Trigg has a very high opinion of his looks.
Honestly...I always thought he was bi or gay until I heard him mention his wife.
If Fedor fought him next I wouldn't be surprised.Dead serious
and I checked the pic info and it doesn't say it was generated by photoshop.
Trigg has a very high opinion of his looks.
Honestly...I always thought he was bi or gay until I heard him mention his wife.
Sylvia will win. Fedor is making a big mistake.
It all depends on what the rules are.
Tim via knee to the forehead...
Rules schmules...Fedor wins under any set against Timmy...
Well....can he grab the ropes and will Tim be allowed to use knees?
Tim can use knees, soccer kicks, stomps, and a bazooka...won't matter...
Yamma weigh-ins
MASTERS SUPERFIGHTS
Mark Kerr (266.2) vs. Oleg Taktarov (221.2)
Eric "Butterbean" Esch (416.2) vs. Patrick Smith (240.0)
HEAVYWEIGHT TOURNAMENT
George Bush (231.6) vs. Ricco Rodriguez (264.6)
Marcelo Pereira (219.4) vs. Travis Wiuff (242.8)
Tony Sylvester (262.8) vs. Chris Tuscherer (264.0)
Alexey Oleinik (220.2) vs. Sherman Pendergarst (264.6)
ALTERNATE TOURNEY BOUTS
Antwain Britt (228.2) vs. Bryan Vetell (266)
Lamont Lister (212.6) vs. Oleg Savitsky (199.4)
Best Interview of all time...here are the highlights...
http://mmarated.com/articles/article...er_-10456.html
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Ariel Helwani: How did it feel to get back in the ring after a long layoff?
Phil Baroni: I felt like after about four minutes. I was out of shape (and) I didn't train for seven months. (It's) nobody's fault but my own. Oh well, I made a mistake. it, I'll take it out on Ninja. Poor Ninja.
Ariel Helwani: Were you happy with your performance against Hose?
Phil Baroni: What the do you think? Was I happy with my performance against Hose? What are you re ed?
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Ariel Helwani: What did you think of Frank Shamrock's performance against Cung Le?
Phil Baroni: I think he won the first round. I think he hurt Cung in the third (round). Watching the fight I kept thinking to myself: "how the did I lose to that guy." I'm so much better than him.
Ariel Helwani: Any interest in fighting Shamrock again?
Phil Baroni: yeah man. That fight is my dream rematch. That's the fight I want to get back more than any.
Ariel Helwani: Have you ever spoken to Frank Shamrock since your fight against him in June 2007?
Phil Baroni: Yeah, I talk to him all the time. It's a secret what we say to each other . None of your ing business. Let's just say I want another shot at him and he is a business man.
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Ariel Helwani: Are you happy with the way they have treated you thus far?
Phil Baroni: What did I just say. They are treating me great. I'm real happy with the company. Everyone there has been fan- ing-tastic.
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Ariel Helwani: Are you willing to explain the entire steroid story from last year? Do you feel like you were mistreated by the California State Athletic Commission?
Phil Baroni: It was bull man. That was not my first rodeo. I'm not ing stupid. Nobody's going to try and cheat and take steroids. If you take steroids you're going to get caught. I think the lab ed up. When the sample they collected was retested it came back clean just like every other test I ever took. I got ed... ed hard. Its almost a year ago and your inquiring mind is still asking me about it. , steroids don't win fights anyway. All the guys who get caught are the losers anyway. They make your muscles big but big muscles are not what wins fights. Skill, heart, and conditioning are what make a champion not a shot or a pill.
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Ariel Helwani: How many more years/fights do you have left in you?
Phil Baroni: , I have a lot. Chuck Liddell didn't win his first world le until he was 36. Maybe too many for you mother ers. I ain't going anywhere for a long time.
Ariel Helwani: You've trained with Kimbo Slice before, what are your thoughts on him?
Phil Baroni: He is a big, black, tough mother er. Could it be anymore obvious?
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Ariel Helwani: Sheesh, you've certainly said a mouthful. Any final words?
Phil Baroni: Go yourselves. No I'm just kidding. I just want to thank everyone for their support. I've grown a lot over the years as a fighter and a person (and) my best years are yet to come. I'm still in this to be a world champion. I have a lot of fight left in me. Check me out on CBS May 31st when I will eat Ninja sushi for dinner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvoEl...eature=related
watch this and read the comments. the guys record is 2-6 but for some reason everyone is saying giant silva has beaten fedor, CC, wandy, ect...?
Someone is screwing with the fans. He never fought them...I think the only top guy he fought was Heath Herring.
This guy was one of PRIDE's freakshow props.
thats one reason i like american orgs over jap leagues. no freak shows.
lol he took rampage being KO'd by wandy and fedors face from the CC fight and put it in there.
bad ass.
Where is your sense of humor?
RU kidding?Ariel Helwani: Are you willing to explain the entire steroid story from last year? Do you feel like you were mistreated by the California State Athletic Commission?
Phil Baroni: It was bull man. That was not my first rodeo. I'm not ing stupid. Nobody's going to try and cheat and take steroids. If you take steroids you're going to get caught. I think the lab ed up. When the sample they collected was retested it came back clean just like every other test I ever took. I got ed... ed hard. Its almost a year ago and your inquiring mind is still asking me about it. , steroids don't win fights anyway. All the guys who get caught are the losers anyway. They make your muscles big but big muscles are not what wins fights. Skill, heart, and conditioning are what make a champion not a shot or a pill.
Most of the sportsmen taking steroids. And yea go fool everybody that steroids just give you muscles
What a jerk.
I saw that fight against Shamrock, and Frank could finish him sooner. baroni saw birds and stars few minutes earlier in the fight. Unimpressive guy.
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Joe Rogan - too much f words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di3NA...eature=related
Last edited by polandprzem; 04-14-2008 at 12:44 PM.
If anyone was dumb anough to fall for that rumor Joe Roganwas leaving the UFC.......
http://blog.joerogan.net/archives/230
B.J. PENN TESTED BY NSAC, COMES BACK CLEAN
Thursday, April 24, 2008 - by Ivan Trembow and Ken Pishna - MMAWeekly.com
The first test results are in from the Nevada State Athletic Commission's newly ins uted out-of-compe ion drug testing program. According to NSAC executive director Keith Kizer, all of B.J. Penn's test results for steroids and recreational drugs came back negative on Wednesday, April 23.
Penn was the first mixed martial arts fighter to be tested since the program was announced in a memo to "All Nevada Licensees" on Jan. 7, 2008.
In the memo, NSAC chairman John Bailey noted that some fighters “... have become very sophisticated in the timing of taking prohibited substances,” which is why the Commission has ins uted additional random testing.
“Random testing throughout the year will further deter any fighters considering taking non-approved substances,” said Kizer. “The additional testing, which will be paid for by the Commission, will help us keep the sport of unarmed combat safe and fair for all fighters.”
The program has also tested two boxers, Shane Mosley and Zab Judah, both of whom tested negative.
This is a joke, right? If somebody needs to be tested, it sure as f*ck needs to be Sean Sherk!
I'm sure they'll be testing Sean very soon...
Glad to see them doing this and even gladder to see BJ pass...
New PRIDE indeed...
cant wait to see it on HDnet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In a less-than-dreamy scenario, Fight Entertainment Group's Dream MMA brand has been ousted from primetime television on the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
The change comes after the debut edition of Dream garnered lackluster ratings in a make-or-break scenario for FEG and TBS.
The event grabbed only an 8.9 percent rating average on TBS in primetime, according to Japan's Video Research Ltd. The telecast's peak was a 12.7 for the Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic bout against Tatsuya Mizuno (Pictures), which was edited into the main event slot due to the no-contest debacle in the Shinya Aoki (Pictures)-Gesias Calvancante (Pictures) fight -- the show's true main event. TBS was fifth out of the six major Japanese networks during the time slot, besting only the perennial sixth-place finisher, TV Tokyo.
The ratings were crucial for the primetime continuation of FEG's MMA product. Rumors within the Japanese MMA community surfaced late last year suggesting that TBS could take FEG's Hero's promotion out of primetime due to sagging, lackluster ratings.
Although FEG's restructuring of its MMA program and the invention of Dream were celebrated by hardcore MMA fans, the move was not an altruistic one. Rather, it was an attempt to revitalize FEG's MMA product and ignite interest on television.
TBS is now scheduled to air the forthcoming April 29 Dream card on a week's tape delay in heavily edited one-hour installments. The broadcasts will air both in afternoon and after-midnight timeslots. However, future Dream events will air live on SkyPerfecTV pay-per-view.
The announcement is in no way a death knell for the revamped promotion. Pay-per-view is not a lucrative medium in Japan, though, as it is in North America. Being forced out of primetime does heavily slash advertising revenues for FEG, which will limit the ability for the promotion's growth in the foreseeable future.
For the time being, FEG continues to have television success with its central kickboxing brands, K-1 and K-1 Max. The April 9 K-1 Max telecast on TBS garnered a 12.4 percent rating average in primetime on TBS, and the April 13 K-1 telecast in primetime on Fuji Television scored a 12.8 percent. The only sports programming to score higher thus far in April was the April 5 Nippon Professional Baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers, which notched a 13.8 rating on NHK.
Despite the disappointing news, there is some measure of a silver lining for hardcore fans. With the shift to pay-per-view, Dream's future events will air unedited, in their entirety. This will resolve the usual griping regarding the heavily edited product created to air in a two-hour primetime television slot, which often leaves many fights unaired or shown only in highlight form. The April 29 Dream pay-per-view telecast is scheduled for roughly six hours of pay-per-view time, broadcasting live from 4:00 p.m. to 9:55 p.m. Tokyo time.
Also, with the shift out of primetime on TBS, the Dream pay-per-view telecast will feature the return of Daisuke Sato, the influential video director who was responsible for the much-celebrated pre-fight promo packages for Pride.
More money than meets the eye in the UFC
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
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One of my passions in life is technology. I’m obsessed with gizmos and gadgets and am all but in love with my iPhone.
A friend who knows about my obsession had a computer he wanted to sell on eBay and asked me what I felt it was worth. He went to a Web site that showed an estimated street value, one I felt was considerably too high.
He argued that his asking price was justified because this web site was made up of experts and they agreed with him.
True, I said, but something is only worth what someone else will pay for it. And when we went to eBay and looked at completed listings for a computer with specs similar to his, he was shocked. People were only paying about half of what he thought he could get.
And that same analogy is true when it comes to fighter compensation. There is a lot of debate in the mixed martial arts media over what the UFC pays its fighters. It’s easy to take the stance that the fighters deserve more pay.
Of course they do. Getting punched in the face or kicked in the head is about as difficult a profession as one could choose. You only get paid when you actually compete, meaning an injury in training — by your or by your opponent — means you’ve worked two months for free.
So fighters deserve as much as they can get. I have always and will always advocate for the athletes in this sport.
But, when Kalib Starnes split ways with the UFC last week, he called his deal with the UFC an oppressive contract. He complained about his pay.
Clearly, the top UFC fighters don’t make nearly the amount that the top boxers make. But there is an incorrect perception that the other UFC fighters are being underpaid compared to boxers of the same level as well as fighters in the mixed martial arts community.
So I called the Nevada Athletic Commission and got the payment verification sheets for the last two major boxing shows (Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe on April 19 and Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez on March 15) as well as for the last major UFC show in the state, UFC 81 on Feb. 2.
According to state records, Hopkins and Calzaghe were each paid $3 million for their work. The next highest-paid fighter on that card was Audley Harrison, who made $20,000. There were nine fighters who made $5,000 or less, including two men, Marcos Mendias and Jermell Charlo, who made but $1,500.
Pacquiao made $3 million and Marquez $1 million for their epic rematch, but there were five fighters of the 14 on that show who made $3,500 or less.
At the UFC show, the lowest base pay for any of the 18 fighters on the card was the $4,000 that Kyle Bradley made.
The UFC also paid out $60,000 bonuses that night for knockout of the night, submission of the night and fight of the night. Plus, most of the fighters had bonuses for winning, so the opportunity was there for them to double their pay, which was not for the boxers.
And several agents, speaking on the condition of anonymity, have said the UFC occasionally pays its fighters bonuses it chooses not to announce to the public. These bonuses apparently go to fighters who perform superbly in a big fight.
Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre reportedly received a $500,000 bonus and a Hummer when he knocked out Matt Hughes at UFC 65 in Sacramento, Calif.
Additionally, fighting in the UFC makes an athlete significantly more attractive to a sponsor. Frank Mir made $85,000 for the logos he wore into the cage for his fight with Brock Lesnar that night. Had he been fighting in another organization, there’s zero chance he would have earned half that in sponsorship money and he likely wouldn’t have gotten 20 percent as much.
So Mir that night earned a base pay of $40,000, a win bonus of another $40,000, a submission of the night bonus of $60,000 and then hauled in $85,000 in sponsorship dollars.
He’s not going to be able to retire after that bout, but bringing in $225,000 for one night’s work isn’t bad at any time, especially in this economy. A fighter like Chuck Liddell is making around $6 million a year between his salary and his sponsorships and was making at least $9 million little more than a year ago. He was getting $75,000 a month from Xyience and received $1 million for just two weekends of promoting the movie, “300.”
“The UFC will pay you if you perform,” said fighter agent Dean Albrecht, Mir’s agent. “It’s like in the NFL. They’re not going to rip up your contract after one great game, but if you perform over a period of time, they’ll pay you and pay you extremely well. In the UFC, if you go out and fight and put on a great show, believe me, they pay extremely well and they can make some of these kids rich.”
Albrecht said another of his clients, Joe Lauzon, earned $8,000 for his bout with Kenny Florian earlier this month on Ultimate Fight Night 13. He would have gotten an $8,000 bonus had he won. Albrecht conceded the pay was low, but it was mitigated by a $20,000 fight of the night bonus and $52,000 in sponsorship money Albrecht negotiated.
He said if Lauzon had been fighting in a regional promotion, he would have made $2,000 to show, gotten $2,000 had he won and may have picked up another $500 in sponsorship. Even in the best case scenario, then, he would have made less than $5,000.
The IFL is bleeding money and likely won’t last past its next show. Elite XC in its most recent SEC report also conceded it may not have the funds to last the rest of the year. If it’s not able to pull at least a 2.5 rating on CBS for its May 31 show, it may be in jeopardy of failing.
The UFC, on the other hand, continues to thrive. It will provide a place for the fighters to sell their wares long into the future. There is no other North American-based promotion that can say that now other than the UFC.
So while the UFC should bump up the salaries of the fighters up and down the cards, given the rising merchandise sales, gate receipts and pay-per-view revenues, you also have to remember that they’re the only ones who are thriving and can pay consistently. It’s a two-way street.
Chris Leben, a UFC middleweight who recently signed to fight Michael Bisping at UFC 85, was arrested in Oregon on Wednesday for a parole violation stemming from a previous DUI offense, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
As of late Wednesday evening, Leben remained behind bars.
A representative from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office told MMAjunkie.com that Leben will go before a judge at 3 p.m. on Thursday. It was determined upon his booking that he was not eligible for bail because of the probation violation, according to the representative.
UFC 84 is o's last fight in the UFC, i know he has a lot of haters but i still like the guy. Too bad he is leaving.
o hasn't done anything in a looooooooooooooong time. If you're going to have his mouth you have to back it up. I would love for him to stay even though I root against him but it's not going to happen. He would be awesome for MMA if his talent matched his mouth.
Rumor has him having massive back problems.
Either thats true or he simply has not evolved with MMA.
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