Dan Severn is a UFC Hall of Fame fighter, the first one to be exact.He fought in the old days of the UFC against other legends such as Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie. He has been a powerful wrestler, UFC tournament winner and an ambassador to the sport….
Dan Severn is a UFC Hall of Fame fighter, the first one to be exact.
He fought in the old days of the UFC against other legends such as Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie. He has been a powerful wrestler, UFC tournament winner and an ambassador to the sport.
The bad part of this story is that Dan is still fighting. He is now 53 years old and he has not fought in the UFC in over 14 years yet he pushes on. He should be at home relaxing, enjoying retirement from fighting and the rest of his life.
But, instead he was in the cage for the 124th time. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he won 10 fights in a row, but recently dropped two in a row including this knockout loss on May 20.
It is no secret that former teammates Rashad Evans and Jon Jones dislike each other. After Jones said that he needed surgery and a delay to his first title defense, Rashad Evans chose to take a fight with Phil Davis. Rashad has recently been very outsp…
It is no secret that former teammates Rashad Evans and Jon Jones dislike each other. After Jones said that he needed surgery and a delay to his first title defense, Rashad Evans chose to take a fight with Phil Davis. Rashad has recently been very outspoken about the fact that he truly believes that Jones is ducking him and avoiding their fight.
He spoke about it on Pro MMA Radio. Rashad stated, “It’s hard for me to imagine with Jon thinking he’s so great and that he thinks he can beat me but it’s just odd. When you don’t take a fight with somebody for one reason or another, that’s one thing, but to make up an injury, say you have an injury and you go as far as to say you’ll have surgery and then you don’t have it. That’s clearly a sign that you don’t want to fight somebody.”
Whether there is any truth to Rashad’s theory or not, it does seem to make some sense. Jones seemed certain that he needed surgery and now he suddenly decides to forgo an operation after Evans had already secured another bout.
Now that Rashad is slated to fight Phil Davis at UFC 133 in August, the match smells like a number one contender bout.
UFC 129 was the biggest UFC event in history in terms of attendance, live gate ticket sales and marketing. The fight card featured welterweight champion and MMA superstar Georges St-Pierre, Jake Shields, Randy Couture, Lyoto Machida and Jose Aldo. It w…
UFC 129 was the biggest UFC event in history in terms of attendance, live gate ticket sales and marketing. The fight card featured welterweight champion and MMA superstar Georges St-Pierre, Jake Shields, Randy Couture, Lyoto Machida and Jose Aldo.
It was a truly epic event that should have done huge numbers in the pay per view ratings as well. The strange thing is that it did not meet the expectations that were placed on it by the projections.
Dave Meltzer reported that the event was estimated to have done around 800-900,000 buys, which is short of the one million buy goal.
The numbers will likely have been skewed due to the fact the UFC now starts its pay per views at 9pm Eastern time as opposed to 10pm in the past.
The time change certainly had an effect on the number of people who bought the event. After a few months, the numbers will be more clearly defined, but until casual fans get used to the time change, the numbers will most likely stay a bit lower.
Even with the numbers being below expectations, UFC 129 did a great job of bringing the sport of MMA into the mainstream. The event used so many different media outlets that had not been previously utilized and it helped the sport crawl forward to dominance.
Alistair Overeem has had great success in the last four years yet he continues to be criticized by many people in the MMA universe. Overeem has not fought the same competition that the UFC has to offer, but he has done things in the years since he left…
Alistair Overeem has had great success in the last four years yet he continues to be criticized by many people in the MMA universe. Overeem has not fought the same competition that the UFC has to offer, but he has done things in the years since he left Pride Fighting Championships that make him stand as an elite heavyweight in mixed martial arts.
If he beats Fabricio Werdum next month there will be a long of people saying that they knew he was capable of this and that they knew he could do it. But right now in May 2011 his detractors are large in numbers and they are quite outspoken.
I will present three reasons why Alistair Overeem is an elite heavyweight and why he deserves to be in the top ten in the world.
Jon Jones and Rashad Evans have been exchanging verbal blows for months now. The trash talk started when Jones beat “Shogun” Rua to become the UFC light heavyweight champion in March and they have not simmered down one bit.Sugar and Bones b…
Jon Jones and Rashad Evans have been exchanging verbal blows for months now. The trash talk started when Jones beat “Shogun” Rua to become the UFC light heavyweight champion in March and they have not simmered down one bit.
Sugar and Bones both used to train at Greg Jackson’s MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rashad had been a part of the Jackson team for years and, after it was made known that he would face Jones next, Evans decided to leave the gym.
Rashad seemed to be dealing with the fact that the coaches had taken a great liking to Jon and he seemed to grow jealous to the point of being downright obsessed with it.
A subsequent match was set for the fall, but it fell apart when Jones said that he had to pull out of the fight due to a torn ligament in his hand. Rashad then came up with the theory that Jones was ducking him. The verbal battles continued in interviews, on twitter and online.
Rashad’s theory seemed to be a bit far-fetched. That was, until recently. He signed to fight Phil Davis at UFC 133 in Philadelphia and it was mere days later that Jon Jones revealed that he would forgo surgery and that he intends to fight this fall despite the injury. Evans is now even more convinced that Jones is avoiding fighting him for some reason. So, I ask you—is Jon Jones ducking Rashad Evans?
Brendan Schaub is known as “The Hybrid.” I’m not quite sure where the nickname comes from, but I do know that he is one heck of an athlete.He was a former Arena Football League player who made quite the impression on the Ultimate Fighter ten. Sch…
Brendan Schaub is known as “The Hybrid.” I’m not quite sure where the nickname comes from, but I do know that he is one heck of an athlete.
He was a former Arena Football League player who made quite the impression on the Ultimate Fighter ten. Schaub suffered a brutal knockout loss to Roy “Big Country” Nelson at the TUF finale, but has since rebounded with four straight wins inside the Octagon. Schaub has improved by leaps and bounds and now has a win over MMA legend and Pride open weight grand prix champion, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic.
This is a great signature win, but I don’t know how much it really means. Cro Cop had a serious size advantage, giving up thirty pounds to Schaub. Cro Cop also recently received a knockout loss to Frank Mir in which he was out cold. If you couple that with the knockout he suffered to Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 70, it becomes very apparent that Mirko was finished as a fighter before he ever entered the Octagon.
Cro Cop actually put up one hell of a fight that night, but that says more about what Brendan Schaub lacks and less about what Mirko has left in the tank. It still puzzles me that Frank Mir had such a difficult time with Cro Cop, until he knocked him out. This all goes to prove my point that Cro Cop can’t take a shot anymore. Neither Mir or Schaub should put too much stock into those knockout victories.
It was recently announced that Brendan Schaub is now slated to fight Pride legend and former UFC interim heavyweight champion, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Nogueira is a true legend of this young sport, but he is on a steep decline to retirement. Schaub had previously campaigned to fight Frank Mir and had seemed to want to fight other men previously.
Then, suddenly, he seemed to switch his path and decide he wanted to fight another MMA legend. The problem I have with this is that Nogueira is shot by most people’s assessment.
In the last three years, he has been knocked out by Frank Mir and Cain Velasquez, suffered from staph infections and knee problems and now is coming off of a year-and-a-half layoff. It seems that Brendan is being given an easy route to the top. Much easier than the road Roy Nelson has traveled. So, I must ask one question. Is Brendan Schaub being given the easy route to the top?
Dan Severn is a UFC Hall of Fame fighter, the first one to be exact.