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Have you seen the commercials for UFC on FOX but are new to the whole MMA thing?Don’t worry, Bleacher Report has you covered.There are many facts that people new to MMA need to know in order to better appreciate the sport and to not sound like a comple…
Have you seen the commercials for UFC on FOX but are new to the whole MMA thing?
Don’t worry, Bleacher Report has you covered.
There are many facts that people new to MMA need to know in order to better appreciate the sport and to not sound like a complete “noob” when talking to “hardcore” fans of the sport.
Some of this may seem complicated and intimidating, but it’s really not that hard to understand.
So what do you need to know about MMA before you watch UFC on FOX? Read and find out!
Chris Leben isn’t washed up—he was just never that great to begin with.This notion sounds absolutely heretical since Leben has always been a fan favorite due to his exciting fighting style, which always brings spectators to the edge of their seat…
Chris Leben isn’t washed up—he was just never that great to begin with.
This notion sounds absolutely heretical since Leben has always been a fan favorite due to his exciting fighting style, which always brings spectators to the edge of their seats, wanting more.
But it’s true: People only believed Leben was good because they liked watching him fight, and they wanted to believe that he was more than what he was—a brawler.
At UFC 138, it was proven that Leben was just a fighter who ran out of answers when met with a superior athlete.
Mark Munoz set a frantic, grinding pace that Leben couldn’t keep up with. The “Filipino Wrecking Machine” also used his superior wrestling to bring Leben to the mat and batter him, opening up a cut that impaired Leben’s vision in one eye and forced the fight to be stopped.
But was this any surprise to anyone that wasn’t blinded by their love for Leben’s fighting style (or by his bright red hair)?
You might remember a fighter by the name of Jake Rosholt, a great wrestler and good fighter who, despite his skills, only went 1-3 in the UFC.
Who was that one victory over? Chris Leben.
Rosholt stuck to Leben like glue, not letting him get any of his powerful shots off. Rosholt took Leben down at will and eventually submitted him with an arm-triangle choke in the third round.
When Leben’s record is examined further, it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. He is 12-7 in the UFC, but many of those victories came over lower-caliber fighters.
Leben may have beaten one great wrestler in Aaron Simpson, but Simpson was (and still is in some ways) a wrestler who’s trying to do MMA, rather than a proper MMA fighter; he’s still very uncomfortable when someone throws punches at him a la Brock Lesnar.
Yoshihiro Akiyama is another fighter whom Leben defeated, but Akiyama was one of the most overrated fighters in the UFC. He was somehow considered top competition despite never having beaten any top competition. The native of Japan is currently 1-3 in the UFC, and some would argue 0-4, since the one victory was a controversial decision over Alan Belcher.
What about Leben’s knockout of Pride legend Wanderlei Silva? Silva’s fighting style finally caught up with him; your bell can only be rung so many times.
Leben beat up guys like Alessio Sakara and Jorge Santiago, and he lost even when he took a minor step up in competition, losing to Brian Stann, Jason Macdonald, Michael Bisping and even Kalib Starnes!
Leben isn’t washed up—he was just exposed again as a guy who goes out to “fight” rather than win. While this makes him more popular and even idolized by fans, it ruins his potential.
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UFC 138 is over and done with. Chris Leben couldn’t handle the athleticism, power and wrestling of Mark Munoz, and Renan Barao proved that he is an amazing fighter with an effortless victory over Brad Pickett.There were several other fights on the card…
UFC 138 is over and done with. Chris Leben couldn’t handle the athleticism, power and wrestling of Mark Munoz, and Renan Barao proved that he is an amazing fighter with an effortless victory over Brad Pickett.
There were several other fights on the card that answered important questions and taught important lessons.
In addition, there were occurrences outside the Octagon that also were of some importance.
So what questions were answered and what lessons were learned? Read and find out!
Fedor Emelianenko doesn’t matter in modern MMA, nor will he matter in MMA history.Regarding the former point, look at what Emelianenko is up to now. The “Greatest of All Time” is set to fight Jeff Monson (a fighter who hasn’t beaten anyone decent since…
Fedor Emelianenko doesn’t matter in modern MMA, nor will he matter in MMA history.
Regarding the former point, look at what Emelianenko is up to now. The “Greatest of All Time” is set to fight Jeff Monson (a fighter who hasn’t beaten anyone decent since 2009) at an M-1 Global show in Moscow, Russia.
Ordering the event will set fans back $29.95 and a good night’s sleep, since it will air live from Russia at approximately 7:30 am EST/4:30 am PST.
Meanwhile, the UFC will be putting the two best heavyweights—UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and challenger Junior Dos Santos—against each other for free on FOX.
Now are you seeing why Fedor Emelianenko isn’t exactly relevant these days and why nobody cares about what he’s doing with M-1?
“So what? Everybody falls out of their prime! Fedor will still be remembered as one of the greatest of all time,” the typical Emelianenko or Pride fan would say.
However, there is no guarantee that Emelianenko will ever be remembered as one of the greats. In fact, it’s far more likely that he’ll be forgotten. There are two words that can prove this:
Frank Shamrock.
When Frank Shamrock was UFC light heavyweight champion, he was more than just that. He was the undisputed light heavyweight champion of the world since he managed to beat the best in his weight class in the United States as well as in Japan (the only other country with a significant talent pool at the time).
He was one of the most successful fighters in the sport’s and the company’s history.
But is not history a set of lies agreed upon?
Shamrock’s personality clashed with UFC president Dana White‘s. As a result, Frank Shamrock was practically erased from UFC history (and by extension, MMA history, since the majority of fans don’t know anything outside of what the official UFC line is).
Shamrock is not in the UFC hall of fame; Shamrock isn’t mentioned in broadcasts or in anything that the UFC does. It’s almost as if he didn’t even exist.
If Shamrock—a man who worked for the company and was even a champion there—was erased from existence, what will happen to Emelianenko, a man who never even fought in the UFC?
He, too, will fade away.
There is no doubt that he was once the best heavyweight in the world. Back when the UFC was parading around guys like Wesley “Cabbage” Correira and Wes Sims as world-beaters, Emelianenko was actually beating the world in Pride.
Despite having better fighters on the whole (at least in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions), Pride fell, and it seemed like we’d see Emelianenko dominate in the UFC.
This wasn’t to be.
After Pride was gone, the UFC was the dominant force in mixed martial arts. By not signing with them, Emelianenko destroyed his legacy.
Instead of being remembered as a great fighter, he’ll be remembered as the guy who couldn’t hack it in Strikeforce and the minor leagues, and who only became famous by beating up guys who couldn’t perform well in the UFC or even make it to the UFC.
As the sport progresses, the UFC’s version of the sport’s history will eventually become the only version of the sport’s history.
The legacy of Fedor Emelianenko will live on only in Youtube highlight reels and in the mint-condition Pride DVDs of MMA historians and the world’s last remaining Pride fans, who will still be insisting that the long-dead organization is better than the UFC.
Tragic?
Hardly. While some are lamenting the fall of Fedor Emelianenko and the inevitable loss of his legacy, most MMA fans will be enjoying the growth of the UFC and the creation of new stars like Jon Jones, Cain Velasquez, Junior Dos Santos and more.
So it seems that the MMA world has finally gotten over Fedor Emelianenko. Have you?
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“One country to rule them all, One country to find them, One country to bring them all and in the darkness bind them!”The UFC has made a point of becoming a multinational organization and the United Kingdom’s UFC 138 is just one step towards that goal….
“One country to rule them all, One country to find them, One country to bring them all and in the darkness bind them!”
The UFC has made a point of becoming a multinational organization and the United Kingdom’s UFC 138 is just one step towards that goal.
However, some foreign nations that the UFC has frequented were more important than others in the grand scheme of things, and one was more important than all of them!
Which foreign country was the most important? Does the UK top the list due to its fueling of the UFC’s global expansion. What about Canada’s love of the UFC? Does that make them the most important country? Or does Japan take the number one slot due to essentially creating MMA with pancrase and shooto?
The most important one may surprise you. What is it? Read and find out!
Aside from Nick Diaz vs. Georges St.Pierre, there are other dream fights that MMA fans would love to see on the Super Bowl card. The title fight between champion St.Pierre and challenger Diaz was tentatively scheduled for the Super Bowl card after…
Aside from Nick Diaz vs. Georges St.Pierre, there are other dream fights that MMA fans would love to see on the Super Bowl card.
The title fight between champion St.Pierre and challenger Diaz was tentatively scheduled for the Super Bowl card after Diaz battered B.J. Penn for the better part of 15 minutes at UFC 137.
But there are other great fights that the UFC could put on for that card. What could the UFC possibly do? Read and find out!