Light heavyweight contenders and rising welterweight stars will make the trip to Winnipeg on Dec. 16 to compete in UFC Fight Night action at Bell MTS Place.At 205 pounds, Jared Cannonier will face off with Poland’s Jan Blachowicz, and in the welterweig…
Light heavyweight contenders and rising welterweight stars will make the trip to Winnipeg on Dec. 16 to compete in UFC Fight Night action at Bell MTS Place.At 205 pounds, Jared Cannonier will face off with Poland’s Jan Blachowicz, and in the welterweight division, Alberta’s Sheldon Westcott returns to battle Danny “Hot Chocolate” Roberts.Tickets are on sale now for the UFC Fight Night event, which is headlined by the welterweight clash between Robbie Lawler and Rafael Dos Anjos. FOX will televise.Stepping in for Rogerio Nogueira, Blachowicz is eager to keep the momentum going from his Perfor … Read the Full Article Here
Johny Hendricks will need to figure something out to get over his rough stretch. This past Saturday night (Nov. 4), Hendricks took on Paulo Costa in the opening main card bout of UFC 217. “Big Rigg” was finished in the second round due to s…
Johny Hendricks will need to figure something out to get over his rough stretch. This past Saturday night (Nov. 4), Hendricks took on Paulo Costa in the opening main card bout of UFC 217. “Big Rigg” was finished in the second round due to strikes. The former welterweight kingpin is now 1-5 in his last […]
Robert Whittaker isn’t losing sleep over Georges St-Pierre’s performance at UFC 217. Whittaker is the interim UFC middleweight title holder. He was in attendance inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. “The Reaper” witnes…
Robert Whittaker isn’t losing sleep over Georges St-Pierre’s performance at UFC 217. Whittaker is the interim UFC middleweight title holder. He was in attendance inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. “The Reaper” witnessed St-Pierre’s triumphant return, submitting Michael Bisping to capture the middleweight title. Speaking with news.com.au, Whittaker said that while St-Pierre is […]
Joanna Jedrzejczyk denies tapping to strikes against Rose Namajunas at UFC 217, contrary to some reports. One of the biggest upsets of the year happened on Saturday night at UFC 217. Rose Namajunas derailed Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s pursuit to t…
Joanna Jedrzejczyk denies tapping to strikes against Rose Namajunas at UFC 217, contrary to some reports.
One of the biggest upsets of the year happened on Saturday night at UFC 217. Rose Namajunas derailed Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s pursuit to tie Ronda Rousey’s record of six title defenses with a left hook inside two minutes of the first round, to become the third UFC women’s strawweight champion.
Some have claimed that Jedrzejczyk tapped to the Namajunas’ follow-up strikes from up top which led to the referee stepping in to stop the fight, but this is something that the former Polish champion vehemently denies.
“Someone said that I tapped, I never tapped,” Jedrzejczyk said on Monday’s MMA Hour episode (via MMA Fighting). “Are you kidding me? It was probably that I was trying to stand up, but I didn’t. It was a piece of a second for me.”
“I know it took a while – from the punch to the ground and pound when I had the turtle position, but for me, it was a like a piece of a second. I know it was a few long seconds. It looks totally different than people think it is.”
“I didn’t tap…I didn’t tap,” Jedrzejczyk reiterated. “I heard this, like two times, but come on…I didn’t tap…I didn’t tap. It was probably I was trying to stand up.”
The fight against Namajunas was the most vulnerable Jedrzejczyk has been in her entire three-year run in the UFC. Now that all is said and done, and she has experienced the first loss of her career, Joanna revealed that she was feeling slower than usual, which for her, is something out of the ordinary.
“Believe me that it was a mistake, and I felt like I was not there,” Jedrzejczyk explained. “I got cut, she cut me up and I felt like I was standing next to it watching it. I was like, ‘Let me go, what happened?’”
“I didn’t see the punch, the power of the punch. She didn’t hit hard, you know, but right to the point, I don’t know what happened. I just remember that during the warm-up I was feeling slower than usual. I don’t know why I must go to the fight week and figure it out.”
“Maybe there was something wrong with my brain or head, but I don’t know,” she continued. “I will figure out what happened because it’s unusual. I have almost 100 fights in my time in boxing and kickboxing. I had 15 fights in MMA and nothing ever happened before. It was the first time I got cut, someone knocked me down.”
Check out the Countdown episode for the UFC’s event in Norfolk this weekend. UFC Fight Night 120 goes down in the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday night, and will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Dus…
Check out the Countdown episode for the UFC’s event in Norfolk this weekend.
UFC Fight Night 120 goes down in the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday night, and will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Dustin Poirier and Anthony Pettis. As usual for events, the UFC has put out a Countdown show to get you prepared for the fight, and the event.
In addition to promoting that fight, the show also covers the co-main event between Diego Sanchez and Matt Brown. This will be the last fight of Brown’s career.
Check out the video above, and here’s what the current card looks like:
Robert Whittaker isn’t sure he’s really going to fight Georges St-Pierre next. But if he is, he feels confident after what he saw at Madison Square Garden. According to Dana White, interim middleweight champ Robert Whittaker is next for Geor…
Robert Whittaker isn’t sure he’s really going to fight Georges St-Pierre next. But if he is, he feels confident after what he saw at Madison Square Garden.
According to Dana White, interim middleweight champ Robert Whittaker is next for Georges St-Pierre. But many are wondering whether GSP will actually stay at middleweight, or vacate for fights in weight classes more to his advantage.
“He did not sound like he was happy to do that,” Whittaker told the Australian FOX Sports site. “I’m happy to wait. Fighting a legend like that is worth the time. My wants have to go on the back seat a bit for him. He’s a living legend and in respect I’ll do that. But if he’s going to hang around at middleweight we’ll touch gloves eventually. I’m confident.”
And if GSP doesn’t stick around in the weight class?
“If Georges steps down it makes everyone a potential opponent,” Whittaker said.
And while Whittaker has a lot of love for Georges, you can tell he was not impress with his performance.
“To be honest, he looked slower than he’s ever been,” Whittaker declared. “He’s just as crafty. You can see the intelligence is still there. His fight IQ is still there. He obviously hits harder at middleweight. But I hit hard and I hit fast — and much harder and faster than Bisping. And I have much better defense than Bisping. So it looks good.”
Whittaker also has the advantage of being much bigger than Bisping, who already gave St-Pierre problems with his above-welterweight level power.
Is Georges really interested in taking on a massive 185er with a kickboxing pedigree like Robert Whittaker? We’re not so sure. Even if it’s in GSP’s contract that he has to defend the belt, we think it’s more likely that St-Pierre does whatever he wants to add more distinctions and superfights to his record. His legacy is what he’s working on right now, not title defenses. And if the money looks better, we bet the UFC won’t mind either.
