MMA may be in its infancy, yet a vast amount of the sport’s pioneers have either retired or faded into oblivion. Fighters come and go, but for some fight fans, the retirement of a fighter can be heart-rending stuff. Most fighters in any walk of sport a…
MMA may be in its infancy, yet a vast amount of the sport’s pioneers have either retired or faded into oblivion. Fighters come and go, but for some fight fans, the retirement of a fighter can be heart-rending stuff.
Most fighters in any walk of sport are the last to know when to quit. When they do finally call time on their storied careers, it’s mostly due to the fact that they were on the receiving end of a one-sided beat-down.
UFC legends Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture and, most recently, B.J. Penn have all been party to said thrashing, which subsequently were the catalysts in their decisions to wave goodbye to the Octagon and their stellar careers.
Sure, the aforementioned combatants will be sorely missed for their achievements, but there are a host of other mixed martial artists and pioneers of the sport who shall be missed in equal measure.
Let’s take a look at a generation of MMA fighters that fight fans will really miss.
As you know by now, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries split and there is backlash everywhere. This article was inspired by a twitter hash-tag #thingslongerthantheirmarriage.Although divorce is usually no laughing matter, you kind of have to laugh at th…
As you know by now, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries split and there is backlash everywhere. This article was inspired by a twitter hash-tag #thingslongerthantheirmarriage.
Although divorce is usually no laughing matter, you kind of have to laugh at this as it lasted such a short time, and it was basically a publicity stunt.
I hope you get as good as a laugh out of these that I did as I list off some things in sports that were longer than their marriage.
The wait is nearly over: UFC 137 is less than three days away and the anticipation has reached fever-pitch. Who wins and who loses—Nick Diaz or B.J. Penn? UFC 137 is set to bring the house down at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on October 29 in L…
The wait is nearly over: UFC 137 is less than three days away and the anticipation has reached fever-pitch. Who wins and who loses—Nick Diaz or B.J. Penn?
UFC 137 is set to bring the house down at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on October 29 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And this is without the original main attraction of Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit.
The event is already stacked, from the preliminaries on Facebook and Spike TV, to the main card, where all eyes will be on the Diaz/Penn main event and its outcome.
However, there are four other fights that will be featured on the main card and are more than worthy of a mention, with the upshots probably signalling the end of a career or even a swift exit from the UFC altogether.
UFC 137 will go ahead without welterweight king Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Condit.Instead Nick Diaz and B.J. Penn will take centre stage as the main eventers of the evening.In less than a fortnight’s time UFC 137 will be making its way to the M…
UFC 137 will go ahead without welterweight king Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Condit.
Instead Nick Diaz and B.J. Penn will take centre stage as the main eventers of the evening.
In less than a fortnight’s time UFC 137 will be making its way to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And with it a host of supreme warriors will follow suit—seeking to showcase their skills whilst ensuring the end result culminates in them being victorious.
Even without St-Pierre and Condit headlining the main event, the show is still stacked to rafters with fights that could easily blow the roof off the Bay Center.
Here’s a sneak-peek at the match-ups that could emerge as the main attractions of the evening…
Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Condit are slated to throw down at UFC 137. This will be St. Pierre’s toughest test to date. The question on everyone’s lips will be, can St-Pierre, after winning his last four fights by unanimous decision, fina…
Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Condit are slated to throw down at UFC 137. This will be St. Pierre’s toughest test to date. The question on everyone’s lips will be, can St-Pierre, after winning his last four fights by unanimous decision, finally finish a fight?
Those questions, and a lot more, will be answered come fight night.
“Rush” (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) will be doing his damnedest to silence his critics once and for all, and prove that he’s actually capable of ending a fight—and he’ll want to do that in spectacular fashion.
On the other hand, “The Natural Born Killer” (27-5 MMA, 4-1 UFC) will be attempting to do what only Matt Hughes and Matt Serra have been able to achieve—defeat the No. 2 pound-for-pound legend.
UFC 137: Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit—who walks away with the belt?
On Saturday, Chael Sonnen defeated Brian Stann in emphatic fashion and then proceeded to call out his self-made arch-rival Anderson Silva. In overcoming Stann, Sonnen showed that not only can he finish a fight, but he can do it with a little pizzazz as…
On Saturday, Chael Sonnen defeated Brian Stann in emphatic fashion and then proceeded to call out his self-made arch-rival Anderson Silva.
In overcoming Stann, Sonnen showed that not only can he finish a fight, but he can do it with a little pizzazz as well—locking in an arm-triangle choke, forcing Stann to tap out at 3:51 of the second round.
Sonnen, in his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan had this to say about Silva:
“Anderson Silva, you absolutely suck!”
Sonnen went a step further with an interview with Ariel Helwani citing Silva as being pusillanimous.
Regardless to say, this win now puts Sonnen in the No. 1 spot as contender to the Silva’s UFC middleweight crown or at least one fight away from throwing down with the champ.
The question is, in an eventual re-match with Silva, can Sonnen replicate the same strategy he employed in their first fight—constant takedowns and controlling the fight on the ground, eventuating in Sonnen being victorious over Silva?
If there is anyone in the middleweight division who can give Silva a run for his money, then that person is Sonnen.
With this victory the odds may now seem to be stacked in favour of Sonnen upsetting the natural order of things at the helm of the middleweight division.
Those odds might be justified, but I don’t believe for one minute that Sonnen is capable of or will unseat Silva as king of the middleweight division, whenever these two combatants meet in the Octagon.
In their first fight Sonnen had the measure of Silva—Silva on the other hand had put in a lacklustre performance, the cause of which was due to a cracked rib that Silva had suffered in the first round of their encounter.
Silva will be both healthy and better prepared the next time they meet, and I’m sure that he’ll find a way past Sonnen’s elite wrestling skills to retain his title.
I will posit that no matter how good Sonnen may have looked in his win over Stan, this is one fight Sonnen won’t win.
On Saturday, Chael Sonnen defeated Brian Stann in emphatic fashion and then proceeded to call out his self-made arch-rival