UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle will take place Sunday August 14th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The main event will feature two of the UFC’s most exciting welterweights fighting to get back in the win column. Also featured on the card is Jim Miller and Ben…
UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle will take place Sunday August 14th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The main event will feature two of the UFC’s most exciting welterweights fighting to get back in the win column.
Also featured on the card is Jim Miller and Ben Henderson, two lightweights who hope a win will bring them a title shot.
Also featured on the main card are former WEC title contender Donald Cerrone taking on top prospect Charles Oliveira and TUF season 7 winner Amir Sadollah taking on Duane Ludwig.
Although this card doesn’t feature some of the bigger names in the UFC, it does feature stars in the making, top fighters fighting for title shots and for their jobs.
Here are some predictions for another exciting main card.
Last night was possibly the best PPV of the year so far.Carlos Condit showed he belongs at the top of the division.Tito Ortiz showed he’s got a bit of gas left in the tank.It was shown yet again that MMA judging needs improvement.Chris Leben ended the …
Last night was possibly the best PPV of the year so far.
Carlos Condit showed he belongs at the top of the division.
Tito Ortiz showed he’s got a bit of gas left in the tank.
It was shown yet again that MMA judging needs improvement.
Chris Leben ended the career of a legend.
Dominick Cruz avenged his only career loss and put on a hell of a fight with Urjiah Faber in the process.
Aside from all that though, there were two major lightweight fights that took place, with Dennis Siver taking on Matt Wiman, and Melvin Guillard taking on Shane Roller.
Siver won a controversial decision, but Guillard left no doubt about his win, by leaving Roller unconscious on the mat.
Read on to see how this mixed up the lightweight ranks.
Dana White met with the media following Thursday’s UFC 132 pre-fight press conference in Las Vegas. Below are some notes from the media scrum:
* White had no idea that ProElite has opened up shop again. “Good for them,” White said. “T. Jay [Thompson] …
Dana White met with the media following Thursday’s UFC 132 pre-fight press conference in Las Vegas. Below are some notes from the media scrum:
* White had no idea that ProElite has opened up shop again. “Good for them,” White said. “T. Jay [Thompson] has been involved in some great fights — SuperBrawl — I would call him an early pioneer of the sport. Good for him.”
* No main event has been signed for UFC 136 on Oct. 8 in Houston yet.
* White said he won’t let his personal feelings get in the way of inducting Tito Ortiz into the UFC Hall of Fame.
* White is leaning towards matching up Nik Lentz and Charles Oliveira again after their UFC on Versus 4 fight was changed to a no contest. White added that he didn’t think the illegal knee thrown by Oliveira was intentional.
* White didn’t know if the Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger fight will main event the “Battle on the Bayou” event on Sept. 17 in New Orleans. The UFC recently announced that the fight will be a three-rounder, leading to speculation that it won’t headline the SpikeTV card.
* White recently returned from a press event in Brazil to promote UFC 134, and was surprised at how little the local media knew about the sport. “Very little knowledge about the sport amongst the media down there,” he said, “which is the same thing here, but there you wouldn’t expect that.” He then paused and said with a smile, “that wasn’t a dig at you guys. The other media.”
One preliminary fight that could steal the show at UFC 132 will pit the striking ability of “The Young Assassin” Melvin Guillard against the wrestling ability of Shane Roller. This match is extremely valuable for both individuals because a win places o…
One preliminary fight that could steal the show at UFC 132 will pit the striking ability of “The Young Assassin” Melvin Guillard against the wrestling ability of Shane Roller. This match is extremely valuable for both individuals because a win places one of them at the top of the lightweight rankings with a possible positioning for a top contender spot.
Shane Roller possesses the one attribute that has been the Achilles heel of Melvin Guillard which of course is the ability to take the fight to the ground. Roller was a three-time Division 1 All-American wrestler from Oklahoma State University and captained the 2003 NCAA championship team.
Roller has proven his ability to finish fights once he gets his opponent to the ground and will look to do the same to Guillard. Out of Roller’s 10 wins, six of them have come via either guillotine or rear-naked chokes.
Though he has won the majority of his fights when they have touched the ground, Roller displayed knockout punching power also. Against Thiago Tavares, Roller threw a straight right hand that ended Tavares’ night which earned his third win by knockout in his UFC debut.
Don’t expect Roller to stand and trade with Guillard because if we are talking about punching power, make no mistake, Melvin Guillard is the most dangerous striker in the lightweight division. Guillard blends a mixture of power and speed that is unmatched in the division.
Guillard has proven this by posting 18 wins by form of knockout in 28 wins. This all depends on which record you reference of course as the UFC has him listed at 45-9-3 with one no-contest.
Of his eight professional losses, Guillard has been submitted seven times. This has been seemingly the only weakness that he displays but where there is a weakness, there is a solution.
The solution for Guillard is the fact that he has acknowledged this fact and taken the proper steps to improve upon it. Guillard joined up with Greg Jackson after a submission loss to Nate Diaz and hasn’t looked back since.
Guillard has won all four fights since joining with Greg Jackson. Not only has his submission defense improved but his all-around game has too. Guillard has shown greater patience and probably turned in the best performances of his career during his tenure with Jackson.
A win for either fighter puts them in the most congested title picture possibly ever seen. Contenders such as Ben Henderson, Dennis Siver, Jim Miller, Clay Guida and Gray Maynard are all awaiting their chance at lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.
A win for Roller puts him right in the mix with the contenders previously mentioned but a dominant win for Guillard could leap-frog him to the very top of the division.
Hello fight fans and welcome to the first annual Fighters Creed MMA Awards, presented by Fighters Creed! Here is a list of the eight fights that earned prestigious titles and will go down in MMA history!Each moment has been recapped in stunning detail …
Hello fight fans and welcome to the first annual Fighters Creed MMA Awards, presented by Fighters Creed! Here is a list of the eight fights that earned prestigious titles and will go down in MMA history!
Each moment has been recapped in stunning detail and listed below! Be sure to vote for “Best in Show” in our poll!
*This is purely a fictitious account of fights. All have been made up for comedic and entertainment purposes only and in no way represent any personal or general negative implications of the fighters or persons named. This list is in no affiliation with other awards.
Enjoy!
Award for “Best Closing of the Distance”
Winner: Stefan Struve vs. Demetrious Johnson
This fight was nearly three rounds of intense cat-and-mouse chasing, except the mouse was chasing the cat.
Demetrious continued battering at the shins of the “Skyscraper” in the second round. Near the end of the that round, Johnson went in for a single-leg takedown. Struve held his ground while Johnson went for an inverted kneebar, but the round ended seconds later.
In the third round, Struve used his reach advantage to place his hand on top of Johnson’s head and keep his distance, but Demetrious ran up Struve’s arm, took his back, slapped on a rear naked choke, and tapped out the Skyscraper.
“Mighty Mouse” wins Submission of the Night.
Award for “Most Referee Timeouts in One Fight”
Winner: Clay Guida vs. Urijah Faber
The first round starts and both fighters touch gloves. Clay immediately goes for a clinch and starts to dirty box.
Urijah Faber’s cornrows become undone, and his full mane is now down. Clay Guida goes in for another close exchange, but his hair gets tangled with Faber’s. Referee Herb Dean stops the fight and fixes the hair.
Thirty seconds later, it happens again, this time on the ground. Herb Dean stands them up, and fixes it again. This continues in the second round.
Then they both go for a violent takedown simultaneously and get tangled again. Herb Dean assesses the situation and calls in Stitch to cut the hair apart.
The third round starts and it happens again. Herb Dean rushes in again, but gets his own hair stuck. Doctors stop the fight, and judges call it a three-way draw. Herb Dean is awarded Fight of the Night.
Award for “Overcoming Adversity”
Winner: Frankie Edgar vs. Roy Nelson
Frankie starts off his fight with some quick jabs. Roy Nelson takes the punches, but eats them only to setup a takedown.
He quickly grabs a double-leg using his right arm only and slams Edgar to the ground. Edgar is rocked by the slam, and while dazed, Nelson scrambles and puts Edgar into a crucifix.
Edgar manages to squirm enough to dodge Nelson’s attacks from above. He then gets Roy into side control, but loses it again.
The second round starts and Roy Nelson takes Frankie down. This time he goes immediately to the north-south position. Edgar starts making a waving motion and loses his mouth guard, so referee Herb Dean calls a timeout. He stands both of them up, returns the mouth guard to Frankie, and then tells him to go back down to the position they were just in. Frankie clearly begs Herb Dean to just stand them up, but the ref refuses and places them back the way they were.
Frankie has now endured this torture for almost two rounds, but miraculously he lifts Roy Nelson off of himself. He then proceeds to suplex Nelson and knock him out for KO of the Night and Fight of the Night.
Edgar later says that his adrenaline boost came as a result of Nelson talking trash about the Jersey Shore while he had Edgar pinned.
Award for “Quickest Knockout”
Winner: Mirko Cro Cop vs. Wanderlei Silva
The bout starts and both opponents rush toward each other, meeting in the middle.
Mirko Cro Cop throws a jumping, 360 roundhouse and knocks out “The Axe Murderer” in six seconds.
After the fight doctors attempt to reattach Silva’s nose. Meanwhile Cro Cop is interviewed by Joe Rogan, where he reveals that he has been training with Steven Seagal.
Award for “Fewest Number of Takedowns in a Single Fight”
Winner: Fabricio Werdum vs. Thales Leites
The fight starts and both men touch gloves. They then square off and circle each other for about 20 seconds.
All of sudden, they both fake charge at each other, and in unison, they fall on their backs.
As if tanning under the lights of Mandalay Bay Arena, the fighters refuse to move. They bait each other by kicking at each other’s in-steps from time to time before Herb Dean stands them up.
The second and third rounds continue in the same manner as the first.
Judges call it a draw, and a rematch is setup immediately by Joe Silva. The fight will be the main event, and GSP vs. Silva is its co-main.
The fighters start the fight off by trading blows over and over. Lewis throws a head kick and lands flush to Hominick’s forehead. Hominick responds with a quick superman punch to the eye of Lewis.
Jabs and elbows are exchanged until hematomas have fully formed on both fighters.
In the second round, both fighters go for a quick takedown at the exact same time, causing their faces to smash together.
Joe Rogan’s commentary is briefly interrupted by a loud popping sound. Referee Herb Dean calls a stop to the fight, and corner and cut men rushed in to fix their fighters and the mess.
During the panic, six full bags of ice are spilled. Arianny Celeste slips on the ice that had been swept to the sides, which leads to her falling on her head rendering herself unconscious.
Both fighters are awarded KO of the Night, and Joe Rogan receives an Emmy for his commentary.
Award for “Most Artistic Fight”
Winner: Jason Miller vs. Hermes Franca
The fight starts, and it immediately goes to the ground.
The two fighters scramble for positions, reversing each other and exchanging ground and pound. The sweat and Vaseline converge into their hair, and the dye begins to bleed out by the start of the second round.
The canvas is becoming a rainbow of current and past colors, rendering the sponsors unreadable.
By the end, the mat looks like the insides of a kaleidoscope. Dan Hardy jumps the cage and makes some final touchups.
Award for “Most Memorable Entrance”
Winner: Georges St. Pierre vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza
Entrance music starts and Souza comes into “Welcome to the Jungle.”
Lights dim again and “O Canada” starts to play. Suddenly, a spotlight hits St. Pierre, and he is coming to the cage riding a gigantic moose.
He parks the moose at the prep station, while they apply Maple Syrup Vaseline to Rush’s face. He then enters the cage.
The fight starts, and GSP starts to jab. Souza, being frustrated with the quickness of GSP, lunges all out for a superman punch. He lands flush, and GSP gets rocked. Seeing his companion in trouble, GSP’s moose decides to jump the cage.
In the wake of excitement, Brock Lesnar, who was lazily spectating, perks up. He reaches for his hunting rifle, grabs the ammo under his chair, and takes aim.
He lands a shot dead center of the moose’s head, killing it on the spot. Lesnar, too, jumps the cage and starts to tend to his recent kill.
Confused and thinking GSP would be disqualified, Souza believes he has won the fight and starts to do his signature crawl.
Lesnar turns around and sees this, panics, and shoots Souza, thinking he was a caiman.
GSP is awarded a win, due to Souza being unable to continue.
Fans and critics rejoice…GSP has finally broken his decision streak.
The UFC lightweight division is at a standstill. With champion Frankie Edgar and top contender Gray Maynard sidelined with injuries, there is no clear direction for some of the division’s brightest stars. Most would agree that Jim Miller is currently a…
The UFC lightweight division is at a standstill.
With champion Frankie Edgar and top contender Gray Maynard sidelined with injuries, there is no clear direction for some of the division’s brightest stars.
Most would agree that Jim Miller is currently ahead of the herd. He is set to face former WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson on August 14 in a possible title eliminator bout.
With no timeline set for Edgar or Maynard’s return, the future remains uncertain. Even if Miller defeated Henderson, he would likely be forced to choose between taking a fight or going on an extended hiatus and waiting for a title shot.
What can the UFC do to sort out the excessively stacked and talented 155-pound division? UFC lightweight contender Melvin Guillard has an idea.
“Edgar and Maynard still haven’t fought again, so right now, everybody’s at a standstill,” Guillard told ESPN.com. “The only solution I see is them doing a 155-pound grand prix tournament, and putting everybody in brackets and weeding the losers to giving a true No. 1 contender a fight here in the next year or so.”
With the success of the ongoing Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, UFC President Dana White could entertain the idea. The lightweight division is arguably the most stacked in the entire sport. With Strikeforce onboard and their partnership with Dream, fans can also hope for cross-promotional entries of upper-echelon talent like Gilbert Melendez and Shinya Aoki.
What about a B.J. Penn return?
A lightweight tourney would probably peak the Hawaiian’s interest. Former two-time title contender Kenny Florian would be another name to consider, but he is apparently next in line to challenge Jose Aldo for the featherweight title.
“I honestly felt after the [Evan] Dunham fight that it was going to move me a lot higher,” Guillard said. “But they’re still ranking guys like Dennis Siver ahead of me, and I knocked this chump out in less than two minutes. He even called me out again, trying to fight me again.”
Siver entered the title mix after securing major victories over George Sotiropoulos and Spencer Fisher. Guillard doesn’t mind fighting guys like Siver and his upcoming opponent Shane Roller, but he is looking for fights that will further his position in the lightweight division.
“Honestly, you guys and all the fans are going to be like, ‘well, we kind of knew that was going to happen…why was Shane Roller even in the cage with Melvin?’ So, it’s just one of those fights where, for me, it doesn’t make sense…but it always makes sense when you’re in there to make a paycheck,” said Guillard.
“As far as I’m concerned, that’s all it’s going to do for me is bless me with another paycheck. But as far as moving me up the rankings and making me more elite? I don’t think that’s going to do anything.”
Dana White
