Filed under: UFCThis is the UFC 117 live blog for Junior dos Santos vs. Roy Nelson, a heavyweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
The winner between Dos Santos and Nelson will be next in line for a title shot on…
This is the UFC 117 live blog for Junior dos Santos vs. Roy Nelson, a heavyweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
The winner between Dos Santos and Nelson will be next in line for a title shot once Cain Velasquez gets his shot against Brock Lesnar at UFC 121.
Filed under: UFCThis is the UFC 117 live blog for Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida, a welterweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Hughes holds wins against Renzo and Royce Gracie and the storyline coming into th…
This is the UFC 117 live blog for Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida, a welterweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Hughes holds wins against Renzo and Royce Gracie and the storyline coming into this fight is that Almeida is a black belt under Renzo Gracie.
Filed under: UFCThis is the UFC 117 live blog for Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos, a lightweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Guida is coming off a win over Shannon Gugerty in March. Dos Anjos has won three s…
This is the UFC 117 live blog for Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos, a lightweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Guida is coming off a win over Shannon Gugerty in March. Dos Anjos has won three straight fights in the UFC Octagon.
Filed under: UFCThis is the UFC 117 live blog for Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves, a welterweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Fitch vs. Alves is a rematch from UFC Fight Night 5 in June 2006 where Fitch won by TK…
This is the UFC 117 live blog for Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves, a welterweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Fitch vs. Alves is a rematch from UFC Fight Night 5 in June 2006 where Fitch won by TKO. The winner of this fight will face the winner of Josh Koscheck vs. Georges St-Pierre.
Filed under: UFCThis is the UFC 117 live blog for Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen, the main event of tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Silva is looking for his seventh consecutive title defense. Meanwhile, the uncrowned f…
This is the UFC 117 live blog for Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen, the main event of tonight’s pay-per-view from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.
Silva is looking for his seventh consecutive title defense. Meanwhile, the uncrowned former WEC middleweight champion Sonnen will be aiming to wear real gold around his waist by the end of the night.
Filed under: UFC, NewsOAKLAND, Calif. — Through four and a half rounds of fighting at UFC 117 on Saturday night, Chael Sonnen was the better man. But as UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva demonstrated with a late triangle choke submission, all it t…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Through four and a half rounds of fighting at UFC 117 on Saturday night, Chael Sonnen was the better man. But as UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva demonstrated with a late triangle choke submission, all it takes is a few seconds for an improbable triumph to turn into a heartbreaking defeat.
“I’m devastated,” Sonnen said at the post-fight press conference. “I worked hard and did what I could do all that nice stuff, but at the end of the day you either get your hand raised or you don’t, and I didn’t.”
Sonnen did exactly what he said he’d do to the champion for twenty-three straight minutes. He took him down, roughed him up, and seemed well on his way to a clear-cut, unanimous decision victory. Perhaps most improbably, he also staggered Silva in the stand-up exchanges at several points in the fight.