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Over the past several years, the world has changed in significant ways. Unlike past decades, individuals are now easily able to connect with celebrities and athletes all across the globe. A major reason for this growth lies solely in the hands of socia…
Over the past several years, the world has changed in significant ways. Unlike past decades, individuals are now easily able to connect with celebrities and athletes all across the globe. A major reason for this growth lies solely in the hands of social media, which includes Twitter and of course Facebook. In the mix of […]
Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar and 10 Fighters Who You Need to Follow on Facebook
Live on Fox and Fox Sports November 12th 2011. The first live free UFC fight on a major network television broadcast. Heavyweight Championship bout: Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos The two best heavyweight boxers we’ve ever seen in MMA. Don’t even say Ray Mercer or James Tony, those guys don’t box in MMA. They
Live on Fox and Fox Sports November 12th 2011. The first live free UFC fight on a major network television broadcast.
The two best heavyweight boxers we’ve ever seen in MMA. Don’t even say Ray Mercer or James Tony, those guys don’t box in MMA. They swing.
As good as Dos Santos boxing is, its probably better, Velasquez is going to take him down and nullify it.
I lean towards Velasquez in this one, but Dos Santos is only an uppercut away from ending it.
Ben Henderson, if you go back through MMA Betting Picks website…way back, he was one of my undiscovered rising stars back when he fought in the MFC and walked out with his glasses on. Its incredible that the guy can’t see well without them and he has hair in his way most of the time.
This fight literally is the battle of hair.
Between Guida’s locks and Henderson’s expect a lot of swinging and a hair a flying.
From a strict comparables, I think Henderson has this fight on reach, size, overall striking. Henderson’s length is going to give Guida problems all night and he will be scoring. Guida has to get this fight to the ground to win. I don’t see it happening.
Guida is a crowd favorite so expect the lines to be tighter than they should be. I like Henderson in this fight. I also like this one going beyond 2-2.5 rounds.
Poirier
Cub Swanson
DaMarques Johnson – more experience – more ways to win – longer reach.
Kid Yamamoto
lean towards Mackens
More than 2 rounds.
Mike Pierce is up there on my favorite fighters to watch and bet with. He is excellent everywhere on the ground, but his special skill is stifling the takedown then making the opponent pay for attempting it.
Depending on the odds, this is probably an excellent bet.
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With UFC 134 fast approaching, all eyes seem to be on the main event of Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami. But one fighter who deserves more attention than he’s getting is Paulo Thiago. At first glance, his record might indicate he belongs exactly …
With UFC 134 fast approaching, all eyes seem to be on the main event of Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami. But one fighter who deserves more attention than he’s getting is Paulo Thiago. At first glance, his record might indicate he belongs exactly where he is, but a deeper look reveals different. Despite dropping his […]
UFC 134: Is Paulo Thiago Getting the Respect He Deserves on the Facebook Prelim?
Filed under: UFC, NewsThe last time the UFC was in Brazil, there was no such thing as Spike TV or Facebook.
But for Saturday’s UFC 134, the promotion’s first trip to the South American cradle of MMA since 1998, fans can watch all 12 fights on a combin…
The last time the UFC was in Brazil, there was no such thing as Spike TV or Facebook.
But for Saturday’s UFC 134, the promotion’s first trip to the South American cradle of MMA since 1998, fans can watch all 12 fights on a combination of Facebook, Spike and pay-per-view.
This will be the 15th consecutive event that the UFC has utilized Facebook to air preliminary card fights, dating back to January. And for the ninth straight event, each fight on the card will be broadcast in some form. The first five UFC 134 prelims will stream live on Facebook, followed by a pair of fights on Spike leading into the pay-per-view broadcast.
A pair of fights between Brazilians and Americans leads the Spike broadcast. A middleweight bout between Rousimar Palhares and Dan Miller kicks things off, followed by a lightweight bout between Thiago Tavares and Spencer Fisher.
Palhares (12-3, 5-2 UFC) fought exclusively in his native Brazil until signing with the UFC in 2008. His last three wins have been by submission. Miller (13-5, 1 NC, 5-4 UFC) has struggled since starting his UFC career 3-0. He suffered a three-fight skid with decision losses to Chael Sonnen, Demian Maia and Michael Bisping, but rebounded with back-to-back wins over John Salter and Joe Doerksen. But in March, he lost a unanimous decision to Nate Marquardt in his native New Jersey.
Tavares (15-4-1, 5-4-1 UFC) started his career 12-0 but has gone just 3-4-1 in his last eight fights. In March, he was knocked out by Shane Roller at UFC on Versus 3. Fisher (24-7, 9-6 UFC) is also coming off a loss. Ross Pearson took a unanimous decision from him at UFC 127 in Sydney in February, giving the Iowa-based fighter three losses in four fights.
On the UFC’s Facebook page, fans will get a Brazilian-heavy lineup. An opening bantamweight bout between Canada’s Yves Jabouin and American Ian Loveland is the only fight on the card to not feature a Brazilian. Three fights on the Facebook prelims feature Brazilians debuting in the UFC against fellow Brazilians. And Paulo Thiago (13-3, 3-3 UFC) looks to end a two-fight skid against David Mitchell (11-1, 0-1 UFC).
To gain access to the Facebook fights, which will begin at 6 p.m. Eastern, viewers must “like” the UFC on Facebook. As of Wednesday afternoon, the UFC had more than 6.2 million fans at the site. When the UFC first started streaming prelims fights on Facebook in January, it had approximately 4.5 million fans at the social networking site.
The UFC began streaming preliminary fights in January with its Fight for the Troops 2 show at Fort Hood, Texas. Since then, the promotion has included free Facebook fights for each event, regardless of the main card’s platform – be it on pay-per-view, Spike or Versus. For the historic UFC 129 card in Toronto in April, five prelims were aired on Facebook, followed by a pair on Spike leading into the pay-per-view – meaning for the first time, fans were guaranteed the opportunity to see each fight on the card. That has continued for each of the eight events since then, including Saturday’s card in Rio.
UFC 134 features a main event middleweight title fight between champion Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami, the last man to beat him – albeit by disqualification when Silva delivered an illegal upkick and Okami couldn’t continue. The co-main event features a rematch between former light heavyweight champions Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Forrest Griffin. And also on the main card, heavyweight Brendan Schaub looks for his fifth straight win in a matchup against Brazilian legend Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
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These are the four finalists from the UFC 132 and Hooters Facebook contest. But I wasn’t following the contest, so I didn’t vote and voting is now over so if you find a favorite amongst.
These are the four finalists from the UFC 132 and Hooters Facebook contest. But I wasn’t following the contest, so I didn’t vote and voting is now over so if you find a favorite amongst these girls, well, I hope you voted. I’m gonna cross my fingers that the winner is the girl in the green bikini ’cause even though I’m guessing her hair color isn’t natural, it looks like she’s the most willing to pull down her bikini bottoms and prove me right, and I love being right.
Filed under: UFCIt’s been six months since the UFC began experimenting with preliminary card fights on Facebook, and on Sunday it will set a new high-water mark.
The promotion on Monday announced that all eight undercard fights for the upcoming UFC o…
Filed under: UFC
It’s been six months since the UFC began experimenting with preliminary card fights on Facebook, and on Sunday it will set a new high-water mark.
The promotion on Monday announced that all eight undercard fights for the upcoming UFC on Versus 4 show will stream live on the social networking site. Just last week, with UFC 131, the promotion set a new best with six prelims streaming on Facebook.
This will mark the 11th consecutive fight card that the UFC has streamed fights for free at Facebook, and it will be the fifth consecutive show the promotion has provided a way for fans to see each fight on the card live.
UFC on Versus 4 will feature a four-fight main card that airs live on the Versus cable channel, the second of the UFC’s four-fight 2011 deal with the channel. The Facebook live stream is scheduled to begin at 4:55 p.m. Eastern. The main card starts at 9 p.m. Eastern on Versus. Versus will also again produce a live pre-fight preview show and post-fight analysis show before and after the main card featuring Todd Harris, UFC light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar and MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani.
To gain access to the fights, viewers must “like” the UFC on Facebook. As of Monday evening, the UFC has more than 5.7 million fans at the site.
The “main” and “co-main” events of the Facebook prelims are featherweight bouts featuring a pair of former lightweights dropping down – both looking to snap out of disastrous three-fight losing skids.
Tyson Griffin (14-5, 7-5 UFC) returns to featherweight for the first time since the early part of his career to face Manny Gamburyan (11-5, 2-3 UFC), who fights for the first time since a knockout loss to featherweight champion Jose Aldo last November in a WEC title fight. Griffin has split decision losses to Evan Dunham and Nik Lentz in the last year, plus a quick first-round knockout loss to Takanori Gomi last August on Versus. Gamburyan fights in the UFC for the first time in two years after dropping to featherweight and sliding over to the WEC, where he went 3-0 before his loss to Aldo.
And Joe Stevenson (31-13, 8-7 UFC), the Season 2 welterweight winner of “The Ultimate Fighter,” goes for his first win since October 2009 when he takes on Javier Vazquez (15-5), who makes his UFC debut after going 2-3 in the WEC. Stevenson has dropped decisions to George Sotiropoulos and Danny Castillo, and was knocked out by Mac Danzig in December. Stevenson is 3-6 since challenging BJ Penn for the lightweight title at UFC 80 three and a half years ago, including the loss to Penn. Monday, on “The MMA Hour,” Stevenson talked about his dislike of Vazquez and why he dropped to featherweight.
The Facebook prelims stream opens with a lightweight bout between TUF 12 runner-up Michael Johnson, fighting for the first time since losing to Jonathan Brookins in December on the show’s finale, against Edward Faaloto, who makes his UFC debut after a loss in his WEC debut last November.
Nik Lentz (21-3-2, 5-0-1 UFC) tries to remain unbeaten in the UFC against submission specialist Charles Oliveira in a lightweight bout.
Rich Attonito drops from middleweight after a loss to Dave Branch in December to make his welterweight debut against Daniel Roberts, who lost to Claude Patrick at UFC 129 in April. Attonito was original scheduled to face Matt Brown, but an injury to Martin Kampmann forced him out of a fight with John Howard, and Brown moved up the card for that fight. Roberts stepped in to face Attonito.
Other bouts include a featherweight contest between Ricardo Lamas and Matt Grice, a welterweight bout between Charlie Brenneman and TJ Grant, and Joe Lauzon returns for the first time since a UFC 123 loss in November to Sotiropoulos to face England’s Curt Warburton.
The UFC began streaming preliminary fights in January with its Fight for the Troops 2 show at Fort Hood, Texas. Since then, the promotion has included free Facebook fights for each event, regardless of the main card’s platform – be it on pay-per-view, Spike or Versus.
UFC on Versus 4 takes place Sunday at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, and will be the promotion’s first event in the Pennsylvania city. The card features a main event between Nate Marquardt and Rick Story – with Marquardt making his welterweight debut and Story fighting on short notice after a win just a month prior against Thiago Alves at UFC 130. Marquardt was scheduled to face Anthony Johnson, but an injury forced Johnson off the card.
And in a pair of heavyweight bouts, kickboxing specialists Pat Barry and Cheick Kongo clash, and Matt Mitrione looks to stay unbeaten against Christian Morecraft, whose last win sent Mitrione friend and training partner Sean McCorkle packing from the UFC.