Chael Sonnen made on monster statement on Saturday night.After Sonnen’s second round submission victory over Brian Stann, Sonnen called out Silva—big surprise—and offered a challenge.If Sonnen wins, Silva leaves the division. If Silva wins,…
Chael Sonnen made on monster statement on Saturday night.
After Sonnen’s second round submission victory over Brian Stann, Sonnen called out Silva—big surprise—and offered a challenge.
If Sonnen wins, Silva leaves the division. If Silva wins, Sonnen leaves the UFC.
Sonnen offered the challenge, and is the clear No. 2 middleweight, but what about Stann?
Where did he fall to?
Don’t forget that Demian Maia was in action on Saturday too, as he pulled out a unanimous decision victory over Jorge Santiago.
Check out the updated top 10 rankings to see what’s changed.
Melvin Guillard was choked out by Joe Lauzon in the first round at UFC 136.The loss to Lauzon has sent Guillard from possibly facing Frankie Edgar, back to the end of the line in the UFC’s lightweight division.Guillard was on a roll and his five-fight …
As has been well-documented in the MMA community, Chael Sonnen is the only fighter who has given UFC middleweight champion any problems a midst his 15 fight win streak in the UFC. Sonnen’s boxing, takedowns and ground and pound convincingly won h…
As has been well-documented in the MMA community, Chael Sonnen is the only fighter who has given UFC middleweight champion any problems a midst his 15 fight win streak in the UFC.
Sonnen’s boxing, takedowns and ground and pound convincingly won him four rounds on the judges score cards before getting submitted in the fifth and final round with a triangle choke.
After a dominant performance against Brian Stann at UFC 136, it seems to be a forgone conclusion that Silva-Sonnen II will happen in early 2012.
There were a couple of questions surrounding the first fight, such as how healthy was Anderson Silva coming in?
Was Chael Sonnen illegally using performance enhancing drugs, or was the matter simply an issue of disclosure?
Despite these issues, here are a few reasons why Sonnen will get his revenge and finally make good on all of his trash talk the second time around.
Frankie Edgar showed why he is perhaps the most resilient fighter in all of MMA last night when he fought back from a near knockout in the first round to knockout Gray Maynard in the fourth round of their UFC 136 contest. The UFC lightweight champion h…
Frankie Edgar showed why he is perhaps the most resilient fighter in all of MMA last night when he fought back from a near knockout in the first round to knockout Gray Maynard in the fourth round of their UFC 136 contest.
The UFC lightweight champion has now earned at least one victory over every opponent he has ever fought and despite the fact that he took some serious damage in each of his past two fights, it appears that he is ready to be the UFC’s next long-term champion… Or does it?
As Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg spoke about last night, Edgar is the champion in what may very well be the most stacked division ever assembled in the sport of mixed martial arts. With contenders like Clay Guida, Ben Henderson, Joe Lauzon, Melvin Guillard and countless others currently competing at 155-pounds, there is still a lot of competition for Frankie Edgar’s throne. Not only that, but it looks like it’s about to get a lot better with the addition of Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez.
Though it hasn’t been officially announced yet, UFC President Dana White made it very apparent that the promotion is well on its way to signing Melendez to a long-term contract. Not only that, he alluded to the possibility that Melendez may skip over all contenders in the division and get an instant shot at the UFC lightweight championship in what will essentially be a title unification bout.
As dominant as Frankie Edgar has been at times in his fights with BJ Penn and even with Gray Maynard in the later rounds, there is a very realistic concern that he may be taking too much damage early in fights. Gray Maynard punished Edgar in first round of both their second and third fights, but while been impressive in his UFC career, he is certainly not known as a finisher.
But unlike Gray Maynard who has only finished two opponents in 13 career MMA fights (technically three if you count the fight against Rob Emerson), Gilbert Melendez is a stone-cold killer who has finished over half of his opponents, checking in with 12 finishes in 21 career fights.
Melendez doesn’t have the size or strength that Maynard does, but quite frankly, it hasn’t been Maynard’s size that has caused Edgar problems in their fights. Despite having some of the best boxing skills in the UFC, it has been Edgar’s sometimes shaky striking defense that has allowed Maynard to nearly knock him out on numerous occasions.
Maynard tried his hardest, but he was just unable to finish off the lightweight champion. But you can rest assured that if he is lucky enough to get Edgar reeling, Gilbert Melendez will not fail to finish.
There are plenty of UFC fighters who deserve a title shot right now, but the reality is that the one who has the best chance of defeating Frankie Edgar might not even be officially part of the UFC roster yet.
Saturday night, Frankie Edgar finally put an end to “The Bully” as he was able to TKO Gray Maynard in the fourth round and successfully defend his lightweight championship.Gray Maynard was clearly the No. 2 lightweight going into the fight, but where d…
Saturday night, Frankie Edgar finally put an end to “The Bully” as he was able to TKO Gray Maynard in the fourth round and successfully defend his lightweight championship.
Gray Maynard was clearly the No. 2 lightweight going into the fight, but where does he stand after the loss?
In addition to the lightweight title fight, Melvin Guillard and Joe Lauzon were facing off in a bout with some major title implications.
Where do they stand now?
Where do Clay Guida and Ben Henderson fit into all this?
Saturday night, Jose Aldo was able to defend his title by defeating Kenny Florian by unanimous decision.Although it wasn’t a brutal knockout as many, like me, were expecting, it was an impressive display nonetheless, as Aldo won four out of five rounds…
Saturday night, Jose Aldo was able to defend his title by defeating Kenny Florian by unanimous decision.
Although it wasn’t a brutal knockout as many, like me, were expecting, it was an impressive display nonetheless, as Aldo won four out of five rounds from Florian.
Kenny was known for a long time as one of the best lightweights in the UFC, and as soon as he dropped to featherweight, he became an immediate title challenger.
Unfortunately, he still didn’t earn his UFC gold, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a top featherweight.
