The UFC and Fox are slowly starting to make changes, as the first full year of their partnership winds to a close. One of the first adjustments they’ve made has been moving the UFC on Fox preliminary card to FX. While the prelims for Fox events w…
The UFC and Fox are slowly starting to make changes, as the first full year of their partnership winds to a close. One of the first adjustments they’ve made has been moving the UFC on Fox preliminary card to FX.
While the prelims for Fox events were doing fine on Fuel TV, the cards always felt a little less important than their PPV counterparts that had a lead-in from FX, a problem the UFC will try to solve starting this weekend.
With a three-hour, six-fight lead-in to the stacked main card on Fox, the prelims on FX should set up an epic night of fights, and feature a few awesome matchups of their own.
The UFC on Fox gives us their fifth installment this Saturday as Benson Henderson and Nate Diaz headline a great night of fights from Seattle, Washington. While there have been some disappointments along the way, most would say that the quality of the …
The UFC on Fox gives us their fifth installment this Saturday as Benson Henderson and Nate Diaz headline a great night of fights from Seattle, Washington.
While there have been some disappointments along the way, most would say that the quality of the Fox cards have been improving on an event-to-event basis.
As momentum continues to pick up this week leading up to the fights, let’s take a look at each of the five UFC on Fox cards and how they stack up against each other on paper.
Forget about how the cards actually played out, these rankings are based purely upon how the fight card fans were looking on the day of the fight and how amped they were heading into watching the fights.
These rankings are only taking into account the live main-card fights that were broadcast on Fox and not the prelims shown elsewhere.
Should he defeat Benson Henderson in the UFC on Fox 5 main event, Nate Diaz will join an elite few. The only The Ultimate Fighter contestants to ever win a UFC championship are Matt Serra, Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans, but Diaz would join that grou…
Should he defeat Benson Henderson in the UFC on Fox 5 main event, Nate Diaz will join an elite few. The only The Ultimate Fighter contestants to ever win a UFC championship are Matt Serra, Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans, but Diaz would join that group with a victory on Saturday.
Diaz won the fifth season of the reality series after Manny Gamburyan suffered an injury in the finals. Following his win over Gamburyan, Diaz embarked on a five-year journey to the point he has finally reached today as the top contender in the lightweight division.
In the same calendar year that his brother failed to earn UFC gold in a bout against Carlos Condit, Diaz will have a chance to crawl out from the shadows of his sibling. As the biggest fight of Diaz’s career draws near, let’s take a look at every fight on the card he is headlining this weekend.
(“Why must we have to wait until February for the next episode of The Walking Dead? WHY?!”)
If their backstories are any indication of how they will perform, then Rory MacDonald best prepare himself for hell against B.J. Penn come Saturday night. Not only is BJ looking to be in the best shape of his (welterweight) career, but the manner in which “The Prodigy” was portrayed in the UFC’s recent UFC on FOX 5 “Road to the Octagon” featurette has all but set him up for an epic career comeback. The “champion hoping to reignite legacy for family’s honor” angle has been played up plenty of times by similar countdowns, fight previews, or whathaveyous in the past, but very few cases have been as emotionally gut-wrenching as Penn’s.
The normally stoic Penn, whose daughter turned 4 around the time of the filming, revealed a completely unseen side of himself as he broke down in front of the cameras while describing how hard it has been to see his children grow up while he has been away fighting to secure their future (14:25). Credit is due to the editing department for brilliantly juxtaposing Penn’s fatherly plight (but did they have to have impose BJ’s breakdown over the Happy Birthday song for his daughter? TOO MUCH EMOTIONS DAMN YOU) with that of MacDonald’s, who admits that his own father wasn’t around much during his childhood. Nice try, Rory, but you are now the Max Bear to Penn’s James Braddock and we will root against you until Penn breathes his final breath. ATTICA! ATTICA!!
Anyway, a full replay of the special is after the jump, and it features an equally compelling handling of the Gustafsson/Rua and Henderson/Diaz fights, so check it out, won’t you?
(“Why must we have to wait until February for the next episode of The Walking Dead? WHY?!”)
If their backstories are any indication of how they will perform, then Rory MacDonald best prepare himself for hell against B.J. Penn come Saturday night. Not only is BJ looking to be in the best shape of his (welterweight) career, but the manner in which “The Prodigy” was portrayed in the UFC’s recent UFC on FOX 5 “Road to the Octagon” featurette has all but set him up for an epic career comeback. The “champion hoping to reignite legacy for family’s honor” angle has been played up plenty of times by similar countdowns, fight previews, or whathaveyous in the past, but very few cases have been as emotionally gut-wrenching as Penn’s.
The normally stoic Penn, whose daughter turned 4 around the time of the filming, revealed a completely unseen side of himself as he broke down in front of the cameras while describing how hard it has been to see his children grow up while he has been away fighting to secure their future (14:25). Credit is due to the editing department for brilliantly juxtaposing Penn’s fatherly plight (but did they have to have impose BJ’s breakdown over the Happy Birthday song for his daughter? TOO MUCH EMOTIONS DAMN YOU) with that of MacDonald’s, who admits that his own father wasn’t around much during his childhood. Nice try, Rory, but you are now the Max Bear to Penn’s James Braddock and we will root against you until Penn breathes his final breath. ATTICA! ATTICA!!
Anyway, a full replay of the special is after the jump, and it features an equally compelling handling of the Gustafsson/Rua and Henderson/Diaz fights, so check it out, won’t you?
One month comes as another one goes! After a newsworthy November, it’s time to kick December into high gear.The month has four UFC events, including the UFC 155 pay-per-view, which will host a heavyweight title bout between champion Junior dos Santos a…
One month comes as another one goes! After a newsworthy November, it’s time to kick December into high gear.
The month has four UFC events, including the UFC 155 pay-per-view, which will host a heavyweight title bout between champion Junior dos Santos and top challenger Cain Velasquez.
While those men battle for the sport’s top prize, there are several other fighters who are competing in hopes of staying on the UFC roster.
Here is a look at 11 fighters who are on the hot seat in the month of December.
“Less than a week out from his backyard bout, Seattle’s Michael Chiesa has been forced to withdraw from UFC on FOX due to illness. The TUF Live season winner had been first slated to fight Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Rafaello ‘Tractor’ Oliveira, then lightweight Marcus LeVesseur when Oliveira was injured,” UFC.com reported.
The particular illness was not disclosed but one imagines that Chiesa would have to be awfully jacked-up to pull out of such a huge fight for himself. It would have been Chiesa’s first UFC bout since winning TUF Live at the series’ finale show last June, and he would have been fighting in front of his hometown fans in Seattle, on a FX-televised platform before a monster FOX event.
“Less than a week out from his backyard bout, Seattle’s Michael Chiesa has been forced to withdraw from UFC on FOX due to illness. The TUF Live season winner had been first slated to fight Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Rafaello ‘Tractor’ Oliveira, then lightweight Marcus LeVesseur when Oliveira was injured,” UFC.com reported.
The particular illness was not disclosed but one imagines that Chiesa would have to be awfully jacked-up to pull out of such a huge fight for himself. It would have been Chiesa’s first UFC bout since winning TUF Live at the series’ finale show last June, and he would have been fighting in front of his hometown fans in Seattle, on a FX-televised platform before a monster FOX event.
Its all fun and games when Strikeforce events go to crap because everyone in the freaking world is injured at the same time. But MMA needs the UFC to do well on Fox. Get well, soon, Maverick. We hope that UFC on Fox on 5 doesn’t lose any more bouts or else they may have trouble filling their Facebook, FX, and Fox slots.
