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The interview was completed before Nick Diaz and BJ Penn were promoted to the main event of UFC 137.
Diaz talks about his upcoming fight against Penn, feeling that he and the two-division UFC champ have similar styles, and probably share the same fans. Diaz simply wants to win and is always looking to put on exciting fights.
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The interview was completed before Nick Diaz and BJ Penn were promoted to the main event of UFC 137.
Diaz talks about his upcoming fight against Penn, feeling that he and the two-division UFC champ have similar styles, and probably share the same fans. Diaz simply wants to win and is always looking to put on exciting fights.
Nick Diaz has become THE topic heading into UFC 137, but the heavyweight fight between Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo—which is now the card’s co-main event—is an extremely important fight as well.The fight may well have implications as to w…
Nick Diaz has become THE topic heading into UFC 137, but the heavyweight fight between Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo—which is now the card’s co-main event—is an extremely important fight as well.
The fight may well have implications as to who will be next in line at a No. 1 contender fight or even a title shot.
However, to Mitrione, it really doesn’t matter a whole lot. In fact, it doesn’t really matter at all.
“I don’t get paid to worry about that,” Mitrione said concerning his proximity to a title shot at the UFC 137 media call. “I don’t really care, to be honest. If I go out there and kick Cheick Kongo’s ass, then that’s a conversation that we’ll have.”
Mitrione may not be concerned about the belt, but he’s definitely concerned about what’s below it—his “nuts and berries.”
Kongo has a reputation for landing groin shots, and it’s a reputation that the former NFL star is certainly aware of and is (hopefully) prepared for.
The Illinois native doesn’t have any special technique for avoiding being hit below the belt; he just hopes his cup is “one that’s, hopefully, protecting.”
“As long as it covers my jewels, my nuts and berries, I’ll be alright.”
Nut shots aside, Mitrione still has reasons to be cautious when fighting Kongo.
The Frenchman recently increased his stock with an unbelievable comeback victory over Pat Barry that is widely considered to be the best comeback in MMA history (or the second best if you think the best was Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen).
Is this what has Mitrione concerned? Yes, but concerned is too strong a word; Mitrione is just aware.
“Cheick is resilient and he’s not gonna let the fight get stopped,” he said. “He’s got a ton of heart…If you get him in trouble, he’s too active and the [referee] won’t stop the fight because he’s so active.”
The fight between Mitrione and Kongo will be the co-main event of UFC 137 and will almost certainly be a fight of the night candidate due to each fighters striking-oriented style as well as Kongo’s apparent ability to knock people out when he’s seemingly unconscious.
Should Mitrione win, he’ll rise in the heavyweight rankings and will be labeled a contender, making his fight with Kongo one that should definitely be watched (even if you are squeamish regarding shots below the belt).
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Despite all the changes UFC 137 has had to undergo the past week, one would seem to think that BJ Penn would become irritated by the sudden reformation. First, Penn was scheduled to square off against Carlos Condit in the co-main event, but instea…
Despite all the changes UFC 137 has had to undergo the past week, one would seem to think that BJ Penn would become irritated by the sudden reformation.
First, Penn was scheduled to square off against Carlos Condit in the co-main event, but instead he was lined up against Nick Diaz after Diaz failed to show up and co-promote his main event bout with Georges St-Pierre.
Now, after learning that St-Pierre’s knee injury will keep him the welterweight champ out of the main event, Penn and Diaz have been asked to fill that void.
However, the Hawaiian native feels composed ahead of his bout against Diaz and anticipates an intriguing matchup.
“I think this is an exciting fight for the fans, two good fighters,” Penn told USA Today.
The former UFC lightweight champion hasn’t been as successful at 170 pounds as most fans had hoped. Since 2009, Penn is 1-1-1 with his most recent victory coming against Matt Hughes at UFC 123 last year, which is unimaginable after his dominance at 155 pounds.
But in Diaz, Penn faces an opponent who as arguably as skilled as he is in every aspect. He even went as far as to claim the former Strikeforce welterweight champion was a superior boxer.
“I think with Nick Diaz’s background—he spars with Andre Ward, he was signed to fight Jeff Lacy, he was being considered to fight Roy Jones Jr.—he’s got to be the best boxer in mixed martial arts today,” he said.
Diaz’s behaviour landed him in a position to face Penn, which is a bout that has interested fans much more than Penn’s original matchup with Condit. But if fans are looking forward to a bout surrounding trash talk and emotion, Penn isn’t the fighter who can necessarily deliver that promise.
While Diaz is renowned for his trash-talk and taunting, Penn said he doesn’t feel the need to respond in the same manner. After being involved in mixed martial arts for early a decade, “The Prodigy” says he has changed as a fighter.
“For me, nowadays, all it is is a job,” he said. “I’m sure my fans would want to see me fight certain fighters and beat certain fighters, but as of now, in my head, I’m at peace. Everything is clear for me.”
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Tweet With the Ultimate Fighting Championship set to begin featuring five-round non-title main event bouts next month with UFC 138, manager Cesar Gracie feels that with the bout between his fighter Nick Diaz and BJ Penn being promoted to the main event for UFC 137, that it should be five rounds. Gracie issued the challenge […]
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With the Ultimate Fighting Championship set to begin featuring five-round non-title main event bouts next month with UFC 138, manager Cesar Gracie feels that with the bout between his fighter Nick Diaz and BJ Penn being promoted to the main event for UFC 137, that it should be five rounds.
Gracie issued the challenge to Penn’s camp on Tuesday via MMAFighting.com.
“Dana is good with it. We’ve agreed to it. If BJ agrees to it, we’ll make it happen.”
During Wednesday’s live media call for UFC 137, Penn was given a chance to respond to Gracie’s challenge, telling the media that he’d be “happy to do a five-round fight”, but since this is a business he wanted “to be compensated accordingly.”
Not knowing where that money may come from the former two-division UFC champ said maybe Gracie should come up with the money if it’s something they really want (transcription via MMAFighting.com).
“Cesar’s a strange guy. I don’t know why he did that in the first place,” said Penn. “I think Cesar should have to be the guy to compensate me to take it, not Dana. But at the end of day, no, I don’t mind. I’d love to do a five-round fight. If I’m compensated, this is a job…there’s nothing wrong with a main event being five rounds.”
Penn and Diaz were promoted to the headliner of UFC 137 after the previous main event bout, a UFC welterweight title fight between champ Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit, fell through after GSP injured his leg.
The event is scheduled to take place on Oct. 29 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The full audio from today’s UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz media call which featured headliner BJ Penn, co-main event fighters Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo. Former Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz was almost a “no show” once again but managed to jump on the line after 45-minutes.
Diaz stated that “I didn’t even know about a call,” saying that he wasn’t informed till well after the conference call had started. UFC President Dana White defended Diaz by Tweeting “I’m hearing UFC dropped the ball on the Nick Diaz no show today!! SUCKS”
I guess I’ll leave that up to you to believe or not as we should all remember the story about the boy who cried wolf.
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The full audio from today’s UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz media call which featured headliner BJ Penn, co-main event fighters Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo. Former Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz was almost a “no show” once again but managed to jump on the line after 45-minutes.
Diaz stated that “I didn’t even know about a call,” saying that he wasn’t informed till well after the conference call had started. UFC President Dana White defended Diaz by Tweeting “I’m hearing UFC dropped the ball on the Nick Diaz no show today!! SUCKS”
I guess I’ll leave that up to you to believe or not as we should all remember the story about the boy who cried wolf.
Episode 3 starts off where episode 2 finished with me getting the win over Marcus aka “Darkness!” Mayhem talk about how my win set the tone for the Team and gets our moral up and puts another stab at Bisping!Then fight pick time, they show Dodson sayin…
Episode 3 starts off where episode 2 finished with me getting the win over Marcus aka “Darkness!” Mayhem talk about how my win set the tone for the Team and gets our moral up and puts another stab at Bisping!
Then fight pick time, they show Dodson saying he pretty much on the other team and that he had been giving away all of our match ups and plans. At that time we didn’t have a clue Dodson was giving up info about our team, but Bedford from the beginning thought something was fishy about Dodson.
Then at fight picks, Ferguson aka Taz pulled out that letter that said F*** you Bedford, so we knew someone was leaking info & Dodson was always hanging out with the other team…Hmmmmm.
Now a little behind the scenes action they didn’t show! That night after the fight picks around 1 am when I thought the night was over and I was getting ready to hit the hay, someone started a war and guess who???
Yep, AKIRA of course, he started a war against Louis, Dodson & Roland (which up until now Roland has been kind of a loner). So when I run outside to see what’s going on I see Akira ducking, diving and jiving to dodge all the flying objects that they’re throwing at him from the balcony. Lol.
What do I see in Akira’s hands, the freakin’ fire extinguisher which they told us NOT to touch. He finally makes it to the bottom of the balcony, and starts throwing stuff back at them and starts spraying the fire extinguisher at them every time they look over the edge. It’s actually pretty hilarious!!
So when Akira finally runs out of things to throw at them, he runs around to the kitchen where now John Albert AKA Prince is up from bed (remember this is all takin’ place after 1am) and Akira talks him into taping wooden skewers to his hands like Wolverine. Lol. He also convinces Prince to wear his swim goggles (which by the way looks absolutely ridiculous) and pretend he’s Cyclops.
Akira also tried to talk TJ Dillashaw AKA Wonder Boy to wear a metal rice cooker pot on his head, lol, and pretend he’s magneto, but TJ doesn’t go for it. So its Prince and Shakira vs Dodson, Roland and Louis as TJ and I stand by and laugh.
Prince and Akira grab Mustard and a bunch of other stuff from the kitchen including the fire extinguisher to make their attack on the balcony. TJ and I watch them battle it out on the balcony as Akira sprays the fire extinguisher, which runs out shortly then squirts mustard ALL over the place as they return fire with bottles of water followed by flour and muffin mix. Haha!
Somehow the other guys get a hold of the mustard bottle and TJ and I agree it’s time to get heck outta there, but I still ended up getting covered in water and some muffin mix myself! So we run outside, Akira jumps in the pool to rinse off then jumps out and takes Marcus Brimage AKA Darkness hostage with his “Wolverine” claws.
Since Darkness is a part of their little click which ends up actually working because they get rid of mustard bottle. Louis ends up taking off Darkness’ microphone and hands it to Peaches (Steven Bass) and then Peaches pushes all three of the guys in the pool. Louis gets out immediately and starts freaking out, saying he still had his microphone on which is a $2k fine if you ruin it.
Peaches thought that Louis gave him his microphone not Darkness’ and he assumed Darkness and Akira had theirs off because they were by the edge of the pool & Akira was already soaking wet…whoops!
So Peaches freaks out, goes inside and calls the producer. Luckily, they saw it was an accident so they gave him his one get out of jail free card. Luckily for him he didn’t have to pay the $2k fine. That pretty much concluded the night, it was a crazy one!
Next day at weigh-ins, Bisping starts making personal attacks on Mayhem, saying he’s the Strikeforce reject and where’s his picture in the UFC training center. Then after that the guys weigh-in, Ferguson tries to smile off his nervousness but you can see right through it.
So when we get home, the blue team is fighting and arguing because Diego and Marcus had it out in practice and now Diego is super pissed off and emotional and wants to leave the house and go home but we all talked him into staying, even our team since he pretty much hung out with our team mostly we all really liked him. The blue team seemed chaotic.
Fight Day arrives, Bedford asked me to go early with him to his fight to be his warmup partner, everyone on our team wore orange bandanas to support him since he’s always wearin that damn thing lol. Bedford wins the fight with a unanimous decision in a dominating style with a great display of clinch work and ground n pound.
So after the fights we have a BBQ with the coaches and Miller talks our wrestling coach Kush into drinking a whole glass of Hot tub water that all the fighters have used to cut weight in and sweated in for like $20, NOT worth it!
Then Dustin Pague says he will eat a cockroach for some cash which progresses to three bugs fr $60 and he has to chew them up completely & wash them down with a little bit of jacuzzi water lol it was really funny you should have seen his face!
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