Bleacher Report’s MMA News Recap for Wednesday, May 4.UFC 132: Evan Dunham Out George Sotiropoulos To Face Rafael Dos AnjosCung Le will not fight in 2011.UFC 129 Video Highlights: Georges St-Pierre vs Jake Shields.UFC 130: Extended Video Trailer for Ed…
Bleacher Report’s MMA News Recap for Wednesday, May 4.
UFC 132: Evan Dunham Out George Sotiropoulos To Face Rafael Dos Anjos
Cung Le will not fight in 2011.
UFC 129 Video Highlights: Georges St-Pierre vs Jake Shields.
UFC 130: Extended Video Trailer for Edgar vs. Maynard III.
Georges St-Pierre vs Anderson Silva: How GSP would make the weight jump.
Rashad Evans talks Twitter feud with Jon Jones and upcoming fight with Phil Davis.
Anderson Silva’s customized Camaro SS.
UFC 129: Jose Aldo Needed Antibiotics, Says Head Trainer.
The big question that has been circulating through the MMA world as of late is this: will there ever be a “superfight” between UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva?St-Pierre has often deflected the qu…
The big question that has been circulating through the MMA world as of late is this: will there ever be a “superfight” between UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva?
St-Pierre has often deflected the question by stating the leap from the 170-pound division to the 185-pound division would require a complete reorientation of his career.
Following his win over Jake Shields at UFC 129, St-Pierre was once again asked if the fight with Silva was going to happen, “We’ll see,” he told UFC commentator Joe Rogan. “I just finished my fight. I haven’t considered that yet. Going up in weight class is a lot to consider. Maybe there are other ways. We’ll talk.”
While St-Pierre’s responses have seemed a bit evasive, his camp has pondered how they would prepare their fighter to make the jump to the middleweight division.
Firas Zahabi, St-Pierre’s trainer, recently spoke to ESPN regarding how the camp would accomplish the move. Surprisingly, Zahabi would not recommend adding size to St-Pierre’s frame, “If he goes up, I would recommend he stay the same size,” said Zahabi. “You don’t want Georges to go in there bulked up and unable to perform in the mechanical way that he does.”
“He’ll be very small for a middleweight,” Zahabi continued. “If I balloon him up to over 200 pounds, it won’t do any good. There’s a point where you can have too much muscle, and it’s not a good thing. I think he’s got the maximum amount you can put on his body without it starting to be detrimental.”
“I’d probably push him up to 200 pounds for that fight,” Zahabi said. “He still wouldn’t be as big as Anderson and it wouldn’t be natural, but it would be better. If you do get on Anderson Silva, having an extra pounds on you is good.”
Zahabi revealed that the target weight for a re-hydrated St-Pierre in his bout with Shields was between 192 and 193 pounds.
The fight between St-Pierre and Silva remains a “fantasy fight,” according to UFC president Dana White. Silva’s next opponent will be Yushin Okami at UFC 134 in Rio on August 27. If Silva gets past Okami and St-Pierre’s scheduled remains open, the “superfight” talk will most likely reach a fever pitch.
UFC 130 will take place on May 28 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight card will be headlined by a UFC lightweight title fight between the champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard. The two met in a championship b…
UFC 130 will take place on May 28 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The fight card will be headlined by a UFC lightweight title fight between the champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard. The two met in a championship bout on January 1 of this year that ended with Edgar retaining his title due to the fight being scored as a majority draw.
Edgar and Maynard had met earlier in their careers as well, fighting on a UFC card in 2008, with Maynard taking a unanimous decision victory.
Also appearing on the card will be a light heavyweight battle between Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt Hamill. This fight could develop into somewhat of a grudge match as the fighters and their camps have been exchanging barbs since Hamill was moved into replace Thiago Silva after questions arose regarding Silva’s UFC 125 urine test.
The main card, which will be broadcast on pay-per-view will be rounded out with the following fights:
Georges St-Pierre met Jake Shields on Saturday, April 30 at UFC 129 and has been the case in many of his title defenses as of late, the UFC welterweight champion exploited the weakness in his opponent’s game to retain his UFC title.Going into the fi…
Georges St-Pierre met Jake Shields on Saturday, April 30 at UFC 129 and has been the case in many of his title defenses as of late, the UFC welterweight champion exploited the weakness in his opponent’s game to retain his UFC title.
Going into the fight, the knock on Shields had been his weak striking game, which St-Pierre used to his advantage, keeping the fight standing for the full five rounds.
The champion was able to take advantage of that weakness, but he did not walk away without sustaining some damage.
According to the CompuStrike stats, Shields landed 63 of 318 arm strikes he threw, leaving the champion with a bloodied face as well as a damaged left eye. The injury to the eye, which appeared to come from an eye poke from Shields, left St-Pierre unable to see from that eye for much of the fourth and fifth rounds.
In addition to bloodying the champion, Shields was able to accomplish something that no one else had done for 30 straight rounds, and that was take a round from the champion. The scorecards gave the unanimous decision victory to St-Pierre 50-45, 48-47, 48-47.
Following the fight, St-Pierre, speaking with UFC commentator Joe Rogan apologized for his performance, “I can’t see with my left eye right now. I just see a blur. I’m sorry to the fans. I wanted to make it a knockout or submission.”
The fight marked the sixth title defense for St-Pierre.
Bleacher Report’s Danny Acosta:UFC 129 brought viewers Georges St-Pierre’s welterweight record sixth title defense by snapping Jake Shields’ six year, 15-fight win streak with a five-round unanimous decision.A UFC record of 55,000 at the Rogers …
Bleacher Report’s Danny Acosta:
UFC 129 brought viewers Georges St-Pierre’s welterweight record sixth title defense by snapping Jake Shields’ six year, 15-fight win streak with a five-round unanimous decision.
A UFC record of 55,000 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada this past Saturday also watched Jose Aldo retain the UFC featherweight crown in a 25-minute Fight of the Night against Canadian challenger Mark Hominick and Lyoto Machida emphatically ended UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture’s storied career with a first round knockout.
Here are 10 bouts fans may find kicking around UFC matchmaker Joe Silva’s desk in the aftermath of UFC 129.
1) Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz
While Georges St. Pierre continued the most dominant run in welterweight history at UFC 129, “Rush” did so with his fourth consecutive decision. Striking with Jake Shields for 25-minutes did little to spark interest in the St-Pierre-Anderson Silva super-fight outside of notching the requisite “W.”
Silva has finished all but two of his eight UFC title fights, while St-Pierre has only finished two of six—the last in January of 2009. Non-committal in his post-fight interview about moving up 15-pounds to face the most devastating finisher in UFC history, it’s likely “GSP” maintains his position at welterweight.
Georges St-Pierre met Jake Shields on Saturday, April 30 at UFC 129 and has been the case in many of his title defenses as of late, the UFC welterweight champion exploited the weakness in his opponent’s game to retain his UFC title. Going into the figh…
Georges St-Pierre met Jake Shields on Saturday, April 30 at UFC 129 and has been the case in many of his title defenses as of late, the UFC welterweight champion exploited the weakness in his opponent’s game to retain his UFC title.
Going into the fight, the knock on Shields had been his weak striking game, which St-Pierre used to his advantage, keeping the fight standing for the full five rounds.
The champion was able to take advantage of that weakness, but he did not walk away without sustaining some damage.
According to the CompuStrike stats, Shields landed 63 of 318 arm strikes he threw, leaving the champion with a bloodied face as well as a damaged left eye. The injury to the eye, which appeared to come from an eye poke from Shields, left St-Pierre unable to see from that eye for much of the fourth and fifth rounds.
In addition to bloodying the champion, Shields was able to accomplish something that no one else had done for 30 straight rounds, and that was take a round from the champion. The scorecards gave the unanimous decision victory to St-Pierre 50-45, 48-47, 48-47.
Following the fight, St-Pierre, speaking with UFC commentator Joe Rogan, apologized for his performance: “I can’t see with my left eye right now. I just see a blur. I’m sorry to the fans. I wanted to make it a knockout or submission.”
The fight marked the sixth title defense for St-Pierre.
Bleacher Report’s MMA News Recap for Wednesday, May 4.