Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans after his lost against reigning champion Jon ‘Bones’ Jones at UFC 145 in April, hoped to come back in the Octagon as soon as possible, but it’s not going to happen, at least not by the end of this year.
It’s not his fault, but because there aren’t many fighters left available for Evans before 2013: Jones is recovering from an injured elbow from his last fight with Vitor Belfort (= Jon Jones vs Vitor Belfort) and stepping into a coaching role on TUF 17, Dan Henderson is also in the midst of rehab, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua is lined up to face Alexander Gustafsson, and Forrest Griffin is scheduled to fight with Phil Davis.
Evan’s desire, however, is an interesting name… Anderson ‘The Spider’ Silva.
There are many pretenders to Silva’s title belt, and however ‘The Spider’ wants to face
UFC interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit knows that to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man.
But if that “man” is named Georges St Pierre, everything becomes complicated.
On November 17 in Montreal at UFC 154 GSP will make his return after almost 20 months from his last match against Jake Shields at UFC 129.
On December 7, 2011, it was in fact revealed St-Pierre had sustained an ACL injury to his right knee, forcing him out of the bout with Nick Diaz. Diaz lost to Carlos Condit at UFC 143, in a fight for the UFC Interim Welterweight Championship. “He’s the best in the world. He’s one of the best the sport has ever seen,” Condit admitted.
But if GSP is “the man”, ‘The Natural Born Killer’ is
Selection of the best mma videos from the world’s most important fights of the week 42: (Mon-Sun) from October 15, 2012 to October 21, 2012. Mma Fight of the Week: Rene Nazare vs Ricardo Tirloni Mma Submission of the Week: Dave Jansen vs Magomed Saadulaev
Who will be the number one contender for the Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight title? Tonight starts the road to Michael Chandler’s belt, with the lightweight tournament quarterfinals.
The champ is undefeated (10-0-0) and in his last match against Akihiro Gono at Bellator 67 showed all his dominance. In a date to be still announced, Chandler is expected to defend his title against Rick ‘Genghis’ Hawn, Bellator Season 6 Lightweight Tournament Winner (final match with Brent Weedman) and former olympic judoka.
Yesterday at Reading Eagle Theater in the Sovereign Center Reading, Penn, all the pretenders made weight, including big-show veteran Rich Clementi (155 pounds) and undefeated (20-0-0) prospect Alexander ‘Tiger’ Sarnavskiy (155.6 pounds) (look at
Waiting their “revenge” super match of UFC 155, which takes place December 29 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Satuday night Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez discovered their future.
Following the post-event news conference for UFC 153, UFC president Dana White announced: “The winner of that fight will fight Overeem (in March or April)”.
Heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos (15-1 MMA, 9-0 UFC), after having defeated Cain Velasquez last year in only 64 seconds (= Junior dos Santos vs Cain Velasquez first fight), was scheduled to face Overeem this past May, but Overeem
Jake Shields tested positive for a banned substance and has been suspended six-months by the Colorado Office of Boxing.
His win over Ed Herman at UFC 150 has been changed to a no-contest, and the fighter has also been fined $5,675. Shields was fined $5,000 for violating Colorado statutes on prohibited substances and ordered to pay a surcharge of 10 percent of the fine ($500), as well as $175 for administrative fees incurred for testing. He is ordered to pay the fines within 14 days
Shields admitted the mistake and hopes to bounce back soon: “Prior to my professional bout at UFC 150 in Denver, Colorado, I used a substance prohibited by Colorado Boxing Commission rules. This was a mistake that I fully regret. I have shared this issue with my family and the UFC and I have apologized to them and now I also apologize to you, the fans. I promise this will never
After having badly battered Fabio Maldonado at UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro (= Teixeira vs Maldonado), Glover Teixeira called out Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, but only if the former champion is actually ready and wants to fight: “I don’t care. Like I said, I want to fight who wants to fight, I want to fight Rampage if he comes in, in top shape. I don’t want to fight him if he’s not motivated to fight”.
“I want to fight guys like this guy (Fabio Maldonado) that wants to make a career in the UFC. Quinton’s got too much money already,” said Teixeira.
After hearing that, ‘Rampage’, who was scheduled to face Teixeira at UFC 153, but was forced to pull out of the bout after suffering an undisclosed injury during training, asked Dana White to
After his dominant UFC 153 victory over Stephan Bonnar at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro (= Silva vs Bonnar), Anderson ‘The Spider’ Silva was once again in the middle of the “Jon Jones issue”.
Though the middleweight champion is still against the idea of facing the reigning light heavyweight champion, UFC president Dana White thinks he can change Silva’s mind, not only by words, but using money. A lot of money.
During Saturday night’s post-fight press conference Dana said: “I know he’s been saying ‘no’, but, for the amount of money that would be offered for that fight, I guarantee you I will make Anderson Silva say ‘yes.’” Silva, however, immediately
Strikeforce announced to have canceled its November 3 event in Oklahoma City.
As we have told you in the past days (Strikeforce’s prevoius news), several injuries crippled the card: headliner Frank Mir, as well as co-headliner and middleweight champion Luke Rockhold and former Olympic wrestling silver medalist Sara McMann were forced to withdrawal.
“Due to a series of injuries, we were forced to cancel the upcoming card on November 3 but are already working to put together a stacked card in January,” Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said in
“Matamoros” (in Spanish) is Moor-slayer and is the name given to the Christians who persecuted Jews and Muslims during the Reconquista of the fifteenth century, but in our case we are speaking about the best Pro Jiu Jitsu practitioners of the world: Metamoris (thanks to JiuJitson for the correction). These superfights have different rules from the common BJJ rules: the time limit is 20 minutes instead of 10 min (as usually in the black belt fights) but the most interesting thing is that it is possible to win only by submission! If there is no submissions (or disqualifications) the fight ends in a tie.
The second event of Metamoris Pro Jiu-Jitsu Invitational, METAMORIS II, is scheduled to take place June 9, 2013 at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, and it is headlined by the main event Shinya Aoki vs Kron Gracie.
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