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The MMA Hour With Anderson Silva in Studio, Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosThree of the best fighters in the history of mixed martial arts will be stopping by The MMA Hour on Monday.

* Anderson Silva, along with manager Ed Soares, will be in studio. The UFC middleweight champion wi…

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Three of the best fighters in the history of mixed martial arts will be stopping by The MMA Hour on Monday.

* Anderson Silva, along with manager Ed Soares, will be in studio. The UFC middleweight champion will discuss his upcoming title fight against Yushin Okami at UFC 134 and his documentary, “Like Water,” which is featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. Also stopping by will be the documentary’s producer, Jared Freedman.

* Chuck Liddell, the UFC’s vice president of business development, will discuss life after fighting and his appearance at the UFC Fan Expo.

* BJ Penn will talk about his health status and what’s on deck for “The Prodigy.”

* Matt Mitrione will grace us with his presence for his popular “Mitrione Minute” segment and we will preview Saturday’s UFC 129 event.

And of course, we’ll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Download previous episodes of The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here.

Haunted by First Defeat, Rory MacDonald Looks to Rebound at UFC 129

Filed under: UFCIt’s been ten months since UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald (10-1) lost a heartbreaker of a fight to Carlos Condit at UFC 115, and he’s finally put it behind him.

Well, mostly. Sort of.

That is to say, he’s put it behind as much as a…

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It’s been ten months since UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald (10-1) lost a heartbreaker of a fight to Carlos Condit at UFC 115, and he’s finally put it behind him.

Well, mostly. Sort of.

That is to say, he’s put it behind as much as any fighter can after being stopped in the final ten seconds of a fight he was winning on the scorecards. Had he lasted just seven seconds longer, MacDonald would likely have won a split decision victory. Instead, he went home with his first loss, and he’s been feeling the sting of it ever since.

“It was difficult,” said the 21-year-old MacDonald. “It was really hard to deal with, but I think I’ve dealt with most of it by now. I still think I need to get in there again and win this fight [against Nate Diaz at UFC 129] to really get over it, and maybe one day I need to get a rematch with Carlos to fully get over it. I don’t know.”

Chuck Liddell is Picking Jake Shields Over GSP

Yesterday we discussed the fact that not only is the name Jake Shields still relatively new to a lot of ‘ultimate fighting’ fans, and thus, he’s not widely expected to dethrone Georges St. Pierre, many of the sport’s more ardent observers don’t expect the submission wiz to win either. Case in point? Just shift your […]

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Yesterday we discussed the fact that not only is the name Jake Shields still relatively new to a lot of ‘ultimate fighting’ fans, and thus, he’s not widely expected to dethrone Georges St. Pierre, many of the sport’s more ardent observers don’t expect the submission wiz to win either. Case in point? Just shift your eyeballs to the right of your screen right now and take a peek at the betting lines we have up…The mighty GSP is the favorite and then some.

So, who is picking Shields to win? Well, a certain ex-light-heavyweight champ named Chuck Liddell is just one example. Now, keep in mind that Liddell and Shields go way back and that the former Strikeforce champ used to train with “The Iceman,” so either bias is raising its ugly head here, Liddell is making an informed assessment, or, yeah, maybe it’s a bit of both ….Speaking to MMA Fighting, here’s what Liddell had to say about the upcoming UFC 129 main event.

“I’m siding with Jake,” Liddell said. “Jake’s going to have to take him down. I’m expecting him to be in great shape for the fight. He’ll be in great shape for GSP. But yeah, I expect him to take him down and finish him.”

Now if Chuck had predicted Shields to win via highlight reel head kick or something similar, it’s likely the word ‘biased’ would be getting muttered repeatedly right about now. Will Shields, in fact, be able to take down a dude who had few issues countering renowned wrestlers like Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch? Guess we’ll find out Saturday.

To bet a little dough on this weekend’s action head here.

Randy Couture Maybe Won’t Retire? (VIDEO)

Randy Couture tells us Dana White would really have to step up to keep him from retiring. So that’s interesting… There’s still a possibility we’ll see Couture in the cage after this weekend’s Lyoto Machida match at UFC 129. Couture also talks expanding his movie career and taking on more versatile roles. He would not […]

Randy Couture tells us Dana White would really have to step up to keep him from retiring. So that’s interesting… There’s still a possibility we’ll see Couture in the cage after this weekend’s Lyoto Machida match at UFC 129. Couture also talks expanding his movie career and taking on more versatile roles. He would not be opposed to playing a homosexual. *Note: Listen to his lispy “Stop it”. Watch our fun interview with host, Steve Cofield of Cagewriter.com below:

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Randy Couture’s Most Important Role Could Lie in Retirement

Filed under: Fighting, UFCSaturday night is expected to be the last time in the octagon for UFC legend Randy Couture, so expect the tributes to begin trickling in early this week and a flood to follow his fight with Lyoto Machida, win or lose. They are…

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Saturday night is expected to be the last time in the octagon for UFC legend Randy Couture, so expect the tributes to begin trickling in early this week and a flood to follow his fight with Lyoto Machida, win or lose. They are all deserved of course, even though plenty of them will focus on what he’s done, rather than what he might do.

What’s amazing is that despite all his accomplishments in the cage — championships and megafights among them — Couture could end up becoming one of the rare fighters who is more important to the sport in retirement than he was in action. That is a tall order, of course. Couture is and will forever be one of the seminal figures of early MMA, and was one of the few pioneers able to evolve from a singular style to favorably compete with the modern class of hybrid athletes.

His legacy is surely written in stone. He’s a multi-time, multi-division champion; he holds a UFC record by competing in 16 title fights; and he was one of the few early personalities that transcended into mainstream consciousness. So what can he do after he hangs up his gloves that he didn’t do before? He can be a voice for MMA, he can be an agent for change, he can offer thought-provoking perspective on the direction of the sport.

Georges St. Pierre Not Worried About Pressure in Fight With Jake Shields

We’re just a few days removed from UFC 129, and if you’re not excited about this Saturday’s event, you should probably keep that to yourself. After all, April 30th will feature not one, but two title fights, likely Randy Couture’s last fight ever, and…50,000 or so Canadian fans. Have you ever seen a hockey riot? […]

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We’re just a few days removed from UFC 129, and if you’re not excited about this Saturday’s event, you should probably keep that to yourself. After all, April 30th will feature not one, but two title fights, likely Randy Couture’s last fight ever, and…50,000 or so Canadian fans. Have you ever seen a hockey riot? There are some passionate sports fans in the Great White North.

Of course, the main event will feature welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre throwing down with Jake Shields. While avid observers of the sport understand that the former Strikeforce champ could pose a threat to GSP on the ground, a lot of mainstream fans aren’t really sure if they’ve even seen Shields fight, much less think he’s going to push St.Pierre. ‘Yeah dude, he fought that Martin Kampmann guy, and almost, well kinda lost, remember?’

In contrast, St. Pierre has consistently been saying that Shields is his toughest test to date, and with that in mind then, is he feeling the pressure come over him like a wet, soggy blanket? Yes, yes he is. Is that a bad thing? Non, non, it’s not. (Thanks to MMA Weekly for the quote).

“Let’s say I would fight Jake in a basement when nobody is watching, maybe the pressure would not have been that bad. Sometimes it’s having the people around and the entourage that makes it worse. But on the other side, I perform better when I’m under pressure,” St-Pierre stated.

Well, considering there’s going to be a few million people watching this fight, there’s probably going to be just a wee bit of pressure there… Saturday can’t get here soon enough. To bet on the bout head here.