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Yesterday evening, on April Fools of all days, the MMA world was thrown into turmoil as Tony Ferguson pulled out of his championship bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. This caused huge confusion, with many people believing that this news was ano…
Yesterday evening, on April Fools of all days, the MMA world was thrown into turmoil as Tony Ferguson pulled out of his championship bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. This caused huge confusion, with many people believing that this news was another April Fools joke, but this was no joke. This is now the 4th […]
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The mixed martial arts world was shaken up yesterday (April 1, 2018) when it was announced that Tony Ferguson had suffered an injury, forcing his highly anticipated UFC 223 main event bout against Khabib Nurmagomedov to be scrapped for a fourth time. Upon that news, however, UFC Dana White revealed that featherweight champion Max Holloway […]
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The mixed martial arts world was shaken up yesterday (April 1, 2018) when it was announced that Tony Ferguson had suffered an injury, forcing his highly anticipated UFC 223 main event bout against Khabib Nurmagomedov to be scrapped for a fourth time.
Upon that news, however, UFC Dana White revealed that featherweight champion Max Holloway would be stepping up on extremely short notice to take on Nurmagomedov for the undisputed 155-pound title.
And apparently Holloway wasn’t the only one White reached out to, as No. 1-ranked 145-pound contender Brian Ortega took to social media to claim that he too had been offered the fight:
“For the record, Dana called me yesterday to see if I would step in against Khabib since Max hadn’t responded yet,” Ortega wrote on Twitter. “I said yes. Eventually, Max replied and Dana gave him the fight. If all goes according to plan, I’ll get my turn – at both of them.”
Ortega, who’s coming off of a brutal stoppage victory over Frankie Edgar at UFC 222 last month in Las Vegas, was expected to face Holloway next, but that fight will obviously be put on hold. Prior to fighting Edgar, Ortega had won five-straight UFC bouts.
Holloway, meanwhile, was actually scheduled to take on Edgar at UFC 222, but an injury forced him off the card. However, he’s riding an incredible 12-fight winning streak and has often discussed a move up in weight to lightweight.
As far as Nurmagomedov goes, “The Eagle” owns a perfect 25-0 professional record and is widely considered to be one of the best 115 pounders in the world.
UFC 223 will take place this Saturday night (April 7, 2018) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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While he doesn’t have a title defense scheduled as of now, UFC 170-pound champion Tyron Woodley has been keeping his name in the headlines with his varied opinions on topics ranging from the rumored creation of an interim 170-pound title to boxing great Floyd Mayweather’s chances in his rumored MMA debut. ‘The Chosen One’ thinks […]
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While he doesn’t have a title defense scheduled as of now, UFC 170-pound champion Tyron Woodley has been keeping his name in the headlines with his varied opinions on topics ranging from the rumored creation of an interim 170-pound title to boxing great Floyd Mayweather’s chances in his rumored MMA debut.
‘The Chosen One’ thinks Mayweather could one day be successful in mixed martial arts, but many close to the UFC, including UFC featherweight champ Max Holloway, tend to disagree.
‘Blessed’ unveiled his feelings on the subject during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour, suggesting that the 41-year-old ‘Money’ wasn’t really going to fight in the UFC:
“In boxing, he’s greatest. There’s no hate towards him. He finished smart, he made a lot of money, he changed the sport in a lot of ways, and he got there using his brains and being smart … and not being humiliated.
“You guys really believe this guy is going to take an MMA fight, at however old he is right now, against a young guy that’s tough who people consider one of the best in the sport? It just blows my mind, man. If people believe that kind of stuff, it’s wild. I really don’t know what to say.”
For some reason, ‘Money’ has been rumored to make his UFC debut since he finished UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in the tenth round of their farcical, over-the-top boxing spectacle last August.
The all-time great kicked off that talk by posting a cryptic video of himself setting foot into an MMA cage and claiming he could sign a monstrous contract with the UFC.
Woodley fanned those flames by stating Mayweather would be successful in MMA on UFC Tonight, and he’s consistently kept up the talk on other shows like his own ‘Hollywood Beatdown’ on TMZ.
“Blessed” is a fan of “The Chosen One,” but he thinks the 1700-pound king is getting a little ridiculous with the hype, so much so that he wonders if Woodley is a UFC champion or a “TMZ reporter”:
“I mean, I love Woodley,” Holloway said. “Woodley’s the man. He’s a great dude, but I swear he talks about everything. He’s talking about everything. Whatever you can talk about, he talks about it. That guy is always on TMZ or something, so he wants to be talked about all of the time, that’s it. Woodley, you are the man, brother, but I think it’s a PR stunt.
“How can you not think it’s not a PR stunt? I don’t know. This guy is always — every time I see on Twitter something retweeting about TMZ, it’s Tyron Woodley talking about it. So it’s like, gosh, is this guy a champion or is he a TMZ reporter? What is going on, my friend?”
As he picks and chooses his opponent during a recovery from shoulder surgery, Woodley isn’t making any new fans even though he has, in reality, been one of the most consistent and active UFC champions over the past two years.
And even though Holloway claims he’s one of them, the featherweight champion may have a throng of fans who agree wholeheartedly with his callout of “The Chosen One.”
Do you?
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UFC featherweight champion, Max Holloway, is hoping to fight #1 contender, Brian Ortega, sometime this summer. The hold-up in scheduling the bout, however, is the status of the ankle injury which forced Holloway out of UFC 222. He spoke with UFC.com re…
UFC featherweight champion, Max Holloway, is hoping to fight #1 contender, Brian Ortega, sometime this summer. The hold-up in scheduling the bout, however, is the status of the ankle injury which forced Holloway out of UFC 222. He spoke with UFC.com recently and updated the status of his injury and commented on potentially fighting a […]
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Max Holloway is without a doubt the best featherweight in the world in a division that has been notoriously deep with talent. But even with perennial contenders Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar now coming off of knockout losses, Holloway insists they’re still the top three in the division. The 145-pound champion gave his thoughts on […]
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Max Holloway is without a doubt the best featherweight in the world in a division that has been notoriously deep with talent.
But even with perennial contenders Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar now coming off of knockout losses, Holloway insists they’re still the top three in the division.
The 145-pound champion gave his thoughts on the status of the featherweight division and his unfinished business with Edgar (MMA Mania):
“Me and Frankie [Edgar] still got unfinished business. Everyone is talking about Frankie and [Jose] Aldo like they’re two dead guys. They say, ‘Too washed up.’ They’re still animals. They’ve been at the top of the heap.”
“They’ve been top-five, top-three in any division they were in, forever. People keep talking about how these guys are old; we’ll see. You can’t speak on it yet. It’s a couple losses. It’s MMA.”
“You get caught. Frankie, Aldo, these guys are not dead. They’re mid-30s and they’re fighting. People act like Frankie and Aldo are not the top-three guys. They’re still ranked in the top-three with [Brian] Ortega.”
Aldo was TKO’d twice in a row by Holloway himself, while Edgar was finished for the first time in his career at UFC 222 after blue-chip prospect Brian Ortega knocked him out in the first round.
Holloway appears to be addressing fans that have written off the two fighters:
“Come on, guys. Let’s be serious, let’s be real. These guys are not dead, they’re not gone. They’re still around. We’ll see what happens. But right now, the path is going a different way for me with Ortega and I’m focused.”
Edgar will look to bounce back quickly, as a rematch with Cub Swanson was just announced on Wednesday.
Do you agree with Holloway’s impression on Aldo and Edgar’s status in the featherweight division?
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A person will never truly know whether they are cut out to be a fighter until they’ve actually experienced it firsthand. For some, that first baptism of fire will leave them in no doubt that they are not cut out for a career in MMA, while others will come away convinced that they have found […]
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A person will never truly know whether they are cut out to be a fighter until they’ve actually experienced it firsthand.
For some, that first baptism of fire will leave them in no doubt that they are not cut out for a career in MMA, while others will come away convinced that they have found their calling in the heat of the battle.
In this article, we’ll go back to the very beginnings of 10 MMA stars’ journies into the sport to uncover memorable stories of their earliest fights, both inside and outside the cage, that helped forge them into the warriors they are today.
In October 1996, a 19-year-old Vitor Belfort took a plunge straight into the deep end of the MMA pool by agreeing to make his debut against Jon Hess at SuperBrawl 2 in Hawaii.
The teenager had to travel all the way from Brazil for the event despite the fact that he had nothing more than a verbal agreement and would only be paid if he won. Furthermore, the rookie was going up against a giant, as Hess stood 6′ 7” tall, weighed 300 pounds and was coming off an 83-second TKO victory at UFC 5.
As if that wasn’t enough, Hess was demanding that there be no rules, including things like groin strikes being legal.
”Tell him he can also go get a knife,” Belfort says his coach Carlson Gracie defiantly told SuperBrawl. “He can go get a gun. We’ll still fight him.”
Gracie’s confidence in his young protégé proved to be well-founded as ‘The Phenom’ would knock out Hess in just 12 seconds to instantly put himself on the MMA map.
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