In this promotional clip for Ultimate Fighting Championship’s broadcast television debut on Saturday, November 12, teen pop singer turned inspirational Christian actress turned alt-country wife turned Disney princess Mandy Moore offers her opinion on who she thinks will win the heavyweight title bout between Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos. At no point was Willa Ford interviewed about Bellator 57. Hold on, I can get more obscure than that. At no point was Samantha Mumba interviewed about EliteXC. What does Skye Sweetnam think of the fight going on in my parking lot?

Anyway, Mandy’s right about what’s going to happen in the fight, but she’s got this thing where she’s incapable of expressing sincere emotion and just furrows her brow and points up her eyebrows to make it look like she means what she’s saying. She’s making UFC predictions with the same face she uses to tell her badboy teenage boyfriend she’s about to die (in the next five minutes) from a fatal disease. I guess that’s how she ended up dating Zach Braff for as long as she did.

Dana White should convince her to throw on a cocktail dress and pop-and-lock her way through the UFC On Fox theme, Faith Hill style.

[via UFC on Facebook]

Gina Carano is the face of women’s mixed martial arts, and a very pretty one at that.  Her fellow female MMA fighter (and one-time opponent) Tonya Evinger, pictured here with Miss Carano, enjoys a good lesbian party and once said of Carano, “I’d like to make out with Gina, but I am here to knock her out. Either way she wants it, though, is fine with me.”

Those are all facts.  I refuse to speculate about anything, because let’s face it: the whole obsession with catfighting and lesbianism is immature, and I’m better than that.* (*not really)

Oh, one more fact, from Wikipedia: Carano defeated Evinger with a rear naked choke, her first career submission.  Must… not… make… innuendo!

[Photos from Cage Potato, video of the Carano-Evinger fight after the jump]

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Mixed martial arts promotional brand EliteXC and its parent company ProElite have folded, according to an SI.com report.  EliteXC, which produced the first-ever MMA fights on network TV, reportedly lost $60 million in its 22 months of existence, which isn’t much of a resumé builder unless you’re looking for work in the Bush Administration.

This news, of course, comes just two weeks after Kimbo Slice’s embarrassingly disastrous loss to no-name fill-in Seth Petruzelli.  Though the company’s failure is unrelated to what ultimately became EliteXC’s final fight, it’s hard not to see a symbolic connection between the way EliteXC pushed the overrated Slice to stardom instead of focusing on creating entertaining fights between talented fighters.

Of course, this also means that women’s MMA star Gina Carano is now out of a job.  (Unless you count American Gladiators as a job.  And I don’t.)  Just this once, I’m going to say that I hope she finds a deal in a better fighting league, instead of, say, posing naked for money.  I’m trying to do this thing where I’m less pig-headed.  Also, I’m trying to impress Gina.  Do whatever you want, girlfriend!  Sky’s the limit!  Call me!

Saturday night’s EliteXC card wasn’t particularly awful to watch, but it was disastrous for CBS.  Kimbo Slice, the brawling man-beast who was supposed to rise to dominance in MMA, was exposed in the worst way possible: after aging tomato can Ken Shamrock was a late scratch, EliteXC tossed in much younger tomato can Seth Petruzelli, a third-rate karate specialist who couldn’t hack it on “The Ultimate Fighter.”  Fourteen seconds into the match, whatever thread of credibility EliteXC had was gone forever.

To make things more fun, Deadspin picked up some super-gay photos of Petruzelli over the weekend, but it’s more goofball-playing-around-gay, not homosexual-gay, as he’s actually married.  Yes, to a woman.

In other EliteXC news, former UFC heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski beat a really fat guy, Jake Shields retained his welterweight belt, and Gina Carano is really, really pretty.  I know she wants to be taken seriously as a fighter (she won, by the way), but she’s just so damn good-looking.  She won a unanimous decision after three rounds, and she looked ready to go to brunch.  It’s startling, really.  Women that muscular are usually only attractive to Alex Rodriguez.