UFC 129: Will Ring Rust Be an Issue for the UFC Featherweight Champ, Jose Aldo?

Jose “Junior” Aldo is the current UFC featherweight champion with an overall MMA record of 19-1 with 12 knockouts. Prior to the purchase of World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) by Zuffa in October of 2010, Aldo steam-rolled through the greatest…

Jose “Junior” Aldo is the current UFC featherweight champion with an overall MMA record of 19-1 with 12 knockouts. Prior to the purchase of World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) by Zuffa in October of 2010, Aldo steam-rolled through the greatest featherweight competition within the WEC stable of fighters. Making his WEC debut in 2008 at Arco […]

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UFC 129: Will Ring Rust Be an Issue for the UFC Featherweight Champ, Jose Aldo?

UFC 128 Jones vs Rua

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Maurício Rua (c) vs Jon Jones I’ve got Jon Jones winning this one. Rua might be the more powerful fighter here, but Jones is more dangerous in more places. Bantamweight bout: Urijah Faber vs Eddie Wineland Faber. Lightweight bout: Jim Miller vs Kamal Shalorus Miller should be able to keep this […]

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Maurício Rua (c) vs Jon Jones

I’ve got Jon Jones winning this one. Rua might be the more powerful fighter here, but Jones is more dangerous in more places.

Bantamweight bout: Urijah Faber vs Eddie Wineland

Faber.

Lightweight bout: Jim Miller vs Kamal Shalorus

Miller should be able to keep this on the feet and out box Shalorus. This fight should be awesome as Shalorus is world class wrestler which will completely nullify Miller’s takedowns. Miller those is far superior in the boxing department where Shalorus wings bombs over and over. You know what I’m changing my pick. Shalorus via decision.

Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs Dan Miller

Nate Marquardt. Better everywhere.

Heavyweight bout: Mirko Filipovic vs Brendan Schaub

Brendan Schaub. Younger fighters seem to be giving Mirko problems.

Preliminary card (Spike TV Card)

Light Heavyweight bout: Luiz Cane vs Eliot Marshall

Luiz Cane easily. Well he won’t necessarily win easily, but I think its a easy pick.

Lightweight bout: Edson Barboza vs Anthony Njokuani

No pick, but like seeing Njokuani fight.

Preliminary card (Facebook)

Welterweight bout: Ricardo Almeida vs Mike Pyle

Ricardo Almeida doesn’t want to get choked out again. I don’t think Pyle is going to get that shot. I like Almeida here.

Lightweight bout: Kurt Pellegrino vs Gleison Tibau

If Gleison fights at his best he will be too strong and big for Pellegrino who has had problems against bigger fighters.

Preliminary card

Bantamweight bout: Joseph Benavidez vs Ian Loveland

Benavidez

Featherweight bout: Erik Koch vs Raphael Assunção

Assunção

Catchweight (195 lb) bout: Nick Catone vs Costantinos Phillipou

No pick

UFC: Kenny Florian to Face Diego Nunes in Featherweight Debut at UFC 131

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo should probably pump the brakes on any thoughts of moving up to lightweight because his work at featherweight is far from finished. “I’m very excited to announce that I’m going to be [making my fea…

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo should probably pump the brakes on any thoughts of moving up to lightweight because his work at featherweight is far from finished. “I’m very excited to announce that I’m going to be [making my featherweight debut against] Diego Nunes,” UFC lightweight Kenny Florian said on ESPN’s MMA Live. “We’ll be […]

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UFC: Kenny Florian to Face Diego Nunes in Featherweight Debut at UFC 131

Kenny Florian Makes Featherweight Debut at UFC 131

Filed under: UFC, NewsFormer top lightweight contender Kenny Florian will make his featherweight debut at UFC 131.

Florian said earlier this month he would be dropping down to featherweight, and his first test will come against Diego Nunes. Florian m…

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Former top lightweight contender Kenny Florian will make his featherweight debut at UFC 131.

Florian said earlier this month he would be dropping down to featherweight, and his first test will come against Diego Nunes. Florian made the announcement on ESPN’s “MMA Live” late Friday night. As he did Friday, Florian often serves as co-host of the show.

“It’s a new challenge,” Florian said of the drop in divisions. “I’ve never been afraid of a new challenge. I see it as an exciting opportunity to possibly face what in my opinion is one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, which is Jose Aldo. He’s a tremendous fighter and I have a lot of respect for that guy. (But) I still have an opponent before I get there.”

UFC: Mike Thomas Brown’s Fall From Featherweight Champion

Mike Thomas Brown use to have it all. On November 5, 2008 he had beaten big-time featherweight champ Urijah Faber for the title. Brown went on to defend his title successfully twice more, once against Leonard Garcia and once again versus Faber. But the…

Mike Thomas Brown use to have it all. On November 5, 2008 he had beaten big-time featherweight champ Urijah Faber for the title. Brown went on to defend his title successfully twice more, once against Leonard Garcia and once again versus Faber. But then Brown faced his toughest opponent ever, current UFC featherweight champion, Jose […]

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UFC: Mike Thomas Brown’s Fall From Featherweight Champion

Florian’s Featherweight Future: ‘A Top Contender, Then Aldo in Brazil’

(Plan your work, work your plan. PicProps: ESPN)
You didn’t think Kenny Florian would just drop to 145-pounds without a plan in mind, did you? If you did, you don’t know KenFlo. Nope, the now former perennial lightweight contender&rsqu…

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You didn’t think Kenny Florian would just drop to 145-pounds without a plan in mind, did you? If you did, you don’t know KenFlo. Nope, the now former perennial lightweight contender’s camp has a pretty detailed blueprint of what they’d like to see Florian do at featherweight. As manager Malki Kawa tells MMA Weekly on Wednesday, they think their guy will be on the fast-track to the top once he returns from a knee injury and gets his weight headed in the right direction. Check it out:

“A top contender,” Kawa says about Florian’s first 145-pound opponent. “Whoever the No. 1 contender is at that point is the guy I’d like to get. What would be my ideal situation is for him to get a fight in June, whoever the No. 1 contender is, win that fight and then hopefully set something up for Brazil with (Jose) Aldo, if the UFC’s up for it.”

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