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Photo Gallery: CagePotato’s UFC 129 ‘Banned’ Pre-Party in Toronto

(Above: Bern poses with a completely terrified Joe Silva. Below: Proof that at least one human female attended our party. Success!)

As promised, here are some photographic highlights from last Thursday’s CagePotato party at Shoeless Joe’s in Toronto, with a few “Free CagePotato” photos from the UFC Fan Expo thrown in for flavor. Thanks again to everybody who came, wore our t-shirts, took pictures, and got drunk at our expense. Most of these pics were shot by CagePotato All-Star Bern E., who sent them to us out of the goodness of his heart (so he says), not to win that GSP headband signed by the Octagon Girls. Well too bad buddy, because you’re the winner anyway. I’ll be in touch.

Lots more good times after the jump.

(Above: Bern poses with a completely terrified Joe Silva. Below: Proof that at least one human female attended our party. Success!)

Lots more good times after the jump.

(Oh, how the beer flowed.)

(The obligatory crowd shot, part 1.)

(Miss RaRa, BG, Tracy Lee, and Emily Miller. I have no idea why I’m standing like that.)

(Bern and Gary Goodridge)

(“Beautiful” and Tony Lee)

(Mike Russell, on the far right with an orange in his drink.)

(Brad F. gave the rest of us shirt-envy.)

(The obligatory crowd-shot, part 2.)

(For bar food, you could do a lot worse.)

(“agentsmith,” too cool for a Free CagePotato shirt.)

(Fist-posin’ like champs.)

(Figure-skating and poker. Those were our viewing options.)

(Two Guinnesses at once — the surest sign of an open-bar.)

(Jared M. with his crew…)

(…and at the Fan Expo with Spencer Fisher)

(Stefan S. at the Fan Expo with Royce Gracie)

(Catsmasher1′s dog represents at home.)

Emily Miller Brings You the Fix Friday Link Dump

Jay Leno attempts a funny bit with “President Obama” attacking UFC Lightweight, Jacob Volkmann. Watch The Tonight Show clip: here.
UFC on Versus 3: Sanchez vs. Kampmann has been officially confirmed. Check out the fight card in the works: here.
In the wake of a Chael Sonnen UFC suspension, it looks like Nate Marquardt will […]

Jay Leno attempts a funny bit with “President Obama” attacking UFC Lightweight, Jacob Volkmann. Watch The Tonight Show clip: here.

UFC on Versus 3: Sanchez vs. Kampmann has been officially confirmed. Check out the fight card in the works: here.

In the wake of a Chael Sonnen UFC suspension, it looks like Nate Marquardt will step in to take on Yoshihiro Akiyama. Details: here.

You don’t have to spot Gary Goodridge on a night out this weekend. He was finally paid for his 2009 Dynamite! NYE bout though it doesn’t look like he got all his money: here.

Anthony “Showtime Kick” Pettis doesn’t want to wait ’till after Edgar vs. Maynard 3 to get back in the cage. He expects to fight again in the next coming months. As reported by MMAWeekly: here.

Enjoy more pics from the sexy Tequila Cazadores spokesmodel and Ring Girl, Emily Miller below.

Gary Goodridge Finally Gets (Mostly) Paid for K-1 Dynamite!! 2009

(Somehow, screwing this guy over in a business deal would never cross our minds. PicProps: Top MMA News)A couple years ago I interviewed UFC and Pride vet and all-around good guy Gary Goodridge as part of a project I was working on for another publicat…

(Somehow, screwing this guy over in a business deal would never cross our minds. PicProps: Top MMA News)

A couple years ago I interviewed UFC and Pride vet and all-around good guy Gary Goodridge as part of a project I was working on for another publication. At the beginning of our conversation I think I asked something innocuous like, “Hey Gary, how you doing?” to which Goodridge responded with an audible sigh and said: “Man, I’m broke as a joke and looking for a job.” I laughed. Nervously. During the course of our talk it became clear that “Big Daddy” wasn’t kidding. After nearly 50 MMA fights and 40 kickboxing bouts, the 15-year fight vet was pretty much at loose ends. He’d morphed into a cautionary tale – and a particularly heartbreaking one because he is such a nice dude – for all the young fighters out there who are living like they think those paychecks are just going to keep coming forever.

For obvious reasons, it was not at all surprising when Goodridge agreed to take on Gegard Mousasi at K-1’s New Year’s Eve Dynamite!! 2009 show on kind of ridiculously short notice, was further depressingly predictable that he lost that fight by ugly TKO inside of two minutes and unbelievably ridiculous that FEG took more than a year to send Gary his paycheck. Since this was so clearly an example of an aging fighter taking a fight he had no business taking simply because he needed a payday, the whole “getting paid” stage was a pretty important part of the equation. So, it warms even the blackest heart to report that Goodridge finally got his bread this week. Well, most of it.

Gary Goodridge Finally Paid for 2009 New Year’s Eve Fight

Filed under: FanHouse Exclusive, JapanAfter a year of trying, MMA veteran Gary Goodridge has finally been paid for his bout with Gegard Mousasi at the New Year’s Eve Dynamite!! 2009 event in Tokyo. It took a public back-and-forth and several missed de…

Filed under: FanHouse Exclusive, Japan

After a year of trying, MMA veteran Gary Goodridge has finally been paid for his bout with Gegard Mousasi at the New Year’s Eve Dynamite!! 2009 event in Tokyo. It took a public back-and-forth and several missed deadlines, but FEG paid the outstanding debt, minus deductions for applicable taxes, so now Goodridge is happy. Sort of.

“They gave me $9,000 short,” Goodride told MMA Fighting on Thursday.

“They came up with some kind of Japanese tax, I don’t know what they did. They sent me a breakdown of it, but it’s just tax. I’ve never paid these taxes before in my life. But they’re having problems, the company is having problems, so I’m glad to get paid, absolutely. Should I keep my mouth shut? No. But thank you very much, it took you a year and then you’re $9,000 short. I’m happy, but in the same breath, they cheated me.”

Todd Duffee’s New Year’s Gamble

Filed under: JapanFor a certain kind of MMA fighter, New Year’s Eve in Japan represents a simple math problem. It’s about risk versus reward, money versus pain and embarrassment, and, more often than not, overflowing optimism versus some very long odds…

Filed under: Japan

For a certain kind of MMA fighter, New Year’s Eve in Japan represents a simple math problem. It’s about risk versus reward, money versus pain and embarrassment, and, more often than not, overflowing optimism versus some very long odds.

Mostly though, it’s about money.

That might not be the only reason Todd Duffee reportedly agreed to end a tumultuous 2010 with a fight against Alistair Overeem on this year’s Dynamite!! New Year’s Eve show, but it’s definitely one of the reasons.

By all indications, Duffee stands to make a nice chunk of change (somewhere in the neighborhood of $60,000, according to various internet reports) for shipping off to Tokyo at the last minute. For a guy who hasn’t fought since being released from the UFC following his first career loss to Mike Russow in May, the chance to end the year with some money in his pocket must seem like a difficult offer to refuse. But does that necessarily mean it’s a good idea?

Ralek Gracie Says Dream Still Hasn’t Paid Him For Fight in May

Filed under: DREAM, News, JapanYou can add Ralek Gracie’s name to the growing list of fighters who are upset with Japan’s Dream organization, and his complaint against his former employers is all too familiar.

Gracie (3-0) told MMA Fighting’s Ariel He…

Filed under: DREAM, News, Japan

You can add Ralek Gracie‘s name to the growing list of fighters who are upset with Japan’s Dream organization, and his complaint against his former employers is all too familiar.

Gracie (3-0) told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani on Monday afternoon’s edition of “The MMA Hour” that the FEG-backed promotion has not paid him a single penny of what he’s owed for his win over Japanese legend Kazushi Sakuraba at Dream.14 on May 29. And after waiting patiently for more than four months for the check to arrive, Gracie is through keeping quiet about it.

“I fought [Sakuraba] on May 29 and under my contract I was supposed to be paid 30 days after my fight, in full, and I haven’t been paid yet,” Gracie said. “The Dream organization puts on a wonderful show. They’re, in my opinion, the top show in terms of production, but on the back end, as far as handling the finances, they haven’t really taken care of me in a way that I expected and a way I feel is honorable and a way they should.”