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Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosCONCORD, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to Roy Nelson at Wednesday’s UFC 117 open workouts about his upcoming No. 1 contender fight against Junior dos Santos on Saturday night.
“Big Country” talked…
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CONCORD, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to Roy Nelson at Wednesday’s UFC 117 open workouts about his upcoming No. 1 contender fight against Junior dos Santos on Saturday night.
“Big Country” talked about his ever-evolving mullet, his rapid rise up the UFC heavyweight ranks and who he expects to face for the heavyweight title in the future.
Check out the video interview below.
(Got a half-hour to spare? Then watch this Bloodsport-themed tribute to Georges St. Pierre’s UFC career, courtesy of lookoutawhale. Too nasty.)
Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] fo…
(Got a half-hour to spare? Then watch this Bloodsport-themed tribute to Georges St. Pierre’s UFC career, courtesy of lookoutawhale. Too nasty.)
Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…
– The Anderson Silva flowchart everyone should print and hang on their wall (MiddleEasy)
– Options: What’s next for the winners of "Jones vs. Matyushenko"? (Heavy.com/MMA)
– Demian Maia bumped to UFC 118, will face Mario Miranda (Five Ounces of Pain)
– Dana White Talks Jones’ Future, Japanese MMA Revival, Anderson Silva’s Job Security (Versus MMA Beat)
– Roy Nelson More Impressed with dos Santos Than Carwin or Lesnar (MMA Fighting)
– Inside the Fights: The Face Melting Power of Marlon Sandro (MMA Scraps)
– UFC marketing team striking out this coming Saturday at UFC 117 (Watch Kalib Run)
– Roy Jones Jr.’s Square Ring Sues Zuffa & Roy Nelson Over Alleged Contractual Interference (MMA Convert)
– Vadim Finkelstein: Fedor Emelianenko is still the best Pound for Pound fighter in the World (LowKick)
– Brian Stann discusses his successful middleweight debut, and fighting in front of "thousands of our heroes." (FIGHT! Magazine)
While Chael Sonnen has been capturing headlines over the last few weeks for his ‘okay what now?’ trash talk, it’s easy to forget that there are plenty of other dudes in the UFC, who also possess a remarkable gift for controversial gab. Of course, if you’ve followed Roy Nelson since his arrival in the UFC […]
While Chael Sonnen has been capturing headlines over the last few weeks for his ‘okay what now?’ trash talk, it’s easy to forget that there are plenty of other dudes in the UFC, who also possess a remarkable gift for controversial gab. Of course, if you’ve followed Roy Nelson since his arrival in the UFC (or before), you know that you don’t head for another web site when the heavyweight’s talking.
In addition to this Saturday’s tilt between Sonnen and middleweight champ Anderson Silva, the bout between Nelson and Junior dos Santos has a teee-onne riding on the outcome. Dana White has already stated that the winner will get a crack at whoever wins between Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez on Oct. 23rd. Well, while speaking to MMA Fighting’s Ben Fowlkes, Nelson made the argument that dos Santos is “probably the No.1 guy out there”, by breaking down Lesnar’s recent win over Shane Carwin.
“Carwin, he seems like he trains for five, one-minute rounds. That’s his championship fight, apparently,” said Nelson. “But no, you learn a lot. Like Carwin, he quits. He basically quit with Brock and he tapped out. That means you quit. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Then Brock, you learned that if you don’t give him an opportunity to come back on you, if you don’t give him that hole to come back, he won’t come back. Shane just gave him the chance to come back. He didn’t put him away.”
Don’t hold back on our account Roy. Nelson also cited Carwin’s recent episode of ‘lactic acidosis,’ as to why he prefers to be “fat”, rather than a muscular monstrosity like Shane. See; being fat does have its perks. To bet on UFC 117 head here.
Filed under: UFCIf you’re expecting Roy Nelson to be bowled over by how quickly he went from reality show winner to potential No. 1 heavyweight contender, you can stop right now.
Even though a win over highly touted Brazilian striker Junior dos Santo…
Filed under: UFC
If you’re expecting Roy Nelson to be bowled over by how quickly he went from reality show winner to potential No. 1 heavyweight contender, you can stop right now.
Even though a win over highly touted Brazilian striker Junior dos Santos at UFC 117 this weekend would likely net him a title shot, and less than a year after winning season 10 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Nelson isn’t in awe of how quickly things have progressed.
“It’s a little bit slower than I’d like, actually,” he told MMA Fighting. “Usually I’d like to fight for the belt a little bit sooner, but I’ll take it.”
(Yeesh, poor kid…)
Kicking off the UFC 117 pay-per-view card this Saturday in Oakland will be Junior Dos Santos (11-1) vs. Roy Nelson (15-4), a guaranteed banger that could decide the next title contender in the heavyweight division. Nelson is nea…
(Yeesh, poor kid…)
Kicking off the UFC 117 pay-per-view card this Saturday in Oakland will be Junior Dos Santos (11-1) vs. Roy Nelson (15-4), a guaranteed banger that could decide the next title contender in the heavyweight division. Nelson is nearly a 3-1 underdog against the Brazilian phenom, but let’s take a closer look at the matchup and see who really holds the advantages…
AGE
Dos Santos: 25
Nelson: 34
Advantage: Dos Santos
SIZE
Dos Santos: 6’4, 238 pounds, 77" reach
Nelson: 6’0, 263 pounds, 74" reach; the mass of Nelson’s stomach has been compared to the moon.
Advantage: even
NICKNAME
Dos Santos: Cigano ("Gypsy")
Nelson: Big Country
Advantage: Nelson. Dos Santos is named after a soap opera character, which isn’t very hardcore at all.
KNOCKED OUT STEFAN STRUVE IN…
Dos Santos: 54 seconds (at UFC 95)
Nelson: 39 seconds (at UFC Fight Night 21)
Advantage: Nelson
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"To talk about me is easy," Anderson Silva says in the above preview vid. "Try to beat me." Ah, there’s the rub. Chael Sonnen’s trash talk has been absolutely epic in the run-up to this fight, but it re…
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"To talk about me is easy," Anderson Silva says in the above preview vid. "Try to beat me." Ah, there’s the rub. Chael Sonnen‘s trash talk has been absolutely epic in the run-up to this fight, but it remains to be seen if he can even back up one tenth of it in the Octagon. Meanwhile, Roy Nelson has finally earned Dana White’s respect with his knockouts of Brendan Schaub and Stefan Struve, and is "a definite contender for the heavyweight championship." To get his shot, he’ll have to become the first UFC fighter to endure the fists of Junior Dos Santos, who has been leaving a very impressive trail of bodies in his wake. It’s a matchup that guarantees excitement, as opposed to main event, in which…well, if Silva dances around and mocks his opponent for five more excruciating rounds, don’t act like you didn’t see it coming.
After the jump: E. Casey Leydon follows Roxanne Modafferi and Sarah Kaufman as they prepare for their 135-pound title match at Strikeforce Challengers, tomorrow night in Everett, Washington. The event kicks off on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT.