You have no excuse to miss your anniversary next year, as now even Kenda Perez [pictured above from her photo shoot] will be gracing an “End of the World” 2012 calendar. Stack this on top.
You have no excuse to miss your anniversary next year, as now even Kenda Perez [pictured above from her photo shoot] will be gracing an “End of the World” 2012 calendar.
Stack this on top of the Maxim 2012 calendar featuringArianny Celeste, the highly anticipated Brittney Palmercalendar, the Amber Nicholetopless calender, along with Arianny’s own soon to-be-released calendar and you probably won’t need to shell a dime on any bathroom reading material this year. Just hang all these on your bathroom wall and you’re totally set. That is unless, you actually do read those magazines for the articles…
Gee… It was just recently we learned of Anderson Silva‘s disapproval over his manager, Ed Soares publicly dismissing Chael Sonnen as a deserving title-challenger. Soares said, Silva should be fighting other contenders, since Sonnen has.
Gee… It was just recently we learned of Anderson Silva‘s disapproval over his manager, Ed Soares publicly dismissing Chael Sonnen as a deserving title-challenger. Soares said, Silva should be fighting other contenders, since Sonnen has already tapped on him once and tested positive for steroids. Soares also added Silva only has about 4 fights left in his career. Silva remarked on Soares to Brazilian Televison show, Tela Nitida by saying:
“His position was not good, was not cool, as a manager he needed to have a more professional attitude. He was not professional and I don’t know why… I think it was not cool. But everyone knows what’s best, he is a grown man and he is going to deal with the backlash of what he did.”
Silva then offered a thinly veiled threat to Soares regarding contractual obligations:
“First thing is that nobody can talk for me except myself. Second is that I don’t have a contract with anybody, except with Nine9 and my sponsors, so anything can happen.”
Yet despite the fact that one very high profile top MMA fighter boldly denounced his manager speaking out on his behalf, Cesar Gracie, the longtime manager and coach for Nick Diaz decided to throw some insults toward Georges St. Pierre and call him “little star guy”. Gracie told Sherdog:
“You can’t pull a guy off a card and then bring him back on: ‘Oh, he’s not good enough to fight. We pulled him out of the card. He can’t be in the main event. Yeah, here you go. Oh, wait a minute, guess what happened? Our little star guy over here, his knee hurts. Oh my God, we need Nick Diaz. Let’s put him back in the main event.’ Everybody wants to see that fight. He delivers. Well, little star guy didn’t fight and Nick Diaz did, but they pulled a lot of money from Nick’s purse because it wasn’t structured for him to make as much if it wasn’t GSP, even though he was the main event now and put the people in the seats. Nick Diaz saved that card. OK? That’s what people need to remember when they talk about responsibility, is that he showed up, hamstring injury, knee injury, whatever. He had the same thing. He’s the guy that showed up. He’s the guy that fought his heart out, him and B.J. Penn. They put on a show. They’re two great warriors. They saved the UFC that night.”
But it wasn’t too long ago, when Gracie spoke a different tune out of frustration when Diaz was a no-show to the Las Vegas UFC 137 pre-fight press conference which resulted in Diaz being pulled from the title-fight. Gracie told MMAFighting.com:
There’s a lot of hard workers I see that have trouble putting food on the table for their kids,. I’ve stuck up for Nick a lot, but I can’t stick up for him on this one. I would have driven him to Vegas if it came to that. I don’t care. He just turned his phone off and acted like a little kid. It just doesn’t cut it.”
Hey for that statement, you can’t blame Gracie for speaking out of heartfelt discouragement at the time. Is it okay then for Gracie to do an about-turn by taking all blame off Nick for problems that occurred with the UFC 137 card after-the-fact and call Nick the savior? If your intentions are in the right place, it’s only right to stick up for your guy. But let’s hope as Nick Diaz’s star is rising that Gracie stays grounded.
No fighter needs all the controversy within their own entourage when they only have few years to make their money and their mark. Besides, last I checked Diaz and Silva do pretty well when speaking for themselves, Nick earned himself a title-shot and Anderson pocketed some sweet Twitter cash. So let’s cross our fingers for Gracie’s sake, he doesn’t lose sight of how he was initially disappointed in Nick. Let’s put some faith in him, he isn’t caught smiling with GSP anytime soon [see picture of Soares and Sonnen above]. Let’s believe he’s in a more committed relationship with Diaz than that of Soares and Silva. And then, let’s really get down on our knees and pray for our sake, the managers stick to business behind-the-scenes, and we get to hear more from the fighters.
Georges St. Pierre needs the strong hands of a male masseur to work out those kinks. Sorry ladies, if you want to touch GSP, looks like you’ll have to stick to stripping.
Georges St. Pierre needs the strong hands of a male masseur to work out those kinks. Sorry ladies, if you want to touch GSP, looks like you’ll have to stick to stripping.
Nick Diaz tops UFC 137 salaries with $200,000. Donald Cerrone vs. Nate Diaz slated for UFC 141 in Las Vegas on December 30th. Carlos Condit didn’t step aside so much as Georges St. Pierre chose.
They say “a picture tells a thousand words” and I can’t think of a better photo to describe the Mixed Martial Arts sport than the one [above] here. Thanks Cesar Gracie for posting it. There.
They say “a picture tells a thousand words” and I can’t think of a better photo to describe the Mixed Martial Arts sport than the one [above] here. Thanks Cesar Gracie for posting it.
There were many tense moments leading up to this unforgettable night at UFC 137. It started with the main event change up from Nick Diaz getting a shot at the title against Georges St. Pierre to Dana White revoking the shot as punishment when Diaz cost him six flights he never made. White told the media in an unusual press conference in Las Vegas where he stood at a podium next to a seated GSP and an empty chair that he couldn’t trust Diaz to show up on fight night if Diaz wasn’t even willing to show up at a press event to promote it. He said, Carlos Condit will get the title-shot instead. When Condit received the call, he told us he couldn’t even speak to White, because he was so gratefully choked up. He called White back about 15 minutes later. Then he called his father.
But as it sometimes feels, that good guys finish last, Condit would not get to fulfill his title dreams just yet. GSP was injured in training and pulled out of the fight. White had already booked Diaz vs. BJ Penn to replace Condit in that co-main event, and Condit didn’t want to look for a replacement to fight as he felt he should wait for GSP to heal and keep his title-shot. So UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz was born with the tagline: “Expect the Unexpected”.
The card was filled with spectacular match-ups and hiccups throughout. Brad Tavares was injured, as well and pulled out, promoting Scott Jorgenson vs. Jeff Curran to the main card. On the day of weigh-ins, Tyson Griffin failed to make his 145 pound weight and opponent Bart Palaszewski agreed to a catchweight at 148. Griffin was knocked out by Palaszewski in the first round. Hatsu Hioki made his UFC debut and came out victorious amidst the crowd booing for what seemed a controversial split decision against George Roop. Roy Nelson retired Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic by TKO in the third round.
We learned from Cro Cop in the pre-fight press conference that he planned on this fight, (win or lose) to be his last. He came across very accepting and good with this decision, but in the post fight press conference, we were told by Dana White that Cro Cop would not be speaking with us, as he was very upset and had left the grounds immediately. Another fighter we would learn had become emotionally charged from his Unanimous Decision loss was a battered BJ Penn who unexpectedly announced his retirement when speaking to Joe Rogan. White told us in the press conference, he hadn’t heard about the announcement and would wait for BJ to take some time and let him know his plans.
Nick Diaz was suffering some medical issues of his own when he was finally able to join us in the post fight presser. He came out with a swollen eye and very somber over his win. He explained to us that he was not happy with the win and that he faced many challenges training for this fight. He let his disappointment over losing the title-shot get the better of him. He couldn’t afford to compensate training partners who no longer can offer their services for free or little money. He made mistakes and took punches on purpose. Then it was announced by Dana White that Diaz would receive the next title-shot. Condit had agreed to step aside after White had spoken with an extremely irate GSP who wants to fight Diaz for being so disrespectful. The event will happen over Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas and Condit wants to fight on the card. White assured that Condit will get the next shot after Diaz. Someone asked, what if Condit loses? White replied, “Oh Shit.”
Diaz wasn’t any happier with the news of his title-shot. He felt he had to come across as a villain in order to receive the shot and he is getting it, because now he called out GSP and everyone wants to see him get his ass kicked. Diaz doesn’t seem to reason, that most fans of the sport enjoy watching him fight and we want to see the match-up simply for this reason. But then, I think…here’s nice guy Condit, who in essence is [willingly] forced to step aside…hmm…maybe Diaz has a point.
Nick Diaz makes a few good points, though. He’s very misunderstood by some members of the press, as well as fans of the sport. And yet, he misunderstands the press and fans, in return. For example Diaz discussed his financial issues with us in lengthy description of how he takes long runs in beautiful neighborhoods with sprawling homes and returns to his seedy neighborhood where his car gets busted into and junkies are picking up cigarette butts around his house. We laughed at what Diaz described because his delivery was charming and honest. We got it. There are so many of us out there who could relate to him in this economy and often there is a need to inject humor about it. He didn’t understand it was a case of laughing with him. He mistook us for laughing at him. And it clicks that Nick Diaz isn’t a villain. He just doesn’t understand our motivations, as we don’t always understand his.
The basic reason for a person to choose the career path of professional fighting is the need for proving this talent. I think that’s what they all want. Even though Cro Cop planned to retire and has enriched both his fans and the new breed of fighters with his performances, he was upset because he had something to prove, even if it was just to himself. BJ took every shot like a warrior in his fight with Nick, because he had something to prove. And Nick follows in that similar mentality. Only there are two things Nick should know that he doesn’t have to prove… He is not a bad guy and he is a brilliant fighter.
