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USA TODAY: Former UFC champ Frank Mir books Strikeforce fight vs. Daniel Cormier
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Frank Mir (16-6 MMA, 14-6 UFC) is temporarily leaving the octagon in favor of a Strikeforce cage.
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Jussier da Silva vs. John Dodson targeted for UFC on FX 5
Flyweight standout Jussier da Silva is headed to the UFC and is expected to meet "The Ultimate Fighter 14" winner John Dodson in his promotional debut. MMAjunkie.com today confirmed that at least one fighter has agreed to the matchup, which Tatame first reported.
UFC on FX 5 takes place Oct. 5 at Target Center in Minneapolis. The night's main card airs on FX, and FUEL TV and Facebook are expected to carry the prelims.
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Anderson Silva's manager wants GSP fight, third Rich Franklin bout over Chris Weidman and others
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Before ultimately granting Chael Sonnen his rematch at UFC 148, UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva and his camp expressed their feelings that he wasn't worthy of the fight and that they weren't that interested in the bout. Now that Chris Weidman is emerging as his potential next challenger for the title, Silva's camp is again echoing similar sentiments.
"I don't think any opponent in that category is a joke," Silva's manager Ed Soares said in an interview with MMAJunkie.com. "I just think that some of his opponents just aren't as attractive. When I look at Weidman, I think he's a very talented guy. He's got a bright future. But when I look at it, he's 9-0. Anderson has got double the wins he has in his career in the UFC. So I just don't see the value of being able to fight a guy like this right now. That's my opinion."
Soares actually places more value on a third fight with Rich Franklin, the man Silva took the belt from in 2006, and subsequently defeated a second time a year later. With Franklin returning to the middleweight division, Soares believes he's got a better case than some of the other names being floated out there.
"The only guy that Rich Franklin has ever lost to at 185 pounds is Anderson," Soares said. "So when you look at the 185-pound division, he's definitely up in the mix as far as a contender. I think [Silva would] be interested in fighting Franklin again, just simply because he respects Rich a lot, and he feels that Rich was the guy that gave him the opportunity to fight for the belt."
Outside of that, there remains one fight Soares says Silva has been interested in for some time: a super-fight against UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre. Of course, St-Pierre is on the sidelines until November, and has a fight lined up with Carlos Condit already. Still, that's a bout Silva's apparently got on his mind.
"It's not an easy situation," Soares said. "The middleweight division is a little bit complicated right now. But who am I to sit here and say who they should fight? I'm just saying that as far as the biggest fights go, I see a potential fight with Georges St-Pierre being a big fight."
Penick's Analysis: This is just Soares talking and stirring the pot a bit. It's something he likes to do in between fights, and while they're giving this opinion now, they'll ultimately go along with whatever fight the UFC is looking to put together. A fight with Weidman isn't as huge as a bout against Georges St-Pierre, but that GSP fight isn't going to come together anytime soon. St-Pierre has at least two fights lined up at 170 lbs., if not three. If he gets past Condit, he'll have the winner of Martin Kampmann vs. Johny Hendricks, then likely a fight with Nick Diaz if Diaz returns to action after his year-long suspension. The superfight with Silva has simply looked like it will not happen for some time now, so Silva may just need to move on. Of course, they could also just tell Kampmann or Hendricks "too bad," and go with Silva-GSP should St-Pierre defeat Condit.
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"I don't think any opponent in that category is a joke," Silva's manager Ed Soares said in an interview with MMAJunkie.com. "I just think that some of his opponents just aren't as attractive. When I look at Weidman, I think he's a very talented guy. He's got a bright future. But when I look at it, he's 9-0. Anderson has got double the wins he has in his career in the UFC. So I just don't see the value of being able to fight a guy like this right now. That's my opinion."
Soares actually places more value on a third fight with Rich Franklin, the man Silva took the belt from in 2006, and subsequently defeated a second time a year later. With Franklin returning to the middleweight division, Soares believes he's got a better case than some of the other names being floated out there.
"The only guy that Rich Franklin has ever lost to at 185 pounds is Anderson," Soares said. "So when you look at the 185-pound division, he's definitely up in the mix as far as a contender. I think [Silva would] be interested in fighting Franklin again, just simply because he respects Rich a lot, and he feels that Rich was the guy that gave him the opportunity to fight for the belt."
Outside of that, there remains one fight Soares says Silva has been interested in for some time: a super-fight against UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre. Of course, St-Pierre is on the sidelines until November, and has a fight lined up with Carlos Condit already. Still, that's a bout Silva's apparently got on his mind.
"It's not an easy situation," Soares said. "The middleweight division is a little bit complicated right now. But who am I to sit here and say who they should fight? I'm just saying that as far as the biggest fights go, I see a potential fight with Georges St-Pierre being a big fight."
Penick's Analysis: This is just Soares talking and stirring the pot a bit. It's something he likes to do in between fights, and while they're giving this opinion now, they'll ultimately go along with whatever fight the UFC is looking to put together. A fight with Weidman isn't as huge as a bout against Georges St-Pierre, but that GSP fight isn't going to come together anytime soon. St-Pierre has at least two fights lined up at 170 lbs., if not three. If he gets past Condit, he'll have the winner of Martin Kampmann vs. Johny Hendricks, then likely a fight with Nick Diaz if Diaz returns to action after his year-long suspension. The superfight with Silva has simply looked like it will not happen for some time now, so Silva may just need to move on. Of course, they could also just tell Kampmann or Hendricks "too bad," and go with Silva-GSP should St-Pierre defeat Condit.
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_13958.shtml
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TheSHOOT! Gilbert Melendez - Gilbert Melendez
Gilbert "El Nino" Melendez talks his new gym, and his upcoming fight, only on TheSHOOT! For more, visit SHOOTMedia.com and follow us on Twitter @SHOOTMediaSource: http://mmalice.com/gilbert-melendez/theshoot-gilbert-melendez-video_9a34ceccc.html
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BJJ in the Olympics
To be honest I don't think we'll be seeing MMA in the Olympics in the next 20 years. But BJJ has a legitimate chance to appear as soon as 2016,...
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BJJ in the Olympics
To be honest I don't think we'll be seeing MMA in the Olympics in the next 20 years. But BJJ has a legitimate chance to appear as soon as 2016,...
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HANSEN: A Strikeforce Flight of Fancy - From Precedent to Prescient With Fight Bookings
By: Rich Hansen, MMATorch Columnist
After Daniel Cormier defeated Josh Barnett earlier this year to win the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix and establish himself as an elite heavyweight fighter in mixed martial arts, one question was left hanging unanswered. Who's next? (apologies to Bill Goldberg) Since Strikeforce had seen their entire heavyweight division move over to the UFC, sans Cormier and Barnett, and since Cormier was contractually obligated to one last Strikeforce fight, and since Barnett was the only remaining heavyweight, and since Cormier and Barnett weren't going to rematch, that all meant that someone was going to need to be brought into the red-headed stepchild promotion that just wants love from Old Daddy Warbucks.
Last week, MMA Junkie reported that former UFC heavyweight champion and current MMA vagabond Tim Sylvia had signed with Strikeforce, and that Sylvia would be Cormier's final Strikeforce opponent. Predictably, the most common reaction to this news wasjoy outrage shock intrigue apathy. Dana White came out (so to speak) shortly after the report to say that Tim Sylvia had not signed with Strikeforce, and would not be fighting Cormier.
So again, we were left to wonder; who's next? (I already apologized to Bill Goldberg, doing so again would count as groveling)
On Tuesday night as I was doing show prep for the MMATorch Tuesday Night Livecast, for a brief two seconds the name Frank Mir popped into my little brain, but due to him being in the UFC I disregarded that thought and didn't think about it again (and go ahead, prove I didn't think of it first). At least, I didn't think about Mir vs. Cormier again until John Morgan of USA Today Sports reported that Frank Mir had signed to fight Daniel Cormier for Cormier's last fight. Cormier's fight with Mir will take place at a yet to be announced Strikeforce show in either October or November.
So now that the precedent has been set, we will of course be seeing the (almost) best that the UFC has to offer come flooding into the StrikeforceOctaHexagon to face off against Strikeforce champions Gilbert Melendez (lightweight), Nathan Marquardt (welterweight), Luke Rockhold (middleweight) and Dan Henderson Vacant Vacant (light heavyweight). After all, now that one of the UFC's most loyal soldiers is coming over to fight in Strikeforce, that means that Showtime Sports executive Stephen Espinosa will be seeing the biggest and best that the UFC has to offer in Strikeforce fights his small cadre of elite champions. Right? Right?
Okay, maybe not. Okay, definitely not. But it's fun to think about the possibilities, no? Between Melendez, Marquardt, Rockhold, and Josh Barnett (who is supposed to have one remaining Strikeforce fight), there are a ton of intriguing fights that could be made. Even though none of these fights are going to happen, let's look at the three most intriguing (hypothetical) crossover fights for Melendez, Marquardt, Rockhold, and Barnett.
Josh Barnett
Barnett supposedly has one fight left on his Strikeforce deal. The odds of him ever again fighting in the UFC seem to be thin. Pretty much, Zuffa will want to get as much money out of him as possible before they let him go to coax Fedor out of retirement.
1.) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira: For those of you reading this column who wonder why the word PRIDE is capitalized and say to yourself, "Bono didn't capitalize Pride, so why do all these UFC people do it?" Nogueira and Barnett have already fought twice in Japan for this little company called PRIDE, splitting two fights. Nogueira's on the shelf still rehabbing a broken wing, but should be ready to return soon. Nogueira's a big named special attraction fighter, and is just the type of fighter that the UFC might be willing to lend out to Strikeforce.
2.) Alistair Overeem: Despite Barnett and Overeem fighting in PRIDE at the same times, their paths never crossed due to Barnett being a heavyweight and Overeem being a rail thin flyweight (pre-horsemeat). Overeem is currently sitting on the sidelines due to a urine test showing him with an unusually high ratio of testosterone to epitesterone (read, he pissed hot) which led to him being denied a license to fight in the state of Nevada. What better way for Dana White to send a message that they're serious about cleaning up the drug culture that is pervasive in MMA by forcing him to return from whence he came against a very dangerous (and super duper clean) opponent in Josh Barnett. The odds of Barnett and Overeem being willing to submit to VADA testing like B.J. Penn and Rory MacDonald? Negative eleven billion infinity percent.
3.) Mark Hunt: The UFC doesn't want to see the Twitter hashtag #RallyForHunt come into vogue once again, so what better way to kill it off than to have Barnett mangle Hunt's arm once more, just like he did when they first fought in 2006 in PRIDE (there's those damn caps again. Someone needs to go back to the year 1983 and tell Bono that his Caps Lock button is active!).
4.) Cheick Kongo: And then after the fight, when Barnett and Cormier leave Strikeforce, Kongo can stay in Strikeforce...
Luke Rockhold
I for one think Jacare is going to beat Rockhold when they rematch in a few month time. That notwithstanding, other than Jacare there's no one in Strikeforce's once vaunted middleweight division except for one Rockhold and Jacare.
The criterion change for the remaining divisions, because the heavyweights that would go over to fight Barnett are going to Strikeforce for just a one-off fight, and then returning (presumably) from whence they came. But for 185, 170, and 155, even if this imaginary precedent has been set by Frank Mir, there's also a skosh of reality that needs to be applied here, right?
1.) Mamed Khalidov: See? He's not even under contract to the UFC at all. I'm staying in the realm of reality. For now. But Khalidov was recently in contract negotiations with the UFC, only to have his management publicly insult the contract terms as laughable. However, unlike the UFC, Strikeforce has a history of laughably lavish, contracts. So as long as Zuffa, I mean Forza management can channel their inner-Coker, Khalidov makes all thefiscal sense in the world.
2.) Mark Munoz: Munoz's name far outreaches his accomplishments in this sport, which makes him completely expendable to the UFC and their suddenly compelling middleweight division. At the same time, he'd be extremely viable to the Strikeforce middleweight division. Speaking just for myself, and for every human being ever born or yet to be born, I really don't need to see Rockhold vs. Jacare VII sometime in the year 2014. Bring Munoz over, let him get a meaningless win over Tim Kennedy, and then get him in the three man perpetual motion title machine.
3.) Jorge Santiago: We're digging outside the UFC again, because anyone currently in the UFC's middleweight division that can hang with Luke Rockhold doesn't deserve the career crushing demotion to Strikeforce. Santiago clearly can't hang with the top tier of the UFC's middleweight division, but there's no reason he should be relegated to fighting onHDNet Whatever The Hell They Call It Now, either.
Nathan Marquardt
Marquardt brings a different dynamic to the mix here. Marquardt is the best fighter in Strikeforce's remaining divisions, so the allure of fighting Marquardt might be enough of an inducement to get an elite welterweight who isn't going to sniff a UFC title shot anytime soon to see Strikeforce as something less than a slap in the face.
1.) Thiago Alves: Alves is the exact reason I wrote that last paragraph. He's got a name, he's got a long resume, and he's not sniffing a UFC title shot unless he wins like nine fights in a row, starting right now. And who exactly wouldn't want to watch Marquardt vs. Alves? I'm not an Alves guy, not even slightly, and I'd drop everything to watch that fight.
2.) Josh Koscheck: Koscheck will be fighting Jake Ellenberger on September 1. Assuming Koscheck loses that fight (he'll lose), he'll never come within 42 miles of a UFC title shot, and might not even be allowed in the same state as any future UFC Welterweight Championship fight. By now you should be noticing a trend; lots of veterans with big names and recent losses, with no shot at being in the UFC title chase ever again. If Koscheck loses to Ellenberger on September 1, that description will be next to Koscheck's entry in the next Webster's Dictionary.
3.) Jon Fitch: Nathan Marquardt is one of very few fighters who is in an exciting fight each and every time they fight. That's just the type of guy Fitch needs to be paired with (Aaron Simpson vs. Jon Fitch? Puh-leeze, just shoot me int he face with a ray-gun). Not to mention that even if Fitch wins his next five fights, he won't be getting a title fight. After all, after he lost to GSP in 2008, he won five in a row and didn't get anywhere near GSP for a rematch. Send him down and let Marquardt carry him to an exciting fight; one that Fitch could very well win, too.
Gilbert Melendez
Eventually Gilbert Melendez is going to come into a fight completely uninterested, unmotivated, unfocussed and will get himself knocked out. And while one cannot blame him for taking Josh Thomson and Pat Healy lightly, a loss is a loss and the entire world will forget he even exists after this happens. Melendez chose to re-sign with Strikeforce last year because he was comfortable being a highly paid big fish in a small pond. But now that the pond has been completely dredged, he's flopping around like he's in a Faith No More video (yes, I'm nearing 40; Shut up). Melendez needs fresh lightweight blood, and fast.
1.) Eddie Alvarez This is so easy. Alvarez is likely to be a free agent after his Bellator contract runs out in the fall. Also likely: the sun rising in the east.
2.) Eddie Alvarez Alvarez vs. Melendez was long rumoured a year or two ago, back in thedark ages Coker Era dark ages of Strikeforce. Of course it never happened, but fans are still dying to see this fight.
3.) Eddie Alvarez What? You thought I was gonna say Clay Guida?
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Last week, MMA Junkie reported that former UFC heavyweight champion and current MMA vagabond Tim Sylvia had signed with Strikeforce, and that Sylvia would be Cormier's final Strikeforce opponent. Predictably, the most common reaction to this news was
So again, we were left to wonder; who's next? (I already apologized to Bill Goldberg, doing so again would count as groveling)
On Tuesday night as I was doing show prep for the MMATorch Tuesday Night Livecast, for a brief two seconds the name Frank Mir popped into my little brain, but due to him being in the UFC I disregarded that thought and didn't think about it again (and go ahead, prove I didn't think of it first). At least, I didn't think about Mir vs. Cormier again until John Morgan of USA Today Sports reported that Frank Mir had signed to fight Daniel Cormier for Cormier's last fight. Cormier's fight with Mir will take place at a yet to be announced Strikeforce show in either October or November.
So now that the precedent has been set, we will of course be seeing the (almost) best that the UFC has to offer come flooding into the Strikeforce
Okay, maybe not. Okay, definitely not. But it's fun to think about the possibilities, no? Between Melendez, Marquardt, Rockhold, and Josh Barnett (who is supposed to have one remaining Strikeforce fight), there are a ton of intriguing fights that could be made. Even though none of these fights are going to happen, let's look at the three most intriguing (hypothetical) crossover fights for Melendez, Marquardt, Rockhold, and Barnett.
Josh Barnett
Barnett supposedly has one fight left on his Strikeforce deal. The odds of him ever again fighting in the UFC seem to be thin. Pretty much, Zuffa will want to get as much money out of him as possible before they let him go to coax Fedor out of retirement.
1.) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira: For those of you reading this column who wonder why the word PRIDE is capitalized and say to yourself, "Bono didn't capitalize Pride, so why do all these UFC people do it?" Nogueira and Barnett have already fought twice in Japan for this little company called PRIDE, splitting two fights. Nogueira's on the shelf still rehabbing a broken wing, but should be ready to return soon. Nogueira's a big named special attraction fighter, and is just the type of fighter that the UFC might be willing to lend out to Strikeforce.
2.) Alistair Overeem: Despite Barnett and Overeem fighting in PRIDE at the same times, their paths never crossed due to Barnett being a heavyweight and Overeem being a rail thin flyweight (pre-horsemeat). Overeem is currently sitting on the sidelines due to a urine test showing him with an unusually high ratio of testosterone to epitesterone (read, he pissed hot) which led to him being denied a license to fight in the state of Nevada. What better way for Dana White to send a message that they're serious about cleaning up the drug culture that is pervasive in MMA by forcing him to return from whence he came against a very dangerous (and super duper clean) opponent in Josh Barnett. The odds of Barnett and Overeem being willing to submit to VADA testing like B.J. Penn and Rory MacDonald? Negative eleven billion infinity percent.
3.) Mark Hunt: The UFC doesn't want to see the Twitter hashtag #RallyForHunt come into vogue once again, so what better way to kill it off than to have Barnett mangle Hunt's arm once more, just like he did when they first fought in 2006 in PRIDE (there's those damn caps again. Someone needs to go back to the year 1983 and tell Bono that his Caps Lock button is active!).
4.) Cheick Kongo: And then after the fight, when Barnett and Cormier leave Strikeforce, Kongo can stay in Strikeforce...
Luke Rockhold
I for one think Jacare is going to beat Rockhold when they rematch in a few month time. That notwithstanding, other than Jacare there's no one in Strikeforce's once vaunted middleweight division except for one Rockhold and Jacare.
The criterion change for the remaining divisions, because the heavyweights that would go over to fight Barnett are going to Strikeforce for just a one-off fight, and then returning (presumably) from whence they came. But for 185, 170, and 155, even if this imaginary precedent has been set by Frank Mir, there's also a skosh of reality that needs to be applied here, right?
1.) Mamed Khalidov: See? He's not even under contract to the UFC at all. I'm staying in the realm of reality. For now. But Khalidov was recently in contract negotiations with the UFC, only to have his management publicly insult the contract terms as laughable. However, unlike the UFC, Strikeforce has a history of laughably lavish, contracts. So as long as Zuffa, I mean Forza management can channel their inner-Coker, Khalidov makes all the
2.) Mark Munoz: Munoz's name far outreaches his accomplishments in this sport, which makes him completely expendable to the UFC and their suddenly compelling middleweight division. At the same time, he'd be extremely viable to the Strikeforce middleweight division. Speaking just for myself, and for every human being ever born or yet to be born, I really don't need to see Rockhold vs. Jacare VII sometime in the year 2014. Bring Munoz over, let him get a meaningless win over Tim Kennedy, and then get him in the three man perpetual motion title machine.
3.) Jorge Santiago: We're digging outside the UFC again, because anyone currently in the UFC's middleweight division that can hang with Luke Rockhold doesn't deserve the career crushing demotion to Strikeforce. Santiago clearly can't hang with the top tier of the UFC's middleweight division, but there's no reason he should be relegated to fighting on
Nathan Marquardt
Marquardt brings a different dynamic to the mix here. Marquardt is the best fighter in Strikeforce's remaining divisions, so the allure of fighting Marquardt might be enough of an inducement to get an elite welterweight who isn't going to sniff a UFC title shot anytime soon to see Strikeforce as something less than a slap in the face.
1.) Thiago Alves: Alves is the exact reason I wrote that last paragraph. He's got a name, he's got a long resume, and he's not sniffing a UFC title shot unless he wins like nine fights in a row, starting right now. And who exactly wouldn't want to watch Marquardt vs. Alves? I'm not an Alves guy, not even slightly, and I'd drop everything to watch that fight.
2.) Josh Koscheck: Koscheck will be fighting Jake Ellenberger on September 1. Assuming Koscheck loses that fight (he'll lose), he'll never come within 42 miles of a UFC title shot, and might not even be allowed in the same state as any future UFC Welterweight Championship fight. By now you should be noticing a trend; lots of veterans with big names and recent losses, with no shot at being in the UFC title chase ever again. If Koscheck loses to Ellenberger on September 1, that description will be next to Koscheck's entry in the next Webster's Dictionary.
3.) Jon Fitch: Nathan Marquardt is one of very few fighters who is in an exciting fight each and every time they fight. That's just the type of guy Fitch needs to be paired with (Aaron Simpson vs. Jon Fitch? Puh-leeze, just shoot me int he face with a ray-gun). Not to mention that even if Fitch wins his next five fights, he won't be getting a title fight. After all, after he lost to GSP in 2008, he won five in a row and didn't get anywhere near GSP for a rematch. Send him down and let Marquardt carry him to an exciting fight; one that Fitch could very well win, too.
Gilbert Melendez
Eventually Gilbert Melendez is going to come into a fight completely uninterested, unmotivated, unfocussed and will get himself knocked out. And while one cannot blame him for taking Josh Thomson and Pat Healy lightly, a loss is a loss and the entire world will forget he even exists after this happens. Melendez chose to re-sign with Strikeforce last year because he was comfortable being a highly paid big fish in a small pond. But now that the pond has been completely dredged, he's flopping around like he's in a Faith No More video (yes, I'm nearing 40; Shut up). Melendez needs fresh lightweight blood, and fast.
1.) Eddie Alvarez This is so easy. Alvarez is likely to be a free agent after his Bellator contract runs out in the fall. Also likely: the sun rising in the east.
2.) Eddie Alvarez Alvarez vs. Melendez was long rumoured a year or two ago, back in the
3.) Eddie Alvarez What? You thought I was gonna say Clay Guida?
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Renan Barao wants to wait for Dominick Cruz but open to fighting anyone
Like many of his fellow Brazilian fighters, newly crowned UFC champion Renan Barao battled a good deal of adversity while growing up in relative poverty. However, rather than be brought down by the glumness of his conditions, Barao used the situation as fuel for the competitive fire burning inside his gut and ultimately fulfilled a [...]
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Mighty Mouse Will Need Surgery - Demetrious Johnson
Fresh off his victory over Ian McCall at UFC on FX 3, Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson told Inside MMA that he will need surgery before he takes on Joseph Benevidez for the inagural UFC Flyweight BeltSource: http://mmalice.com/demetrious-johnson/mighty-mouse-will-need-surgery-video_4edd8bbdc.html
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UFC on FOX 4 UFC Road to the Octagon Complete Show Video
UFC on FOX 4 UFC Road to the Octagon Complete Show Video.
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Right now, I just feel the need to take a long weekend, I'm like 3 weeks out from my fight and wanna take a break from the world for a few days. I...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
REMINDER - Road To The Octagon at 2 PM EST on FOX
Fan of Shogun, Bader, Machida, or Vera?
2 PM EST, on FOX UFC's airing a special on them titled "Road To The Octagon" to hype up next week's event...
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Man jumps from 96,000 feet!
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Invicta FC 2 Weigh-ins Open to The Public on Friday in Kansas City
This Friday in Kansas City, Missouri, the all-female promotion Invicta FC will take the Memorial Hall in the Crowne Plaza Hotel for weigh-ins ahead of their second offering on Saturday night. Weigh-ins begin at 4:30 p.m. CT. Invicta FC 2 is headlined by highly accomplished olympic wrestler Sara McMann (5-0) taking on women's MMA mainstay Shayna Baszler (14-6). Also featured on the card is Strikeforce veteran Alexis Davis (11-5) taking on Japanese judoka Hitomi Akono (18-9).
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Strikeforce?s Lorenz Larkin drops to knees and begs for bonuses after win
"We're your family, too," Larkin said.
Five and six-figure fight night bonuses are a norm for UFC fights. Bonuses are given out for the best submission, knockout and fight from each event. The extra money can turn out to be a financial boon for fighters. UFC heavyweight Pat Barry was six days from eviction and surviving on ketchup packets and rice when two bonuses for one fight came in.
[Also: Nate Marquardt KOs Tyron Woodley for Strikeforce welterweight title]
Though Strikeforce is also owned by Zuffa, the company which owns the UFC, the two groups are operated differently. Several UFC events are held every quarter, giving UFC fighters two or three fights a year. Strikeforce fighters are often waiting for months and months for their bouts.
Tim Kennedy, one of Saturday night's main eventers, waited a year for his bout, despite having no injuries holding him out of competition. Considering fighters only receive purses when they fight, how often they fight affects how much money they make.
Strikeforce fighter Tarec Saffiedine tweeted his support of Larkin, saying, "Ooooohhh yeaahh BONUSES! Thx u lorenz!"
UFC champion Georges St-Pierre once famously dropped to his knees in the cage to beg for a title shot. Larkin used the same ploy while pointing out it's not even about getting his own bonus, but it is about all fighters being treated fairly. It's sad that he even has to go to such lengths.
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