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Estimates for the UFC 226 buyrate are in. Dave Meltzer of MMAFighting.com has revealed that the event looks to have brought in around 380,000 pay-per-view buys. UFC 226 was supposed to feature two title bouts. The featherweight championship bout betwee…
Estimates for the UFC 226 buyrate are in. Dave Meltzer of MMAFighting.com has revealed that the event looks to have brought in around 380,000 pay-per-view buys. UFC 226 was supposed to feature two title bouts. The featherweight championship bout between Max Holloway and Brian Ortega was scrapped when Holloway was pulled due to concussion-like symptoms. […]
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Anderson Silva just put Daniel Cormier in his place.
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This week, Daniel Cormier claimed that only two fighters could join him in the conversation for MMA’s greatest fighter of all-time.
The two high-profile names he left out of the conversation were predictably Jon Jones and Anderson Silva, dominant, dynamic champions who destroyed endless top contenders in the Octagon but also had their careers muddied by drug test failures for performance-enhancing drugs.
Silva responded to the slight in a recent interview with CBS Sports, saying Cormier got lucky when he saved his paycheck at UFC 200 two years ago, and even luckier because he wasn’t even the best fighter at light heavyweight:
“So, it’s very interesting because I take the fight against Daniel [on two days’ notice at UFC 200 in 2016] and I had been training absolutely nothing for months and I had surgery already in my body and I took the fight in saving Daniel money because Jon Jones failed the test. But it’s very interesting Daniel talking about that because when you have problems, everybody has problems.
“When you talk about people, you need to be careful because you never know about your life. You never know about your future. I think Daniel is very lucky and completely lucky because never beating Jon Jones, of course, because Jon Jones in my opinion is the best fighter at 205 [pounds].”
Silva continued to go off on Cormier for his UFC 200 performance, claiming “DC” was lucky he didn’t take the fight for five rounds and only laid on top of him, which he did. “The Spider” respects Cormier, but said he was crazy to talk about him and Jones:
“When I took the fight, Daniel didn’t do nothing. He was completely lucky. He was more lucky because I didn’t take the fight for five rounds and just three, and he don’t do nothing but just hit the ground and use his weight. Why are you talking? Why does Daniel talk?
“I respect, but Danny don’t have to talk about that because I’m very sad about that. That’s the first time I saw this news. I respect Danny, but when he is talking about me and Jon Jones, he’s completely crazy because Jon Jones is the best fighter. I tried to make everything perfect inside the cage for my fans. I don’t know but it’s OK … this is Daniel Cormier.”
Silva then expressed his respect for Jones, the man who beat Cormier and is still considered by many to be by far the best light heavyweight in UFC history.
“The Spider” wasn’t sure about “Bones’” upcoming hearing with USADA, but hoped he returned soon:
“I don’t know. I love Jon Jones, he is my young brother and I hope he comes back fast.”
The longtime former champ has had enough of Cormier’s trash talk and claims, and now that he’s eligible to return after he was exonerated on his second failed USADA drug test, Silva is getting his name back out in the media.
He may not be considered the greatest fighter to ever compete in the UFC by Cormier, yet Silva put “DC’s” position in sharp perspective with his comments – even if it is shrouded by Jones’ controversy.
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Agree with Cormier’s assessment of the GOAT discussion?
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There’s been a lot of conversation about just whom is the greatest of all-time in mixed martial arts lately.
The debate was kicked into overdrive when Daniel Cormier won the UFC heavyweight championship with a first-round knockout of Stipe Miocic at UFC 227, dethroning a record-setting champion and putting himself near – or some would say at – the top of the decorated list.
Many still claim that disgraced former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who owns two wins over Cormier (one recognized and one illegitimate), but several also believe “Bones” should be disqualified due to his repeated drug test failures. Cormier is among those doubters, not surprisingly, and he recently revealed only the two fighters he believed could be considered the GOAT due to their similar dominance and clean records on the Slip N’ Dip Podcast (via MMA Mania):
“Demetrious, Georges St-Pierre, these guys have none of these bad things tied to their names and these are the guys I should share the conversation with. I’ve never had any negatives and I’ve never had to go in front of any commission and explain why my test came up messed up. That’s why I should be in the conversation because I’ve done things the correct way.”
Cormier may have a good point in that regard. Both St-Pierre and Johnson have always been nothing less than dominant champions and model citizens in terms of passing drug tests while serving as ambassadors to their sport, similar to Cormier.
However, each has their own points of detraction as well, as Cormier will always have the two losses to Jones and hasn’t racked up a streak of title defenses like GSP and ‘Mighty Mouse,’ St-Pierre is always criticized for playing it safe during his late-career streak of victories, and Johnson’s competition in the UFC flyweight division will always be talked about as a reason he isn’t the greatest of all-time.
Jones is the most dominant fighter in history, and Silva arguably had the most impressive run as he finished contender after contender with beautiful knockouts never before seen in the sport. The legends will always have their careers questioned due to drug use, however, and rightfully so.
What do you think? Who is MMA’s GOAT in your opinion?
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Here’s hoping that Max Holloway recovers quick.
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There have been precious little updates about Max Holloway after “Blessed” pulled out of his UFC 226 co-main event against Brian Ortega.
One of the most impressive fighters in all of 2017, the Hawaiian featherweight champion has seen 2018 bring a concerning series of withdrawals from high-profile fights from “Blessed.”
First, he was forced out of his title fight with Frankie Edgar due to a foot injury, attempted to fill in for the injured Tony Ferguson in the main event of April’s UFC 223 only to be declared unfit to cut weight, and was finally put on the sidelines for an indefinite time for exhibiting concerning concussion symptoms during UFC 226 fight week.
Dana White has insisted the UFC will put Holloway through every test he needs to get better, and that appears to be a work in progress. Holloway posted a small update of his ongoing recovery on social media, noting that he was on the mainland United States to get more tests:
Back on the mainland for more exams. Thanks @ufc and docs for following through to try and figure this out. Starting to feel better pic.twitter.com/aaXCGMpIgT
— Max Holloway (@BlessedMMA) July 19, 2018
While his fans will be glad to know he’s getting the tests he needs, it’s not exactly concrete as to what was provided, with no confirmation of what he’s actually suffering from or what his path to recovery will include.
These things take time, of course, but after Holloway was subject to so many injuries during a jaw-dropping first seven months of 2018, including the most concerning that affected his latest fight, Holloway’s future in fighting is uncertain for the time being at best and ominous at worst.
We’re wishing “Blessed” a quick road to recovery, and hope that maybe moving up a weight class as he’s discussed would work wonders for him as it has so many other UFC fighters.
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Brian Ortega has given some insight into this meeting.
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Brian Ortega has shed some light on the wild UFC 226 fight week that he had including a meeting with UFC President Dana White.
It was a wild week so let’s break it down, Ortega was originally slated to challenge Max Holloway for the featherweight title in the co-main event of the UFC 226 pay-per-view event at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada but things went south once it was revealed that Holloway had to pull out of the fight after he had been experiencing concussion-like symptoms and was taken to a hospital.
This was supposed to be a big event for the Las Vegas-based promotion and thus, they tried to save the co-main event as they wanted to have Ortega fight a replacement opponent, which ultimately led to the UFC President trying to get Jeremy Stephens to fill-in on short notice and fight Ortega in the co-headliner slot.
However, Ortega turned down the fight and decided to wait for Holloway to get healthy enough in order to make this fight happen, which led to some people criticizing Ortega for this decision while others can understand his reasoning behind it.
“All of [my team] were on the same page,” Ortega recently told Brendan Schaub on Below the Belt (transcript courtesy of MMAFighting). “It never happened in the history of our team. It’s always like [one guys says] ‘I think you should take it,’ [another guy says] ‘No, you’re stupid!’ and then it’s this thing and we finally come to an agreement. This time, I walked in the room and everyone was on the same page. . .
[So], we talked to Dana and he was pretty pissed off. He was just in a bad mood, a fight fell through, DC just fell, and then he walks in this meeting. So I tell him, ‘Hey, I’m not gonna fight.’ I’m holding my ground. ‘Listen, with all due respect, I stepped in and fought [Thiago] Tavares on two weeks’ notice, I stepped in and I fought Frankie on three weeks’ notice, and I stepped in and tried to fight Khabib [Nurmagomedov] on six days’ notice. It’s not a scared issued, it’s not that I’m not down for the company. I finished everyone you told me to, every single person you put in front of me, I took their heads off and, like Conor [McGregor] says, I put them on your f**king doorstep. That earned me a title shot and now that I’m here, why go anywhere else besides forward?”
Ortega was in a bad spot as the UFC looks at what fighters do for them lately instead of the course of their careers which is a shame that didn’t go over well with the title contender as he noted in this interview that he tried to argue with White over his pay for the event as he had already trained for it and White wasn’t interested in anything but getting his way.
“[Dana] put on his promoter hat and is like, ‘Listen man, just fight, we’ll work something out,’ and I was like, ‘We don’t need to work anything out. I want Max Holloway or I want the belt.’ [Dana says] ‘Well, we’ll see if we can do an interim belt.’ I’m not fighting for a fake belt. It looks cool but it’s not the real belt. There’s no real money involved with that one. Nothing really goes on in terms of being a champion. You just get something that says, ‘I’m first place.’ It just says I’m next in line for the belt but I’m already here! You just want to put something shiny around my waist to make me feel better. No, I’m not gonna do it.
“I showed up, I was cutting weight, I did all the media, even the media in Spanish. I had to do double the work and do all that in Spanish. Every fighter left and I’m still stuck there doing everything in Spanish. I showed I was a company man. I was down to promote the hell out of this fight, I took extra hours while I’m hungry, starving, to keep doing media. I showed up. Don’t you think that’s worth something? Even if I didn’t take the fight, I did my end of the deal. Then they came back and said ‘Well our deal is to find you a fight and we found you a fight and you turned it down. I did my job, you didn’t do yours. Your job is to show up and fight.’”
“I want the belt, I don’t care who has it,” Ortega concluded. “If Max Holloway can’t fight for another six months to a year, that means that would be a full year that he hasn’t defended the title, which means the rules say you’ve got to strip him. I want to fight soon. If he can’t fight, let’s keep fighting. If he can’t fight for awhile, then give me a title fight. It doesn’t matter [against who]. I don’t care. It’s never been about an opponent. I don’t care who it is. Just throw them in front of me and let me do what I have to do. Let me earn the belt.”
Once Holloway is cleared to fight once again, the promotion will book Ortega against the champion for the featherweight title but the only problem with that is due to the fact that we don’t know when that will happen. Most likely later this year but it will be interesting to see if Ortega stays true to his word and waits it out that way he can fight for the strap.
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Is Cain Velasquez headed to the WWE?
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The lines between the UFC and WWE continue to be blurred.
Only two weeks after Brock Lesnar caused arguably the most pro-wrestling-inspired moment in UFC history when he stormed the Octagon and shoved Daniel Cormier following “DC’s” first-round knockout win over Stipe Miocic at UFC 226, one person close to the new double-champ has apparently been inspired by the scripted entertainment.
That man is Cormier’s longtime training partner and former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez. The former NCAA wrestling All-American has begun training with WWE in a story posted today on WWE.com along with a video of Velasquez’ training. The man who many believed would be MMA’s greatest heavyweight ever lauded his time with the promotion:
“My experience here has been amazing,” he said. “All the athletes here have just been really easy to talk to — ask questions and get good feedback,” Velasquez said. “I’m just looking to be in here and learn as much as I can in the time that I’m here. I’ve been a fan of the sport since I was a little kid, now I get to participate in it. It’s great that I have all this accessible to me.”
Despite being one of the most dominant forces during the time he was able to make it to the cage, injuries have repeatedly sapped Velasquez of his ability to compete with any degree of consistency, unfortunately sapping an otherwise all-time great of his prime.
Velasquez has been out of the Octagon since UFC 200 over two years ago, where he brutalized Travis Browne in a one-sided fight. But he was removed from his soon-scheduled rematch with Fabricio Werdum shortly thereafter after describing some concerning injuries that lead to the presiding athletic commission to decide – and probably rightfully so – that he could not compete.
For those reasons, his MMA return is unknown, but that doesn’t mean Velasquez is taking it easy in his workouts with WWE:
“It’s tough,” Velasquez said. “It’s tough on the body. It’s tough mentally. But it’s fun. This is what I love to do — I love to compete and work out and I can get to do that here.”
Velasquez reportedly developed an affinity for the WWE after attending their Elimination Chamber PPV this year to see Ronda Rousey’s official signing. Cormier is obviously a huge fan as well, with his willingness to meet Lesnar head-on in a scene many called scripted all too apparent.
Regardless, with the WWE lending the UFC Lesnar and Velasquez now training in pro-wrestling, the connection between the two seems much stronger than it ever has been before. But as many hardcore MMA fans have pondered, is that necessarily a good thing?
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