On Monday afternoon, UFC held the official media call for their next two events — Saturday’s UFC On FOX 20 event featuring Holly Holm vs. Valentina Shevchenko, as well as next Saturday’s UFC 201 pay-per-view, which feat…
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On Monday afternoon, UFC held the official media call for their next two events — Saturday’s UFC On FOX 20 event featuring Holly Holm vs. Valentina Shevchenko, as well as next Saturday’s UFC 201 pay-per-view, which features Robbie Lawler vs. Tyron Woodley for the UFC Welterweight Championship in the main event.
Featured above is the complete audio archive of the media call, which featured former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm and her opponent Valentina Shevchenko, as well as UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler and his next title challenger, Tyron Woodley.
Make sure to check back here at MMANews.com on Saturday for a complete UFC On FOX 20 report, as well as next Saturday, for live results coverage of the UFC 201 pay-per-view.
Hector Sandoval, a top prospect out of the Team Alpha Male camp, has been signed by the UFC to meet Wilson Reis at UFC 201.
Sandoval (12-2) is on a four-fight win streak and will be taking the place of Sean Santella, who was tabbed as a replacement …
Hector Sandoval, a top prospect out of the Team Alpha Male camp, has been signed by the UFC to meet Wilson Reis at UFC 201.
Sandoval (12-2) is on a four-fight win streak and will be taking the place of Sean Santella, who was tabbed as a replacement for UFC champion Demetrious Johnson against Reis. Santella was removed after his medicals could not be updated before the event.
UFC 201 takes place July 30 from the Philips Arena in Atlanta and features a welterweight title fight between champion Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley.
Sean Santella will not be making his Octagon debut this month at UFC 201 vs. Wilson Reis.
The flyweight posted on social media Saturday that officials have taken him off the card because there is not enough time before July 30 to get his medical information cleared.
“Well talk about the biggest blue ball of all time but I’m sad to announce that my UFC debut has been cancelled,” Santella posted. “They said I need more medicals done and need to see their Drs. Unfortunately there’s just not enough time before UFC 201.
“I had everything ready to go and flights booked.”
Santella was tabbed as a replacement for UFC champion Demetrious Johnson to keep Reis on the card. No word yet if another flyweight will be brought in or signed to meet Reis.
Two weeks away from his third defense of the UFC welterweight title when he meets Tyron Woodley in the main event of July 30’s UFC 201 from the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s safe to say Robbie Lawler has never looked better in his 15-year MMA career than he has fighting out of American Top
Two weeks away from his third defense of the UFC welterweight title when he meets Tyron Woodley in the main event of July 30’s UFC 201 from the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s safe to say Robbie Lawler has never looked better in his 15-year MMA career than he has fighting out of American Top Team (ATT) in South Florida.
There’s just one strange aspect about that and his upcoming bout with Woodley, however, as “The Chosen One” has actually been a member of the ATT family longer than “Ruthless” has.
Still, that doesn’t mean Lawler considers his opponent a teammate, an opinion he detailed by describing Woodley’s, who owns an ATT gym in his home of Missouri, locational differences during the UFC 201 media lunch earlier this week (transcribed by FOX Sports):
“Woodley was there before me, he’s been part of ATT (American Top Team) long before I got there, but he hasn’t been down in Coconut Creek doing his training camps. Like I don’t think he’s been down there for two years and he was rarely down there before so I don’t really look at him as a teammate.”
Lawler continued on with his view of a teammate, which was not surprisingly someone helping you improve your abilities day in and day out. The champ trains in a different city than Woodley, and that’s just not something that their far-off relationship involves:
“A teammate’s a guy who’s in there everyday grinding, making other guys better, and building the atmosphere. He’s definitely part of the ATT family but he’s not one of my teammates.”
While that could be a small barb at Woodley, it could also be a simple statement of fact from the somber, aggressive champion.
Lawler has looked reinvented at Coconut Creek, so it’s no surprise that he’s favored to defend his belt once again. After his UFC 192 bout with former champion Johny Hendricks was canceled due to “Bigg Rigg” missing weight and being rushed to the hospital, “The Chosen One” has been out of action since his close split decision win over Kelvin Gastelum in January of last year.
He’s won two of his last three with a dominant loss to No. 2-ranked Rory MacDonald, who Lawler sent packing in a bloody back-and-forth battle last summer at UFC 189, and is 4-2 over his last six overall.
But even though the odds tilt in Lawler’s favor, we’ve seen many UFC title bouts end in an upset, and both of these fighters have the power to put out any competitor’s lights.
Expect “Ruthless” to be willing to use that come July 30, as this fight isn’t quite the ‘teammate vs. teammate’ contest that’s it’s bueing built as.
To keep his spot in the UFC flyweight pecking order, Wilson Reis will need to get past Sean Santella at UFC 201 this month.
The promotion announced Reis-Santella during the UFC Fight Night 91 broadcast Wednesday night for the July 30 card from Atlan…
To keep his spot in the UFC flyweight pecking order, Wilson Reis will need to get past Sean Santella at UFC 201 this month.
The promotion announced Reis-Santella during the UFC Fight Night 91 broadcast Wednesday night for the July 30 card from Atlanta. Reis was scheduled to challenge flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson, but “Mighty Mouse” bowed out with an injury.
Santella (15-5) has 10 career submission wins to his credit and is coming off back-to-back wins on the regional circuit. He is 7-2 with one no-contest since a 2011 loss to UFC bantamweight contender Aljamain Sterling via decision.
Reis (20-6) is 3-1 in his last four, losing only to Jussier Formiga via decision in 2015. He holds wins over Dustin Ortiz, Scott Jorgensen and Joby Sanchez to his credit in recent memory.
UFC 201 feature a welterweight title fight between champion Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley.
It looks like Ross Pearson isn’t wasting any time getting back into the cage. Following a close decision loss to former Bellator champ Will Brooks at last Friday’s (July 8, 2016) The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 23 Finale from Las Vegas, news arrived from ESPN’s Brett Okamoto today that ‘The Real Deal’ will be moving up
It looks like Ross Pearson isn’t wasting any time getting back into the cage.
Following a close decision loss to former Bellator champ Will Brooks at last Friday’s (July 8, 2016) The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 23 Finale from Las Vegas, news arrived from ESPN’s Brett Okamoto today that ‘The Real Deal’ will be moving up to 170 pounds to take on veteran Jorge Masvidal at July 30’s UFC 201, from Atlanta, Georgia.
The TUF 9 winner has fought most of his lengthy 20-fight UFC career at 155 pounds, although he did fight at 145 at one point. He’ll join a long list of fighters who found the taxing weight cuts too strenuous on their bodies. Pearson will replace Siyar Bahadurzada, who was removed from the bout due to illness.
Pearson has an overall UFC record of 11-8(1), and owns wins over names like Gray Maynard, Sam Stout, Paul Felder, and Chad Laprise in the octagon. He’ll face off against a tough test in Masvidal, another fighter who has shown flashes of brilliance only to fall just short to the top names he’s fought in the UFC.
‘Gamebred’ recently left the lightweight division in favor of welterweight himself, although the results have been mixed. After stopping Cezar Ferreira at last summer’s TUF 21 Finale, Masvidal lost two split decisions – something that’s becoming his Achilles’ heel due to his ultra-smooth, laid-back style – to former lightweight champion Benson Henderson and Lorenz Larkin. Needless to say, both he and Pearson could both use a big win on the big stage.
Set to go down from the Philips Arena in Atlanta, UFC 201 is headlined by the welterweight title match-up between Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley.
