Frank Mir did not take his decision to come back lightly. After a unanimous decision loss to Alistair Overeem in February, the former UFC heavyweight champion gave himself plenty of time before he came to the conclusion that he would return to fighting.
Mir, who has lost four straight, told Ariel Helwani on this past Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he did consider retirement for a time.
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Mark Munoz is going to be making his return to the Octagon in February.
The long time UFC veteran, that has endured back to back stoppage losses in the UFC, is scheduled to return in action on Feb. 28 against Nova Uniao middleweight Caio Magalhaes at UFC 184 in Los Angeles. The UFC declared the matchup Thursday.
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Welterweight champion Douglas Lima will ultimately go back to the Bellator cage in February.
Lima told MMAFighting.com he was anticipating to defend his 170-pound title against Paul Daley or Andrey Koreshkov. A week later, Bellator declared he’ll put his belt at stake against Daley, the British striker, at Bellator 133 on Feb. 27 at the Mohegan Sun in in Uncasville, Connecticut.
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Despite strategies to host GLORY 19 in December, the organization has made a decision to push the event back. Based on a report from Liver Kick, GLORY will not hold its nineteenth occasion until February.
“Clearly I am disappointed that we needed to go off the December 19th date,” GLORY CEO Jon J. Franklin said. “But I had happen to be even more disappointed if we continued using the hard work necessary to put on an occasion like GLORY does and it did not live to the conventional our supporters have come to expect and demand.
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Thiago Tavares and Nik Lentz are set to rematch at UFC Fight Night 60 in February, yet, hours prior to the UFC declared the fight on Tuesday, Tavares experienced emergency knee operation in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
“Only woke up in the Baia Sul hospital after undergoing emergency surgery with Dr. Luis Fernando Funchal,” Tavares posted on his Instagram on Wednesday morning. “Thanks to him, I am going to be 100 percent to fight on Feb. 14, representing my city and my state in the UFC.”
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With the names in place to fight for the UFC’s bantamweight title, the only thing left to do is nail down a date.
And according to UFC Tonight, current 135-pound champion T.J. Dillashaw should be ready to face former champion Dominick Cruz as soon as February.
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The UFC’s February return to the Front Range of Colorado now has some fights.
The UFC declared three fights for the Valentine’s Day card in Broomfield, including a featherweight confrontation between American Top Team fighter Cole Miller (21-8) as well as the 22-year old Hawaiian, Max Holloway (11-3).
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The confidant to many a UFC sportsman, well-known nutritionist Mike Dolce chalks a lot of the work he does with combatants as just ‘responding to the body.’
With the UFC’s prohibition of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) in February, a few of Dolce’s customers were the most directly impacted by the policy.
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Scheduled to take on Beneil Dariush on the key card of UFC 179, climbing lightweight Alan Patrick will not compete in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Patrick (12-0), who has not competed since a close decision triumph over John Makdessi in February, has endured an injury on Thursday, and will not be able to compete on Oct. 25.
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Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort will not occur on Dec. 6 after all, but that will not alter Ronaldo Souza’s strategies.
“Jacare”, who scored his fourth straight triumph below the UFC banner using a third-round entry over Gegard Mousasi in September, will still work to be the ‘plan B’ in case something occurs to Belfort before his title fight against Weidman in February.
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A third video of Thiago Silva and his exwife Thaysa Kamiji has surfaced, as well as in this one Silva is seen cocking his gun. Silva was released again from your UFC roll on Friday after videos started surfacing revealing him in an agitated state using a firearm.
Silva, who have been charged with aggravated assault and battery, sending threatening texts, and resisting arrest without violence from a February 6 incident with Kamiji and Pablo Popovitch, was recently resigned by the UFC following the charges were dropped by the Broward County District Attorney’s office.
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One of the UFC’s most intriguing lightweight contenders, Khabib Nurmagomedov, is now targeting a February return to action after tearing the meniscus in his right knee this past summer — but the road to Nurmagomedov’s rehabilitation has been more unusual than most.
After discovering that Nurmagomedov has been working through and paying for his own rehabilitation in Russia, UFC officials recently flew the Dagestani sambo champion out to Los Angeles to visit the same orthopedic physician who treated Georges St-Pierre and Conor McGregor for similarly problematic knee injuries, MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani reported on Wednesday’s edition of UFC Tonight.
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Speaking publicly for the first time since a Florida judge dropped all charges levied against him stemming from an alleged early-February altercation with his ex-wife, newly re-signed UFC fighter Thiago Silva denied any wrongdoing and suggested that the alleged victim, Thaysa Kamiji, falsified the accusations which ultimately led to his arrest.
“The truth is they didn’t find no proof,” Silva said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I never pointed any gun at my ex-wife, I never tried to hurt (her). Everything she said was a lie. So that’s the truth. The state, they couldn’t prove another thing, so that’s the truth.
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