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Filed under: UFC, NewsA welterweight bout between former No. 1 contender Dan Hardy and former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit is in the works for the yet to be announced UFC 120 event, MMA Fighting has learned.
MMA Weekly first reported that …
A welterweight bout between former No. 1 contender Dan Hardy and former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit is in the works for the yet to be announced UFC 120 event, MMA Fighting has learned.
MMA Weekly first reported that the bout has been agreed to by both parties Monday afternoon.
UFC 120 is scheduled for October 16. It will mark the organization’s fourth event at the O2 Arena in London, England.
(Y’know, if you two got to know each other, you’d realize you aren’t so different after all.)
As first reported by MMA Weekly, Dan Hardy will return to the Octagon at UFC 120, tentatively slated for October 16th at the O2 Arena in London. After gett…
(Y’know, if you two got to know each other, you’d realize you aren’t so different after all.)
As first reported by MMA Weekly, Dan Hardy will return to the Octagon at UFC 120, tentatively slated for October 16th at the O2 Arena in London. After getting slept on for five rounds in his unsuccessful welterweight title grab against Georges St. Pierre in March, Hardy will look to rebound against Carlos Condit, who’s coming off a dramatic third-round TKO over Rory MacDonald at UFC 115; the stoppage came with seven seconds left in the final frame, and Condit would have likely lost the fight on points. No other fights have been reported for UFC 120, although the event is rumored to host the UFC’s first U.K. Fan Expo.
In other booking news, Tyson Griffin has stepped up to face Takanori Gomi at UFC on Versus 2 (August 1st, San Diego), replacing Joe Stevenson who suffered a knee injury in training. Griffin was most recently outworked by Evan Dunham at UFC 115, losing by split-decision. Gomi might be facing a must-win situation against Griffin, as he was choked out by Kenny Florian in his Octagon debut in March.
Filed under: UFCMixed martial arts is a sport so new that good statistics aren’t readily available for many scenarios worth examining. But watching for years gives you the ability to make general observations, and one of them is the conclusion that fig…
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Mixed martial arts is a sport so new that good statistics aren’t readily available for many scenarios worth examining. But watching for years gives you the ability to make general observations, and one of them is the conclusion that fighters that lose both of the first two rounds of a bout rarely come back to finish an opponent in the third.
There are multiple reasons for this, but the most simple one is that if Fighter A was good enough to control the action for 10 minutes, the possibility of Fighter B turning it around and finishing him sometime in the last five is probably not good.
And that is part of what makes Carlos Condit‘s comeback win over Rory MacDonald at UFC 115 so outstanding.
Filed under: UFC, NewsNo matter the sport, the great ones always seem to hold on a bit too long. Emmitt Smith closed out his football career as a struggling tailback for the Arizona Cardinals, Babe Ruth hit .181 in his last year for the Boston Braves a…
No matter the sport, the great ones always seem to hold on a bit too long. Emmitt Smith closed out his football career as a struggling tailback for the Arizona Cardinals, Babe Ruth hit .181 in his last year for the Boston Braves and Michael Jordan clanged jumpers off the iron for the lowly Washington Wizards.
The last memory of Chuck Liddell in the Octagon is also likely to be a sight that most fans would rather not remember. After a spirited round in which he showed more variety to his offense than he’s shown in years, it all came crashing down around the legend. Despite his newfound diet and his hard work, the lasting image of Liddell from UFC 115 was like the few that had come in the fights directly before it: Liddell falling backwards, his head bouncing backwards to the mat as he fell unconscious. This time the punch came from Rich Franklin, putting a close on the event, and likely Liddell’s career.
Asked if it was the end for the UFC Hall of Famer, UFC President Dana White answered directly.
Carlos Condit came out for the first two rounds playing a soft game. Rory MacDonald had some great trips, takedowns, and overall standup game. He was able to control Condit for the first two rounds. It wasn’t looking good for Condit. He had to get a stoppage to win the fight. Carlos Condit’s coach Greg […]
Carlos Condit came out for the first two rounds playing a soft game. Rory MacDonald had some great trips, takedowns, and overall standup game. He was able to control Condit for the first two rounds. It wasn’t looking good for Condit. He had to get a stoppage to win the fight.
Carlos Condit’s coach Greg Jackson was yelling at him on the stool, saying something like “Its time for war, make it a war.”
And a war, Condit made it.
Carlos got MacDonald on the ground early, and dropped elbow after elbow, Evan Tanner style. Condit maintained top control the whole third round. The referee stopped the fight with 9 seconds left on the clock. MacDonald admitted it was a good stoppage. I think it was as well. Just one more shot was more than unnecessary. When MacDonald stood for the decision he looked like Slough from The Goonies. Both eyes were jacked up, his nose was 3x the normal size, and his face was more than bloodied. It would’ve been a 10-8 round had the referee not stopped the fight.
I was glad to have seen more of Rory MacDonald in this fight. He has a lot of potential. He manhandled Condit in those first rounds and I expect good things from him in the future.
Filed under: UFCIn the first installment of Writer vs. Fighter, Cain Velasquez narrowly defeated me after we predicted almost exactly the same results for UFC 114. In an effort to distract attention from my loss, allow me to point out that we were both…
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In the first installment of Writer vs. Fighter, Cain Velasquez narrowly defeated me after we predicted almost exactly the same results for UFC 114. In an effort to distract attention from my loss, allow me to point out that we were both spot on when it came to the main event, even if we also both missed a few on the undercard (yeah, like you picked Mike Russow to knock out Todd Duffee, smart guy).
For UFC 115 this weekend, I challenged Army Ranger and Strikeforce middleweight Tim Kennedy to square off against me in one of the only MMA-related activities I actually stand somewhat of a chance at beating him in. And even though Tim has a real fight to worry about against Trevor Prangley at next Wednesday’s Strikeforce event in Los Angeles, he was gracious enough to accept.
Now I must put his kindness out of my mind and focus on destroying him. As they say in both prison and reality TV, I didn’t come here to make friends.