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NEW YORK — MMA Fighting spoke to Dana White at Thursday’s UFC press conference at Madison Square Garden about his hope to hold an event at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and what needs to be done to make it happen.
White also talked about the possibility of Brock Lesnar competing at WrestleMania, the Jacob Volkmann-President Obama saga and what’s next for Chael Sonnen.
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NEW YORK — MMA Fighting spoke to Dana White at Thursday’s UFC press conference at Madison Square Garden about his hope to hold an event at the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and what needs to be done to make it happen.
White also talked about the possibility of Brock Lesnar competing at WrestleMania, the Jacob Volkmann-President Obama saga and what’s next for Chael Sonnen.
Filed under: UFC, NewsAfter weeks of speculation, Dana White on Tuesday finally answered what had become the biggest mystery in MMA.
The next coaches of “The Ultimate Fighter” will be Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos, the UFC president told members…
After weeks of speculation, Dana White on Tuesday finally answered what had become the biggest mystery in MMA.
The next coaches of “The Ultimate Fighter” will be Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos, the UFC president told members of the media on a conference call. The two heavyweights will then meet “in June, definitely 100 percent,” White said – likely on an as-yet unannounced pay-per-view expected to take place June 11 in Vancouver.
Lesnar is the former UFC heavyweight champion, but lost his title at UFC 124 in October to Cain Velasquez. Dos Santos was expected to get the next shot at Velasquez as the division’s top contender. But with the new champ on the shelf with a shoulder injury, the Brazilian will instead act as a coach, then stay busy afterward with a fight against Lesnar – putting his top contender status in jeopardy in the process.
White said with Velasquez out, there would not be an interim heavyweight title. Instead, the winner of dos Santos-Lesnar will be the No. 1 contender for the most coveted title in the sport.
Filed under: UFC, StrikeforceIf 2011 goes as planned, we’ll see more good, competitive, high-level mixed martial arts fights than we’ve ever seen in any year of the sport’s existence.
Strikeforce’s eight-man heavyweight tournament was getting all the …
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If 2011 goes as planned, we’ll see more good, competitive, high-level mixed martial arts fights than we’ve ever seen in any year of the sport’s existence.
Strikeforce’s eight-man heavyweight tournament was getting all the headlines last week, but the UFC did a nice job of bouncing back with the news that Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos will coach the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, that Shane Carwin expects to return in June, and that Frank Mir vs. Roy Nelson and Stefan Struve vs. Travis Browne are slated for May.
Assuming a best-case scenario for both promotions, we’ll have good heavyweight fights from Strikeforce, the UFC or both every month for the next 10 months or so, culminating with the return of Cain Velasquez and the Strikeforce tournament final toward the end of the year. Remember, I started this with an “If”: Looking ahead to fights that we hope to see in the future is always risky business. But below we’ll look at the fights that will make this the year of the heavyweight.
Filed under: UFCThere’s always been an undercurrent of distrust in Brock Lesnar from some who refused to view him as a mixed martial artist, and could only see him as a fake fighter masquerading around as the real thing.
Despite reaching the heights o…
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There’s always been an undercurrent of distrust in Brock Lesnar from some who refused to view him as a mixed martial artist, and could only see him as a fake fighter masquerading around as the real thing.
Despite reaching the heights of UFC champion, the number of doubters only grew in Lesnar’s last two fights. Lesnar struggled badly in the first round of his bout with Shane Carwin before rebounding for a win, and Cain Velasquez battered him around on his feet en route to seizing the championship.
As a result, lots of people thought that Lesnar was going to simply quit. They didn’t like his body language when both Carwin and Velasquez were boxing him up on his feet. Lesnar seemed to lose his composure and turtle, or worse, run. When rumors of a return to the WWE surfaced, many thought he would simply head right out of the UFC.
With Lesnar’s acceptance of a job on The Utlimate Fighter and an eventual matchup with powerful Brazilian striker Junior Dos Santos, lay all the rumors about Lesnar and any doubts about his gameness as a fighter to rest.
Filed under: UFCThere’s a decent chance that Brock Lesnar may not survive his “Ultimate Fighter” coaching stint. Come on, six weeks in Vegas, away from the sanctuary of his Minnesota compound? With cameras in his face for the better part of every day? …
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There’s a decent chance that Brock Lesnar may not survive his “Ultimate Fighter” coaching stint. Come on, six weeks in Vegas, away from the sanctuary of his Minnesota compound? With cameras in his face for the better part of every day? All while hopeful young fighters pester him for something resembling guidance?
For the reclusive, misanthropic Lesnar we’ve come to know and be fascinated by, it sounds like a prison sentence. It sounds like the exact opposite of everything he claims to enjoy.
Instead of privacy, he gets constant attention. Instead of whitetail deer and a barber who knows just how he likes his crew-cut sculpted, he gets gas station slot machines and awkward gym time alongside his next opponent, Junior dos Santos.
If his head literally explodes on camera, I won’t be terribly surprised.
Filed under: UFCBrock Lesnar is no longer viewed as the baddest man on the planet by the betting public.
Lesnar, who has entered the Octagon as the betting favorite in every one of his UFC fights, is actually the underdog for his June bout against Jun…
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Brock Lesnar is no longer viewed as the baddest man on the planet by the betting public.
Lesnar, who has entered the Octagon as the betting favorite in every one of his UFC fights, is actually the underdog for his June bout against Junior dos Santos, which was announced on Tuesday. Bodog lists dos Santos as the favorite at -160 and Lesnar as the underdog at +130.
That says a lot about what the beating Lesnar took at the hands of Cain Velasquez did to Lesnar’s reputation. When Lesnar tapped out 90 seconds into his first UFC fight, against Frank Mir, it was easy to write that off as an inexperienced fighter making a mistake against a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. But the Velasquez fight? That was a good, old-fashioned butt kicking.