Don Frye and "Sonny" who is Leland Champan's body guard apparently got into a fight (two actually?). I'd like to hear Don's side of the story, but Meltzer said the Sonny sucker-punched him.
http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/br...adness-ensues/
As crazy as this sounds I really think Monte has more to do with the success of Fedor in M-1 than Fedor himself.
Don Frye and "Sonny" who is Leland Champan's body guard apparently got into a fight (two actually?). I'd like to hear Don's side of the story, but Meltzer said the Sonny sucker-punched him.
http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/br...adness-ensues/
god bobish is sorry. aleks didnt really get to show anything off and still doesnt have me convinced but i got him at around #10 or #9 in the HWs but im not sold.
It's on like Donkey Kong!
Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva at UFC 79 — It’s Finally Official
Posted by MMA Junkie on October 23, 2007 at 10:27 pm ET
The worst-kept secret in UFC history was finally revealed this evening; UFC President Dana White confirmed that former UFC champion Chuck Liddell (20-5 MMA, 15-4 UFC) will face former PRIDE le-holder Wanderlei Silva (31-7-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) at UFC 79 on Dec. 29.
The pay-per-view event takes place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
White made the announcement during a spot on Tuesday night’s “Scream 2007” special on e TV.
The one-time cross-promotion mega-fight, which had been promised a few times over the past couple years (most recently at UFC 61), never came to fruition because UFC and PRIDE officials couldn’t work out the details. However, owners of Zuffa LLC (the UFC’s parent company) purchased PRIDE earlier this year, signed Silva to a contract, and then scheduled him to fight at UFC 79.
Liddell was the likely opponent — until a split-decision loss to Keith Jardine at UFC 76 in September appeared to temporarily derail the idea. However, despite both fighters coming off back-to-back losses (Liddell to Quinton Jackson and Jardine; Silva to Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and Dan Henderson), the bout remains one of the most-anticipated in MMA history, and UFC officials booked the fight anyway.
As MMAjunkie.com exclusively announced in July, Silva was expected to fight Liddell at UFC 76. However, when Silva requested a November fight date instead (to accommodate his move to the U.S.), the bout was scrapped and Jardine got the fight instead. White went on the offensive soon after, saying Silva was ducking Liddell and that the fight would probably never happen.
Three weeks later, though, White boasted that he had signed Silva — and even posted a video of the actual contract signing on UFC.com. However, he never clarified his claims that Silva was trying to avoid a fight with Liddell.
MMAjunkie.com spoke to Silva over the weekend during Cincinnati’s UFC 77 event, and the Brazilian confirmed he would be fighting Liddell. White, though, remained tight-lipped about the fight, saying only that the two fighters would face off sometime “soon.“
Now officially booked, the fight will take second billing to a main event between UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra and former champ Matt Hughes.
For the latest rumored UFC 79 fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com
Glad they finally made it official...too bad the mass email they sent out arrived AFTER the announcement on e...
Not a big surprise...DirecTV's website spoiled it last week and UFC.com already had it early in the day yesterday...
Can't wait to see it, even though both have lost their last 2...
Couture's press conf will be Thurs at 3:30 central time on HDNet (live)...
http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/10/...-covered-live/
Bodog's Nick Thompson lays out the fighters available to M-1...I'm sure it's not 100% right
http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListM...=1&TID=1154412
HW
Couture (contract dispute)
Barnett
Arlovski (1 fight left on his deal)
Hunt
Aleks
Monson
Kharitonov (k-1)
Lebanner
Rothwell
Buentello (?)
Antonio �Frankenberry� Silva
Roger Gracie
Rizzo
Coleman
Igor
Ricco
James Thompson
Randleman
Bob Sapp
Butterbean
Yoshida
Eric Pele
Kimbo (eliteXC)
Tank
Mark Kerr
Cabbage
Nastula
Mike Whitehead
Wes Simms
Ogawa
Justin McCully
Dewey Cooper
LHW
Arona
Soko (K-1 ?)
Sobral
Vitor
Lil Nog
Manhoef
Sak
Ken Shamrock
Goes
Akiyama
Andrade
Marero
Diabate
MW
Lindland (Bodog)
Kang
Busta
Shamrock (EliteXC)
Royce
Misaki
Gono
Horn (Art of War ?)
Lawler
Trigg
Baroni (EliteXC)
Prangley (Bodog)
Sonnen (Bodog)
Mayhem
Sulev
Seminov
Crow
Jorge Santiago (Art of War)
Kawajiri
Doerksen (WEC ?)
Minowa
Weir
Kondo
Takase
Acacio
Suda
Ryuta
Dewees
Sean Salmon
Steve Byrnes
WW
Diaz (Elite XC ?)
Shields (eliteXC – 1 fight left)
Marcelo (k-1)
Aoki
Thompson (Bodog – 1 fight left)
Landis
Alvarez (Bodog – 1 fight left)
Kikuchi
Fickett
Superman
Neer
Noble
Carlo Prater
Mike Pyle (EliteXC – 1 fight left)
azeredo
Riley
Berger
Anthony Torres
Sam Morgan
Tiki
Jacob Volkman (3-time All-American who is going to be a star)
LW
Cintron (said he would fight mma, would be a big seller)
Gomi (k-1)
Melendez
JZ
Mach
boy
Kawajiri
Genki
Kid
Uno
Ribiero
Krazy Horse
Masvidal (Bodog)
Yves
Hominic
Ishida
Bang
Azevedo
Boku
kotani
Mishima
Diego Saravia
Tristan Yunker
Assuncao
Gabe “when’s lunch” Ruediger
Zach Light
Kyle "add me to the list" Bradley
the Malachy Friedman
That's quite the list. Oh, the places we could go...
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80082
Voice your opinion here about a possible "MMA forum".
Done. Thanks for the heads up
Mayhem Miller vs Sean Salmon?
http://mmajunkie.com/2007/10/25/full...-with-cung-le/
Dana on Everything UFC....
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=9664
"Good luck to him, because I don't want Fedor fighting in the UFC."
Should have checked in Monday buddy!
Dana is such an odd guy.............
God, Dana is such a whiney little . Im quickly tiring of his act
Part 1 of Chuck vs Wand (3 parts by Boondock)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...78660544629085
Training with BJ Penn…
http://ufcmania.com/2007/10/27/mma-d...bj-penn-video/
Hey guys I challenged Midge to a boxing match and there is a poll in the club. Boxer vs xmoker, what do you guys think about the outcome?
Taken from mmajunkie.com:
For the second time in two fights, “The Ultimate Fighter 2” heavyweight runner-up Brad Imes (9-3 MMA, 0-3 UFC) has posted a victory with a rare gogoplata submission.
The former University of Missouri football player posted the latest submission win in an Oct. 27 King of the Cage event this past weekend in Reno, Nev. Imes, who defeated Zak Jensen with the submission at a World Fighting Championship “Downtown Throwndown” event in September, submitted Bo Cantrell with the chokehold on Saturday.
A gogoplata is usually executed from a fighter’s guard when one leg is held against an opponent’s upper back and the other shin is pressed against the opponent’s neck. The fighter then pulls down on the back of his opponent’s head, forcing his shin into his opponent’s trachea. The air supply is cut off, and an opponent is forced to tap out or pass out.
Imes recently joined Shinya Aoki and Nick Diaz in the small fraternity of fighters who have successfully pulled off a submission victory via gogoplata. And he’s likely the only fighter — on any type of professional level — to do it in back-to-back MMA fights.
Imes lost to Rashad Evans in The Ultimate Fighter 2 Finale in November 2005. His only other losses have come in the UFC (to Dan Christison and Heath Herring). He’s undefeated outside the organization.
Although his ground game was noticeably lacking during his time on the e TV reality series, Imes is currently riding a four-fight win streak — with all four victories coming via submission.
Imes’ name recently surfaced as a possible first opponent for recent UFC signee Brock Lesnar, but Imes quickly squelched the rumors and said he hadn’t been contacted about the fight.
again???? hahha
Locoplata
Din arrested for idiocy
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=9725
"
Din Thomas (Pictures) was arrested Tuesday in Port St. Lucie, Florida, for running in his local gym what a police spokesman called "illegal cage fighting" matches.
The TCPalm reported that Thomas faces a felony prohibited-compe ions charge after police entered his training studio and watched two men fighting in an "octagon-shaped ring" before roughly 150 spectators"
What a dumbass.
(this Red Foreman moment was sponsored by desflood)
Kimbo write up. Looks like he is taking MMA seriously.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=9743
Frank on Cung Le
http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/11/...-his-progress/
"Frank: I think Cung Le needs some more time and experience. I don’t think it is a good fight right now because I would just smash him and ruin his progress. Everyone is pushing for Cung because he has been very exciting so far. I think it would be a waste of money and it would crush him when I crush him. I would like to wait till 2009 for that fight. I don’t really know who is on the horizon right now. Robbie Lawler’s name has been thrown around, but I am good with whoever they decide."
Personally I think he is right. Just like Thierry Sokoudjou we need to see what these guys can do on the ground before we over praise them.
Sherk hearing postponed again until Nov. 13!!
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