UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle will take place Sunday August 14th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The main event will feature two of the UFC’s most exciting welterweights fighting to get back in the win column. Also featured on the card is Jim Miller and Ben…
UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle will take place Sunday August 14th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The main event will feature two of the UFC’s most exciting welterweights fighting to get back in the win column.
Also featured on the card is Jim Miller and Ben Henderson, two lightweights who hope a win will bring them a title shot.
Also featured on the main card are former WEC title contender Donald Cerrone taking on top prospect Charles Oliveira and TUF season 7 winner Amir Sadollah taking on Duane Ludwig.
Although this card doesn’t feature some of the bigger names in the UFC, it does feature stars in the making, top fighters fighting for title shots and for their jobs.
Here are some predictions for another exciting main card.
LAS VEGAS – Not yet an hour after winning the biggest fight of his career, on the biggest stage, Tony Ferguson was ready to start thinking about who’s next.
Ferguson knocked out Ramsey Nijem in the first round to win the Season 13 title of “The Ultim…
LAS VEGAS – Not yet an hour after winning the biggest fight of his career, on the biggest stage, Tony Ferguson was ready to start thinking about who’s next.
Ferguson knocked out Ramsey Nijem in the first round to win the Season 13 title of “The Ultimate Fighter.” And with his new trophy in front of him, a few minutes after learning he would get an extra $40,000 for his Knockout of the Night, Ferguson said he wants to face TUF 7 champion Amir Sadollah.
“I saw Amir Sadollah, and I know that he was a pretty big guy from ‘The Ultimate Fighter,'” Ferguson said at Saturday’s post-fight press conference. “I think that would be a pretty good little start, right there.”
But Ferguson, though just one fight into his UFC career, got the next part down pat when he said he would fight whomever the UFC wants.
“It doesn’t matter who you put in front of me,” Ferguson said. “I have great coaches and I’m going to be ready for any kind of fight. It took me a bit to get used to being in front of everybody, but I think I belong here – and I’ve got the trophy now to prove it.”
Ferguson was part of Brock Lesnar’s team on this season of TUF, and after the show finished taping, Lesnar invited Ferguson to his DeathClutch camp in Minnesota to train.
Ferguson said his plan was to utilize takedowns to control the pace of the fight – so even he may have been surprised with his knockout bomb.
“I knew he was expecting me to go for a takedown on him. That’s what we were practicing,” Ferguson said. “I’ve always had hands, but I kind of forgot that I was a wrestler. As you saw on my first fight in the house, I got taken down twice. I knew he was going to put a lot of pressure on me, so I took that inside. I had my takedowns to try and slow it down a little more. He caught me a couple times and I had to shake it off.”
Nijem, too, was taken by surprise with the knockout punch.
“I was ready to take the fight wherever I needed to and felt very prepared for it,” Nijem said. “That shot caught me completely off guard – I didn’t see it coming. If he didn’t land that, then who knows what would have happened. I was starting to rush things and I got myself in trouble, and it gave Tony the opportunity he needed to get the win.”
Ferguson (11-2, 1-0 UFC) said despite the ability to make lightweight, and a willingness to do so, his preference would be to stay at welterweight.
“Lightweight is in my future,” Ferguson said. “Wherever Dana wants me to fight. I wrestled in college at 165. But I’m comfortable where I’m at right now. I like food. I like eating. I could see myself going to lightweight, but I love welterweight.”
Filed under: UFCSEATTLE, Wash. — This is the UFC Fight Night 24 live blog for Amir Sadollah vs. DaMarques Johnson, a welterweight bout on tonight’s UFC on Spike TV event at the Key Arena.
TUF 7 winner Sadollah (4-2) was 2-1 last year with wins over B…
TUF 7 winner Sadollah (4-2) was 2-1 last year with wins over Brad Blackburn and Peter Sobotta. TUF 9 welterweight runner-up Johnson (12-8) defeated Mike Guymon at Fight for the Troops 2 earlier this year.
Filed under: UFCIn what may have been his most impressive performance in the Octagon to date, former Ultimate Fighter winner Amir Sadollah put a serious hurting on DaMarques Johnson at UFC Fight Night 24 on Saturday night, forcing him to tap out as he …
In what may have been his most impressive performance in the Octagon to date, former Ultimate Fighter winner Amir Sadollah put a serious hurting on DaMarques Johnson at UFC Fight Night 24 on Saturday night, forcing him to tap out as he rained down vicious elbows on the ground in the second round.
Sadollah showed off precision punching in the stand-up, some good takedowns and a killer instinct when he had Johnson in trouble in the second round. It was a great showing for Sadollah, although Sadollah made a point to credit Johnson for taking the fight on short notice.
“I want to say a huge, huge thank you to DeMarques,” Sadollah said afterward. “He took this fight on two weeks’ notice, which a lot of guys wouldn’t have done. I have a lot of respect for him.”
Filed under: UFCThe UFC is wrapping up a busy March with a big Fight Night card on Saturday night in Seattle, with a light heavyweight fight featuring an aging veteran against a young prospect in the main event, and three very intriguing undercard matc…
The UFC is wrapping up a busy March with a big Fight Night card on Saturday night in Seattle, with a light heavyweight fight featuring an aging veteran against a young prospect in the main event, and three very intriguing undercard matchups. We’ve got the preview and predictions right here.
What: UFC Fight Night 24: Nogueira vs. Davis
When: Saturday, the Spike televised card begins at 10 PM ET
("This big horsemeat-eating motherf*cker is next.")
There’s been a veritable orgy of UFC fight-bookings happening over the last couple days, and we might as well throw them all at you in one lump sum. We’ll start with one that might…
("This big horsemeat-eating motherf*cker is next.")
There’s been a veritable orgy of UFC fight-bookings happening over the last couple days, and we might as well throw them all at you in one lump sum. We’ll start with one that might not be the biggest of the bunch, but definitely struck us as the strangest…
Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus – UFC 128: When Dana White proclaimed that Miller’s impressive kneebar submission win over Charles Oliveira at UFC 124 put him in the mix of lightweight contenders, nobody figured that would mean that he’d be paired with an Octagon newcomer in his next bout. But this is the UFC, and sometimes the organization’s MMA math just doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. The Sparta, New Jersey native will attempt to increase his winning streak to seven when he takes on (7-0-2) WEC veteran Shalorus at UFC 128 in his backyard in New Jersey.
Dan Miller vs. David Branch – UFC 128: Considering that his brother is on the card and they can save on cornermen hotel rooms and plane tickets, it’s a no-brainer that the UFC would have another local fighter like Miller on the card for UFC 128. The fact that they now have to pay Chuck Liddell’s seven-figure salary, bar and strip club tabs has not been lost on the accounting department who have undoubtedly suggested some cost cutting measures that will be implemented in 2011. Wait until you see the beat-up budget ex-strippers they bring in to replace Arianny and Chandella.
Filipovic will attempt to prolong his rapidly shortening career by defeating the up-and-coming fighter who is riding a three-fight winning streak which includes a "W" over Gabriel Gonzaga — the last man to put Cro Cop to sleep prior to Frank Mir turning his lights out in his last outing at UFC 119.
LAS VEGAS – Not yet an hour after winning the biggest fight of his career, on the biggest stage, 
SEATTLE, Wash. — This is the 
In what may have been his most impressive performance in the Octagon to date, former Ultimate Fighter winner 
The UFC is wrapping up a busy March with a big Fight Night card on Saturday night in Seattle, with a light heavyweight fight featuring an aging veteran against a young prospect in the main event, and three very intriguing undercard matchups. We’ve got the preview and predictions right here.
