UFC Middleweight and TUF 3 Champion, Kendall Grove says he asked matchmaker Joe Silva for a fight with Demian Maia because he is at a point in his career where he only wants to fight the best. Grove doesn’t think the caliber of fighters he’s beaten lately mean much to advancing him up […]
UFC Middleweight and TUF 3 Champion, Kendall Grove says he asked matchmaker Joe Silva for a fight with Demian Maia because he is at a point in his career where he only wants to fight the best. Grove doesn’t think the caliber of fighters he’s beaten lately mean much to advancing him up the ranks or testing his true abilities. Whether he wins or loses he wants to see what he can do against a respected talent like Maia.
As Grove has been fighting in the UFC since 2006, RawVegas.tv thought they would test his cognitive skills and see if he could answer a few trivia questions to gauge how the years of fighting have effected him. Grove says he’s a “dumb fighter” and didn’t expect to know the answers… Watch full video below:
RawVegas.tv caught up with the two Lightweight Finalists going head-to-head for the six figure UFC contract and honor of being the The Ultimate Fighter, Johnathon Brookins and Michael Johnson. The two former GSP teammates talk about the differences between Josh Koscheck’s disappointing camp and Georges St. Pierre’s highly beneficial camp. Our host also […]
RawVegas.tv caught up with the two Lightweight Finalists going head-to-head for the six figure UFC contract and honor of being the The Ultimate Fighter, Johnathon Brookins and Michael Johnson. The two former GSP teammates talk about the differences between Josh Koscheck’s disappointing camp and Georges St. Pierre’s highly beneficial camp. Our host also blows it for Michael Johnson by letting him know the Betting Odds are against him. Watch full videos below:
According to our friends at CagePotato, UFC Middleweight Chael Sonnen’s appeal is set for today at either 12:30pm EST or 4:00pm EST and they will be live-streaming the appeal approximately 15 minutes prior to it happening so start checking in with them at 12:15pm EST. Confused? Just go: here. Sonnen will be appealing […]
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According to our friends at CagePotato, UFC Middleweight Chael Sonnen’s appeal is set for today at either 12:30pm EST or 4:00pm EST and they will be live-streaming the appeal approximately 15 minutes prior to it happening so start checking in with them at 12:15pm EST. Confused? Just go: here. Sonnen will be appealing his suspension due to positive PED testing after his UFC 117 title shot against Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva.
Ahhh…time to begin the one month countdown to UFC 125 and the debut of WEC Ring Girl, Brittney Palmer as a UFC Octagon Girl. Will Arianny Celeste be able to handle a second raven-haired beauty in her presence? Oh wait, damn it…Chandella Powell has dark-hair too…Um, we mean a third raven-haired beauty… […]
Ahhh…time to begin the one month countdown to UFC 125 and the debut of WEC Ring Girl, Brittney Palmer as a UFC Octagon Girl. Will Arianny Celeste be able to handle a second raven-haired beauty in her presence? Oh wait, damn it…Chandella Powell has dark-hair too…Um, we mean a third raven-haired beauty… Will Chandella Powell sink further into the abyss of the unnoticed? Will Frankie Edgar defend his Lightweight title against Gray Maynard? (Yes, we at MMAFix care about more than just the hot girls)… So these are all very important questions to be answered in just one month. Meanwhile, check out Brittney’s perfectly round ornament.
After watching Stephan Bonnar grind out consistently exciting, if not bloody fights throughout his 5 year UFC career, the no brainer is to stay tuned for his Main Card TUF 12 Finale bout against Igor Pokrajac. But who is Pokrajac and is watching a fight with Bonnar against a virtual unknown worth not tuning […]
After watching Stephan Bonnar grind out consistently exciting, if not bloody fights throughout his 5 year UFC career, the no brainer is to stay tuned for his Main Card TUF 12 Finale bout against Igor Pokrajac. But who is Pokrajac and is watching a fight with Bonnar against a virtual unknown worth not tuning in to the if anything, *interesting line-up Strikeforce has put together
About an hour after the TUF 12 Finale card begins on Spike TV, Strikeforce will be airing its card onShowtime with a match-up between an aging Matt Lindland, who at 40 years old can be summed up as an Olympic wrestler with a spotty MMA record (he’s also a politician) and Robbie Lawlor, whose recent losses were met at the hands of notables, Jake Shields and Renato “Babalu” Sobral. Lawlor should grind out the win against Lindland via TKO, but despite the odds stacked against Lindland, he does put in the effort to keep the fight interesting.
Up next on the Strikeforce lineup would be former UFC Welterweight Paul Daley, the guy who got kicked out of the promotion for sucker punching Josh Koscheck after the 3rd round bell. To this day we don’t know exactly what kind of trash-talking Kos did to provoke the punch, but Kos does admit he said something pretty vile. Daley is facing a fellow striker in Scott Smith. The wild nature of Smith’s style and Daley’s technical skills will make for a standup slugfest that should leave Smith on the ground in a TKO.
Finally, the long-awaited rematch, 10 years in the making or that’s what the hype tells us, is the Main Card event between Dan Henderson and Renato “Babalu” Sobral. Henderson is a wrestler who’s developed a powerful right hand and Babalu is a crazy jiu-jitsu artist. The fight should go the 3 rounds, as neither fighter is expected to submit and overall this should be a good one.
Let’s skip back over to the TUF 12 Finale. Let’s face it, you can’t claim anyone on this card is at the tail-end of his career. In addition to Stephan Bonnar versus Igor Pokrajac which should be nothing short of a stand-up and possibly blood-shed war, we have Demian Maia paired up against Kendall Grove that may end with Grove tied up in Maia’s masterful jiu-jitsu, but watching “Da Spyda” trying to use his long legs in defense against Maia won’t be boring.
Also on the TUF 12 Main Card are Welterweights Johny Hendricks and Rick Story. Hendricks is from the hailed wrestling Team Takedown and has yet to take a loss in his pro MMA-career. Rick Story is no joke either, as a Southpaw with a four fight win-streak in the UFC. The fight should go a full three grinding rounds leaving Hendricks the victor.
Both Strikeforce and UFC seemed to be very considerate offering some great fights at no cost (if you already pay for cable) but with the fights overlapping, thank goodness we live in a world of “why choose?” when we have those extra special features like DVR and Tivo to enjoy.
Dana White recently targeted beloved coach, Greg Jackson of Jackson’s MMA as a contributor to boring fights in the UFC. Though Jackson holds prestige as the trainer to names like Georges St. Pierre, Jon “Bones” Jones, Rashad Evans, Clay Guida and Carlos Condit to name a few, White believes that Jackson’s lead-with-caution approach is […]
Dana White recently targeted beloved coach, Greg Jackson of Jackson’s MMA as a contributor to boring fights in the UFC. Though Jackson holds prestige as the trainer to names like Georges St. Pierre, Jon “Bones” Jones, Rashad Evans, Clay Guida and Carlos Condit to name a few, White believes that Jackson’s lead-with-caution approach is hindering the excitement that the fighters should be bringing into the octagon that helps the viewers feel their $49.95 pay-per-view was money well spent. White had a mouthful to say in regard to Greg Jackson’s training methods including that he has respect for Jackson yet his game plans and corner work are “weird”. White summed up his thoughts by saying:
You’ll see guys who are traditionally exciting fighters, but when they go to the Greg Jackson camp they become safety first fighters. Why wouldn’t you tell him ‘go for broke in this third round? This is a close fight.
Greg Jackson had an opportunity to fire back to White’s criticisms earlier today via a phone interview with MMAFighting’s Ben Fowlkes:
Here’s a quick stat for you. So there’s been 22 [UFC events] this year? We had 12 bonuses so far this year, so one out of every two, one of my fighters got Submission of the Night, Knockout of the Night, or Fight of the Night.
Jackson went on to list that Jon Jones had finished every single fight under the Jackson training camp save for a Disqualification against Matt Hamill for an illegal elbow. He also mention’s Carlos Condit’s recent Knockout of the Night and Fight of the Night honors with his victory over Dan Hardy at UFC 120.
The comments made by White were after a disappointing performance by Nate Marquardt who lost via Unanimous Decision to Yushin Okami earlier this month at UFC 122. White felt Marquardt had ample opportunity to try and finish Okami in the 3rd round but didn’t feel his corner was urging Marquardt to go for it.
Despite criticism, Greg Jackson remains a favorite MMA coach and is up for Coach of the Year at the 2010 World MMA Awards this Wednesday night. Jackson took top honors last year, so it doesn’t look like you, the fans would have agreed with White in 2009. We’ll see if you’ve had a change of heart this year.
