UFC 210 takes place on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The prelims will air on UFC Fight Pass with four bouts at 6 p.m. ET and on FOX Sports 1 with four bouts at 8 p.m. ET. The main card will air on PPV at 10 p.m. ET
UFC 210 takes place on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The prelims will air on UFC Fight Pass with four bouts at 6 p.m. ET and on FOX Sports 1 with four bouts at 8 p.m. ET. The main card will air on PPV at 10 p.m. ET with five bouts.
A UFC Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between the current champion Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson will headline the event. The two fighters met previously in May 2015 at UFC 187 with Cormier winning the fight (and the vacant title) via submission in the third round. Chris Weidman vs. Gegard Mousasi in a middleweight bout will co-headline this event. Rounding out the main card is Cynthia Calvillo vs. Pearl Gonzalez in a strawweight bout, Thiago Alves vs. Patrick Cote in a welterweight bout and Will Brooks vs. Charles Oliveira in a lightweight bout.
The UFC has released the full episode of UFC 210 Countdown to their YouTube channel to not only get the fans excited for this upcoming event but to give insight into the background of the current stories revolving around the fighters. You can watch the episode here:
In an interesting turn of events, Daniel Cormier is now the betting underdog ahead of his Saturday UFC light heavyweight title defense vs. Anthony Johnson. It’s fight week for #UFC210 & Daniel Cormier is now the slight betting underdog (+104) for title defense v. Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson (-114). — Jon Anik (@Jon_Anik) April 3, 2017 […]
In an interesting turn of events, Daniel Cormier is now the betting underdog ahead of his Saturday UFC light heavyweight title defense vs. Anthony Johnson. It's fight week for #UFC210 & Daniel Cormier is now the slight betting underdog (+104) for title defense v. Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson (-114). — Jon Anik (@Jon_Anik) April 3, 2017 […]
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has lost two straight bouts, but he’ll get the chance to bounce back when he meets No. 5-ranked Gegard Mousasi in the co-main event of April 8’s UFC 210 from Buffalo, New York. Weidman appears to be content with the bout, but he wasn’t pleased with the way it
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has lost two straight bouts, but he’ll get the chance to bounce back when he meets No. 5-ranked Gegard Mousasi in the co-main event of April 8’s UFC 210 from Buffalo, New York.
Weidman appears to be content with the bout, but he wasn’t pleased with the way it came to fruition, as he claims that Mousasi called him out while he was injured:
“I go on vacation and then I get a call saying they’re throwing Mousasi at me, they want me to fight Mousasi and I’m like all right whatever. But again I still don’t know when I’m ready to fight. I want to heal this up,” Weidman explained when speaking to FOX Sports.
“The next thing I know Mousasi’s on Twitter saying I’m ducking him and that’s just the balls on him. I understand he’s trying to do what he can do to get a big fight and he wants to start talking and get his name out there but I just lost recently. I’ve got an injury I’m dealing with and now this guy’s calling me out as if I’m turning down a fight with him.”
That call out has only seemed to add fuel to the fire for Weidman, as the ex-champion said that Mousasi called out the ‘wrong guy’:
“First of all, who the hell does he think he is that I’d be scared to fight him looking at everybody I fought in my career,” Weidman said. “Secondly, I’m dealing with an injury. Fighter to fighter, you don’t just start calling somebody out right after a loss like that. So I took it a little personal and I’m using it as a little bit of motivation to make him pay for that.”
“It’s definitely going to be a little extra motivation to show he called out the wrong guy.”
Do you expect Weidman to get back to his winning ways?
It’s possible that Gegard Mousasi has never been more confident in his abilities than he is now. The former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion has seen his share of success in the past, but he has been tearing through Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweights. “The Dreamcatcher” sits at No. 5 in the official 185-pound rankings, while […]
It’s possible that Gegard Mousasi has never been more confident in his abilities than he is now. The former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion has seen his share of success in the past, but he has been tearing through Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweights. “The Dreamcatcher” sits at No. 5 in the official 185-pound rankings, while […]
Anthony Johnson believes 2017 is his year. He’d get off to the best start imaginable if he can derail Daniel Cormier’s hold on Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) gold. “Rumble” will get another chance on April 8 inside the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, NY. The light heavyweight title bout will serve as the main event of […]
Anthony Johnson believes 2017 is his year. He’d get off to the best start imaginable if he can derail Daniel Cormier’s hold on Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) gold. “Rumble” will get another chance on April 8 inside the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, NY. The light heavyweight title bout will serve as the main event of […]
Top-ranked UFC light heavyweight Anthony “Rumble” Johnson will finally have another chance to defeat current champion Daniel Cormier when the two stars meet for a second time in the main event of next Saturday’s (April 8, 2017) UFC 210 from the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. On a torrid streak since May 2012 where he’s won 12
Top-ranked UFC light heavyweight Anthony “Rumble” Johnson will finally have another chance to defeat current champion Daniel Cormier when the two stars meet for a second time in the main event of next Saturday’s (April 8, 2017) UFC 210 from the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York.
On a torrid streak since May 2012 where he’s won 12 out of 13 bouts including nine by knockout, “Rumble” has quickly built a reputation as MMA’s most feared knockout hitter. But the only man who has been able to weather the storm since he stopped cutting down to absurd weight classes was Cormier, who utilized his world-class wrestling to wait out “Rumble’s” early power and submit the hulking behemoth in the third round of their first fight at 2015’s UFC 187.
Johnson has knocked out Jimi Manuwa, Ryan Bader, and Glover Teixeira since to earn his rematch with “DC,” and he recently said he’s a new kind of combatant during this week’s UFC 210 media call (via MMA Fighting):
“I’m definitely not the same fighter I was two years ago,” Johnson said. “Every day, every week, every month, every year I’m getting better and better, so you’ll see a different guy out there the next time you see me fight.
“[The loss] definitely lit a fire under my ass to train harder and know what I needed to do to beat this guy.”
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Cormier recently insisted his opponent will only be dangerous in the “first seven minutes,” but “Rumble” nonchalantly refuted that notion, insisting Cormier and anyone can think that if they want to:
“The majority of the community believes I’m just a first-round fighter because most of my fights end in the first round,” Johnson said. “But they’re entitled to their own opinion, and that’s fine with me. I have nothing to prove to anybody but myself, so if [Cormier] wants to believe that and everybody else wants to believe that, that’s completely fine with me.”
Cormier then responded with some harsh yet clear words of his own, stating he doesn’t necessarily think Johnson will be anything different from the early-round knockout striker we’ve seen in the past:
“If it makes me a bad guy because I tell the truth, or the truth as I believe it, then I guess that’s what I am,” Cormier said. “I believe everything (I say). I’m not lying. I don’t lie about anything. All I do is state the truth. If people don’t like the truth, then that’s on them. I’m not sitting here making stuff up. I’m not over here pretending. I’m over here stating facts. And if me telling the facts makes me the bad guy, then okay.
“[But] when we talk about him being a completely different fighter, I don’t necessarily know what you guys are basing this on,” Cormier continued. “He beat Jimi Manuwa and he took him down, but of course he’s going to take Jimi Manuwa down. He’s a wrestler. Jimi Manuwa can’t wrestle. Then you’re talking about him and Ryan Bader. If I would’ve shot on Anthony from across the Octagon, he would’ve done the same thing to me. He fought for a total of seven minutes since him and I fought, but he’s this completely different fighter? I have no idea where you guys are getting this from.”
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Johnson remained steadfast in his quest, however, describing his ultimate goal of being champion “an obsession”:
“Getting the belt would definitely put everything in place for me,” Johnson said. “And mentally, it’s like an obsession.”
As the only two clear top light heavyweights in the UFC outside of dominant but troubled former champion Jon Jones, Cormier and Johnson know each others’ games, and they probably also know what the other one is going to say by now.
The talk will be over soon, and Cormier will look to make his first title defense since 2015 against the man he initially won the belt against. The 38-year-old AKA superstar believes “Rumble” will be dangerous early, and indeed he’s felt that storied power before early in the first fight.
But it’s “Rumble” who’s been active in knocking out three Top 5-ranked contenders without breaking a sweat while “DC” was on the sidelines with multiple ailments. Will it be “Rumble” who’s the different fighter in the rematch, or has Cormier lost a step himself?
