I’ve been thinking about championships lately. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about championships and how, given the multiple injuries suffered by UFC title-holders in recent years, we are nearing a time when the Ultimate Fighting Championship should create set-in-stone rules on how to deal with champions who are on the shelf for an extended period of […]
I’ve been thinking about championships lately. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about championships and how, given the multiple injuries suffered by UFC title-holders in recent years, we are nearing a time when the Ultimate Fighting Championship should create set-in-stone rules on how to deal with champions who are on the shelf for an extended period of […]
While she hasn’t made a full recovery just yet, semi-retired adult-film star Christy Mack has made a lot of progress since her alleged brutal August 9 attack by former Bellator/UFC welterweight War Machine. Mack posted a photo collage on Instagram on Sunday, showing how she looked two days, two weeks and four weeks after the alleged […]
While she hasn’t made a full recovery just yet, semi-retired adult-film star Christy Mack has made a lot of progress since her alleged brutal August 9 attack by former Bellator/UFC welterweight War Machine. Mack posted a photo collage on Instagram on Sunday, showing how she looked two days, two weeks and four weeks after the alleged […]
UFC 175 was a great card, but its gravitas was lessened if you were among the squeamish.
What happened?
We’ll start off with the least serious injury first: Ronda Rousey’s hand stitches.
Conceptualizing how Ronda Rousey could’ve possibly gotten injured in her 16-second OBLITERATION of Alexis Davis is beyond the mental faculties of mid-tier MMA bloggers. Somehow it happened though. Rousey hurt her hand, and even had stitches on it by the end of the right. Joe Rogan stated this was why she couldn’t headline UFC 176 in August.
See two photos of the injury that have been circulating on Twitter after the jump…
(Photo via Getty)
UFC 175 was a great card, but its gravitas was lessened if you were among the squeamish.
What happened?
We’ll start off with the least serious injury first: Ronda Rousey’s hand stitches.
Conceptualizing how Ronda Rousey could’ve possibly gotten injured in her 16-second OBLITERATION of Alexis Davis is beyond the mental faculties of mid-tier MMA bloggers. Somehow it happened though. Rousey hurt her hand, and even had stitches on it by the end of the right. Joe Rogan stated this was why she couldn’t headline UFC 176 in August.
Here are two photos of the injury that have been circulating on Twitter:
The injury was worse than the picture shows (there was a close-up of the bone jutting out of the skin during the live broadcast but there doesn’t appear to be a screenshot…yet). The best part is that Hall’s cornermen bullied the doctor into not doing anything about Hall’s clearly f*cked up toe when he checked it out between rounds. Actually, scratch that, the best part was Hall dancing around with a bone sticking out of his foot and actually kicking with that leg. That took bravado and some serious pain tolerance–and it’s those attributes that earned him a decision win over Thiago Santos.
We’ll post any more pics as they surface. Until then, enjoy your Sunday, Potato Nation.
(As long as Fitch agrees to be unconscious when the fight starts, you’ve got yourself a deal. / Photo via Sherdog)
For the third time in six weeks, Jon Fitch has lost his opponent for his World Series of Fighting 11 promotional debut. Yesterday, Josh Burkman tweeted that he was forced to withdraw from his scheduled rubber-match against Fitch at the July 5th NBC card, due to a hyperextended elbow, ligament damage, and a bone bruise. So, to briefly summarize:
May 2nd: Fitch gets booked in a stylistic nightmare fight against Jake Shields, a match that MMA fans around the world have been asking for, sarcastically.
(As long as Fitch agrees to be unconscious when the fight starts, you’ve got yourself a deal. / Photo via Sherdog)
For the third time in six weeks, Jon Fitch has lost his opponent for his World Series of Fighting 11 promotional debut. Yesterday, Josh Burkman tweeted that he was forced to withdraw from his scheduled rubber-match against Fitch at the July 5th NBC card, due to a hyperextended elbow, ligament damage, and a bone bruise. So, to briefly summarize:
May 2nd: Fitch gets booked in a stylistic nightmare fight against Jake Shields, a match that MMA fans around the world have been asking for, sarcastically.
June 11: Burkman pulls out of the fight due to severe masturbation injuries.
A replacement-replacement-replacement opponent has not been announced for Fitch yet, although I hear that Jason High dude is free these days. At this point, the promotion is probably better off re-booking Fitch against one of his first two opponents. Though if you can make 170 pounds by July 4th and don’t mind being smothered for three rounds, feel free to offer WSOF your services.
Good news, Nation! After a disastrous 2013 that saw Anderson Silva‘s fibula and tibia snap like a swizzle stick in the hands of a bartender with Parkinson’s, “The Spider” has been cleared to resume training! And better yet, he’s already set a timetable for his return! Why? Because you can’t keep a champion down, no matter how many times you tell him that he should just enjoy his damn legacy already, that’s why! When will we see him return? And against who? Is my sudden positivity at-all related to the ketamine I just snorted? FIND OUT BELOW.
I’m very exciting because I back for training. My doctor in Brazil say my leg’s good. I’m very happy. And next year, I back.
This year, I no back for fight. I have my plans, I have my family and working hard on my academy in Brazil. So next year, I don’t know when, but next year.
How I’ve missed that helium-voiced, broken English so.
It’s crazy to think that Silva could presumably start full-on training next week considering it’s been just five months since he lost “by accident” in his rematch with Chris Weidman at UFC 168. While it’s still up in the air whether Silva could be granted an immediate title shot upon his return or not, you almost have to admit that the UFC needs a PPV-draw like him in a time when nearlyeverychampion is recovering from injury.
Good news, Nation! After a disastrous 2013 that saw Anderson Silva‘s fibula and tibia snap like a swizzle stick in the hands of a bartender with Parkinson’s, “The Spider” has been cleared to resume training! And better yet, he’s already set a timetable for his return! Why? Because you can’t keep a champion down, no matter how many times you tell him that he should just enjoy his damn legacy already, that’s why! When will we see him return? And against who? Is my sudden positivity at-all related to the ketamine I just snorted? FIND OUT BELOW.
I’m very exciting because I back for training. My doctor in Brazil say my leg’s good. I’m very happy. And next year, I back.
This year, I no back for fight. I have my plans, I have my family and working hard on my academy in Brazil. So next year, I don’t know when, but next year.
How I’ve missed that helium-voiced, broken English so.
It’s crazy to think that Silva could presumably start full-on training next week considering it’s been just five months since he lost “by accident” in his rematch with Chris Weidman at UFC 168. While it’s still up in the air whether Silva could be granted an immediate title shot upon his return or not, you almost have to admit that the UFC needs a PPV-draw like him in a time when nearlyeverychampion is recovering from injury.
We haven’t heard much from Vitor Belfort ever since he withdrew from his UFC 173-scheduled title fight with Chris Weidman in the wake of the TRT ban. Although Belfort told MMAFighting last month that he had “passed all the tests that Nevada requires on his own,” he was all but dismissed by Dana White, who claimed that Belfort needed to “solve his problems with the Nevada State Athletic Commission” before he could compete again:
He’s got a lot of work to do. That shit just doesn’t happen like that. You gotta get on the agenda. He’s got a lot of work to do. He’s fooling himself if that’s what he really thinks, he took a couple of home tests and he’s ready to roll. Or whatever he did.
Funny how when Belfort is fighting for a title, White is the first guy to defend his usage of TRT while claiming that the UFC is “testing the shit out of him,” but the minute he pulls out of said fight, TRT is “his problem.” You just don’t see flip-flopping like that everyday, folks. Unless you follow MMA, that is.
In any case, the Brazilian Athletic Commission’s medical director, Dr. Marcio Tannure, told MMAFighting earlier today that not only has Belfort figured his TRT problems out, but that he has been cleared to fight again in Brazil. And only Brazil:
He can fight here, no problem, but he can’t use TRT. Since he doesn’t have a license to use TRT anymore, he would be tested like any other fighter. Every commission has its standards. I don’t know which test he did and what was the result, so I can’t talk about it and which criteria they’re considering in (Belfort’s) case.
Every time a fighter that tested positive in the past applies for a license in Nevada is tested again, and we will adopt that here as well. This is an interesting criteria, and we will also do it, but (Belfort) never tested positive here.
Just so you know, Belfort recently stated that he “feels like an animal” without TRT thanks to the Holy Spirit, but still feels that his opponents have an advantage over him sans-TRT. So there’s that. Moving on…
To say that it’s been a harrowing year for former bantamweight #1 contender Cat Zingano would be a colossal understatement to say the least. Not only did an ACL tear force her out of a TUF 18 coaching gig (and subsequent title shot against Ronda Rousey) before casual audiences could even learn her name, but in January, her husband Mauricio was found dead after an apparent suicide.
An interesting way of announcing it, but good to hear nonetheless. And wouldn’t you know it, Sarah Kaufman has already stepped up and offered Zingano a “tune up” fight this summer while Ronda Rousey to dispatch fights Alexis Davisat UFC 175. How Canadian of her. That a fight you’d be interested in, Nation?
“What happened was Wanderlei got hurt in that fight,” White said following Wednesday’s TUF Nations Finale. “He got double legged on the concrete and he hurt his back. He hurt his hand punching Chael in the head and he got injured.
“He couldn’t fight on time because he got hurt in the fight f—ing coaching a show. I’m done being angry now. I was angry when it happened. It’s just disgusting…
“There’s a bunch of idiots in the media saying, ‘That thing looks contrived,’” White said. [Ed. note: It’s nice to see that Dana still reads CagePotato!] “It was far from contrived. That thing was a disgusting display of what shouldn’t happen, and if I was there it would have never happened…
“What happened was Wanderlei got hurt in that fight,” White said following Wednesday’s TUF Nations Finale. “He got double legged on the concrete and he hurt his back. He hurt his hand punching Chael in the head and he got injured.
“He couldn’t fight on time because he got hurt in the fight f—ing coaching a show. I’m done being angry now. I was angry when it happened. It’s just disgusting…
“There’s a bunch of idiots in the media saying, ‘That thing looks contrived,’” White said. [Ed. note: It’s nice to see that Dana still reads CagePotato!] “It was far from contrived. That thing was a disgusting display of what shouldn’t happen, and if I was there it would have never happened.
“The fact that there were other people, even people holding camera in that f–king place and let that happen is just beyond belief. Then the kid who runs in and sucker-punched Chael from behind, it’s just as bad as it can get.”
The only thing that would have made this situation worse is if Gabi Garcia jumped into the brawl and broke Chael’s neck with a pile-driver. Luckily, the Bad Guy™ got off relatively unscathed, while Wandy now has even more to be furious about. Anybody else think Silva is pissing on his legacy with this ridiculous feud?
