Filed under: UFC, NewsWith all the talk surrounding a potential Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre super fight, the UFC would like to send a reminder out that St-Pierre still has to face Jake Shields at UFC 129 on April 30.
With all the talk surrounding a potential Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre super fight, the UFC would like to send a reminder out that St-Pierre still has to face Jake Shields at UFC 129 on April 30.
On Tuesday, a press conference for UFC 129 was held at the site of the event, the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada, and before discussion of UFC 129 could commence, the issue of Silva had to be addressed.
“Everybody wants to talk about the Georges St-Pierre-Anderson Silva fight,” UFC president Dana White said. “Well, he’s got to beat Jake Shields first.”
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Just a quick friendly reminder that Dana White, Georges St-Pierre, Jake Shields, Jose Aldo and Mark Hominick among other UFC notables will be appearing at a press conference from Rogers Centre in Toronto today to a…
(These seats will only cost you $200)
Just a quick friendly reminder that Dana White, Georges St-Pierre, Jake Shields, Jose Aldo and Mark Hominick among other UFC notables will be appearing at a press conference from Rogers Centre in Toronto today to announce details of UFC 129, which is coming to the city April 30.
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By CagePotato contributor Brian J. D’Souza
The April 30th UFC event at the Rogers Centre in Toronto will play host to pound-for-pound king Georges St. Pierre, a Fren…
The April 30th UFC event at the Rogers Centre in Toronto will play host to pound-for-pound king Georges St. Pierre, a French-Canadian superstar who helps move everything from action figures to videogames for his UFC bosses. Jake Shields hasn’t quite reached that level of mainstream acclaim, but when he faces off with GSP at UFC 129, he’ll be carrying a 15-fight win streak thanks to an arsenal of tools that could be the wildcard against an experienced champion who has yet to show any stylistic weaknesses nor signs of decline.
Catching up with Shields during a tour of Ontario, the friendly Cesar Gracie team member seems to effortlessly surmount a packed schedule of seminars, media appearances, interviews, photo shoots and autograph requests with a smile and his positive attitude. A former welterweight champion in Elite XC and middleweight champion in Strikeforce, Jake wants to add the most important belt to his collection — the UFC 170-pound title.
Shields won’t play into a war of words with St. Pierre in the grand tradition of B.J. Penn, Dan Hardy and Josh Koscheck. “He’s a great guy. I don’t know him that well, so I’d have no reason to suspect him as being fake,” Shields says.
As he once told FIGHT! magazine’s Danny Acosta, “When you’ve been in fights, fighting 10 people at once, people with knives and bats and guns and whatnot, it definitely takes fear away in the cage,” however, on this day, Shields shied away from elaborating too much on his tumultuous youth.
Filed under: UFC, StrikeforceNick Diaz is one of the hardest fighters to rank in mixed martial arts.
Some folks argue that Diaz is a Top 5 welterweight, and maybe even the guy with the best combination of skills to dethrone the consensus No. 1, George…
Nick Diaz is one of the hardest fighters to rank in mixed martial arts.
Some folks argue that Diaz is a Top 5 welterweight, and maybe even the guy with the best combination of skills to dethrone the consensus No. 1, Georges St. Pierre. His win over Evangelista Cyborg Santos was Diaz’s ninth straight victory, and he’s finished eight of those nine opponents. It’s been a long time since Diaz stepped into the cage and turned in an unimpressive performance.
But others argue that Diaz isn’t even a Top 10 welterweight because the quality of his opposition has been less than stellar. None of those nine wins has come against anyone who’s even close to a Top 10 opponent himself. And Strikeforce has matched Diaz up with opponents who play to his strengths, while never testing what may be Diaz’s greatest weakness by putting him in the cage with a wrestler.
So where do we rank Diaz? I have my answer below. Your answer may differ.
When most people think of The Skrap Pack this is the image that comes to mind:
Well, most of us didn’t live in Gilbert Melendez’s California gym for two months to film a documentary on El Nino; otherwise we would know that The Skrap Pack is now actually the name of the Strikeforce lightweight champion’s up-and-coming fight team, not the coalition of pain of the same name he started with his Team Cesar Gracie blood brothers Jake Shields and Nick and Nate Diaz.
The resulting short web doc above, titled "The Fighter," gives a glimpse into what goes on in Melendez’s gym on a daily basis and the relationship he has with his fighters. If anything, it will leave you wanting more.
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With all the talk surrounding a potential Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre super fight, the UFC would like to send a reminder out that St-Pierre still has to face Jake Shields at UFC 129 on April 30.
