Source: http://www.ufc.com/news/Chael-Sonnen-Defining-Moments-2013
Tom Big Cat Erickson Martinsh Egle Eric Butterbean Esch Efrain Escudero
Saturday
Friday
UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson Postfight Fuel TV Quotes
Press Release – LOS ANGELES, CA ? The following quotes are from tonight’s UFC 161 POSTFIGHT SHOW ON FUEL TV for UFC 161: EVANS VS. HENDERSON. The show was hosted by Karyn Bryant, with UFC bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz, light heavyweight Chael Sonnen and heavyweight Daniel Cormier offering analysis. Ariel Helwani conducted interviews on-site. UFC [...]
Source: http://www.themmanews.com/ufc-161-evans-vs-henderson-postfight-fuel-tv-quotes/
Thursday
?UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen? Live Pre-Fight Press Conference Video
All the major players participating in Saturday?s ?UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen? extravaganza will be hitting the podium today inside Boston’s Wang Theatre. Stream Thursday?s pre-fight press conference live right here on 5thRound.com starting at 1PM ET/10AM PT. In addition to UFC President Dana White (pictured), Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Chael Sonnen, Alistair Overeem and [...]
MMA isn?t alone in judging controversies
Phil Davis won over Lyoto Machida at UFC 163 in a result UFC president Dana White questioned. Twitter was filled outrage over the decision in the fight. MMA as we know it is a young and growing sport, so judging will improve as the sport gets older right?
Not necessarily. Judged sports have been grappling with the problem of judging for years, and they're still messing it up.
In 2004, the Olympic men's all-around gymnastics competition was marred by controversy after the score of South Korean Yang Tae Young's parallel bars routine was incorrectly tabulated. Because the error was not noticed in time, American Paul Hamm still won the gold while Young won bronze.
The Winter Olympics in 2002 also had a judging controversy. In figure skating, two gold medals were awarded in the pairs competition after a judge admitted she ranked a Russian pair over the Canadian pair because she was pressured to do so.
MMA is judged like gymnastics and figure skating, but fighters have the advantage that they can win a fight without judges' involvement. This makes it more like wrestling, which had a judging controversy in the 2008 Olympics.
Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian had his score changed in what he deemed as an arbitrary manner. He protested, but the referees refused to review his match. Abrahamian went on to win the bronze, but threw the medal away during the ceremony.
Like in every judged sport, MMA judging is done by humans who don't all see everything the same way. There will be disagreement not just because humans are doing the judging, but also because they are judging two humans fighting each other. It doesn't get much more subjective than that.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/mma-isn-t-alone-judging-controversies-153746892.html
Wednesday
Clash of the Captions ? 8/14/13
Anyone who has been coming to Five Ounces of Pain for more than a few days understands our community boasts some of the best readers on the MMA landscape. While some sites settle for online trolls and uninformed debate, our crew of loyal followers fill the bottom part of our pages up with interesting ideas, [...]
The post Clash of the Captions – 8/14/13 appeared first on Five Ounces of Pain.
Source: http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2013/08/14/clash-of-the-captions-81413/
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Tuesday
Jacare Souza: Vitor Belfort Top Middleweight Contender, But Would Gladly Accept Match
Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza had little trouble in his UFC bout with Chris Camozzi earlier this year, scoring a first round submission victory. His second appearance inside the Octagon takes place next month when he meets one-time title contender Yushin Okami at UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Teixeira. With a win, Souza [...]
The post Jacare Souza: Vitor Belfort Top Middleweight Contender, But Would Gladly Accept Match appeared first on MMA Convert.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mmaconvert/~3/la9-EEoVvoI/
Monday
Bellator Opens Season 9 With Middleweight Title Bout, Shlemenko vs. Marshall
Press Release – Newport Beach, CA. (June 19, 2013) ? Bellator MMA will host a special Saturday event to kick off the promotion?s highly anticipated Season 9 debut from Connecticut?s own Mohegan Sun Casino Saturday, September 7th live on Spike. The night will feature reigning Bellator Middleweight World Champion Alexander ?Storm? Shlemenko putting his title [...]
Sunday
The Pirate Browser
For those who live in a country where Big Brother decides what websites you should have access to, like North Korea and um the...
Source: http://www.mmaforum.com/technology/139017-pirate-browser.html
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