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Free Fight: Relive Ovince St. Preux vs. Nakita Krylov

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With Jones vs. OSP set as the main event for UFC 197 after Daniel Cormier’s injury, the UFC has released its occasional free fights on YouTube. This time its Ovince St. Preux’s 1st round submission over Nakita Krylov.

He used a rare Von Flue choke against Krylov that earned him a performance of the night bonus at UFC 171. OSP will now fight for the interim light heavyweight belt against Jon Jones. The 32 year-old has won 8 of his last 10 fights and will look to become the interim light heavyweight title holder. Relive the fight here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W8_1gsHAs

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With Jones vs. OSP set as the main event for UFC 197 after Daniel Cormier’s injury, the UFC has released its occasional free fights on YouTube. This time its Ovince St. Preux’s 1st round submission over Nakita Krylov.

He used a rare Von Flue choke against Krylov that earned him a performance of the night bonus at UFC 171. OSP will now fight for the interim light heavyweight belt against Jon Jones. The 32 year-old has won 8 of his last 10 fights and will look to become the interim light heavyweight title holder. Relive the fight here:

Daniel Cormier Injured, Jon Jones Now Faces Ovince St Preux at UFC 197


(“For those that think it’s that easy to matchmake.” via the Jackson-Wink Twitter)

With the UFC set to hold two of the most stacked cards in promotional history in the coming weeks — UFC 198 and UFC 200 — there’s been an overwhelming feeling that shit was all but destined to hit the fan in one capacity or another. “Conor McGregor suffers another ACL tear.” “Nate Diaz shot backstage at Snoop Dogg concert.” “Fabricio Werdum retires amidst actual prostitution scandal.” These were all headlines that we could have seen coming over the weekend, because this sport is nothing if not an unpredictable circus.

What you might not expect, however, is that the bad luck that always finds its way to MMA would trickle down to an unrelated fight card, like say, UFC 197. Which, with the MMA Gods being the vengeful, sadistic asshole that they are, is of course what happened.

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(“For those that think it’s that easy to matchmake.” via the Jackson-Wink Twitter)

With the UFC set to hold two of the most stacked cards in promotional history in the coming weeks – UFC 198 and UFC 200 — there’s been an overwhelming feeling that shit was all but destined to hit the fan in one capacity or another. “Conor McGregor suffers another ACL tear.” “Nate Diaz shot backstage at Snoop Dogg concert.” “Fabricio Werdum retires amidst actual prostitution scandal.” These were all headlines that we could have seen coming over the weekend, because this sport is nothing if not an unpredictable circus.

What you might not expect, however, is that the bad luck that always finds its way to MMA would trickle down to an unrelated fight card, like say, UFC 197. Which, with the MMA Gods being the vengeful, sadistic asshole that they are, is of course what happened.

Thanks to a lower leg injury suffered in training, Daniel Cormier has been forced out of his UFC 197 title fight rematch with Jon Jones.

The announcement of Cormier’s withdrawal was made late Friday night. In an interview with MMAFighting published this morning, the light heavyweight champ elaborated on what exactly led him to withdraw from the fight.

“I was in practice sparring and I kicked one of my partners [with an] inside low kick and he checked it. And I fell down, and I was ‘ahh, that was painful,’ and [trainer] Bob Cook was laughing. We get kick checked all the time. Sometimes you bruise your shin, and in a couple days it passes.”

“I get up to try to spar again, and another guy did a little front kick to my shin,” Cormier continued. “And when he did it I fell to the ground again, and I said, okay, this hurts a little bit more than normal, so I’m going to probably stop sparring. So I stopped sparring.”

After undergoing a series of MRI’s, Cormier was diagnosed with a torn leg ligament and given a 4-6 week recovery time.

Not wanting to lose yet another main event to injury, the UFC quickly booked the only available top 10 light heavyweight, Ovince St. Preux, to step in on just a few weeks’ notice.

Currently 3-1 in his past 4 with high-profile wins over Rafael Cavalcante and Mauricio Rua, OSP is relishing the opportunity, telling MMAJunkie that “He’s a beast, and I’m a beast, too. We both can do some beast (expletive).”

Well said, OSP.

In the meantime, Jones and Cormier have been needling the absolute shit out of each other on Twitter, so we’ll be sure to keep an eye on that for any more “developments.”

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Cormier Says It Was UFC’s Decision To Pull Him Out Of Jones Rematch At UFC 197

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According to UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier, it was the UFC who made the call to pull him from the main event against Jon Jones at UFC 197 later this month, not him.

Cormier spoke about the unfortunate circumstances that led to him pulling out of UFC 197 this past weekend, resulting in Jones vs. Ovince St. Preux in an interim title fight being named the new main event of this month’s UFC pay-per-view event, during his appearance on Ariel Helwani’s “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com on Monday.

According to D.C., however, he wanted to wait until Monday to see how his injury was doing before making the call, but the UFC told him that they didn’t want him to fight such a big fight when he wasn’t at his best.

“Something very surprising happened,” Cormier said during his appearance on the show on Monday. “Jon and I will make a lot of money together, we make a lot of money for the UFC too. But when I told them I was going to see it through the weekend, those guys were [like], ‘Daniel you’re hurt. Looking at your MRI, you need 5-6 weeks, so even if sat on your ass for the next three weeks before they fight, you’d still need at least two weeks to start feeling better. And they’re like, ‘You know D.C., you worked very hard to get to where you are today. You’re the champion, you don’t have to fight hurt. We can’t put you in situation you’re not healthy, we don’t want you to fight under those circumstances. They made the decision for me. I begged them, I was like give me until Monday, please.”

While Cormier won’t be able to fight Jones on April 23rd as he had originally planned, he still hopes the fight can materialize in time for UFC 200, or another UFC event this summer.

“If they’re telling me in 4-6 weeks I’m supposed to be better, that would leave me with 10-12 weeks to train for UFC 200, I could be ready to fight then,” said Cormier. “The only thing with that is, it’s a little scary because Jon is fighting in April. I don’t know if he will be willing to turn around and fight right back again three months later. If he would, I’d love to run it back with him any time in the summer. Late summer, early summer, it doesn’t matter.”

UFC 197: Jones vs. St.. Preux takes place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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According to UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier, it was the UFC who made the call to pull him from the main event against Jon Jones at UFC 197 later this month, not him.

Cormier spoke about the unfortunate circumstances that led to him pulling out of UFC 197 this past weekend, resulting in Jones vs. Ovince St. Preux in an interim title fight being named the new main event of this month’s UFC pay-per-view event, during his appearance on Ariel Helwani’s “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com on Monday.

According to D.C., however, he wanted to wait until Monday to see how his injury was doing before making the call, but the UFC told him that they didn’t want him to fight such a big fight when he wasn’t at his best.

“Something very surprising happened,” Cormier said during his appearance on the show on Monday. “Jon and I will make a lot of money together, we make a lot of money for the UFC too. But when I told them I was going to see it through the weekend, those guys were [like], ‘Daniel you’re hurt. Looking at your MRI, you need 5-6 weeks, so even if sat on your ass for the next three weeks before they fight, you’d still need at least two weeks to start feeling better. And they’re like, ‘You know D.C., you worked very hard to get to where you are today. You’re the champion, you don’t have to fight hurt. We can’t put you in situation you’re not healthy, we don’t want you to fight under those circumstances. They made the decision for me. I begged them, I was like give me until Monday, please.”

While Cormier won’t be able to fight Jones on April 23rd as he had originally planned, he still hopes the fight can materialize in time for UFC 200, or another UFC event this summer.

“If they’re telling me in 4-6 weeks I’m supposed to be better, that would leave me with 10-12 weeks to train for UFC 200, I could be ready to fight then,” said Cormier. “The only thing with that is, it’s a little scary because Jon is fighting in April. I don’t know if he will be willing to turn around and fight right back again three months later. If he would, I’d love to run it back with him any time in the summer. Late summer, early summer, it doesn’t matter.”

UFC 197: Jones vs. St.. Preux takes place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jon Jones: DC Is An Absolute Coward Who Will Never Beat Me

After an injury forced UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel “DC” Cormier out of his highly anticipated rematch with the returning former king Jon “Bones” Jones at April 23’s UFC 197, it was recently announced that No. 6-ranked Ovince St. Preux would step up to meet Jones for the interim 205-pound strap. Cormier, appearing on today’s

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After an injury forced UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel “DC” Cormier out of his highly anticipated rematch with the returning former king Jon “Bones” Jones at April 23’s UFC 197, it was recently announced that No. 6-ranked Ovince St. Preux would step up to meet Jones for the interim 205-pound strap.

Cormier, appearing on today’s (April 4, 2016) edition of the MMA Hour, discussed his injury, while offering St. Preux the chance to train, all expenses paid, at the American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) in the lead up to the bout.

Jones, who also appeared on the show, took this offer as a sign of weakness from Cormier, taking the chance to rip the champion in the process:

“Daniel is an absolute coward who will never beat me,” Jones said on The MMA Hour. “And I say that not from an arrogant place. I say that from a place where, me getting my belt back, it means everything to me. That belt right now is a big part of my life. It means everything to me. Me losing to OSP should be the last thing that [Cormier] would want, because if I were to somehow lose, that means he doesn’t get to avenge his only loss.”

Continuing on, “Bones” claimed that Cormier is ‘grateful’ to have pulled out of the fight, once again confirming that Cormier will never get the better of him inside of the Octagon:

“His inviting OSP to his training camp shows me that he’s so grateful that he’s not fighting me in three weeks,” Jones said. “That he’s so grateful that he gets to have one more family photo-op with that belt, because he knows that he’s not going to beat me, especially now with a knee injury. He’s going to be nursing his knee to get back to 100-percent. I’m going to just be getting stronger, better, faster, more rehearsed in my game plan to beat him.

“So, Daniel, man, he’s a mental midget. I’m not worried about Daniel. Obviously him inviting OSP shows that he’s so lucky he’ll be watching from the sidelines and not actually in that cage with me.”

In the end, the pound-for-pound king took to his official twitter account to take one more shot at his bitter rival, framing Cormier as a ‘pu**y’:

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Quote: Jon Jones Now Has A Full-Time Driver

Following a week-long windfall of absolute frenzy surrounding Jon Jones’ latest vehicle-related offense, it looks like the oft-troubled former UFC champion has finally gotten himself the driver everyone believes he should have years ago. After he was ticketed for five separate misdemeanor offenses including drag racing in Albuquerque, New Mexico two weeks ago, Jones was

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Following a week-long windfall of absolute frenzy surrounding Jon Jones’ latest vehicle-related offense, it looks like the oft-troubled former UFC champion has finally gotten himself the driver everyone believes he should have years ago.

After he was ticketed for five separate misdemeanor offenses including drag racing in Albuquerque, New Mexico two weeks ago, Jones was arrested for a probation violation of the 18-month term he was handed for the now-infamous hit-and-run charges that dealt a 25-year-old pregnant woman a broken arm in 2015. Jones was ordered to do 60 additional hours of community service and attend anger management and driving courses, yet the collective MMA world just didn’t seem to believe he would be able to stay out of trouble behind the wheel, and for good reason.

However, news has arrived today that his team has taken a big step to at least preventing that from happening before his short-notice interim title fight against Ovince St. Preux at UFC 197. According to Jones’ longtime head coach Greg Jackson on today’s edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Jones finally now has a driver and has a singular focus on the fight game alone:

“He’s really focused. It was an unfortunate situation with everybody kind of being at fault a bit, but ultimately the responsibility is Jon’s. So  it was a bad situation, but he came out of there really focused, really positive. That’s the thing with Jon, as long as he’s razor focused, he’s a force to be reckoned with, and he’s really focused right now. It was not a very good thing, but he’s not physically injured, he doesn’t have anything wrong, he just, he made a mistake and maybe said things he shouldn’t have, yeah it was just a bad situation all-around. He got in trouble, refocused, and came out. That’s the part I like. He’s got a driver now, so everything should be fine.”

Jackson reiterated that Jones’ driver is a full-time one when questioned by Helwani, noting that he now needs to rise above the media circus his life has become and fixate his sights on becoming the champ once again:

“Oh yeah. Yeah, I just want him to focus on fighting. That’s what he needs to worry about. The rest of the circus, he needs to not be distracted by. He’s a warrior and he needs to focus on that.”

So Jones has finally hired the driver that could have presumably saved him so much money, bad publicity, and most importantly, legal trouble as he attempts to rebuild both his public persona and his fighting career.

Will it matter, or is ‘Bones’ simply too far gone down the path of a heel to return?

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Daniel Cormier Offers To Pay For Ovince St. Preux To Train At AKA

With less than three weeks left until fight time, April 23’s UF 297 pay-per-view from Las Vegas was dealt a severe bow when it was recently revealed that Daniel Cormier was forced out of his awaited championship unification rematch with former champion Jon Jones due to a foot injury. With precious few top level contenders

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With less than three weeks left until fight time, April 23’s UF 297 pay-per-view from Las Vegas was dealt a severe bow when it was recently revealed that Daniel Cormier was forced out of his awaited championship unification rematch with former champion Jon Jones due to a foot injury.

With precious few top level contenders available to fight the dominant ‘Bones,’ who has been out of action dealing with legal troubles since a telling decision win over Cormier in the main event of January 2015’s UFC 182, No. 6-ranked Ovince St. Preux was the only man willing to fill on short notice.

Nearly everyone has tabbed Jones to run through ‘OSP’ with ease, and the oddsmakers agreed by setting ‘Bones’ up as the understandable massive favorite. St. Preux has won seven of his nine total UFC bouts but has obviously never faced an opponent the caliber of all-time great Jones, so during an appearance on today’s edition of The MMA Hour, Cormier extended a very interesting offer to the Tennessee-based combatant to potentially help him win:

“I think that everybody has a shot, but you know, I think there’s a chance for Ovince to have a better shot, and it’s up to him to take it. You know, and that’s by coming here. You know, we’ll open our doors to him to come and train at the American Kickboxing Academy. I don’t care what happens in the future; I can’t train with him, but I’ve got a guy named Cain Velasquez that can train with him, I’ve got a guy named Luke Rockhold that can train with him, I’ve got a guy named Chi Lewis-Perry, got a guy named Frank Munoz; we have everything in place where he can just take my training camp for the next few weeks. Take my training camp, we will take care of it. We’ll fly Ovince and his team out here, we’ll put ‘em up, give ‘em a place to stay, because no one in this gym wants to see Jon Jones not have to fight a tough fight on April 23.”

It is quite the odd offer considering that ‘OSP’ would face Cormier for the light heavyweight championship if he did somehow beat Jones as ‘DC’ is rooting for. Training at his home gym of AKA would certainly give Cormier and his team a leg up on St. Preux’s tendencies, making it a win-win kind of scenario for ‘DC’ as he plots out his recovery and return to the Octagon.

Cormier acknowledged that for him to make another massive payday for the rematch against Jones, the troubled but still legendary has to look good defeating ‘OSP,’ yet he’s still willing to help give St. Preux a better chance to win:

“For my pocketbook, Jon needs to go out there and look great, but we want to give Ovince a chance, and every guy on my team, they’re willing to play a part in that.”

‘DC’ expounded on those feelings, noting that he would even be one of St. Preux’s coaches if and when he decide to take over his training camp, which Cormier described as finally reaching the perfect mix to break ‘Bones’:

“I’ll be one of his coaches. Listen, nobody wants to fight Jon Jones worse than I do. So if I can live through Ovince on April 23, I will live through Ovince on April 23. He can take my training camp. I thought that we had, finally the perfect mixture of what we needed in order for our preparations, so yes, Ovince can have my training camp, all paid for right out of my checking account. Ovince St. Preux, if you want to come to San Jose bud, you have a team in the American Kickboxing Academy that’s ready to support you.”

As for his own health, Cormier described his foot injury, which is a ligament issue, and also noted he would going to have stem cells put in his knee that has a torn ACL in addition to receiving treatment for a shoulder issue. Despite the injuries, however, he reassured fans he would do everything he can to get back into the cage as soon as possible:

“I’m pretty beat up right now as you would expect when you’re in the middle of a hard training camp, but I will do everything in my power to get back as soon as I can.”

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