Filed under: UFCFORT HOOD, Texas – This is the live blog for the six undercard bouts on the UFC’s “Fight for the Troops” show at Fort Hood, Texas. The event is being attended exclusively by enlisted military personnel and also serves as a fund raiser b…
FORT HOOD, Texas – This is the live blog for the six undercard bouts on the UFC’s “Fight for the Troops” show at Fort Hood, Texas. The event is being attended exclusively by enlisted military personnel and also serves as a fund raiser by the UFC and Spike for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.
For the first time, four of the six preliminary card fights will be streamed live on the promotion’s Facebook page for fans who “like” the UFC. Yves Edwards-Cody McKenzie, Mike Guymon-DaMarques Johnson, Mike Brown vs. Rani Yahya and Willamy Freire vs. Waylon Lowe will be available online.
The weigh-in event took place on the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas, and was attended by several hundred members of the military.
All fighters on Saturday’s card made weight for their bouts, including main-event lightweights Evan Dunham and Melvin Guillard. Guillard weighed in at 155 pounds; Dunham was 156. And co-main event heavyweights Matt Mitrione and Tim Hague put on one of the event’s most intense staredowns, their faces pressed against each other. Mitrione was 260 pounds; Hague came in at 256.
FORT HOOD, Texas – It seems like everywhere Joey Beltran turns the last few months, there’s Matt Mitrione.
Beltran fought Mitrione at UFC 119 in September in Mitrione’s Indianapolis back yard, losing a decision. A few weeks after the fight, Mitrione spent a day working with Beltran and the team at Alliance MMA outside San Diego. And the next thing Beltran knew, he was signing up for a fight against Pat Barry – the same Pat Barry who is a regular training partner of Mitrione.
Beltran said Thursday that comments he claims Mitrione made after working with Team Alliance had him a little perturbed – and he admitted he might still be a little perturbed, but that he won’t let it get in the way of his heavyweight tussle with Barry on Saturday’s Fight for the Troops 2 card.
“We had some candid conversation, where I thought we were talking amongst boys,” Beltran said. “He came out, and it was all good – we opened our doors to him at Alliance MMA. He came through, worked out and we had a conversation, talking about the fight and how it went down, and he said some disrespectful stuff afterward. And we’ll address that when the time comes. Let’s just say that I’ve got a special place in my heart for Matt Mitrione, and it will always be there. (But) it doesn’t matter. I’ll be able to focus on Pat Barry.”
FORT HOOD, Texas – This is the live blog for the six undercard bouts on the UFC’s “Fight for the Troops” show at Fort Hood, Texas. The event is being attended exclusively by enlisted military personnel and also serves as a fund raiser by the UFC and Spike for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.
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