UFC 102 from Portland, Oregon won’t be a sellout, but making a couple million bucks at the gate is nothing to get your undies in a bunch about.
UFC President Dana White says the show will be a success, and I’m with him on that.
Demian Maia alone will make this show worth the PPV cash...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, Dana White, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Oregon, Portland, Randy Couture, Top Ten MMA Fighters, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 102
Posted in MMA Videos | No Comments »
We think that Couture will fight standing against him, and Rodrigo thinks that too. Rodrigo is 100% prepared standing. I always said that this fight is good to Rodrigo, because Couture has no punch to knock him out, and Rodrigo boxes better than him. Rodrigo is prepared in the ground too and will work...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Luis Alves, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Randy "The Natural" Couture, UFC, UFC 101, UFC 102 main card
Posted in Commentary | No Comments »
First came Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez.
Then UFC President Dana White got pissed when Mayweather dissed MMA as a sport for “beer drinkers” and White scheduled UFC 103 to directly compete for eyeballs with the Mayweather fight.
Then Golden Boy Promotions, Oscar De La Hoya’s company, added a three solid fights to the...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: "Sugar" Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran, Boxing, boxing versus mixed martial arts, Dana White, Golden Boy Promotions, Golden Boy vs. the UFC, Mayweather vs. Marquez, Mixed Martial Arts, News, Oscar De La Hoya's company, Roger Mayweather, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 103
Posted in Commentary, Events, News | No Comments »
If you ask me, Minotauro is all done in the UFC and Couture should handle him easily, but that’s just me…
Couture may be 13 years older, but he’s 13 years smarter and tougher.
You don’t stay around in the UFC as long as “The Natural” has without coming up big in “must win” fights,...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Couture vs. Nogueira, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, UFC, UFC 100, UFC 101, ufc 102
Posted in Events, MMA Videos | 1 Comment »
Weekend Rundown: Lombard’s Unbeaten Streak Reaches 18 (Sherdog) - Bellator Fighting Championships middleweight king Hector Lombard stopped Art Santore on first-round cuts in the Cage Fighting Championships 12 main event on Friday at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia.Strikeforce Standing Ground on April 17 (Sherdog) - Strikeforce “Nashville” will keep its April 17 date...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, Dana White, Demian Maia, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Nate Marquardt, News, Randy “The Natural” Couture, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 102, WEC
Posted in Events, News | No Comments »
Randy Couture was instrumental in bringing UFC 102 to Portland, Oregon, and in this interview he talks about that process and how it played out.
Couture, who comes off a loss to UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, looks to get back on the horse against the dangerous Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira.
Date Time: Aug-29-2009...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, Brandon Vera vs. Krzysztof Soszynski, Keith Jardine vs. Thiago Silva, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Randy Couture, Top Ten MMA Fighters, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 102
Posted in Events, MMA Videos, News | No Comments »
Middleweight Thales Leites and welterweight Tamdan McCrory, who were both reportedly released by the UFC following losses at UFC 101, will remain on the UFC roster
UFC president Dana White said he wasn’t aware of the plan to drop both Leites and McCrory and then added that he would reverse those decisions.
McCrory, who suffered a...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Dana White, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, News, Top Ten MMA Fighters, UFC, UFC 101
Posted in Commentary, Events, News | No Comments »
Dennis Hallman , 41-12-2 MMA, 1-3 UFC, is back in the UFC after a four year hiatus.
The 34-year-old submission specialist who debuted at UFC 29: Defense of the Belts, signed a new four-fight deal according to his agent, Ken Pavia of MMAAgents.com.
Known for his two submission wins over former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Dennis Hallman signs UFC deal, Dennis Superman Hallman, four-fight UFC deal, Frank Trigg, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 102
Posted in Events, News | 1 Comment »
Matt Mitrione, who played in the NFL for the Giants, 49ers and Vikings, is a member of the The Ultimate Fighter 10: Heavyweights cast.
Mitrione, who spent nine games on the roster with the New York Giants in 2002, has yet to fight in a professional MMA bout.
The 30-year-old was an All-Big Ten defensive...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Kimbo Slice future in Limbo, Matt Mitrione, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, News, The Ultimate Fighter 10: Heavyweights, TUF 10, UFC, UFC 101
Posted in Interviews, MMA Videos | 2 Comments »
Randy Couture is an MMA superstar, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, former collegiate wrestler, and the former heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
He is one of only two UFC fighters to have held a championship title in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight) and is the only five-time champion in UFC history. Couture has...
Full Story and Video »
Tags: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, News, Randy Couture, Top Ten MMA Fighters, UFC, UFC 101, ufc 102
Posted in Commentary | No Comments »