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Clay Guida Looking Forward to New Start, Making Waves at 145 Pounds

Clay Guida made his UFC debut on October 14, 2006, when he submitted Justin James via rear-naked choke at the 4:42 mark of the second round. On Saturday, January 26 Guida will make what he referred to as a “re-debut” with the UFC when…

Guida is a veteran of the sport, having been a professional mixed martial artist since July 2003. While his official professional record is 29-13, he is approaching this fight on the UFC on Fox 6 card, as if his record were 0-0, which it is at the 145-pound featherweight limit.

The decision to drop to 145 pounds came after Guida found himself on the losing end of two consecutive decisions at 155 pounds. The first loss was a unanimous decision that went the way of now UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson, while the second loss was a split decision to Gray Maynard.

Guida was bothered for some time about the Maynard fight and even though he claims that the loss is in the past, his words tell another tale—clearly that loss still eats at him, driving him in some way.

“That fight was in June, you’re going to see a more revamped, more energetic Clay Guida,” Maynard said in a recent interview. “I believe that I am one of the most improved lightweights, soon to be featherweights, in mixed martial arts. If you see my striking, it’s been pretty much pin point. I outstruck Gray, I outgrappled Gray, go down the list, I beat him everywhere except in the judges eyes, I’m beyond that now. It’s a learning experience and Hatsu Hioki is going to pay Saturday night for it.”

And while the loss to Maynard still seems to bother him, don’t think Guida is sitting around feeling sorry for himself.

“If I was hanging my head I wouldn’t be here right now,” Guida said. “You gotta pick up the pieces and move on. That’s not how I’ve come this far, that’s not what’s going to get me the featherweight title. People that hang their head seem to have a negative attitude and that’s not how I was brought up. I’ve moved on.”

Now that Guida has moved on from the Maynard loss and the lightweight division as a whole he can concentrate on moving up, which is something he seems intent on doing, saying “We’re going to make waves at 145—the best is yet to come.”

Note: All quotes obtained firsthand.

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Demetrious Johnson: ‘We Just Gotta Go Out There and Put on a Good Show’

Sometimes the odds don’t always tell the whole story. A perfect example of that fact was the Demetrious Johnson vs. Joseph Benavidez bout that took place on September 22, 2012. That bout, the co-main event of UFC 152, saw Benavidez enter the Octagon as a minus-280 favorite over Johnson (+210). After 25 fast-paced minutes, Johnson, the underdog, walked away with his hand raised and a shiny new UFC title wrapped around his waist.

Johnson will hope history doesn’t repeat itself on Saturday night at UFC on Fox 6 when he defends that title for the first time, facing John Dodson. Johnson will enter this fight as the favorite (-240) over Dodson (+190).

In case you were unaware, and if your knowledge of this bout goes no further than the advertising Fox has been running leading into the event, you were unaware, the title at stake is the UFC flyweight title. Any mention of that weight division has been conspicuously absent from the commercials, which have simply labeled Saturday’s main event as a “Championship Fight.”

Some fighters would probably be bothered by that fact, their ego bruised, but not Johnson, he’s more than satisfied with the advertising and his placement at the top of the fight card:

“I’m grateful that they gave us that time slot and they advertised the fight in general. They could have not advertised it all. They could have just said, you guys are fighting on January 26, show up, nobody get hurt, have a great camp.” Johnson added, “I’m just a guy trying to do well in his career and put on a good show.”

Unfortunately for him, some mixed martial arts fans are reluctant to see the lower weight divisions as good shows. These fans deride the lack of knockouts in the smaller fighters, labeling the fast hands and footwork as style over substance. Johnson feels that through time and education that opinion will change: “As they get more educated in the sport they’ll see we’re using that speed to set things up, it’s just going to take time.”

Johnson then went into more detail about the speed the flyweight fighters bring into the Octagon: “When a fast car goes past, everyone thinks ‘oh, that car was fast’ but let’s see what’s under the hood, oh yeah, this guy’s got headers, intake, this is what’s making it fast. That’ll transition into mixed martial arts eventually.”

Until the fans catch up, “We just gotta go out there and put on a good show and that’s all we gotta do.” He and Dodson will get the opportunity to do just that in the main event from Chicago’s United Center on Saturday night.

***All quotes obtained first hand by B/R MMA.

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Donald Cerrone to Pettis: ‘You Want to Stand and Fight Mother****er, Let’s Go’

When the fight between Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis was first announced, it was widely believed that the winner would move on to face Benson Henderson for the UFC lightweight title. The folding of Strikeforce and the transfer of that promotion&rsq…

At this point, it looks like the winner of Saturday’s UFC on Fox 6 Cerrone versus Pettis bout may fight for the title sometime this summer, but that’s a pretty big maybe in the UFC’s ever-changing world of who is and isn’t in the mix.

Where Pettis has seemed to not agree with that plan, Cerrone couldn’t care less; in fact, he finds Pettis’ take on the entire subject a bit hypocritical.

“They absorbed Strikeforce. Just as they brought Anthony over from the WEC and gave him an immediate title shot; granted, he took the fight with Clay Guida, so now he’s saying, ‘Oh, I can’t accept that’ when he did the exact same thing. They absorbed the company, and he (Melendez) is the champion and they should unify the titles, but it sucks for me because I have to wait until summer when wakeboarding’s in full effect.”

The other thing that seems to have bothered Pettis is the fact that Cerrone had been talking copious amounts of trash about him.

Cerrone, on more than one occasion, has stated that he felt Pettis was dodging a fight with him, while Pettis was in fact rehabbing from an injury. When asked about the trash talk, Cerrone basically said it was all a means to an end. “I got the fight now, didn’t I? That was kind of the overall goal. I was talking that s*** until he finally said, ‘You know what, f**k it, let’s go.’ That was the plan.”

And go they will. Many in the media have opined that the Cerrone versus Pettis bout has “Fight of the Night” written all over it.

When asked if that talk heightened expectations on him and his opponent, Cerrone heatedly responded, “I don’t care. Just because you say it’s going to be fight of the year? I’m going to go out there and fight my ass off and that’s just what I do. I just go out there and get in your face, non-stop. As far as living up to the hype, I hope Anthony can live up to the hype. I plan on going out there and giving it everything I got, saving nothing for the swim home, just going to give it all.”

When asked if he had heard that Pettis had opined on how he felt Cerrone would attempt to take him down and lay and pray his way to victory, Cerrone responded, “Have you ever see me lay and pray? I’ve never once laid and prayed. My game plan against (Nate) Diaz should have been take him down and do the same thing and I didn’t. I have a feeling you want to stand and, fight mother****er. Let’s go. And you can quote that.”

As for the outcome of the fight, Cerrone clearly expects to win and move on to the next challenge of his career, plainly stating that 2013 “year is the year I’m going after that title for sure.”

On Saturday night, we’ll find out if he can make good on that claim.

All quotes obtained firsthand by BR MMA.

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UFC on Fox 6: Johnson vs. Dodson Pre-Fight Press Conference Live Streaming Video

Demetrious Johnson is set to defend the UFC flyweight title for the first time, and he will try to do so against The Ultimate Fighter winner John Dodson in the UFC on Fox 6 main event.After beating Ian McCall in the semifinals of a four-man tournament …

Demetrious Johnson is set to defend the UFC flyweight title for the first time, and he will try to do so against The Ultimate Fighter winner John Dodson in the UFC on Fox 6 main event.

After beating Ian McCall in the semifinals of a four-man tournament to crown the UFC’s first-ever 125-pound champion, Johnson won the belt in a close fight with Joseph Benavidez.

Dodson, meanwhile, quickly climbed the ranks of the developing flyweight division with wins over Jussier Formiga and Tim Elliott.

In addition to the flyweight title fight, UFC on Fox 6 will also feature a number of important fights across multiple divisions.

Following wins in his first two UFC bouts, Glover Teixeira will try to prove he is a light heavyweight contender with a win over Quinton Jackson. Also, title shots could be on the line in a lightweight bout between Anthony Pettis and Donald Cerrone, as well as a featherweight fight between Erik Koch and Ricardo Lamas.

To promote UFC on Fox 6, which will be held at the United Center in Chicago, a pre-fight press conference will be held on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET. Event headliners Johnson, Dodson, Jackson, Teixeira, Pettis, Cerrone, Koch and Lamas will likely join UFC president Dana White for the presser.

Video of the press conference will be streamed live on the above video player. After the presser, stay tuned to Bleacher Report MMA for all the latest on UFC on Fox 6 and the rest of your MMA needs.

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UFC on Fox 6: Erik Koch vs. Ricardo Lamas Head-to-Toe Breakdown

Erik Koch and Ricardo Lamas have emerged as two of the top contenders in the featherweight division, so a title shot could be on the line when they meet on the UFC on Fox 6 main card.At one point, Koch had already been pegged as the top 145-pound conte…

Erik Koch and Ricardo Lamas have emerged as two of the top contenders in the featherweight division, so a title shot could be on the line when they meet on the UFC on Fox 6 main card.

At one point, Koch had already been pegged as the top 145-pound contender, but an injury has kept him out of action for 16 months and caused him to lose his shot at champion Jose Aldo.

Likewise, Lamas was briefly linked to a championship bout with Aldo before the UFC opted to put together a superfight of sorts between the Brazilian titleholder and former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar (via SportsTownChicago.com h/t MMARecap.com).

On Saturday, one of these fighters will at least temporarily fall out of the running for a title shot, while the other could put himself at the front of the pack of featherweight contenders.

Let’s take a look at which fighter has the advantage heading into this matchup.

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Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson Looks Back on the Good and Bad Times with the UFC

The UFC’s “Rampage” era looks like it will come to an end on Saturday night in Chicago. Win or lose Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is planning on walking away from the organization following his UFC on Fox 6 co-main event battl…

The former UFC champion, and unifier of the UFC and Pride titles participated in his final open workout in Chicago on Wednesday and he had a lot to say about his time with the promotion, both good and bad.

With the level of vitriol that emerged during his recent media call, you would think Jackson would be walking away from the promotion angry and embittered, spitting venom at those that will soon be his former employers, but that wasn’t the case. The outspoken veteran seemed resigned to the fact that this was the end of the road in the UFC for him. “It’s just another fight, I don’t think about all that other stuff. This is how I pay my bills.”

As for paying the bills in the future Jackson reiterated the fact that he was very serious about making the move to professional boxing, not only for the fat paychecks that may come with that sport, but due to the fact that he feels he could fill a big role as a participant in the “sweet science.”

“I think I can bring to boxing what they are lacking right now,” Jackson said. “We don’t have a Holyfield or Mike Tyson or fighters like that right now and I think I can bring that kind of energy to boxing.”

But that’s in the future, as far as the past, Jackson laid out his top three grievances with the UFC, a complete list of which he said would have taken a great deal of time to run through.

The first was, “The DVD Rampage Greatest Hits. If they had even told me that they were making the DVD I could have helped promote it, I could have made a little money off that.”

Next up:

My Round 5 toy. They made me leave the company and then they sign with the company and the toy looks stupid. I don’t get toys to give to my kids, they don’t even tell me. They got stuff about me I don’t even know, cards, t-shirts, stuff, chains and the toy looks stupid, it doesn’t even have hair. It’s stupid.

Finally, “The last thing they did to me in my last fight, I got injured and they knew I was injured and instead of appreciating that I didn’t pull out of the Japan card, Dana talked crap about me.”

It wasn’t all looking back in anger for Jackson, he did mention several things he will miss about his time with the UFC:

I’ll miss Burt Watson, he’s funny backstage and cool to hang around. Honestly, if you’re on Dana’s good side he’s the coolest guy. Lorenzo and Frank have always been cool with me, those guys are real cool. I’ll miss the good fans, the fans cheering you on when you walk back to the locker room and stuff. Bruce Buffer calling your name. I’ll miss all that but, sometimes you gotta look in the mirror and stand up for yourself when you feel you’ve been treated badly, there’s just so much you can take.

For those thinking this is all just bluster, just Rampage being Rampage on one side and UFC president Dana White being Dana White on the other and that the two will work things out and come to some resolution, Jackson will tell you that you’re wrong:

I think that bridge is burned. I don’t want to badmouth them. Dana, once upon a time gave me a big break when he purchased my contract from WFA, but it’s no secret, ever since I did the A-Team movie and didn’t fight Rashad Evans in Memphis we’ve had a bad relationship.

It’s hard to be certain if that is in fact the time and the reason that things went bad between Jackson and the UFC; what does seem certain is that a UFC career that began in February 2007 will come to an end on January 26, 2012.

**all quotes obtained first hand by BR MMA

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