Author: Nick Caron

UFC: Jacob Volkmann Won’t Be Quiet, Wants Meeting with President Obama

It’s been just over a week since news broke that a team of Navy SEALs had eliminated America’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.Even so, critics of the President and his policies remain vocal. One of those critics is UFC fighter, Jacob Volkmann.Accordi…

It’s been just over a week since news broke that a team of Navy SEALs had eliminated America’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.

Even so, critics of the President and his policies remain vocal. One of those critics is UFC fighter, Jacob Volkmann.

According to MMAJunkie‘s Steven Marrocco, Volkmann has a planned speech for his next post-fight interview with Joe Rogan. The speech will be focused on President Obama, no matter the questions he is asked.

“Even though people don’t want me to do it, I don’t care,” he told MMAjunkie.com.

Volkmann first got in trouble after a controversial interview with MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani after UFC 125, in which he claimed that, if he could fight just one person, it would be President Obama.

It’s the President’s health care policy that’s been the focus of Volkmann’s frustration.

The words drew a ton of attention from even national media sources. Members of the secret service even visited Volkmann. 

Volkmann, a wrestling coach at White Bear Lake High School, was suspended from that job for a short period after the incident with the secret service. 

Even worse, he has not been scheduled for another fight since his win over Antonio McKee at UFC 125.

The UFC told Volkmann that it was not because of the comments he made, but rather, that the UFC’s lightweight division is so cluttered right now.

He has been adamant and stuck to what he said before regarding the President’s health care policies. As a chiropractor himself, Volkmann deals first-hand with the endless paperwork required under the new rules.

“It’s like he doesn’t even really care about what happens,” Volkmann proclaimed. “He has these policies, and he doesn’t have a clue what they’re about. He’s doing a horrible job.”

As a UFC fighter, Volkmann intends on using his fame to continue to reject what is going on under the current administration.

“I’m hoping that he calls me, and actually wants to know why I’m saying this stuff,” Volkmann said.

With no opponent yet determined from the Republican side for the 2012 election and Bin Laden dead, Obama may have a couple of minutes to spare to talk to a disgruntled citizen.

But probably not.

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UFC 130: Gray Maynard Was Set to Fight Anthony "Showtime" Pettis Prior to Injury

More information continues to swirl surrounding the now removed main event for UFC 130 between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard. Heavy MMA’s Jeremy Botter is reporting that former WEC lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis was …

More information continues to swirl surrounding the now removed main event for UFC 130 between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard.

Heavy MMA’s Jeremy Botter is reporting that former WEC lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis was set to replace Frankie Edgar and fight Gray Maynard in the main event later this month.

The organization contacted him just a few days ago and asked him if he would like to headline the event.

“They were going to have me fight Maynard on that card,” Pettis revealed. “I said yes to that deal right away.”

But today, we now hear that Maynard himself suffered an undisclosed knee injury, which will knock him out of the event as well.

“I guess it turns out that it’s not going to happen. I’m back to fighting [Clay] Guida,” Pettis conceded. “It sucks that he got injured, because it kinda puts the whole lightweight division back on standstill.”

The news is unfortunate and really puts a damper on what was otherwise set to be another outstanding UFC pay-per-view event. With Edgar vs. Maynard now off the card, the UFC has promoted Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s fight against Matt Hamill as the new main event.

Meanwhile, “Showtime” will return to training as he prepares for the fight he was originally scheduled for, against Clay Guida on June 4.

“For three or four days I thought I was going to fight on May 28 and now it’s just killing me, so I’m going to take it out on Clay Guida.”

No guarantee has been made, but it is expected that the winner of Pettis vs. Guida will be the next man in line for a shot at the UFC lightweight championship.

UFC 130 Edgar vs. Maynard: Fight Card, News, Predictions, Results and More!

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UFC in 2011: 11 Fights We Want to See This Year, but Won’t

MMA is a unique sport in which sometimes the most entertaining fights happen between two combatants that none of us have ever heard of. Sometimes it’s these fighters who are dead set on making a name for themselves and they lay it all on the …

MMA is a unique sport in which sometimes the most entertaining fights happen between two combatants that none of us have ever heard of. Sometimes it’s these fighters who are dead set on making a name for themselves and they lay it all on the line when they step in the cage.

But at the end of the day, like any combative sport, we pay to see the top fighters in the world.

While the UFC is generally considered the top organization, with Zuffa now owning both the UFC and Strikeforce, Dana White has presented the idea of having fighters from each organization fight one another. This would truly settle the question of who the best really is.

Still, as we saw with Shane Carwin’s odd matchup against Jon Olav Einemo, Joe Silva and the decision-makers in the UFC don’t always give us the fights we want to see.

Here are 11 fights we want to see in 2011, but won’t.

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UFC 129 Video: Watch Georges St-Pierre Handle the Creepiest Fan Question Ever

Anyone who has ever attended or watched a UFC event press conference can tell you stories of pointless, uneducated, disrespectful or downright offensive questions that have been asked.But during the UFC 129 press conference, a new bar has officially be…

Anyone who has ever attended or watched a UFC event press conference can tell you stories of pointless, uneducated, disrespectful or downright offensive questions that have been asked.

But during the UFC 129 press conference, a new bar has officially been set for awkwardness.

A woman in the audience who was asking a question was also holding a UFC action figure (which she referred to as a “doll”) of the welterweight champ. The question started off normal until it veered off into unfamiliar territory.

“What’s the most offensive thing you’ve ever heard of a woman doing to one of your dolls?”

Laughing as he tried to sidestep this obviously ridiculous question, St-Pierre asked to see the figure. That’s when things got even weirder.

“I’ve done things to it, Georges…”

Still no word on why no one stepped in to save the champion from this unbelievable creep, but it definitely showed that the UFC does not screen their questions.

Anything can happen in the UFC cage, and apparently at the press conferences as well!

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UFC 129 St-Pierre vs. Shields Theme Songs: Reviewing the Fighters’ Entrance Song

The results are in from the wildly successful UFC 129 event in Toronto.No, I’m not talking about the fight card results. Those have been out for days. I’m talking about the results of which entrance song each fighter decided to use!If …

The results are in from the wildly successful UFC 129 event in Toronto.

No, I’m not talking about the fight card results. Those have been out for days. I’m talking about the results of which entrance song each fighter decided to use!

If you’re anything like me, the theme song that fighters use are an interesting glimpse at their character and are an awesome way to pump up the fans right before a big fight.

So if you’re interested in the entrance theme songs which each fighter used, look no further as they’re all here!

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