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Rich Franklin Concedes He’s Curious About Fighting Jon Jones

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For a lot of ‘I’m the biggest’ UFC fans, the closest thing they’ll experience to MMA combat is opening an anonymous Twitter account (with a contrived yet snarky name of course), so that they can hurl some slur at a fighter from thousands of miles away. Pretty badass….For other, more grounded and evolved humans, they understand that it takes serious balls to even step in the Octagon, much less win a fight, and thus, have a ton of respect for anyone that throws down in the cage or ring.

Why the lecture? Well, Rich Franklin recently did an interview with the Springfield News-Sun, where the former middleweight champ served up a little reminder about the kind of fighting spirit many fighters have. At a time when Jon Jones is dismantling everyone who is put in front of him, including a certain legend named “Shogun” Rua, Franklin has apparently been wondering how he might do against the emerging superstar. (Thanks to MMA Mania for the heads up)

“You see guys like that, and you’re like, ‘They’re bigger than me, and they’re stronger than me,’ but I’m a fighter, and there’s a part of me that still wants to fight them and see how I’d do,”

Wow; now that’s an effin fighter (to steal Dana White’s thunder). Not sure if at this point in Franklin’s storied career that would be such a good idea, but hell, ya never know right? Franklin also stated in the interview that he knew Jones was going to “be a stud” after the first time he saw him fight, adding “He’s got an 84-inch reach, and he’s 6-foot-4. It’s just crazy.” Yeah, we’re with you on this one champ.

Chan Sung Jung Wins Submission of the Night with “Twister”

Okay, so granted, the feature attractions for last night’s UFC Fight Night card in Seattle probably didn’t wear out the edges of many seats, as both Phil Davis and Anthony Johnson utilized their wrestling to score conservative wins over “Minotoro” Nogueira and Dan Hardy respectively. Not exactly thrilling stuff, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do […]

Okay, so granted, the feature attractions for last night’s UFC Fight Night card in Seattle probably didn’t wear out the edges of many seats, as both Phil Davis and Anthony Johnson utilized their wrestling to score conservative wins over “Minotoro” Nogueira and Dan Hardy respectively. Not exactly thrilling stuff, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.

Thankfully the undercard had several ‘holy eff’ moments, including, yup, Chan Sung Jung’s freakin awesome submission win over Leonard Garcia, which came via a “Twister.” How bad ass was that? Of course, “The Korean Zombie” won Submission of the Night and an extra 55 large for utilizing the rarely seen technique, which guess what? Apparently he learned by watching it on the world-wide-web thingy. In an interview posted up at MMA Weekly, Jung had this to say about his latest addition to the MMA highlight reel, hall of fame.

“Yes, it was something I actually saw a long time ago on the internet; it’s one of Eddie Bravo’s moves. It was something I practiced because it just looks fun, so I do it quite a bit in practice. I always told people that I was going to try it sometime in competition; that I wanted to do it in the UFC, and I was finally able to.”

We are all forever in your debt Mr. Jung. Looks like someone’s going to be moving a few more of those Korean Zombie t-shirts no?

UFC Fight Night 24 Weigh-In Results

Alrighty, everyone made weight this afternoon in Seattle (yes, including Anthony ‘That Dude’s a Welterweight?’ Johnson), so tomorrow’s UFC Fight Night 24 card is officially a go. To throw down a little cash on any of the bouts, head here.
UFC Fight Night 24 Weigh-In Results
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (206) vs. Phil Davis (206)
Anthony Johnson (171) vs. […]

Alrighty, everyone made weight this afternoon in Seattle (yes, including Anthony ‘That Dude’s a Welterweight?’ Johnson), so tomorrow’s UFC Fight Night 24 card is officially a go. To throw down a little cash on any of the bouts, head here.

UFC Fight Night 24 Weigh-In Results

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (206) vs. Phil Davis (206)

Anthony Johnson (171) vs. Dan Hardy (171)

DeMarques Johnson (171) vs. Amir Sadollah (170)

Leonard Garcia (145) vs. Chan Sung Jung (146)

Mike Russow (256) vs. Jon Madsen (261)

Mackens Semerzier (146) vs. Alex Caceres (146)

Kris McCray (170) vs. John Hathaway (171)

Edwin Figueroa (136) vs. Michael McDonald (135)

Christian Morecraft (265) vs. Sean McCorkle (266)

TJ Waldburger (170) vs. Johny Hendricks (170)

Aaron Simpson (185) vs. Mario Miranda (185)

Nik Lentz (155) vs. Waylon Lowe (156)

Keith Jardine Points to Jon Jones for Rift at Jackson’s

The process of mining anyone who’s been a training partner of Jon Jones and Rashad Evans for their opinion on the former teammates budding feud, has begun full swing. It’s a ‘hot button issue’ right now, and of course, we’re totally on board (until extremely odd Youtube videos surface from either dude, or they begin […]

The process of mining anyone who’s been a training partner of Jon Jones and Rashad Evans for their opinion on the former teammates budding feud, has begun full swing. It’s a ‘hot button issue’ right now, and of course, we’re totally on board (until extremely odd Youtube videos surface from either dude, or they begin using a catchword like ‘winning’, which quickly saturates every medium known to man).

One of the pivotal players in the Jackson Team’s success has been Keith Jardine, who long before Jones became a member, was working his way up the UFC rankings alongside Evans. In fact, Jardine and Evans were two of the first notable competitors to annoy Dana White by saying they wouldn’t fight each other. Well, in an interview with ESPN, Jardine was quick to compliment Rashad for what he did for the Jackson Team, and pointed to that now ‘infamous’ interview Jones had with Ariel Helwani, for the sh-tstorm that is now unfolding.

“It all started from that interview that Jon did, talking about the possibility of fighting with Rashad [with Ariel Helwani on Versus],” Jardine said. “That’s just something that doesn’t need to be said. Of course they could have been made to fight, and they both knew it. But for Jon to go out and say that made Rashad look like a punk, and that’s kind of what happened to start it all. It was already sensitive, so it blew up after that.”

Jardine qualified that comment by saying “Jon’s just a kid,” and that the new champ probably “regretted” what he had said to Helwani afterwards. Perhaps…perhaps not (cue sinister music). Plenty more to come on this no doubt.

Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader Set for UFC 132

So it’s looking like Tito Ortiz will look to score his first win since 2006, against yet another powerful wrestler in Ryan Bader, July 2nd at UFC 132. You may recall how Tito did against an opponent with similar qualities last time out, namely Matt Hamill….yeah, not so well. MMA Weekly is reporting that the […]

So it’s looking like Tito Ortiz will look to score his first win since 2006, against yet another powerful wrestler in Ryan Bader, July 2^nd at UFC 132. You may recall how Tito did against an opponent with similar qualities last time out, namely Matt Hamill….yeah, not so well. MMA Weekly is reporting that the bout is a done deal.

At any rate, Ortiz and Bader have been at it on Twitter, and as you see, Tito’s up for the fight.

@ryanbader want some? You will get some. Let’s go!!!!!

Should be interesting.

Jon Jones Talks Strategy, Fighting “Shogun” From the Clinch

Anyone in their right mind should have been stoked to see Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Rashad Evans, but it seems like ever since Jon Jones came into the equation, the hype’s gone up another level. It makes sense of course, as just like thousands of others, we too quickly jumped on the “Bones” bandwagon after seeing […]

Anyone in their right mind should have been stoked to see Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Rashad Evans, but it seems like ever since Jon Jones came into the equation, the hype’s gone up another level. It makes sense of course, as just like thousands of others, we too quickly jumped on the “Bones” bandwagon after seeing what kind of glorious violence he’s capable of.

Despite the fact that this Saturday’s bout marks the first time the 23 year-old phenomenon will fight for the title, Jones has been taking it in stride, while remaining extremely confident about his chances. So, just how is the rising light-heavy planning on dismantling the champ? Speaking to ESPN, (thanks to MMA Fighting for the quote) Jones stated:

“I was a Greco-Roman All-American, and the clinch is such a huge part of combat sport,” Jones said. “If you look at Muay Thai matches, if you look at your traditional boxing, the clinch is huge. It’s a natural instinct for people to clinch when they’re in a bad situation. And that’s one of my main strengths. My takedowns from the clinch are very powerful, my knees from the clinch are very powerful, and I think that can be a huge mismatch that I can exploit in this fight.”

Yes, right about now you might recall Jones tossing opponents through the air like they were unsuspecting beach balls, and there’s little question he could do some serious damage from that position. That said, we are talking about Shogun, a man who reduced “Rampage” Jackson to a pile of broken human with some serious, serious knees. Guess we’ll see huh?

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