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UFC likes rematches, but do the fans like them?
This was taken from the forum by Philo Beddoe. To put your opinion across click here
The Ufc is dissapointing me lately with quality of main event fights on PPV’s.
We’ve had Arlovski Sylvia III/ Shamrock Tito II Now we’ve got Chuck Babalu II and Forrest Bonner II. After that were going to have Hughes St pierre II.
It seems to be that that the UFC is struggling to get quality new match ups to fill there PPV’s. Where are asll rthe contenders? this is the UFC why cant it cherry pick the best talent from else where? It seems to me that they are falling behind Pride in terms of unearthing talented contenders?
Anderson silva was a good signing but what about Rampage? Cung Lee? Vitor? Even Lindland?
Strike force and WFA seem to have the wider appeal to free agents? Maybe it’s time for Dana and Fertita’s to pay some more cash?
You cant blame Joe Silva, he match makes with talent available to him!
Thoughts?
Griffin vs Bonnar II Announced For UFC 62
You can officially pencil in the long-awaited rematch between Ultimate Fighter season one standouts Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar for the upcoming UFC 62 pay-per view, which features the main event of Chuck Liddell vs. Renato “Babalu” Sobral II.
Griffin and Bonnar last met at The Ultimate Fighter 1 finals live on Spike TV, and what transpired is considered by many to be among the greatest fights in the history in the company. The two will officially battle it out again on August 26 at the UFC 62 PPV.
UFC 63: Hughes vs. St Pierre THE REMATCH
Las Vegas, NV – With one second left in the last round, nearly two years ago, a young Canadian fighter named Georges “Rush” St. Pierre found himself locked in an armbar, losing a championship title fight to the now legendary Matt Hughes for the then vacant welterweight crown. Ever since that day, and because of the tremendous athleticism and skill displayed during that fight, UFC® fans all around the world have waited for these incredible athletes to face each other, once again, in the Octagon™. Today, the UFC announced that the time has come, and that the two fighters will square off again — with the welterweight crown at stake — at the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization’s UFC 63: HUGHES vs. ST. PIERRE taking place live from the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim Saturday, September 23, 2006.
Tickets for UFC 63: HUGHES vs. ST. PIERRE will go on sale Saturday, August 12.
“I’m pleased to announce to UFC fans all around the world that UFC Champion Matt Hughes, pound-for-pound one of the strongest and most experienced fighters in the UFC, and Number One Welterweight Contender and Canadian Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre, one of the most athletic and well-rounded fighters in the UFC will be the main event championship title fight at UFC 63 live from the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim Saturday, September 23,” said Dana White, UFC President.
White made the UFC 63 announcement today live from Bristol, Conn. on ESPN’s The Hot List. Hughes and St. Pierre were also present for the announcement and discussed the upcoming title fight with ESPN host Dari Nowkhah.
“I’ve been waiting for this fight against Matt Hughes for a long time,” said St. Pierre. “This time I am ready – I made a promise to the UFC that if they gave me another chance at the title I wouldn’t make a mistake again. I want that belt so bad – I want to become the champion.”
“I hope he’s ready,” said Hughes. “No one has been able to stop me yet, and I don’t see myself giving up my belt any time soon. I’m looking forward to a good fight, but at the end of the night I will still be the UFC Welterweight Champion.”
Hughes and St. Pierre last fought October 22, 2004 at UFC 50: THE WAR OF ‘04 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. At the time, St. Pierre had a perfect record. But Hughes ended up giving St. Pierre his first career loss, forcing him to tapout at the end of the first round. Since that day, Hughes has maintained the welterweight crown, and St. Pierre has aggressively fought to put himself back in line for the title, defeating former champion BJ Penn, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Frank Trigg and Sean Sherk. Meanwhile, Matt Hughes defeated Frank Trigg, Joe Riggs, and most recently the legendary Royce Gracie, who was previously undefeated in the UFC.
Matt Hughes (41-4) 5’9″/170 lbs., fighting out of Hillsboro, Ill., is considered by many to be the greatest welterweight champion in the history of the UFC. He started fighting in 1999, at UFC 22, and spent two years climbing his way up the division. Finally, at UFC 34 (11/02/01) he won the UFC Welterweight Championship by defeating Carlos Newton by KO. From there, he won five consecutive fights, holding the title for three years before losing it to BJ Penn at UFC 46 (1/31/04), succumbing to a rear naked choke at 4:39 of the first round. Matt regained the vacant welterweight crown at UFC 50 (10/22/04) by stopping Georges St. Pierre with an arm bar at 4:59 of the first round, and defended his title at UFC 52 (4/16/06) against Frank Trigg, winning by a rear naked choke. He fought Joe Riggs at UFC 56 (11/19/05) in a non-championship bout and submitted him by Kimura at 3:28 of the first round. Hughes then defeated Royce Gracie by TKO at UFC 60 (5/27/06).
Georges “Rush” St. Pierre (12-1-0) 5’10″/170 lbs., fighting out of Montreal, is the Canadian Welterweight Mixed Martial Arts Champion. He is an excellent athlete who combines solid stand up skills with an impressive ground game. After scoring UFC wins over Karo Parisyan, Jay Hieron, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Frank Trigg, Sean Sherk and BJ Penn, St. Pierre is hungry for another shot at world champion Matt Hughes and is ready to prove himself as being the top welterweight fighter in the world.
The remaining bouts and ticket information for UFC 63: HUGHES vs. ST. PIERRE will be announced in the near future.
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In The Gym: Renato “Babalu” Sobral Pre-UFC 57
He could be the next challenger for the UFC light heavyweight belt. But before getting that shot Brazilian Renato Sobral must defeat American Mike Van Arsdale this Saturday in Las Vegas.
Sherdog.com visted “Babalu” as he prepared for UFC 57’s under card bout to Liddell-Couture 3, which the 205-pound contender is sure to watch closely.
Between rounds working Thai pads and a heavybag, “Babalu” and his jiu-jitsu trainer Roberto Gordo Correa answer questions in English about the pending bout.
UFC 61 Medical Suspensions
UFC 61 Medical Suspensions
By Mark Pickering
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Nevada State Athletic Commission have issued the following medical suspensions to competitors from UFC 61: Bitter Rivals, July 8th .
• Tim Sylvia suspended until a Dr. clears him to fight again.
• Andrei Arlovski suspended until 9/7/06, no contact until 8/23/06.
• Ken Shamrock suspended until 8/8/06, no contact until 7/30/06.
• Josh Burkman suspended (nasal fracture and big right toe) until cleared by Dr, or no contact until 1/5/07; Minimum suspension: no contest until 8/23/06, no contact until 8/8/06.
• Josh Neer suspended until 8/23/06, no contact until 8/8/06.
• Dan Christison no contest until 1/5/07 unless nasal fracture cleared by Dr.
• Joe Stevenson suspended until 8/8/06, no contact until 7/30/06.
• Yves Edwards suspended until 8/23/06, no contact until 8/8/06 - scalp laceration.
• Anthony Perosh suspended until 8/8/06, no contact until 7/30/06
• Cheik Ouedraogo suspended until 8/8/06, no contact until 7/30/06.
• Gilbert Aldana suspended until 1/5/07 unless right eye laceration is cleared by Dr; minimum no contact until 7/30/06.
• Kurt Pelligrino suspended until 8/23/06, no contact until 8/8/06.
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Sylvia and Ortiz win and Silva signed to UFC
If you turned your eyes away from either one of their first two fights against each other you could have missed it, but in their third go at it, observers needed to carefully count punches in order to determing who won the 5-round war between Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia.
The fight was almost exclusively a kick-boxing match as the pair traded blows, never once going to the ground and rarely even in the clinch, for 5 grueling rounds. In the end Tim Sylvia retained his title by unanimous decision, but it was far from a blow out.
In fact, the judges’ scorecards show that if Arlovski could have won the 5th round in the eyes of at least two of the three judges, he would have won a majority decision. After four rounds, two judges had it scored even, Sylvia having won the second and fourth rounds and Arlovski having won the first and third rounds. The other judge had Arlovski down three rounds to one, so it would have been impossible to win it for Arlovski on that card, but unanimity is not needed and if Arlovski could have out pointed Sylvia in the 5th in the eyes of at least those two judges who had it even after four, he would have regained the title on a majority decision.
Many were suprised that Arlovski’s expected speed advantage over Sylvia didn’t seem to last throughout the fight, and also that he did not attempt any takedowns or throw many leg kicks, which he has used with brutal effectiveneses throughout his career.
A partial explanation may be an injury to Arlovski’s knee that his camp is reporting occured in the first round.
Although it is unclear to what extent Arlovski’s knee may have been damaged, he did have to go to the hospital after the fight. If Arlovski did indeed suffer a serious knee injury in the first round the fact that he and Sylvia went all 5 rounds would be even more impressive.
Although the fight went the distance it was not for lack of knockout power punches being landed. Both men repeatedly connected with power on each other’s chins, Sylvia with a few uppercuts and straight crosses, and Arlovski with several over hand rights to the jaw of Sylvia.
Yet each man, though stunned at times, withstood the other’s punishment, and niether appeared to get winded, even in the later rounds. In the end, an increasingly impressive Tim Sylvia out pointed Arlovski, who at fight’s end was bleeding under his right eye and on the lieft side of his face.
Sylvia’s hand speed looked improved, especially his jab which he brought back crisply throughout the fight, instead of letting it drop as he has done in the past.
Especially in the later rounds, Sylvia was effective at not letting Arlovski get free hits as he countered many of the former champ’s power shots, and he also deftly faded away from quite a few of Arlovski’s big swings in the last two rounds.
Sylvia’s strategy combined effective coutnering and persistant stalking of Arlovski with quick lead shots landed at opportune, if sparse, moments.
Arlovski, the crowd and odds favorite now looks to find a place slightly below the top of a heavyweight division most expected him to dominate. And Sylvia likely looks forward to Jeff Monson, the rightful number one contender in the division.
In the co-main event, Tito Ortiz elbowed his way to a referee stoppage against Ken Shamrock in 1:18 of the first round.
Immediately after referee Herb Dean stepped in and called the fight Shamrock popped up to his feet and began to protest the quick call.
At first glance, especially from ringside, the stoppage looked early, but slow motion replays showed the extent of the punishment Shamrock was taking from Ortiz’ elbows. In Shamrock’s full guard after having taken him down, Ortiz positioned Shamrock against the cage and began to land elbows to his head.
Ortiz’ attack was almost a perfect storm as he threw 5-6 solid elbows to Shamrock’s head entirely uncontested.
Amidst boos from the fickle sell-out crowd of 12,400 in the Mandaly Bay Events Center, Ortiz defended the stoppage and his win.
“I was just doing my job and hitting him with elbows. I hit him with some really good ones, and on the first he went limp and wasn’t responding. The referee did his job. That’s the rule of the UFC. If Shamrock wants to do it again we can do it again, it’s no problem” said Ortiz.
While Shamrock’s protest can surely be understood considering that he wasn’t unconscious or cut, and that not much time had elapsed, referee Herb Dean has a track record of having incredible perception and solid judgement with regards to precaution in the ring, and he obviously didn’t like what he was seeing happening to Shamrock and probably made the right, if cautious, call.
With a booing crowd after the Shamrock stoppage, UFC president Dana White’s momentus announcement came at just the right time. White called a visiting Wanderlei Silva to the Octagon who announced why he was there that night.
“My job is to fight with the best fighters in the world, and that’s why I’m here tonight. I want to fight with Chuck here. Come Chuck!” the Pride middleweight (205lbs) champion announced, calling out Chuck Liddell the UFC’s 205lbs division champion.
The “Ice Man” was of course in the house and it didn’t take him long to saunter on in to the Octagon himself. He and Silva squared up with each other and locked eyes in an excitingly tense moment.
White said that should Liddell beat Renato “Babalu” Sobral in their title bout in August, Liddel and Silva will fight in November.
FX3 15 July Bracknell Fight Report
What a night of first class MMA and Cage Kickboxing action that was on show. The night was very promising for the UK MMA scene and showed a lot of promising fighters coming through.
Semi Pro MMA U93K
Scott Taylor v Thomas Maguire
Very good first fight of the night with Thomas Maguire who fights out of the Tsunami gym. Thomas won by Ground and Pound in what was a very fast paced fight with both fighters very schooled on the ground. Although with Pierra Guillet (Cage Rage fighter) in his corner Thomas had the edge with a lot of good advice coming from his corner, which proved to be the edge for Thomas on the ground.
Cage Kickboxing U64K
Rob Nisham v John Healey
A very even match up with some very good action. John Healey won by Judges decision.
Pro MMA U84K
Rich Austin v Geoff Hayes
I suppose every fight night has to have a decsion that was against the run of the fight. This fight was very quick and lasted seconds with Geoff Hayes coming out strong and KNOCKING OUT Rich by Ground and Pound. Rich won by Default.
Pro MMA U65.8K (E.M)
Chris Freebourne v Alex Owen
This was the first elimantor fight for the vacent U65.8K title, another fast paced and very entaining fight with Alex winning by Choke. Although this fight could have gone either way.
Cage Kickboxing U90K
Andy Jardine v Kazys Grigulanias
Another Good bout with promoter/fighter Andy Jardine just nicking it by jugdes card. This was a slug fest with Andy being a rock that was not moving and proving that he has a good chin. Credit must go to Kazys who gave as good as he got and then some. He was unlucky in a fight that could have gone either way.
Pro MMA U70K
John Gisby v A J Wen
A promsing win for A J on his debut with a wonderfull choke. Watch out for him in the future.
Pro MMA U77K
Wesley Felix v Jon Hathaway
An easy and comfortable win for Jon who dominated the fight. The experience in the cage and better conditioning of Jon proved to be the things that tipped it his way. John won by choke out.
Hopefully Wesley can bounce back from this and improve on his weaknesses.
Pro MMA U65.8K
Phil Else v Valdo Menzes
Quite a strange fight that saw the Ref standing both fighters up from the ground. This caused Valdo throwing his teddy out of the pram and storming off like a school girl.
I hope I never have to see any thing like this ever again.
The fight was awarded to Phil.
Pro MMA U70K
John O’Malley v Sami Berik
A very good fight with Sami ending up in victory
Pro MMA U61.2K
Kamon Rana v Billy Harris
A ref stoppage after a flurry of blows saw Billy winning this one.
Cage Kickboxing U77K
Nigel Yardie v Paul Daley
A very fast paced fight with both fighters showing a lot of skill. Nigel used a lot of ariel attacks which when connected were some good strikes.
Unfortunately for Nigel and the fan’s, Nigel could not continue as he broke his foot near the end of the 1st round.
Pro MMA U77K
Nigel Whitear v Mick Broster
Both of these fighters wanted to slug it out and it was a very entertaining fight with lots of of big bombs from both fighters. The fight ended with a DQ for Nigel after a stomp to the head. A very sad way for this fight to end.
Pro MMA U65.8K EM
Aaron Blackwell v Jordon Miller
In the 2nd eliminator of the night for the vacent title saw Aaron come out victorious against a very strong Jordon Miller from Poole Ju-Jitsui.
FX Title Fight U70K
Mark Spencer v Oliver Ellis (Champ)
This was the main event of the night and what a fight. Oliver took this to the ground and dominated Mark. Mark worked hard but the skill and experience seemed to pay off for Oliver who ended this with a lovely Ground and Pound.
Overall this was a great night with some very good evenly matched fights. I hope that some more of you will be attending the next event in November.
For more Info please visit www.freestylefightingfederation.com/
Cage Rage Craze Sweeps Europe
London, July 08: Take two muscled, tattooed up men, stick them in a cage and let them fight. Add music, outrageous outfits and glamour girls and you’ve got an unbeatable audience pleaser.
Cage Rage may have a wild reputation, but as it’s going mainstream, the question is: Is this sport or entertainment?
Ask any of the fighters gathered at London’s Wembley Arena for the latest Cage Rage event, and the answer is plain, this is a sport, which, like any other, requires specific skills and hours of training.
Which ever the definition may be, with 8000 seats sold for the Cage Rage event at the Wembley Arena, it is clear that Europe has been hit by Cage Rage craze.
“Everybody wants to be ‘a cage fighter’, it’s cool to be ‘a cage fighter’, I want to go out with ‘a cage fighter’,” explains Cage Rage promoter Andy O’Donnell [they mean Dave O’Donnell - MMAU ed]. “But you know they’re just normal guys. They’ve been doing it all their life. They are mixed martial artists or trained artists that fight for a living that’s all they do, but of course the cage is a big, ‘it’s a cage fight’,” he adds.
With the intriguing title comes a common belief that Cage Rage is a no-rules punch-fest, equal to a wild street fight. But like any sport, Cage Rage comes with a set of rules - and a code of conduct between its practitioners.
“There are rules, there are thirty rules and they’re very well enforced, so you can’t head-butt, you can’t eye-gouge because you want all the fighters to fight again next month, so you don’t want any permanent long term damage. And there’s a code of conduct between fighters, we’re not going to deliberately damage an opponent, you have the opportunity to tap out, to surrender if you will, but there’s no shame in that because it happens to everyone,” explains Dave “The Enforcer” Legeno.
O’Donnell too, is quick to point out Cage Rage is far from violent street fighting: “I know you want me to say ‘It’s really nasty, it’s brutal’, but it’s not. It’s, it’s, it can be brutal if you get a mix of matches, ie: two goldfish, fantastic fight. Two sharks, fantastic fight. Goldfish shark - there’s going to be brutality. But I match make a lot of the fight - there’s never that, you know, it’s always an equal match,” he said.
For the 42-year-old Legeno, Cage fighting offers an opportunity to combine his wrestling and boxing skills with his acting talent. ‘The Enforcer’, who has appeared in films including ‘Snatch’ and ‘Batman Begins’ says Cage Rage is more than anything, an entertaining sport.
“I’m not the best fighter in the world but I’m probably one of the best entertainers in the world because along with all the fighting, we come in, we’ve got girls, we’ve got music, we’ve got entrances, we’ve got the excitement of world class wrestling and the characters involved and then there’s a real fight - a more exciting fight than a boxing match,” he told.
Cage Rage is the engaging title for Mixed Martial Arts, a term used to describe a mixture of all the martial arts.
The sport was introduced to the world by the Gracies, a large, extended family from Brazil, who challenged traditional martial artists with their individual fighting style - the Gracie Challenge. With a U.S. television company picking up the Gracie challenge, Cage Rage quickly went from local to global.
The sport has become a big hit in Japan and the United States, making big stars of the most successful fighters.
“The top level MMA fighters are millionaires, many time over. This is, like I say, it’s a very big sport. I’m still surprised when I come across people who’ve never heard of it. You know, there are far more MMA bouts taking place than there are boxing bouts,” explains promoter Andy Geer.
But is the prize money worth the pain? Cage fighter Robert ‘Buzz’ Berry says money comes only second to the good - legal - fighting.
“Sure, the money’s a bonus, it’s extra, and it’s nice where you can come and have a fight without getting into trouble with the police. So yes, I enjoy my fighting and it is a bonus, don’t get me wrong, it d s help,” he said.
And with the huge audience turn out in London, it is clear that it is not just the fighters, but the public, too, who enjoy the fighting.
