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Just a friendly reminder that we will be streaming the weigh-ins for UFC 139 live from San Jose starting at 7:00 pm ET.
Check back then and watch a bunch of dudes go alpha on one another in their underwear. Nothing weird about that.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Watch below as MMA Fighting’s Ben Fowlkes and I dissect all the subplots heading into Saturday night’s UFC 139 pay-per-view event.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Watch below as MMA Fighting’s Ben Fowlkes and I dissect all the subplots heading into Saturday night’s UFC 139 pay-per-view event.
After spending nearly a year away from mixed martial arts, Sanshou specialist Cung Le prepares to make his anticipated debut at UFC 139. In his upcoming bout, he faces aggressive Muay Thai striker Wanderlei Silva, whose career has declined since 2…
After spending nearly a year away from mixed martial arts, Sanshou specialist Cung Le prepares to make his anticipated debut at UFC 139.
In his upcoming bout, he faces aggressive Muay Thai striker Wanderlei Silva, whose career has declined since 2007. Silva has gone 2-4 in his last six appearances.
But despite Silva’s decline, Le isn’t taking his opponent lightly.
“I definitely can’t look past Wanderlei. People say ‘Oh, he’s got no chin’ or whatever, but a lot of people rise to the occasion,” Le told MMAWeekly.com. “When a fighter’s back is against the wall, they’re the most dangerous.”
After spending time away from the Octagon to appear in movies, the former Strikeforce middleweight champion found himself getting back into shape and training on a regular basis. After enlisting the services of fellow teammate Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal from the American Kickboxing Academy, Le is ready to compete once again.
Le said he has always admired the Brazilian for his aggressive style and is aware that Silva plans to put on a performance for the fans on Saturday night. Le intends to do the same.
“Why hold back? If I hold back he’s going to come at me anyways, so you might as well throw something at him, because if it catches him, it could be goodnight,” he said. “In the fight, I get to throw hard and let go.”
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The UFC 139 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the HP Pavilion. Check out the highlights of the proceedings below. Full UFC 139 weigh-in results here.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The UFC 139 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the HP Pavilion. Check out the highlights of the proceedings below. Full UFC 139 weigh-in results here.
Although these competitors never crossed paths during their tenures in PRIDE FC, an anticipated bout between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson was bound to happen at some point.Thankfully, the bout will materialize this weekend when both Rua and …
Although these competitors never crossed paths during their tenures in PRIDE FC, an anticipated bout between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson was bound to happen at some point.
Thankfully, the bout will materialize this weekend when both Rua and Henderson headline UFC 139 in front of a sold out arena at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. A win for either Henderson or Rua will catapult one of them into the title picture at 205 pounds.
And in a bout that has taken nearly five years to setup, Rua is just happy to face the former PRIDE champion.
“Back in the PRIDE days, I always thought that this fight could happen,” Rua told MMAJunkie.com. “But PRIDE collapsed, and the fight never happened. But here we are now.”
Both fighters have endured separate career paths since the Japanese-based promotion was acquired by the UFC in 2007.
Rua would begin his UFC career with a disappointing loss to Forrest Griffin, but rebounded with wins over fighters like Chuck Liddell, Mark Coleman and Lyoto Machida, capturing the UFC light heavyweight title in the process.
After dropping both the PRIDE light heavyweight and middleweight titles in back-to-back losses to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Anderson Silva, Henderson would go on a three-fight win streak, which included a highlight reel knockout of Michael Bisping at UFC 100.
Henderson was acquired by Strikeforce in 2009, where he would earn victories over Renato Sobral, Rafael Cavalcante and Fedor Emelianenko. It’s evident that Henderson has a handful of experience to his name at the age of 41, yet Rua still considers him a legitimate threat in the light heavyweight division.
“He was always an aggressive fighter and he still is,” he said. “He has very heavy hands and very heavy strikes. He’s evolved, but he’s always been a dangerous fighter.”
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Filed under: UFCSAN JOSE, Calif. — At least for local MMA fans, the HP Pavilion might as well be the house that Scott Coker built. Strikeforce held its first event here in March of 2006 — the first sanctioned MMA event in the state of California — a…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — At least for local MMA fans, the HP Pavilion might as well be the house that Scott Coker built. Strikeforce held its first event here in March of 2006 — the first sanctioned MMA event in the state of California — and both the venue and the city served as its home base for the next five years.
That’s why it felt a little odd to walk into the HP Pavilion for Friday afternoon’s weigh-ins and see the UFC’s logo splashed around the arena. This was where Fabricio Werdum upset Fedor Emelianenko. It’s where Gina Carano and “Cyborg” Santos became the first women to headline a major MMA event.
And now, with Strikeforce firmly under Zuffa control, it’s the UFC that’s reaping the rewards of a vibrant market full of passionate fight fans.
For Cung Le, it seems especially strange. The hometown favorite has yet to fight in an MMA bout outside of San Jose, and his contest with Wanderlei Silva at UFC 139 will mark the first time he’s set foot in a cage that didn’t belong to Strikeforce.
Le made his MMA debut at that first Strikeforce event, knocking out Mike Altman in the first round in front of what was, for the U.S. at the time, a massive MMA crowd of more than 18,000 fans.
For Coker, you might think it would be a little bittersweet to see his old friend now working for his former rivals, but speaking to MMA Fighting from Las Vegas (where he’s attending Friday night’s Strikeforce: Challengers show) the San Jose native insisted he was genuinely happy for Le.
“I’m excited for him,” said Coker. “I think it’s a big fight, and I’m not just saying that.”
The way Coker sees it, the success of combat sports in the Bay Area — from the early days of his kickboxing promotion to Strikeforce’s warm reception there as an MMA promotion — has a pretty simple explanation.
“It wasn’t until the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s that a lot of the martial arts instructors started moving to America,” he said. “…Before that, very few people did martial arts in America. What happened was, when the martial artists came over to America, most of them settled in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Seattle, because those were the ports of entry. That’s why when you look at the Bay Area, you know, I remember at one point counting about 80 [martial arts] schools just in the South Bay part of the Bay Area.”
The success of local fighters, such as the American Kickboxing Academy’s stable of top talent, has helped maintain local interest in the sport over the years, but the UFC has historically shied away from promoting events in the area. It brought UFC 117 to Oakland last summer, but San Jose has always been Strikeforce’s stomping grounds.
Until now, of course.
So now that Zuffa owns his promotion and the UFC is moving into the building where some of the greatest moments of his professional life took place, what will it be like for Coker when he flies back to San Jose on Saturday and walks into the HP Pavilion to watch a fight there as a spectator? At least for now, even he isn’t quite sure, he said.
“We’re all one family now. But to me, how is it going to feel to walk into the HP Pavilion [for a fight] and have it not be Strikeforce? I’ll be able to answer that when I walk in there. I really don’t know yet.”