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Liz Carmouche Still In Shock Over Signing With The UFC

With Thursday’s announcement, Liz ‘Girl-Rilla’ Carmouche (7-2) has become the second female fighter signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. UFC president Dana White identified Carmouche as the first opponent for newly announced women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey yesterday at the UFC on FOX 5 pre-fight press conference. The two fighters will headline UFC 157 on […]

Liz Carmouche

With Thursday’s announcement, Liz ‘Girl-Rilla’ Carmouche (7-2) has become the second female fighter signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

UFC president Dana White identified Carmouche as the first opponent for newly announced women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey yesterday at the UFC on FOX 5 pre-fight press conference.

The two fighters will headline UFC 157 on February 26, 2013 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

For Carmouche, it’s still a bit of a shock for her as she tells MMAFighting.com that she has yet to process the news herself.

“I got a call from Dana about an hour before the they made the announcement,” Carmouche said. “It was the first time I’ve ever talked to Dana. It came together that quick. I was out clothes shopping, and just like that I’ve gone from not having a fight to being in the UFC and getting my dream fight just like that.”

“I still haven’t processed it,” Carmouche said. “I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it. It was the type of thing I dreamed about when I got into the sport a couple years ago, but to have it happen this fast … like I said, I still haven’t processed it.”

Carmouche has won two straight, both of which happened inside the Invicta FC cage earlier this year with a submission win over Kaitlin Young and a TKO finish of Ashleigh Curry.

Women’s Champ Ronda Rousey Focused On Next Opponent, Not Octagon Debut

Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (6-0) has become the first female mixed martial artist signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. News of her signing surfaced recently and will certainly push the former Judo Olympian’s star even higher with all of the exposure she will receive in the Octagon. On Wednesday night, Rousey had a […]

Ronda Rousey (L) works the armbar submission (R) against Sarah Kaufman – Photo via Facebook.com/Strikeforce

Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (6-0) has become the first female mixed martial artist signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

News of her signing surfaced recently and will certainly push the former Judo Olympian’s star even higher with all of the exposure she will receive in the Octagon.

On Wednesday night, Rousey had a chance to officially comment on the signing as a guest on the Jim Rome show on Showtime.

“There’s so much more that I want to do, that like once it happened I was like “yes this is amazing!” and then right after I’m like now I have to fight, now I have to do this, so I’m very, very excited, but I really didn’t spend that much time dwelling on it because there’s so many more things that I have to get done now that that’s happened,” Rousey stated.

“I need to prepare for my fight coming up. I can’t just sit around and do a little dance about getting signed, I’ve got to win my fight.”

Rousey also addresses a few other questions, which MMAWeekly.com has transcribed as above, concerning recent comments on women’s mma by UFC champ Georges St-Pierre, sex before a fight, and surviving a zombie apocalypse. Be sure to visit the link.

‘Bigfoot’ Silva Calls Alistair Overeem A Kitten In The Cage

Heavyweights Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (17-4) and Alistair Overeem (36-11, 1NC) are expected to meet inside the Octagon this February as part of the upcoming UFC 156 pay-per-view event. This is a bout that fans would have very likely seen as part of the Strikeforce Grand Prix but failed to come about after a falling out […]

Antonio 'Bigfoot' Silva

Heavyweights Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (17-4) and Alistair Overeem (36-11, 1NC) are expected to meet inside the Octagon this February as part of the upcoming UFC 156 pay-per-view event.

This is a bout that fans would have very likely seen as part of the Strikeforce Grand Prix but failed to come about after a falling out between the promotion and Overeem occurred. So instead of facing ‘The Reem’, Silva stepped in against eventual tournament winner Daniel Cormier.

Now the two will get that chance to face one another inside the cage and ‘Bigfoot’ is already talking trash saying his opponent can start out as a “lion” but reverts to a kitten when pressured.

“They improved his technical abilities, gave him strength, gave him muscles, but no one can give you that thing which you are either born with or you are not – the fighter’s spirit, the warrior heart. This is something no one teaches, no one can give you it,” he told SporTV in his native Brazil.

“I know that when he is put under pressure he will step back, he will break and he will think twice. When he is doing the hitting he is a lion but when you lay a hand on him, when things get riskier for him, he becomes a cat. This is the psychological angle we are working on.”

(Translated quote via Fighters Only)

Overeem is currently under suspension for a failed drug test this past March. He will have to pass another drug screening in order for this UFC 156 matchup to happen, but with UFC officials booking the fight it appears they are fairly confident that he will pass.

UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar is expected to take place on Super-Bowl weekend on February 2, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Luke Rockhold Responds To Lorenz Larkin’s, “The Guy Needs To Know His Place”

With a second Strikeforce middleweight title fight scrapped due to a nagging wrist injury to champ Luke Rockhold (10-1), opponent Lorenz Larkin and his management have been very vocal when talking about the cancelled bout holding nothing back, claiming that Rockhold is dodging ‘The Monsoon.’ On Monday (Nov. 26), Rockhold had his chance to reply […]

Luke Rockhold – photo by Josh Hedges/Mike Roach/UFC

With a second Strikeforce middleweight title fight scrapped due to a nagging wrist injury to champ Luke Rockhold (10-1), opponent Lorenz Larkin and his management have been very vocal when talking about the cancelled bout holding nothing back, claiming that Rockhold is dodging ‘The Monsoon.’

On Monday (Nov. 26), Rockhold had his chance to reply to the comments from Larkin’s, telling The MMA Hour host Ariel Helwani that “(Larkin’s) needs to know his place.”

“I’d fight Lorenz Larkin any day, trust me,” he said. “In my mind, that’s easy money. I want to fight … I’m not trying to push my way into UFC like this. I want money. I’m watching my bank account go down, and I want to build it back up, so as soon as I can, I want to start fighting….”

“It does piss me off,” he said. “You’re saying I’m mentally weak or something like that? When I have ever shown signs of mental weakness in any of my fights? He might be 13-0 but we all heard him crying in his fight against [King] Mo [Lawal] the fight before last. I heard moans and cries. There’s no point in coming at me, telling me I’m mentally weak and I’m reluctant to fight you. The guy needs to know his place.”

Rockhold and Larkin had been scheduled to fight in November until the champ injured a ligament in his wrist and the fight was rescheduled for January’s Strikeforce: Champions event. The wrist injury has not full healed despite undergoing several different therapies, leaving Rockhold unable to put in a full training camp.

Cutting Too Much Weight Affected Erick Silva’s Performance At UFC 153 According To The Brazilian

Last month Brazilian welterweight Erick Silva (14-3, 1NC) put in a losing “Fight of the Night” performance versus former UFC contenter Jon Fitch as part of the UFC 153 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many expected the young fighter to take the fight to Fitch but it was the other way around in the […]

Erick Silva

Last month Brazilian welterweight Erick Silva (14-3, 1NC) put in a losing “Fight of the Night” performance versus former UFC contenter Jon Fitch as part of the UFC 153 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Many expected the young fighter to take the fight to Fitch but it was the other way around in the bout despite a coupe of close finish attempts by Silva.

In a recent quote from Fighters Only, Silva blamed his poor performance on having to cut too much weight for the October 13 event dropping approx. 15-lbs (7kgs) the day before the weigh-ins.

“I won’t permit it to happen again. I will be attentive to the weight, I will work it well. I won’t have much on me by the end of the year. In the last fight, I thought that it would be better to get heavier in the final stages of training but afterwards I realized that it ended up making me more slow and tired. Now this is going to be a whole new ball game,” he says.

Silva has his next fight scheduled when he meets Jay Hieron at UFC 156 which is expected for February 2, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lorenz Larkin’s Management Feels Luke Rockhold Is Dodging Their Fighter

With a nagging wrist injury likely the suspect in Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold’s reason for withdrawing from next months Strikeforce: Champions event, it leaves opponent Lorenz ‘The Monsoon’ Larkin (13-0, 1NC) without a fight for a second scheduled event. Larkin and Rockhold had been scheduled to meet on Nov. 3rd at the ‘Strikeforce: Cormier […]

With a nagging wrist injury likely the suspect in Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold’s reason for withdrawing from next months Strikeforce: Champions event, it leaves opponent Lorenz ‘The Monsoon’ Larkin (13-0, 1NC) without a fight for a second scheduled event.

Larkin and Rockhold had been scheduled to meet on Nov. 3rd at the ‘Strikeforce: Cormier vs. Mir’ event until Rockhold withdrew due to injury.

Now the champ has pulled out of a second straight fight and Larkin’s manager Arnold DeWitt is not to pleased about it. DeWitt tells MMADieHards.com that he thinks Rockhold is simply protecting his title before the move over to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but regardless they plan on fighting him in either promotion.

“For Luke, of course he wants to keep his title when he goes over to the UFC,” DeWitt said. “That’s going to be a bargaining chip when he restructures his contract for a UFC contract. I can see why this is a dangerous fight and obviously they don’t want to fight us….”

“I hope that (UFC president) Dana White is paying close attention to this situation and comments on it publicly,” DeWitt said. “We all know and have heard Dana in the news and what he expects of his fighters. We know that pulling out because of injuries continually is frowned upon. Does the guy want to fight or not want to fight? I don’t give a crap if we fight him in January, but we want to fight the guy because now it’s become personal. We’ve done our due diligence, we signed our contracts to fight just like his camp has and at the end of the day we’re supposed to go out there and fight. We have our duties….”

“To me, unless we’re fighting Luke, nothing makes sense. If he won’t fight us in Strikeforce we want to fight him in the UFC. He’s got to fight us some way, somehow.”

Larkin’s remains undefeated as a pro with thirteen victories and one “No Contest.” ‘The Monsoon’ made his middleweight debut last July in Oregon by winning a decision over Robbie Lawler at the Rockhold vs. Kennedy event. Previous to that win, Larkin fought at light heavyweight, facing Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal this past January. Larkin would lose the fight via knockout but would see the result changed to a “No Contest” after Lawal tested positive for steroids.