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Changed Lyoto Machida Honored to be Fighting Retiring Randy Couture

Yes friends, if you haven’t heard, it appears as though the legendary career of Randy “The Natural” Couture is coming to a halt, as the former champ announced this week that his upcoming April 30th bout with Lyoto Machida is likely going to be his last. Really, everyone knew that day would finally arrive for […]

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Yes friends, if you haven’t heard, it appears as though the legendary career of Randy “The Natural” Couture is coming to a halt, as the former champ announced this week that his upcoming April 30^th bout with Lyoto Machida is likely going to be his last. Really, everyone knew that day would finally arrive for the 47 year-old-phenomenon, and fittingly Couture’s final fight has all the makings of a good one.

Why? Aside from the whole ‘one of the greatest fighters of all time bit,’ as we mentioned earlier in the week, it wasn’t long ago people did a mental bow in their head every time they mentioned the name Machida. Of course, Machida didn’t look so mythical in his first tilt with “Shogun” Rua, got KTFO in the rematch, and then didn’t look very impressive in his split decision loss to “Rampage” Jackson. So what’s “The Dragon” learned from all this? (Thanks to MMA Bay for the quote)

“The biggest thing I learned is you constantly need to be changing and you constantly need to be evolving. At that moment, a lot of people think, ‘Oh, if it’s working, don’t change anything.’ But I realize now when you’re winning, when you’re the champion, that’s when you constantly have to be evolving because everybody’s gunning for you. Whether you’re winning or losing, you’ve constantly got to be changing.”

Yup, clearly guys were starting to figure out Machida’s shtick. The former champ also noted that he’s extremely honored to be fighting Couture, and is thrilled to get that fight down on his resume. Now it just remains to be seen if it will be recorded as a win. To bet on the bout head here.

UFC Deal With Full Tilt Poker Kaput After Government Seizure

If you haven’t heard about last week’s government shutdown of the U.S. online poker industry, you’re clearly not a card player, or you’re not blessed with the wonders of electricity.
On Thursday, we’ve learned that the UFC closed a rumored $15M+ advertising deal with one of the shut-down sites, Full Tilt Poker.
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If you haven’t heard about last week’s government shutdown of the U.S. online poker industry, you’re clearly not a card player, or you’re not blessed with the wonders of electricity.

On Thursday, we’ve learned that the UFC closed a rumored $15M+ advertising deal with one of the shut-down sites, Full Tilt Poker.

On Friday, online poker in the U.S. was wiped out, as was the ad deal.

How would you like to be the sales guy who lost out on that commission check?

Well, we’ve learned more about the details of the UFC, Full Tilt Poker deal here. For additional info about the U.S. kyboshing online poker click here.

Anderson Silva Says Yushin Okami Could Have Kept Fighting

Aside from a couple of nasty, ‘and that’s a wrap’ stoppage wins, it’s safe to say that Yushin Okami has struggled to entertain most fans with his grinding style. Like it or not, the guy is damn effective, and if he gets ahold of Anderson Silva for a prolonged time at UFC Rio, the living […]

Aside from a couple of nasty, ‘and that’s a wrap’ stoppage wins, it’s safe to say that Yushin Okami has struggled to entertain most fans with his grinding style. Like it or not, the guy is damn effective, and if he gets ahold of Anderson Silva for a prolonged time at UFC Rio, the living highlight reel may not be so thrilling.

How the action will unfold aside, the good news is that it’s looking like the pre-fight road to Silva vs. Okami II is not going to be completely void of drama. While Okami isn’t exactly known for the smack talk, he is the last dude to defeat Silva, and the renowned Brazilian champ apparently is still a wee bit irked about that fact. In a recent interview with the LA Times (thanks to ESPN U.K. for the heads up), Silva talked about his DQ loss to Okami in 2006, and offered this:

“I was a little surprised with his reaction to that [upkick],” Silva said in the LA Times. “Do I think he could have continued? I do think he could have continued. But he had the rules in his favour. I did an illegal kick and he chose that it was better not to continue.”… “I respect everybody and have a history in the sport and I believe people need to respect me. When they cross that line of respect is when they don’t really understand what happens.”

Huh. Is someone calling somebody a coward? The article also mentions that apparently Silva referred to Okami in the past as a “samurai without honor”…now that’s gotta hurt. See, this Silva vs. Okami II bout is shaping up just fine.

Lyoto Machida Believes Different “Shogun” Rua Fought Jon Jones

It wasn’t long ago that everyone and their favorite keyboard (yes, including us), were falling over themselves to toss a heaping ton of praise on Jon Jones, after he demolished “Shogun” Rua at UFC 128 in March. After all, the 23 year-old-phenomenon hardly broke a sweat while dismantling the man that had beaten the man. […]

It wasn’t long ago that everyone and their favorite keyboard (yes, including us), were falling over themselves to toss a heaping ton of praise on Jon Jones, after he demolished “Shogun” Rua at UFC 128 in March. After all, the 23 year-old-phenomenon hardly broke a sweat while dismantling the man that had beaten the man. Remember the heralded Machida Era? And how Rua ended it with a series of ‘nighty-nighty’ right hands?

While there’s no questioning the fact that Jones is quickly approaching ‘baddest dude on the planet’ status, you don’t have to be a member of the “Shogun” Boosters Club to concede that Rua didn’t exactly look like his old self in the fight. The guy did spend almost a year on the DL with yet another knee injury. Well, Lyoto Machida recently offered his opinion to Sherdog.com on how Rua looked against Jones, and not surprisingly, he didn’t see the same dude that beat him down last May.

“Shogun is a tough guy…I know Shogun has more to show than that. Maybe he failed to bring his game or maybe he felt the pressure of defending the belt for the first time. As I’ve said before, there are other factors we don’t know about, other factors that may have interfered. They changed opponents on him. That can interfere with a fight. I have no doubt he could have fought better. I’m sure if Shogun was the same fighter he was when we fought in Los Angeles the fight would have been much more difficult for Jones…”

Guess we’ll get a better idea on this when Rua rematches Griffin this August.

Vitor Belfort Still Waiting to Hear on Opponent

Many throughout the MMA world were a buzz with the prospect of Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva II going down this summer, but as we’ve documented here with as little effort as possible, Wandy is now fighting Chris Leben. So, where does that leave Vitor? One would think that the UFC is looking to get […]

Many throughout the MMA world were a buzz with the prospect of Vitor Belfort vs. Wanderlei Silva II going down this summer, but as we’ve documented here with as little effort as possible, Wandy is now fighting Chris Leben. So, where does that leave Vitor? One would think that the UFC is looking to get the machine-gun like striker a bout lined up for its upcoming, August 27^th card in Brazil, as Belfort is kind of a big deal there in case you didn’t know. (See Belfort vs. Silva 1 regarding striking metaphor…) Speaking to Tatame Magazine, Belfort updated the publication with the following, regarding where the UFC big wigs apparently are in terms of his schedule / opponent.

“Lorenzo (Fertitta) called me and said he’s trying to find me an opponent, but it’s hard to do it. Wanderlei (Silva) challenged me and then started talking thing on the internet, so I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’m ready, my dream is to fight at UFC Rio. I believe the fighters found out that I’m hungrier than ever to fight”.

Yes, you would think Belfort’s gotta be ‘starving’ in terms of throwing down again, as despite all the fanfare that surrounded his UFC return in 2009, he’s only fought once since blasting through Rich Franklin at UFC 103. Of course, his last bout in February against Anderson Silva, didn’t exactly go as planned. It will be interesting to see, though, who the UFC tries to line him up against. Will it go with a striker that will stand and trade with Belfort? Or will they go the wrestler route and run the risk of a smother fest?

Michael McDonald Returning at UFC 133 to Fight Nick Pace

If you missed Michael McDonald’s recent UD win over Edwin Figueroa, you have not fully experienced the wonders of MMA…For those of you that did catch their amazing Fight Night 24 tilt, you should be happy to hear that McDonald will be returning at UFC 133, to face fellow bantamweight prospect Nick Pace.
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If you missed Michael McDonald’s recent UD win over Edwin Figueroa, you have not fully experienced the wonders of MMA…For those of you that did catch their amazing Fight Night 24 tilt, you should be happy to hear that McDonald will be returning at UFC 133, to face fellow bantamweight prospect Nick Pace.

No date or location for UFC 133 has been officially announced, but the word on the world wide web is that it will take place August 6^th in Philly.

Two middleweight bouts have also been confirmed for UFC 133, as Rafael Natal will take on Riki Fukuda and Jorge Rivera will throw down with Alessio Sakara.