(Now who’s the princess??)
Wow! We had a few pick-ems and a few surprises tonight at UFC 118, but overall it was a great card.
BJ didn’t have an answer for "The Answer" and Couture had a simple, yet effective one for "Lights Out," n…
(Now who’s the princess??)
Wow! We had a few pick-ems and a few surprises tonight at UFC 118, but overall it was a great card.
BJ didn’t have an answer for "The Answer" and Couture had a simple, yet effective one for "Lights Out," namely, take him down and expose his weaknesses on the ground.
Love him or hate him, Gray Maynard proved he is the number one lightweight contender and we might just see him walk away from his next bout wearing UFC gold.
Anyone who didn’t like this card is either a boxing fan or a BJ Penn fan.
Here’s the post-fight press conference after the jump.
Filed under: UFCJoe Lauzon put on a brilliant showing Saturday night in front of his hometown fans in Boston, absolutely destroying Gabe Ruediger and winning by first-round submission at UFC 118.
“I’m so glad I could fight here in Boston,” Lauzon said…
Joe Lauzon put on a brilliant showing Saturday night in front of his hometown fans in Boston, absolutely destroying Gabe Ruediger and winning by first-round submission at UFC 118.
“I’m so glad I could fight here in Boston,” Lauzon said afterward. “This is a dream come true.”
(So at $1,000,000, you payin’ me $4,219 a pound, sucka!!)
Well, Potato Nation, tonight’s the night we’ve been waiting for for months. The question on everyone’s mind will finally be answered: "Is Will Forte really leaving Saturday Night Li…
(So at $1,000,000, you payin’ me $4,219 a pound, sucka!!)
Well, Potato Nation, tonight’s the night we’ve been waiting for for months. The question on everyone’s mind will finally be answered: "Is Will Forte really leaving Saturday Night Live?"
OK so maybe that’s not the question on everybody’s mind, but it’s definitely bugging Will’s agent and his parents.
Ben and ReX13 are off schmoozing at the UFC Fan Expo, where I would have been as well if I could cross the border (more on that at a later date, but I will tell you it involves a bar brawl and a Bruce Lee instructional book I’ve owned since I was 13) and Chad Dundas is off the grid attending an Amish wedding, which leaves me here to supply you guys with some play-by play action from tonight’s festivities in Boston.
The co-main event will undoubtedly produce some differing opinions on James Toney’s place in the grand scheme of the UFC’s heavyweight division and the main event should decide whether or not BJ Penn simply had an off night in Abu Dhabi.
Before we get to it, we’d like to announce the winner of our Boston UFC Fan Expo. The winning ticket is #031014. If this is your number, send photographic proof to [email protected] and we’ll hook you up with a $100 gift card to MMAWarehouse.com.
Here’s a glimpse of our uber-popular booth from the expo. Don’t let VivaHate’s nonplussed expression fool you, everyone had a blast this weekend and we got a ton of footage and interviews from fans and fighters.
Results and play-by-play after the jump. Strap in and get ready. It’s sure to be a rocky ride.
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveBOSTON — Ray Sefo knows a little about the transition James Toney is making. Sefo has fought as a professional boxer, was a world renowned kickboxer, and in recent years, he’s worked hard on his MMA game, most recen…
BOSTON — Ray Sefo knows a little about the transition James Toney is making. Sefo has fought as a professional boxer, was a world renowned kickboxer, and in recent years, he’s worked hard on his MMA game, most recently fighting for Strikeforce last September.
Sefo is also a trainer at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, as well as a key member in preparing Randy Couture to face Toney; the 6-foot, 240-pound Sefo mimicked the similarly built 5-foot-10, 237-pound Toney during Couture’s training camp. And given his own experiences going from the striking arts to the ground game, Sefo feels Toney will be woefully unprepared for the opponent that awaits him.
“I don’t think it’ll go any more than three minutes,” he said. “It’s going to end real fast.”
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, News BOSTON — Eight weeks ago, Gerald Harris lived his SportsCenter moment. His knockout slam of Dave Branch during the undercard of July’s Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin event was plastered all over the highlights of …
BOSTON — Eight weeks ago, Gerald Harris lived his SportsCenter moment. His knockout slam of Dave Branch during the undercard of July’s Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin event was plastered all over the highlights of ESPN’s signature show.
On Friday afternoon, though, Harris had no chance of finding himself on TV for weigh-ins, even though he spent fight week dieting, cutting weight and preparing to fight like the 20 other men who marched up and down the scale before cameras.
The reason? After his fight fell though, Harris was a UFC 118 alternate. And after the four other scheduled middleweights passed their medical tests and made weight — in front of the TV cameras, while Harris was stuck backstage — Harris became a fighter without a fight.
“I roll ’til the wheels fall off, so I was hoping until the last minute,” Harris told MMA Fighting on Friday, a short time after making weight. “I was on Twitter like, ‘Someone’s not going to make weight! Come on, someone’s going to be four or five pounds over!’ It’s an unfortunate situation but I’m going to make to the best of it. Hopefully I’ll be back in September or October, whatever [UFC matchmaker] Joe Silva says.”
Filed under: UFC, NewsBOSTON — Randy Couture is a massive favorite to win his third straight fight Saturday night at UFC 118, but given Couture’s status and renown in the MMA world, you might be surprised to learn that if Couture does indeed win, it w…
BOSTON — Randy Couture is a massive favorite to win his third straight fight Saturday night at UFC 118, but given Couture’s status and renown in the MMA world, you might be surprised to learn that if Couture does indeed win, it would be his first streak of three wins or more since 2001.
During the course of fight-week, we’re privy to a host of interesting stats that don’t otherwise make it into the event discussion, so we’re compiling a few of the more interesting nuggets here, including a few gems about James Toney, BJ Penn, Frankie Edgar and more.
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