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Jung, Hendricks, McDonald and Figueroa Pocket $55,000 Bonuses

Filed under: UFCSEATTLE — The UFC handed out bonuses of $55,000 each to Chan Sung Jung, Johny Hendricks, and the duo of Michael McDonald and Edwin Figueroa for their performances at UFC Fight Night 24.

Bantamweights McDonald and Figueroa pocketed the…

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SEATTLE — The UFC handed out bonuses of $55,000 each to Chan Sung Jung, Johny Hendricks, and the duo of Michael McDonald and Edwin Figueroa for their performances at UFC Fight Night 24.

Bantamweights McDonald and Figueroa pocketed the Fight of the Night bonus after a spirited three-round affair that saw everything from wild striking exchanges to several near submissions on the mat. McDonald won the bout via unanimous decision, but Figueroa’s resilience — particularly after taking the fight on short notice — made a major impression on the fans at the Key Arena.

Chan Sung Jung Practiced Twister Over and Over Because It ‘Looks Fun’

Filed under: UFCWho says that all that time spent watching videos on the internet is wasted?

For Chan Sung Jung, the videos he found online of Eddie Bravo’s unconventional twister submission helped him defeat Leonard Garcia at UFC Fight Night 24 and …

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Who says that all that time spent watching videos on the internet is wasted?

For Chan Sung Jung, the videos he found online of Eddie Bravo’s unconventional twister submission helped him defeat Leonard Garcia at UFC Fight Night 24 and add an extra $55,000 to his bank account in the process.

“It’s something that I saw a long time ago on the internet on video,” Jung said via a translator during Saturday night’s post-fight press conference. “It’s one of Eddie Bravo’s techniques. It’s something I practiced because it just looks fun, and so I do it quite a bit in practice. I always told people I was going to try it some time in competition and I wanted to do it in the UFC and I was able to.”

UFC Fight Night 24 Predictions

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…

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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

Where: Key Arena, Seattle

Predictions on the four televised fights below.

Leonard Garcia Looks to Remake Himself in ‘Korean Zombie’ Rematch

Filed under: UFCLeonard Garcia has a problem. To put it more precisely, he has a difficult decision to make. He has to choose between being the fighter fans have come to expect and being the fighter his coaches and teammates see glimpses of in the gym….

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Leonard Garcia has a problem. To put it more precisely, he has a difficult decision to make. He has to choose between being the fighter fans have come to expect and being the fighter his coaches and teammates see glimpses of in the gym. He has to choose between wild brawls and technical displays.

Maybe, when it comes down to it, he even has to choose between entertaining and winning. The thing is that, lately, he’s begun to wonder whether it’s even his choice to make in the end.

“I get a lot of talk about how I’m willing to go out there and brawl,” Garcia said. “The fans like it, the UFC likes it, but then everybody in the gym says, hey, when you’re technical and you do things correctly, it’s hard to stop you. But when we go out for the rules meeting and Dana White is talking about the Fight of the Night bonus, he stares right at me. I mean, right at me. And all the guys in the room, you can see them, they’re like, man, Leonard’s on the card. He’s going to go get that bonus. So it is a double-edged sword.”

“Korean Zombie” Update: Jung Training and Learning English with Urijah Faber

It wasn’t long ago when fans solely restricted to a North American MMA diet, finally caught wise to the fact that Chan Sung Jung (or better known as “The Korean Zombie”), was the kind of fighter you put your meeting, kids graduation and or wedding on hold to watch fight. If you still haven’t seen […]

It wasn’t long ago when fans solely restricted to a North American MMA diet, finally caught wise to the fact that Chan Sung Jung (or better known as “The Korean Zombie”), was the kind of fighter you put your meeting, kids graduation and or wedding on hold to watch fight. If you still haven’t seen his WEC 48 bout with Leonard Garcia last April, drop everything now and immediately seek out footage.

Of course, the fanfare surrounding Jung experienced a little hiccup in September, when George Roop viciously demonstrated with a head kick that the South Korean fighter is in fact, not a zombie, but hell; no one’s going to be changing a nickname that good anytime soon.

So what’s the latest news on the Zombie? Since he was forced to pull out of his January tilt with Rani Yahya in January, the featherweight has apparently been putting some time in with Team Alpha Male. Yup, you could do a lot worse in terms of training partners. For more on that, head to the Garv here.

In addition, it seems that former WEC featherweight champ Urijah Faber has been giving (wink, wink) Jung some English lessons (more winks). In a very entertaining vid released by Faber and his crew, Jung proves to be a brilliant student in picking up the finer points of the English language, most importantly, pick up lines. To check out the vid head here.

Now, if you want to throw a little dough down on Faber’s upcoming bout with Eddie Wineland, which should be pretty sweet, go here.

CagePotato.com Presents: The 2010 Potato Awards

If 2010 was a cold beer, we’d be down to the backwash. December puts all of us MMA-pundit types in a reflective mood, and this year gave us a double-crapload of big stories, insane fights, rising stars, and utter embarrassments to wrap our heads around. And so, we’d like to pay tribute to 2010 in the best way we know how — sarcasm and insults, mostly. Without further ado, here are 15 things we felt were worthy of some end-of-year recognition, Potato-style…

The Giant Silva Freak Show Award, presented each year to the match that’s made strictly for gruesome entertainment value; fighters should ideally exhibit a tremendous difference in either size or experience level.
Winner: Randy Couture vs. James Toney at UFC 118, in which a tubby boxing champ trash-talked his way into a co-headling bout against an MMA legend, and got choked out before he was able to land a single punch. This marks the first time in eleven years that the Giant Silva Award hasn’t been granted to a fight held in Japan.
Also receiving votes this year: Herschel Walker vs. Greg Nagy

The Wanderlei Silva Unintentionally Homoerotic Smack Talk Award, known as "The Wandy" is presented each year to the fighter who, when trying to hype a fight, inadvertently makes reference to having gay sex with his (or her) opponent.
Winner: Josh Koscheck, for the utterly disturbing wild-eyed, tongue-waving description above of what he was planning to do to UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre during this season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Also receiving votes this year: Matt Horwich, for his cringeworthy rant about how he was going to Mike Tyson 10th Planet protagonist Renato Laranja.

The Natasha Wicks Memorial Best Female Newcomer Award, presented each year to the up-and-coming MMA ring girl — preferably blonde, as per the bylaws — who gets us to forget about Arianny Celeste and Brittney Palmer, if only for a moment.
Winner: Rhian Sugden, the stunning (and frequently-nude) star of the U.K.’s BAMMA promotion.
Also receiving votes this year: Kelli Hutcherson, Stephanie Ann Cook, Brittany Ward, Melissa Jo