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Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann are set to headline UFC Fight Night 27 tonight, so stay tuned with Bleacher Report for live updates of the fight, which will likely take place between 10 and 11 PM EST.
The fight is a rematch from several years ago, wh…
Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann are set to headline UFC Fight Night 27 tonight, so stay tuned with Bleacher Report for live updates of the fight, which will likely take place between 10 and 11 PM EST.
The fight is a rematch from several years ago, where Kampmann earned a split decision victory. Both men have grown since then, so this should be a good one.
Here are the live updates, the minute the fight starts on Fox Sports 1 tonight.
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Carlos Condit will face a familiar foe in the main event of UFC Fight Night 27.
Condit and his opponent, Martin Kampmann, have faced each other once before in 2009. It was Condit’s UFC debut and although he would lose a split decision, many fans felt a…
Carlos Condit will face a familiar foe in the main event of UFC Fight Night 27.
Condit and his opponent, Martin Kampmann, have faced each other once before in 2009. It was Condit‘s UFC debut and although he would lose a split decision, many fans felt as though he should’ve been declared the victor.
Now he’ll have a chance to avenge that loss and maintain his status as a top-five welterweight by taking out Kampmann, who himself will be attempting to stay relevant in the UFC’s welterweight division. Kampmann had won three-straight bouts prior to losing to Johny Hendricks at UFC 154.
Condit is also coming off a loss to Hendricks, although his decision loss was heavily contested among the MMA fan base.
Stay tuned to Bleacher Report for all your UFC Fight Night 27 needs and for a round by round analysis and recap.
The UFC brings its Octagon to the middle of the week, with Fight Night 27 on Wednesday, August 28. It’s kind of like Christmas in the summer, only on a much smaller scale.
The card features a total of 12 bouts, spanning Facebook, Fox Sports 2 and Fox S…
The UFC brings its Octagon to the middle of the week, with Fight Night 27 on Wednesday, August 28. It’s kind of like Christmas in the summer, only on a much smaller scale.
The card features a total of 12 bouts, spanning Facebook, Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports 1. Headlining the event is a welterweight rematch between contenders Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann.
On the whole, the action shakes out like this:
UFC Fight Night 27 Main Card on Fox Sports 1 (8 p.m. ET)
Fox Sports 2 Prelims (6 p.m. ET)
Facebook Prelims (5 p.m. ET)
Remember to check in here during the show for live play-by-play and analysis of the action as it unfolds.
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(It’s okay, Roy — we know exactly how you feel. / Photo via Getty)
The 24 fighters competing at tomorrow night’s UFC Fight Night 27 — including welterweight headliners Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann, as well as lightweight crowd-pleaser Donald Cerrone and TUF 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum — will be hitting the scales today at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Watch the action live in the streaming video-player after the jump; we’ll update this post with results directly afterwards.
Fun fact: Condit is a solid -250 favorite in the main event, despite the fact that he hasn’t won a fight since February 2012, and lost his first match against Kampmann in a narrow split-decision back in 2009. Discuss.
(It’s okay, Roy — we know exactly how you feel. / Photo via Getty)
The 24 fighters competing at tomorrow night’s UFC Fight Night 27 — including welterweight headliners Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann, as well as lightweight crowd-pleaser Donald Cerrone and TUF 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum — will be hitting the scales today at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Watch the action live in the streaming video-player after the jump; we’ll update this post with results directly afterwards.
Fun fact: Condit is a solid -250 favorite in the main event, despite the fact that he hasn’t won a fight since February 2012, and lost his first match against Kampmann in a narrow split-decision back in 2009. Discuss.
MAIN CARD (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET)
Carlos Condit (170.5) vs. Martin Kampmann (170)
Donald Cerrone (156) vs. Rafael dos Anjos (155.5)
Kelvin Gastelum (170) vs. Brian Melancon (170)
Court McGee (170) vs. Robert Whittaker (170.5)
Takeya Mizugaki (135.5) vs. Erik Perez (135.5)
Brad Tavares (186) vs. Robert “Bubba” McDaniel (185)
PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 2, 6 p.m. ET)
Papy Abedi (184.5) vs. Dylan Andrews (185)
Justin Edwards (170) vs. Brandon Thatch (170)
Darren Elkins (145) vs. Hatsu Hioki (146)
James Head (170.5) vs. Jason High (171)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 5 p.m. ET)
Ben Alloway (170) vs. Zak Cummings (170.5)
Roger Bowling (155) vs. Abel Trujillo (155)
There will be at least one highly interested observer when Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann step in the cage tomorrow for their UFC Fight Night 27 main event.
Condit and Kampmann are both coming off losses in their previous fights; Condit will actuall…
There will be at least one highly interested observer when Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann step in the cage tomorrow for their UFC Fight Night 27 main event.
Condit and Kampmann are both coming off losses in their previous fights; Condit will actually be attempting to avoid the first three-fight losing streak of his entire career. But those losses don’t matter much to former Strikeforce welterweight champion Tarec Saffiedine, who on Monday told MMAFighting.com that he’s extremely interested in facing the winner.
Saffiedine’s reason for taking aim at Condit and Kampmann? He says he thinks a win over them could put him within reach of a UFC title shot:
That’s the goal. I believe if I [beat] one of those guys, it puts me maybe one or two fights away from the title. But obviously, I’m a fighter that doesn’t look past anyone. I take one fight at a time. But my ultimate goal is to fight for the title, that’s the reason I came to the U.S. I came here to fight and beat those names.
That’s my plan, that’s why I left my country, my family and friends. I’m really, really hungry and I can’t wait to come back to training.
This is a shrewd bit of decision-making from Saffiedine. Sure, he was the final Strikeforce welterweight champion, and he captured the belt by leg-kicking UFC veteran Nate Marquardt until I was cringing at home.
But as we’ve seen in the past, being a former Strikeforce champion doesn’t really mean much ever since the promotion was folded into the UFC. There are two notable exceptions, of course; Gilbert Melendez and Ronda Rousey came into the UFC with a fair bit of star power on their side. Melendez was thrust into a title fight with Benson Henderson on his first tour of the Octagon, and Rousey was handed her belt by Dana White at a December press conference in Seattle.
Saffiedine is no Melendez or Rousey, however, and I’m not talking about his fighting skills. He’s clearly a talented welterweight. But if you took a poll of 10 casual MMA fans, I’d be shocked if more than three of them know who Saffiedine is. And the hardcore fans who know Saffiedine’s history won’t exactly be salivating to see him compete against the best welterweights the UFC has to offer during his UFC debut.
That’s why this is a smart move for Saffiedine. A win over Condit or Kampmann will mean something for Saffiedine’s career. It won’t earn him an immediate title shot—he’ll need at least two and possibly three convincing UFC wins before he gets the opportunity to face Georges St-Pierre—but it will put him a whole lot closer than he is right now.
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The UFC made a splashy debut for Fox Sports 1, the new ESPN competitor that kicked off its prime-time broadcast schedule two weeks ago with an unexpectedly successful fight card headlined by Chael Sonnen and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. On Wednesday, Fox Sp…
The UFC made a splashy debut for Fox Sports 1, the new ESPN competitor that kicked off its prime-time broadcast schedule two weeks ago with an unexpectedly successful fight card headlined by Chael Sonnen and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. On Wednesday, Fox Sports 1 steps into the Octagon once again, this time with significantly less fanfare and hype but with significantly more people aware the channel even exists who are clear about how to find it on their cable systems.
How will the UFC fare with what will be a more typical night of programming, with Martin Kampmann and Carlos Condit headlining instead of fighters who normally fight on pay-per-view or Fox? What is the long-term future for the sport with the Fox family? Fox Broadcasting senior vice president of programming and research Mike Mulvihill gave us a few minutes of his time late last week to discuss what’s to come.
Jonathan Snowden, Bleacher Report Lead Combat Sports Writer: The ratings seemed to be a huge success for the UFC’s debut. What can we expect going forward? What constitutes a rating success for the UFC, for example, on Wednesday night?
Mike Mulvihill, Fox Broadcasting’s Senior Vice President of Programming and Research: You have to evaluate each event in its own context. Success for an FS1 event in July is going to be measured differently than success for a Fox broadcast event in December. In general, we’re looking for evidence that UFC is growing and further establishing itself as one of the most popular sports among younger fans. Given that our FS1 Fight Night on August 17th beat every network on television among Men 18-34 and Men 18-49, I think the evidence shows we’re going in the right direction.
Snowden: Will you have a show that rivals the first one, or was that special for the debut?
Mulvihill: We will absolutely have shows that rival or surpass the quality of our debut. In fact, I feel confident that we will have an event before the end of this year that will surpass even the quality of our debut night.
Snowden: How will you decide dates for UFC events? It has to be convenient that the events are potentially so flexible? That’s versatility conventional sports programming doesn’t offer because it is locked in place.
Mulvihill: It’s very much a collaborative process in which we have to take into account their pay-per-view dates, our other programming commitments and arena availability. It’s a never-ending conversation and it works.
As far as setting the matchups themselves, they are the experts at setting matchups and we trust them to be the experts. Just as in our relationship with the NFL or MLB, we have some ability to have a voice in the process, but in the end it’s up to them to determine what will work.
Snowden: Will you put certain fighters on the shows consistently to build Fox-branded fighters? Spike did this successfully and had athletes that were associated with its brand as well as the UFC brand.
Mulvihill: I think we have to simply take the best fights and best fighters that we can get for every event and not worry too much about having fighters that are identified with Fox. Fans are too smart. They see right through that kind of stuff. If we simply showcase the best of the sport that’s available to us at every opportunity, our brand identity will emerge organically.
Snowden: Does Fox think that there is crossover potential with UFC fans for your other sports programming? And vice versa? Or are UFC fans essentially gifts that exist to create the occasional strong rating but won’t stick around for other sports on FS1?
Mulvihill: We strongly, 100 percent believe that there is great crossover potential. Part of our motivation in creating Fox Sports 1 was the belief that all of our properties would benefit from being surrounded by the others.
UFC will benefit from being attached to traditional mainstream sports like MLB and NASCAR, and those sports will benefit from being attached to the youth and energy of UFC. We believe that all of our partners will benefit from being on a general-interest sports network that has something for every type of fan.
Snowden: I was very intrigued to see the Sports Business Journal story on FS1’s Hard Knocks-style baseball show called Mission October. Can we expect similar glimpses into the MMA world on FS1 in the future?
Mulvihill: It’s a little premature to say. I will say that anyone who has watched Fox Sports 1 would have to acknowledge that UFC is a big part of who we are, not just on the fight nights but 24/7. We’ve already had Dana live in our studio as a guest on Fox Sports Live, we are premiering TUF on September 4th and I know we’ll be looking for opportunities to highlight the top stories in UFC across our schedule.
UFC Fight Night 27: Condit vs. Kampmann airs Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. The prelims will begin on Fox Sports 2 at 6 p.m. ET, with two fights scheduled on Facebook starting at 5 p.m. ET.
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