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In a huge F*** YOU to Karma, Nick Diaz was promoted to the main event against BJ Penn at UFC 137. Georges St. Pierre has pulled out of his title defense fight with Carlos Condit.
In a huge F*** YOU to Karma, Nick Diaz was promoted to the main event against BJ Penn at UFC 137. Georges St. Pierre has pulled out of his title defense fight with Carlos Condit due to a knee injury.
Nick Diaz was the original title-contender and main event fighter but had been yanked from that role following a series of no-shows for the UFC 137 press tour.
Carlos Condit is now side-lined until St. Pierre is healed and he is able to get his shot at the Welterweight title.
George Roop gave a rather imagery-filled opinion of Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes to MMAWeekly Radio, saying Aldo will have to get an abortion after the fight. The usually polite, yet unexpectedly witty Roop quipped:.
George Roop gave a rather imagery-filled opinion of Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes to MMAWeekly Radio, saying Aldo will have to get an abortion after the fight. The usually polite, yet unexpectedly witty Roop quipped:
Mendes in my opinion he’s probably going to take it to (Jose) Aldo. Aldo will probably have to go get an abortion afterwards, but I do think he’ll win the fight.
Chad Mendes is probably going to have to take him to planned parenthood afterwards, but I do think he’ll win that fight.”
I’ll admit I didn’t get this analogy so I called Roop who explained his comments derive from the “lay and pray” wrestling style and that some fighters joke, you’re down there so long you impregnate your opponent. Now that I get it, that’s pretty funny. Roop added in the interview with MMAWeekly that Aldo’s cardio is his biggest weakness which was exposed by Mark Hominick.
George Roop himself faces a tough opponent in a week and a half at UFC 137 in his main card bout against former Sengoku Featherweight Champion, Hatsu Hioki who will be making his UFC debut. Hioki is currently ranked the number # 2 Featherweight by Sherdog and #3 by MMAWeekly.
Because he knows we’re all sick bastards who want to see this, UFC Bantamweight Champion, Dominick Cruz tweeted this pic of his right hand post-surgery and joked: Cruz “dislocated his middle finger at the knuckle.
Because he knows we’re all sick bastards who want to see this, UFC Bantamweight Champion, Dominick Cruz tweeted this pic of his right hand post-surgery and joked:
Cruz “dislocated his middle finger at the knuckle and tore ligaments and tendons” in the first round of his successful UFC on Versus 6 title defense bout against Demetrious Johnson. Cruz told ESPN.com: “It just hurt and felt off. My finger kept popping out of the socket.”
Cruz says the injury is pretty much exact to the left hand injury which forced him out of competition for six months. Cruz explained the great results from his left hand surgery to ESPN:
“After I got the surgery on my left hand the doctor said it would be stronger. And it’s true. It is stronger. He put an extra piece of tendon over the top of the knuckle so it’s braced for impact. He did some voodoo stuff with it that he drilled a hole through the knuckle and tied it so tight that there’s no way for that tendon to lift back up off the bone again. I really feel like it’s stronger than it was in the first place and I won’t have any issues with it anymore.”
Cruz recently had the similar surgery performed on his right hand by the same doctor who is based out of Chicago. While prepping for surgery, the Bantamweight champion had tweeted this picture:
with the caption:
It’s a shame to injure such a useful finger, it’s nice to see “The Dominator”‘ will make a full recovery.
Georges St. Pierre is a couple weeks away from his UFC 137 Welterweight title defense against Carlos Condit and he believes that he can finish him. GSP said of his upcoming fight with Condit: “I.
Georges St. Pierre is a couple weeks away from his UFC 137 Welterweight title defense against Carlos Condit and he believes that he can finish him.
GSP said of his upcoming fight with Condit:
“I do believe I will be able to knock him out or submit him. I will remain the welterweight champion.”
Now, that’s cool to be confident, but maybe not so good to be specific on your hopes for a finish, especially when you keep mentioning it before every fight and it never comes to fruition.
GSP said before his fight with Jake Shields:
“It’s hard to finish a guy that doesn’t completely come forward to attack me, you know… but I know one thing is Jake Shields is gonna bring the best of Georges St. Pierre.”
and he said before his fight with Josh Koscheck:
“”I was not happy with my last fight. I want to take the guy out. I want to finish Koscheck.”
and he said before his fight with Dan Hardy:
“I want to take him out as fast as I can and go home.”
The list goes on and on. But no doubt, GSP is a tremendous fighter who earns his victories, it’s just…maybe he should stick to simply saying, “I believe I’m going to win” and then if he actually finishes the guy, it’s a nice surprise!
Rashad Evans gave an interview to Fight Hype where he actually spoke of his respect for Jones as a fighter: “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Jon [Jones] as a fighter and I.
Rashad Evans gave an interview to Fight Hype where he actually spoke of his respect for Jones as a fighter:
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Jon [Jones] as a fighter and I really like to watch him fight. I enjoy the growth that I have seen him have as a fighter just from the short time I have seen him come in the gym until now.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be Rashad not to get under Jone’s skin. This time, he offers some detail how Lyoto Machida can beat Jones at UFC 140 and warns him what to look out for:
“If anybody can give him trouble, I would think it would be Machida, and for a couple of reasons. One reason is Machida’s used to that kind of craftiness and movement because he trains with Anderson Silva, so he’s used to seeing that. That’s where Jon Jones got a lot of his style from is Anderson Silva. So Lyoto is used to training with the originator. One thing Jones brings to the table that Anderson doesn’t is the ability to take the fight to the ground. He brings that ground and pound and Jon is very good at that, so there are a couple of areas where Lyoto will have to watch out for Jon. But for the most part, if he can use his footwork and watch out for some of the tricks and not stay on the outside and watch like everyone else does… I think he could do pretty good in this fight.”
UFC 140 tickets are on sale to the public this Saturday, October 15th.
Source: Fightline Brian Stann is coming off two victories via his excellent punching power, having TKO’d Chris Leben in the first round of his UFC 125 bout and KO’d Jorge Santiago at UFC 130. Yet,.
Source: Fightline
Brian Stann is coming off two victories via his excellent punching power, having TKO’d Chris Leben in the first round of his UFC 125 bout and KO’d Jorge Santiago at UFC 130. Yet, Stann is a prominent (+225) underdog to Chael Sonnen for this weekend’s UFC 136. Sonnen is best known for his wrestling prowess, specifically as a Greco-Roman wrestling champion while Stann’s pointed MMA flaw is decisively his wrestling, which he professes to have targeted in his training regime over the past two years. But Stann doesn’t seem to think his two years of wrestling will be his key to victory this Saturday night and instead reminded us that he can punch. Stann said:
“I think sometimes when oddsmakers and people keep telling me about this fight and how big a longshot I am, I think people forget – I even went back to my bout agreement and checked – but I can punch in this fight. So, I feel good.”
It’s good for Stann to have that kind of confidence…and humor; however, getting knocked out isn’t exactly one of Sonnen’s weaknesses. In fact in his entire pro-career, Sonnen has only lost a fight via TKO twice and the last time that happened was in 2004 (to Terry Martin at XFO 4). So, yeah, keep your hands ready to fire Stann, but maybe look to armbar Sonnen, as well. In Chael Sonnen’s (25-11-1) career he has lost via armbar 4 times (the most recent being his Triangle Armbar loss to Anderson Silva in the 5th round of that spectacular (though possibly steroid induced UFC 117) Middleweight title-fight. He’s also been choked out 3 times… This goes to show you that although Sonnen is a member of a top known grappling team like Team Quest, you can still use his very strengths to overpower him, which is actually a great essence to Martial Arts… the ability to use an opponent’s energy to leverage against him.
So keep that in mind Brian Stann and if anything, both you guys, please just give us one hell of a clean [meaning steroid free 
] fight. I cannot wait for this one.