Filed under: UFCNow that the fighters have all successfully weighed in and are currently rehydrating and packing away the carbs (take it easy, “Rumble”) in preparation for tonight’s UFC Fight Night 24 event in Seattle, it’s time to go through the main …
Now that the fighters have all successfully weighed in and are currently rehydrating and packing away the carbs (take it easy, “Rumble”) in preparation for tonight’s UFC Fight Night 24 event in Seattle, it’s time to go through the main card and look at how oddsmakers see the action going down.
From huge favorites who deserve every bit of our confidence, to some who are perhaps more than a bit overvalued, this one has it all. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen…
Filed under: UFCSEATTLE — All fighters made weight at the Key Arena on Friday afternoon, clearing the way for UFC Fight Night 24 to take place as scheduled on Saturday night.
Though all eyes were on Anthony Johnson, who admitted he’d gotten up to si…
SEATTLE — All fighters made weight at the Key Arena on Friday afternoon, clearing the way for UFC Fight Night 24 to take place as scheduled on Saturday night.
Though all eyes were on Anthony Johnson, who admitted he’d gotten up to sixty pounds over the welterweight limit while being sidelined with an injury, “Rumble” came in on target with help from the one-pound allowance, which his opponent, Dan Hardy, also took full advantage of. Full results from Friday afternoon’s weigh-in are below.
Filed under: UFCSEATTLE — Here’s how you know Dan Hardy and Anthony Johnson are buds: Hardy can make fun of Johnson’s weight, and Johnson can make fun of Hardy’s face, and yet at the end of the day they can still smile and agree to try and knock each …
SEATTLE — Here’s how you know Dan Hardy and Anthony Johnson are buds: Hardy can make fun of Johnson’s weight, and Johnson can make fun of Hardy’s face, and yet at the end of the day they can still smile and agree to try and knock each other unconscious like gentlemen.
“We’re cool,” Johnson said of Hardy during Thursday’s UFC Fight Night 24 workouts. “I saw him last night. I came in and got a workout in and I saw some dude, ugly with crazy hair, and I started squinting. I was like, oh sh-t, that’s Dan. I came up to him and gave him a hug, chatted for like a minute, and said our goodbyes and split. I mean, we’re friends right now, but obviously we have something to do. We’re not here to chit-chat; we’re here to handle business. But we still show each other that mutual respect.”
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveSEATTLE – We’re having a pleasant little breakfast when Phil Davis offers to “dislocate” his nose. No big deal, he says. Just a trick of the cartilage that leaves it looking twisted and mangled and, well, awesome.
SEATTLE – We’re having a pleasant little breakfast when Phil Davis offers to “dislocate” his nose. No big deal, he says. Just a trick of the cartilage that leaves it looking twisted and mangled and, well, awesome.
It’s a great party trick he’s developed over the years thanks to old wrestling injuries and the peculiarities of his personal physiology and hey, as long as we’re just sitting here, would I like to see it?
Answer: of course I would.
So Davis puts both hands up to his nose, feeling around for just the right spot, then crack. The sound is like someone snapping a pencil in half.
‘Oh no,’ he says into his hands. ‘Yep, I’m bleeding. Uh-oh.’
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveGreg Jackson may be committed to staying neutral when former teammates Jon Jones and Rashad Evans fight over the UFC light heavyweight belt, but striking coach Mike Winkeljohn is making no such promise.
A former kickboxing champion who has for the last four years taught striking out of Jackson’s Albuquerque, New Mexico-based gym, Winkeljohn said he doesn’t feel the need to stay out of the forthcoming title fight.
“I’m positive I’m going to be working with Jon Jones because, well, the kid didn’t do anything wrong,” Winkeljohn told MMA Fighting. “We have a good relationship.”
As for Evans? He might feel as though he’s been betrayed by the Jackson’s MMA team, but the way Winkeljohn sees it, Evans is expecting a loyalty that he hasn’t demonstrated himself.
Filed under: UFCLeonard Garcia has a problem. To put it more precisely, he has a difficult decision to make. He has to choose between being the fighter fans have come to expect and being the fighter his coaches and teammates see glimpses of in the gym….
Leonard Garcia has a problem. To put it more precisely, he has a difficult decision to make. He has to choose between being the fighter fans have come to expect and being the fighter his coaches and teammates see glimpses of in the gym. He has to choose between wild brawls and technical displays.
Maybe, when it comes down to it, he even has to choose between entertaining and winning. The thing is that, lately, he’s begun to wonder whether it’s even his choice to make in the end.
“I get a lot of talk about how I’m willing to go out there and brawl,” Garcia said. “The fans like it, the UFC likes it, but then everybody in the gym says, hey, when you’re technical and you do things correctly, it’s hard to stop you. But when we go out for the rules meeting and Dana White is talking about the Fight of the Night bonus, he stares right at me. I mean, right at me. And all the guys in the room, you can see them, they’re like, man, Leonard’s on the card. He’s going to go get that bonus. So it is a double-edged sword.”