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UFC Sao Paulo will reportedly play host to a welterweight clash between Belal Muhammad and Elizeu Zaleski. The event goes down live on September 22nd. MMA Fighting is reporting that the bout has been verbally agreed to after an initial report from Braz…
UFC Sao Paulo will reportedly play host to a welterweight clash between Belal Muhammad and Elizeu Zaleski. The event goes down live on September 22nd. MMA Fighting is reporting that the bout has been verbally agreed to after an initial report from Brazilian news outlet AG Fight. The contracts for the bout have yet to […]
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The viewership numbers for UFC Fight Night 119 (UFC Sao Paulo) have been released. The event, which took place on Saturday, October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil and was headlined by middleweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida and Derek Brunson, had to go head-to-head with the […]
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The viewership numbers for UFC Fight Night 119 (UFC Sao Paulo) have been released.
The event, which took place on Saturday, October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil and was headlined by middleweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida and Derek Brunson, had to go head-to-head with the World Series.
As a result of this, UFC Sao Paulo did its lowest numbers ever for a live primetime show on FOX Sports 1. The show averaged 588,000 viewers.
The previous low was a Wednesday night show on July 13, 2016, that was headlined by John Lineker vs. Michael McDonald. Before that, the low was brought on by a May 31, 2014 event also in Sao Paulo that was headlined by Stipe Miocic vs. Fabio Maldonado. Both shows did 609,000 viewers.
Keep in mind that FOX Sports 1 is in fewer homes this year due to cord cutting and streaming.
The fourth game of the World Series brought in 15,400,000 on FOX. The UFC also had to go up against several college football games on Saturday night, which were also down in viewership.
Viewership peaked (671,000 viewers) during Colby Covington vs. Demian Maia fight, which had three rounds to build the audience instead of 2:30 for Brunson vs. Machida.
The prelims pulled in 198,000 viewers on Fox Sports 2 and were headlined by Vicente Luque’s second-round stoppage of Niko Price. The reason that FS2 aired the prelims was due to FS1 airing the Minnesota vs. Iowa game
The post-fight show did 265,000 viewers on FS1 while the pre-fight show on FS2 did 54,000 viewers. The last UFC Fight Night event to air on FS1 was back on September 17th that was headlined by Luke Rockhold vs. David Branch. That show averaged 872,000 viewers, and the post-fight show did 361,000 viewers.
Fight fans will not have to wait long for more UFC action as UFC 217 is slated to take place on Saturday, November 4th in New York at Madison Square Garden. The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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With every decision comes a consequence and for those fighters who took part in battle at UFC Fight Night 119 (also known as UFC Sao Paulo), it’s their time to faces those consequences in the form of medical suspensions. A middleweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida and Derek Brunson headlined this […]
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With every decision comes a consequence and for those fighters who took part in battle at UFC Fight Night 119 (also known as UFC Sao Paulo), it’s their time to faces those consequences in the form of medical suspensions.
A middleweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida and Derek Brunson headlined this event. In the end, Brunson was able to pick up the knockout win. Demian Maia vs. Colby Covington in a welterweight bout served as the co-main event, which saw Covington pick up the decision win.
Rounding out the six bout main card was Pedro Munhoz vs. Rob Font in a bantamweight bout, Jim Miller vs. Francisco Trinaldo in a lightweight bout, Thiago Santos vs. Jack Hermansson in a middleweight bout, and John Lineker vs. Marlon Vera in a bantamweight bout.
Some of the more notable suspensions include Machida being suspended 60 days while Vera got the longest layoff with 180 days. Here are the entire medical suspensions:
Lyoto Machida: Suspended 60 days, 45 days no contact
Niko Price: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Marlon Vera: Suspended 180 days, pending x-ray of left foot (30/21 if cleared)
Jack Hermansson: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Jim Miller: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Ron Font: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Colby Covington: Suspended 30 days, 21 days no contact
Marcelo Golm: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Deiveson Figueiredo: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Elizeu Zaleski: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Hacran Dias: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Antonio Carlos Junior: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Vicente Luque: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
John Lineker: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Thiago Santos: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Francisco Trinaldo: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Pedro Munoz: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Demian Maia: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Derek Brunson: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Christian Colombo: Suspended 30 days, 21 days no contact
Jarred Brooks: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
Max Griffin: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Jared Gordon: Suspended 45 days, 30 days no contact
Jack Marshman: Suspended 14 days, seven days no contact
The event took place take place on Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The main card aired on FOX Sports 1 at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card was split broadcasted on FOX Sports 2 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 7 p.m. ET.
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Former two-time title contender Demian Maia is currently in a rough stretch in his pro-MMA (mixed-martial-arts) career. He has now suffered back-to-back losses for the first time since 2014. Just hours after he lost a unanimous decision to Colby Covington in the co-main event of UFC Sao Paulo, which took place on took place on […]
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Former two-time title contender Demian Maia is currently in a rough stretch in his pro-MMA (mixed-martial-arts) career.
He has now suffered back-to-back losses for the first time since 2014. Just hours after he lost a unanimous decision to Colby Covington in the co-main event of UFC Sao Paulo, which took place on took place on Saturday, October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil on FOX Sports 1, he issued a statement on his official Twitter account.
In the post, he gave props to Covington while admitting a few mistakes he has done in the welterweight bout. He also made it known that he is already looking forward to his next fights inside the Octagon.
Maia’s (25-8) decision to drop from middleweight to welterweight in 2012 and since then, he has dropped to 10-4 at that weight.
After the fight, he went on record by making it known that he is considering to retire. It should be noted that Maia has one fight left on his deal with the UFC.
“I would like to thank everyone’s support in one more step in my path,” Maia wrote. “The big lesson in sports is knowing that competing always brings lessons, and we have to be grateful in victory and in defeat for the learning.
I did my best, made a few mistakes and got a little excited, which might have hampered the execution of my strategy, but that doesn’t take the merit away from my opponent, who deserved the victory, and I leave with my head held high, knowing that I have done the best I could, and I move forward onto the next step of the journey. Thank you all!”
Quero agradecer o apoio e a torcida de todos, em mais uma etapa nesse meu caminho.
(Continua na sequência de postagens) pic.twitter.com/uKnk4yDMVe
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) October 29, 2017
A grande lição do esporte é saber que competir traz sempre lições,e temos que ser gratos na vitória e na derrota pelo aprendizado.(Continua)
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) October 29, 2017
Fiz o meu melhor, cometi alguns erros e me emocionei um pouco, o que pode ter atrapalhado a execução da minha estratégia, …(continua)
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) October 29, 2017
…mas isso não tira o mérito do meu adversário, que mereceu a vitória, e saio de cabeça erguida (continua)…
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) October 29, 2017
…sabendo que cumpri o meu papel da melhor maneira que pude, e sigo em frente rumo ao próximo passo da jornada. Obrigado a todos!
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) October 29, 2017
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Colby Covington is in some hot water with the UFC over his controversial post-fight interview at UFC Sao Paulo. As seen at the event on Saturday, October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the welterweight fighter pulled off a massive win over two-time title contender Demian Maia in the co-main event. […]
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Colby Covington is in some hot water with the UFC over his controversial post-fight interview at UFC Sao Paulo.
As seen at the event on Saturday, October 28, 2017, at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the welterweight fighter pulled off a massive win over two-time title contender Demian Maia in the co-main event.
After the fight, he said that Brazil was “a dump” and its inhabitants to be “filthy animals.” These comments were in line with his statements he made about the country in the lead-up to the fight.
Obviously, it didn’t sit well with fight fans who attended the event. Thus, they hurled garbage at Covington as he left the Octagon to make his way to the backstage area.
UFC senior vice president David Shaw let it be known at the post-fight presser that officials are aware of the situation and that they will make a decision on how to address Covington’s behavior soon. For someone who wants a title shot, this could be a major problem.
“Overall, I thought the fan reactions throughout the course of the night were fantastic generally,” Shaw said at the evening’s post-show presser.
“Brazilian fans are obviously very intelligent, very knowledgeable about the sport, very scrutinizing, and generally it was loud and energetic and boisterous the whole time.
In terms of the fan reactions with Covington fighting, there’s no way for us to support any fans throwing items at any staff or any fighters. However, having said that, we are taking the situation with Covington very seriously. It’s already being reviewed by our code of conduct committee, and it’s something that we are not very happy about.”
Keep in mind that this isn’t the first time that fighters have talked trash about Brazil while building up the hype for a fight against Brazilian athlete. Two-time UFC middleweight title contender Chael Sonnen targeted opponent Anderson Silva’s home country.
Also, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor did a bit of trash talk while he was building up his fight with then-featherweight champion Jose Aldo. McGregor stated on record by stating, “I own this town, I own Rio de Janeiro. I would invade his favela on horseback and would kill anyone who wasn’t fit to work, but we’re in a new time, so I’ll whoop his ass instead.”
Neither Sonnen nor McGregor was given any sort of punishment from the UFC. It should be noted that their comments were aimed at their opponents compared to Covington who aimed his comments directly at the Brazilian audience.
“It’s not for me to say at this point what could possibly happen, but we’ll be reviewing it over the course of the weekend and early next week,” Shaw said.
Covington issued a statement on the situation by clearing up his intentions:
On the walk out I get called every name in the book then they chant "You Gonna Die" I poke back at them a bit and everyone loses their mind?
— Colby Covington (@ColbyCovMMA) October 29, 2017
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UFC middleweight star Derek Brunson is coming off one of the biggest wins of his career. As seen at UFC Sao Paulo on Saturday night at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil, Brunson finished former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida by strikes in the first round. Shortly after that fight, Brunson called out […]
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UFC middleweight star Derek Brunson is coming off one of the biggest wins of his career.
As seen at UFC Sao Paulo on Saturday night at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil, Brunson finished former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida by strikes in the first round.
Shortly after that fight, Brunson called out former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold.
“It just kind of came to me at the last minute,” Brunson said at the post-fight presser to the media (transcript courtesy of MMA Junkie). As for the reason for the matchup? it’s simple to Brunson. Rockhold is an ex-champion and wins over ex-champions get you title opportunities.
Make no mistake about, Brunson’s performance against Machida did advance the interest in seeing him fight for the UFC gold.
“He’s a top-level guy,” Brunson said of Rockhold, who just so happens to be unbooked after scoring a win over ex-WSOF champion David Branch this past month. “I think it would be a great matchup.
I think I can put hands on him, touch that chin, and I could put him down also. A win over Rockhold would definitely get me next for a title shot.”
Keep in mind that the UFC middleweight division is a bit backlogged due to the fact that UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping is slated to defend his title against former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 217 next weekend.
Then, interim champ Robert Whittaker will unify the belt against the winner. Brunson stated that the MMA media regularly disregards his accomplishments in the UFC.
For right now, he just wants to continue to try to prove himself to the world that he is an elite fighter. And if he stays patient, big opportunities will arise sooner than later.
“I’ve definitely had a crazy career, but I’m starting to put it together and take my time,” Brunson said. “I can really do some damage if I just take my time.”
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