Filed under: UFCShane Carwin is getting ready to step into the Octagon with Junior dos Santos on Saturday night at UFC 131, but first he’ll take a little time out of his schedule to chat with MMA fans right here at MMAFighting.com.
Shane Carwin is getting ready to step into the Octagon with Junior dos Santos on Saturday night at UFC 131, but first he’ll take a little time out of his schedule to chat with MMA fans right here at MMAFighting.com.
Our live chat is your opportunity to ask Carwin about his preparation for the fight, his thoughts on dos Santos as an opponent, and anything else you’d like to know. Check out Carwin’s latest training videos on Bud Light’s YouTube channel.
The Shane Carwin live chat begins at 6 PM ET Wednesday below.
A good nickname in MMA is never a bad thing to go along with solid, committed training, and a few quality wins on a resume. So what does a bad nickname do? In all likelihood, probably next to nothing, but it is pretty amusing how terrible s…
A good nickname in MMA is never a bad thing to go along with solid, committed training, and a few quality wins on a resume.
So what does a bad nickname do? In all likelihood, probably next to nothing, but it is pretty amusing how terrible some nicknames can get.
That’s what this slideshow is about: nicknames that should have no place in the world of mixed martial arts.
I did my best to stick with known fighters that have at least been in one major American MMA promotion; of course there are a number of worse aliases out there in more obscure fight leagues.
The UFC has recently released the video trailer for UFC 131: Junior Dos Santos vs. Shane Carwin, which highlights a majority of the fighters involved in the main card bouts for the event. The winner of the main event between Dos Santos and Carwin will …
The UFC has recently released the video trailer for UFC 131: Junior Dos Santos vs. Shane Carwin, which highlights a majority of the fighters involved in the main card bouts for the event.
The winner of the main event between Dos Santos and Carwin will be awarded a title shot against current UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez.
Also, Kenny Florian could have the opportunity to earn a shot at the featherweight title if he is able to defeat Diego Nunes at UFC 131.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will play host for UFC 131 at Rogers Arena on Saturday, June 11, 2011.
Dana White has many refrains and catch phrases. At this point, fans might as well tag “business as usual” on to the UFC’s recent partnership with Facebook. White has said repeatedly he believes the future of television is on the Internet, and he seems …
Dana White has many refrains and catch phrases. At this point, fans might as well tag “business as usual” on to the UFC’s recent partnership with Facebook. White has said repeatedly he believes the future of television is on the Internet, and he seems intent on proving that.
Once again Saturday, the UFC will stream fights from its preliminary card on its Facebook fan page, allowing fans to see for free bouts that six months ago, they would have had to pay for the next day at UFC.com or wait to see when the DVD was released.
UFC 131: dos Santos vs. Carwin, from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, will feature five fights on Facebook. Those bouts will lead into a pair of prelims televised live on Spike TV, which in turn leads into the pay-per-view card. The UFC’s event page for Saturday’s card listed the details on Tuesday.
This will be the 10th consecutive event the UFC will have utilized the popular social networking site to air bouts that previously would have been unaired. And for the fourth straight event, fans can now see each fight on the card if they watch the Facebook stream, Spike-televised prelims and the pay-per-view.
The Facebook stream will open with a featherweight bout between Darren Elkins and Michihiro Omigawa, Elkins’ debut at the new weight class after dropping down from lightweight. Joey Beltran, fighting for the first time since a loss to Pat Barry at the UFC’s Fight for the Troops 2 show in January, faces Aaron Rosa in a heavyweight bout. Rosa makes his UFC debut, filling in for Dave Herman, who will fight Jon Olav Einemo – who was scheduled to face Shane Carwin, who got moved up to fight Junior dos Santos when Brock Lesnar went on the shelf. Dustin Poirier meets promotional newcomer Jason Young in a featherweight bout, Nick Ring meets newcomer James Head at middleweight, and likely capping off the Facebook portion of the prelims, Krzysztof Soszynski takes on Mike Massenzio in a light heavyweight contest. Massenzio stepped in just this week for an injured Igor Pokrajac.
To gain access to the fights, which will begin at 5:50 p.m. Eastern, viewers must “like” the UFC on Facebook. As of Tuesday afternoon morning, the UFC has more than 5.6 million fans at the site.
The UFC began streaming preliminary fights in January with its Fight for the Troops 2 show at Fort Hood, Texas. Since then, the promotion has included free Facebook fights for each event, regardless of the main card’s platform – be it on pay-per-view, Spike or the Versus cable station. For the historic UFC 129 card in Toronto in April, five prelims were aired on Facebook, followed by a pair on Spike leading into the pay-per-view – meaning for the first time, fans were guaranteed the opportunity to see each fight on the card. That continued for UFC 130 with three Facebook prelims, a pair of Spike prelims and a five-bout main card pay-per-view, and Saturday’s TUF 13 Finale.
The main card for UFC 131 features a main event heavyweight contenders fight between dos Santos and Carwin. The winner is expected to face champion Cain Velasquez for the heavyweight title, perhaps at UFC 136 on Oct. 8 in Houston. The main card features three fighters making their UFC debuts. Brazilian Vagner Rocha takes on Donald Cerrone, and heavyweights Olav Einemo and Herman both also debut.
Some are calling this version of Carwin, Shane Carwin 2.0. This Carwin may be new and improved both physically and mentally due everything he has gone through since suffering his first loss to former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar at UFC 116 las…
Some are calling this version of Carwin, Shane Carwin 2.0. This Carwin may be new and improved both physically and mentally due everything he has gone through since suffering his first loss to former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar at UFC 116 last July.
He underwent surgery to repair a neck injury which forced him to pull out of a bout with Roy Nelson at UFC 125. Now that he is healed physically it is time to see how he reacts after suffering his first career loss. It was an especially damaging loss considering how close Carwin came to finishing Lesnar off in the first round.
They say a fighter learns more from his losses than he does from his wins and if that philosophy rings true then we can expect an even more dangerous Carwin than we have seen in the past. A powerful puncher, an outstanding wrestler and one of the more intelligent fighters in the business, Carwin will give Junior Dos Santos all he can handle and may find himself opposite current UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez sometime this year.
I have had the opportunity to speak with Carwin on a few different occasions and he is a humble, down to earth gentleman who puts his family first. He still works a full time job as an engineer at a local water authority. Carwin takes great pride in the relationship he has with his fans whom call themselves the “Carwin Army”
Bryan Levick: How are you feeling physically and mentally going into your bout with Junior Dos Santos? How has your body held up to the surgery you had?
Shane Carwin: I am doing fine, I had lost a lot of weight after the surgery. Since then I have been trying to redefine how I fuel my body. I feel great and thankful I haven’t had any complications or setbacks.
BL: When you prepare for a fight do you train specifically for that particular fighter or do you train to improve your all-around skills?
SC: We do gameplan, but the focus for a guy that has less than 20 minutes in the Octagon competing is to make me a complete fighter. I have power and I need to blend that power with skill and adapt to the fighter I am facing.
BL: Do you feel as though you will fully be able to prepare for Dos Santos with just a month’s notice?
SC: I am a modern day warrior and I have never questioned who I was going to fight or when I was going to fight them. I am training full time and training to fight, whoever the UFC throws at me I will be more than happy to face.
BL: I recently read that you were weighing in a little less than usual, is that due to a specific diet and do you feel as though that will allow you to compete at a higher level overall?
SC: Yeah I had lost some weight after the surgery, but I was able to put it back on pretty quickly due to my addiction to Slurpees! I started training and I was weighing in around 280lbs. and the weight just kind of fell off. I am totally eating organic and limiting my intake of sugars and such, but I am still working as hard as I ever have.
BL: You have had so much success with your stand-up and your power, do you go with what brought you to the dance or will their come a time when you will test how good of a ground game JDS really has?
SC: For the answer to that you will have to tune in on June 11 to find out.
BL: You’ve proven before that ring rust doesn’t hinder your performance, will that be harder to maintain as you get older and because you are coming off a major surgery?
SC: Not at all because of the way we train at Grudge. The training we put each other through is actually harder than we fight. While I may not be in the Octagon I am still fighting guys like Nate Marquardt, Elliot Marshall, Brendan Schaub and Todd Duffee.
BL: Obviously losing to Lesnar was tough, but did you get to know him a little bit better after your fight and did you gain a new found respect for him?
SC: I have always respected his abilities, but I really do not know him well enough to make a personal call. He is a family guy that likes to hunt and spend time with his family. I am exactly the same way. I am sure he is a great guy and will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest heavyweights.
BL: I know you have done a lot of charitable work in the past, are you doing anything specific now that we can share with the public and try and help whatever cause you are working on?
SC: I am working with Max Muscle Ft Collins to raise money for a young man. Matt Hughes is coming to the event. I am also an avid supporter of the US Armed Forces.
BL: As long as you come out of this fight relatively injury free, how much time would you need to prepare for Cain Velasquez should you emerge victorious?
SC: If I am injury free I would need 60 days to be ready for Cain. My goal would be to fight three times in 2011. Whenever Cain is ready I will be sure to be ready as well.
BL: Is there anything you have learned to appreciate more since being injured and after suffering your first career loss?
SC: I try not to worry about the things in life I can’t control. I am focused on winning and advancing to the next level. I want to secure my legacy in this sport.
For those of you interested in learning more about Carwin, the Carwin Army and all of the great charitable work he does visit his website.
With The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale now in the books, fans can salivate for a week in anticipation of the upcoming heavyweight duel between Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin. The bout will not only decide who is next to challenge champion Cain Velasqu…
With The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale now in the books, fans can salivate for a week in anticipation of the upcoming heavyweight duel between Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin.
The bout will not only decide who is next to challenge champion Cain Velasquez, it will outline the clear number two heavyweight under contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Interestingly enough, both dos Santos and Carwin possess strikingly (pun intended) similar skill-sets. That however, will not change the fact that Junior dos Santos is poised to turn Shane Carwin into another piece of an already lengthy highlight reel.
To argue my point, I bring you five reasons Junior dos Santos not only defeats, but likely stops Shane Carwin within fifteen minutes.
Shane Carwin is getting ready to step into the Octagon with Junior dos Santos on Saturday night at UFC 131, but first he’ll take a little time out of his schedule to chat with MMA fans right here at MMAFighting.com.
Dana White