During the official UFC Fight Night 96 post-show on FOX Sports 1 on Saturday evening, UFC fighters and analysts Rashad Evans and Tyron Woodley joined Karyn Bryant to look back at the event headlined by John Lineker vs. J…
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During the official UFC Fight Night 96 post-show on FOX Sports 1 on Saturday evening, UFC fighters and analysts Rashad Evans and Tyron Woodley joined Karyn Bryant to look back at the event headlined by John Lineker vs. John Dodson.
In addition to looking back at the fights in Portland, Oregon, Evans and the reigning UFC Welterweight Champion also looked ahead to a big fight on a card that Woodley himself will also be on, November’s UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor event in New York.
Featured above is the segment that featured Evans and Woodley looking ahead to the highly-anticipated Alvarez-McGregor showdown at UFC’s first-ever event in the state of New York.
UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 12, 2016 from the world-famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York City.
Conor McGregor is headed for the biggest fight of his career when he meets Eddie Alvarez in the main event of November 12’s UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden, but apparently there’s he’s going through some “personal stuff” which will be revealed after his bid to become the first concordant two-class weight class champ. And apparently
Conor McGregor is headed for the biggest fight of his career when he meets Eddie Alvarez in the main event of November 12’s UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden, but apparently there’s he’s going through some “personal stuff” which will be revealed after his bid to become the first concordant two-class weight class champ.
And apparently it’s going to be something quite surprising, as UFC President Dana White recently revealed on MMA Podcast (via Champions.co) that he wrestled with McGregor to vacate his featherweight belt, but other factors played into the decision:
“Listen, I battled this thing forever. [Holding onto both belts] is not fair to Jose Aldo, it’s not fair to Khabib and Max Holloway. So, believe me, I battled with this thing but there are … how can I say this? There are other circumstances involved in this that will be played out after the fight.”
“It’s something completely out of left field but it’s Conor’s business, it’s not mine, and I’ll let Conor announce it when he’s ready to.”
Just what that news may be is already being fervently thrown about the rumor mill as expected, with possibilities ranging from his long-rumored fight with Floyd Mayweather to him breaking up with longtime girlfriend Dee Devlin – and of course the other side of the coin involves a rumor that Devlin is pregnant.
It all’s nothing but rumor at this point, however, and it will supposedly be revealed right after what should be the biggest MMA event of all time in New York.
With the massive UFC 205 pay-per-view (PPV) event on the horizon, the anticipation is buzzing amongst mixed martial arts (MMA) fans for the ground breaking inaugural UFC event in Madison Square Garden. The UFC has rolled out the red carpet so to speak for New York fight fans, as the MSG card is stacked with
With the massive UFC 205 pay-per-view (PPV) event on the horizon, the anticipation is buzzing amongst mixed martial arts (MMA) fans for the ground breaking inaugural UFC event in Madison Square Garden.
The UFC has rolled out the red carpet so to speak for New York fight fans, as the MSG card is stacked with some of the biggest match-ups the promotion can make today.
One such match-up is a 145-pound slobber-knocker between No. 2-ranked Frankie Edgar and No. 7-ranked Jeremy Stephens.
The pair of elite 145-pounders sat atop the UFC 205 press conference stage earlier this week to promote the blockbuster event, in which ‘Lil Heathen’ took the opportunity to throw his hat into the mix for a potential big money fight against featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
When one reporter asked McGregor who he thought would give him the toughest fight out of all the men upstage, Stephens was quick to interrupt:
“Right here, right here,” Stephens said (courtesy of MMA Junkie). “The hardest hitting 145 pounder. The real hardest hitting 145er, right here. This guy TKOs people. When I knock people out they don’t (expletive) move. Little leprechaun.”
In typical Conor McGregor-like fashion, ‘The Notorious One’ responded in a way that not only sent laughter throughout the entire jam-packed room, but burned Stephens for calling him out as well:
“Who the (expletive) is that guy? Who the (expletive) is that? Oh my god,” McGregor said.
In regards to his matchup with Edgar in ‘The Answer’s’ own backyard, Stephens assured Edgar’s hometown crowd that their hometown hero would be taking an early nap come November 12th:
“I love knocking people out in their own back yard,” Stephens said. “This isn’t the first time I’m going to do it. MSG it’s going down. Your boy is getting knocked the (expletive) out. Guaranteed.”
Edgar and Stephens will go head-to-head on the UFC 205 preliminary card, live from the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on November 12, 2016.
Featherweight champion Conor McGregor appeared quite confident at the UFC 205 press conference earlier this week regarding his upcoming lightweight title fight with 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez, saying that he’s going to knock out “The Silent Assassin” inside of one round. Alvarez, who’s coming of of a brutal first round stoppage victory over Rafael dos
Featherweight champion Conor McGregor appeared quite confident at the UFC 205 press conference earlier this week regarding his upcoming lightweight title fight with 155-pound champion Eddie Alvarez, saying that he’s going to knock out “The Silent Assassin” inside of one round.
Alvarez, who’s coming of of a brutal first round stoppage victory over Rafael dos Anjos, is also confident in his chances against the Irishman, recently telling Talking Brawls podcast that he’s going to do ‘whatever the f*ck’ he wants ‘all f*cking night’:
“I’ll do whatever the f*ck I want in any aspect against him. The opponents he’s fought allow him to look great. That’s the issue,” he said. That’s what these WWF fans who follow him don’t see. They see a guy who’s fighting or playing to his strengths so he can do what he wants and be good at it. I’ll do whatever the fuck I want. If I want to stand, I’ll stand. He don’t move his head, he gets hit a ton. Chad Mendes has a tiny little reach and was popping him all over the place with overhand rights and left hooks before he took him down. His defense is atrocious. His offense is good. He’s offensively a good fighter when it comes to boxing and things but his defense is fucking terrible. A guy like me, I can go wherever. I can kick, I can punch, I can takedown, I can submit, and I can do it all f*cking night.”
Mendes, although ultimately falling to McGregor’s patented left hand in the second round of their July 2015 interim title bout, saw great success against the “Notorious” one in the opening round, using his wrestling and ground-and-pound to bloody McGregor’s face. Since that fight, McGregor has knocked out Jose Aldo and split wins and losses with Nate Diaz.
Stylistically, what do you make of UFC 205’s main event? Do you expect Alvarez to outclass McGregor, or will the “Notorious” one score another prolific knockout and add more gold to his trophy case?
Jose Aldo’s recent tribulations have thrown up a lot of questions. Not only is Aldo’s future unclear, that of the promotion and arguably the sport is in the balance. After learning Conor McGregor would fight for the third time above the 145-pound division, ‘Scarface’ decided to call it quits. Requesting a release from his UFC
Jose Aldo’s recent tribulations have thrown up a lot of questions. Not only is Aldo’s future unclear, that of the promotion and arguably the sport is in the balance. After learning Conor McGregor would fight for the third time above the 145-pound division, ‘Scarface’ decided to call it quits. Requesting a release from his UFC contract, Aldo’s protest comes at a time when money and rankings have become two opposing sides. On the one hand you have ‘legitimate’ fights based on the division’s standing, and on the other you have matches that will make money. Seldom are the two part of the same equation.
It’s unclear whether ‘The Notorious’ will return to defend the title he won from Aldo at UFC 194. With the Brazilian currently holding the interim featherweight belt, his frustrations are somewhat understandable. Perhaps the timing of UFC 205 could not have been worse for Aldo. With the UFC wanting to make a big impression in the first ever New York based card, the lightweight title clash with Eddie Alvarez was always going to take primacy. Adding to this complicated situation, ‘Scarface’ is not exactly in the UFC’s ‘good books,’ as it were.
Jose Aldo’s Struggle
Before his first ever UFC loss, Jose Aldo was quite the anti-UFC advocate. This isn’t to say he was right or wrong in his feelings towards the UFC, but we know how the promotion rolls when fighters speak out. Blasting the Reebok deal, accusing the UFC of favoritism with certain fighters, and just generally casting his employers in a negative light may be coming back to bite Jose. Unsurprisingly, Aldo was absolutely ruthless in his statement about Dana White when announcing his desire to leave the UFC.
Wondering about that Tweet that Aldo put out? Oddly enough, just hours before Aldo’s angry statement about retiring from MMA, a Tweet surfaced on his official account that indicated something different. Claiming he’d ‘see McGregor soon,’ it seems a lack in communication between Aldo and his social media manager caused a blip. The former undisputed WEC and UFC kingpin later revealed he’d fired his social media manager. Speaking with Combate, H/T Bloody Elbow, Aldo had yet more to say about the state of affairs in the UFC. Case in point, Dana White’s $10 million GSP snub.
Dana Turned Down GSP’s Mac Money Request?
“I think that my life and the whole featherweight division needs to keep going, not being stalled while he (McGregor) does three fights in the lightweight division. Another one that he wanted to do, make a super fight with Georges St-Pierre, which didn’t work out because Georges wanted 10 million dollars and Dana didn’t want to pay it. So he still put him with Nate for the second time. So for me, Dana’s word is worthless.”
Much like Mark Hunt, Wanderlei Silva, Cung Le, Nate Quarry and so many others, Jose Aldo is taking a stand against the UFC. How will this work out? Unfortunately, this writer’s opinion is that ‘Scarface’ won’t be fighting for the UFC any time soon. Bellator or Rizin FF are surely interested though.
Everyone already knew Conor McGregor is the highest-paid star in the UFC, but the numbers he’s claimed to earn this year -and his own valuation of his worth to his employers – are truly staggering numbers. ‘The Notorious’ set the MMA world on fire earlier this week at the UFC 205 press conference form The
Everyone already knew Conor McGregor is the highest-paid star in the UFC, but the numbers he’s claimed to earn this year -and his own valuation of his worth to his employers – are truly staggering numbers.
‘The Notorious’ set the MMA world on fire earlier this week at the UFC 205 press conference form The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, and not surprisingly, his record-setting paydays were at the center of his beloved trash talk.
With a potentially record-breaking lightweight championship bout against Eddie Alvarez scheduled for the main event of the UFC’s New York debut on November 12, McGregor plans to add another monstrous payday to the two already-huge hauls he gained for his electric rivalry with Nate Diaz, and at the presser, he revealed it would all add up to a massive payday never before heard of in MMA (via FOX Sports):
“By the time 2016 closes out, I’ll be closing in on $40 million. This is a $40 million dollar year for me. It’s been a damn good year.”
The same could certainly be said for the UFC as a whole, as the company recently sold to talent group WME-IMG for a record-setting $4.2 billion, the largest sale in sports history. Much of that number can be attributed to McGregor’s still-skyrocketing success rate, which brought him two of the top three pay-per-view numbers in UFC history in 2016, and it’s hardly a surprise that ‘The Notorious’ knows it.
When asked what he believed his valuation to the company was he responded with quite the exact number:
“$4.2 billion dollars,” McGregor said. “That’s what I’m worth to this company.”
A brash proclamation to be sure, but that’s what McGregor has long been known for by now. It’s also hard to argue wth his price tag, because as arguably the biggest star in MMA history, his value is limitless – evident by his calling the shots in keeping his never-defended featherweight title bout to hold up the division while fighting at welterweight and for the lightweight title.
Who can argue with him? Certainly not his bosses, who are enjoying the spoils of his record-setting numbers. McGregor’s making quite the sum himself, but according to him, he’s simply the “$4.2 billion-dollar man.”
In typical Conor McGregor-like fashion, ‘The Notorious One’ responded in a way that not only sent laughter throughout the entire jam-packed room, but burned Stephens for calling him out as well:![Jose_Aldo-10.0.0[1]](http://cdn.lowkickmma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Jose_Aldo-10.0.01-e1449596491519.jpg)
