UFC 206 will go down live on pay-per-view (PPV) tonight (Saturday December 10, 2016) from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and will feature an interim featherweight title bout between No. 2-ranked Max Holloway and No. 5-ranked Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis. You can check out the full fight card and start time information for
UFC 206 will go down live on pay-per-view (PPV) tonight (Saturday December 10, 2016) from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and will feature an interim featherweight title bout between No. 2-ranked Max Holloway and No. 5-ranked Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis.
You can check out the full fight card and start time information for UFC 206 here below:
Pay-per-view (PPV) 10 p.m. ET: Interim Featherweight title bout: Max Holloway vs. Anthony Pettis **only Holloway can win interim title since Pettis missed weight** Welterweight:Donald Cerrone vs. Matt Brown Featherweight: Cub Swanson vs. Doo Ho Choi Middleweight: Tim Kennedy vs. Kelvin Gastelum Welterweight: Jordan Mein vs. Emil Meek
Preliminary Card airs (FOX Sports 1) 8 p.m. ET: Light heavyweight: Nikita Krylov vs. Misha Cirkunov Lightweight: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Drew Dober Catchweight (117.5 pounds) Valerite Letourneau vs. Viviane Pereira Bantamweight: Mitch Gagnon vs. Matthew Lopez
Prelims (UFC Fight Pass) 6:30 p.m. ET: Lightweight: John Makdessi vs. Lando Vannata Catchweight (158 pounds): Jason Saggo vs. Rustam Khabilov Flyweight: Zach Makovsky vs. Dustin Ortiz
The new co-main event will likely be just as exciting as the featherweight featured bout. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is set to do battle with Matt “The Immortal” Brown in a welterweight match up that could answer a great deal of questions about each man’s future in the division. Where a win for Cowboy could thrust him into title contention, a loss for Matt Brown could possibly spell the beginning of the end of a career that has been a true roller coaster ride.
The new co-main event will likely be just as exciting as the featherweight featured bout. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is set to do battle with Matt “The Immortal” Brown in a welterweight match up that could answer a great deal of questions about each man’s future in the division. Where a win for Cowboy could thrust him into title contention, a loss for Matt Brown could possibly spell the beginning of the end of a career that has been a true roller coaster ride.
Many were skeptical of Donald Cerrone having a chance at beating the elite at welterweight but his last few performances have shed some light on the fact that Cowboy’s skills are far sharper at a heavier weight. In this fight with Brown, and perhaps most fights he’ll have at welterweight, Cowboy is likely to have a speed advantage that he can exploit. His last few bouts show cased just how accurate, fast, unpredictable, and powerful Cowboy can be once he finds his grove. He’ll have to be on the look out for the initial bull rush from Brown who can throw people off their game with his pressure. Both men are great when coming forward, but Cowboy has more weapons that he utilizes at short range with his step knee, front push kicks, and lead hand upper-jabs. He’ll need to utilize all those tools if he hopes to come out on top in the fight. Wrestling when Brown gets too aggressive may be huge key to victory here.
After falling to Jake Ellenberger in his last bout, Matt Brown has some real soul searching to do. That search has led him to Duane Ludwig’s tutelage. A wizard of striking, Ludwig should be able to add some new wrinkles to Brown’s game heading into this match. What “The Immortal” will have to do in this match up is to put pressure on Cerrone early and often. Rather than allow Cerrone get into his groove, Brown should aim to crowd Cerrone by closing the distance with punches and force his way into the clinch where he always does great work. From in close, elbows and knees are Brown’s best friends. Brown needs to use his size advantage and make Cerrone feel uncomfortable in close quarters.
Oddly both men often take damage to their midsections. Whoever begins to score there first could be on their way to victory. With more ways to get it done, the pick is Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone by TKO.
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Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone has been on quite the tear since making the jump up to 170 pounds since being a longtime top contender in the UFC’s talent-stacked lightweight division. The dynamic fan-favorite Cerrone is loved and adored my many mixed martial arts (MMA) fans around the world, but no such love is held for the
Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone has been on quite the tear since making the jump up to 170 pounds since being a longtime top contender in the UFC’s talent-stacked lightweight division.
The dynamic fan-favorite Cerrone is loved and adored my many mixed martial arts (MMA) fans around the world, but no such love is held for the former 155-pound title-challenger by his opponent this Saturday (December 10, 2016) Matt ‘Immortal’ Brown. Brown recently spoke to MMA Fightingto discuss his upcoming bout with Cerrone, stating that he doesn’t like the way ‘Cowboy’ carries himself:
“I didn’t see him yesterday, but I will give him the cold shoulder,” Brown said at the media scrum. ” I mean, I’ve talked to him before, but that doesn’t make him a friend. So, I don’t care for him, I don’t care for his personality. Even when I talked to him I didn’t want to talk to him, I was just being cordial. I don’t have any good feelings towards him at all. I don’t like the way he acts, I don’t like the way he carries himself, and I don’t like the way he represents the sport.”
Brown believes Cerrone’s ‘alpha male’ personality stems from those around him hyping him up and singing his praises, giving Cerrone a false sense of confidence that he plans to expose come fight night:
“No it’s just his personality, you can see the way he talks,” he said. “He wants to be an alpha male and he really wants to portray himself as something special. And I think it’s all these yes men he’s got around him, I think he’s just being lied to by them telling him, ‘Donald you’re the champion man, you’re so good, you’re so great, you’re going to be this and that.’ Really he’s just being lied to. It’s my job to come in there and expose that truth out of him.”
While Brown is usually very cordial and respectful to those who he shares the Octagon with, this time he plans on going into his fight with the ‘bully’ Cerrone with an intent on knocking him off of his foundation that he believes is made off lies:
“Most of my opponents I’m really respectful to, and I think they’re respectful to me, but I take…I don’t know if he means it or not, I don’t know maybe he’s just a douche bag of a person, but I get that feeling when he’s talking to other people, especially other fighters, he feels like he’s above other people,” he said. “And he’s kind of bully, you know what I mean? You watch his fights where he lost where he got bullied back, and he didn’t like that. That’s what I got to do to him.
“I just think his whole thing is based on lies. A lot of people fall into that, but I ain’t falling into it.”
Cerrone and Brown will meet in the co-main event of UFC 206 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Saturday (December 10, 2016).
Last week former Bellator President and CEO Bjorn Rebney and five of the UFC’s biggest stars in mixed martial arts (MMA) today, including No. 5-ranked welterweight Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, announced the formation of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA), in effort to fight for better working conditions for fighters in the UFC. The announcement comes
Last week former Bellator President and CEO Bjorn Rebney and five of the UFC’s biggest stars in mixed martial arts (MMA) today, including No. 5-ranked welterweight Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, announced the formation of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA), in effort to fight for better working conditions for fighters in the UFC.
The announcement comes at the horizon of ‘Cowboy’s’ scheduled meeting with Matt Brown at this weekend’s (Saturday December 10, 2016) UFC 206 pay-per-view (PPV) event from Toronto, as Cerrone is on an impressive three-fight finishing streak since making the jump up to 170 pounds.
During a recent media scrum after the open workouts at Massey Hall earlier today (Wednesday December 7, 2016), courtesy of MMA Fighting, Cerrone stated that he didn’t know he was sitting on a board when he accepted the invitation from Georges St-Pierre and Tim Kennedy to be a part of the MMAAA:
“As far as the Association goes man, Georges [St-Pierre] and Tim [Kennedy] called me and asked me to be part of it,” Cerrone said. “I didn’t know I was sitting on a board. That kind of took me by surprise, sitting there like, oh wow. I spoke to Dana [White] today on the phone. He’s coming to town, and we’re going to go out to dinner and talk. There’s a lot of things I think this sport needs, you know, retirement pension, health care, things I think we need.”
Cerrone still plans to stand beside his MMAAA brethren and fight for better work accommodations from the UFC such as health care and retirement pension. Despite this, ‘Cowboy’ claims that he and the UFC’s relationship is still a great one and that he is on good terms with UFC President Dana White who he revealed at one point paid for ‘the best lawyers you can pay’ and got him out of a ‘bind’ he found himself in:
“I wasn’t sitting there saying, ‘we’re moving forward today, we’re going on strike, we need more money,” he said. “That wasn’t coming out of mouth at all. There were a couple of people that were there that I don’t plan on working with and being a part of, not mentioning any names. I was there mostly just, not saying I’m leading a board or I’m sitting on a board, but more voicing my opinion of what this sport needs.
“Moving forward, I’m still going to stand strong with those and say this is what I believe we need. I believe as a whole we need health care, we need some kind of pension for retirement. The UFC has been nothing but great to me. I can’t complain, they give me what I want. And like Dana said, I called him and he helped me out. That’s true, man. I was in a bind, he got the best lawyers you can pay, and saved my ass.”
‘Cowboy’ says he has spoken to White since the announcement of the MMAAA was made public, and that the UFC President wishes he would have called him first instead of being ‘back-handed in the face’ by the announcement out of left field:
“He said, listen kid, you can do anything you want. We have a good relationship him and I, and he’s right I probably should have called him and said, ‘hey man, I’m going to do this,’ instead of getting back-handed in the face.”
For now Cerrone’s focus will be set on Brown for their co-main event collision this weekend, which could have title implications if the dominoes fall down correctly, and will resume his fight alongside the MMAAA afterwards.
Cerrone and Brown will meet in the co-main event of UFC 206 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada this Saturday (December 10, 2016).
In the second installment of the fight week series “Embedded” for UFC 206, Donald Cerrone begins his journey to Canada for Saturday’s co-main event fight with Matt Brown.
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In the second installment of the fight week series “Embedded” for UFC 206, Donald Cerrone begins his journey to Canada for Saturday’s co-main event fight with Matt Brown.
Main event fighter Anthony Pettis preps for Max Holloway by discussing strategy and notes on “Blessed.” The two meet for the interim UFC featherweight title.
Brown gets in some training for his bout with Cerrone by working the pads with new striking coach Duane Ludwig.
While Brown is usually very cordial and respectful to those who he shares the Octagon with, this time he plans on going into his fight with the ‘bully’ Cerrone with an intent on knocking him off of his foundation that he believes is made off lies:![Donald-Cerrone-[1]](http://cdn.lowkickmma.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Donald-Cerrone-1.jpg)
‘Cowboy’ says he has spoken to White since the announcement of the MMAAA was made public, and that the UFC President wishes he would have called him first instead of being ‘back-handed in the face’ by the announcement out of left field: