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Jacob Volkmann Appears on Fox Business and Talks Obama Care, His Salary (VIDEO) (UPDATE)

The UFC Lightweight now famous around the world for calling out the President and subsequently being paid a visit from the Secret Service appeared as a guest last night on Fox Business. Jacob Volkmann was asked several questions about his salary as a fighter then asked the reasons he is not in favor of […]

The UFC Lightweight now famous around the world for calling out the President and subsequently being paid a visit from the Secret Service appeared as a guest last night on Fox Business. Jacob Volkmann was asked several questions about his salary as a fighter then asked the reasons he is not in favor of Obama Care. Volkmann reveals he doesn’t care for the time consuming paperwork involved with the health care policy. The host goes on to press him further about the meager $60,000 he made as an MMA fighter last year and was curious as to why he would want to get his face bashed in for so little. He then assumes Volkmann made more as a Chiropractor, but we learn that he only made $17,000 from his chiropractic business last year and that was before his business expenses. The 6 minute interview is almost uncomfortable to watch, but very interesting, so we have it for you below:


*UPDATE: MMAWeekly reports, Jacob Volkmann was placed on administrative leave as Assistant Head Coach of the Wrestling Program at White Bear Lake Highschool (one of the several jobs Volkmann holds, as mentioned in the Fox Business video). Volkmann told MMAWeekly:

“They put me on administrative leave they called it. They said I was representing the school in a bad way, and during the interview I mentioned the President is an idiot. They were a little upset about that. They’re actually reviewing it and they’ve got a case on it. They’re doing a report on it. No timeframe, she said she was going to give me a call, she had to talk to the superintedent first and she had to talk to the school board.”

Volkmann went on to say that the UFC is not upset and is with him on this one. He will appear this Thursday on Inside Edition.

Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club

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Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…
– Manager: “Chael Sonne…

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Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…

– Manager: “Chael Sonnen’s Career is Far From Over” (5thRound. Welcome to the club, guys!)

– UFC to Announce Formal Intent to Bring Event to New York (MMA Fighting)

– MMA Hot List: Fights Booked, Careers Put on Hold (Versus MMA Beat)

– Watch Nam Phan’s Guide to Judging in MMA (MiddleEasy)

– Jacob Volkmann on Fox News. You Figure Out the Rest. (the all-new MMA-Scraps.com)

– Bellator Signs Top 50 Middleweight Joe Riggs (FightMagazine)

– Dan Henderson In Talks For Title Shot Against Rafael Feijao On March 5 (MMA Convert)

– Jon Jones: I Would Definitely Take a "Right Fight" at Heavyweight (LowKick)

– Chad Griggs Taking on Regional Prospect in Final Strikeforce Grand Prix Reserve Bout (Five Ounces of Pain)

– UFC And Strikeforce Situations Make Heavyweight The Division To Watch In 2011 (SBNation.com/MMA)

The MMA Hour With Werdum, Barnett, Coker, Marquardt, Walker and More

Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosThe MMA Hour makes its 2011 debut in a very big way. Monday’s show will be a three-hour, nine guest extravaganza, featuring some of the biggest names in the sport. The show will also …

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The MMA Hour makes its 2011 debut in a very big way. Monday’s show will be a three-hour, nine guest extravaganza, featuring some of the biggest names in the sport. The show will also start at a special start time of 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT.

* Fabricio Werdum, Josh Barnett and Scott Coker will all be in studio to discuss Strikeforce’s upcoming heavyweight tournament.

* Another Strikeforce heavyweight, Herschel Walker, will return to discuss his Jan. 29 fight against Scott Carson.

* UFC middleweight Nate Marquardt will talk about his 2011 plans and his recent loss to Yushin Okami.

* Mike Roberts, Chael Sonnen and Anthony Pettis’ manager, will lay out what’s next for his clients.

* Jacob Volkmann will talk about getting a visit from the Secret Service and being featured on The Tonight Show after making comments about President Obama.

* Mark Hominick will talk about his UFC fight against George Roop on Jan. 22 and a potential title fight against Jose Aldo.

* And Matt Mitrione will stop by to deliver his “Mitrione Minute.”

And of course, we’ll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

Watch the show live below beginning at a special start time 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT. Download previous episodes of The MMA Hour on iTunes here.

Brandon Vera Has a Broken Nose and Broken Contract

After a Unanimous Decision loss to Thiago Silva who dominated Brandon “The Truth” Vera for 3 rounds, the UFC has released the Light Heavyweight from his UFC contract. It was the third straight loss for Vera who also received a broken nose courtesy of Silva. Vera had been with UFC since 2005.
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After a Unanimous Decision loss to Thiago Silva who dominated Brandon “The Truth” Vera for 3 rounds, the UFC has released the Light Heavyweight from his UFC contract. It was the third straight loss for Vera who also received a broken nose courtesy of Silva. Vera had been with UFC since 2005.

Other fighters released from their contracts following their losses at UFC 125 were Marcus Davis and Antonio McKee. Both McKee and Davis were UFC Lightweights. McKee was making his UFC debut when he lost a Split Decision to Jacob Volkmann and Davis received his second loss in a row via KO from Jeremy Stephens. Usually UFC seems to practice a 3 strikes and you’re out method, but their Lightweight division is a bit overloaded with the WEC Lightweights moving in, which may have contributed to the two being cut from their contracts

War Machine Says Someone Should “Smoke the President”, Volkmann Asks to Fight Him in the Cage…Guess Which One the Secret Service Consider a Threat…

Yesterday, MMAWeekly reported that UFC Lightweight, Jacob Volkmann received a visit from the Secret Service who were investigating a threat from Volkmann when he called out President Obama during an interview with Ariel Helwani.  Volkmann said, “Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot.” See video below:

We at MMAFix are all for protecting the […]

Yesterday, MMAWeekly reported that UFC Lightweight, Jacob Volkmann received a visit from the Secret Service who were investigating a threat from Volkmann when he called out President Obama during an interview with Ariel Helwani.  Volkmann said, “Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot.” See video below:

We at MMAFix are all for protecting the president, but find it somewhat silly that tax dollars were wasted on this investigation (apparently at the fault of some dumb lady). Volkmann told MMAWeekly.com:

“This guy had the whole interview on a piece of paper and it had my picture and everything. He was like ‘is this what you said?’ and I said, ‘yes it is.’ He’s like ‘I want to let you know I’m a little embarrassed for coming here and doing this because obviously nothing happened.’ He actually apologized for coming, but he had to come. He wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to D.C to hurt the President… The thing is, I got home and I checked my e-mail and I had about 20 e-mails and one of them, one of [the] ladies had actually contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, and she was telling me that she was going to do it.”

We also wonder where this “lady” was when War Machine made his infamous comment regarding President Obama via MySpace: “I hope someone smokes that f#$@er…”
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We guess hoping for someone to kill the President is not as threatening as saying you’d like to fight him in the Octagon if Joe Silva could make that happen.