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I caught up with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones last week in Seattle for an exclusive interview.Jones discusses his thoughts on The Ultimate Fighter, whether or not he and opposing coach Chael Sonnen are becoming friends, the election…
I caught up with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones last week in Seattle for an exclusive interview.
Jones discusses his thoughts on The Ultimate Fighter, whether or not he and opposing coach Chael Sonnen are becoming friends, the election of Urijah Faber to Team Metro PCS and more.
Check out the interview above.
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Nate Diaz fought through blurred vision at UFC on Fox 5, but he wasn’t able to come up with an answer for the leg kicks and wrestling of Benson Henderson. The lightweight champion was the better fighter on Saturday night and now finds himself one win s…
Nate Diaz fought through blurred vision at UFC on Fox 5, but he wasn’t able to come up with an answer for the leg kicks and wrestling of Benson Henderson. The lightweight champion was the better fighter on Saturday night and now finds himself one win short of tying the record for most consecutive title defenses in the 155-pound division.
As dominant as he was in the main event, Henderson was not the only fighter to stand out on a fight card that did not disappoint in the least. Media and fans alike had been begging the UFC to stack one of their cards on network television with meaningful and entertaining matchups. The promotion delivered on those demands with UFC on Fox 5.
No matter the ratings, this event should be considered a success, as the UFC and its fighters couldn’t have delivered much more than they did on Saturday. With that, let’s take a look at which fighters delivered the most at Seattle’s KeyArena.
UFC top welterweight contender Johny Hendricks said he is still holding out hope that his next fight will be for the title. Hendricks said he’d sign up for a non-title fight, but has no interest in fighting Jake Shields, whose recent Twitter challenge …
UFC top welterweight contender Johny Hendricks said he is still holding out hope that his next fight will be for the title. Hendricks said he’d sign up for a non-title fight, but has no interest in fighting Jake Shields, whose recent Twitter challenge he said he found amusing.
Hendricks said Monday on The MMA Hour broadcast with host Ariel Helwani:
“I laugh. He doesn’t advance my cause at all. My cause is to be a number one contender. I think he was 2-2 in the UFC at 170. What he’s trying to do, I don’t blame him. I have a target on my back. And I like that position. But I just want the belt in my hand.”
Hendricks said he is still hoping to face GSP next, though he won’t necessarily refuse a different opponent:
“Saying I don’t want anything less [than a title shot] is not a disrespect to anyone else, but you see the light at the end of the tunnel, and then someone tries to send you a curveball. But if there’s someone else I have to fight, I leave that to my manager and Joe Silva…But I’m really, really hoping that it’s GSP, maybe in April, maybe in May. We’ll see.”
Shields’ tweet, since deleted but available here, advised Hendricks to “quit crying…and fight me next” after Hendricks expressed disappointment over being leapfrogged for a welterweight title shot despite three straight wins versus top contenders.
St-Pierre purportedly told the UFC he preferred to face Nick Diaz next. Diaz is suspended and will be available to fight in February. In his last bout, Diaz lost to Carlos Condit, whom St-Pierre defeated at UFC 154.
Hendricks said he would blame St-Pierre, not the UFC, if Diaz indeed received the next title shot:
“GSP came to them…Give me that shot. If I win, awesome. And they can still fight. If I lose, then they can still fight.”
Hendricks dismissed the idea that Diaz’s persistent taunting of St-Pierre (and the presumably high level of interest their grudge match would create) justifies Diaz receiving the fight:
“[Diaz] is on suspension and I’m actually fighting to get my title shot. I’m more mad at GSP for calling somebody else out. I think [GSP] is trying to stay away from me. What other reason is there? I’ve tried to analyze it every other way. Other than that, it would just be because [Diaz] talked trash. But who cares? I train with guys who talk trash to me every single day…Who cares about the past? You have unfinished business? Well, so do I. GSP takes it away from me, so now I have unfinished business with GSP.”
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Although it was unexpectedly dominant, UFC lightweight champ Ben Henderson ran a clinic on the tough Nate Diaz, flawlessly implementing his skills on the Stocktonian in a five-round title fight during UFC on Fox 5.Aside from crisp striking, solid wrest…
Although it was unexpectedly dominant, UFC lightweight champ Ben Henderson ran a clinic on the tough Nate Diaz, flawlessly implementing his skills on the Stocktonian in a five-round title fight during UFC on Fox 5.
Aside from crisp striking, solid wrestling and elite grappling defense, “Bendo” also pulled out an interesting new trick during the bout.
Diaz‘s lead leg quickly became a target for Henderson’s massive kicks, followed up by surprisingly effective jabs to the thigh. Over the course of the fight, the damage on Diaz‘s leg built up tremendously, hampering his movement and even flooring him.
Fuel TV hosted an interview with Bendo in the aftermath to ask him about that specific technique. As it turns out, the champion learned it from an unlikely source:
No, I actually planned it. I got to shout out Alex Caceres for that one. He came up to the MMA Lab for his last fight training camp—he won in Macau and looked great. But his last training camp, he did six weeks at my gym, the MMA Lab in Glendale, Arizona.
He did it to me and it actually hurt. He’s a [135] pounder. He weighs 150 pounds soaking wet. He did it to me and it hurt me. I was like, “Huh, that stung a little bit. I want to see if I can steal that.”
Alex “Bruce Leeroy” Caceres, a young fighter in the UFC and former Ultimate Fighter competitor for Team Georges St-Pierre, is widely known for an extremely unorthodox striking arsenal. Originally a lightweight during TUF, Careres now competes at bantamweight with a 3-1 record in the division.
As Henderson tells it, that knee/thigh punch tactic was extremely effective in training, even damaging his training partners in preparations for his title defense against Diaz at UFC on Fox 5. Henderson trains with notable fighters like journeyman Joe Riggs and veteran Jamie Varner.
Henderson battered Nate Diaz in a heavily one-sided decision victory on Saturday, remaining undefeated in the UFC with a 6-0 record.
Ever since coming into the promotion, Henderson has also defeated several top-ranked UFC fighters including Jim Miller, Clay Guida and Frankie Edgar (twice).
During the last five years, Henderson has only tasted defeat once at the hands of Anthony Pettis, the last World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) Lightweight Champion. Although a UFC debut loss to Clay Guida disrupted a planned title shot, Pettis has since rebounded with back-to-back wins over Jeremy Stephens and Joe Lauzon.
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It seems like exciting times for Cesar Gracie, manager and coach to the Diaz brothers. Having just taken the younger, Nate, to a title fight against Benson Henderson at UFC on Fox 5 in Seattle last Saturday, Gracie’s attention is now fixed on a potenti…
It seems like exciting times for Cesar Gracie, manager and coach to the Diaz brothers. Having just taken the younger, Nate, to a title fight against Benson Henderson at UFC on Fox 5 in Seattle last Saturday, Gracie’s attention is now fixed on a potential fight between Nick and welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.
The UFC has been trying to sign GSP up for a superfight with middleweight title holder Anderson Silva, but the Canadian star is said to be more interested in Nick—a man he was supposed to fight earlier this year.
UFC president Dana White broke the news last Thursday, telling reporters (H/T The Globe and Mail) that GSP made the request for Nick after returning from vacation following his welterweight title defence against Carlos Condit at UFC 154 in Montreal.
“One thing is Dana announced it, we never knew about it,” said Gracie in an interview with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani. “We literally learnt from you guys. It’s like all of a sudden people are saying Dana just said this, we kinda got blind-sided by it. We haven’t been able to talk to Dana about it.”
But, despite the surprise news, it’s a fight the Gracie camp clearly wants.
GSP and Nick already have a history. Nick, the former Strikeforce welterweight champ, was brought in to the UFC last year after Zuffa’s purchase of the promotion, specifically as a worthy opponent for the unassailable GSP.
With his usual brand of abrasive trash talking, Nick got under GSP’s skin—especially when he said the injured Canadian at the time was “too scared” to fight him. Apparently that comment, made after Nick beat BJ Penn in October 2011, sent the otherwise affable GSP into a rage.
The Canadian is said to have demanded a fight against Nick, telling White that Nick was “the most disrespectful human being I’ve ever met and I’m going to put the worst beating on him.”
It seems that fire is still burning within him. And, despite potentially the biggest pay-day in UFC history if he steps up against Silva, GSP is focused on Nick.
Nick is still sitting out a one-year suspension after testing positive for marijuana following his fight against Condit, and can’t return to the Octagon until February.
He was in Seattle alongside Gracie on Saturday cornering his younger brother Nate in his match against lightweight champion Benson Henderson. Talking about Nate’s loss and Nick’s potential fight against GSP, Gracie said:
I mean we had a title fight right now so it would have taken the focus away from it and trying to set up another fight just made absolutely no sense. But now that this fight is out of the way we can look at it and ‘ok, this is what’s going on and let’s talk to Dana,’ and we’re going to probably meet next week and let’s put this together is what I’m thinking.
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Former UFC interim welterweight title-holder Carlos Condit seems ready to take on Rory MacDonald after the Canadian called him out following his win over BJ Penn last Saturday at UFC on Fox 5 in Seattle. Or at least Condit’s manager, Malki Kawa, …
Former UFC interim welterweight title-holder Carlos Condit seems ready to take on Rory MacDonald after the Canadian called him out following his win over BJ Penn last Saturday at UFC on Fox 5 in Seattle.
Or at least Condit’s manager, Malki Kawa, says he is.
In an interview with MMA Weekly, Kawa said:
“Carlos Condit doesn’t back down from any man…If the UFC asks us to fight Rory MacDonald, Carlos will take the fight.”
Condit was the last and only man to ever defeat MacDonald in a three-round war back in 2010 at UFC 115.
It was a close match by any measure, one which the young Canadian dominated for at least the first two rounds until Condit managed to turn it around during the dying minutes of the fight.
That loss has clearly stuck in MacDonald’s throat and one he wants to rectify.
MacDonald was utterly dominant against Penn on Saturday and in his post-fight interview was quick to explain why he wants Condit.
“I was just laying there getting beaten on [by Condit], my face looked like I was the guy from ‘The Goonies’ after. I was embarrassed about my performance and how I held myself,” said MacDonald. “It did a lot of damage and I don’t think I’ve been the same person since, so I want to get that back.”
Condit recently lost to Georges St-Pierre—MacDonald’s training partner at the Tristar gym in Montreal. And while the Canadians continue to dismiss any talk of a fight between the two, Condit’s loss to GSP clears the way for MacDonald to have his shot.
Those calls haven’t fallen on deaf ears. The word is, the UFC is now also interested in making that fight happen.
“I am interested in that,” White said of a fight between MacDonald and Condit in an interview on Fuel TV (H/T Examiner.com). “And I like when guys call other guys out. If that’s the fight he wants then we’ll try to make it.”
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