Filed under: UFC, NewsOne of Dana White’s favorite mantras is that the UFC is taking the sport of mixed martial arts global and that he believes it will be the biggest sport in the world.
On Tuesday, the UFC president said on a media call that he exp…
One of Dana White‘s favorite mantras is that the UFC is taking the sport of mixed martial arts global and that he believes it will be the biggest sport in the world.
On Tuesday, the UFC president said on a media call that he expects the promotion’s flagship program, Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter,” to soon have its first international version – perhaps even this year.
And White said the Philippines, in southeast Asia, could be the first country outside the United States to host a version of the reality competition.
“This year,” White said, “I’m pretty sure the first one’s going to be the Philippines.”
A featherweight matchup between Josh “The Fluke” Grispi (14-2) and George Roop (11-7-1) appears to be slotted for the upcoming “The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale” event in June.
MMAMania.com posted the update on Sunday noting that a source confirmed the bout with them.
Grispi made his UFC debut at UFC 125 last month losing to Dustin Poirier […]
A featherweight matchup between Josh “The Fluke” Grispi (14-2) and George Roop (11-7-1) appears to be slotted for the upcoming “The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale” event in June.
MMAMania.com posted the update on Sunday noting that a source confirmed the bout with them.
Grispi made his UFC debut at UFC 125 last month losing to Dustin Poirier by unanimous decision. The defeat ended a ten fight win streak that also saw him earn four straight wins in the WEC, plus a “Submission of the Night” bonus in his last WEC appearance. He’s earned wins over LC Davis at WEC 49, Jens Pulver at WEC 41, Micah Miller at WEC 35, and Mark Hominick at WEC 32.
Roop also enters the bout with a loss last month. He was soundly defeated by Hominick in January’s UFC: Fight for the Troops 2 show, losing in the first round by TKO. The defeat put him 1-1 in his last two and has seen a roller coaster ride for his career in his last eight. In that span, which included four bouts with the UFC, three with the WEC, and one with the RITC promotion, Roop has gone 3-4-1. His last win saw him knockout Chan Sung Jung (aka The Korean Zombie) at WEC 51, fight Leonard Garcia to a draw at WEC 47, and lose a unanimous decision to Eddie Wineland at WEC 46.
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale will take place on June 4th at the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. One bout already set for the event includes a lightweight bout between Clay Guida vs. Anthony Pettis. The show will also serve as to crown the winner of the thirteenth season of “The Ultimate Fighter” which is still currently being filmed.
Two UFC champions Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Jose Aldo, along with top heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos do some training in the octagon on the set of “The Ultimate Fighter 13″ at the UFC gym in Las Vegas.
Two UFC champions Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Jose Aldo, along with top heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos do some training in the octagon on the set of “The Ultimate Fighter 13″ at the UFC gym in Las Vegas.
UFC heavyweight Junior dos Santos talks about the upcoming thirteenth season of “The Ultimate Fighter” as he gets set to coach opposite Brock Lesnar on the Spike TV reality series. “Cigano” tells the camera why he took the coaching job as well as risking his top contender status to Lesnar.
UFC heavyweight Junior dos Santos talks about the upcoming thirteenth season of “The Ultimate Fighter” as he gets set to coach opposite Brock Lesnar on the Spike TV reality series. “Cigano” tells the camera why he took the coaching job as well as risking his top contender status to Lesnar.
Photo’s from http://twitter.com/ufc taken earlier today featuring the coaches of the upcoming thirteenth season of “The Ultimate Fighter” Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos.
A couple of Tweets from @UFC:
– Brock calls jds a roadblock on his path back to a title, denies being a mindeffer
– Fyi, brock calls coaching tuf a “business trip”
– Brock made […]
Photo’s from http://twitter.com/ufc taken earlier today featuring the coaches of the upcoming thirteenth season of “The Ultimate Fighter” Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos.
A couple of Tweets from @UFC:
– Brock calls jds a roadblock on his path back to a title, denies being a mindeffer
– Fyi, brock calls coaching tuf a “business trip”
– Brock made it clear to his TUF team he’s not here to babysit
(Now smile and tell everyone I’m the TUF coach and that it was an easy decision to make.)
By Cage Potato contributor Jason Moles
The second Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar would be taking the reins of one of next season’s The Ultimate Fighter te…
(Now smile and tell everyone I’m the TUF coach and that it was an easy decision to make.)
By Cage Potato contributor Jason Moles
The second Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar would be taking the reins of one of next season’s The Ultimate Fighter teams, it seems that everyone with a keyboard immediately began furiously typing out their manifestos explaining why, in their "professional opinion" the former UFC heavyweight champ will suck as a coach.
Well, not everyone agrees with the popular assertion that the ironically seemingly reluctant UFC star who owned the camera while cashing paychecks from the WWE will sink the TUF ship.
We may not necessarily agree with White’s opinion that anyone who thinks it’s possible that Brock might not deliver as a coach is basically a stupid f*cking idiot, as he so eloquently inferred MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani was for asking about the plausibility during a press conference last week, but we are part of the minority who think it may not be so bad.
Check out contributor Jason Moles’ breakdown of why Brock will do TUF some good after the jump.
One of Dana White‘s favorite mantras is that the UFC is taking the sport of mixed martial arts global and that he believes it will be the biggest sport in the world. 
