Burnt Ends: Lindland, ChuckTV, Ali Sonoma + More

(An early trailer for the upcoming UFC video game.)

The boring but important notes and errata currently floating around this crazy MMA world of ours...

— THQ's planned UFC video game has been give a rough release date of Spring 2009, which will coincide with "one of the UFC's major events."

— Affliction is reportedly close to locking down Fabio Negao as Matt Lindland's opponent at their debut event on July 19th. Negao (8-3) is a veteran of the Super Challenge and Fury FC promotions who last competed in December, losing to Rousimar Palhares via first-round leglock submission. (Translation: He's kind of a scrub.) Pedro Rizzo, who's fighting Josh Barnett at the event, claims that it will indeed take place in California, most likely at the Honda Center in Anaheim.

— The UFC is trying to distract its fans from the fact that a historic MMA event is taking place on May 31st by scheduling a Chuck Liddell-themed programming block on SpikeTV that night. At 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, Spike will premiere "Ultimate Iceman: Chuck Liddell," a documentary chronicling Liddell's life inside and outside of the Octagon. Directly following at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT will be "Liddell vs. Silva: UFC Unleashed - Special Edition," featuring the UFC 79 fight between Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, which has never been broadcast on cable. The UFC might be clever, but I have a DVR, which makes me more clever.

— The WEC has already sold out nearly all of the 8,000 seats in the ARCO Arena's lower bowl for WEC 34: Faber vs. Pulver, and will be releasing tickets for seats in the upper sections for a quite-reasonable $35 bucks a pop. If you'll be anywhere near Sacramento on June 1st, go get 'em.

— Ali "#3" Sonoma will be appearing on the fifth season of ABC's The Mole, which premieres June 2nd. Catch a glimpse of her in the background on the promo vids at ABC.com.