Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega Set as Main Event for UFC 231 in Toronto

A highly anticipated featherweight title fight between champion Max Holloway and top contender Brian Ortega is finally set for UFC 231 in Toronto on Dec. 8. Sources close to the fight confirmed the news on Monday night following an initial report from …

A highly anticipated featherweight title fight between champion Max Holloway and top contender Brian Ortega is finally set for UFC 231 in Toronto on Dec. 8. Sources close to the fight confirmed the news on Monday night following an initial report from TSN that the matchup was official. Rumors have been swirling for weeks about […]

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Jimi Manuwa vs. Glover Teixeira Headlines UFC’s Return to Brazil in September

A light heavyweight showdown between Jimi Manuwa and Glover Teixeira will headline the UFC’s upcoming return to Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sept. 22. UFC officials announced the matchup on Friday. ?Confirmado! ? O brasileiro @gloverteixeira enfrenta o i…

A light heavyweight showdown between Jimi Manuwa and Glover Teixeira will headline the UFC’s upcoming return to Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sept. 22. UFC officials announced the matchup on Friday. ?Confirmado! ? O brasileiro @gloverteixeira enfrenta o inglês @POSTERBOYJM na luta principal do #UFCSP, dia 22 de setembro. Os ingressos para o evento começarão a […]

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Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards In the Works for UFC Singapore Main Event

The upcoming UFC card expected to land in Singapore has a main event as perennial contender Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will face Leon Edwards in a welterweight showdown on June 23. Sources close to the matchup confirmed that verbal agreements …

The upcoming UFC card expected to land in Singapore has a main event as perennial contender Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will face Leon Edwards in a welterweight showdown on June 23. Sources close to the matchup confirmed that verbal agreements are in place from the fighters with bout agreements expected to be signed at any time. […]

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Tony Ferguson Out; Max Holloway Now Faces Khabib Nurmagomedov in UFC 223 Main Event

It may be April Fool’s day but this is no joke. Interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson has suffered a knee injury that has forced him out of the UFC 223 main event. Featherweight king Max Holloway will now step up on just six days notice to f…

It may be April Fool’s day but this is no joke. Interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson has suffered a knee injury that has forced him out of the UFC 223 main event. Featherweight king Max Holloway will now step up on just six days notice to face Khabib Nurmagomedov to determine a new lightweight champion […]

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Tecia Torres Says Fight with Jessica Andrade Deserves Main Event Slot

Tecia Torres isn’t carrying a grudge into her fight this weekend against Jessica Andrade but she truly believes the matchup between two of the top five fighters at 115 pounds deserved the headline spot at UFC on FOX 28 from Orlando. Instead, Torr…

Tecia Torres isn’t carrying a grudge into her fight this weekend against Jessica Andrade but she truly believes the matchup between two of the top five fighters at 115 pounds deserved the headline spot at UFC on FOX 28 from Orlando. Instead, Torres and Andrade will meet in the co-main event with the winner likely […]

[EXCLUSIVE] In Final Comment Before UFC Title Bout, Chael Sonnen *Sort Of* Reacts to Anderson Silva Cheap Shot


(The time for talk is over…but we still bugged Chael for one last quote before he rematches Anderson)

Anderson Silva can deny it all he wants, but Chael P. Sonnen has gotten inside his head. After years of Sonnen antagonizing the middleweight champion, Silva has appeared to snap emotionally.

First, “The Spider” lashed out at the challenger with threats during a recent conference call promoting their UFC 148 rematch taking place Saturday night, and then on Friday he got in Sonnen’s face at the weigh ins in Las Vegas and hit him on the chin with a shoulder strike.

“Chael no respect nothing. Chael no respect [the] UFC, Chael no respect my country,” a fired up Silva told Joe Rogan moments after weighing in and striking Chael on stage. “Tomorrow, I go to fight.”

Sonnen appeared unmoved on stage after Silva’s surprise shoulder strike, leaving his hands up and standing stone-faced. We spoke with Sonnen a couple hours after the weigh in and asked him if he’d expected Silva to do something like that after all his trash talk, and if the shoulder bump had revved him up even more to fight his nemesis.

Sonnen had received an IV to help him rehydrate and begin recovering from his twenty pound water weight loss in just twenty four hours at that point and said he that he was done talking – But not without one last golden nugget of hype before going to war tomorrow…


(The time for talk is over…but we still bugged Chael for one last quote before he rematches Anderson)

Anderson Silva can deny it all he wants, but Chael P. Sonnen has gotten inside his head. After years of Sonnen antagonizing the middleweight champion, Silva has appeared to snap emotionally.

First, “The Spider” lashed out at the challenger with threats during a recent Anderson Silva Promises to Beat Chael Sonnen So Badly It Will ‘Change the Image of the Sport’” href=”http://www.cagepotato.com/anderson-silva-promises-to-beat-chael-sonnen-so-badly-it-will-change-the-image-of-the-sport/” target=”_blank”>conference call promoting their UFC 148 rematch taking place Saturday night, and then on Friday he got in Sonnen’s face at the weigh ins in Las Vegas and hit him on the chin with a shoulder strike.

“Chael no respect nothing. Chael no respect [the] UFC, Chael no respect my country,” a fired up Silva told Joe Rogan moments after weighing in and striking Chael on stage. “Tomorrow, I go to fight.”

Sonnen appeared unmoved on stage after Silva’s surprise shoulder strike, leaving his hands up and standing stone-faced. We spoke with Sonnen a couple hours after the weigh in and asked him if he’d expected Silva to do something like that after all his trash talk, and if the shoulder bump had revved him up even more to fight his nemesis.

Sonnen had received an IV to help him rehydrate and begin recovering from his twenty pound water weight loss in just twenty four hours at that point and said he that he was done talking – But not without one last golden nugget of hype before going to war tomorrow.

In typical Sonnen form, Chael mostly ignored the specifics of our questions but laid it on thick with intensity and a colorful metaphor. “Listen to me. Please. Hell is coming to dinner and I’m coming with him,” Sonnen said.

We’re not sure what that means but damn if it doesn’t sound good and make us want to watch Sonnen take on Silva just a tiny bit more. About an hour later and just a few hours after weighing in at 185 pounds, Sonnen weighed in again privately, we are told, and had gotten back up to 204 pounds.

Life on the last day of the “Dolce Diet” may not be “fun,” and joyful as its namesake coach Mike Dolce insists (video below), but it has worked for the first half of what Sonnen needed – making weight. Saturday night we’ll get to see how well he and Silva fare against one another.

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