BARUERI, Brazil — C.B. Dollaway was looking to make a statement in his UFC Fight Night 58 main event against Lyoto Machida in Brazil, but he came up short against “The Dragon”.
Machida finished Dollaway after landing a hard left kick to the liver a minute into the middleweight bout, and “The Dobberman” felt “paralyzed” after the kick.
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Jon Jones and his old friends at the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) got reacquainted with one another on Tuesday. Two weeks out from Jones’ UFC 182 title challenge against Daniel Cormier, the UFC’s light heavyweight champion posted an Instagram video of himself undergoing a random drug test at the behest of the NAC.
“The Nevada State Athletic Commission just stopped by my house and hit me with that random,” Jones wrote. “Only thing I’m on is that #PHW pure hard work! They’re probably wondering how my chicken legs are so strong. I’ve had a few @muscletech products but that’s all legal :)”
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A pair of hard-hitting heavyweights will meet in Los Angeles.
Promising knockout artist Derrick Lewis takes on Ruan Potts at UFC 184 on Feb. 28 at Staples Center, the UFC announced Tuesday. Lewis was on quite the run before being knocked out by Matt Mitrione in September.
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LAS VEGAS — Josh Samman scored a sensational head kick knockout at UFC 181 of Eddie Gordon and discussed it with all the media Saturday night. He talked about visualizing winning, being extraordinarily calm during fight week, by what means the knockout blow was the hardest single strike he is ever thrown, what the really rough time from the Octagon was like and more.
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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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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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Welcome to the Promotional Malpractice Live Chat, episode 113.
Seriously, it’s hard to know where to start with this given the amount of topics and issues going on in the sport. I suppose first and foremost would be actual fight results. UFC 180 saw Fabricio Werdum earn a version of UFC gold, Kelvin Gastelum cement himself as a true contender and Ricardo Lamas affirm himself as a top featherweight fixture.
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Hard to believe we’d see Mark Hunt, Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar fighting in main events but it proved to be a pretty great night for MMA. While you remote control catches its breath, see how the pros reacted to Saturday night’s UFC 180 and Bellator 131 events.
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In the co-main event of UFC 180, the rising Kelvin Gastelum had the best performance of his career, submitting top contender Jake Ellenberger in the first round.
The two opened being very cautious of the other, Gastelum the southpaw and Ellenberger staying orthodox. Gastelum would pump the jab early, landing with some effect, but Ellenberger was also able to score with hard right-hand counters. Gastelum eventually timed a double and put Ellenberger on the mat, a few feet away from the cage. Ellenberger would work from open guard. Ellenberger was able to stand without much damage, but ate a left hand once he stood. Gastelum pressed Ellenberger into the fence, yet it was Ellenberger who reversed him.
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Hard to believe a fight introduced with the help of a masked man could get any more strange, but here we are.
Ahead of his headlining bout opposite fellow Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar Saturday at Bellator 131, former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz claims he not only snuck a mole into his opponent’s training camp, but pulled the strings to have him signed by the promotion in the first place.
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UBERLANDIA, Brazil — Dhiego Lima returned to his first weight class having a unanimous decision win over Jorge Oliveira at UFC Fight Night 56, also it was more difficult than he anticipated. The Brazilian possibility, who endured a first-round TKO loss to Eddie Gordon in the TUF 19 middleweight final in July, talked to MMAFighting.com about his triumph in Brazil, the reversal of competitions six days prior to the fight, fighting under pressure and much more.
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Even at 44 years old, Dan Henderson is not opposed to a small reinvention. The prior Pride and Strikeforce winner, who stays in the middle of a career-worst recession, told MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani on Wednesday that he’s “for sure” eyeing a fight in January, which it’d “likely” be at middleweight, as reported on UFC Tonight.
Henderson (30-12) competed at middleweight to get a big ball of his professional fighting career, but has not done so since losing a hard fought unanimous decision to then-Strikeforce champ Jake Shields in mid-2010.
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Among The few The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3 non-finalists to earn the opportunity in the Octagon, Richardson Moreira will cut 30 pounds for his next UFC fight.
“Rick Monstro,” who endured a fast loss to Marcos Rogerio de Lima in a heavyweight fight in May, will go down to 185 pounds and face Ildemar Alcantara at UFC 183 in Vegas on Jan. 31. The UFC declared the matchup on Monday.
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A typical Thursday day immediately turned ominous for Chris Weidman, as the UFC’s middleweight champ found himself alone fighting against the clock to save the life span of an elderly neighbor who’d started bleeding profusely from several wounds beyond her house after tumbling by way of a glass table.
“I was likely to go pick up Stephen Thompson and his brother in the airport, LaGuardia, this morning,” Weidman described to MMAFighting.com. “I was likely to pick them up but their flight was late. So I had been looking to clean out my car and it turned out to be a torrential downpour this morning. Therefore I’m cleaning it out and all of a sudden I began hearing this sound — Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh! — Simply repeating. It was so loud, but with all the rain it had been difficult to determine where it had been coming from or what it actually was.
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According to an interview he gave before WSOF 14, Canadian welterweight Ryan Ford competed against former Strikeforce and UFC standout Jake Shields with a broken arm. The video of the interview has been taken down and the timing of the interview is unclear.
“Part of this game is putting your body through hard work and, unfortunately, two days ago on Tuesday at the end of sparring, I broke my arm,” Ford says.
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In an outcome few odds makers expected, former Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren became the new Bellator bantamweight champion after defeating Eduardo Dantas at Bellator 128 on Saturday. The event took place at the WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The main card aired live on Spike TV.
Warren opened the first round immediately clinching with Dantas, securing double underhooks and driving the champion into the fence. Warren switched to a double and even a single leg attempt against the cage, but without much success. Warren was able to separate, but still scored with two knees before the exit. It was actually Dantas who then initiated the clinch and cracked the American with a hard elbow on the exit.
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Sidelined since being diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome in 2012, UFC welterweight turned commentator Dan Hardy plans to return to fighting in 2015.
“I’m looking at getting cleared the beginning of next year,” Hardy told MMAnytt. “I’ve spoken to a few doctors and it’s looking positive. I don’t see a reason why I wouldn’t get cleared to fight, so now, really, it’s just about getting back into training camp. Getting back into the groove of preparing for a fight.”
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Twitter is one of the most important and used communication tools available to anyone today, but it can often be a medium that’s hard to use correctly. In replying to a tweet from ONE FC welterweight champion Ben Askren, former WSOF welterweight champion and recent UFC signee Josh Burkman wrote the following:
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With eight years of professional experience under her belt, TUF 20 strawweight competitor Aisling Daly is effectively an elder statesmen when it comes to the army of Irish exports currently taking the mixed martial arts world by storm.
But in mid-July, while Daly’s SBG Ireland teammates exploded onto the global stage with a masterful 5-0 Irish run at UFC Dublin, Daly found herself on the outside looking in, stuck inside The Ultimate Fighter house and unable to experience the culmination of years of hard work alongside her countrymen, ultimately forced to watch the event on delay halfway across the world.
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Heavyweight Sean McCorkle is retiring from competing in mixed martial arts. “Big Sexy” appeared on Monday’s version of The MMA Hour to allow it to be official.
The 38-year old McCorkle last fought on Sept. 20 in a rematch with Richard White in Square Ring Promotions, and lost via first round armbar. Over his last six fights, McCorkle lost five, including his rematch with Polish strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski at KSW 24 in Sept of this past year. That one came via unanimous decision in a two-round main event.
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