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There are several reasons to be excited for UFC 139, despite the fact that no title is being defended.As with any event, there are upsides and downsides to the matches on the fight card. For UFC 139, the good outweighs the bad.So why should you be watc…
There are several reasons to be excited for UFC 139, despite the fact that no title is being defended.
As with any event, there are upsides and downsides to the matches on the fight card. For UFC 139, the good outweighs the bad.
So why should you be watching UFC 139 tonight? And why should you be on the edge of your seat when the fight card is starting? Read and find out!
Wanderlei Silva has been in too many wars. His battle against Cung Le at UFC 139 may be his last.The Brazilian legend, who made his fame in Japan’s Pride Fighting Championships, is the veteran of over 40 fights, many of them the most classic in the org…
Wanderlei Silva has been in too many wars. His battle against Cung Le at UFC 139 may be his last.
The Brazilian legend, who made his fame in Japan’s Pride Fighting Championships, is the veteran of over 40 fights, many of them the most classic in the organization.
However, time stands still for no man; all of those fights have taken their toll on Silva’s body.
“The Axe Murderer” is 2-6 in the last five years, with four of those losses being by knockout (and each knockout loss was progressively worse).
Most recently, Silva was easily disposed of by popular brawler Chris Leben in less than 30 seconds.
After that fight, Silva found himself between retirement and a return to the Octagon. A normal man would spare his body and mind the pain of another trip into the cage, but Wanderlei Silva isn’t a normal man.
Retirement never crossed his mind.
That might not have been the best decision, though.
Silva has since been matched up with eclectic Sanshou fighter Cung Le at this Saturday’s UFC 139 event in San Jose, Calif.
A fighter like Le will present problems that an aged Silva may not be able to cope with.
Le throws many unorthodox strikes and is skilled at avoiding punishment, unless he gets gassed in the later rounds, like his first fight against Scott Smith. Silva has shown in his recent fights that he just likes to charge forward with reckless abandon.
This will create problems for Silva because Le will almost definitely land powerful counter shots that will hurt Silva and probably knock him out since, sadly, Silva’s chin isn’t what it used to be.
Silva’s style was great back in the day when he was healthy and hadn’t been through tremendous punishment. But now, fighters with even average power could probably put Silva out.
Thus, a striker of Le’s precision will have no problem hitting Silva on the button and sending him into unconsciousness, hopefully for the last time in his career, lest he keeps going and gets permanent damage.
Had this fight taken place in the early-to-mid 2000s, it’d be a different story. The fight would be over quickly, but not because of Silva’s weak chin.
Le would’ve thrown a fancy kick, Silva would’ve avoided it, rushed into the pocket, and proceeded to beat Le to a pulp.
However, it isn’t that time anymore. Wanderlei Silva is worse for the wear. His body is tired, his strength is waning.
It’s a shame legends have to get old.
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Cung Le hasn’t abandoned MMA for Hollywood. His upcoming fight against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 139 is his top priority, not what film roles he has lined up.”The last time I came off a movie set was the end of February,” Le said at the UFC 139 media conf…
Cung Le hasn’t abandoned MMA for Hollywood. His upcoming fight against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 139 is his top priority, not what film roles he has lined up.
“The last time I came off a movie set was the end of February,” Le said at the UFC 139 media conference call, at which Bleacher Report was present.
“I got back and I took like a week or two off and was back in the gym every day training until now. Right now all the focus is on Wanderlei. Whatever movies are lined up, my manger is taking care of that, so I’m just focused on this fight right now. Then I’ll sit down with me team afterwards and see what’s going on.”
The fight against Silva is Le’s first fight in over a year; the last time the eclectic Sanshou fighter was in the cage, it was in a June 2010 Strikeforce bout against Scott Smith.
Le easily disposed of Smith, but wasn’t heard from for quite some time after the merger.
According to Le, that wasn’t his intention.
“Right after the last Scott Smith fight I wanted to fight right away,” he said. “But Strikeforce doesn’t have as many fights as the UFC so I got put on hold for a while. So I just jumped right into the movies and did three movies back to back. Then, the UFC ended up buying Strikeforce and I felt like this was my opportunity; I could fight for the UFC and it actually happened.”
Does this mean that if the UFC hadn’t purchased Strikeforce that Le would’ve been done in MMA?
That question can’t be answered for sure since even Le himself doesn’t know.
“It’s really hard to answer that question because I’m a fighter first before I’m an actor.”
“If this fight wouldn’t have happened, it could’ve went either way. I could’ve just maybe hung up the gloves and focused more on the movie career…Scott and I, we’re pretty good friends, so I figured I’d end my career with Scott Coker and Strikeforce. But when the UFC bought [Strikeforce], I was excited and there was more of an opportunity for me to fight for the UFC, and then it happened!”
Le may be friends with Coker and be grateful to Strikeforce, but he knows how much the UFC means to a fighter.
“The UFC is the top of the food chain. It’s like going from the CFL to the NFL,” he said.
At UFC 139, Le will be fighting in his hometown of San Jose, Calif., which provides a sense of poetic justice since that’s where Le’s very first MMA fight took place.
The only down side? Moochers.
“All you’re old friends from high school, junior high, they’re definitely hitting you up for tickets for free.”
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There are classic fights in MMA, such as Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar, and then there are fights so bad that even mentioning them is painful.It is such fights that MMA fans wish never happened.Some of these fights were lackluster, some of them we…
There are classic fights in MMA, such as Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar, and then there are fights so bad that even mentioning them is painful.
It is such fights that MMA fans wish never happened.
Some of these fights were lackluster, some of them were just absurd, and some were sad since they saw the end of a legend.
So what are these fights, and why do we wish they never happened? Read and find out!
Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC, has filed a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Eric Shneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance with the ultimate purpose of legalizing MMA in New York, according to the Wall Street Jou…
Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC, has filed a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Eric Shneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance with the ultimate purpose of legalizing MMA in New York, according to the Wall Street Journal.
What’s the crux of Zuffa’s argument?
That the banning of MMA in New York tramples over the right to freedom of speech given by the first amendment, although the amendment is interpreted to include more than just speech.
One such case that Zuffa bases its argument on is Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, a case in which it was determined that banning the sale of violent video games was an infringement on first amendment rights.
Zuffa has brought on a veritable who’s who of plaintiffs, including Jon Jones, Gina Carano, Frankie Edgar, Brian Stann and Matt Hamill.
The man representing Zuffa and the other plaintiffs—New York University School of Law professor Barry Friedman—is making full use of the fact that the sport is called mixed martial arts in his case against New York State.
“It’s martial artistry,” said Friedman. “The nature of martial arts is a lot like dancing…As is true of ballet, music, or theater, for an audience, attending a live MMA event is an experience that cannot be replicated on a screen.”
So will attacking the law that bans MMA succeed with this new strategy?
Jonathan Snowden, MMA writer and lawyer, is pessimistic.
He tweeted: “UFC’s fifth cause of action is that the law is ‘Unconstitutionally Irrational.’ More than 100 pages in and only two cases cited. Hmm…”
He then tweeted that despite his long time away from law school, he though that Zuffa “doesn’t have much of a case at all.”
The UFC has tried to lift the ban on MMA in New York on multiple occasions and was met with failure each time, despite donating over $70,000 to the campaign of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Only time will tell if the UFC can be successful this time around.
The legal documentation regarding the case can be read here.
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There are fights that are bad, and then there are fights that are so bad they’re awesome.Throughout MMA there are fighters who fans love to loath. They bemoan hearing about them and seeing them fight but, secretly, we all have some sort of morbid excit…
There are fights that are bad, and then there are fights that are so bad they’re awesome.
Throughout MMA there are fighters who fans love to loath. They bemoan hearing about them and seeing them fight but, secretly, we all have some sort of morbid excitement and curiosity about how these fights would turn out.
What fights could possible be so terrible that they’d be great? Read and find out!