there goes cowboy/varner 2...but henderson deserves it
cant believe fabiano got subbed
didnt get to watch it last night, but caught it earlier today
it HAS to be a contender for fight of the year, it was one of the better fights ive seen in a LONG time.
it was a razor close fight. tons of people are calling it robbery, but thats not true. robbery would be if it wasnt a close fight, but the fight was as close as it could be.
i thought honestly they would call it a draw.
I had Henderson winning by a SLIM margin.
I thought he won rounds 2-3 pretty convincingly, and won Rd 1 by a half a pubic hair. he escaped two tight subs, had dominant position and landed good shots on the ground.
So I had it 48-47 Henderson, but I would have had no qualms if Cerrone would have won it 48-47, it was that close
there goes cowboy/varner 2...but henderson deserves it
cant believe fabiano got subbed
dude when fabiano got caught in that triangle, i almost fell outta my chair, I never saw it coming.
I had not heard of Semezier before the fight, have you?
He is obviously very talented, but he came outta nowhere.
In what MMA fans will surely hope is sign of things to come, Spike TV today announced it'll air two fights from the UFC 104 preliminary card before the event's main card goes live on pay-per-view.
The two bouts chosen for free viewing are "The Ultimate Fighter 8" light heavyweight winner Ryan Bader (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) vs. Eric Schafer (11-3-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) and Antoni Hardonk (8-5 MMA, 4-3 UFC) vs. fellow heavyweight Patrick Barry (4-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC).
UFC 104 takes place Oct. 24 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and
the Barry/Hardonk fight will be stand up war, very compelling fight
Heavyweights Junior Dos Santos and Gabriel Gonzaga are expected to meet at UFC 108 on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas.
Multiple sources on Monday told MMAWeekly.com that the fight has been agreed to and contracts are expected to be signed shortly. Fiveknuckles.com was first to report the pairing on Sunday. The bout has yet to be officially announced by the UFC.
Sources tell MMAWeekly.com that the match-up is expected to groom the next contender for the heavyweight title.
Dos Santos (10-1) last month emerged from a starmaking turn against Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic at UFC 103 in Dallas. The 25-year-old Brazilian battered Filipovic with a crisp striking attack that caused the former Pride champion to quit with three minutes left in the 15-minute bout. It was his second upset victory since taking to the Octagon at UFC 90, where he knocked out the highly touted Fabricio Werdum in the first round.
Gonzaga (15-4) is coming off a controversial victory over UFC newcomer Chris Tuchscherer at UFC 102. After an inadvertent low kick struck Tuchscherer in the groin, causing him to briefly lose consciousness, the bout's continuance was placed in jeopardy. Tuchscherer was able to continue after the referee halted the bout, but was unable to stop Gonzaga's relentless attack after the fight was restarted. He succumbed to punches midway through the first round.
The 30-year-old Gonzaga has oft stated a desire for a second shot at the heavyweight title after falling short to then-champion Randy Couture at UFC 74. His Octagon record stands at 7-3.
UFC, DREAM and K-1 veteran middleweight Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) recently revealed his next opponent: Brazilian slugger Wanderlei Silva (32-10-1 MMA, 2-5 UFC).
Akiyama announced the contest at a press conference in Japan centered around the release of "UFC 2009 Undisputed" in the country.
Akiyama did not specify an event, but his February timeline makes the contest likely for UFC 110 in Las Vegas or UFC 111 in Sydney, Australia.
Source: Sherdog.com
"Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal has signed a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce and could make his promotional debut as early as December, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations. "
Woke up on the couch last night just in time to see Wes Sims choked out with an arm-triangle.
He didn't attempt any of several simple counters or reversals to take off some of the pressure or escape altogether. Didn't seem to know much ground either.
The first thing you do when you sense this hold coming on is "answer the phone". Put your palm to your ear on the choke side before it gets too tight. This will prevent the choke from cutting off the blood flow on that side.
Anyway, Rampage seems to need serious couch time himself
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"Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker on Wednesday said that his promotion is ready to take the leap forward and do something that has rarely been attempted in major mixed martial arts promotions, unifying titles across promotions. It’s something that he would like to pursue with Japanese promoter Dream.
Though it’s often been discussed by various promotions, Strikeforce and Dream already have an official fighter sharing partnership in place, so it would be less of a stretch for the two to come to some sort of agreement on unification bouts.
Coker announced the alliance between Strikeforce and Dream in early August, just after tapping Dream’s Mitsuhiro Ishida to come to the U.S. and challenge Gilbert Melendez for the Strikeforce interim lightweight championship.
He likened the agreement to the post-season in Major League Baseball, where teams from different leagues compete to declare the top team in the sport.
In actuality, Coker has been sharing fighters with Dream for quite some time, but once Strikeforce signed Fedor Emelianenko to a multi-fight contract, the two promotions decided to make the alliance more official. The formal partnership could now lead to the title unification bouts, and Coker is ready for that next step.
“I think that one of the reasons why we made the alliance is so we can see some of the best fighters of Dream fight the best fighters of Strikeforce. Unifying those title belts, I have no problem with that. As a fan and as a company, we would definitely like to pursue that.”
Strikeforce is fairly well equipped for its next two major events as far as title bouts go. Jake Shields and Jason “Mayhem” Miller will determine a new middleweight champion on Nov. 7 on CBS, where Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers will likely determine the first challenger to heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem. The undercard of the Chicago event will also produce a contender to Cris “Cyborg” Santos’ title when Erin Toughill and Marloes Coenen square up. Lightweight champion Josh Thomson will face Melendez in December.
Two openings would appear to be at welterweight, where filling the vacant slot has become somewhat of a Bermuda Triangle, and light heavyweight. Champion Gegard Mousasi will face Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou in a light heavyweight non-title affair on Nov. 7, but has few legitimate challengers waiting in the ranks of the current Strikeforce roster.
But if and when Coker can put together a cross-promotional unification bout, it will be a major development in mixed martial arts."
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