Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker was a guest of The MMA Hour on MMAFighting.com on Monday, promoting the organizations two upcoming events, “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” which takes place on Wednesday and the co-promoted “Strikeforce And M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” event which occurs on June 26.
Speaking about the main event on June 26 between heavyweights Fedor […]
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker was a guest of The MMA Hour on MMAFighting.com on Monday, promoting the organizations two upcoming events, “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” which takes place on Wednesday and the co-promoted “Strikeforce And M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” event which occurs on June 26.
Speaking about the main event on June 26 between heavyweights Fedor Emelianenko and Fabricio Werdum, Coker knows that many have already written off the Brazilian but he feels people are being a bit too hasty in their predictions.
“[Werdum], he beat Fedor’s brother, he beat Alistair Overeem — whose our current champion, he just beat Giant Silva,” Coker said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “This guy is no joke, People are always focusing on the Fedor equation, but believe me, Fabricio can get it done, and if he beats Fedor, I would not be shocked.”
Coker goes on to talk about Strikeforce’s next PPV event as well as the longevity of Fedor to stay competitive among the topped rank fighters.
Another guest on Monday’s The MMA Hour was UFC middleweight fighter Michael Bisping to talk about his latest victory and what’s next for the British fighter.
Rich “Ace” Franklin suffered the broken arm in the first round of his main event bout with Chuck Liddell at this past weekends UFC 115 event. Franklin broke the arm after checking a kick from the “Iceman” in the middle of the frame but kept on fighting till KOing his opponent with seconds left […]
Rich “Ace” Franklin suffered the broken arm in the first round of his main event bout with Chuck Liddell at this past weekends UFC 115 event. Franklin broke the arm after checking a kick from the “Iceman” in the middle of the frame but kept on fighting till KOing his opponent with seconds left on the clock.
Former UFC heavyweight champ and MMA legend Randy Couture (18-10) was in Vancouver this past weekend to help promote Saturday’s UFC 115 event.
In his rounds speaking to the press, Couture answered a few questions from The Province newspaper in Vancouver.
Most surprising celebrity who has been a fan?
“I guess, probably the one that caught my attention […]
Former UFC heavyweight champ and MMA legend Randy Couture (18-10) was in Vancouver this past weekend to help promote Saturday’s UFC 115 event.
In his rounds speaking to the press, Couture answered a few questions from The Province newspaper in Vancouver.
Most surprising celebrity who has been a fan?
“I guess, probably the one that caught my attention the most, and maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise, was Shaquille O’Neal. I met him during the season of the first Ultimate Fighter and when I fought Tito [Ortiz, at UFC 44 in Las Vegas on Sept. 26, 2003] … well, when I walk in the cage and stand there, waiting for all the introductions and nonsense to get over with and the fight to start, I’ll pick out somebody on the far side and make eye contact with them. It passes that minute or so for me. That night, it happened to be Shaquille. He’s so damn big. So I winked at him and smiled and I guessed it freaked him out. I’ve talked to him a couple of times since then and he’s a great big, huge, funny guy and he’s expressed interest in fighting.”
How would he do?
“I think he’s a tremendous athlete. He’d probably do well. It’d be interesting to see him and Hongman Choi [the 7-foot-2 South Korean MMA star] hook it up. A couple of 7-footers out there, slinging leather. The ring would suddenly look very small with those two in it.”
UFC middleweight Chael Sonnen has been talking up a storm, most of it of the manure persuasion, as the days count down to his title fight with champ Anderson Silva.
At Friday’s UFC Q&A session in Vancouver, Canada (video highlights) Sonnen talked about his upcoming fight with Silva and talked about the Brazilians black belt in […]
UFC middleweight Chael Sonnen has been talking up a storm, most of it of the manure persuasion, as the days count down to his title fight with champ Anderson Silva.
At Friday’s UFC Q&A session in Vancouver, Canada (video highlights) Sonnen talked about his upcoming fight with Silva and talked about the Brazilians black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which was awarded to him under the Nogueira’s. He compared having one under their tutelage akin to getting the toy from a Happy Meal.
“When you get him down you’re not out of the woods yet. But he has a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, which is like getting a toy in your happy meal if you ask me. One of them is a punching bag and the other is really just irrelevant.”
“When the music hits and I make the walk to the ring it’s pure focus at that point because I come from a real sport — wrestling. You take me to the Olympic Village and show me the centre of Muay Thai.
“What is Muay Thai anyway? We know what Thai is, it’s short for Thailand. But what is this “Muay” word? So what, he’s good at Muay Thai? It’s like the Crackerjack award he’s got from the Nogueira brothers.
“I am outing the guy. He’s a fraud. He likes to get in the ring and bow — if you bow to him he’ll hit you over your head and take your wallet. I’m the same way, though. I’ll smile at him, and when he turns his back I’ll stick a knife in it. “
Sonnen’s trash talk has been relentless since even before their announced matchup, and some of that talk, some of which has emanated on Twitter.com/sonnench, may cause issues as he runs for office representing the Republican party in the Oregon State Legislature.
A Huffington Post reporter challenged Sonnen and his controversial Tweets.
On twitter.com/sonnench there are memorable tweets such as: “I’m a gangster from Oregon”… “Anderson, you are going to be on your back more than a pornstar with a mortgage”… and what I find most offensive “Ed, pray to whatever Demon effigy you prance and dance in front of with your piglet tribe of savages that I decide not to CRUCIFY you.”
I see this last tweet as racist and xenophobic and was wondering how a candidate of a major party for the State Legislature was getting away with this. So I reached out to some Oregon press asking them why they haven’t challenged this candidate on this type of talk. A reporter I emailed said he would take up the story. A couple of days ago he emailed me and said that Sonnen denied that he ever made the statements and that the twitter account is a fake one.
It will be interesting to see if Sonnen’s ambition for UFC gold will hurt him on the political side, or if pressure from his political career will see him turn down the level of trash talk.
With the recent news that WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko had been nominated for a seat in the Russian Parliament, speculation had begun regarding his future and whether he’d be retiring after his Strikeforce contract for politics.
Not so say’s M-1 Global’s Director of Operations, Evgeni Kogan, who spoke to MMAWeekly.com about the worlds number 1 […]
With the recent news that WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko had been nominated for a seat in the Russian Parliament, speculation had begun regarding his future and whether he’d be retiring after his Strikeforce contract for politics.
Not so say’s M-1 Global’s Director of Operations, Evgeni Kogan, who spoke to MMAWeekly.com about the worlds number 1 heavyweight.
“He was basically nominated as one of the 58 candidates in the Belgorod Region, to be a candidate for the ruling party, for the Russian ruling party essentially,” said Kogan. “As far as I know, after he won a seat in the Russian Parliament or Senate, and it just kind of exploded from there.”
While working as a politician can have some similarities to fighting, the most dominant heavyweight in MMA history isn’t switching careers or even taking that much time away to tend to his Parliament duties.
“There’s no substance to them at all,” Kogan said about retirement talk. “He was nominated, I’m pretty sure he didn’t nominate himself, so he was nominated by other people. He is one of a number of a dozen people in the same position, and even if he goes through the duties that he would have to undertake as part of that role, (it) would be negligible.”
Well fight fans, there’s still hope that we may one day see one of the world’s most dominant fighter in the octagon yet.
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell will step into the octagon with over a year between fights. He’s lost his last two, his most recent was against current UFC light-heavyweight champ Mauricio Rua at UFC 97, and is 1-4 in his past five fights.
UFC president Dana White spoke to Fighters Only Magazine that if […]
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell will step into the octagon with over a year between fights. He’s lost his last two, his most recent was against current UFC light-heavyweight champ Mauricio Rua at UFC 97, and is 1-4 in his past five fights.
UFC president Dana White spoke to Fighters Only Magazine that if his friend losses on Saturday, Liddell’s career will be over with the UFC.
Chuck Liddell is back in action this weekend after a 14-monty layoff. The former UFC light-heavyweight champion was urged to retire by UFC president Dana White after his last loss, but White in the end relented and offered him one more shot – as long as he would agree to cut out his partying and nightclubbing and get serious about training……
“Yes, and I think he will say the same thing. But let me tell you what the difference is – the difference before, when I wanted him retired, was that he wasn’t doing the right thing. He was out partying every night and doing the wrong thing not the right thing. He wasn’t living the life of a professional athlete,” White told us.
“He and I sat down and talked and I will tell you what, he has kept his word. He has been phenomenal shape since the beginning of The Ultimate Fighter and it will be interesting to see how he does.”
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker was a guest of The MMA Hour on MMAFighting.com on Monday, promoting the organizations two upcoming events, “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” which takes place on Wednesday and the co-promoted “Strikeforce And M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” event which occurs on June 26.
