During the UFC 202 pay-per-view on Saturday night, the UFC premiered two new promos for their upcoming UFC 205 pay-per-view in November, which will be the first show for the promotion to take place in New York following …
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During the UFC 202 pay-per-view on Saturday night, the UFC premiered two new promos for their upcoming UFC 205 pay-per-view in November, which will be the first show for the promotion to take place in New York following the legalization of the sport in the state.
Featured above is the first of two commercial spots that the company aired during the UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor broadcast to promote their New York debut, which will be going down at the legendary Madison Square Garden arena. The above promo is called “UFC 205: Can’t Wait.”
The second of the two promos that the UFC made available via their official YouTube channel, “UFC 205: In NYC,” can be seen below.
Thus far the only fight reported to be penciled in for the show is Rashad Evans vs. Tim Kennedy in Evans’ divisional debut at 185 pounds.
UFC 205 takes place from Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York on Saturday, November 12, 2016, and will air live exclusively on pay-per-view.
It looks like the card for the UFC debut event at the world-famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York in November is finally starting to take shape.
While we still don’t know which fight will headline the historic event, a very intriguing bout …
It looks like the card for the UFC debut event at the world-famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York in November is finally starting to take shape.
While we still don’t know which fight will headline the historic event, a very intriguing bout appears to be on, according to the folks at FloCombat.com, as Rashad Evans vs. Tim Kennedy appears to be targeted for the show.
Evans, a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and winner of the second season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show, will reportedly drop down in weight to make his debut in the UFC’s Middleweight division against the longtime UFC veteran Kennedy.
The 185-pound bout between Evans and Kennedy is expected to be one of many interesting fights that will ultimately fill out what is expected to be a blockbuster night of fights for the company’s first show in the state of New York, which finally legalized the sport of MMA this year.
As we noted earlier today, UFC appeared to be banking on the return of Ronda Rousey to headline their MSG debut event in November, however it’s looking like she won’t be ready until early-2017, leaving the door open for a headline attraction for the special event.
UFC 205 is scheduled to take place on November 12, 2016 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, and will air live on pay-per-view.
UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley hasn’t been in the hot seat for long, but already is making some noise about huge fights. Mere minutes after starching Robbie Lawler at UFC 201, ‘The Chosen One’ was interviewed by top contender Stephen Thompson. ‘Wonderboy’ called for his shot at the belt, but was snubbed by Woodley in
UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley hasn’t been in the hot seat for long, but already is making some noise about huge fights. Mere minutes after starching Robbie Lawler at UFC 201, ‘The Chosen One’ was interviewed by top contender Stephen Thompson. ‘Wonderboy’ called for his shot at the belt, but was snubbed by Woodley in short order. The newly crowned boss of the division laid two names on the table–Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz.
Former 170-pound champion and UFC legend GSP has been inactive since a 2013 split decision over Johny Hendricks. ‘Rush’ took an extended leave of absence, referencing the lack of drug testing and personal issues as his reasons. In time we’d come to learn that St-Pierre still had the urge to fight, and just yesterday he announced he had joined the USADA testing pool. The obvious connotation from that statement is that GSP is coming back.
Georges St-Pierre has teased a comeback from the moment he vacated the belt at UFC 167…
Money fights are the future
Former Strikeforce welterweight champ and cult UFC icon Nick Diaz had his suspension from the Nevada Commission end earlier this month. Once Woodley spoke his name, the 209 native gave a number of colourful interviews regarding the recently minted champion. In a hilarious moment, Diaz claimed Woodley ‘needed a few more fights’ before he could be considered as a worthy foe.
These comments did not go down well with ‘The Chosen One,’ who later responded by saying Diaz had ‘talked himself out of the money fight.’ The welterweight revival continued though, as St-Pierre doubled up the headlines by calling out Diaz for a rematch. Not one to miss out on all the fun, Woodley sat down with The Buzzer’s Andy Nesbitt to talk about his next fight.
“Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz are stepping-stones to me making the UFC hall of fame. I like the St-Pierre fight at UFC 205, he has a big following in New York and I think it would make a great fight. The Diaz call out was because he was one of the guys who fought when there wasn’t a lot of money in fighting. Out of all the guys I thought he really deserved a big money fight.”
“This is the biggest opportunity for the UFC to blow this out of the water. The former champion, a legend, and (me) the future of the sport. I have to go out there and prove to myself I’m the best in the world.”
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“Fighters get enough flack from the fans. Fighters should not be giving someone else who competes that kind of flack.”
There’s a lot of potential for Tyron Woodley’s future as UFC champion. Do you think e can beat Nick Diaz or Georges St-Pierre? If so, there’s no denying he’ll be well up there with the best welterweight champs of all-time.
With news arriving today that former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre was beginning the USADA testing process, the MMA world is expectedly taking that as one of the more clear-cut signs GSP is returning since he left the sport behind in 2013. And with the announcement, speculation about just whom St. Pierre could meet in his return
With news arriving today that former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre was beginning the USADA testing process, the MMA world is expectedly taking that as one of the more clear-cut signs GSP is returning since he left the sport behind in 2013.
And with the announcement, speculation about just whom St. Pierre could meet in his return is about to reach an all-time high.
There’s a possible welterweight title bout with new champion Tyron Woodley, who called St. Pierre out for the UFC’s New York debut at UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden this November, but in a revealing recent interview with Bloody Elbow, St. Pierre said he might actually be re-matching the other man Woodley called out after winning the belt, returning bad boy Nick Diaz:
“I have no problem with Nate. It seems to me to me like it’s Nick Diaz that is running for another shot at me. I wouldn’t mind, I’m not afraid of Nick Diaz, I’ll tell you. I am telling you right now: If it’s what the fans want to see, I’m in.”
Asked if Diaz would then be his first fight back due to the lengthy history between them, St. Pierre proclaimed he didn’t care. After beating the Stockton MMA pioneer, who only just got reinstated from his latest marijuana-related suspension for a controversial drug test failure during his UFC 183 loss to Anderson Silva, so easily at 2013’s UFC 158, St. Pierre described a bad taste left in his mouth because he knows he could do better:
“I don’t care if it’s the first, or second, or third. If they want me to fight Nick Diaz it would be my pleasure. I don’t mind, I am not afraid of Nick Diaz, I beat him last time, and I’ll beat even worse, I’ll beat him way worse next time that I’ll fight him.
“I beat him last time easily, but I was not happy – it’s one of these fights that I’m not happy with. Because I didn’t feel like I gave enough, for different reasons. It left me angry that fight, when I look back at it – maybe I won, but for some reason it left me angry and I feel like I could have done so much better.”
There’s no question St. Pierre vs. Diaz II is another fight fans would want to see run back, even if the first bout ended in extremely one-sided fashion for GSP. There are legitimate question marks about where both fighters are after their respective periods of inactivity, but there are no questions about the top-level drawing power of both men.
St. Pierre knows that, and he wants to put on the best fight possible for the fans. He also knows that he can still take on the best fighters in the world, and after a lengthy hiatus away from the daily grind of MMA, he claims to be in the best shape ever – both mentally and physically.
That’s why he’s nearly ready to showcase his skills in an effort to leave everything in the Octagon and have no regrets:
“Yeah that’s why I’m doing it. I don’t want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done – and I don’t want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: ‘Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn’t do it.’ If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I’ll be happy. I can die happy. If I never come back, and I’ll tell myself I should have done this, I should have done that – I don’t want to have regrets.”
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman is coming fresh off neck surgery, after sustaining the unfortunate injury in preparation for a rematch with Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, and is ready to once again take center Octagon in the 185-pound division he once ruled with an iron fist. Weidman lost his middleweight throne to Rockhold in
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman is coming fresh off neck surgery, after sustaining the unfortunate injury in preparation for a rematch with Luke Rockhold at UFC 199, and is ready to once again take center Octagon in the 185-pound division he once ruled with an iron fist.
Weidman lost his middleweight throne to Rockhold in the co-main event of UFC 194 last December, and ever since then the 185-pound division has been in a funk.
Rockhold would go on to lose his newly acquired title in dramatic fashion to the now-champ Michael Bisping at UFC 199 with a stunning first round knockout, setting up a title bout between Bisping and longtime rival Dan Henderson at UFC 204.
‘The All American’ Weidman recently joined The MMA Hour to give his thoughts on the No. 13-ranked Henderson getting a shot at the gold before he or Rockhold:
“I think it’s kind of stupid but I also don’t like complaining about something that’s already done, so it is what it is. Because it’s a done deal you focus on the facts and– it’s a cool thing for Dan Henderson, who’s 46-years-old, he has a chance to retire winning the belt.
You gotta be happy for him. I can’t complain too much, I was complaining when it mattered because I just didn’t think he deserves the shot at all.
And it’s just not the precedent for the future of the sport, it’s not good. It takes away from working your way to fighting for the title. I could go through his stats, his losses in the past recently, and I just don’t think he deserves it.
I don’t think he can argue that he deserves it, but he’s getting it so all the best to him.”
Weidman would go on to state that it is weird seeing Bisping hold the title, as he never viewed ‘The Count’ as ‘championship material’ and calling Bisping’s reign as champion an embarrassing one:
“Definitely. That is weird. There’s a chance he’s beating Dan Henderson but I don’t think there’s much of a chance he’s beating anyone else in the top five,” Weidman said.
“It’s definitely surreal to walk around and people ask who the champion is in my weight class and I say Michael Bisping. It’s a little embarrassing.
All power to him he went out there on short notice and beat Luke Rockhold and knocked him out in the first round, all power to him. But I just don’t think he is the best champion– he’s not like — I never thought he was championship material to be honest with you.
It was far fetched for him to get a title shot ever again, he happened to be at the right place right time when I got injured, and he had the opportunity to step up and fight for the belt and he made it work.
But before that he was in the UFC for how long, and he never fought for the belt? So now for him to fight for the belt and become champion out of nowhere is definitely a weird thing.”
May 23, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Chris Wiedman (red gloves) celebrates after knocking out Vitor Belfort (not pictured) during their middleweight championship bout during UFC 187 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Weidman won via first round TKO. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
In regards to his Octagon return coming off injury Weidman says he has yet to hear a word from the UFC regarding his return to action, but still holds out hope for a big name fight at Madison Square Garden:
“Nope haven’t heard a word. I’ve reached out, haven’t heard anything. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’d like to have the biggest fight I can possibly have at Madison Square Garden, it’s been a dream of mine to fight at MSG.
I would like a fight that everyone can get excited about, a fight that everybody really wants to see. And I don’t really know who gives that to me, I think the redemption on Luke Rockhold would probably be the biggest in my eyes and I think maybe the fight I want.
Maybe a Jacare or Yoel Romero, and you have some of the other old timers with the big names– Anderson Silva and other guys like that. I don’t know who it’s going to be honestly, I’m just gonna put it in the UFC’s hands whoever they decide they decide to give me they’ll give me.
But if I had the fight to pick it’d be Luke because I want that — I think we’re the two best in the division and I would like to fight the best guy, and especially a guy who beat me. I wanna get that one back, especially in front of my home crowd at MSG. That’d be a great one.”
When asked if he’d be okay with the fight only being only a three round fight, as opposed to a five round main event, Weidman had this to say:
“Obviously when I always visualize me fighting at MSG I was champion and defending my belt, and in the main event. But things have changed, so I’m not expecting anything.
I’d love to be the main event, that’s what I want to happen, but I don’t know what’s going to happen it depends.”
The UFC is set to make it’s Madison Square Garden debut on November 12, 2016, a perfect timetable the highly-anticipated return of Weidman. The question remains, however, who will be standing across the cage from the former middleweight king when it’s time for him to return to his old stomping grounds?
The UFC’s welterweight division is as scrambled as any other division in the promotion today, as newly crowned 170-pound champ Tyron Woodley is calling for ‘money fights’ against Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz following his first round obliteration over former champion Robbie Lawler this past Saturday night (July 30, 2016). One man left waiting in the […]
The UFC’s welterweight division is as scrambled as any other division in the promotion today, as newly crowned 170-pound champ Tyron Woodley is calling for ‘money fights’ against Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz following his first round obliteration over former champion Robbie Lawler this past Saturday night (July 30, 2016).
One man left waiting in the dust amongst Woodley’s campaign for a big payday is No. 1-ranked Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson, who feels he has earned his shot at welterweight gold after defeating both former champion Johny Hendricks and top contender Rory MacDonald in dominating fashion.
In a recent interview with FOX Sports, ‘Wonderboy’ shared his thoughts on ‘The Chosen One’s’ current quest for a matchup with Diaz or ‘GSP’:
“What’s going through my mind is ‘what is this guy talking about?’” Thompson said. “I mean he just got the title and he’s already talking about a money fight and trying to choose his opponents.
It just doesn’t make sense for him to win the title and then start asking to face guys who haven’t fought in over a year or even three years.
Fight the guy who deserves it. Fight the guy standing right in front of you. Fight the guy who is the legit No. 1 contender. That’s me.”
When asked if he believes Woodley could be potentially running from him, Thompson had this to say:
“It’s starting to get that way, it’s starting to get that feeling,” Thompson said. “At first, I didn’t think so, I thought he just wanted the big payday, the big money, but when I go back and look at the facts — the fact is I’m on a seven-fight winning streak.
He was ranked No. 4 and they gave him the title shot. I’ve cleaned out the division for him. It just doesn’t make sense why he wouldn’t face me, at least one time against the No. 1 contender without having to go out and pick these guys who haven’t fought.
When I go back and look at the facts, I’m thinking to myself — is this guy running from me? I don’t know.
I know he’s not scared of any opponent. I don’t think he is, but I would like to get in his head and see what he’s thinking. Why does he think he can do this? It’s just a fact.”
ATLANTA, GA – JULY 30: Tyron Woodley celebrates his knockout victory over Robbie Lawler in their welterweight championship bout during the UFC 201 event on July 30, 2016 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
Thompson claims Woodley got an opportunity at the title even though some may not have thought he deserved it, he also states that the new champion is taking an opportunity away from him that he’s earned after taking out the cream of the crop at 170 pounds:
“This is my chance and he’s just taking it away from me,” Thompson said. “The UFC and Robbie gave him his chance even though a lot of people didn’t think he deserved it.
Now that he is (the champion), why can’t he give the rightful guy his chance?
For him to just get the belt and start asking for money fights? Come on, man. You need to defend the title one or two times or three times or maybe four times like Robbie before you’d ask for a really big money fight.
You just get it and then asking for it? I was kind of laughing in my head like what is this guy talking about?”
Until UFC brass tells him otherwise, Thompson is preparing for a showdown with Woodley and with the ideal location of Madison Square Garden in mind. If ‘Wonderboy’ does get his long awaited shot at UFC gold, he believes he can put the newly-crowned welterweight champion’s lights out with a bang:
“Tyron’s the guy I’m facing. That’s what I’m prepared for mentally until the UFC says otherwise,” Thompson said.
“I’ve got a great management team, Paradigm Management, and they know what I want and they are working and supporting me to make that happen.
“Until we get anything, I’m preparing for Tyron. Madison Square Garden’s where it’s going to be at. That’s a big fight.
He’s looking for money. That’s going to be probably the biggest card of the year. I think we could put some butts in the seats.”
I can put him to sleep,” Thompson said. “I’ve shown that with all my fights. I know I can put him to sleep. We face off, he’s going to get the best Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson the UFC has ever seen.”
‘Wonderboy’s’ body count during his UFC run has been quite the eyebrow raiser and it’s hard to deny the undefeated kickboxing stud a shot at the welterweight crown, however, with the possibility of a ‘GSP’ or Diaz return to Octagon it certainly puts a strain on his chances.
‘The All American’ Weidman recently joined The MMA Hour to give his thoughts on the No. 13-ranked Henderson getting a shot at the gold before he or Rockhold:
The UFC is set to make it’s Madison Square Garden debut on November 12, 2016, a perfect timetable the highly-anticipated return of Weidman. The question remains, however, who will be standing across the cage from the former middleweight king when it’s time for him to return to his old stomping grounds?
In a recent interview with 
‘Wonderboy’s’ body count during his UFC run has been quite the eyebrow raiser and it’s hard to deny the undefeated kickboxing stud a shot at the welterweight crown, however, with the possibility of a ‘GSP’ or Diaz return to Octagon it certainly puts a strain on his chances.