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Forrest Griffin and Matt Parrino return for another installment of the UFC rankings report in the video above.
The former champion and his co-host discuss all the fall-out from UFC on F…
Forrest Griffin and Matt Parrino return for another installment of the UFC rankings report in the video above.
The former champion and his co-host discuss all the fall-out from UFC on FOX 20, which featured Valentina Shevchenko’s win over Holly Holm and Edson Barboza’s triumph vs. Gilbert Melendez.
Griffin and Parrino also discuss the upcoming UFC 201 card, which takes place this Saturday night in Atlanta.
Top UFC women’s bantamweight contender Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm has experienced a sudden fall from grace in recent months. She first lost her 135-pound title in March at the hands of Miesha Tate, and most recently she was defeated by Valentina Shevchenko in the main event of last weekend’s (July 30, 2016) UFC on
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Top UFC women’s bantamweight contender Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm has experienced a sudden fall from grace in recent months. She first lost her 135-pound title in March at the hands of Miesha Tate, and most recently she was defeated by Valentina Shevchenko in the main event of last weekend’s (July 30, 2016) UFC on FOX 20 from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaking with MMAJunkie on the loss, Holm admits that she’d just like to get back into the cage because she doesn’t want to be remembered for ‘one great fight’, and of course that fight would be her bout with previously dominant champion Ronda Rousey last November in which she scored a breathtaking knockout victory:
“Coming off a loss, all you want, I think, is just to get back in there,” Holm said. “But here we are again. I think that I just need to take whatever opportunity comes. I still feel that way. A lot of people are asking about taking a fight (instead of waiting to rematch Rousey), but I don’t want to be known for one great fight. I don’t want to be known for a few great fights. I want to be known for doing a lot. I don’t want to be content with one performance. I want to do more.”
As far as her bout with Shevchenko goes, “The Preacher’s Daughter” said that although she was angry about it, she has nowhere to move but forward:
“I can’t say that I was surprised by anything – I just didn’t perform to the best of my ability and I didn’t leave it all out there,” Holm said. “I had more to give for sure. I knew it was a close fight, but I knew I had to do more. I don’t ever want it to be a close fight. I don’t ever want it to be like that.”
“I’m just angry, that’s all,” Holm continued. “Who wants two losses in a row? But what can you do? … It’s still onward up, it’s still forward.”
Who would you like to see Holm attempt to bounce back against next?
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Building off of a previous report that last Saturday’s UFC on FOX 20 did solid televised ratings, final numbers show that the card actually did much better as the highest-watched summertime UFC on FOX show and the highest overall since January 2015’s UFC on FOX 14. According to MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer, the last three
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Building off of a previous report that last Saturday’s UFC on FOX 20 did solid televised ratings, final numbers show that the card actually did much better as the highest-watched summertime UFC on FOX show and the highest overall since January 2015’s UFC on FOX 14.
According to MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer, the last three rounds of the card’s main event between women’s bantamweights Valentina Shevchenko and Holly Holm brought in 4,687,000 viewers, making it the second most-watched UFC on FOX bout outside of football season (where promotion during games traditionally leads to higher numbers), beaten only by April 2013’s Benson Henderson vs. Gilbert Melendez lightweight title bout at UFC on FOX 7.
The overall numbers brought a 1.8 share and 2,975,000 viewers on average, beaten only by a movie aired on NBC brought in 2,976,000 viewers. The main success of UFC on FOX 20 came in the key 18-34 demographic, gaining an 0.8 rating and 1.1 share when no other show on network television topped 0.7 that night.
UFC on FOX 20’s massive ratings success was mainly due to the overall fame and attention that Holm brings, as she is still known as the fighter who knocked out Ronda Rousey despite losing two straight fights since. Holm brought a large amount of buzz to the Chicago card, which, after losing its ‘Rumble Johnson vs. Glover Teixeira co-main event, was lacking in overall star power.
But the fact that Holm’s bout with Shevchenko lasted five full rounds allowed ratings to climb to the lofty figures above.
The prelims also faired well with 1,261,000 viewers.
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No. 6-ranked UFC lightweight contender Edson “Junior” Barboza picked up arguably the biggest victory of his career this past weekend (Sat., July 23, 2016), scoring a decisive decision win over former Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez. With back-to-back victories over former champions under his belt, Barboza has made it clear that he’d next like to take
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No. 6-ranked UFC lightweight contender Edson “Junior” Barboza picked up arguably the biggest victory of his career this past weekend (Sat., July 23, 2016), scoring a decisive decision win over former Strikeforce champion Gilbert Melendez. With back-to-back victories over former champions under his belt, Barboza has made it clear that he’d next like to take on one of the division’s top contenders next. He was, however, also called out by No. 12-ranked former Bellator champion “Ill” Will Brooks.
Check out Barboza’s response to brooks below:
“If the UFC says you have to fight this guy to get close to the title shot, why not? But like I said, I prefer to fight somebody above me in the rankings,” Barboza said according to MMAjunkie. “If I have a choice, I’d prefer to fight somebody ahead of me. There are five guys ahead of me, and I hope the UFC gives me these guys. If you see the rankings, it’s better for my career. I have to fight the best.”
Brooks, who has been considered to be amongst the best 155 pounders in the world for a few years now, recently made his Octagon debut earlier this month, scoring a decision victory over Ross Pearson. “Ill” Will does possess solid name value, but Barboza may have a point, as a higher ranked fighter could be more suitable at this point in his career.
As far as who he would like to fight next, the Brazilian has previously expressed interest in facing off with former champion Rafael dos Anjos, top contender Khabib Nurmagomedov, or the surging Tony Ferguson. “Junior”, however, feels as if Ferguson should receive the next shot at gold so perhaps a bout with RDA or “The Eagle” would make sense:
“In my opinion, the guy who deserves it the most is Tony Ferguson. He’s busy all the time fighting everybody. Khabib stayed out for a long time, and I think he has to fight a couple more guys to get the chance.”
Who would you like to see Barboza meet next time out?
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No. 4-ranked UFC women’s bantamweight contender Julianna “The Venezuelan Vixen” Pena has made it clear that she would like a title shot next after stringing together four straight UFC wins, most recently scoring a decision victory over former title challenger Cat Zingano at UFC 200. One contender who may challenger Pena for that next title
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No. 4-ranked UFC women’s bantamweight contender Julianna “The Venezuelan Vixen” Pena has made it clear that she would like a title shot next after stringing together four straight UFC wins, most recently scoring a decision victory over former title challenger Cat Zingano at UFC 200. One contender who may challenger Pena for that next title shot, however, is No. 7-ranked Valentina “Bullet” Shevchenko, who scored a dominant decision victory over former champion Holly Holm in the main event of this past weekend’s (July 23, 2016) UFC on FOX 20.
Pena wasn’t too surprised that Shevchenko beat Holm, however. “The Venezuelan Vixen”, who appeared on today’s (July 25, 2016) edition of The MMA Hour, said that ‘harmless’ Holly has been ‘overrated’:
“No, I wasn’t surprised. I’ve been saying for a while now that harmless Holly couldn’t hurt a fly, especially in a five-round fight. It’s just a little nickname. She was a little bit overrated, she got thrown into the mix and got into the top 10 after beating up some people that have not been around as long. So I think she got a little lucky with the choices of opponents that she’s had.”
Aside from Pena and Shevchenko, former longtime bantamweight queen “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey could also receive the next shot at gold if she does indeed decide to make her long awaited return after being shockingly knocked out by Holm last November. Pena also took the opportunity to take a shot at Rousey, calling the former titleholder a ‘one-trick pony’:
“I just know that the division has been changing a lot more now that Ronda is not the champion and I knew this was going to happen after that. Just because I feel Ronda is a one-trick pony who has been able to rack up all these wins and be so dominant, I knew the second she lost, it would be an open division for the rest of us. And once she was exposed, that it would be harder for her to get back in there and then second off, get back in there to win her belt. It’s good for the other girls to show the world that there are other 135-pound women out there other than Ronda Rousey.”
Who do you believe should receive the next crack at newly-minted 135-pound champ Amanda Nunes?
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With UFC On FOX 20 officially in the books, it’s time to find out how much money fighters who competed on Saturday’s fight card earned via UFC’s mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Below are the payouts that the fighters earned strictly from the UFC…
With UFC On FOX 20 officially in the books, it’s time to find out how much money fighters who competed on Saturday’s fight card earned via UFC’s mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Below are the payouts that the fighters earned strictly from the UFC/Reebok outfitting deal for the fights from Chicago, Illinois this past Saturday, July 23, 2016. Figures are courtesy of MMAJunkie.com.
Note: These are not the usual fighter salaries we post after each event, but instead the amount of money fighters earned strictly from the new Reebok sponsorship deal.
UFC On FOX 20 Main Card (FOX)
– Valentina Shevchenko: $2,500 def. Holly Holm: $2,500
– Edson Barboza: $15,000 def. Gilbert Melendez: $5,000
– Francis Ngannou: $2,500 def. Bojan Mihajlovic: $2,500
– Felice Herrig: $2,500 def. Kailin Curran: $2,500UFC On FOX 20 Preliminary Card (FS1)
– Eddie Wineland: $10,000 def. Frankie Saenz: $2,500
– Darren Elkins: $10,000 def. Godofredo Pepey: $5,000
– Kamaru Usman: $2,500 def. Alexander Yakovlev: $2,500
– Michel Prazeres: $5,000 def. J.C. Cottrell: $2,500UFC On FOX 20 Preliminary Card (Fight Pass)
– Alex Oliveira: $5,000 def. James Moontasri: $2,500
– Jason Knight: $2,500 def. Jim Alers: $2,500
– Luis Henrique: $2,500 def. Dmitrii Smoliakov: $2,500TOTAL: $92,500
How do Reebok and the UFC decide how much fighters earn through the new Reebok sponsorship deal? How do they reach the figures that will be paid out to the fighters? Click ahead to page two for a full breakdown that explains what it takes to make a certain amount of money through this new, mandatory sponsorship deal between UFC and Reebok.