Tag: Quinton Jackson

Bleacher Report’s Bryan Levick:

The subject of Zuffa’s recent purchase of Strikeforce came up and what that meant for the current crop of UFC heavyweights and Strikeforce’s big men. There has been a lot of talk of super-fights since the acquisition was announced, but what is the reality of any of those potential match-ups coming to fruition?

“It now means that pretty much every single top 10 heavyweight is under one promotion. I have been with the UFC since 2001 and there was the argument about which organization had the better group of heavyweights, the UFC or Pride,” said Mir.

“Then those guys came over and I beat Nogueira and Mirko and got to lay those arguments to rest in my mind.” “Strikeforce has a pretty solid group of fighters and the argument started between our guys and theirs. I said if their guys are better why are we getting paid more, now that the UFC bought Strikeforce maybe we can find out which organization has the better group of fighters. I look at Overeem as their top guy and I feel as though I would be his best match-up in the UFC. Guys like Brock, Cain and Carwin would expose his weakness which is his wrestling.”

“He has good submissions and is obviously a solid striker so if we fought there would be a lot more action than if he fought one of the wrestlers,” Mir said. “The three guys I mention would look to keep him down and control him to avoid his striking. There’s not a lot of room to move around so if Brock wants to take him down he is going to have a good shot at doing so. Overeem is a K-1 champion and has a really good guillotine, but I think I’d be a really good match-up for him.”

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Bleacher Report’s Nick Caron:

Zuffa’s new pro-Twitter campaign has been getting quite a bit of publicity lately, this time in the form of consensus No. 2 welterweight Jon Fitch bashing Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Nick Diaz.

The former UFC No. 1 contender took to the social networking website on Saturday, where he tweeted at his AKA trainer Dave Camarillo as well as some fans.

@FitchFigher:
@DaveCamarillo why would that fight be good. Diaz got title cause Shields vacated the belt. Paper champ.

@FitchFigher:
@DaveCamarillo for realize. GSPvsDiaz=bullshit

@FitchFigher:
@NotMrRendo I will be ok to fight by the time they are saying Diaz gsp will fight.

@FitchFigher:
@MMAf0rum I’ll fight anyone. I’m out till dec. But I’ll fight anyone hopefully gsp in dec.

The Strikeforce welterweight champion since the belt was created in January 2010, Nick Diaz has been tentatively scheduled to be the next challenger to Georges St-Pierre’s UFC Welterweight Championship.

The situation surround that potential fight has been surrounded by controversy, as not only has Diaz been toying with the idea of a professional boxing fight in the near future, but the rumors of a potential Georges St-Pierre vs. Anderson Silva superfight continue to swirl around.

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Bleacher Report’s Michael Evans:

UFC 130 is set to take place May 28th. On Thursday May 19th, the UFC media call took place with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Matt Hamill, Frank Mir and Roy Nelson. All four men were asked various questions about their respective bouts and different aspects of their games.

Mir was first asked why he thought he could beat Junior dos Santos. Mir said he thinks he matches up well with dos Santos because he feels Junior relies too heavily on his boxing and might forget about the ground game. Mir feels this will enable him to work on the feet until he can utilize his jiu jitsu game on JDS. Apparently, if Frank Mir beats Roy Nelson and Junior was to lose to Carwin, this would be a fight he would want.

Mir was asked the interesting question of whom did he think would have won the fight between Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos. Frank surprisingly said that he felt that Brock would have gotten Junior down with his wrestling and would have been successful. Many people would disagree with that assessment.

The next question he was asked was who he would want to fight after Roy Nelson. Frank was very noncommital on this topic, saying that was focused on the task at hand and could not worry about the next fight yet.

Frank was asked what it would be like to fight someone he likes such as Roy Nelson. “Some people I train with, eat dinner with afterwards and they hang out at my house,” Mir said. He and Roy admitted they are loyal to their friends but they know this is business and things have to be done to accomplish goals.

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Bleacher Report’s Weekend News Recap:

UFC 130: Rampage Jackson talks Matt Hamill fight.

UFC 130: Frank Mir reveals why he is the man to beat Cain Velasquez.

Jon Jones’ management team offers Rashad Evans an October fight.

Tim Kennedy takes shots at Michael Bisping.

UFC 130: Video of Roy Nelson versus Frank Mir in a grappling match.

UFC 130: Frank Mir talks Roy Nelson.

UFC 130: NSAC approves video monitors for Las Vegas event.

Chael Sonnen gets good news on his suspension.

Ricco Rodriguez arrested.

UFC 130: Roy Nelson putting family first.

UFC 140: Odds Emerge for possible bout between Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz.

Jon Fitch claims Nick Diaz is a “paper champion.”

UFC 130: Frank Mir on Strikeforce, teaching kids MMA.

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