This one is a bit confusing. Early Monday afternoon, Guilherme Cruz of MMAFighting reported that UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo had done a media scrum in Brazil, during which he announced that he would be fighting interim champion Max Holloway at UFC 208 in a unification match. “He’s saying ‘where’s Aldo?’, you have to talk to the UFC,” Cruz translated Aldo as saying. “About the fight in February, I already knew that, I only didn’t know who I would fight. It was between him and Pettis, whoever won the fight. It’s not something new. This fight will happen on Feb. 11.”
About 90 minutes latest, Damon Martin of Fox Sports posted an article with comments from Holloway. who hadn’t yet committed to fighting on that date. “It’s news to me. I guess we found where Waldo is so I’m glad. It’s time to see what happens. We’re going to talk to the UFC, see what UFC says or see if he’s just trying to (expletive) start some (expletive),” Holloway said. “Like I said, I’m not planning on giving up Christmas and my son’s birthday for something that’s going to be booked and Feb. 11 comes up and we’re going to be (expletive) looking at where’s Jose Waldo.”
Citing not just celebrating Christmas, but also his son’s birthday in January, Holloway wasn’t jumping to take the fight in February. There’s also another reason: He thinks Aldo picked the date strategically to get an advantage. “That guy is crazy,” Holloway said. “I just looked and it’s eight weeks out already. That’s why that mother) wants to fight. He wants me to be all drained out from two training camps in a row but that (expletive) ain’t going to happen.”
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This one is a bit confusing. Early Monday afternoon, Guilherme Cruz of MMAFighting reported that UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo had done a media scrum in Brazil, during which he announced that he would be fighting interim champion Max Holloway at UFC 208 in a unification match. “He’s saying ‘where’s Aldo?’, you have to talk to the UFC,” Cruz translated Aldo as saying. “About the fight in February, I already knew that, I only didn’t know who I would fight. It was between him and Pettis, whoever won the fight. It’s not something new. This fight will happen on Feb. 11.”
About 90 minutes latest, Damon Martin of Fox Sports posted an article with comments from Holloway. who hadn’t yet committed to fighting on that date. “It’s news to me. I guess we found where Waldo is so I’m glad. It’s time to see what happens. We’re going to talk to the UFC, see what UFC says or see if he’s just trying to (expletive) start some (expletive),” Holloway said. “Like I said, I’m not planning on giving up Christmas and my son’s birthday for something that’s going to be booked and Feb. 11 comes up and we’re going to be (expletive) looking at where’s Jose Waldo.”
Citing not just celebrating Christmas, but also his son’s birthday in January, Holloway wasn’t jumping to take the fight in February. There’s also another reason: He thinks Aldo picked the date strategically to get an advantage. “That guy is crazy,” Holloway said. “I just looked and it’s eight weeks out already. That’s why that mother) wants to fight. He wants me to be all drained out from two training camps in a row but that (expletive) ain’t going to happen.”
Newly-crowned UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway didn’t waste any time calling out Jose Aldo after he picked up the biggest win of his MMA career with an impressive TKO of Anthony Pettis in the main event of last Saturday’s (Sat., December 10, 2016) UFC 206 from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Holloway said he was willing
Newly-crowned UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway didn’t waste any time calling out Jose Aldo after he picked up the biggest win of his MMA career with an impressive TKO of Anthony Pettis in the main event of last Saturday’s (Sat., December 10, 2016) UFC 206 from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
Holloway said he was willing to face the longtime champion, whom he’s been caling “Jose Waldo” and believes to have a case of “pussyitis,” at February 11’s UFC 208 pay-per-view (PPV) event from Brooklyn, New York, but also wants to enjoy his son’s birthday and Christmas rather than waste a training camp if and when Aldo were to withdraw from the fight.
However, the recently “un-retired” champion told Brazilian media (via MMA Fighting) that the fight will indeed happen on that date, as Aldo was simply waiting to find out who won the fight at UFC 206:
“He’s saying ‘where’s Aldo?’, you have to talk to the UFC,” Aldo said. “About the fight in February, I already knew that, I only didn’t know who I would fight. It was between him and Pettis, whoever won the fight. It’s not something new. This fight will happen on Feb. 11.”
Aldo makes it seem as if his next fight was already scheduled and set in stone, but the fact simply is his next fight was never anything even remotely close to certain after he said he no longer wanted to fight for the UFC anymore after Conor McGregor won the lightweight title at November’s UFC 205 and revealed he would take some time off, presumably never fighting at 145 pounds – where Aldo has been waiting for a rematch ever since “The Notorious” knocked him out in 13 seconds on this very day one year ago.
True, the record-breaking Nova Uniao star is one of the most decorated fighters in MMA history, and his reputation or legacy can never be questioned in MMA circles. But he’s fought only once a year recently, and he’s made exponentially more headlines complaining about one situation or another than for anything he actually did fighting.
That’s a shame for fans, because Aldo was once known as the most indestructible wrecking machine in the sport at one point. Let’s hope he can bring back some of that magic when he supposedly faces Holloway and the massive momentum of his 10-fight win streak on February 11 in Brooklyn.
Following her second straight knockout win to begin her UFC career, there has been much uncertainty about at what weight class – and whom – Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino will fight next in the Octagon. The fearsome Brazilian star infamously puts her body through insane weight cuts to even make a catchweight
Following her second straight knockout win to begin her UFC career, there has been much uncertainty about at what weight class – and whom – Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino will fight next in the Octagon.
The fearsome Brazilian star infamously puts her body through insane weight cuts to even make a catchweight of 140 pounds, and her last cut before facing Lina Lansberg in October was well documented as being especially taxing, even to the point of threatening her health.
That’s why Cyborg suggested the UFC create a 145-pound division for her, and in a bit of a shocking revelation on the UFC Unfiltered podcast (via MMA Fighting), UFC President Dana White said that’s just what the promotion wanted to do on more than a single occasion. Yet despite issuing the UFC an ultimatum, Justino wouldn’t take the two fights she was offered because she couldn’t make weight:
“What’s crazy about that is this: I offered Cris Cyborg a title fight at 145 pounds a month ago. She had eight weeks to get ready for it, she said she couldn’t make the weight, said she couldn’t make 145 pounds.
“So then I offered her another 145-pound title fight for Brooklyn (UFC 208), she turned it down. She turned down two 145-pound title fights. One because she said she couldn’t make 145 pounds in eight weeks, and Joe Silva’s like, ‘If she can’t make 145 pounds in eight weeks, 145 isn’t the right weight class for her either.’”
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Apparently Cyborg was offered former bantamweight champion Holly Holm for the main event of UFC 208, an event that was eventually canceled due to a lack of a suitable headlining fight, and dangerous striking veteran Germaine de Randamie. Both would be explosive stand-up-based fights, but White expressed his frustration at Justino’s continued issues with making weight when she originally signed with the promotion to face former champ Ronda Rousey at 135 pounds:
“First of all, obviously when we did the deal with Cyborg we sat down with her and said, ‘Listen, if you can make it down to 135 pounds, maybe we can hire you a dietitian and help you get there or whatever, and get you in the mix, get you a couple of with these girls and then fight Ronda (Rousey) for the title,’ and she was all in,” White said. “That’s why she signed the deal. Then she was having a hard time doing it, so she cut down to 140, then this whole thing about, ‘I can’t make 140 pounds.’ Finally, we just said, ‘Fuck it, alright then, we’ll make a 145-pound title for you,’ and here we go. She said, ‘I can’t make 145 pounds in eight weeks.’
“This doesn’t have to do with weight. Obviously it has nothing to do with weight cutting. I don’t know what it has to do with, so we’re gonna figure it out.”
But Cyborg vs. Holm just wasn’t meant to be, because White revealed Holm’s longtime coach Mike Winkeljohn had made her turn it down:
“And just for the record, Holly was so excited, Holly was so excited for that fight,” White said. “Her coach, [Mike] Winkeljohn, said, ‘That’s not the right fight for Holly.’ So Holly had to turn it down, so we went for Germaine, and Germaine wants the fight.”
The UFC has moved a planned pay-per-view for 2017 to a few weeks later, announcing that UFC 208 will now take place February 11 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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The UFC has moved a planned pay-per-view for 2017 to a few weeks later, announcing that UFC 208 will now take place February 11 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Originally, the card was scheduled for Anaheim and the Honda Center on January 21. That would have put it head-to-head with Bellator 170 and the promotional debut of Chael Sonnen vs. Tito Ortiz.
The planned Anaheim card will now take place August 5.
UFC announced today that its Jan. 21 Pay-Per-View event at Honda Center in Anaheim, California has been rescheduled to Aug. 5. The event will remain a Pay-Per-View broadcast. UFC 208 will be shifted to the Feb. 11 event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
UFC 208 was originally scheduled to go down live on pay-per-view (PPV) from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on January 21, 2017, but it has been announced by the UFC that is no longer the case. UFC officials have announced that the event will be moved to February 11th in Brooklyn, originally set to be
UFC 208 was originally scheduled to go down live on pay-per-view (PPV) from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on January 21, 2017, but it has been announced by the UFC that is no longer the case.
UFC officials have announced that the event will be moved to February 11th in Brooklyn, originally set to be UFC 209, from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. UFC 209 will now be moved to Las Vegas in March which was originally set to be UFC 210:
UFC® announced today that its Jan. 21 Pay-Per-View event at Honda Center in Anaheim, California has been rescheduled to Aug. 5. The event will remain a Pay-Per-View broadcast. UFC 208 will be shifted to the Feb. 11 event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Anaheim will get a pay-per-view (PPV) event when the UFC returns there on August 5. The reason for the major shuffle is due to the lack of possible headliners for the previously scheduled Anaheim PPV, as all champions were either booked or nursing injuries.
The UFC 208 PPV from Anaheim was also originally set to go head-to-head with the Chael Sonnen vs. Tito Ortiz event from the Forum in Inglewood, California, but now it seems that spotlight will be all Bellator’s come January 21.
