Chad Mendes talks about his first finish inside the Octagon, a knockout win over Cody McKenzie at UFC 148, finding the motivation to fight a friend, and more with MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani.
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UFC 148 The Stat Line – Silva vs. Sonnen is a post from: MMA Interplay UFC News
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UFC cameras look ahead to this weekend's co-main event between Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin. With Ortiz retiring after the fight, the soon-to-be UFC Hall of Fame Inductee will look to end his impressive career with a win against Griffin. Be sure to tune in this Saturday to see how it all plays out.
Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/29314/countdown-to-ufc-148-griffin-vs-ortiz-video/
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Luke Rockhold will get a chance to defend the Strikeforce middleweight belt against Tim Kennedy on July 14 in Portland. The two have been pushing for a match-up, but not because they hate each other. They just wanted a good fight.
In fact, these two can't even be bad when they are being pushed into it by Strikeforce commentator Frank Shamrock.
One quibble, Frank. Rockhold and Kennedy's painting was not of Mother Teresa. It's Our Lady of Guadalupe, the image of the Virgin Mary who appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico in the 1600s.
Though they're both nice guys, they still match up for an interesting bout. Who will win? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
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Though the Summer of Injury sounds like a story arc on a daytime soap opera, it's actually what the UFC has experienced as so many fighters have had to pull out from planned bouts. For example:
-- Heavyweight Check Kongo was supposed to fight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 149 in Calgary, but an injury to Big Nog forced him out of the fight. Kongo will now fight Shawn Jordan, who won his UFC debut with a second-round TKO of Oil Thompson. As of this writing, every fight on the UFC 149 main card has been altered because of injury.
-- Another heavyweight, Luiz Cane, was also smacked upside the head by the injury bug. Rousimar Palhares, who most recently lost to Alan Belcher, will step in to fight Yushin Okami at UFC 150 in Denver.
Some non-injury-related fight booking news:
-- UFC 150 added four fights, including Justin Lawrence vs. Max Holloway, Nik Lentz vs. Eijii Mitsuoka, Dennis Bermudez vs. Tom Hayden and Michael Kuiper vs. Jared Hamman.
-- Jeff Hougland will fight Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 151 in Las Vegas on Sept. 1. The card will be headlined by Jon Jones' title defense against Dan Henderson.
Want to make fight predictions? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.
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Strikeforce: Luke Rockhold vs. Tim Kennedy – Promo Video is a post from: MMA Interplay UFC News
The hits keep coming. Yet another UFC bout has fallen through due to injury as Siyar Bahadurzada has withdrawn from his UFC 149 bout with Chris Clements. “The Killer” originally stepped in as a replacement for Yoshihiro Akiyama to face Thiago Alves, who was also forced out of the bout due to injury, giving Clements [...]
Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/29260/siyar-bahadurzada-out-of-ufc-149-chris-clements-faces-matt-riddle/
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The third installment of Bellator’s 2012 Summer Series, which will take place�August 24 at Harrah?s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Mississippi, looks to be a stacked card as it delivers a Bellator Featherweight Title bout, the Season 6 Bantamweight Tournament Final and the 2012 Summer Series Light Heavyweight Tournament Final. Anchoring Bellator 73 will be [...]
Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/29254/bellator-73-headlined-by-curran-pitbull-features-two-tournament-finals/
Top Canadian featherweight Graham Spencer has inked a deal with Aggression Fighting Championship. The hot prospect comes to the AFC cage with a record of 8-1 (1 NC). Graham is 3-0 in his last four bouts, with one no contest in a freak�occurrence that saw him and Roy Bradshaw fall from the cage in March [...]
Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/29272/graham-spencer-signs-to-aggression-fighting-championship/
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After beating Jeremy Stephens in a decision at UFC on Fuel 3, Donald Cerrone is taking a well-deserved vacation. In addition to being a fighter, a rodeo-er (because I assume that's the word for someone involved with rodeos) and a fan of pontoon boats, Cerrone is also a wakeboarder.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/picture-day-flying-donald-cerrone-184125087--mma.html
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We've talked about this fight for nearly two years. The build-up for Chael Sonnen's bout with middleweight champion Anderson Silva has been bigger than for any fight that I can remember. Now, it's almost here, and it's time for you to pick a side.
Pick who you think will the main event and all of the other bouts from the main card of UFC 148:
Champ Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen (for middleweight title)
Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz
Patrick Cote vs. Cung Le
Dong Hyun Kim vs. Demian Maia
Chad Mendes vs. Cody McKenzie
Mike Easton vs. Ivan Menjivar
Then head to Cagewriter's Facebook page, and tell us who you picked and why you picked them. Select answers will appear on Cagewriter next to picks from Kevin Iole and me.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/want-ufc-148-picks-172203579--mma.html
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When asked by the UFC to fight Jose Aldo for the title, featherweight Hatsu Hioki said he wasn't quite ready for it yet. Now, a chance at the belt is much further away after he dropped a decision to Ricardo Lamas at UFC on FX 4.
Hioki started strong, twisting Lamas into an omoplata in the first round. But Lamas survived to get the best of Hioki on the ground and in stand-up. Every judge in Atlantic City saw it 29-28 for Lamas.
With this loss, Hioki showed the danger of passing on title shots. If he took a fight with Aldo before he was ready, he wouldn't have been confident in the cage. However, in taking a tune-up fight, he showed he wasn't ready for Aldo in the first place. Now, he'll have to work his way back to the top levels of the UFC's featherweight division to even get a whiff of the championship.
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OK, so it's not the main event Brazil was hoping for when the UFC announced a June event, since they thought they were going to see Chael Sonnen's rematch with Anderson Silva. After Vitor Belfort's injury forced him to pull out of the event, it's not even the runner-up to the event Brazil wanted. But looking at Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva in a vacuum, is it a bout you're excited about?
It's a rematch of their close, 2009 bout that ended in a unanimous decision for Franklin. Since then, Franklin is 1-2, with a win over Chuck Liddell and losses to Forrest Griffin and Vitor Belfort, while Silva is 2-1 with wins over Cung Le and Michael Bisping and a loss to Chris Leben. Is this bout at the top of the card enough to make you want to pay for UFC 147? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
We've talked about this fight for nearly two years. The build-up for Chael Sonnen's bout with middleweight champion Anderson Silva has been bigger than for any fight that I can remember. Now, it's almost here, and it's time for you to pick a side.
Pick who you think will the main event and all of the other bouts from the main card of UFC 148:
Champ Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen (for middleweight title)
Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz
Patrick Cote vs. Cung Le
Dong Hyun Kim vs. Demian Maia
Chad Mendes vs. Cody McKenzie
Mike Easton vs. Ivan Menjivar
Then head to Cagewriter's Facebook page, and tell us who you picked and why you picked them. Select answers will appear on Cagewriter next to picks from Kevin Iole and me.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/want-ufc-148-picks-172203579--mma.html
Mark The Hammer Coleman Wes Soldier Combs Ray Cooper Kit Cope