Bleacher Report’s MMA news recap for Friday May 6:
UFC 132 main card official: tickets for Dominick Cruz versus Urijah Faber on sale on Saturday.
Wanderlei Silva wants 10 more fights before he retires.
Jake Ellenberger wants a shot at Jake Shields
UFC …
Bleacher Report’s MMA news recap for Friday May 6:
UFC 132 main card official: tickets for Dominick Cruz versus Urijah Faber on sale on Saturday.
Wanderlei Silva wants 10 more fights before he retires.
Jake Ellenberger wants a shot at Jake Shields
UFC 130 Video Preview: Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard talk about their third fight.
UFC 133: Anderson Silva helping Little Nog get ready for Rich Franklin.
Nick Diaz: boxing talk was not a bluff.
Brock Lesnar: Tank Abbott says he could knock out the former champion in 10 seconds.
Stefan Struve interview.
Urijah Faber things Dominick Cruz is being immature.
Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard will meet at UFC 131 on May 28. The fight will mark the third time that these two competitors have met. It will be the second time they will do battle for Edgar’s UFC lightweight title.The first time the two fought, in…
Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard will meet at UFC 131 on May 28. The fight will mark the third time that these two competitors have met. It will be the second time they will do battle for Edgar’s UFC lightweight title.
The first time the two fought, in 2008, Maynard (10-0-1-1) handed Edgar (13-1-1) his first and still only loss of his career, taking the fight by unanimous decision. The two had a rematch on January 1, 2011 to fight for the title that Edgar captured from BJ Penn. The rematch ended with a majority draw and Edgar retained his title.
In the first round of the rematch, Maynard dropped Edgar, “I’m thinking this is done, I’ve reached my goal,” Maynard said. However, he could not finish the champion. The final score cards read 48-46, 46-48, 47-47 for the draw.
One thing will be certain going into the title-fight rematch: These two will not be looking to let this fight go to the judges’ scorecards.
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When Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva steps into the Octagon at UFC 132 against Chris Leben on July 2, it will be the 45th professional fight of his MMA career.Recently, the former PRIDE middleweight champion took to Twitter to inform his fans that h…
When Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva steps into the Octagon at UFC 132 against Chris Leben on July 2, it will be the 45th professional fight of his MMA career.
Recently, the former PRIDE middleweight champion took to Twitter to inform his fans that he would like another 10 fights before he retires:
“I want to make more ten fights in my career. It’s amazing, when I think about it my eyes are filled with tears,” Silva tweeted.
Since joining the UFC in 2007, Silva has fought six times and granted, he had some time off due to surgeries.
Ten more fights would see the 34-year-old Silva most likely entering his 40s before he retires.
Silva also took time to thank his fans, “Thank God because for some years now I don’t need to fight for money, I do it because I’m crazy for you. My fans are my reason [for fighting].”
Silva, who has the WandFC team and his Las Vegas training facility to fall back on, seems less than eager to head into retirement:
“You have no idea how I do feel when I am inside that [the cage]. It’s unique and intense. I’ve competed my whole life, I don’t know how it’ll be afterwards,” Silva tweeted.
Silva’s career began with a victory over Dilson Filho on Nov. 1, 1996.
UFC 132 will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on July 2. The fight card will be headlined by a UFC bantamweight bout between the champion Dominick Cruz and challenger, former WEC featherweight champion, Urijah Faber.The two fighters have met be…
UFC 132 will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on July 2. The fight card will be headlined by a UFC bantamweight bout between the champion Dominick Cruz and challenger, former WEC featherweight champion, Urijah Faber.
The two fighters have met before, with Faber (25-4) defeating Cruz by first round submission. That loss, in 2007, remains the only blemish on Cruz’s record (17-1).
Since that time, the two have developed a mutual dislike for each other.
“Me and Urijah don’t really get along very much, needless to say,” Cruz told Heavy.com’s Fight Day. “It goes all the way back to the first time we fought about four years ago I’d say. I fought him at 145 pounds for the world title. I did some stuff that made him angry. He did some stuff after the fight that made me angry.”
“It just stuck in my head and just gave me a bad taste in my mouth. I never really just had a good feeling towards him since then. It just makes it that much easier to get in there and punch him in the face.”
Faber had the following to say about the animosity between the two.
“I don’t really like Cruz very much. You keep hearing about it, because everybody keeps asking about it,” Faber said in a recent UFC media call. “The bottom line is I think the guy kind of chose me as an enemy, and I accept. We fought once, and we’re going to do it again.”
The main card will also see the return of Wanderlei Silva to the Octagon. Silva, who has been rehabbing from knee surgery, has not fought since defeating Michael Bisping by unanimous decision in February of last year.
Silva will face Chris Leben on the Las Vegas card. Leben is coming off a TKO loss to Brian Stann at UFC 125.
Tito Ortiz will be facing Ryan Bader and his possible release from the UFC when he steps into the cage on July 2. UFC president Dana White has made it clear that Ortiz has run out of chances with the UFC and if he does not deliver a win in this bout he will be released from his contract. Ortiz has not won a fight since defeating Ken Shamrock in 2006.
Standing in Ortiz’s way, Bader will look to get back in the win column after suffering the first loss of his 13 fight MMA career to Jon Jones at UFC 125.
Rounding out the main card which will be shown on pay-per-view at 9:00 pm ET:
Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman
Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Preliminary fights that have been made official:
Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller
Brian Bowles vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Aaron Simpson
Tickets for UFC 132 will go on sale on Saturday, May 7 at 10 a.m. PT and will be priced from $75-$800.
Bleacher Report’s Dale De Souza:UFC 130 is only a few weeks away, but already the card is shaping up to be one of the most solid nights of fights in recent history–only another great card to add on to what the UFC has already put on in 2011.On the …
Bleacher Report’s Dale De Souza:
UFC 130 is only a few weeks away, but already the card is shaping up to be one of the most solid nights of fights in recent history–only another great card to add on to what the UFC has already put on in 2011.
On the Spike TV card, which also features Rick Story facing Thiago Alves, Miguel Angel Torres will look to extend his streak in the UFC to 2-0 at Demetrious Johnson, who has a great Wrestling base and has been known to be very explosive when he lays in some shots.
Torres is a former WEC Bantamweight Champion with great striking, long limbs, and some very good Jiu-Jitsu, but without question Johnson poses one of the toughest threats to date for Torres.
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