability, so much suck.

UFC Fight Night 19 is nearly upon us, and the show - titled “Nate Diaz vs. Easy Submission Win To Salvage His Career” - will feature TUF 5 winner Diaz against Melvin Guillard, a veritable grappling dummy that loves to throw big punches and do mountains of cocaine. The SpikeTV-broadcast event will serve as a lead-in for the eagerly anticipated TUF 10 debut episode, and if UFC Fight Night 19’s card is of any indication, the network’s executives really don’t give a crap who is fighting on their channel, only that someone is. So… predictions!

• In the Nate Quarry vs. Tim Credeur bout, the two elder statesmen will fight. Or maybe sit around and talk about the good old days while calling the younger fighters on the card whippersnappers. Then they’ll leave to catch the early bird special at the buffet, and go to bed around 7pm.
• Carlos Condit will defeat Jake Ellenberger. Afterwards, he’ll go home, root around in his closet, pull out the WEC championship belt he threw there in shame after his last UFC bout, dust it off, and put it back in its display case on the wall in his living room.
• Gray Maynard is going to dry-hump Roger Huerta so vigorously, Huerta is going to show up at Xtreme Couture in nine months with a baby in his arms and say to Maynard, “Gray, you’re a daddy. Let’s make this work for his sake.”
• It really doesn’t matter who wins between Diaz and Guillard. What does matter is the ungodly amounts of weed and blow that will be found at their afterparty.