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I’m going to be rolling out some new features to MMAHQ.com in the next few months to try and one of the first will be the “Comment of the Week Award.” I know its the middle of the week now, but I’m going to give the award out already.

This weeks award goes to Shamrock Fan 707 for his comment in the Ortiz - Shamrock III post:

I don’t know why everyone has to whine about oh we have to see Ken fight Tito again, I’m a Ken Shamrock fan and I know what the man is capable of. If anyone has seen the Ken Shamrock vs Don Frye fight in pride which should’ve been a decision win for Ken despite the judges. He controlled Frye on the ground broke his ankle, and took a bigger beating than Tito came close to giving him in the second fight. Shamrock has no quit in him when it comes to Tito Ortiz.

I think that this has the potential to be a good fight, it was a good fight the first time. I don’t know why everyone bashes on Shamrock either he was one of the first rounded fighters the ufc had ever seen he could stand up and he could take it to the ground and break anything on you. If you look at the fujita fight Shamrock sprawled and brawled and dominated him until he got gassed out. Shamrock is getting old but he’s not one to be taken lightly.

People preach about him losing to Franklin also, look at Rich Franklin now he’s something like 22-1 in MMA that’s incredible and has beaten people like Evan Tanner and David Loiseau and Nate Quarry who are excellent fighters, Franklin is a fighting machine. There’s no reason to bash on Shamrock he’s done a lot for the sport and it probably wouldn’t be where it is right now if it wasn’t for guys like him and gracie. And as for calling Babalu “Babaloser” he went 7-0 before facing chuck and 10-0 before facing him again the man is an incredible fighter and he’s beaten some of the best including fighters like Shogun.

Thats the kind of comment I like to see. Full of passion and someone standing up for a fighter they believe in. There are several of you who leave comments here that are the same way, but this was Shamrock Fan’s first comment, and he started out with a bang.

The Oritz vs. Shamrock III post has been one of the most talked about stories MMAHQ. Other than Silva vs. Liddell, this seems to be what people are talking about.

Also, I’ve finally enabled gravatar’s on MMAHQ for comments, so if you don’t already have one, head over to www.gravatar.com and set one up. It’s free and a cool way to keep your personal identity on any website you visit. I was going to setup random gravatars for those of you who don’t have one setup, but I didn’t want Gatties to end up with a Nick Diaz pictures and blow a lid!