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UFC featherweight Josh Emmett believes that his place at the front of the title contention queue should be safe no matter the result of Yair Rodriguez’s fight against Brian Ortega. At UFC Austin last month, Emmett staked his claim for his first s…
UFC featherweight Josh Emmett believes that his place at the front of the title contention queue should be safe no matter the result of Yair Rodriguez’s fight against Brian Ortega. At UFC Austin last month, Emmett staked his claim for his first shot at the 145-pound gold in a tight five-round affair against Calvin Kattar….
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Before his fight on July 16th at UFC on ABC 3, Dwight Grant stopped by to spend some time with LowKick MMA, where he talked about his first meeting and sparring session with Sean Strickland, who of course, had something wacky to say. ‘The Body Snatcher’ also talked about his upcoming fight against Dustin Stoltzfus, […]
Before his fight on July 16th at UFC on ABC 3, Dwight Grant stopped by to spend some time with LowKick MMA, where he talked about his first meeting and sparring session with Sean Strickland, who of course, had something wacky to say.
‘The Body Snatcher’ also talked about his upcoming fight against Dustin Stoltzfus, where he’ll look to end a two-fight skid and get back into the win column. Detailing his first meeting with Strickland, Dwight Grant also described that when they first met, he had no idea that the top-ranked middleweight was a UFC fighter.
“The thing about it is,” Dwight Grant began. “I didn’t know that he was like a high-level guy in the UFC before I trained with him. I met up with this dude and we were going to spar, and he was like: ‘Just so you know, we’re going to give each other brain damage today,’ and I was like, ‘Ok, this sounds like fun.’ And he was like, ‘Are you cool with that?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah man, let’s go.’”
“I like sparring… If you’re telling me ahead of time we’re gonna spar hard, I’m fine with everything,” Dwight Grant continued. “I don’t like when people are like ‘Hey man, let’s go light,’ and then all of a sudden the fight is crazy. It’s like, hey man, what you doing?”
“So, the fact that he just met me, didn’t know me, and was off the bat like: ‘Hey, this is gonna be crazy just so you know,’ was perfect. We had great sparring sessions… It was cool, I would definitely train with him again,” Grant concluded.
‘The Body Snatcher’ would go on to add that Sean Strickland may be a bit misunderstood, as well. “I think a lot of the other stuff people get into with him, is just based on how people react to him. They probably think about stuff ahead of time, and base that pre-judgment on how he’s gonna be. I didn’t have any because I didn’t know who he was at the time. I was like, ‘this guy’s been straight up and honest with me, so we’re gonna have a good training (session).’”
Check out the full interview below for more!
Do you think sparring too hard might have contributed to Sean Stricklands UFC 276 knockout loss?
A fan-friendly featherweight matchup between the #14 ranked division contender, Shane Burgos, and the surging Canadian upstart, Charles Jourdain has been added to an upcoming UFC Fight Night Long Island event on July 16. – from the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York. The event, which has since received UFC on ABC 3 billing, also […]
A fan-friendly featherweight matchup between the #14 ranked division contender, Shane Burgos, and the surging Canadian upstart, Charles Jourdain has been added to an upcoming UFC Fight Night Long Island event on July 16. – from the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.
The event, which has since received UFC on ABC 3 billing, also seen another high-stakes featherweight bout confirmed for July 16. – with two-time title challenger, Brian Ortega returning in a main event slot against Chihuahua striking technician, Yair Rodriguez.
Rebounding to the winner’s enclosure following a third career defeat, Shane Burgos, a native of The Bronx, most recently featured on home soil at UFC 268 in November at Madison Square Garden, defeating Billy Quarantillo in a unanimous decision showing. Both Burgos and Quarantillo were heralded post-fight for their Fight of the Year contender showing.
Landing his second consecutive victory at UFC Vegas 52, Jourdain managed to stop the wily, Lando Vannata with an impressive opening round guillotine victory. The win came as Jourdain’s thirteenth professionally.
Eurosport reporter, Marcel Dorff was first to report the location and date of Burgos’ matchup with Jourdain, with Cageside Press reporter, Alex Behunin previously reporting the promotion’s intention to book the two featherweight contenders opposite each other.
Premature announced by many. But here is the correct date.
Shane Burgos will fight Charles Jourdain at #UFCLongIsland on July 16th. #UFC #MMA #UFCESPN #UFConABC3 pic.twitter.com/46m7vaEblI
— Marcel Dorff
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Prior to his win over Quarantillo, Shane Burgos battled over the course of two gruelling rounds against Muay Thai ace, Edson Barboza, before dropping an early third round knockout defeat in one of the most bizarre finishing sequences in recent memory.
Touted as a major player at 145lbs, Burgos’ other professional defeats have come against division striking aces, Josh Emmett, and Calvin Kattar – while notching impressive wins of his own against Charles Rosa, Cub Swanson, and Makwan Amirkhani.
A proficient finisher, Jourdain has managed to land eight knockout successes to go with a further four submission wins over the course of his 18 fight professional career.
Landing in the UFC back in May 2019 in ‘The Big Apple’ to boot, Jourdain has since scored a quartet of Octagon successes, defeating the above mentioned, Vannata, Andre Ewell, Marcelo Rojo, and Choi Doo Ho.
A featherweight banger between Shane Burgos and Charles Jourdain will go down at UFC Long Island on July 16. Multiple sources confirmed the planned booking to Cageside Press’ Alex Behunin last month, with UFC 276 being reported as the targeted date. On Thursday, Eurosport’s Marcel Dorff confirmed that the matchup will take place in New…
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A featherweight banger between Shane Burgos and Charles Jourdain will go down at UFC Long Island on July 16.
Multiple sources confirmed the planned booking to Cageside Press’ Alex Behunin last month, with UFC 276 being reported as the targeted date. On Thursday, Eurosport’s Marcel Dorff confirmed that the matchup will take place in New York two weeks after International Fight Week.
Sharing the news on Twitter, Burgos wrote, “And we’re back.”
And we’re back
— Shane Burgos (@HurricaneShaneB) June 2, 2022
Burgos (14-2), who is currently ranked #14 at 145 pounds, is rarely, if ever, in a boring fight. Despite being 1-2 across his last three appearances, “Hurricane” never fails to entertain, even in defeat.
After going 6-1 in his first seven Octagon outings, a run of form that included wins against Cub Swanson and Makwan Amirkhani, and a sole defeat to now-top-five contender Calvin Kattar, Burgos fell to consecutive losses for the first time in his professional career. Following a narrow defeat to Josh Emmett in one of 2020’s Fight of the Year contenders, a knockout loss to Edson Barboza, remembered for the freakish nature of the KO, made it back-to-back setbacks.
In yet another entertaining three-round war, Burgos returned to the win column last time out at UFC 268, outpointing fellow fan favorite Billy Quarantillo. In the 31-year-old’s way of a two-fight win streak could be Jourdain (13-4-1).
After an underwhelming start to his UFC career, which saw him go 2-3-1 in his first six appearances, Jourdain has hit his best form yet, winning two in a row inside the Octagon for the first time. Having rebounded with an emphatic decision victory over Andre Ewell last December, the Canadian opened his 2022 account with an impressive first-round submission triumph against 12-fight UFC vet Lando Vannata at UFC Vegas 52 last month.
While Burgos will be looking to maintain his place on the featherweight ladder on July 16, Jourdain will be hoping to add a number next to his name. Although they may have different goals for UFC Long Island, both will be targeting another memorable contest, and perhaps one that will be worthy of a $50,000 FOTN bonus.
The fights currently expected to take place on the UFC Long Island card are as follows:
Brian Ortega vs. Yair Rodriguez (featherweight main event)
Askar Askarov vs. Alex Perez (flyweight)
Michelle Waterson vs. Amanda Lemos (women’s strawweight)
Ricky Simón vs. Jack Shore (bantamweight)
Shane Burgos vs. Charles Jourdain (featherweight)
Li Jingliang vs. Muslim Salikhov (welterweight)
Jessica Penne vs. Brianna Fortino (women’s strawweight)
Dustin Jacoby vs. Da Un Jung (light heavyweight)
Billy Quarantillo vs. Bill Algeo (featherweight)
Punahele Soriano vs. Dalcha Lungiambula (middleweight)
Herbert Burns vs. Khusein Askhabov (featherweight)
Who do you think will have their hand raised at UFC Long Island, Shane Burgos or Charles Jourdain?
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It’s no secret that Chris Weidman has experienced a fall from grace over the last few years. In 2013, the Long Island native shocked the world, knocking out legendary Anderson Silva with a brutal left hook to become the undisputed middleweight champion. He then defended his title three times against Silva, Lyoto Machida and Vitor […]
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It’s no secret that Chris Weidman has experienced a fall from grace over the last few years.
In 2013, the Long Island native shocked the world, knocking out legendary Anderson Silva with a brutal left hook to become the undisputed middleweight champion. He then defended his title three times against Silva, Lyoto Machida and Vitor Belfort, but Weidman has now lost three consecutive fights.
Weidman last competed at UFC 210 this past April where he suffered a highly controversial loss to Gegard Mousasi. The referee had originally stopped the action because he believed Mousasi had landed an illegal knee, but the knee was then deemed legal and “The Dreamcatcher” was named the victor.
Weidman made it clear that he wanted a rematch in the aftermath of the bout, but Mousasi recently signed with Bellator, which is why it makes sense that Weidman will be taking on Kelvin Gastelum in the main event of UFC on FOX 25 this weekend (July 22, 2017) on Long Island.
Weidman recently admitted that there was a bit of hesitation when he was offered the bout with Gastelum, but he also said that he’s ‘over’ the Mousasi rematch now:
“There was a little hesitation, because I wanted the Mousasi rematch,” Weidman told MMAjunkie. “And then we were finding out that he probably wasn’t going to (re-sign with the UFC), they offered me this fight, and I couldn’t turn it down.”
“I’m over it,” Weidman said. “He’s moved on. You don’t hold on to things. It’s the match I wanted, but he moved on; he’s doing whatever he has to do for himself, and I’ve got to focus on what I’ve got to do.”
Due to his recent losing skid, many have begun to write off Weidman, and many have certainly been doubting him. With that being said, Weidman is looking to prove why he’s still ‘the best guy in the world’ on Saturday:
“People are going to see on Saturday night who the best guy in the world is,” Weidman said. “The truth speaks volumes. I don’t have to say a word.”
Do you expect Weidman to get back in the win column in his home state?
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