On Wednesday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that it was suspending fighter Alex ‘Bruce Leeroy’ Caceres (8-5) after a positive test for marijuana metabolites following last months UFC on FUEL TV 8 event. Caceres was given a six-month suspension and had his split decision win over opponent Kyung Ho Kang changed to a “No Contest.” […]
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On Wednesday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that it was suspending fighter Alex ‘Bruce Leeroy’ Caceres (8-5) after a positive test for marijuana metabolites following last months UFC on FUEL TV 8 event.
Caceres was given a six-month suspension and had his split decision win over opponent Kyung Ho Kang changed to a “No Contest.”
Following the announcement Caceres released a statement to MMAWeekly.com accepting full responsibility for the failed drug test and vowed to ensure that something like this “never happens again.”
“I accept full responsibility for my actions and the consequences from those actions. I apologize to all that I have disappointed, including the UFC, my family, coaches, training partners and fans. I accept the sanctions from the UFC and I look forward to completing the necessary steps to getting back in the octagon following the suspension and assuring that this never happens again.”
UFC on FUEL TV 8 took place on March 3, 2013 at the at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Caceres and Kang fought on the Facebook streamed preliminary card of the Japanese event.
Canadian UFC welterweight Rory ‘The Waterboy’ MacDonald (14-1) will have to sit on the sidelines for a bit longer before he’s ready to return to the cage. On Wednesday, MacDonald revealed that he had reinjured his neck during a workout on Tuesday leaving his return to the Octagon up in the air. Speaking to Sportsnet.ca […]
Rory MacDonald
Canadian UFC welterweight Rory ‘The Waterboy’ MacDonald (14-1) will have to sit on the sidelines for a bit longer before he’s ready to return to the cage.
On Wednesday, MacDonald revealed that he had reinjured his neck during a workout on Tuesday leaving his return to the Octagon up in the air.
Speaking to Sportsnet.ca MacDonald about reinjuring his neck while training at the Tristar gym in Montreal earlier this week.
“(Rehab) was going good, but then yesterday I kind of hurt it again, so after today I’m going to get someone to check it out. I was trying to get back slowly into training and I was just doing technique and I just tweaked it.”
MacDonald had been scheduled to compete this weekend in the co-main event of UFC 158 versus Carlos Condit in a rematch but withdrew last month after injuring his neck initially.
The British Columbia native is currently on a four fight win streak having bounced back from the only loss of his career back in June 2010. That defeat was at the hands of Condit which ended in the third round by TKO for ‘The Natural Born Killer.’ MacDonald’s last fight in the Octagon went down this past December at FUC on FOX 5, seeing the Canadian earn a unanimous decision over former champ BJ Penn.
Fans who watched last nights UFC on FUEL TV 8 co-main event between heavyweights Stefan Struve and Mark Hunt may have been left scratching their heads why referee Herb Dean called a stoppage in the third round. Hunt would send Struve to the mat in the third after a solid left hook found it’s mark […]
UFC on FUEL TV 8 – Mark Hunt lands a fight ending left punch on Stefan Struve’s jaw – image via Facebook.com/UFC
Fans who watched last nights UFC on FUEL TV 8 co-main event between heavyweights Stefan Struve and Mark Hunt may have been left scratching their heads why referee Herb Dean called a stoppage in the third round.
Hunt would send Struve to the mat in the third after a solid left hook found it’s mark sending his opponent to the mat. Hunt would turn and walk away while Dean called for Struve to continue before calling for the stoppage at 1:44 of the round.
Struve hadn’t been knocked out he was simply unable to continue due to a broken jaw.
The Dutch fighter confirmed the injury following the fight at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan posting the news on Twitter (@StefanStruve).
Struve was sent to a Japanese hospital where he had his jaw wired shut and will undergo surgery once he returns home to Holland.
– Thanks for the support everybody, I wanted Herb to take the tooth out of my cheek and continue but then it turned out my jaw was broken..
– 45 minutes to the hospital without painkillers.. Man, please choke me out.. Jaw is hurting like crazy.. 🙁
– Wired my jaw in the hospital here and flying back tomorrow to get surgery as soon as we land monday in Holland, thnx for the great care @ufc
– Couldn’t bring the energy I normally can else I would have definitely moved away from those bombs lol My legs felt like they were 300 pnds
With a highly anticipated rematch with Canadian welterweight Rory MacDonald scrapped after an injury to the Tristar fighter, the expectation for former UFC interim champ Carlos Condit (28-6) would certainly be that he would be pitted against a top-five fighter. That opponent was announced Monday night in Johny Hendricks (14-1), someone Condit sees as a […]
With a highly anticipated rematch with Canadian welterweight Rory MacDonald scrapped after an injury to the Tristar fighter, the expectation for former UFC interim champ Carlos Condit (28-6) would certainly be that he would be pitted against a top-five fighter.
That opponent was announced Monday night in Johny Hendricks (14-1), someone Condit sees as a similar opponent to himself and “a great fight for the fans.”
Hendricks had been scheduled to face Jake Ellenberger on the UFC 158 pay-per-view card and certainly jumped at the chance to face Condit in what is certainly to be a No. 1 contender’s bout.
Condit released a statement on his new opponent late Monday evening.
“While I was disappointed to hear that Rory MacDonald is injured, I am glad that the UFC was able to find a strong replacement for the fight in Johny Hendricks. He is one of the toughest welterweights in the world, and has quickly risen up the ladder in our division. We are similar in that we like to stay active and aggressive in our fights, so this should be a great fight for the fans to watch.
“…I have been training for Rory MacDonald, but there is plenty of time left to switch my focus to Hendricks. With eight weeks left, I will need every moment to be fully prepared for this battle. He’s called me out in the past, and now is his chance to try to back that talk up. I’ll be ready for him.””
Condit will meet Hendricks in the co-main event of UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz on March 16, 2013 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec.
UFC middleweight Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping released a personal statement this past Friday night responding to the the wave of fan and media questions about the news that Vitor Belfort had received a Testosterone Replacement Therapy use exemption for their fight in Brazil. The two fighters headlined last months UFC on FX 7 event and […]
Michael Bisping
UFC middleweight Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping released a personal statement this past Friday night responding to the the wave of fan and media questions about the news that Vitor Belfort had received a Testosterone Replacement Therapy use exemption for their fight in Brazil.
The two fighters headlined last months UFC on FX 7 event and saw ‘The Phenom’ drop ‘The Count’ in the second round with a head kick on January 19 in Brazil.
Following the event, news surfaced that one fighter had failed a post-fight drug test with many pointing fingers at Belfort who had a history of testing positive.
It was eventually revealed by UFC officials that the failed drug test belonged to Thiago Tavares and that Belfort had been given the TRT use exemption for the event.
In response, Bisping released this statement on his personal website Friday night.
As some of you may know, I’ve just got back to Orange County from filming a movie in England. There have been dozens and dozens of interview requests and tweets about the recent news.
I’m back in England next week for the UFC on FUEL show, and right now all I really want to do is see my family, especially my daughter, who turned just turned 10 (happy birthday, Elle!). So, I wanted to do a short statement here and then move on to my fight with Alan Belcher, April 27th at UFC 159.
Here’s what I’ve got to say:
As I said right after the fight, I lost because I made a mistake and Vitor took advantage of it. It sucks. I don’t like it, but that was the result. I lost. Bottom line.
Over the past couple years, and even right before the fight, I have made my views on TRT very, very clear. I don’t feel that I need to go into depth about it again right now. All I have to add, about this specific instance, is that it is very disappointing that someone who was caught cheating with testosterone in the past, now gets to use testosterone legally. A well known side effect of steroids is that it reduces testosterone, so I don’t understand how it would make sense to then grant someone an exemption to then increase testosterone.
All that being said, I am not here to make excuses or cry over spilled milk. I fight in the best organization in the world, The UFC, and am very excited to work and earn a title fight, the right way. That process starts by whooping Alan Belcher’s ass at UFC 159 on Saturday, April 27th, live on PPV.
Thanks everyone for their support – can’t wait to spend some time with British UFC fans in London next week and I will be back, better than ever.
This past weekend another name emerged as a possible opponent for UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva in former Strikeforce title holder, and actor, Cung Le (9-2). Silva’s manager Ed Soares offered up Le’s name as a possible opponent in a recent interview, explaining that ‘The Spider’ is looking to fight someone with a name fans […]
Cung Le weighing in for UFC on FUEL TV 6 – photo via Facebook.com/UFC
This past weekend another name emerged as a possible opponent for UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva in former Strikeforce title holder, and actor, Cung Le (9-2).
Silva’s manager Ed Soares offered up Le’s name as a possible opponent in a recent interview, explaining that ‘The Spider’ is looking to fight someone with a name fans will recognize.
On Monday, Le was a guest on The MMA Hour (@MMAFighting.com) and was asked to give his thoughts on being named as a possible contender for the longtime middleweight champ.
“If the UFC wants me to fight after our discussion, I’m totally open for it…. ”
“If the fight would ever happen, I wouldn’t be scared because he’s pound-for-pound the best fighter in the world,” he said. “I’d be excited to see how I do, whether I get beat up or whatever. It doesn’t matter. That’s why we compete. That’s why we challenge ourselves. That’s what makes us who we are, and I love the challenge.”
Le earned an impressive one punch knockout victory this past November against former UFC champ Rich Franklin in the main event of UFC on FUEL TV 6 in Macau, China. The victory earned Le the “Knockout of the Night” bonus for the event. Le has now won two straight and is 2-1 since debuting with the UFC in fall of last year. The actor won a decision against Patrick Cote at UFC 148 and suffered a TKO loss to Wanderlei Silva at UFC 139.
