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Welterweight Charlie Brenneman Released By The UFC

Welterweight Charlie ‘The Spaniard’ Brenneman (15-5) was released by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Tuesday after a 4-4 run with the promotion, and a 1-3 record over his last four matches. ‘The Spaniard’ himself Tweeted (@SpaniardMMA) the news on Tuesday afternoon, thanking the promotion and UFC president Dana White for his time with the promotion. […]

Charlie Brenneman

Welterweight Charlie ‘The Spaniard’ Brenneman (15-5) was released by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Tuesday after a 4-4 run with the promotion, and a 1-3 record over his last four matches.

‘The Spaniard’ himself Tweeted (@SpaniardMMA) the news on Tuesday afternoon, thanking the promotion and UFC president Dana White for his time with the promotion.

– Im gone but not forgotten. Ill be bak soon! Thx @ufc @danawhite for the opportunities, and especially to all my loyal fans!!! C u all soon!

Brenneman fought last month in Toronto, suffering a first round TKO loss to Kyle Noke at UFC 152. Previous to that match, he alsu suffered a first round submission to Erick Silva in June at UFC on FX 3. ‘The Spaniard’ earned his last win at UFC on FX 1 by winning a decision over Daniel Roberts.

Brenneman also spoke to MMAWeekly.com about his release, noting that he was very depressed about being cut but has had his spirits lifted by all of his fans.

“It was something I knew had the possibility of happening, so I understood it could be coming. When it happens it’s like losing a friend, or losing an old girlfriend. I fought for them, it was everybody, everyone was the whole family. So it was sad and then it was disappointing.”

“I can honestly say up until pretty much I made it public, I was pretty down, I was contemplating like what do I want to do, but once I saw the support it was kind of like wow this makes me feel good.”

“The Knee Is Jacked Up,” Duane Ludwig On UFC on FUEL TV 5 Knee Injury

It was certainly a disheartening moment for UFC welterweight Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig (21-14) on Saturday night when he injured his knee minutes into his bout with Che Mills in Nottingham, England as part of the UFC on FUEL TV 5 card. Not only was Ludwig forced to throw in the towel, but it was also […]

Duane Ludwig

It was certainly a disheartening moment for UFC welterweight Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig (21-14) on Saturday night when he injured his knee minutes into his bout with Che Mills in Nottingham, England as part of the UFC on FUEL TV 5 card.

Not only was Ludwig forced to throw in the towel, but it was also his third straight loss in a row, following a knockout defeat at the hands of Dan Hardy and a technical submission loss to Josh Neer.

Ludwig still doesn’t know how bad the injury is and will undergo an MRI today to determine the extent of the damage.

‘Bang’ took a few moments to speak with Stephie Daniels of BloodyElbow.com about the current state of his injury and what exactly happened against Mills.

Stephie Daniels: First off, how are you feeling and how is the knee?

Duane Ludwig: The knee is jacked up. It’s swollen up pretty bad. It looks like a big ball right now. I go for an MRI tomorrow at 2:30, so I’m just laying around, relaxing.

Stephie Daniels: What exactly happened in the fight to cause the injury, and when did it happen? Were you already injured going into the fight?

Duane Ludwig: I was not injured at all going into this fight. It was when we first tied up, and he did the outside trip. I felt my knee pop. It snapped right away, and I kind of yelped on the way down. When I was trying to get guard, I could just feel my knee moving around. There wasn’t much I could do other than roll around and try to minimalize the pain. I tried to get him a couple times, but I could feel my knee sliding a lot more than it was, so I was like. ‘F*ck, I gotta figure this out’, and I finally just decided that I couldn’t do anything, so I pulled the plug. It happened in the first 10 seconds of the fight.

Stefan Struve Promises Fans A “Finish” In FUEL TV Main Event Saturday Night

UFC heavyweight Stefan ‘Skyscraper’ Struve headlines this Saturday’s UFC on FUEL TV 5 event opposite undefeated American fighter Stipe Miocic. With thirty finishes between both fighters, Struve is promising fans a quick end to the FUEL TV main event. Struve talked to Mauro Ranallo about Saturday’s fight during Thursday’s episode of “The MMA Show With […]

Stefan Struve

UFC heavyweight Stefan ‘Skyscraper’ Struve headlines this Saturday’s UFC on FUEL TV 5 event opposite undefeated American fighter Stipe Miocic.

With thirty finishes between both fighters, Struve is promising fans a quick end to the FUEL TV main event.

Struve talked to Mauro Ranallo about Saturday’s fight during Thursday’s episode of “The MMA Show With Mauro Ranallo.”

“I think I’m one of the 10 best heavyweights and I’m only gonna get better, stronger and bigger. I’m only 24-years old. I really think I can dominate my main event from start to finish and I plan to show that, to show that I belong with the ten best heavyweights in the world.

“I can promise the fans this won’t go five rounds. There WILL be a finish in this fight.”

Also appearing on the podcast was Struve’s opponent, Stipe Miocic, FUEL TV co-main event fighter Amir Sadollah, and former UFC lightweight Danny Downes

“I Think He Has Made A Mistake By Asking To Fight Me,” Shinya Aoki

The final DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki (30-6, 1NC) will step back into the limelight next month, debuting under the ONE Fighting Championship banner in the main event of the upcoming Rise of Kings event. Aoki is scheduled to face French fighter Arnold Lepont, a man the Japanese fighter knows little about, but can say […]

Shinya Aoki

The final DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki (30-6, 1NC) will step back into the limelight next month, debuting under the ONE Fighting Championship banner in the main event of the upcoming Rise of Kings event.

Aoki is scheduled to face French fighter Arnold Lepont, a man the Japanese fighter knows little about, but can say for certain that “I think he has made a mistake by asking to fight me.”

The two meet on October 6, 2012 in the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore on a stacked card featuring three ONE FC title bouts.

Aoki spoke to MMAWeekly.com recently about his upcoming fight.

“I don’t know very much about him and I don’t really care. He says he is a fan but if that is the case then fighting me is a very stupid thing to do, most of my fans want to take a photo with me but he wants to fight me? I find that very strange,” said Aoki.

“I am not a fan of Arnaud Lepont because I don’t know who he is and I think he has made a mistake by asking to fight me.”

“I have fought more than 30 times and every opponent has said the same thing. Before I was mainly a Jiu-Jitsu fighter but Evolve MMA has helped me to change and become an all round MMA fighter,” said Aoki. “I am sure he thinks his standup is better than mine and that he can knock me out but maybe I think the same thing too? My job is just to win but if I could knock out Arnaud Lepont that would also be fun for me.”

Aoki enters the bout on a loss, having been finished by first round TKO by former Bellator champ Eddie Alvarez in their rematch bout. Previous to the defeat, the last DREAM lightweight title holder had won seven straight bouts.

Aoki has been training with the Evolve MMA gym in Singapore, and has been working on improving his striking so fans of the Japanese star could see him knock out Lepont on October 6.

Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy Was Cancelled Due To “Weak Undercard” According To Editor Dave Meltzer

The question of whether or not Strikeforce could have saved the upcoming Melendez vs. Healy event is still being bantered across the net by fans and media, with the possibility of pitting Pat Healy against Josh Thomson for an interim title or promoting another fight into the main event. In the end, a “weak undercard” […]

The question of whether or not Strikeforce could have saved the upcoming Melendez vs. Healy event is still being bantered across the net by fans and media, with the possibility of pitting Pat Healy against Josh Thomson for an interim title or promoting another fight into the main event.

In the end, a “weak undercard” was likely the cause for the shows cancellation according to Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer.

Meltzer spoke to Mauro Ranallo on Tuesday during the live podcast of “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” giving his reasons on why a second ZUFFA show ended up on the chopping block with mere weeks from the Sacramento, California event.

“(It got cancelled because) it had a really weak undercard. The deal is, and this isn’t just a Strikeforce thing, but when you had lesser shows, you had more depth on each individual show so you were able to make more saves to keep these shows together so you wouldn’t go, ‘Oh my God’ if you ran this show without the main event, it was worth it to keep it on PPV or on TV. I was surprised Showitme cancelled the show this late — everything’s set up, you have the TV time slot locked in, there were eight other fights- – and this card was stronger than the old Friday night (Strikeforce Challengers cards). But for a Saturday night card, it was pretty weak, so I’m not blaming Showtime considering the amount of money they were going to spend. We’ve seen countless times in boxing, if the main event gets scratched, the show gets cancelled.

“But you could have moved Josh Thomson to the main event and still televised the card. It wasn’t quite as attractive, but it was still a card. There were still ways of saving the card. On Strikeforce’s side, you could have ran the card. But you would have had to offer refunds, and I don’t know the arena advance, so really, both Showtime and Strikeforce made the call. Without the television money they figured it wasn’t worth running the show. And just like UFC 151, the fighters got screwed.”

Also appearing on the podcast Canadian UFC lightweight TJ Grant, Strikeforce lightweight Isaac Vallie-Flagg, and Demetrious Johnson trainer Matt Hume.

Following Strikeforce Cancellation Pat Healy “Devastated,” Wanted Interim Title Fight

With the cancellation of the upcoming Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy event following an injury to headliner lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez, every fighter on the card has had their lives thrown into turmoil. Number one lightweight contender Pat Healy feels particularly “devastated” over the cancellation, having put so much time in training as well as his […]

Pat Healy

With the cancellation of the upcoming Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy event following an injury to headliner lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez, every fighter on the card has had their lives thrown into turmoil.

Number one lightweight contender Pat Healy feels particularly “devastated” over the cancellation, having put so much time in training as well as his own funds into preparing for a world title.

Healy tells ‘The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo‘ that he would have gone so far as facing Josh Thomson in an interim title fight in order to save the card.

Check out part of that interview below, or hit play above, to listen to the podcast.

“I was so shocked. It was like less than a week (until the event). It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion. I’m getting on the flight the next day. I’m devastated man. This opportunity was so big for me, I’ve worked so hard for this, for it to fall through right at the end, I can’t tell you how devastated I am. I’m so bummed out.

“If I had to guess, and I’m at the low end, but from the start of the training camp to the end I’ve put like $4000 to $5000 into my training. Now I probably won’t even fight until the end of the year and you gotta take your show money and sponsorships and at the very low end, that’s what you’re going to miss out on. It can be a significant cut to your income for that year and your quality of life.

“(Cancelling the card) makes me nervous. My job security doesn’t feel as tight. It sounds like Strikeforce wanted to keep the card on and for Showtime to pull the plug, it makes you nervous for what’s to come after this for sure.

“There were options (to save the card). They could have done an interim belt. I know Josh Thomson would have fought me. I would have taken anyone they would have offered me. I would have done my part to keep the event going. (Losing my title shot) wouldn’t have even been a consideration.

“I’ve put a lot of work into this and (the card and fight getting cancelled) is as emotionally taxing as it can come.”

Also featured on Monday’s podcast were Strikeforce heavyweight Daniel Cormier, Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, and Team Jackson-Winkeljohn coach Mike Winkeljohn.