After a brief absence due to illness, Mike Goldberg will be back in his regular broadcast duties alongside Joe Rogan at UFC on Fox 6.
UFC officials confirmed Goldberg’s return to MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday.
In short, come next Saturday, the little eagle will soar again. Precisions, they will be precise. Books, they will be taken out of other people’s chapters. Japanese and Portuguese will combine into one beautiful, indistinguishable language. So prepare yourselves, Potato Nation, for a great deluge of cliched phrases and verbal diarrhea is coming.
(“Hey Joe, now that I’ve put the kibosh on those pesky Adderall rumors…wanna do some blow?”)
After a brief absence due to illness, Mike Goldberg will be back in his regular broadcast duties alongside Joe Rogan at UFC on Fox 6.
UFC officials confirmed Goldberg’s return to MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday.
In short, come next Saturday, the little eagle will soar again. Precisions, they will be precise. Books, they will be taken out of other people’s chapters. Japanese and Portuguese will combine into one beautiful, indistinguishable language. So prepare yourselves, Potato Nation, for a great deluge of cliched phrases and verbal diarrhea is coming.
Personally, I quite enjoyed the Anik/Rogan pairing at UFC 155, but will welcome Goldberg’s intensity back with open arms. I don’t know, there’s just something about the way the dude screams “IT IS ALL OVER!” that takes the average knockout/submission and kicks it up a notch, like a shot of Sriracha in your BBQ sauce, or whiskey in your Cheerios. Am I alone on this one?
Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that Michael Bisping has talent. With that being said, he also has the biggest mouth in the middleweight division, maybe in all the UFC..
Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that Michael Bisping has talent. With that being said, he also has the biggest mouth in the middleweight division, maybe in all the UFC. Does he do it for the hype, the entertainment, or does he enjoy playing the bully? Whatever the reason, Bisping sure loves to talk his game, and boy does he say some ridiculous things.
Clearly, Bisping is the type of fighter that loves making excuses. He’s been extremely vocal about believing he deserves a title shot, even when he recently lost to Chael Sonnen. Bisping likes to claim that he won the fight against Sonnen, and was cheated by the judges, which is quite hypocritical seeing he was on the winning end of the most controversial decision in UFC history against Matt Hamill. Even if you take the Chael Sonnen fight out of the equation, the only top ten fighter he has a win over is Brian Stann, and he is in the lower half of the list. Bisping has victories over Jason Miller, Jorge Rivera, Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Dan Miller; none of which are anywhere near the top ten, and yet he believes he next in line for the title.
More so than his losses, Bisping has excuses for other fighter’s wins and credentials. Instead of accepting Alan Belcher’s challenge to a fight, he has done nothing but make excuses for as to why he shouldn’t have to fight him. At a press conference, Bisping stated that Belcher’s knockout win over Rousimar Palhares wasn’t impressive because Palhares was a “Jiu-Jitsu guy” and not a fighter. Bisping must have forgotten that unlike himself, Palhares wasn’t finished in his fight with Dan Henderson, and also had a more decisive victory over Dan Miller.
As if Bisping’s remarks weren’t outlandish enough, he’s convinced that he is the most exciting fighter in the division. Really? He’s had entertaining bouts, but fights with Brian Stann, Chael Sonnen, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Dan Miller and Wanderlei Silva aren’t necessarily proof to back this claim. By no means are Bisping’s bouts boring, but his for him to make such statements is rather ignorant, because most intelligent fans would agree that Chris Leben, Brian Stann, Vitor Belfort, Hector Lombard, Cung Le, and Chris Weidman are all more entertaining to watch.
This will be Bisping’s third opportunity to become the number one contender. He was unsuccessful the prior two times, so now it’s do or die. However, if Belfort is victorious, it wouldn’t be surprising if Bisping had an excuse of some kind and continued to call himself the number one contender, continuing to petition for a title shot.
The medical suspensions for this past weekends Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine were released today by the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission. Unlike other commissions, the promotion handed out just five medical suspensions to the twenty-two competitors involved in the Showtime event. Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine took place on January 12, 2013 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena […]
Ronaldo 'Jacare' Souza finishes things with a Kimura against Ed Herman at the final Strikeforce event – photo by Mark D. Smith for USA TODAY Sports
The medical suspensions for this past weekends Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine were released today by the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission.
Unlike other commissions, the promotion handed out just five medical suspensions to the twenty-two competitors involved in the Showtime event.
Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine took place on January 12, 2013 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with the main card airing on Showtime and portion of the prelim card on Showtime Extreme.
Indefinite suspensions were handed down to fighters Ed Herman and Kurt Holobaugh. These suspensions can be lifted after clearance from a physician.
Check out the full list of Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine medical suspenions, as posted by MMAWeekly.com, below:
– Dion Staring: Suspended 30 days for precautionary reasons after suffering a TKO loss
– Ed Herman: Suspended indefinitely until cleared by a physician for injuries to the shoulder, elbow and hand
– Kurt Holobaugh: Suspended indefinitely until cleared by a physician for a hand injury
– Anthony Smith: Suspended 30 days due to facial cuts over the left eye
– Michael Bravo: Suspended 30 days for precautionary reasons after suffering a TKO loss
The Ultimate Fighting Championship visits Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first time hitting the Ibirapuera Arena this Saturday (January 19, 2013) for UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Bisping. The television event is headlined by a middleweight matchup between former UFC champion Vitor Belfort and British bad boy Michael Bisping. While the co-main event pits veteran […]
The Ultimate Fighting Championship visits Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first time hitting the Ibirapuera Arena this Saturday (January 19, 2013) for UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Bisping.
The television event is headlined by a middleweight matchup between former UFC champion Vitor Belfort and British bad boy Michael Bisping. While the co-main event pits veteran C.B. Dollaway and Daniel Sarafian against one another.
The official weigh-ins take place this Friday.
Check out the full event card below:
Main Card (FX)
Middleweight bout: Vitor Belfort vs. Michael Bisping
Middleweight bout: Daniel Sarafian vs. C.B. Dollaway
Heavyweight bout: Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ben Rothwell
Lightweight bout: Thiago Tavares vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
Preliminary Card (Fuel TV)
Featherweight bout: Godofredo Castro vs. Milton Vieira
Middleweight bout: Ronny Markes vs. Andrew Craig
Featherweight bout: Diego Nunes vs Nik Lentz
Lightweight bout: Edson Barboza vs. Lucas Martins
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Lightweight bout: Francisco Trinaldo vs. C.J. Keith
Announced Bouts
Bantamweight bout: Yuri Alcantara vs. Pedro Nobre
Light heavyweight bout: Wagner Prado vs. Ildemar Alcantara
Roger Gracie is certainly keeping his family name significant in modern MMA. Sometimes a Gracie only needs one submission attempt to finish a fight, and Anthony Smith found that out first hand. Giving credit where.
Roger Gracie is certainly keeping his family name significant in modern MMA. Sometimes a Gracie only needs one submission attempt to finish a fight, and Anthony Smith found that out first hand. Giving credit where credit is due, Smith was getting the better of the striking, and wasn’t allowing Gracie to close the distance, but despite a solid performance in the first round, Gracie quickly answered back. Gracie came out in the second round more aggressive, and was successful in taking the fight to the ground which led to the inevitable submission finish.
It was surprising that Smith took a short amount of time to recover after the accidental eye poke. It’s doubtful that the eye poke is the reason Gracie was able to close the distance to set up the finish of the fight, but nonetheless, he came out in the second round with a different kind of energy. He made clear intensions to impose his Jiu-Jitsu, and once the fight hit the ground, it was the beginning of the end, as Gracie shortly after tapped Smith with an arm triangle choke.
With two decisive wins at his new weight class, Gracie has surely secured a spot for himself in the UFC’s middleweight division. Although Anthony Smith has nothing to be ashamed of, I don’t know if I can say the same for him. A specific intriguing fight for Gracie’s UFC debut would be an all out grappling chess battle with fellow Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, Rousimar Palhares.
Friday evening in Las Vegas saw the Fighters Only 2012 World MMA Award cereomy take place at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighters, media, stars and fans all turned out for the red-carpet, black-tie ceremony hosted by UFC light heavyweight contender Chael Sonnen and reporter Molly Qerim. […]
Friday evening in Las Vegas saw the Fighters Only 2012 World MMA Award cereomy take place at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fighters, media, stars and fans all turned out for the red-carpet, black-tie ceremony hosted by UFC light heavyweight contender Chael Sonnen and reporter Molly Qerim.
The award ceremony was not broadcast live but will air via tape delay on January 20, 2013 on FOX Sports Net.
The top award winners on the night were UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones, who walked away with his second straight “Fighter of the Year” award, UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey won for “Female Fighter of the Year,” and “Fight of the Year” went to Jamie Varner vs. Joe Lauzon for their UFC on FOX 4 bout.
Former UFC champ Frank Mir went home with two awards, the “Comeback of the Year” honor, for his win over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 140, and for “Submission of the Year” for the same fight.
Check out the full list of World MMA Awards for 2012 below:
CHARLES ‘MASK’ LEWIS FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Daniel Cormier, Nate Diaz, Benson Henderson, Jon Jones, Ronda Rousey
Winner: Jon Jones
FEMALE FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Jessica Aguilar, Sarah Kaufman, Sara McMann, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate
Winner: Ronda Rousey
FIGHT OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (UFC 139), Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez (Bellator 58), Jake Ellenberger vs. Diego Sanchez (UFC on FUEL TV 1), Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung (UFC on FUEL TV 3), Jamie Varner vs. Joe Lauzon (UFC on FOX 4)
Winner: Jamie Varner vs. Joe Lauzon (UFC on FOX 4)
BREAKTHROUGH FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Renan Barao, Michael Chandler, Luke Rockhold, Ronda Rousey, Chris Weidman
Winner: Chris Weidman
INTERNATIONAL FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Michael Bisping, Alexander Gustafsson, Chan Sung Jung, Martin Kampmann, Stefan Struve
Winner: Michael Bisping
KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Adam Khaliev vs. Alexei Belyaev (League S-70), Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim (UFC 142), Stephen Thompson vs. Dan Stittgen (UFC 143), Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon (UFC 144), Brian Rogers vs. Vitor Vianna (Bellator 61)
Winner: Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim (UFC 142)
SUBMISSION OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140), Charles Oliveira vs. Eric Wisely (UFC on FOX 2), Rousimar Palhares vs. Mike Massenzio (UFC 142), Ronda Rousey vs. Miesha Tate (Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey), Chan Sung Jung vs. Dustin Poirier (UFC on FUEL TV 3)
Winner: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140)
BEST PROMOTION
Nominees: Bellator, Invicta FC, ONE FC, Strikeforce, UFC
Winner: UFC
GYM OF THE YEAR
Nominees: American Kickboxing Academy, Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA, Kings MMA, Nova Uniao
Winner: Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
SHAWN TOMPKINS COACH OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Rafael Cordeiro, Cesar Gracie, Greg Jackson, Javier Mendez, Andre Pederneiras
Winner: Rafael Cordeiro
COMEBACK OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Alan Belcher (career), Mike Swick (career), Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140), Tim Boetsch vs. Yushin Okami (UFC 144), J.P. Joubert vs. Norman Wessels (EFC Africa 15)
Winner: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140)
REFEREE OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Herb Dean, Marc Goddard, John McCarthy, Josh Rosenthal, Mario Yamasaki
Winner: Herb Dean
FIGHTERS ONLY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Winner: Leon Tabbs
MMA JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Karyn Bryant, MMA HEAT/FUEL TV; Ben Fowlkes, MMAjunkie.com/USA TODAY; Gareth A. Davies, The Telegraph; Ariel Helwani, MMAFighting.com/FUEL TV; John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/USA TODAY
Winner: Ariel Helwani, MMAFighting.com/FUEL TV
PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Jon Anik, Bruce Buffer, Mauro Ranallo, Joe Rogan, Bas Rutten
Winner: Joe Rogan
MMA MEDIA SOURCE OF THE YEAR
Nominees: ESPN, “Inside MMA” on AXS TV, MMAFighting.com, MMAjunkie.com, Sherdog.com
Winner: Sherdog.com
LEADING MAN OF THE YEAR
Nominees: Victor Cui, Lorenzo Fertitta, Shannon Knapp, Bjorn Rebney, Dana White
Winner: Dana White
BEST TECHNICAL CLOTHING BRAND
Nominees: Bad Boy, Clinch Gear, Hayabusa, Jaco, Venum
Winner: Clinch Gear
BEST LIFESTYLE CLOTHING BRAND
Nominees: Bad Boy, Dethrone, Headrush, Punishment, TapouT
Winner: Bad Boy
