Tag: Martin Kampmann

Kampmann vs. Sanchez Slotted in For Main Event of March 3 UFC Versus 3 Card

(Someone is coming out of this fight with new war wounds.)
It looks like Diego Sanchez broke his promise and will be staying at welterweight, at least for the time being.
Sanchez will take on Martin Kampmann in the main event on March 3 on the next UFC…


(Someone is coming out of this fight with new war wounds.)

It looks like Diego Sanchez broke his promise and will be staying at welterweight, at least for the time being.

Sanchez will take on Martin Kampmann in the main event on March 3 on the next UFC on Versus card. CagePotato.com was able to confirm the initial report with sources close to the fight who indicated that bout agreements have been received and they are in the process of signing.

Coming off of a decisive unanimous decision victory over Paulo Thiago at UFC 121 in October, Sanchez, who alongside Forrest Griffin was one of the two winners of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter as a middleweight, dropped down to lightweight in 2009. After running through the division and securing a title shot against then-champion, BJ Penn, Sanchez was dominated for five rounds by "The Prodigy" before being stopped via a cut at the midway point of the final frame.

After the bout, Sanchez decided that a move up to welterweight would likely be a more expedient route to a second shot at UFC gold considering the lineup forming behind Penn, so he took a tune-up fight against up-and-coming undefeated Brit, John Hathaway. The fight proved to be tougher than Sanchez anticipated as he was handed a loss by "The Hitman" who threw a wrench into his welterweight plans.

Now "The Nightmare" will have to avoid the crosshairs of another "Hitman" looking to climb the welterweight ranks by beating him.

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Nate Marquardt: GSP Will Destroy Jake Shields

Filed under: UFCJake Shields was the reigning Strikeforce middleweight champion and before that the reigning EliteXC welterweight champion, and so when he signed with the UFC, there was some question of which weight class he would pick.

Shields chose …

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Jake Shields was the reigning Strikeforce middleweight champion and before that the reigning EliteXC welterweight champion, and so when he signed with the UFC, there was some question of which weight class he would pick.

Shields chose welterweight, beat Martin Kampmann by split decision in his first UFC fight, and will get the next crack at UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre if St. Pierre beats Josh Koscheck next month.

But just because Shields won his first fight doesn’t necessarily mean that welterweight was the right choice. And one UFC middleweight, Nate Marquardt, believes that Shields’ style of using his grappling to control his opponents on the ground would have been much more successful if he didn’t have to cut down to 170 pounds.

Martin Kampmann Describes His Performance Against Jake Shields In One Word: Sh*tty

Our friends at RawVegas.tv caught up with UFC Welterweight, Martin Kampmann over the weekend as he participated in Randy Couture’s GI Foundation charity poker tournament. Kampmann had few words to describe his performance at UFC 121 against Jake Shields, referring to it with one word, several times: “shitty”. Kampmann also responds to questions […]

Our friends at RawVegas.tv caught up with UFC Welterweight, Martin Kampmann over the weekend as he participated in Randy Couture’s GI Foundation charity poker tournament. Kampmann had few words to describe his performance at UFC 121 against Jake Shields, referring to it with one word, several times: “shitty”. Kampmann also responds to questions on whether or not Shields deserves the next titleshot and who he’d like to meet next in the Octagon. Full video below:

Watch Martin Kampmann Talks About His Fight With Jake Shields on RawVegas.tv

Shields Easily Wins UFC 121 ‘Understatement of the Night’ Award: ‘If I was Fighting GSP I Don’t Think I Would’ve Won’

(“They said this *was* the biggest hat they had.” PicProps: Sherdog)
Man, Jake Shields either possesses an unbelievable knack for stating the obvious or he just has an incredibly dry sense of humor. Either way, we dare you to read the follo…


(“They said this *was* the biggest hat they had.” PicProps: Sherdog)

Man, Jake Shields either possesses an unbelievable knack for stating the obvious or he just has an incredibly dry sense of humor. Either way, we dare you to read the following quote without having some variation of the expression “No shit, Sherlock,” flash through your mind. On the topic of his underwhelming performance against Martin Kampmann at UFC 121, Shields tells MMA Weekly: “If I was fighting GSP that night I don’t think I would have won, to be honest. I just don’t see myself beating GSP being the way I felt that night, but I also don’t feel that’s me. I feel like I can go out there and beat him still.”

Actually, there are a lot of people who don’t even think Shields beat Kampmann. The former Strikeforce middleweight champ showed up in the Octagon with a boatload of hype and – as is the fashion for big-name signees these days – came within an iffy split decision of fumbling his UFC debut. Then he went to the post-fight presser and said some shit about how he had cut 20 pounds in one day in order to make the 170-pound limit for the first time since 2008. UFC President Dana White called that “ridiculous” and “stupid,” but for some reason appears firm in his plans to have Shields next challenge for the welterweight title. Just goes to show, you never can tell what’s going to make the big man fly into one of his rages these days and what he’s just going to shrug off …

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Brock Lesnar Medically Suspended 180 Days, Made $400K Guaranteed

Filed under: UFC, NewsBrock Lesnar was the loser in a relatively one-sided beatdown at UFC 121, but he was the biggest winner in the financial department, pocketing a $400,000 purse for his main event bout with Cain Velasquez, the California state athl…

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Brock Lesnar was the loser in a relatively one-sided beatdown at UFC 121, but he was the biggest winner in the financial department, pocketing a $400,000 purse for his main event bout with Cain Velasquez, the California state athletic commission confirmed to MMA Fighting.

Lesnar, arguably the biggest draw in MMA, will likely earn millions more in pay-per-view money based upon the final number of buys, but the $400,000 purse represents the guaranteed amount reported to the commission under his contract.

In capturing the title from Lesnar, Velasquez made a $100,000 base salary to go with a $100,000 win bonus.

All UFC 121 fighter purse and medical suspension is below.

Jake Shields on Beating Kampmann, UFC Title Shot, Facing GSP and More

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, interviewAfter over a decade winning titles around the world, Jake Shields finally made a trip down the aisle to the octagon at last Saturday night’s UFC 121. Squaring off against the underrated Martin Kampmann, Sh…

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After over a decade winning titles around the world, Jake Shields finally made a trip down the aisle to the octagon at last Saturday night’s UFC 121. Squaring off against the underrated Martin Kampmann, Shields held off a major scare before prevailing via split decision in the night’s co-main event.

With the win, Shields is likely to finally get a crack at UFC gold when he faces the winner of December’s Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck welterweight title match in 2011.

Shields spoke to MMA Fighting about the victory, weight issues and back problems, the possibility of bringing his Cesar Gracie teammates to UFC , and the prospect of facing St. Pierre on enemy territory.