Daniel Cormier believes he’s destined to be the UFC’s light heavyweight champion.
Ahead of his title challenge to the sport’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, Cormier envisions a grim future for Jon Jones after they tangle at UFC 182 on Jan. 3.
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LAS VEGAS — Urijah Faber discuss his UFC 181 fight against Francisco Rivera, why he is happy to fight in the prelims again, his future as a bantamweight, the advantages and disadvantages of the recent Reebok deal, and much more.
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The future of sponsorships in mixed martial arts radically changed on Tuesday, as the UFC and Reebok declared a landmark six-year deal that will efficiently replace in-cage fighter patrons having a uniform supplied by Reebok. Whether this shift will finally be a positive or negative net increase on combatants’ wallets remains to be seen — details of the recent tiered payout system are, only at that point, foggy — but there is no underselling the value UFC’s conclusion here.
Check out reactions to the statement from professional combatants both in and out from the UFC below, which we’ll be upgrading occasionally through the entire day.
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Although former UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre and his protege Rory MacDonald claim to have never seriously discussed the matter, the pair hasn’t wavered over refusing to fight one another.
Calling St Pierre ‘one of the more welcoming individuals’ during his 2010 move to Montreal’s Tristar Gym, MacDonald says the then-champ never handled him like a future challenge.
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Jon Jones expects the damning accusations against renowned comic Bill Cosby aren’t accurate — and he does not consider they’re. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by at least 15 distinct girls. TMZ cameras caught Jones outside LAX and asked him what he thought of the allegations.”I do not believe Bill Cosby would do that,” the UFC light heavyweight champ said. “I have never met him, but from what I have seen he appears to be a class act. I kind of grew up respecting him as a black performer and that i actually expect that is not accurate.”Jones, not taking the dialogue quite seriously, additionally did an imitation of Cosby from his Jello advertisements and insinuated the “Cosby Show” star did not want to assault girls, because he was loaded.”he is Bill Cosby — he should not have to take it,” a laughing Jones said, making a giving-away-cash gesture with his hands. Netflix, TV Land and NBC have all cut ties with Cosby, foregoing prospective future jobs. The 77-year old has never been convicted nor even tried for any alleged offenses.
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it is been years since Jon Jones first teased an ultimate move up to heavyweight. With his lanky 6-foot-4 body and UFC-greatest 84.5-inch reach, the reigning light heavyweight champion and No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport has consistently considered he had be competitive in MMA’s hardest-striking department.
But now, using the UFC’s 205-pound weight class, at most, two or three fights away from being cleared out, Jones has started plotting out a path for his future which includes possible superfights against heavyweight’s elite. So that begs a interesting question: could Jones stack up nicely against heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez in the event the two met in a hit fight next year?
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For all of the talk of the UFC featherweight division and its seemingly uncrowned (media) king Conor McGregor, there’s surprisingly little of it coming from or headed towards Frankie Edgar. The top featherweight contender and former lightweight champion has one of the most important fights for the division’s future on Saturday when he takes on Cub Swanson at UFC Fight Night 57 in Austin, Texas. Yet, most of the talk is centered on Swanson or McGregor or simply other top contenders.
As far as Edgar is concerned, there’s no sense in being worried in things over which he has no control.
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B.J. Penn has retired from MMA after a third loss to Frankie Edgar earlier this year, but he could return to competition in a different sport.
Metamoris founder Ralek Gracie told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he has spoken to the former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion about competing in his grappling event in the future.
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It’s now been a year since Georges St-Pierre stepped into the Octagon, but the former UFC welterweight champion says he isn’t much closer to deciding his future involvement in the sport.
“I don’t know if I will go back to competition,” St-Pierre told MMA Canada this weekend in Toronto. “That’s why I didn’t call it ‘a retirement,’ I called it ‘a break’ because I don’t know. [Light heavyweight boxer] Bernard Hopkins has a good analogy. He says, ‘You can’t ask a woman who just gave birth and suffered for many hours if she will have another baby again.’ Same thing for me when I got out of competition.”
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Welcome to episode 110 of the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat.
This weekend features not one, but two UFC Fight Night cards in far reaches of the planet. On the one hand, there is UFC Fight Night 56 in Australia, headlined by a significant middleweight battle between Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping. This looks like do or die for Bisping in terms of being a true competitor given his age. In exactly the same time, Rockhold could certify himself as a future competitor for winner Chris Weidman having a dominating performance.
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At some stage, Barb Honchak is likely to need to make a choice about which particular UFC division may be better for he future: Bantamweight or strawweight.
Until then, she is untouchable at 125 pounds. Honchak made her second successful defense of her Invicta flyweight title on Saturday night, scoring a unanimous decision victory within the match-but-coordinated Takayo Hashi. The judges’ scores were 49-46 as well as a set of 50-45s as Honchak kept her title in the main event of Invicta FC 9 in the River Center in Davenport, Iowa.
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Jose Aldo successfully defended his UFC featherweight title on Saturday night, and his triumph over Chad Mendes was tremendous for his nation.
Wallid Ismail, former MMA fighter and longtime MMA advocate as the president of Jungle Fight, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour a loss in the primary event of UFC 179 would happen to be horrible for the future of the sport in Brazil.
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Ronda Rousey’s pool of competitors may have only gotten quite a bit larger.
The UFC women’s bantamweight champ is reserved to face No. 1 competitor Cat Zingano Jan. 3 at UFC 182 in Las Vegas, but commentator Joe Rogan has some intriguing thoughts about future challenges.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Darren Elkins discusses his split decision win against Lucas Martins at UFC 179, the judges’ scores, his future, plus much more.
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RIO DE JANIERO — Tyrone Spong discusses Gilbert Burns, his harm, when he expects to return, his future in MMA, kickboxing and boxing, and even more during the UFC 179 media day.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Jose Aldo is the final non-American UFC champ, but he is not worried about it.
Place to headline Saturday night’s UFC 179 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, against Chad Mendes, the Nova Uniao featherweight isn’t thinking about what this fight means to the near future of MMA in his state.
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Free agent MMA writer Mike Chiappetta discusses the present state of MMA journalism and his future.
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From the time Dec. 20 rolls around, 21 months will have passed between fights for UFC expert Dan Miller, the older brother of lightweight warhorse Jim Miller. Surely the older Miller isn’t a stranger to wonders — his four-and-a-half-year-old son, Dan Jr., persevered through a kidney transplant to survive polycystic kidney disease — but for father, this latest recovery is no little wonder itself.
Much like recordbreaking NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, escalating neck problems driven Miller to get spinal fusion operation in July of this past year. Heading to the operating room, Miller’s fighting future was far from ensured.
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Can you consider how close this fight arrived to not occurring?
UFC officials had discussed Lyoto Machida being next for Luke Rockhold, but somehow Michael Bisping, or nature, discovered a method. Machida’s loss is our gain as we are treated to yet another show of real animosity between two professional sportsmen who look to damage one another in the not too distant future.
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The MMA Hour is back in your lifetime. Below is a rundown of Monday’s show:
1 p.m. — Free agent MMA writer Mike Chiappetta will discuss the present state of MMA journalism and his future.
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