This weekend saw UFC Fight Night 58: Lyoto Machida vs. C.B. Dollaway as well as the annual Grapple at the Garden event. I’ll break down both events for this week’s edition of the Monday Morning Analyst (MMA).
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UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will answer questions from the fans during the UFC Fight Night 58 Q&A on Friday morning. The session is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. ET.
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On episode three of the Monday Morning Analyst, we review UFC on FOX 13, The Ultimate Fighter 20 Finale and WSOF 16. We also briefly discuss the big boxing weekend including Ishe Smith vs. Erislandy Lara, Amir Khan vs. Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley vs. Diego Chaves.
Editor’s note: Portions of the video and audio lag due to poor Internet connectivity while recording. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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A few days removed from their emotionally charged dialogue, UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub and commentator Joe Rogan each pulled away to their particular corners to reflect in the event.
Record an episode of Schaub’s podcast for FOX Sports earlier this week, Rogan was critical of the former’s recent first-round TKO loss to No. 3 heavyweight Travis Browne at UFC 181 on Dec. 6.
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Welcome to episode 2 of The Monday Morning Analyst (MMA). This week I break down the results and famous fights in the weekend. We look at three occasions this time: Invicta 10, RFA 21 and UFC 181.
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Well, somehow word got back to UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy that Chael Sonnen lately had some words for him.
Earlier this week Sonnen chided Kennedy for being upset over his contentious UFC 178 loss to Yoel Romero, less affectionately known as ‘stoolgate.’
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The UFC can create a unique statement with Reebok on Tuesday morning in Nyc. Take a look at the video above.
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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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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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Metamoris 5, Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri, and UFC Fight Night 57: Frankie Edgar vs. Cub Swanson all took place this past Saturday. I break down the activity from all three occasions as well as the highlights and lowlights on this particular introduction episode of ‘The MMA (Monday Morning Analyst)’.
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At the Pacquiao vs. Algieri press conference Wednesday morning, Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri will discuss their showdown on Saturday night for the final time with the media in Macau, China.
Pacquiao (56-5-2) will defend his WBO welterweight title on pay-per-view Saturday night. He has won three of his past five fights.
The 30-year-old Algieri has yet to lose in his professional career, compiling a 20-0 record with eight knockouts.
The Pacquiao vs. Algieri press conference video will begin above at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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At the Pacquiao vs. Algieri press conference Wednesday morning, Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri will discuss their showdown on Saturday night for the final time with the media in Macau, China.
Pacquiao (56-5-2) will defend his WBO welterweight title on pay-per-view Saturday night. He has won three of his past five fights.
The 30-year-old Algieri has yet to lose in his professional career, compiling a 20-0 record with eight knockouts.
The Pacquiao vs. Algieri press conference video will begin above at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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Greasin’? Fine. Questionable hand wraps? Sure. But deep cover espionage? Perhaps you were correct to balk at the notion.
After Tito Ortiz claimed earlier this week that he had not only conspired to have his Bellator 131 opponent signed by the promotion, but to have planted a mole into his training camp, Stephan Bonnar isn’t buying it.
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MMA Fighting has ONE FC 22 results because of its Conflict of Lions event Friday morning in the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.In the main event, Leandro Ataides will square off against Igor Svirid to crown the initiative ONE FC middleweight champ. Check out entire ONE FC 22 results under. Chief CardLeandro Ataides vs. Igor Svirid Koji Ando vs. Zorobabel MoreiraBakhtiyar Abbasov vs. Luis SantosTatsuya Mizuno def. Brayan Rafiq via unanimous decisionChristophe Vandijck def. Dwayne Hinds via entry (punches) at 2:40 of R1Major Complete def. Cary Bullos via entry (rear-naked choke) at :29 of R1Martin Nguyen def. Rocky Batolbatol via entry (rear-naked choke) at 2:10 of R2
Preliminary CardAmir Khan def. Waqar Umar via KO (elbows) at 1:25 of R1Jeff Huang def. Zuli Silawanto via entry (rear-naked choke) at 3:10 of R1Kirstie Gannaway def. Adek Omar via submission (armbar) at 2:34 of R1
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Finding Conor McGregor seated cageside at UFC 179 in Brazil could not have been much comfort to fellow featherweight competitors Cub Swanson and Frankie Edgar.
The provocative Irishman stole the show in the lead up to featherweight champ Jose Aldo’s successful title defense to No. 1 competitor Chad Mendes, but Swanson maintained he had been ‘guaranteed’ the next opportunity with a triumph over Edgar Nov. 22 in Austin, Texas.
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Anderson Silva was recently hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro, but his come back to the Octagon isn’t in danger.
Silva, who’s scheduled to meet former Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz on Jan. 31 in Las Vegas, was hurried to the hospital on Monday morning after a training session at X Gym in Rio.
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Believing any discussions of a come back between UFC president Dana White and former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar could be little more than the usual clever negotiating strategy, former competitor Chael Sonnen drew the same parallel this week on his podcast, ‘You Are Welcome.’
Discussing the issue with WWE writer John Piermarini, Sonnen disclosed he was once offered a multi-million dollar contract to jump ship in the UFC to professional wrestling.
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Less than two weeks after barricading himself inside his house within a weird police standoff, Jason Miller appeared for an arraignment in the Orange County Superior Court and issued a not guilty plea for charges of resisting arrest and obstructing an officer.
ABC’s Julie Stone tweeted out the news on Monday morning.
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MMA Fighting has the One FC 21 results because of its Roar of Tigers occasion Friday morning in the Stadium Putra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.In the key event, Marat Gafaurov will square off against Rob Lisita in a featherweight competition. Check out the One FC 21 results below. Chief cardMarat Gafurov vs. Rob LisitaVaughn Donayre vs. Peter DavisEdward Kelly vs. Ev TingAya Saeid Saber vs. Ann OsmanTanaphong KhunhanKaew vs. Bashir AhmadDejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke vs. Saiful MericanStephen Langdown vs. Raymond TanUndercardAnatpong Bunrad def. Marc Marcellinus via KO (soccer kick) at 0:26 of R1Hesham Hiba def. Mohammad Sotounzadeh via TKO (punches) at 1:02 of R2
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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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