Wanderlei Silva is not a smart man. One drunken night of rage-posting on Facebook is probably going to cost him a lot of money.

http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/u...fscom:ufconfox

Its one thing to be just some random nobody going off on the UFC because no one will pay attention, but fighters who are under contract and can get real media attention just can't do this.

Wanderlei has to have some significant brain damage going on. No joke.

Also, I put 100 bucks down on Bethe Correia. The odds when I made the bet were roughly 15 to 1. If Rousey wins (which is likely), I'm out 100 bucks. If Correia pulls of the upset, I'm going home with 1,500 dollars.

I agre he's not too bright, BUT what if he's telling the truth?

I might buy it if he's talking about the really old, ancient days of the UFC like if its UFC 5 or something when it was sometimes on PPV and sometimes not and there were threats of being banned and questions about the sport's future, and the Fertittas were bleeding red ink. Who knows what was going on back then.

Recently? No way in hell, for the same reason that the NFL is not fixed. Zuffa/NFL can make plenty of money by running a clean sport, but if the people find out that its fixed, the UFC/NFL could very well die. Seriously, if we actually uncovered proof that the NFL was fixing a few games here and there, I would immediately stop watching the Chiefs and the NFL, overnight, forever. The risk is too staggeringly high to do that, its also why sports leagues are paranoid about players gambling on their own sport.

I think you lost 100 dollars. I didn't think it was possible for me to be more impressed with Ronda's skills, but I just watched her public workout in Rio, and holy smokes. Yes, I know her trainers are setting everything up to make her look impressive but damn she's got skills, and her hands have definitely gotten better from looking at the boxing session at the end.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/7/29...-mma-wmma-news

There's only one woman who can even give her a decent fight and it's that dude Cyborg. She's just too damn good, even if she is fighting Javier Bardem.

you never know.

well, this is under "you never know, you could get struck by lightning tomorrow" territory.

Mendez beat....his.....ASS!
I LOVED it. right up until Mcgregor knocked him out....with mere seconds left in the round.

I thought they stopped that REAL QUICK! too quick.
dude had two weeks. stepped in. whooped connors ass for 99% of the round.
he is SO beatable and SUCH an asshole.

I wanna see Mendez / Mcgregor two when they both have a full camp to prep.

This sounds kind of odd since Aldo hasn't lost in almost 10 years, but I think a well-prepared Mendes with a full camp has a better chance to beat Conor than Aldo does.

Conor still has a problem defending the takedown and grappling after he's down, he's got a lot of work to do there.

Chad's problem was that he takes time off between fights which is fine, a lot of fighters do that, but if you don't stay in shape then you can't take advantage of surprise short-notice opportunities. He took the fight because he thought he could win the fight quickly anyway, but he was starting to gas out before the KO and was not going to beat Conor in the championship rounds. With a full camp though...

I assumed I was going to skip 190 because lol Bethe ain't beating Rousey, but they did a very good job with stacking that card with Brazilian legends who often deliver entertaining fights.

I'll probably end up buying the card since they filled it out so well, and since 191 is very obviously a skip.

I dislike Dana white enough that I would almost be willing to believe he would fix a fight

The Fertittas might be gangster enough to kill him and bury his ass in the desert if they found out about it.

It's about that time.

On Bovada:

Rousey -1400
Correia +750

I have never seen someone that heavily favored in a UFC fight. Correia is one of the biggest underdogs in the history of the sport

Prop bets:

Fight goes at least 1 complete round:

Yes +215
No -325

(skipped other round props)

All 5 rounds complete (lol):

Yes +750
No -2250

Outcomes:

Ronda Decision: +850
Ronda KO/TKO/DQ: +220
Ronda Sub: -230
Correia Decision: +1800
Correia KO/TKO/DQ: +1200
Correia Sub: +1800
Draw: +10000

Everyone made weight. 3 of the heavyweights were right at the limit.

That guy is a crushing boor and an all time lout.

http://themmacommunity.com/threads/d...cize-him.5397/

I mean, is that what the Fertittas want representing their organization? Or do they maybe agree with his crass ways?

The best outcome for Dana is for some fighter he's burned to just beat the ever loving dogshit out of him in front a huge crowd at a casino, or outside some club or something... he needs brought down about 10 notches.

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The weigh-in was a good one.

Correia is going to get her arm broke tonight.

http://youtu.be/G4MiR7UnYPQ

I'm tempted to buy it tonight just to see the pain Rousey inflicts on her.

Well Rousey finally got a non-arm bar win. That bitch is bad.

3 of her last 4 fights have ended by ko or tko...

stoner moment. I was wrong. lol

well shit, blaze on. LMAO

Just a beast. Stood right in the pocket and Corriera was overwhelmed.

Rhonda mauled her.

Well the WSOF card was entertaining...the Diaz brothers started a brawl in the crowd with Khabib and Palhares was at it again...held on to a kimura after Shields tapped and then Shields punched him lol.

Dana White said that Minotauro Noguiera should retire and is apparently going to give him a job working with the UFC so that he doesn't have to fight again.

If Miesha Tate, as expected, loses to Rousey then she's going to be in a weird spot. She would be either the champion or the clear #1 contender if Rousey wasn't there, but it would take a very long time, if ever, for her to work her way back up to a 4th shot. Tate is also young enough that she's still going to fight for a while.

In that situation, Tate could serve the UFC very well as a high-level gatekeeper to the endboss. Any new up and coming fighter who can beat Tate obviously should get a title shot.

UFC 193 is Lawler vs Carlos Condit.

Assuming that main card is supported at all with even one other good fight, I'm in for the PPV. I'm a pretty big Lawler fan.

That's a pretty lame main event IMO.

That has fight of the year potential. Great matchup stylistically.

I looooove Carlos Condit.

If this has already been posted then sorry…..Q!

Have you seen the Mayhem interview on Real sports on HBO?
He starts at 12:20 if you don’t wanna watch the whole thing. But the whole thing is interesting.
Several things about this annoy me (not just the Mayhem interview...the whole segment). Making the insinuation that all MMA fighters are likely to be dicks is uncool. If every MMA fighter was a dick….there would be bodies littered everywhere. And if you watch the whole thing then you’ll here Bryant “Pompous ASSHOLE” Gumbel say “Well considering the clientele is this really surprising?” WTF is your PROBLEM prick! Way to insult an entire fanbase!

Anyways….back to Mayhem. I am disappoint. LOVED his bully show. The guy is totally wasted in this interview….but he has a couple GEMS in here though.
At one point he goes “Look….your cuffed jeans are really cool….but I….BEAT….GUYS….UP!” Another point the guy is saying…so someone like you is pretty dangerous and he whispers “I’m a WEAPON.” Hahaha. At another point he says….I can take down every guy in the room in seconds like (then goes into judo chops and shit and then says) MARTIAL ARTS. HAHAHA. Too funny.

To be clear I do not think beating on ladies is funny....by Mayhems behavior in the interview is.


http://www.mma-core.com/news/Video_W...y_Mack/1107012

That HBO show was a clear, pathetic, selfishly-motivated hit piece on MMA. HBO sports depends on people's interest in boxing, and MMA has probably harmed their business. There are dirtbags in every sport.

This free card tomorrow is very good by free card standards. Not spectacular, but very good. 4 of the 6 fights on the main card are very interesting and 3 are very relevant to the title picture. It really drops off in the prelims, but eh, what do you want out of a FS1 fight night.

Wow, Amanda Nunes just obliterated McMann with a rnd 1 TKO. She's probably going to be in the 2016 conversation for Rousey.

She don't knock her out. But she did landed some good hits. I didn't think McMann would give up so easy.

Well, that was a pretty bad decision, but Dariush handled it with class. I love it when a fighter is honest enough to acknowledge that he probably shouldn't have won the decision.

He didnt say that. Just said it could have gone either way, not that Johnson was robbed.

Most fighters will unflinchingly defend their controversial win and say he definitely won in the face of criticism. Dariush said he would have totally understood if the other hand was raised. That is very rare.

Ive heard lot of guys justify BS wins by saying it was close and could have gone either way. He defended the decsion by saying maybe his kicks and jab was the difference.

:spock:

You need to put it into the context of his reaction and appearance. When he heard it was split, his reaction looked like "oh, a split, neat, but I still lost. wait, what?"

He was clearly, visibly, shocked. He wasn't trying to explain to the crowd why he thought he won, he was trying to think of some reason why the judges may have given it to him.

And then at the end, again, he said he would have understood if the other fighter's hand was raised. That is very rare.

Shocked they didn't try to stack a card and put it in Cowboys' Stadium...the stars have aligned and possibly had...

McGregor vs. Aldo
Rousey vs. Tate III
Weidman vs. Rockhold

aRousey is going to have to start fighting men. No woman is kicking her ass. She makes it look way too easy plus that wicked game 7 look she has. That girl is banging any woman till father time steps in.

She's not unbeatable...hell Liz Carmouche nearly choked her out in their fight.

Someone will give her a good fight...

No one is unbeatable but that really wasn't all that close to a choke. That was a face squeez and RR threw her off pretty damn quick.</br></br>

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Now no one better get hurt because I want to ****ing watch Aldo vs. Macgregor so ****ing much.

What sucks about Rousey is that you know there's some young chick that is training their ass off to beat her but it will probably come when Rousey is close to being done.

The competition in the women's divisions is just too thin right now.

RR is a shit ton better now to.

i can't wait to see RR get knocked out

I assume you are joking because its a pretty common joke to refer to the fact that her division is so new and needs so much time and work to get to her level, but this is as good a time as any to say that there's a reason why weight divisions exist.

Sometimes its good to jump one weight class if someone is a freak of nature at their weight class, but no one is eager to see Mighty Mouse try to fight, say Weidman. That would be a joke. To me, asking for Ronda to fight small men makes about as much sense as asking DC to wrestle a small, defanged, declawed kodiak bear. That would be a circus sideshow. Even if we picked a pretty weak, injured, old dwarf bear that DC would potentially out-wrestle somehow, I still don't want to see that.

If we had a dominant multi-year heavyweight champion, no one would give him shit because there's no other options, we'd just sit back and admire his reign. Its fine to celebrate champions of other divisions without qualification.

The UFC just announced that Cowboy's title shot against RDA will be on FOX December 19th.

I love Cowboy, hope he wins but I don't think he will.

Awesome that'll be on FOX...

Anderson Silva's disciplinary hearing with the NSAC is going on right now. According to twitter, its not going very well for him at all, they are very unimpressed with his defense.

He needs to just say **** it and retire.

This hearing is apparently amazingly hilarious. I'm gonna have to watch or listen to a replay if one is available later.

His defense is basically that he took a sexual enhancement/performance drug from a friend. Hilarity ensues.

Probably the best quote on twitter from the NSAC:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Marnell: Did it ever cross ur mind that taking a blue vial from a friend in Thailand for a fighter of your stature might not be a good move?</p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href="https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/631920237949140993">August 13, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Moral of the story: Never take a &quot;man stuff&quot; supplement recommended by a dude you trained with a couple times in Thailand or Brazil. 😳</p>&mdash; Kenny Florian (@kennyflorian) <a href="https://twitter.com/kennyflorian/status/631923889761726464">August 13, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Silva has been suspended for a year (from 1/31/15) and fined $330,000. He will be eligible to fight again on February 1st.

He's very lucky that the new Nevada punishments were not effective yet when he failed the test.

Here's the co-main for UFC 194 (Aldo vs McGregor)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMVSZs9UcAA3vDh.jpg

UFC 193 (Lawler vs Condit) will be in Melbourne. It'll be the first UFC championship fight in Australia.

edit: its also going to be in a stadium.

Stadium fights are always cool

Etihad Stadium seats 56,000. The UFC is going to add floor seats in the hopes that they could sell 70,000. It'll be interesting to see if they can really pull it off.

http://www.fightline.com/wp-content/...1440031709.jpg

I am assuming the thinking here is that they are going to have the event at a slightly-inconvenient time for Americans, so rather than rely on PPV, they will try for a big gate instead.

Rousey will fight Holly Holm on January 2nd instead of Miesha Tate.

That is stupid. Holm is undefeated I guess, but fought only twice in the UFC and did not look great in either fight. She will be an absurd underdog. Don't know yet if this is a free fight or PPV, I assume it'll be PPV with another real unannounced fight to support the card.

edit: UFC 195

That is beyond dumb...:facepalm:

One of the few possible explanations is that the UFC was possibly thinking Holm was going to be better than this and were initially planning to build her up into a great-selling fight.

However, now they see Holm is not that good, and they want to cash in whatever they can get from uneducated fans who go "oh she's an undefeated boxer, maybe she can beat Rousey!" right now because Holm's going to lose to some random ranked girl any moment now.

We can now eliminate injury as a possibility, the UFC just decided to switch to Holm. Meisha Tate was already starting to train for Rousey and did not get a heads-up. She had no idea she wasn't getting the title shot until after it was announced.

According to the MMA media, the co-main for 195 will probably be Jedrzejczyk VS Gadelha.

That championship fight (which would also be a rematch) would be a lot closer and more interesting than this silly Rousey-Holm tomato can smashing farce.

In their defense there really isn't anyone left for Rousey to beat up except Cyborg. I hope they make that fight happen.

Tate makes more sense competitively, but Holm probably can bring in more money from uneducated fans who think she might win.

Holm is a stupid fight.

As far as Lawler-Condit in Australia, they'll have no problem selling out a stadium there for that kind of fight, IMO.

Hell, I'd like to go myself.

Everyone made weight except for one random strawweight chick.

The last two fights tomorrow night should be excellent (Neil Magny is one of my favorite fighters). The rest of the card is all blah, but its a free card, so whatever. The last 2 fights should start around 10pm central

Frankie Perez, after winning by a 1st round TKO, just announced his retirement. He's only 26, said he doesn't want to put his body and his family through this anymore.

That Cote-Burkman fight was magnificent

Well, that was a weird way to end the night. Oliveira suffered some freak shoulder injury in the first round during a scramble and had to give up while standing.

Nate Diaz vs. Michael Johnson set for UFC on FOX 17 in December

Anyone see this story where Travis Browne's wife is claiming he's dating none other than.....Ronda Rousey. You know, the woman who hates Floyd Mayweather because he's a woman abuser?

Oh how hilarious would that be....