Off-Topic/Minor MMA News and Notes

[Evan]

Anderson Silva retirement talk

UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva was recently interviewed by Brazilian cable channel SporTV. The TV show [Sensei SporTV], featuring Spider, will air on September 27, but the editors released a shocking exert from the interview with Silva, when the champion spoke on his retirement from MMA:

"I'll retire next year, I already gave my all. I don't need to prove anything for anyone and within one year I'll put my gloves aside."

Ana Hissa, the editor who contacted us with this breaking news, was emphatic, saying that Silva mentioned retirement several times. This was unimaginable for them because Silva is in the best stage of his career and is the king pin of UFC's 185 pounds division.

We where unable to reach the fighter to add more on this bombastic interview or to know if he'll leave MMA and move to Pro Boxing.

I say shenanigans

a few months ago he says he wants to fight 6 to 10 times a year and now this? Meh...

[dbreiden83080]

He might retire if he really wants to box and is pissed off the UFC won't let him do it on the side. He has no compe on at all at 185. Maybe he doesn't want to fight much at 205

[Evan]

I bet he just needs time away.

He says 205 is Machida's and doesn't want to interfere.

[djohn14]

I dont see it...I really dont...but....Ill wait for another report of this or something before I really put much into this.

[Evan]

I want to hear the context of the interview...we're all sports fans here and know how twisted quotes can get.

And lets face it...so much BS comes out of Brazil. By BS I mean bad translations and incomplete quotes.

[dallaskd]

I missed the premire of TUF. Can someone link it. It's not in the vault.

[polandprzem]

I don't know if it was here but fedor wrote a book

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=R9idI1...://mmablog.pl/

[dallaskd]

I missed the premire of TUF. Can someone link it. It's not in the vault.

[djohn14]

You missed it?...I wish I could, but I would have no idea where to find it. I'll look, but I wont promise anything. Also, the Anderson Silva story IS FALSE!

[Evan]

Sorry dallaskd....I have no idea.

For some odd reason those are barely even replayed.

[Evan]

Juanito Ibarra tells his side..

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...rra/index.html

I dunno….he doesn't do a good job defending himself. If it was me and I was innocent I would be more outspoken along with a lot of specifics.

The UFC did that when Randy was lying and made him look like an ass and won the public relations battle which was an impossible task given the UFC's image at the time.

These fighters seem to put too much faith in 1 person and I think one day we may hear how Fedor was pillaged. That camp is more secretive than North Korea.

[dallaskd]

I missed the premire of TUF. Can someone link it. It's not in the vault.

http://www.mmascraps.com/


thanks dallaskd...

btw this website is the shizz

[Evan]

WEC folds 2 weight classes as speculated

http://mmajunkie.com/news/12861/wec-...ht-classes.mma

HMMMMMMM…….some of these people are in no way shape or form ready for the UFC.

They really need to be signing a slew of fighters now.

I wonder if they will be making some phone calls to a lot of previous TUF guys.

I don't get it. WEC was fine as is. Bad decision by ZUFFA IMO.

[dbreiden83080]

Juanito Ibarra tells his side..

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...rra/index.html

I dunno….he doesn't do a good job defending himself. If it was me and I was innocent I would be more outspoken along with a lot of specifics.

The UFC did that when Randy was lying and made him look like an ass and won the public relations battle which was an impossible task given the UFC's image at the time.

These fighters seem to put too much faith in 1 person and I think one day we may hear how Fedor was pillaged. That camp is more secretive than North Korea.

Interesting stuff there. He and Ibarra were very close and he took Rampage a long way. He is a much better fighter now than he was a few years ago. I hope he is getting first class training still especially with his fight with Wandy coming up. He doesn't want to lose to him for a 3rd time. I think after the loss (Cough Bull ) to Forrest everyone was playing the blame game. Probably Jackson's people around him were in his ear on a lot of things. Personally i did not feel he was in the shape he was in when he fought Chuck and Henderson. He had too much time off in between fights and did not look as ready to go.

[Evan]

UFC 1 poster. Pretty cool.

http://cgi.ebay.com/UFC-1-promotiona...d=p3286.c0.m14

Check out the bud ice logo....that stuff is a hangover in a bottle guarenteed.

drank so much of that crap back int he day...along with crazy horse..mickey's...bud dry...red dog...icehouse....

hmmmmmm....I guess everything cheap really...I could keep going.

[Evan]

Interesting stuff there. He and Ibarra were very close and he took Rampage a long way. He is a much better fighter now than he was a few years ago. I hope he is getting first class training still especially with his fight with Wandy coming up. He doesn't want to lose to him for a 3rd time. I think after the loss (Cough Bull ) to Forrest everyone was playing the blame game. Probably Jackson's people around him were in his ear on a lot of things. Personally i did not feel he was in the shape he was in when he fought Chuck and Henderson. He had too much time off in between fights and did not look as ready to go.

Thoughts on whether he comes off as believable???

[dbreiden83080]

Thoughts on whether he comes off as believable???

I really don't know. I just bought the UFC DVD, where Rampage fought Henderson and Page and Ibarra really looked tight. Ibarra came off as almost a father figure to Rampage. Was he using that closeness to take advantage of him?? Maybe. The effection seemed genuine from what i saw. The interview didn't tell me much as he didn't really say a whole lot.

[Evan]

I get the feeling he did everything for Rampage he was supposed to do but he way over charged for everything.

[LEONARD]

Kimbo on PTI
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2008/9/25...-should-be-ash

Kimbo on Kimmel (funny how McCain’s fighting quote from the late 90’s is still used today like that is still his stance on MMA)
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps7DEy5M-FI

[Evan]

I still say McCain saved MMA

[Evan]

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[2centsworth]

why no UFC 90 threads? headline fights look good.

[Evan]

why no UFC 90 threads? headline fights look good.

Still a month out. We typically do event threads a week to 10 days out.

Not sure why but thats the pattern that we ended up doing.

[dallaskd]

Still a month out. We typically do event threads a week to 10 days out.

Not sure why but thats the pattern that we ended up doing.

Leonard gave me the rule.

[dallaskd]

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