The United States Marine Corps is ending their long-running sponsorship of the UFC. The move comes merely a few months after a Congressional effort to end all Military sponsorships to sporting events fell short. USMC officials cited budget constraints and marketing analysis as the reason for ending their sponsorship.
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�Now that the UFC has listened to the fans and moved The Ultimate Fighter off of Friday to Tuesday nights, and began filming with coaches Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen, the only thing left for the fans to do is wait for the January 22 premier. The UFC released their first commercial for TUF 17…
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At UFC 152, Demetrious Johnson became the UFC's first flyweight champion. He will attempt to defend that belt against John Dodson at UFC on Fox 6 in Chicago. He spoke with Cagewriter about the fight, life as the champion, and training during the holidays.
Cagewriter: How has life changed since becoming the champion?
Demetrious Johnson: Life has pretty much stayed the same. A lot more people are noticing me. Training is the same. It's still good.
CW: With people noticing you, have you had any weird fan encounters?
DJ: Actually yes. On my Facebook page, there's a guy from Belgium who fights in the Shooto Belgian League. He wants to fight me. I didn't respond, and he said, 'You're scared to fight me.' I didn't even say anything back to him.
CW: With your fight on Fox, casual fans will get to see flyweight fights. What should they expect?
DJ: Flyweights are the most exciting weight class in the UFC. We've got the cardio, the power, the technique, the speed. Fans say I want to see fights finished, but you're going to see great fights in general.
CW: What do you say to people who criticized the lighter weights?
DJ: You have to give us a chance. People are used to seeing heavyweights in boxing and seeing knockouts and all that. When you watch guys from 125-155, we're more skillful and tactical. It's harder for them to respect it. But in the long run, they can see it's smart.
CW: During your win over Joe Benavidez, fans booed and UFC heavyweight Pat Barry stood up and yelled at the booing fans on your behalf. Have you talked to Pat since then?
DJ: No, not at all, but I appreciate Pat doing that. It shows a lot of character. What he did was fantastic. People out there don't understand. Anyone out there who says, 'Flyweights suck,' I can run them through the ringer and show them what I do every day. Show them what's up.
CW: Were you aware of the booing during your fight?
DJ: I was aware a little bit of it. It just happened. You put into play that it was one of the last fights of the night. There was alcohol involved. People getting tired, and I think that's all part of it.
CW: After being an underdog in your last fight, you're a 3-1 favorite in this fight. Does that change anything for you?
DJ: Not at all. It doesn't change anything for me. It changes things for people outside the fight. I'm still focused. I still have to prove myself to the world and prove that I'm the no. 1 flyweight in the world.
CW: On another note, why do you wear neon green shorts?
DJ: One of my sponsorships with Xbox 360, and I wear the green for them. I wear the spandex because they're more comfortable. Everybody loves them. My lady appreciates them.
CW: Does the Xbox sponsorship mean you get games ahead of release date?
DJ: Sometimes I'll get them a few days early. Nothing crazy.
CW: The holidays fall smack in the middle of your training camp. How do you avoid all of the unhealthy treats of the season?
DJ: I'm pretty self-motivated person. I typically eat healthy year-round, so I just keep motivated and keep my eyes on Jan. 26.
CW: Finally, what are you asking Santa for?
DJ: Nothing. I pretty much have everything I want. As long as I have a roof over my head, I'm healthy and my wife is healthy, I can keep training, I'm happy.
With Strikeforce ceasing to exist as a promotion, a number of fighters signed to the organization?s roster who aren?t scheduled for action at the company?s final show in January have been slowly making their way into the Octagon. The latest example involves welterweight Bobby Voelker who fans likely remember for his rumbles with Roger Bowling. [...]
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UFC/Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey appeared on Jim Rome's show on Wednesday. What does the champion use as her training secret? Does she have high-level training methods not available to amateur athletes and workout warriors?
Nope. She likes to have as much sex as possible before fights. Though Mick advised Rocky that women weaken the legs, Rousey believes it has the opposite effect on women.
"For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ads or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like, 'Yo, fight time's coming up,'" Rousey said.
She is not the first athlete to claim sex has benefits on the field of play. Elias Figueroa, a Chilean soccer player, said his coach advised him to have sex before important games. Argentinian soccer players were advised they could have sex during the World Cup, as long as it was with a regular partner and not accompanied by champagne.
There is little medical evidence that says sex has an effect, positive or negative, on an athletic performance.
"It certainly doesn't fatigue you in any particular way. So if we actually test your strength or your endurance the day after you've had sex, there's no effect," said Ian Shrier, a sport-medicine physician at the Jewish General Hospital at McGill University.
But if there is an exception, it's in combat sports like MMA. Maria Cristina Rodriguez Gutierrez, the director of sports medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told CNN that sex can reduce aggression.
"For combat athletes like fighters or boxers, having sex before an important fight can reduce the aggressiveness and make them passive," although effects vary from person to person.
It clearly works for Rousey, who has steamrolled every opponent she has faced on her way to the championship and a 6-0 record. She's won every fight with a first-round submission, and she recently was named the first woman in the UFC. Though her opponent and the date for her first UFC fight are currently unknown, UFC president Dana White said her bout will be a main event on a pay-per-view.
Rousey is also a two-time Olympian, and she won a bronze medal for judo in 2008. It was a fight before the Beijing Olympics that made her think she could be successful in the cage.
"Yes. I got in a fight with a couple of guys at the end of 2007 in a movie theater. It was four couples so four guys and one girl tried to get into it. And I had two friends with me. But I was only really handling two guys by myself. They sued me for assault because it didn't really go too well for them. I guess if you lose a fight in Santa Monica the next option is to sue. Everyone in the theater was cheering for me. I was thinking I might have a future in this. It was before the whole MMA thing."
Bellator Bantamweight Champion Eduardo Dantas will be making his first title defense inside the Bellator cage on February 14 as he meets former teammate and friend Marcos Galvao. MMAJunkie first confirmed the news. Dantas (14-3) wrested the title from Zak Makovsky in April of this year, continuing his undefeated streak inside the Bellator cage. Unfortunately [...]
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Young fighters made some noise on UFC on Fox 5 in Seattle on Saturday night. Rory MacDonald, Mike Brown and Alexander Gustaffson all scored big wins.
The torch was passed among welterweights as B.J. Penn was beat down for three rounds by the bigger, faster and younger Rory MacDonald, who took the decision 30-26, 30-26, 30-27.
Penn, a legend in MMA whose first fight was at UFC 31 in 2001, had no answers for 23-year-old MacDonald. Penn was wobbled by a left late in the first round. He survived just to take such a beating in the second round that the fight doctor came in between the second and third to check and see if Penn could continue.
In the third round, MacDonald continued to land strikes, but added taunting to his arsenal. He dropped his hands and made faces at Penn, which the crowd in Seattle didn't appreciate. After the bout, MacDonald said he Penn was his hero, but he had to treat him like every opponent.
"Like I said to BJ after the fight, he was the one guy I really really looked up to growing up. He's a hero to me," MacDonald said to UFC commentator Joe Rogan.
MacDonald also asked to fight Carlos Condit, the one fighter who has beaten MacDonald in his 15-fight career.
Alexander Gustafsson needed a big win over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to get the next shot at the UFC light heavyweight belt, after Chael Sonnen challenges champion Jon Jones. He did it with a dominant decision, winning 30-27, 30-27 and 30-26.
Rua was strong early, managing a leg lock attempt in the first round, but he wasn't able to do much after Gustafsson got out of the submission attempt. Gustaffson used his reach and long legs to land huge knees and kicks throughout the bout.
With the win, Gustafsson is now 15-1. He won his last six fights, with his last loss coming in April of 2010 to Phil Davis.
Matt Brown started the main card off with excitement. In the second round of his bout with Mike Swick, Brown landed a perfect right hand. It stiffened Swick, who was out before he hit the ground. The fight was stopped at 2:31 in the second round.
At one point in his career, Brown had lost three fights in a row and it wasn't clear why the UFC didn't cut him. Now, he is on a four-fight win streak, with three of the last four coming by stoppage.
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UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos and former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez spoke to the mixed martial arts media Wednesday about their impending title fight at UFC 155 later in December. Both fighters discussed their first fight at UFC on FOX 1, Alistair Overeem and much more.Video courtesy of MMAFighting.com
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Former light heavyweight Stanislav Nedkov has decided to drop down to middleweight after what was very close to becoming his first loss as a professional. Nedkov is technically undefeated but it is only because Thiago Silva tested positive for marijuana metabolites after the two threw down and a submission loss was turned over to a…
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It?s strange talking about a fight that didn?t happen after a solid showing by the fighters at the Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale this Saturday night. According to Keith Kizer, the Executive Director at the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Jamie Varner had been sick all day and the doctor on hand determined �he wasn?t well enough…
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UFC on FX 6 kicked off twenty-one fights in twenty-four hours. The dust has settled and fans have had time to reflect and think about what’s next for the the fighters who competed in the�Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia, but where do we go from here?
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Do you know an MMA fan who proudly reminds you at every opportunity that he's been watching since UFC 1? Who complains about the rules and time limits "ruining everything?" Who rewatches PRIDE fights every weekend? Well, if you drew this person in Secret Santa, Cagewriter has the perfect gift.
Lenne Hardt, the woman who melodically and memorably announced fighters during introductions during PRIDE bouts, will record your voicemail message or ringtone. Here she is introducing Wanderlei Silva at PRIDE 33.
That's pretty awesome, and it can be your name that she's saying. Voicemails and ring tones start at $50, and she'll also do wedding announcements. Check it all out here.
UFC heavyweight Pat Barry may not have the most respectable record and has never strung together back-to-back wins inside the Octagon. However, he has remained one of the organization?s most popular competitors for the past few years thanks to his blend of personality and powerful striking. Both characteristics were on display at the Ultimate Fighter [...]
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The �next UFC on FOX card is just over a month out, and although the card has eleven fights scheduled, the UFC still hasn?t announced who would be the opening fight on the main card. As it sounds right now, Ricardo Lamas and Erik Koch will be the first fight on the network in 2013.…
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He may have fallen on the scorecards to Carlos Condit, but it has been a long time since UFC welterweight Nick Diaz has suffered a convincing loss. The 29-year old Diaz is notoriously tough, possessing a unique striking style and exceptional ground game, and has made a number of game opponents look bad. Though champion [...]
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Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Condit provided a main event thriller at UFC 154 on Saturday night. What other bright stars stood out?
No. 1 star -- Johny Hendricks: Everyone knows that Hendricks is a fantastic wrestler. He has the credentials and the skills. What he showed on Saturday was that he has knockout power by taking out Martin Kampmann with a single punch. Hendricks' last three fights include two knockouts in less than a minute, and a decision win over Josh Koscheck. Now, he has his sights set on the UFC welterweight belt.
No. 2 star -- Ivan Menjivar: People, just don't let your arm roam free around bantamweight Ivan Menjivar. Just don't do it. If you do, he will deftly slap an arm bar on you like he did on Azamat Gashimov, and your arm will not feel great for a long time.
No. 3 -- John Makdessi: Sam Stout went into this bout as the considerable favorite, but Makdessi took away Stout's advantage with a neverending jab. This win stopped a losing skid for Makdessi, and likely saved his job.
Who were your three stars? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.
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UFC featherweight contender Mark Hominick went on UFC Tonight on Tuesday night and announced that he was stepping away from the octagon. Hominick is retiring from the sport with a record of 20-6. “The Machine” came into the UFC through the WEC merger and was riding a five-fight winning streaking spanning three years. Hominick won…
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The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale preliminary action continued on FUEL TV with a four-fight fight card. In the undercard's headliner, Mike Pyle defeated James Head with a well timed knee that ended the fight in a flash. MMAFrenzy will have full coverage of tonight's action throughout the evening including results, recaps, and more.
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