As 2014 winds down, UFC hosts their last card of the year. This one is a fight night and takes place in Brazil with an important main and co-main event. In the headlining role, C.B. Dollaway looks to upset perennial top contender Lyoto Machida while Renan Barao looks to get back on track against Mitch Gagnon in the co-main event.
What: UFC Fight Night 58
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The ghosts of Sean Salmon reawakened in the United Kingdom this weekend, as Veronica Macedo put a dramatic and brutal stamp on her fight against Chrissy Audin at Say Uncle Fight Night 2. Check out video of the highlight-reel knockout above.
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Anderson Silva altered his plans for the long run. It is standard.
The former UFC middleweight champ, who said multiple times he could not fight for the UFC title again, being “closer to retirement daily,” has other plans for the long run,
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The phantoms of Saitama Super Arena were living once more on Saturday night, as Mark Hunt delivered another highlight-reel, walkoff knockout to cap off the UFC’s amusing return to Japan at UFC Fight Night 52. This time Roy Nelson was on the receiving end of Hunt’s theatrics, and, well, it was a doozy.
Both Nelson as well as the 40-year old Kiwi looked to headhunt early, trading significant exchanges but only falling short of the mark throughout the initial round. Nelson favored his brand his overhand right, the exact same shot that’s starched a lot of colossi, while Hunt mixed things up with looping rights and lefts.
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Anderson Silva will make his improbable return to the Octagon on Jan. 31 against former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz, but he’s still haunted by the “ghosts” of his gruesome leg injury.
Thirteen months after breaking his left tibia and fibula at the UFC 168 main event in Las Vegas against Chris Weidman, “The Spider” headlines the UFC 183 card in the same city, but has yet to reach his full potential in training.
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