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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Watch below as Wanderlei Silva talks about his knockout of Cung Le at UFC 139, the finish, how he regrouped after the tough first round, training with Anderson Silva and the pressure he felt going into this fight.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Watch below as Wanderlei Silva talks about his knockout of Cung Le at UFC 139, the finish, how he regrouped after the tough first round, training with Anderson Silva and the pressure he felt going into this fight.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Watch below as Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker talks about the historic UFC 139 in his home city of San Jose, what it was like watching an event at the HP Pavilion and the positive outlook for Strikeforce’s future.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Watch below as Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker talks about the historic UFC 139 in his home city of San Jose, what it was like watching an event at the HP Pavilion and the positive outlook for Strikeforce’s future.
Brian Bowles and Urijah Faber fight at UFC 139 in what could be the No. 1 contender’s bout for Dominick Cruz’s UFC bantamweight title.Bowles is the man who gave Cruz the belt when he broke his hand in their title fight; now Bowles is in the position wh…
Brian Bowles and Urijah Faber fight at UFC 139 in what could be the No. 1 contender’s bout for Dominick Cruz’s UFC bantamweight title.
Bowles is the man who gave Cruz the belt when he broke his hand in their title fight; now Bowles is in the position where he could be the man to take it away from him.
Bowles also finds himself in great position as a top-three bantamweight in the world after a big win over Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 132.
A Bowles win means the rest of the fighters in the bantamweight division will have to wait their turn. Frankly, though, only Renan Barao is deserving of a title shot.
Bowles could steal the belt from Cruz and make the bantamweight division wide open again. In their last fight, though, Cruz was beating Bowles, so it would be tough to say how well Bowles would perform after their first fight.
Now, though, Bowles has to face Faber and could possibly pull off a big win in the division and send Faber to the back of the line.
It would make the division work that much harder to surpass Bowles in the next few months and then give all the guys looking for a title shot a chance to beat someone like Faber to get a title shot.
Hey, Bowles possesses the knockout power to do so, and everybody loves a good underdog story.
Maybe next time around Bowles will be more ready for Cruz and be able to steal the belt from what looks like a very dominant bantamweight champion.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mauricio “Shogun” Rua began bleeding in the first minute of his fight with Dan Henderson at UFC 139. He never really stopped, actually, just like he never quit coming back from one near-knockout after another. That turned out to be a trait he and Henderson had in common during their seesaw main event bout.
The scorecards might have registered a unanimous decision win for Hendo once all five rounds were in the books, but the larger result was a fight that instantly earned a spot among the greatest bouts of all time.
“That’s without a doubt one of the top three best fights ever in MMA,” UFC president Dana White said afterward, adding “that was like our [Muhammad] Ali-[Joe] Frazier III. It was unbelievable.”
It was a fight that, from the very beginning, seemed unlikely to last a round, let alone five. Henderson dropped Rua early in the first frame with his vaunted right hand. Rua appeared to barely survive that first assault, but he managed to turn the tables on Henderson before the end of the round, coming back in the final two minutes to give the former Strikeforce light heavyweight champ a taste of his own medicine with a punch combo that left Henderson struggling for survival.
So it went for the next three rounds. Henderson started each round strong, dropping Rua with one haymaker after another, only to have the Brazilian rise up and, blinking through the blood, mount a comeback in the second half of each round.
In the third, Rua seemed close to being stopped after Henderson knocked him down and then bounced his head off the mat with successive right hands. In fact, had referee Josh Rosenthal stepped in the wave it off there, it’s unlikely that too many fight fans could have faulted him for it. But Rosenthal, who by that point had seen Rua battle back from one brain-rattling blow after another, gave the former UFC and Pride champion the benefit of the doubt, and it proved to be the right call.
By the fourth, Rua was all the way back in it, and appeared to have Henderson out on his feet at one point. By the fifth, he was camped out in full mount, raining down blows on Hendo as the 41-year-old Californian moved just enough to show he was still in it, and apparently enough to avoid a 10-8 round, which would have rendered the bout a draw.
When the judges’ scorecards were read after a full 25 minutes of this brutal back-and-forth, Henderson could barely stand and Rua could barely see. All three judges gave Henderson the first three rounds and Rua the final two, resulting in a 48-47 score across the board for Hendo.
Not surprisingly, neither the winner nor the loser made it to the post-fight press conference. Both had an appointment at the hospital instead, but not before Henderson tweeted a picture of himself laid out on the locker room floor, requesting a title shot for his next fight.
“That guy could fight at [1]85 [pounds] or 205 [pounds] for the title,” White concurred. “No doubt about it. I don’t disagree.”
In a video interview inside his locker room after the fight, Henderson said he thought the fight was “one or two shots away from being finished” at one point, but Rua had “tried to Rocky Balboa me, wore me out with his head.”
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As often as the comparison gets tossed around in combat sports, this was one fight that was not at all unlike a Rocky movie. The knockdowns, the comebacks, the almost unreasonable amount of physical damage sustained by each fighter — if it was a film, it might have stretched the limits of believability.
This one was all real, and yet difficult to believe. Even both sets of cornermen, as they made their way out of the cage, seemed stunned and exhausted. Fans at cageside lingered, some with hands on their heads, still trying to comprehend what they’d just witnessed.
Was it the greatest MMA fight of all time, or simply one of the greatest? Was it number one, or just top three? That’s an argument that will stretch on well past Saturday night, but after what Rua and Henderson accomplished together, there’s simply no way you can have the conversation without them.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mauricio “Shogun” Rua began bleeding in the first minute of his fight with Dan Henderson at UFC 139. He never really stopped, actually, just like he never quit coming back from one near-knockout after another. That turned out to be a trait he and Henderson had in common during their seesaw main event bout.
The scorecards might have registered a unanimous decision win for Hendo once all five rounds were in the books, but the larger result was a fight that instantly earned a spot among the greatest bouts of all time.
“That’s without a doubt one of the top three best fights ever in MMA,” UFC president Dana White said afterward, adding “that was like our [Muhammad] Ali-[Joe] Frazier III. It was unbelievable.”
It was a fight that, from the very beginning, seemed unlikely to last a round, let alone five. Henderson dropped Rua early in the first frame with his vaunted right hand. Rua appeared to barely survive that first assault, but he managed to turn the tables on Henderson before the end of the round, coming back in the final two minutes to give the former Strikeforce light heavyweight champ a taste of his own medicine with a punch combo that left Henderson struggling for survival.
So it went for the next three rounds. Henderson started each round strong, dropping Rua with one haymaker after another, only to have the Brazilian rise up and, blinking through the blood, mount a comeback in the second half of each round.
In the third, Rua seemed close to being stopped after Henderson knocked him down and then bounced his head off the mat with successive right hands. In fact, had referee Josh Rosenthal stepped in the wave it off there, it’s unlikely that too many fight fans could have faulted him for it. But Rosenthal, who by that point had seen Rua battle back from one brain-rattling blow after another, gave the former UFC and Pride champion the benefit of the doubt, and it proved to be the right call.
By the fourth, Rua was all the way back in it, and appeared to have Henderson out on his feet at one point. By the fifth, he was camped out in full mount, raining down blows on Hendo as the 41-year-old Californian moved just enough to show he was still in it, and apparently enough to avoid a 10-8 round, which would have rendered the bout a draw.
When the judges’ scorecards were read after a full 25 minutes of this brutal back-and-forth, Henderson could barely stand and Rua could barely see. All three judges gave Henderson the first three rounds and Rua the final two, resulting in a 48-47 score across the board for Hendo.
Not surprisingly, neither the winner nor the loser made it to the post-fight press conference. Both had an appointment at the hospital instead, but not before Henderson tweeted a picture of himself laid out on the locker room floor, requesting a title shot for his next fight.
“That guy could fight at [1]85 [pounds] or 205 [pounds] for the title,” White concurred. “No doubt about it. I don’t disagree.”
In a video interview inside his locker room after the fight, Henderson said he thought the fight was “one or two shots away from being finished” at one point, but Rua had “tried to Rocky Balboa me, wore me out with his head.”
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As often as the comparison gets tossed around in combat sports, this was one fight that was not at all unlike a Rocky movie. The knockdowns, the comebacks, the almost unreasonable amount of physical damage sustained by each fighter — if it was a film, it might have stretched the limits of believability.
This one was all real, and yet difficult to believe. Even both sets of cornermen, as they made their way out of the cage, seemed stunned and exhausted. Fans at cageside lingered, some with hands on their heads, still trying to comprehend what they’d just witnessed.
Was it the greatest MMA fight of all time, or simply one of the greatest? Was it number one, or just top three? That’s an argument that will stretch on well past Saturday night, but after what Rua and Henderson accomplished together, there’s simply no way you can have the conversation without them.
Wrestling stalwarts Ryan Bader and Jason Brilz completed the preliminary card of UFC 139. The two light heavyweights hoped to bounce back from recent losses. For Bader, a once promising title run was crippled by back-to-back losses to current cha…
Wrestling stalwarts Ryan Bader and Jason Brilz completed the preliminary card of UFC 139. The two light heavyweights hoped to bounce back from recent losses.
For Bader, a once promising title run was crippled by back-to-back losses to current champion Jon Jones and a resurgent Tito Ortiz. The Arizona-based fighter hoped to avoid a dreaded third straight loss.
Brilz improbably rose up the ranks of the division by taking a last minute fight with Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and nearly pulling the upset. However, he faced a major setback by getting knocked out by Vladimir Matyushenko at UFC 129.
Bader looked to establish his jab immediately. An uppercut from Bader connected. Lead hook from Bader popped the head of Brilz backwards. Bader followed with a right hand that sent Brilz crashing face first into the canvas. The referee intervened before Bader could inflict any further damage.
“I’ve been working a lot. Losing sucks,” Bader stated after the fight. The win snapped a two fight losing streak for the former Ultimate Fighter winner.
The loss marked the third straight for Brilz.
Official Result: Ryan Bader def. Jason Brilz by KO (punch). Round 1, 1:17
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – MMA Fighting caught up with Ryan Bader after his first-round knockout win at UFC 139. Bader talks about how he’s changed in the past two months, the pressure he faced coming into the event with a two-fight losing skid, how long it took him to get over the Tito Ortiz loss and much more.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – MMA Fighting caught up with Ryan Bader after his first-round knockout win at UFC 139. Bader talks about how he’s changed in the past two months, the pressure he faced coming into the event with a two-fight losing skid, how long it took him to get over the Tito Ortiz loss and much more.