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The MMA Hour Featuring Charlie Brenneman, Alistair Overeem, Tim Kennedy

Filed under: MMA Videos, Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosThe MMA Hour returned (finally!) Monday with another live broadcast.

On this week’s show, we were joined in studio by UFC welterweight Charlie Brenneman and MMA Fighting’s own Mike Chiapp…

Filed under: MMA Videos, Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive, Videos

The MMA Hour returned (finally!) Monday with another live broadcast.

On this week’s show, we were joined in studio by UFC welterweight Charlie Brenneman and MMA Fighting’s own Mike Chiappetta. Brenneman is getting set to face undefeated Johny Hendricks at UFC 117.

Later in the show, we talked to Tim Kennedy and Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem, who discussed why he didn’t fight at DREAM.15 and what the future holds for him.

Enjoy the show below.

Midseason MMA Awards: The GDP Award

Filed under: UFCSome people say money can’t buy happiness. Those people are broke losers who live with their moms and take the bus to work at Cinnabon. Forget those people. For the rest of us – the ones who don’t want to take all our meals in shopping …

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Some people say money can’t buy happiness. Those people are broke losers who live with their moms and take the bus to work at Cinnabon. Forget those people. For the rest of us – the ones who don’t want to take all our meals in shopping mall food courts – it’s important to have a little cash in our pockets.

There are two ways you can accomplish that as a pro fighter: 1) Be a main-eventin’, cut-of-the-pay-per-view-gettin’, mainstream-sponsor-havin’, first-class-flyin’, son of a gun, or 2) Fight every single chance you get.

The first option is more glamorous, but the simple fact is that it’s not realistic for 99% of MMA fighters. They can’t all be the best in the world. Some of them sweat and bleed for every penny. They have to make as much as they can, while they can. They have to keep getting in the cage and keep getting paid.

So far in 2010, one man stands head and shoulder above the rest when it comes to putting on the gloves and stacking that paper, and that man is Chris Leben.

In Dan Henderson, Anderson Silva Has Beaten a Better Version of Chael Sonnen

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UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has generally kept a low profile over the last couple months and let Chael Sonnen take the lead in hyping their August 7 fight. Sonnen has delivered on the hype department, making a bunch of pr…

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The UFC has now released a video in which Silva responds to some of Sonnen’s statement, and although Silva does blast Sonnen for the “idiotic things coming out of his mouth,” the more interesting comment from Silva is the substantive analysis he makes of Sonnen as a wrestler. While Sonnen claims that Silva will struggle against an opponent with his wrestling skills, Silva notes that in Dan Henderson, he’s already beaten someone better.

Vitor Belfort Finally Healthy, Awaiting UFC 117 Winner

Filed under: UFCIf not for his decision to have shoulder surgery last spring, Vitor Belfort would have already had his crack at UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva. Instead he chose to take care of a lingering injury, and now finds himself awaiting t…

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If not for his decision to have shoulder surgery last spring, Vitor Belfort would have already had his crack at UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva. Instead he chose to take care of a lingering injury, and now finds himself awaiting the winner of Silva’s title fight against Chael Sonnen at UFC 117, though he doesn’t sound like he regrets the decision one bit.

As the Las Vegas Sun reports, the surgery on Belfort’s labrum has allowed him to get off painkillers for “the first time in more than 18 months.” If you do the math on that, it means Belfort was fighting through injuries against both Matt Lindland and Rich Franklin. Good thing he ended both those fights early with first-round knockouts.

According to the 33 year-old Belfort, the decision to finally break down and have the surgery came not so much as a result of the pain, but rather a concern over career longevity.

Video: Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva Talk UFC 117 Bout

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The UFC is turning up the marketing machine for next month’s UFC 117 match-up between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen with the usual pre-fight interview videos.
They seem to be emphasizing the golden tongue of Sonnen, w…

(Video courtesy YouTube/UFC)

The UFC is turning up the marketing machine for next month’s UFC 117 match-up between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen with the usual pre-fight interview videos.

They seem to be emphasizing the golden tongue of Sonnen, whose seemingly stepped-up smack talking has eclipsed pretty much every fighter in the game these days.

What may be surprising to many is that Chael didn’t develop his proclivity for spewing quoteworthy lines overnight.

Anderson Silva Can Talk Some Trash Too, In His Own Way

Filed under: UFCWe almost expect an MMA fighter running for political office to have his pro fighting career used against him by his opponent. Just ask Matt Lindland, whose green screen campaign ads weren’t quite enough to win him a seat in the Oregon …

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We almost expect an MMA fighter running for political office to have his pro fighting career used against him by his opponent. Just ask Matt Lindland, whose green screen campaign ads weren’t quite enough to win him a seat in the Oregon Statehouse.

But now Chael Sonnen, who was the Republican nominee for Oregon’s House District 37 before withdrawing from the race, is having his brief political career used against him by UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva in advance of their meeting at UFC 117.

“Chael, as a fighter, is a good politician,” Silva says in a video on UFC.com. Silva then goes on to say there are “idiotic things coming out of his mouth,” before adding, “With him being a politician, he should really pay attention to what he’s saying.”