Something almost every fighter will tell you is that they fight in the UFC to entertain the fans. Joe Lauzon knows all about it.Although he hasn’t climbed to within title conversations as of yet, Lauzon puts on a show whenever he enters the Octag…
Something almost every fighter will tell you is that they fight in the UFC to entertain the fans. Joe Lauzon knows all about it.
Although he hasn’t climbed to within title conversations as of yet, Lauzon puts on a show whenever he enters the Octagon.
The UFC rewards efforts such as this with their “Fight Night” bonuses. Lauzon is only second for number of bonuses received, that have been given out since UFC Ultimate Fight Night 3 in January 2006. That night, Melvin Guillard and Josh Neer received $20,000 for “Fight of the Night.”
Lauzon is set to face Jim Miller at UFC 155, where he will look to move into a tie (or break) the UFC record for most fight night bonuses.
For now, here are some guys that, like Lauzon, have won over fans, media and colleagues alike with excellent performances and amazing finishes.
Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has been alternating wins and losses since he defeated Chuck Liddell in April 2009.He will look for his first two-fight win streak since then when he faces a tough Swede in Alexander Gustafsson.It has been a tough road for Shogun …
Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has been alternating wins and losses since he defeated Chuck Liddell in April 2009.
He will look for his first two-fight win streak since then when he faces a tough Swede in Alexander Gustafsson.
It has been a tough road for Shogun in the UFC. After sporting a 12-1 record in PRIDE and winning the 2005 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix, he has gone 5-4, but it hasn’t been all bad, considering his reign as UFC Light-heavyweight champion.
Gustafsson isn’t one to back down from, as he is on a five-fight win streak and has only lost once in his 15 professional MMA bouts to date.
Gustafsson has a chance to make a name for himself by defeating a legend and a top-five light-heavyweight, moving him much closer to a future title opportunity.
Carlos Condit is asking for some change…at least in this new hilarious video campaign posted by the UFC’s YouTube page.Condit comes into UFC 154 looking to become the undisputed UFC Welterweight Champion. He has a 28-5 record and is on a five f…
Condit comes into UFC 154 looking to become the undisputed UFC Welterweight Champion. He has a 28-5 record and is on a five fight winning streak.
Condit didn’t come over to the UFC until a year after GSP started his current reign as king of the 170 pound division.
The ad also states that if elected…if he wins the championship, he will be known for three things: “knockouts, knockouts [and] shorts” (obviously a shot at GSP‘s usual spandex ring attire).
Condit‘s track record speaks for itself, as he has knocked out three of his last four opponents, those being Rory MacDonald, Dan Hardy and Kim Dong-Hyun.
St. Pierre is known for the ground game, so Condit will have to use everything he knows from training with GSP so he can be ready to block take down attempts. That way, he keeps the fight standing up, away from his opponent’s greatest strength.
Condit will do his best to “stand” for everything he believes in and is hoping to get your support as he tries to secure your votes…secure a victory and claim the belt.
We all know Georges St. Pierre and Carlos Condit have trained together in the past and will face each other for the undisputed UFC Welterweight championship on November 17 at UFC 154.Both have claim to a piece of welterweight gold, and only one will wa…
We all know Georges St. Pierre and Carlos Condit have trained together in the past and will face each other for the undisputed UFC Welterweight championship on November 17 at UFC 154.
Both have claim to a piece of welterweight gold, and only one will walk out champion, but who will it be?
GSP has an impressive 22-2 record, including six-straight title defenses over such names as B.J. Penn, Josh Koscheck, Jake Shields, Dan Hardy, ThiagoAlves and Jon Fitch.
“Condit has no title defenses, a controversial victory over Nick Diaz and his stance on foreign policy,” says this hilarious video.
St. Pierre hasn’t lost a fight in over five years, dating back to Matt Serra’s upset victory at UFC 69.
He dresses in suits, deals with the public well and is a name known worldwide.
GSP is a dynamic fighter, whose stance on fighting is to get to the ground and utilize his jiu-jitsu game for a submission.
GSP is no secret to having the interim title, but publicly said that it wasn’t the real thing. He grabbed “the real thing” at UFC 83 in his native Montreal, Quebec in April 2008.
Now, he is in the role of having a disputed world championship to defend.
GSP wants your votes for UFC Welterweight Champion. Will you give him his support in the upcoming election?
Wait, I mean fight. Sorry, the video is getting me in the spirit to cast my vote…and I’m Canadian!
Anyway, will GSP emerge as champion? What do you think?
After coming out of semi-retirement to fight Anderson Silva at UFC 153, Stephan Bonnar has decided to call it a career.”Huge thanks to every UFC fan out there! All I ever wanted was to bring ya’ll some fun…hope u were entertained. Peace, love, &…
After coming out of semi-retirement to fight Anderson Silva at UFC 153, Stephan Bonnar has decided to call it a career.
“Huge thanks to every UFC fan out there! All I ever wanted was to bring ya’ll some fun…hope u were entertained. Peace, love, & violence!” said Bonnarthrough his Facebook page.
Bonnar finishes with a 15-8 record, including memorable bouts with KrzysztofSoszynski, Mark Coleman and Forrest Griffin.
Bonnar never really climbed that close to a title opportunity in his career, but he definitely saved the UFC with his TUF 1 finale bout with the future light-heavyweight champion, and later down the road, he faced current champ Jon Jones, losing each by decision.
The truth is, there really is a bunch of things that we will remember about Bonnar‘s career, even out of the Octagon.
His fight with Silva is a big memory for his career, as it showed that with a long layoff, he was able to use his speed to catch even the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world off guard to start the bout. Bonnar even held his own for a brief period of the fight, using the cage to keep Silva under control before getting knocked out.
That was the first time Bonnar was knocked out, as his two previous TKO losses were for cuts.
He hasn’t been submitted, and although he was knocked out, Bonnar wasn’t doing too badly, winning three in a row before UFC 153.
Is he Hall of Fame worthy? That’s another article for another day, but it raises the question on how he will be remembered.
That’s up to you to decide; so how do you think the “American Psycho” will be remembered?
What started April 2008 at UFC 83 was a love affair between UFC President Dana White and Canadian fans, and who can blame either?The UFC has a massive fanbase in Canada. The attendance records show it with the UFC’s top four attended events of all time…
What started April 2008 at UFC 83 was a love affair between UFC President Dana White and Canadian fans, and who can blame either?
The UFC has a massive fanbase in Canada. The attendance records show it with the UFC’s top four attended events of all time, including a reported 55,724 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario for UFC 129 in April 2011.
The UFC also makes a ton of cash on Canadian soil, so they know there’s business to be had. It’s not only Canadian fans getting excited, but also Canadian mixed martial artists.
As announced by UFC Canada Director Tom Wright in a recent article on MMAWeekly.com, the UFC will continue to produce plenty of content for Canadian fans, with a reported four or five events set for 2013 and another five in 2014. That means plenty of chances for Canadian fighters to get bouts on cards closer to home.
It’s not only current fighters getting excited, but also aspiring Canadian UFC fighters looking for their big break into the biggest MMA promotion. Wright indicated that there would be a season of The Ultimate Fighter for Canadian fighters.
The UFC will hold their third event in Canada in 2012, with UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit on Nov. 17. There were three events each in 2011 and 2010 for the UFC.
If all this comes to fruition, Canada will not have to worry about starving for UFC action for a long time to come.
The planned events for 2013 see two going to Montreal and Toronto and two other places that “may surprise a few people.” That could be about anywhere in the nation, if Wright has anything to do with it.
It is also possible one of the proposed events would serve as the TUF: Canada finale.
Wright has been making “countless trips” to Ottawa to get MMA legalized nationwide. He wants to change the current definition of prize fights in Canada, under section 83 (2) of the criminal code, to include mixed martial arts.
The code currently states:
Prize fight means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.
The UFC has made stops in Ontario (Toronto), Quebec (Montreal), British Columbia (Vancouver) and Alberta (Calgary).
Changing the legal definition of this code is a big move by the UFC to cover the rest of the country. With the bill for this change in the House of Commons in Ottawa, it is reportedly expected to pass, making it easier for the UFC to make a permanent home in all parts of Canada.
It seems like a slow transition Dana White has been making with Canada, slowly increasing the number of events each year. Now, however, there will be more events and more content for Canadian UFC fans to sink their teeth into.
With all these moves by UFC brass, are they being too aggressive?
