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Filed under: UFCThe UFC 123 fight card features a double main event with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida and Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn on Nov. 20 from the Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Two preliminary bouts will air on Spike …
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The UFC 123 fight card features a double main event with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida and Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn on Nov. 20 from the Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Two preliminary bouts will air on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET followed by the pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET.
The complete fight card is below.
Filed under: UFC, NewsMany thought the end was coming for Matt Hughes. After losing to Thiago Alves at UFC 85, Hughes — once a dominant welterweight champ — suddenly found himself the loser of three out of four matches. Perhaps more alarmingly, he ha…
Many thought the end was coming for Matt Hughes. After losing to Thiago Alves at UFC 85, Hughes — once a dominant welterweight champ — suddenly found himself the loser of three out of four matches. Perhaps more alarmingly, he had been finished in all three defeats.
After accomplishing so much in his storied career, it seemed like Hughes had nothing left to fight for, and some suggested retirement was his best option.
Fast forward to today, and it’s obvious the naysayers were a little premature in writing his career obituary. Heading towards Saturday’s UFC 123, Hughes is on the verge of winning four straight fights and possibly even working his way back into contender status. So how did he do it? Simple, the power of positive thinking.
Filed under: UFC, NewsOne week before his UFC 123 co-main event, BJ Penn is already in Michigan, awaiting his matchup with Matt Hughes, so travel problems during fight week will be no concern to the Hawaii star.
Cross one other potential concern off h…
One week before his UFC 123 co-main event, BJ Penn is already in Michigan, awaiting his matchup with Matt Hughes, so travel problems during fight week will be no concern to the Hawaii star.
Cross one other potential concern off his list as well: making weight.
During Saturday night’s UFC 122 broadcast, Penn told Joe Rogan that he’d be several pounds under the welterweight divisional limit, saying he currently weighed 165 pounds. Welterweight fighters in non-title fights can weigh as much as 171 pounds.
Filed under: UFCNovember is a month without any title fights, which makes it a good time to take a long view of the future title picture in each weight class. Today we look at the welterweight division.
George St. Pierre’s dominance over the welterwei…
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November is a month without any title fights, which makes it a good time to take a long view of the future title picture in each weight class. Today we look at the welterweight division.
George St. Pierre‘s dominance over the welterweight division looked so great after his beatdown of Dan Hardy in March that it was starting to look like the UFC might have a little trouble selling anyone else as a credible threat to St. Pierre, who had already defeated all of the UFC’s other top welterweights.
But two things have happened since then: The UFC signed Jake Shields and he won his first fight in the Octagon to become the No. 1 welterweight contender, and the current season of The Ultimate Fighter has done a good job of building up some heat for St. Pierre’s upcoming fight with Josh Koscheck. So the UFC’s welterweight division is in good shape going forward, and we’ll look at the key fighters and key fights below.
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Here’s a subtle hint for all you aspiring writ…
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Here’s a subtle hint for all you aspiring writers out there: When referring in print to people of ethnicities other than your own, it’s probably not best to preface your description of their race/nationality with the word “the.” Doing so just makes you seem like 1,000-times more racist than you might normally appear. Case-in-point: Matt Hughes’ post-UFC 121 blog, in which he admits being baffled by the UFC’s choice to promote Cain Velasquez as the “First Mexican Heavyweight Champion,” but still feels happy for “The Mexicans” that Velasquez beat Brock Lesnar last weekend. Check it out:
“I didn’t think Brock was going to lose like he did, but I knew there was a good chance Cain could get his hand raised,” Hughes writes. “UFC kind of made a big deal about it. I really don’t know why, but I’m glad that the Mexicans have a heavyweight champion.”
Emphasis ours, of course. But, see what we mean? There’s just something about the above sentence that makes the author sound like an old man in plaid pants peering hesitantly out from behind lace curtains while he complains to his wife, “Goddamn it, Margaret. What are the blacks up to now?” Nobody is accusing Matt Hughes of knowingly being culturally insensitive. Just, you know, for future reference …
Filed under: MMA Media Watch, UFCIn almost every television broadcast of almost every sport, one of the commentators is an athlete who has competed in the sport being shown. You never watch an NFL game without hearing analysis from a former football pl…
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In almost every television broadcast of almost every sport, one of the commentators is an athlete who has competed in the sport being shown. You never watch an NFL game without hearing analysis from a former football player, or a Major League Baseball game without hearing the voice of a former baseball player.
But in the UFC, the commentary role goes to Joe Rogan, who’s undeniably knowledgeable about MMA but whose background is in comedy and acting, not in fighting.
Matt Hughes says it’s time for the UFC to add a fighter to the broadcast.