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Thiago Silva Admits to the Old Fake Piss Trick

Just a few weeks ago the MMA world was buzzing about Thiago Silva’s impressive beat down, nose smashing win over Brandon Vera at UFC 125. After Silva’s UD loss to Rashad Evans last January, one of the baddest looking dudes in the sport appeared to be back on track. Then, of course, the NSAC reported […]

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Just a few weeks ago the MMA world was buzzing about Thiago Silva’s impressive beat down, nose smashing win over Brandon Vera at UFC 125. After Silva’s UD loss to Rashad Evans last January, one of the baddest looking dudes in the sport appeared to be back on track. Then, of course, the NSAC reported something might be funky with Silva’s drug tests, and yadda, yadda, yadda, it was confirmed this week by the commission that the pee-pee submitted by the light-heavyweight may not be human. Now that’s how you tarnish a win…

Well, apparently Silva won’t try to talk his way out of this by claiming some sort of grand conspiracy against him, or that he’s been eating nothing but discount hotdogs for months so no wonder his piss was off. In a statement posted by MMA Junkie today, Silva admitted to urine tampering, and he will now accept the NSAC’s wrath.

“I used a urine adulterant when giving a sample following my fight with Brandon Vera. I did so in an attempt to alter the results of the test and knowingly broke the rules of the Nevada (State) Athletic Commission. This was a terrible decision on my part for which I will be punished. I am prepared to accept this punishment, learn from it and move on. I apologize to the commission, the UFC, Brandon Vera and the MMA fans.”

Silva went on to say, and this is not an excuse rather a statement of what went down according to him, that he trashed his back heading into his bout with Evans, and then, reinjured it again while preparing for Vera. Thus, in order to fight on January 1st, he took “injections in my back”. Well, looks like Silva will be back on the bench anyhow.

Brock Lesnar Admits Cain Velasquez Delivered Ass Whooping

It was only a few months ago that speculation was rampant as to whether or not Brock Lesnar would ever fight again, following his ‘that’s it?’ defeat to Cain Velasquez in October. According to some, the UFC was about to lose one of, if not, its biggest draw.
Well, of course, not only is “The Minnesota […]

It was only a few months ago that speculation was rampant as to whether or not Brock Lesnar would ever fight again, following his ‘that’s it?’ defeat to Cain Velasquez in October. According to some, the UFC was about to lose one of, if not, its biggest draw.

Well, of course, not only is “The Minnesota Monster” not ready to hang up the 4 oz gloves, Lesnar has jumped square in the middle of the scalding spotlight, coaching the upcoming season of TUF, appearing on Jimmy Fallon, and writing a book. All this before the usually grumpy, ‘don’t talk to me’ former champ is set to fight Junior Dos Santos in June. People are talking lots of Brock again and Dana White couldn’t be happier.

In a recent interview with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, Lesnar finally talked about the vicious pounding he received from Velasquez at UFC 121, and he didn’t sugar coat what happened .

“I just watched the fight a week ago, and I think it boils down to last year I had a lot going on in my life. I fought through diverticulitis; made my comeback and fought through Shane Carwin, and then fought Cain Velasquez. As I watched the fight I could see that there was probably, I wasn’t able to overcome Cain’s…I really don’t know what happened. He beat my ass; that’s what happened. If I put it that way. It’s one of those things; I don’t like to lose and you dust yourself off, get back on the horse and here I am.”

Things are always interesting when Brock’s around no? Lesnar also discussed that whole bit with The Undertaker and coaching TUF; check out the entire interview here.

Rich Franklin Concedes He’s Curious About Fighting Jon Jones

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.