By Mike Bohn | source: MMAMania.com From the rape video “Rampage” hoped would get him released from the UFC to his feelings of being underappreciated and disrespected in the fallout of UFC 144 earlier this year and a reportedly declined Reebok sponsorship, Jackson has made it very, very clear that …
http://www.youtube.com/user/UFC?v=WmbaNzfxHjM #ufconfox6#ufcpressconference source | MMAMania.com The press conference will begin promptly at 2 p.m. ET. Scheduled to attend will be UFC President Dana White, UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson, John Dodson, Quinton Jackson, Glover Teixeira, Anthony Pettis, Donald Cerrone, Erik Koch and Ricardo Lamas.
TONIGHT! Jan. 22, 2013 at 8 pm et on FX, the premier of “The Ultimate Fighter 17: Jones vs. Sonnen”. Cast Includes: Dylan Andrews, Gold Coast, Australia Kito Andrews, Sacramento, Calif. Luke Barnatt, Cambridge, England Leo Bercier, Great Falls, Mont. Ryan Bigler, Yona, Guam Kevin Casey, Hawthorne, Calif. Adam Cella, …
Vitor gave his thoughts (video below) on Chael Sonnen being given a title shot. He feels “that clown” is undeserving… “I want to get the belt, Take that punk Chael Sonnen, get him out! Dana, Lorenzo, kick him out! Let me fight Jon Jones. I need that rematch. Take that …
I cant help but to love this guy. Not only is he looking past Frank Mir, but tells us he’s dropping to LHW by challenging Jon “Bones” Jones in the fall of 2013. Daniel Cormier had a another dominant performance, this time against Dion Staring. Which earned him $120,000 and …
Ultimate Fighting Champions Dana White is going to have his left ear cut off!….and then re-attached. This surgery will help his Meniere’s disease. It wont cure it, but will cut his chances of an attack be 70%. And from what DW describes as an attack, you want NO part of …
By Ariel Helwani | MMAFighting.com Goldberg didn’t call last weekend’s show in Las Vegas, marking the first time since he debuted with the promotion in 1997 that he missed a UFC assignment for a reason other than a schedule conflict. In his place last Saturday night, announcer Jon Anik called …
Source | MMAJunkie.com MMAjunkie.com(www.mmajunkie.com) today learned from multiple industry sources that Bellator executives have issued an offer to Alvarez to match the deal he recently received from the UFC. The move is an effort by Bellator to retain the rights to the star 155-pounder, whose contract with the promotion expired …
Source | MMAWeekly.com It’s no secret that Barnett and UFC President Dana White have had a tumultuous relationship in the past, and as of right now there’s no word on if the former UFC heavyweight champion will get a second shot at fighting in the promotion or not. “I don’t …
Source | MMAJunkie.com “Sean Shelby, one of our matchmakers, came to me during the fights tonight and said, ‘Dana, I don’t want to cut this guy,’” White said. “And I said, ‘There’s no way in hell we’re cutting Leonard Garcia.’” “I always say it: The guys who go and lay …
Source | MMAJunkie.com The full list of paydays from the 12-bout card include: Champ Cain Velasquez: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus) def. Junior Dos Santos: $400,000 Jim Miller: $82,000 (includes $41,000 win bonus) def. Joe Lauzon: $27,000 Constantinos Philippou: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus) def. Tim Boetsch: $37,000 Yushin Okami: …
Source | Sports.Yahoo.com “Ten. He signed a 10-fight deal. I don’t think we’ve ever done a 10-fight deal. Maybe we did one with Forrest once, I don’t remember, but Anderson said, ‘I want a 10-fight deal, not an eight-fight deal.’ I’ll give him a 100-fight deal if he wants one,” …
Source | MMAFighting.com “The fight capital of the world,” White practically spit. “30-27 Guillard. It’s unacceptable. It’s a joke. It’s literally a joke. Seriously, the athletic commission must want to dig a f—in’ hole and bury themselves when someone says 30-27 Guillard. They should want to dig a hole and …
by Matt Erickson | Source: MMAJunkie.com Earlier this month, he got his wish when it became official that the next season of “The Ultimate Fighter” on FX would move from a 10 p.m. ET Friday slot to 9 p.m. ET on Tuesdays. Season 17 of the show debuts in its new …
Source | sports.yahoo.com “Forget about PEDs,” White said. “If we get into this system that we’re talking about where we would randomly test these guys, do you know how many guys would probably test positive for marijuana? It would be probably off the charts. “If you randomly test them and …
By Dave Meltzer | Source: MMAFighting.com On Saturday night, when Chris Leben goes into UFC’s Octagon for the 20th time in a career that started with the first season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) reality show, he’ll move into a tie for seventh place on the all-time list of most fights in company history. …