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The Ultimate Finale 14 is in the books, and Michael Bisping proved to be the better coach. After a bad first round, Bisping was able to out strike and outlast Jason “Mayhem” Miller, earning the victory when the ref stopped the fight in …
The Ultimate Finale 14 is in the books, and Michael Bisping proved to be the better coach.
After a bad first round, Bisping was able to out strike and outlast Jason “Mayhem” Miller, earning the victory when the ref stopped the fight in the third round.
The UFC’s top British star has now earned his fourth straight victory and should be looking to take a step up in competition.
Here are some fights he should take next if he wants to be a serious contender.
(“For my next trick, I’m going to saw these women in half, then bury them in my backyard and steal their disability checks.” / Photo via Zimbio)
While Michael Bisping’s dominant win over Jason Miller this weekend put the Count even deeper “in the mix” at middleweight, he still won’t be next in line for a title shot. The UFC confirmed yesterday afternoon that despite conflicting reports, Chael Sonnen and Mark Munoz will indeed be facing off at UFC on FOX 2 (January 28th, Chicago), with the winner earning a shot at Anderson Silva’s coveted 185-pound belt.
(“For my next trick, I’m going to saw these women in half, then bury them in my backyard and steal their disability checks.” / Photo via Zimbio)
While Michael Bisping’s dominant win over Jason Miller this weekend put the Count even deeper “in the mix” at middleweight, he still won’t be next in line for a title shot. The UFC confirmed yesterday afternoon that despite conflicting reports, Chael Sonnen and Mark Munoz will indeed be facing off at UFC on FOX 2 (January 28th, Chicago), with the winner earning a shot at Anderson Silva‘s coveted 185-pound belt.
Sonnen won his first post-suspension fight at UFC 136 in October, choking out Brian Stann in the second round. Last week he hosted the World MMA Awards, and successfully charmed Ronda Rousey into giddiness on the red carpet. Munoz has won four straight fights in the Octagon, most recently scoring a corner stoppage TKO over Chris Leben at UFC 138.
Sonnen and Munoz will join UFC on FOX 2 headliners Rashad Evans and Phil Davis in a press conference this Wednesday at the United Center in Chicago to discuss the event. We’ll see if Munoz brings up the fact that Sonnen wrestled him dirty back in college.
Chael Sonnen’s dream rematch against UFC Champion Anderson Silva has met a recently-announced pre-condition at UFC on Fox 2 that will be held next year: a fight versus Mark Muñoz that will decide who is the real numero uno middleweight contender…
Chael Sonnen‘s dream rematch against UFC Champion Anderson Silva has met a recently-announced pre-condition at UFC on Fox 2 that will be held next year: a fight versus Mark Muñoz that will decide who is the real numero uno middleweight contender.
A match whose outcome will bring the victor closest to possibly snatching the UFC belt from MMA‘s pound-for-pound king—something that Sonnen almost pulled off in UFC 117.
Sonnen, based on comments from various MMA online forums, appears to be the favorite over Muñoz. This is mainly because, statistically, The Unnatural has proven to be the better wrestler and the more effective takedown artist inside the Octagon compared to The Filipino Wrecking Machine.
His relentless style and boundless energy—natural or otherwise—are also impressive. Factor in his “near-win” against Silva and subsequent trouncing of Brian Stann, and it becomes clearer why most will place their bets on Sonnen.
Still, eveybody knows that, just like Sonnen, Muñoz is first and foremost a first-class wrestler. Sonnen’s advantage in takedown percentage notwithstanding, it remains to be seen who of the former top amateur collegiate and Olympic-style wrestlers is the better wrestler in MMA.
Some may say that Chris Leben successfully took down Muñoz, proof that the latter is inferior to Sonnen in the rassling department. But let’s not forget that Demian Maia also did the same to Sonnen, before immediately sinking the game-winning triangle choke afterward. (Well, this is MMA. And as a side note, who is the better wrestler between Leben and Maia?)
Sonnen may carry more submission-hold wins in his fight record—the most recent being his arm triangle choke win over Stann—but Muñoz survived and beat world submission-grappling champion Maia, who in turn submitted Sonnen.
In short, Sonnen’s grappling is not a discernible threat against Muñoz.
When it comes to stand-up striking, they appear to be equally skilled, but Muñoz without a doubt unloads the heavier hands. And it’s a no-brainer who has the more lethal ground-and-pound game.
Sonnen’s chances of getting that dream rematch lies in being able to deliver to Muñoz what he dished out against The Spider: effective takedowns, ground control and non-stop ground-and-pound…until the final bell rings.
It’s unlikely that Muñoz will eventually slap a triangle armbar from his back, but it’s also unlikely that the Filipino-American will be knocked unconscious by Sonnen’s punches (if we can call them that). So for Sonnen, it must be ground-and-paw en route to a decision win in their fight expected to happen on January 28, 2012.
Otherwise, if Muñoz keeps the fight on their feet, or worse, takes down Sonnen as often as he needs to rain down his devastating power bombs, then the dream rematch will have to wait a little longer—if not for eternity.
Or he might end up calling for a rematch versus Muñoz to be crowned, finally, as “the new UFC Middleweight Champion!”
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Michael “The Count” Bisping has barely had time to celebrate his victory over Jason “Mayhem” Miller and already the most infamous trash talker in MMA history, Chael Sonnen, has put in his two cents on Bisping’s performance.Prior to this eveni…
Michael “The Count” Bisping has barely had time to celebrate his victory over Jason “Mayhem” Miller and already the most infamous trash talker in MMA history, Chael Sonnen, has put in his two cents on Bisping’s performance.
Prior to this evening’s event, it had been widely speculated that the winner of Bisping vs. Miller would go on to face Sonnen, but Sonnen seems to have no interest in fighting The Count.
Via twitter, Sonnen let the world know what he thinks of a potential fight with Bisping:
“Bisping isn’t worth the time. Hey@Mark_Munoz, what do you say we give em a show. For ole times sake….”
Evidently, Sonnen is more interested in a fight with top middleweight contender Mark Munoz. The winner of that fight likely earning the next title shot.
The “for ole times sake” portion of the tweet is in reference to the fact that Sonnen and Munoz actually wrestled each other years ago when both were decorated amateur wrestlers.
It was a matchup that Munoz won.
Apparently, Sonnen is looking to avenge that defeat from long ago.
Bisping has yet to offer any response to Sonnen’s tweet, but there is no doubting he will not be happy with the prospect of Sonnen and Munoz fighting while he waits in the wings.
Leading into his fight with Miller, Bisping talked about his belief that he is one of the best middleweights on the planet and also expressed his interest in fighting for the title.
Stay tuned to Bleacher Report for more as this story develops.
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Rashad Evans and Chael Sonnen are reportedly set for returns to the Octagon at UFC on Fox 2 on Jan. 28 at Chicago’s United Center.While no announcement has been made from UFC officials, MMAjunkie.com today first reported the news that Evans is set to f…
Rashad Evans and Chael Sonnen are reportedly set for returns to the Octagon at UFC on Fox 2 on Jan. 28 at Chicago’s United Center.
While no announcement has been made from UFC officials, MMAjunkie.com today first reported the news that Evans is set to face Phil Davis while Sonnen takes on Mark Munoz.
Evans most recently defeated former light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz at UFC 133 this past August by technical knockout.
With the victory came an hand injury that forced Evans out of action, which caused him to miss the opportunity to dethrone rival Jon Jones at next Saturday’s UFC 140 pay-per-view in Toronto.
Evans’ opponent that night was scheduled to be Davis himself, but an knee injury forced his exit from the fight and he’s been out of action ever since.
With a victory over Davis, Evans is expected to be awarded a shot at the winner of Jones and Lyoto Machida.
Davis and Evans will headline the event, which is set for five-rounds.
As for Sonnen and Munoz, they each make returns fresh off impressive victories.
Sonnen defeated Brian Stann at UFC 136 by second round submission after dominating Stann throughout the first round with superior ground work.
The victory was Sonnen’s first fight since dominating champion Anderson Silva for the better part of four-and-a-half rounds with superior wrestling and ground work before slipping up and falling to an fifth-round submission from Silva.
Many expected Sonnen to rematch Silva in the first quarter of 2012, but an shoulder injury to Silva has evidently led to a matchup with Munoz.
Munoz, a former NCAA D-I wrestling standout has claimed victory in four-consecutive fights with his most recent win coming against Chris Leben at UFC 138.
Like Sonnen, Munoz’ strength is his wrestling so it will be interesting to see who truly is the more dominant ground practioner.
Munoz and Sonnen will be the co-headliner for the UFC’s second event on Fox.
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At UFC 136, the UFC welcomed back Chael Sonnen, who had been suspended for a year and had his share of legal issues. With all of that behind him, he defeated Brian Stann in the second round by arm triangle choke, afterward calling out the champion Ande…
At UFC 136, the UFC welcomed back Chael Sonnen, who had been suspended for a year and had his share of legal issues. With all of that behind him, he defeated Brian Stann in the second round by arm triangle choke, afterward calling out the champion Anderson Silva.
It was then assumed that Sonnen was the No. 1 contender, and after a weird phase of Anderson’s representatives saying Sonnen didn’t deserve the fight, the UFC announced that Chael was indeed the No. 1 contender. Soon after, Silva ended up injured and out until June.
When that was announced, Sonnen had already said multiple times that he wanted to stay active, and that if someone could beat him, then they deserved the title shot. The UFC soon announced that Sonnen would be facing Mark Munoz at UFC on FOX 2, after Munoz did an interview discussing how they had wrestled each other in the past. At the World MMA Awards, Sonnen stated in an interview that he was not facing Munoz, and without actually saying it, he implied that he would be facing the winner of Michael Bisping vs. Jason Miller in The Ultimate Fighter finale.
Years ago, Sonnen defeated Miller by decision, but neither man is truly the same fighter that they were in that fight, and Sonnen has been wanting a fight with Bisping for a while now.
If Michael Bisping were to win and go on to face Chael Sonnen, this match up would be very bad for him. Bisping does have wrestling, and has decent stand-up, more technique than power. The problem is that Chael has some of the best wrestling in MMA, and his striking is very underrated, and always plays a big role in him setting up his take downs.
Bisping is good at picking his opponents apart, but when the pressure is put on him, it appears that he becomes overwhelmed, ex. vs. Dan Henderson, and vs. Wanderlei Silva. Chael always puts the pressure on and never backs off. This would be a fight where Chael would utilize his striking, and do what he does best and utilize his wrestling and ground and pound handing Bisping a loss.
Many people try to discredit the striking of Sonnen, when in fact he got the best of Silva on the feet when they fought, and before he went to college years ago, he wanted to give up wrestling to focus only on boxing. Him sticking to wrestling was a very wise choice.
If Sonnen were to rematch Miller, this would be the tougher of the two fights. Miller is an excellent grappler, and also has much improved stand up. The problem that Miller has had over the years is that he has always struggled against grapplers that were just a little bit better than him. Sonnen’s wrestling, and his dominate top control would be the difference maker in this fight. Miller would have to land a sub off of his back if he is going to win this fight. Sonnen has had his trouble’s with elite grapplers in his past. People hate on Sonnen for his submission defense, but if you go and see who exactly the losses were too, then odds are the hate would go down just a little bit on that topic.
It would be totally unfair to say that Chael would 100 percent defeat both men, because this is MMA and anything can happen, but when it comes down to it, the Sonnen vs Silva rematch is a must and Chael will do whatever it takes to get that fight.
When Sonnen’s father was on his death bed, he promised him that he would be champion, and defeating one of these two men will put him one step closer to his promise.
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