Vitor Belfort angry with Wanderlei Silva's Prediction

I didn’t waste my time watching [Wanderlei's video blog]. It’s just a spectator’s opinion. Spectators can say whatever they want. He just wanted to get some attention for himself. I don’t take it seriously. I will use my best characteristic - that is trading hits, boxing. It’s going to be a great test to strike with him. This is my job, right? I’m training Muay Thai a lot with a world champion and my karate coach is coming next month. I’ll be ready when I get there, you can be sure."

UFC 122 - Marquardt vs Okami Full Preview

UFC 122 preview:

UFC 123 card is ready

Here is are the matches:

Main card (PPV)

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs Lyoto Machida

BJ Penn vs Matt Hughes

Gerald Harris vs Maiquel Falcao

Phil Davis vs Tim Boetsch

Joe Lauzon vs George Sotiropoulos

Preliminary (Spike TV)

Mark Munoz vs Aaron Simpson

Matt Brown vs Brian Foster

Preliminary (won't be aired)

Karo Parisyan vs Dennis Hallman

Darren Elkins vs Edson Barboza

Paul Kelly vs TJ O’Brien

Tyson Griffin vs Nik Lentz

Shogun recovers successfully

The LHW champion was reported to recover very well from his injury and started training.

Jon Madsen's plan: no more boring fights

The Hurricane won't take part of any more boring fights. Do you think this will happen? Jon won agains Yvel during UFC 121

Gabriel Gonzaga released from the UFC

The heavyweight was released after a couple of bad games and is currently a free agent. He will be remembered with his KO victory over Cro Cop.

Junior Dos Santos confident

He was impressed with Cain's performance during UFC 121 but said that he is confident and believes in his hands. Do you believe hi will beat up Velasquez?

Shane Carwin injured for Nelson Fight

Somebody will have to replace Shane to fight Nelson. Who would you chose?

Josh Koscheck wants to piss of 22k canadians

He wants to piss of the canadians. Do you believe it? He is such a nice guy and what a shocking news :)

Shields ashamed of his performance in UFC 121

Though he won that fight Jake Shields is not happy with his performance and believes he will be better when taking on GSP.

UFC merges with WEC in January 2011

Dana White just announced it.New divisions might be introduced.

When Animals Attack

Overeem congratulated Velasquez

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem congratulated Cain Velasquez on his victory over Brock Lesnar in UFC 121. Here is what the K-1 superstar tweeted:

"Wow great performance of Cain, he showed technique over power! Congrats to the new UFC heavyweight champion Valesquez"

Exclusive: Dana White Announces UFC-WEC Merger

Marcus Davis drops dow to lightweight

It is official.Davis said:

"I think the UFC has me at a 70 (inch reach) and I think they do that because they feel bad for me. My reach is 69 (inches). That's got to be the worst reach at 170. Every fight that I've had in the past year and a half, I think the closest (opponent) to my reach has been six inches longer than my reach."

UFC Fighter Reggie Warren Jr. Violent Attack on Reporter

This 'redneck' guy gets carried away and punishes the reporter:

The Undertaker: I Might Try to Manage a Few Fighters

He seems like an intelligent guy:

TOMASZ ADAMEK:"Briggs could have died"

TOMASZ ADAMEK said that the referee should have stopped the match after the sixth round since Briggs wasn't defending himself intelligently and didn't use even the simplest techniques for defence against one of the most heavy hittinh boxers.

Scahub to fight Mir

There are tumours that Brendan Scahub might face ex champ Frank Mir in his next fight.

GSP vs. Silva might happen?

Lorenzo Fertitta co owner of the UFC said:
"I want to see that fight," Fertitta said. "That's probably the one fight I really want to see the most."


So we might witness this.

UFC Primetime part3

Here you can see the third and final part of the ufc 121 primetime.

UFC 121: Crowd Reacts to Cain Velasquez's Victory

People really loved it. Not only the Mexicans but everybody. Many people don't like Lesnar and wanted him to lose. Nice video.

Joe Rogan demonstrates the turning side kick

We know that Joe has some skills in fighting. Here is a tutorial on kicks from taekwondo which has some of the most beautiful kicks in martial arts..and pretty powerful too.

Brock in bad condition after Velasquez

Brock Lesnar was destroyed by Cain Velasquez and his condition is not so good. He got knocked out and had a huge cut under his eye.

Antun Račić vs Lemmy Krušič MMA

Ахмед Чакаев vs Василий Федоришин

Nice wrestling match:

Randy Couture to retire?

He is definitely taking other directions:)

UFC 121 Post Event Videos and reactions

Cain's opinion:


Dana White on the event:


The Undertaker :) :


Tito and Mat:


Sanchez:

UFC 121 Preliminary Fights Results

Chris Camozzi vs. Dongi Yang - Camozzi Decision (Split)
Sam Stout vs. Paul Taylor - Stout Decision (Split)
Daniel Roberts vs. Michael Guymon - Roberts Submission (Anaconda Choke)
Tom Lawlor vs. Patrick Cote - Lawor Decision (Unanimous)

Court McGee vs. Ryan Jensen - McGee Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)
I watched that fight and this is how I saw it - Jensen startet very well dominating MxGee during the first round showing superior stand up game. At that point McGee didn't have anything to offer in response. But suddenly druring the next two rounds McGee seemed fresher and pushed the fight.He completely smashed Jensen and managed to choke him. A good win for Court but still he is obviously not experienced enough and I think it will be good for him to have a few more fights in the preliminaries before going with the big names.

UFC 121 Bonuses

KO of the night goes to Velasquez - $70,000
Fight of the Night goes to Diego Sanchez - $70,000
Submission of the Night - Daniel Roberts - $70,000

UFC 121 Weigh In Highlights

A nice show :)

Bas Rutten: I Don't Believe in Friendly Games

Randy Couture Still Wants Fedor; Interested in Own Couture Feature Film

Fedor Gets "A Lot of Joy" From Playing EA Sports MMA

Fedor is such a nice guy. Alway a joy to watch him :)

UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez results and recap

All right this was crazy event. Here we go:

Lesnar vs. Velasquez
Did you SEE that?!? Man, this was so unexpected. The match starts and Brock rushes towards Cain swarming on him with punches and kicks even managed to take him down. The Mexican didn't lose his composure even for a second and remained calm fighting his way up from the take down and in every exchange Lesnar was the one getting hit with big shots. After the first minute Brock was gassed out , had cut under his left eye and was obviously not ok losing balance and not defending intelligently. On the other hand Velasquez took him down a few times and hit him with heavy shots and unlike the Shane Carwin fight this shots were very precise. Total dominance from Cain Velasquez and late round one stoppage sealed Cain's title. Brock didn't have any chance here and gave credit and respect after the loss. As usual I was wrong with the prediction on this one as well as the results from the poll here on max-aggression :)
Result: Cain Velasquez TKO.

Jake Shields vs. Martin Kampmann
Kampmann gave a very good welcome party. Shields as expected was the better grappler, very calm and confident in his ground game, impossible to submit. Though he won very close without dominating Martin. His win was deserved but not convincing at all. I am not sure if he deserves the title shot after this performance but he will get it anyway.

Ortiz vs. Hamill
Honestly I don't like much both fighters because they are not so well rounded. Both are wrestlers with good ground and pound but lack many other qualities. Though Ortiz showed great desire to finally win he was just not good enough. Maybe its time for him to give up. If you can't beat Mat Hamill then what title shots are you talking about, Tito? Hamill is a good fighter showed superior boxing skills but we all saw what happened in the Jones fight. I don't think both guys are any threat in the light heavyweight division. They are just not good enough.The UFC also knows that and this fight wasn't that important for the overall situation in the division.Good for Mat and huge loss for Tito.
Result:Hamill via decision

Diego Sanchez vs Paulo Thiago
As I expected a good performance by Diego dominating Paulo during all round and getting deserved decision win.Still has to prove himself after the loss from BJ though.

Brendan Schaub vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
As I expected the overrated Gonzaga was a punching bag for three rounds. Brendan was so much better in his boxing and dominated the whole fight giving no serious chances to Gabe though at the end Gonzaga almost pulled the submission.
Result: Scaub decision

Fedor fights Couture

Both fighters had a match between them on the presentation of the new EA Sports video game. See the video - really funny :)

Bellator 33 on October 21

MAIN CARD
• Champ Eddie Alvarez vs. Roger Huerta (non-title lightweight fight)

• Champ Lyman Good vs. Ben Askren (welterweight title fight) 

• Rick Hawn vs. LeVon Maynard

• Deividas Taurosevicius vs. Wilson Reis

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Tim Carpenter vs. Jamal Patterson

• Nick Cottone vs. Tuan Pham

• Eduard Guedes vs. Chris Liguori

• Lester Caslow vs. Kenny Foster

• Lewis Cassner vs. Francis Evans 

Fedor about to have his last fight in Strikeforce?

Fedor is currently in USA having series of meetings with Strikeforce representatives in order to make decision about his future in Strikeforce. It is possible that he will have only one more fight if Strikeforce doesn't fulfill his requirements. What do you think will happen? Aren't things getting too political?

JOSE ALDO vs. MARK HOMINICK in WEC 54

MARK HOMINICK is going to test his skill agains the devestating Jose Aldo who had no problem defending his title against Manny Gamburyan. The fight is going to be in january 2011.

UFC 121 pre event press conference

Just a quick memo for everybody.
UFC 121 pre event press conference is on Wednesday at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and starts at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT local time). 


All the people involved in the card will be there.
FULL CARD FIGHTS

Cain Velasquez inteview before his fight against Brock Lesnar

UFC 121 Lesnar vs. Velasquez full card

Here is the full card:


Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez
Jake Shields vs. Martin Kampmann
Diego Sanchez vs. Paulo Thiago
Tito Ortiz vs. Matt Hamill
Brendan Schaub vs. Gabriel Gonzaga

Court McGee vs. Ryan Jensen
Patrick Cote vs. Tom Lawlor
Daniel Roberts vs. Mike Guymon
Paul Taylor vs. Sam Stout
Dongi Yang vs. Chris Camozzi

Gilbert Yvel vs. Jon Madsen
Time: October 23, Honda Center, California

Klitchko vs. Haye possible match??

A new information was released claiming that Vitali Klitchko offered David Haye a match for the WBC belt.
Haye already turned down three fight offers from the Klitchko brothers because of various reasons.
Do you think the match will finally happen?

UFC 121 Preview and Predictions

Hey there, UFC 120 has barely ended and we are on again waiting for without any question the more expected event - UFC 121 Lesnar vs. Velasques. Here are the matches I find more attractive, my thoughts on them as well as some predictions.

Lesnar vs. Velasquez

Brock Lesnar seems to gain a whole lot of attention every time he fights. UFC marketing really works ;) Don't get me wrong - the guy clearly is a top competitor but
he is having a lot of attention since the very beginning of his MMA career which is a bit unfair than some quite skilled guys.But it is as it is.Lesnar has gained a lot of respect after showing heart and power of will against Carwin. Now everybody is seeing him as a serious champ. We have to admit that his athleticism is on another level which definitely makes the difference in his fights because he clearly doesn't have much tools - he stand up game is ridiculous, very basic jiu jitsu skills. He has just this brute force and durability.
On the other hand we have Cain Velasquez - perfect technique, knockout power, cardio for +10 rounds. If Cain manages to keep Brock away from closing the distance and taking it to the ground he is very likely to be the winner. I don't see Brock outstriking him. The key to the victory for Velasquez is to keep it standing, keep good distance, strike and move away. If he gets through the first two rounds all the odds are turning to his side.
But I don't believe that Lesnar is not going to take Velasquez down - he just has really good takedowns and once he is on top his ground and pound will be devastating for Cain.
So my prediction is Brock by TKO(round 1 or 2) but I will be very happy if I turn out to be wrong.

Jake Shields vs. Martin Kampman

Expecting Jake Shield's UFC debut to be successful. Routine submission - round two.
The guy seem to be a real winner so he definitely has to win this one. But hey - this is UFC many great fighters from other promotions have failed here.

Ortiz vs. Hamill
The interesting thing here is that both fighters are at equal level - far from the best in the division but famous fighters with good skills.I hope that finally Tito will stop with the excuses. Both are hard workers, though and durable guys.I'm not expecting to see technical fight here - more likely ground and pound or some slug fight. I will go with a decision for Tito Ortiz here.

Schaub vs. Gonzaga
Schaub with no hesitation. The kid has great athletic skills,learned a lot since the Ultimate Fighter, great stand up and I guess he has improved his ground game lately.
Gonzaga isn't as good as the UFC is trying to convince us he is. Yeah shocking win against Cro Cop but nothing else.I think Schaub will be going for the knockout early in round one - don't know if he will get it but he is hungry and I predict he won't waste time.

McGee vs. Jensen
The Ultimate Fighter winner is definitely taking his mma career seriously and I see great desire for proving to the world that he is for real. I think he will win this one maybe via decision. If he is healthy and does the right thing after two more fights he might even get a title shot because we all know that the middleweight division is not currently at its best and there is a lack of good competition there.

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Overeem has monster power!

This guy impresses me every time I see him. Here are some videos of his exercise:

This one is impressive:


His eating:


Power lifting:

UFC 120 Results and Recap

Here is what I saw in UFC 120 London. First lets start with the main card.

Bisping vs. Akiyama
No matter how hard the UFC tried to hype up the main event everybody knew that both fighters were not that exciting though the fight was decent. Both Bisping and Akiyama tried hard and I give them respect for that.
Akiyama started better landing some hard shots and rocked Michael few times but never managed to really go for the knockout. On the other hand Bisping who seemed better conditioned kept his composure and relaxed more during the second and third round and outworked the japanese superstar.
Akiyama was too static not moving his head and taking a lot of punches which slowed him down. Seeing that he will probably lose he tried to lure Bisping into a slug match looking for a knockout but it didn't happen. Bisping got the decision and hopes for a title shot.
Personally I don't see him being a champion. He is competitive and hard worker but he just isn't that good to be champion and a win over Akiyama isn't such a big deal if you ask me - great respect to Yoshihiro but he seems to slow, gassed out and not durable enough from his first two fights in the UFC.

Hardy vs. Condit
I thought that Condit will make a huge mistake standing with Hardy to just prove a point but I was wrong. First off let me just say that the atmosphere and the crowd for this one were just outstanding. Brus Buffer was epic with the announcement. The game started in slow pace both fighters being cautious. Pretty even with slight advantage for Hardy landing a couple of punches and leg kicks. Then during one exchange both fighters went nuts and started swinging and Carlos got lucky landing first a heavy punch on Hardy's chin sending him in knock down and then finishing him on the ground.
Perhaps Hardy got too emotional and wasn't paying enough attention.I don't know why experienced fighters still do this mistake to get into slug fests risking it all.
Both men showed respect to each other after the fight and Condit gained a huge win.

Mike Pyle vs. John Hathaway
Nothing special here. The older and more experienced and mature Pyle managed to silence the home crowd outworking the Hathaway and won by decision.

Travis Browne vs. Cheick Kongo
Man, when Kongo looks like a real bad ass during his entrance and I felt like he was going to tear to pieces the other guy. But as usual Kongo disappointed. He was the more technical striker had a stand up game as he wanted and still was very insecure and not aggressive enough.This guy is officially mediocre for me. Don't get me wrong I don't want to disrespect Browne's effort but the guy had serious holes in his game throwing this big slow punches and Kongo didn't take advantage of that. You can't be a respected kick boxer and allow this.

Other than that nice event and a good warm up for next week's big match in UFC 121.

Here is the post event press conference:

Max Aggression UFC 120 Lonon Bisping vs Akiyama poll results

We asked you who will be the winner from the Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit fight.
The winner according to you was going to be Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy .Expect the recap of the event to find out what happened.

Meanwhile you can check out the new poll for UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez

Klitchko dominated Briggs

Now even for a non-hardcore boxing fan like me it was obvious what happened. Vitali punched Briggs for 12 rounds and won by decission. At some point after the sixth round I felt sorry for Briggs he was just standing there and taking bomb after bomb with nothing to offer in response. The only thing he could be happy about is not getting knocked out - great chin...really though guy. Besides that Shanon didn't manage to land any significant shots, had hard time to even get near hitting Vitali.
Expected result with no surprises.Congratulations to Klitchko fans, though I really want someone to finally drop the bomb and shock the boxing world.

Briggs vs. Klitschko tonight

For all of you fighting fans don't forget tonight Shanon Briggs faces Vitali Klitschko in Hamburg, Germany(Europe). Keep track for the results on Max Aggression.

UFC 120 Weigh Ins - results

Just for the guys who enjoy stats - the weigh ins results.

Main card
Michael Bisping [185] - Yoshihiro Akiyama [185]
Dan Hardy [171] - Carlos Condit [170]
John Hathaway [171] - Mike Pyle [170]
Cheick Kongo [228] - Travis Browne [251]
James Wilks [170] - Claude Patrick [171]

Preliminary card
Cyrille Diabate [204] - Alexander Gustafsson [204]
Rob Broughton [257] - Vinicius "Spartan" Queiroz [239]
Paul Sass [155] - Mark Holst [155]
Spencer Fisher [155] - Curt Warburton [154]
James McSweeney [205] - Fabio Maldonado [204]

Nedkov - Cantwell won't take place due to injury

Batista in MMA for REAL??

This video gives serious indications of Dave Batista doing MMA fights. There are ongoing negotiations with Strikeforce. He is training with Cesar Gracie and Nick Diaz.



Here is a mma workout caught on video:


Batista himself says he wants to be mma fighter:

Stanislav Nedkov vs. Steve Cantwell OUT of UFC120 card

Due to Steve Cantwell's knee injury at the last moment the fight isn't going to take place. Thus Nedkov's debut in the UFC is once again postponed.

Ultimate Fighter S12E5 Recap

Here is what happened in the episode.

Both teams introduced new coaches. For team Koscheck it was John Fitch and for team GSP it was Jean Charles Skarbowsky - a french muay thai fighter. This guy was a really amusing to watch. He seems to have the habit to get drunk before training and still beat his opponents. Didn't really show his full potential but kicked some asses :)

This episode the fight was Spencer-Nam:
The first round started well for Spencer who managed to land some heavy kicks to Nam's legs and body but at some point Nam got on top of Spencer and did some serious damage ground and pounding him. Spencer didn't manage to recover during second round and got dominated again. Nam got a unanimous decision win over Spencer.

After the fight Koscheck got cocky and started annoying the other team in his well known style.

UFC 120 Pre Event

Here are all the videos before the event itself. Keep track for updates!

DON'T FORGET THE WEIGHT INS - WATCH LIVE









Wanderlei Silva predictions:

UFC 120 Preview

All right lets get started. We got some interesting fights coming although not everybody likes this card(primary because of the main event).
I won't go through all the fight but just the ones I find interesting.

Bisping vs. Akiyama

I really don't like Bisping and his style but he has serious chances here against Akiyama if he goes with the momentum in front of home crowd. Other than that I think Akiyama is the better fighter though his last loss against Leben.
Prediction - convincing unanimous decision for Akiyama.

Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit

I'm pretty sure this is going to be fight of the night. I expect to see much more mature and focused Hardy after the lesson he took from GSP. He is going to be the big name in this weight class if he makes the right decisions.Condit on the other hand seems more well rounded and skilled.Anything can happen but I will go with Hardy here. I just see a lot of potential in this guy.

Cheick Kongo vs. Travis Browne
Looking forward to see if Kongo has progressed at all. I feel like if he doesn't show some improvements now he won't be able to achieve something big in the UFC. It will be a pity since he is so athletic and definitely has skills.No prediction here - just wanted to mention this fight because of Cheick.

Stanislav Nedkov vs. Steve Cantwell
Not much attention is paid to this fight because Nedkov is making a debut in the UFC and isn't that famous but he is not new at all to MMA. He has perfect record 11-0 having victories over Travis Wiuff and Kevin Randelman.He has supreme wrestling, devestating ground and pound and is really physically strong. His boxing isn't that good. Originally he had to fight in UFC 117 against Rodney Wallace but Nedkov got injured. Here in Bulgaria everybody is expecting with great interest this fight.
His opponent Cantwell is also a very tough guy and seems well prepared for the fight judging from his preparation videos.I give this one to Nedkov - he will definitely win if he manages to make that take down.
Prediction - Nedkov by TKO.