The UFC will air the fourth season The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil in 2015, and the reality show cast will feature bantamweights and lightweights contestants. The UFC announced the news on Wednesday.
The official tryouts for TUF: Brazil 4 will take place at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Oct. 26. The night before, UFC 179 pay-per-view takes place at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanazinho gymnasium with Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes in the main event.
TUF: Brazil 3 is expected to air from March to May in Brazil on Globo, and on Fight Pass for the rest of the world. The UFC has yet to announce the coaches for the fourth season of the reality show.
The UFC will air the fourth season The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil in 2015, and the reality show cast will feature bantamweights and lightweights contestants. The UFC announced the news on Wednesday.
The official tryouts for TUF: Brazil 4 will take place at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Oct. 26. The night before, UFC 179 pay-per-view takes place at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanazinho gymnasium with Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes in the main event.
TUF: Brazil 3 is expected to air from March to May in Brazil on Globo, and on Fight Pass for the rest of the world. The UFC has yet to announce the coaches for the fourth season of the reality show.
Undefeated bantamweights Josh Hill and Sheymon Moraes will collide for a chance to challenge the World Series of Fighting 135-pound champion in 2015.
Hill and Moraes, who are unbeaten in 16 bouts combined, will meet at the upcoming WSOF 16 c…
Undefeated bantamweights Josh Hill and Sheymon Moraes will collide for a chance to challenge the World Series of Fighting 135-pound champion in 2015.
Hill and Moraes, who are unbeaten in 16 bouts combined, will meet at the upcoming WSOF 16 card on Dec. 13, WSOF executive vice president Ali Abdel-Aziz confirmed to MMAFighting.com on Wednesday.
Hill (10-0) was scheduled to meet current WSOF bantamweight kingpin Marlon Moraes in September, but was forced out of the bout with an injury. Hill impressed in his WSOF debut in June, finishing Mike Adams via TKO in the first round.
Moraes will make his promotional debut after racking up a perfect 6-0 MMA record with four knockout victories, including a TKO stoppage over UFC veteran Pedro Nobre. In his last bout, the Team Nogueira prospect knocked out Felipe Alves in 20 seconds in Brazil.
The winner of the match is expected to fight for the bantamweight title in March.
WSOF officials have yet to announce city and venue for the WSOF 16 card, which will be headlined by a welterweight title fight between Rousimar Palhares vs. Jon Fitch.
Every time Eduardo Dantas has fought a title fight in Bellator, he has finished his opponent. And the Nova Uniao bantamweight wants to do the same to Joe Warren on Friday night’s Bellator 128.
Dantas, the current Bellator 135-pound champion, meets interim champion Warren in the main event of Friday’s card in Thackerville, Okla., and he sees “The Baddest Man on the Planet” as a great test for his skills.
“He’s a tough guy, a really good fighter,” Dantas told MMAFighting.com. “He’s not a fool on the ground or standing, and he has good takedowns. It’s a fight that I always wanted to test myself, test my cardio and my hands. It’s going to be an amazing fight. I’m really anxious for this.”
Forced out of a clash with Warren in May with a head injury, Dantas feels better than ever.
“I’m physically stronger and mentally better prepared for this fight. I promise you, this is going to be a great fight,” he said. “I was stressed with the weight cut for my last fights, but this time I’m happy because I know I’ll be fighting him. He talked too much, so beating him will taste better. This fight won’t last five rounds.”
Dantas’ beef with Warren started a while ago on Twitter, and he plans to end it with a finish.
“He tweeted to me saying that I fought a low-lever wrestler and that it would be different against him,” he said. “He called me a kid, said he would kick my ass. I replied to him saying he was wrong, that I would beat him up when we got inside the cage.
“He will change his mind when he feels how heavy my hands are. If he tries to take me down, I will submit him. If he stands, I will knock him out. He has nowhere to run, unless he actually runs around the cage. Let’s see if he’s ready to run away from me for five rounds.”
When Dantas found out that Warren had failed a couple drug tests for marijuana in the past, he thought about asking Bellator for an enhanced drug testing. He quickly changed his mind, though.
“I started reading about him and I found out he was caught in a drug test in 2007, and he was pissed off when I tweeted about it,” he said. “I told him I would only fight him if he agreed to undergo a pre-fight blood testing, but I knew he would never make it to the fight with that because he would get caught. No problem, with doping or not he will get punched the same way.”
Despite all the pre-fight animosity, Dantas won’t bring any of the heat to the cage.
“I’m not mad at him. He’s indifferent to me, actually. I kind of think he’s funny, but this pre-fight talk got me hungrier to fight,” he said. “I won’t feel anything when I get inside the cage. I do what I love in there.”
Warren, who won the interim title with a win over Rafael Silva after Dantas was forced to withdraw from Bellator 118, will try to win his second undisputed title in Bellator against the Brazilian. “Dudu,” who sees the interim title as a marketing attraction, sends his rival a final message:
“I think (the interim title) was good for the promotion so they could promote an American champion, promote a title fight, but it makes no difference to me. I’m the champion and I will remain champion. That interim title shouldn’t exist, but they gave him anyway. I don’t care. I will go there and show him I’m the real champion.
“He got that interim title for a few months, took some pictures with it, but it’s time to give it back.”
Every time Eduardo Dantas has fought a title fight in Bellator, he has finished his opponent. And the Nova Uniao bantamweight wants to do the same to Joe Warren on Friday night’s Bellator 128.
Dantas, the current Bellator 135-pound champion, meets interim champion Warren in the main event of Friday’s card in Thackerville, Okla., and he sees “The Baddest Man on the Planet” as a great test for his skills.
“He’s a tough guy, a really good fighter,” Dantas told MMAFighting.com. “He’s not a fool on the ground or standing, and he has good takedowns. It’s a fight that I always wanted to test myself, test my cardio and my hands. It’s going to be an amazing fight. I’m really anxious for this.”
Forced out of a clash with Warren in May with a head injury, Dantas feels better than ever.
“I’m physically stronger and mentally better prepared for this fight. I promise you, this is going to be a great fight,” he said. “I was stressed with the weight cut for my last fights, but this time I’m happy because I know I’ll be fighting him. He talked too much, so beating him will taste better. This fight won’t last five rounds.”
Dantas’ beef with Warren started a while ago on Twitter, and he plans to end it with a finish.
“He tweeted to me saying that I fought a low-lever wrestler and that it would be different against him,” he said. “He called me a kid, said he would kick my ass. I replied to him saying he was wrong, that I would beat him up when we got inside the cage.
“He will change his mind when he feels how heavy my hands are. If he tries to take me down, I will submit him. If he stands, I will knock him out. He has nowhere to run, unless he actually runs around the cage. Let’s see if he’s ready to run away from me for five rounds.”
When Dantas found out that Warren had failed a couple drug tests for marijuana in the past, he thought about asking Bellator for an enhanced drug testing. He quickly changed his mind, though.
“I started reading about him and I found out he was caught in a drug test in 2007, and he was pissed off when I tweeted about it,” he said. “I told him I would only fight him if he agreed to undergo a pre-fight blood testing, but I knew he would never make it to the fight with that because he would get caught. No problem, with doping or not he will get punched the same way.”
Despite all the pre-fight animosity, Dantas won’t bring any of the heat to the cage.
“I’m not mad at him. He’s indifferent to me, actually. I kind of think he’s funny, but this pre-fight talk got me hungrier to fight,” he said. “I won’t feel anything when I get inside the cage. I do what I love in there.”
Warren, who won the interim title with a win over Rafael Silva after Dantas was forced to withdraw from Bellator 118, will try to win his second undisputed title in Bellator against the Brazilian. “Dudu,” who sees the interim title as a marketing attraction, sends his rival a final message:
“I think (the interim title) was good for the promotion so they could promote an American champion, promote a title fight, but it makes no difference to me. I’m the champion and I will remain champion. That interim title shouldn’t exist, but they gave him anyway. I don’t care. I will go there and show him I’m the real champion.
“He got that interim title for a few months, took some pictures with it, but it’s time to give it back.”
It takes a lot of heart and skills to win a MMA fight today. Roan Carneiro did it, and he did it three times in one night.
“Jucao,” a former UFC fighter, defeated Brock Larson, Trey Houston and Randall Wallace on Friday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma to win the Battlegrounds MMA one-night welterweight tournament, and it was tougher than most people imagine.
“After my first fight, I was really dehydrated. I came back to my locker room and could feel my body wasn’t well,” Carneiro told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I started having cramps. All the water I put inside my body, I went straight to the bathroom to pee. I wasn’t sweating at all. Something was wrong.”
Carneiro was almost forced to withdraw from the semifinal with Houston after tapping Randall Wallace in the first bout, but Douglas Lima and Dhiego Lima helped him continue. After having some Gatorade, “Jucao’s” body “started to feel good” again.
The Oklahoma Athletic Commission checked on Carneiro to see if he was good to go, and he went on to win a couple more fights that night.
“When I finished my first fight, I asked (the commission) some time to see how I would feel. When I said I was ready for the second fight, they started doing more exams to see if I was really ready to do my second fight,” he said. “They did an excellent job.”
Battlegrounds wasn’t Carneiro’s first one-night, eight-man MMA tournament. In 2006, “Jucao” lost to Leonardo Nascimento after getting past Gregory Bouchelaghem and Matt Horwich in three-round fights. Eight years later, he knew he’d go 3-0.
“When I heard about the tournament, I said ‘that is mine,’” he said “They had only one spot available, and I tried to find who was behind the tournament. It was Kenny Monday, and I texted him right on.
“I grew up in Brazil watching Royce Gracie doing those things. When I was a kid, I saw Murilo Bustamante fighting a tournament, when he fought Tom Erikson, who was (several pounds heavier) than him. It made me excited to come back and train. Three fights, in my mind it was three wins.”
He got the wins he wanted, but his night wasn’t perfect. The Oklahoma commission fined him 30 percent of his prize, an amount of $15,000, for showing up “extremely late” to a pre-fight medical exam.
“My manager and my attorney are starting to get in contact with them,” Carneiro said. “I think we are gonna come to a solution. I wasn’t late at all. I think they didn’t understand my side. I wasn’t late. I was there the whole time. When I got there, the doctors went talk to me and they didn’t talk to me about being late and they were gonna fine me. I just heard about it when I got the money.”
“I don’t agree, but I just wanna explain my side,” he continued. “My manager and my attorney are going to talk to them and explain my side. If they wanna fine me for something, we’ll see what happens. I was in contact with the promoter, I have text messages and everything on my phone. I don’t know. I’m not saying they are wrong, but I’m not wrong. I was there all the time. I just want them to listen to me and understand that I wasn’t late at all.
“If they wanna fine me, I just don’t wanna be fined with $15,000 because that hurts, specially the way I fought, three fights in one night. I think I deserve, I earned my whole money.”
Despite his post-fight financial issues with the commission, Oct. 3 was a great day for the Brazilian. With three wins in one night, Carneiro is now riding a five-fight streak with four stoppage victories. Defeated only once since leaving the UFC in 2008, “Jucao” wants another shot inside the Octagon.
“I’d love to finish some business over there,” he said. “In my mind, I beat Ryo Chonan, it was my last fight in the UFC in my town, Atlanta, and I lost by split decision but, in my mind, I beat him.”
Carneiro is more of a coach than a fighter today, but he proved to be in great shape.
“I’m training with many UFC fighters, of many weight divisions, and I’m still doing (well). Imagine if I had one performance like I had Friday night in the UFC,” he said. “I’m excited to show the world I can do some good things in that (UFC) cage. I just didn’t have the opportunity to show them I can do it, and it’s now late. I’m going to do it.”
It takes a lot of heart and skills to win a MMA fight today. Roan Carneiro did it, and he did it three times in one night.
“Jucao,” a former UFC fighter, defeated Brock Larson, Trey Houston and Randall Wallace on Friday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma to win the Battlegrounds MMA one-night welterweight tournament, and it was tougher than most people imagine.
“After my first fight, I was really dehydrated. I came back to my locker room and could feel my body wasn’t well,” Carneiro told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I started having cramps. All the water I put inside my body, I went straight to the bathroom to pee. I wasn’t sweating at all. Something was wrong.”
Carneiro was almost forced to withdraw from the semifinal with Houston after tapping Randall Wallace in the first bout, but Douglas Lima and Dhiego Lima helped him continue. After having some Gatorade, “Jucao’s” body “started to feel good” again.
The Oklahoma Athletic Commission checked on Carneiro to see if he was good to go, and he went on to win a couple more fights that night.
“When I finished my first fight, I asked (the commission) some time to see how I would feel. When I said I was ready for the second fight, they started doing more exams to see if I was really ready to do my second fight,” he said. “They did an excellent job.”
Battlegrounds wasn’t Carneiro’s first one-night, eight-man MMA tournament. In 2006, “Jucao” lost to Leonardo Nascimento after getting past Gregory Bouchelaghem and Matt Horwich in three-round fights. Eight years later, he knew he’d go 3-0.
“When I heard about the tournament, I said ‘that is mine,’” he said “They had only one spot available, and I tried to find who was behind the tournament. It was Kenny Monday, and I texted him right on.
“I grew up in Brazil watching Royce Gracie doing those things. When I was a kid, I saw Murilo Bustamante fighting a tournament, when he fought Tom Erikson, who was (several pounds heavier) than him. It made me excited to come back and train. Three fights, in my mind it was three wins.”
He got the wins he wanted, but his night wasn’t perfect. The Oklahoma commission fined him 30 percent of his prize, an amount of $15,000, for showing up “extremely late” to a pre-fight medical exam.
“My manager and my attorney are starting to get in contact with them,” Carneiro said. “I think we are gonna come to a solution. I wasn’t late at all. I think they didn’t understand my side. I wasn’t late. I was there the whole time. When I got there, the doctors went talk to me and they didn’t talk to me about being late and they were gonna fine me. I just heard about it when I got the money.”
“I don’t agree, but I just wanna explain my side,” he continued. “My manager and my attorney are going to talk to them and explain my side. If they wanna fine me for something, we’ll see what happens. I was in contact with the promoter, I have text messages and everything on my phone. I don’t know. I’m not saying they are wrong, but I’m not wrong. I was there all the time. I just want them to listen to me and understand that I wasn’t late at all.
“If they wanna fine me, I just don’t wanna be fined with $15,000 because that hurts, specially the way I fought, three fights in one night. I think I deserve, I earned my whole money.”
Despite his post-fight financial issues with the commission, Oct. 3 was a great day for the Brazilian. With three wins in one night, Carneiro is now riding a five-fight streak with four stoppage victories. Defeated only once since leaving the UFC in 2008, “Jucao” wants another shot inside the Octagon.
“I’d love to finish some business over there,” he said. “In my mind, I beat Ryo Chonan, it was my last fight in the UFC in my town, Atlanta, and I lost by split decision but, in my mind, I beat him.”
Carneiro is more of a coach than a fighter today, but he proved to be in great shape.
“I’m training with many UFC fighters, of many weight divisions, and I’m still doing (well). Imagine if I had one performance like I had Friday night in the UFC,” he said. “I’m excited to show the world I can do some good things in that (UFC) cage. I just didn’t have the opportunity to show them I can do it, and it’s now late. I’m going to do it.”
Superfights aren’t gone yet – at least for Anderson Silva.
The former UFC middleweight kingpin is set to rematch Chris Weidman, the first man to ever defeat him inside the Octagon, at UFC 168 on Dec. 28, and his plans for the …
Superfights aren’t gone yet – at least for Anderson Silva.
The former UFC middleweight kingpin is set to rematch Chris Weidman, the first man to ever defeat him inside the Octagon, at UFC 168 on Dec. 28, and his plans for the future include challenges against two current UFC champions, Georges St-Pierre and Jon Jones.
“I really wanted this fight to happen,” Anderson Silva said during a radio interview to “Panico”, on Friday, about facing GSP. “He’s a guy that plays by the rules, doesn’t take too many risks. That fight may happen, or maybe not. He said he doesn’t want it, I don’t know. I’ll train and remain focused to fight (Weidman) on Dec. 28.”
“He’s like that (Ayrton) Senna’s rival. They used to compete at the same time and one of them was technical and the other played by the rules. (GSP) is the UFC’s Alain Prost,” Silva added, comparing himself to Brazilian racing driver Senna, who won three Formula One world championships.
After Anderson’s loss to Weidman on July 6, UFC president Dana White said the superfights including the Brazilian, GSP and Jones were gone, once that Silva “was the link to both of them.”
“I hope it happens,” Anderson Silva told Combate.com about the possibility of facing light heavyweight champion Jon Jones in the future. “That’s the fight everybody is waiting for.”
However, Silva knows he can’t overlook Weidman.
“I had a nightmare with Weidman, but I don’t fear him,” Anderson said during the radio interview. “He is determined, but has two arms and two legs just like me. Now I’ll bring Chuck Norris (to my camp). I’ll bring both, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal.”
