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Spike TV will join in the celebrations surrounding July's historic UFC 100 event.

The UFC's cable broadcast partner will debut a five-part series entitled "UFC's Ultimate 100: Greatest Fights" prior to UFC 100, which takes place July 11 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Fans can begin voting on the top 100 UFC fights of all-time on May 1 at Ultimate100.spike.com, and highlights from the chosen bouts will air on the series, which debuts July 5.

That first episode airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT on a Sunday. Subsequent episodes air in the same timeslot on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Prior to Saturday's series finale, Spike TV will re-air the other four episodes.

The UFC this week announced three official bouts for UFC 100, which is becoming the can't-miss event of 2009. UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar takes on interim heavyweight title-holder Frank Mir (in a title-unification bout), and UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre meets top contender Thiago Alves. Additionally, "The Ultimate Fighter 9" coaches Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson are also slated to fight at the event, and as revealed on this past Wednesday's episode "The Ultimate Fighter 9," Stephan Bonnar will take on Mark Coleman.

Tune in tonight on Spike at 10 p.m.

By Thomas Gerbasi, ufc.com
UFC President Dana White has a television brought into the house for the fighters to see the UFC 84 pay-per-view card featuring the lightweight title bout between BJ Penn and Sean Sherk. Junie Browning and Shane Nelson take this opportunity to have a few drinks, and after some good-natured fun, things start to get out of hand, culminating in Browning throwing a glass and cutting Kyle Kingsbury on the left forearm. Browning thinks that spells the end for him in the house.

Meanwhile, Nelson is getting into it with his housemates as well, and he pushes Roli Delgado and Efrain Escudero, who show remarkable restraint in not retaliating.

Browning and Nelson proceed to go outside, where the hijinks continue as they throw the house's furniture into the pool. Light heavyweight Krzysztof Soszynski has seen enough at this point, and he steps in. Browning challenges Soszynski to hit him, but the 205-pounder holds back. Soszynski gets the last laugh though when he throws Browning's clothes into the pool, sparking another confrontation. As Browning confronts Soszynski, Ryan Bader throws Browning's clothes back into the pool, and the cycle repeats itself, with Browning now attacking Bader and Tom Lawlor.

Go to about 10:40, when Junie Browning gets drunk. It was awesome when Shane Nelson deadpans, "I think he might be bipolar."

And then, from Junie himself on his blog at ufc.com: "When it came to some of the crazy stuff going on in episode three, I just thought it would entertain me and the other guys because there was really nothing else to do, and I was pretty excited about making it on the show, so I thought I'd celebrate. ... To be honest, I think they underplayed it, I was hoping they'd show a little more. They made me look a little more sane than I really am."

Here's an excerpt from Ken Hahn's blog. Hahn is one of Frank Mir's assistant coaches on the current run of The Ultimate Fighter. It's a good read:

A word on conditioning

In the Wesley Murch vs. John Polakowski lightweight preliminary fight, we saw a classic example of the importance of conditioning. When you throw a leg kick at an opponent and he shin-checks it, you better have spent plenty of time conditioning your bones and muscles to withstand that level of contact.

My training and fighting background is in Muay Thai and bare-knuckle Karate. In those arts, we would bang shins all the time. If you hurt your shin during a tournament fight, you may still have to fight 30 minutes later. So if you aren't properly conditioned, you aren't going to be able to walk -- let alone fight.