Bellator 80 takes place on Friday, November 9, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. It hosts the remaining semifinals of Season 7: Featherweight Tournament Semifinal, Wagnney Fabiano vs Rad Martinez, and Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal, Vinicius Queiroz vs Alexander Volkov (see the other two semifinals Thiago Santos vs Richard Hale and Mike Richman vs Shahbulat Shamhalaev).
The featherweight tournament quarterfinals were contested at Bellator 76, with Martinez advancing by outpointing a game Nazareno Malegarie in a hard-fought three-round match (= Martinez vs Malegarie). On the other hand Fabiano submitted hard-hitting Russian
Junior ‘Cigano’ dos Santos is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion and is ranked as the number one heavyweight fighter in the world by numerous media outlets. He is undefeated in the UFC (MMA 15-1-0) and seven of the nine UFC victories came by way of knockout or TKO. In the two decisions he’s had, dos Santos has made a mess of his opponents, so the word “unanimous” leaves no doubts (against Roy Nelson at UFC 117 and Shane Carwin at UFC 131). Despite his great accomplishments, dos Santos is rarely mentioned in the mythical “pound-for-pound” discussion.
But a man could change this, if they ever meet: Jon ‘Bones’ Jones.
The UFC light heavyweight champion has teased for months about potentially moving up to heavyweight, and said recently he might
UFC 154 Primetime: St Pierre vs Condit – Episode 1
UFC 154 Primetime go inside the personal lives and training camps of welterweight champion Georges St Pierre and interim champion Carlos Condit in the weeks leading up to their title fight at UFC 154 scheduled on November 17, 2012, at the Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Stephan Bonnar confirmed his retirement via Facebook following UFC President Dana White’s announcement during a MetroPCS chat on Tuesday night.
‘The American Psycho’ (15-8 MMA, 8-7 UFC), 35 years old, recently was on a three-fight win streak, before facing the legend Anderson ‘The Spider’ Silva: after an 11-month layoff, the light heavyweight Bonnar in fact returned to the cage this past month at UFC 153 in a late-notice opportunity in Brazil against dominant UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a 205-pound non-title fight.
The match had no story, he lost via first-round TKO and Silva seemed to mock him during some exchanges (= Anderson Silva vs Stephan Bonnar)
“Huge thanks to every UFC fan out there!” Bonnar stated on Facebook. “All I ever wanted was to bring ya’ll some fun…hope u
UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo (21-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) will face former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar (14-3-1 MMA, 9-3-1 UFC) on Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas, on February 2, 2013.
The UFC had held a Las Vegas pay-per-view event on the eve of the NFL’s Super Bowl every year since 2004, usually at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Aldo and Edgar were expected to be the headliners of UFC 153, which took place earlier this month in Brazil, but Aldo had a motorcycle accident that forced him out, so Anderson Silva ended up facing Stephan Bonnar in the night’s main event.
Aldo has an impressive 14 victories in a row. His last loss happened in 2005 against Luciano Azevedo. He is a fighting machine and his last match confirmed this: ask Chad Mendes for
Selection of the best mma videos from the world’s most important fights of the week 44: (Mon-Sun) from October 29, 2012 to November 4, 2012. Mma Fight of the Week: Ryan Ford vs Kyle Baker Mma Knockout of the Week: Anthony Johnson vs DJ Linderman Mma Submission of the Week: Gesias Cavalcante vs TJ … Read more
Former UFC fighters Tyson Griffin and Efrain Escudero are the headliners of tonight RFA 4, Resurrection Fighting Alliance, in Las Vegas.
Tyson Griffin, after a failed stint at featherweight, returns to lightweight with a great desire of revenge.
In fact he lost 4 of his last 5 matches. He comes back in the Octagon after more than a year: October 29, 2011, against Bart Palaszewski, and it was a bad KO (= Bart Palaszewski vs Tyson Griffin).
But when Griffin fights, often there are spectacular fights: in his last 13 matches, 5 were “Fight of the Night”, and one was
Tonight from the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre it’s time for Abu Dhabi Warriors Fighting Championship. A 10-fight Mixed Martial Arts card and the season-ending World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship (WPJJC) will be the headline events of the new UAE jiu-jitsu season.
The attention is all on the return of Jose “Pele” Landi-Jons. He is known for his eccentric attitude and exciting style of fighting. Pele’s style is primarily Muay Thai, but he also practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he holds a black belt. He holds notable wins over former UFC Welterweight Champion Pat Miletich, UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes and Alexander Shlemenko (x2).
He can also lay claim to landing a knockout victory over ‘pound for pound’ great Anderson Silva in Muay Thai competition. There is a lot of anger between them, and ‘Pele’ released and explosive interview about it full of insults and attacks against ‘The Spider’ (see the video at the bottom of this post).
The Bellator 79 weigh-ins have been completed from Orillia, Ontario for tonight event at Casino Rama, which features the semifinals of the Bellator Season 7 Heavyweight and Featherweight Tournaments.
The main event is Richard Hale (238.4 pounds) vs Thiago Santos (265.2 pounds), Heavyweight semifinal. Richard ‘Rare Breed’ Hale (20–4–1) in his career has won the Rage in the Cage Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight championships, and in the quarterfinal defeated Mike Wessel by TKO. Thiago ‘Big Monster’ Santos (11-1-1nc) has a very effective rear-naked choke submission and his huge weight can be an advantage against Hale. In his last two matches, he had a “groin issue” with Eric Prindle: he first gave it at Bellator 59 (= Prindle vs Santos 1), and than
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