http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/8/25...ffair-ufc-news

Wife: Ronda Rousey dating hubby while UFC investigates him for domestic violence.

It's been a recent rumor in the MMA world that UFC bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey is dating Travis Browne, now Browne's wife is confirming the story.

Looks like Ronda Rousey's personal life just became a lot more public. Over the past couple weeks, rumors have been cropping up around the internet that the UFC's biggest star and 135 lb champ has been dating one of the promotion's current persona non grata. The man in question? Current UFC heavyweight Travis Browne, who is under investigation by the UFC after his wife publicly accused him of domestic violence back in July.

While Browne's relationship with the UFC has been put on hold lately, including being pulled from recent public events, it seems he's been keeping a much more private relationship with Rousey. Private, at least, until a picture of the two started surfacing on Twitter, and Browne's estranged wife confirmed that he and the bantamweight champion were seeing one another.

Neither Rousey nor Browne have spoken about a relationship between the two of them publicly to date, so we really only have circumstantial evidence along with Browne's wife's word on it. If the rumors are true, however, things could get very interesting for Rousey over the next few weeks.

Some people can't get over it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ef=mostpopular

http://img.huffingtonpost.com//asset...7002e40e5.jpeg

Uhhh.... wow.

UFC 190 had over 900,000 buys. This card had Rousey vs Correia, and not much else other than the ancient desiccated zombies of old Brazilian greats.

edit:

Ive said it before. With JJ out she is the biggest draw they have.

So, I know this is the MMA thread (but since we don't have an official boxing thread) but the Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz fight this Saturday should be good.

It's on free tv as well. ESPN IIRC

I was burned by Mayweather but I'll trust you, and this Bellator crap isn't doing it for me.

Woah, holy shit, big news. Sirens, panic, loud flashy lights and noise.

Lawler/Condit is off for that huge stadium show in UFC 193, Robbie hurt his thumb so that fight is probably delayed but...

Rousey/Holm has been moved up. Rousey will now fight Holm in that huge Australian stadium on November 14th.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNjCD3tUEAAPDC8.jpg

That sucks.

Given how much money was shockingly made for the UFC by Rousey on that horrid Brazilian PPV, I imagine the UFC is rubbing their hands in glee. They can also promote this fight on FOX right in the middle of the NFL season, cash in on their biggest star, and even further open up their Australian market in the process.

Yeah. I get it. I bet they're super happy. I don't care about the UFC sale numbers, though. I was far more interested in the Lawler/Condit fight.

I am too. I'll buy this Australian PPV anyway because Rousey's become this crazy spectacle, but that was going to be a great fight. Hopefully they can do it in early 2016.

Both Santa Cruz and Mares throw a ton of punches. I'm surprised that Al Haymon let Santa Cruz take this fight right now. Santa Cruz used to be a Golden Boy fighter but went to Haymon after the network boxing deal.

Santa Cruz should win but it will be entertaining.

Holy shit that was an exciting match. Never had heard of either guy.

Good free boxing on ESPN right now. Turn that shit on.

Big Nog has retired and accepted the UFC's offer to work for the promotion in Brazil.

Lawler vs Condit has been moved to UFC 195 on January 2nd

It's all about dat UFC 194.

Not that anyone cares, the product is getting stale for me. Mcgregor/Aldo is really the only fight I want to see this year.

Since Gadelha has a broken hand, that frightening Polish chick Jedrzejczyk has been moved up to co-main 193 behind Rousey. She will be matched up against a tomato can who has no chance and will probably get her face beaten into a pulp.

So, 2 title fights on the Australian stadium show. Both champions will be absurdly heavy favorites.

OK, now things are getting silly. The UFC just announced that they are adding another previously-unscheduled Vegas event in December, on 12/10, fightpass only.

So, leading up to 194 we'll have UFC fights on the 10th, 11th, and 12th.

Conor McGregor says that if he beats Aldo, then the featherweight division will be "killed", and he'll move up to lightweight (155).

Thats a tough cut for him, so 155 probably makes more sense anyway.

Him and Cerrone were trading barbs on Twitter...that's a fight I'd like to see.

Still think Aldo handles him though...

The only reason I'm buying UFC 191 tonight is because of the 2 fights before the main event. PVZ might be interesting too.

If Mighty Mouse beats Dodson again, then there's no reason to watch flyweights until he retires.

Team Alpha Male has clearly done great work with refining PVZ

Not sure how important this is in the UFC class action lawsuit or what all of it means, just interesting twitter babble

Last Week:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In July, 13 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFClawsuit?src=hash">#UFClawsuit</a> plaintiff attorneys messed up pro hac vice docs. Judge: 14 days to fix. Most did but 3 denied today, missed deadline</p>&mdash; Paul Gift (@MMAanalytics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMAanalytics/status/639613874308710400">September 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What are these guys doing? Never seen anything like it before on something so simple. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFClawsuit?src=hash">#UFClawsuit</a></p>&mdash; Paul Gift (@MMAanalytics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMAanalytics/status/639613909138194432">September 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Today:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh man, fighter attorneys messed up another court filing. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFClawsuit?src=hash">#UFClawsuit</a></p>&mdash; Paul Gift (@MMAanalytics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMAanalytics/status/641641610443251712">September 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fighter attorneys filed Notice of Proposed Protective Order on Aug 27 &amp; forgot to include the actual proposed protective order. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFClawsuit?src=hash">#UFClawsuit</a></p>&mdash; Paul Gift (@MMAanalytics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMAanalytics/status/641641685093474304">September 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If I were plaintiff, the recent sloppiness would start to concern me. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFClawsuit?src=hash">#UFClawsuit</a></p>&mdash; Paul Gift (@MMAanalytics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMAanalytics/status/641641835664769024">September 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nick Diaz's disciplinary hearing at the NV State Athletic Commission is underway. (to review, he had 3 fight night tests, 2 were negative, 1 was positive for MJ)

The state and Diaz's lawyers have each put forward duelling experts testifying at length and in scientific detail why their test was better than the other test. The hearing is every bit as exciting as that sounds.

edit: Diaz's lawyer warned the commission that if they impose any sanctions, they will ask for judicial review.

LOLz at UFC and Floid "Saline IV" Mayweather and cleaning up the sport

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/201...ng-trust-usada

It's a long article that's definitely worth the read (it's also clear that neither boxing nor UFC are legitimately interested in getting rid of PEDs).

Diaz's lawyer is very, very good. I don't know if it'll convince the NSAC, but I don't think a better defense is possible.

It seems obvious that the NSAC is going to come down hard on Diaz, and they are resigned to the fact that he'll take them to court after this.

Nick Diaz has been suspended for 5 years and fined 33% of the purse. That is basically life for him if Diaz can't get a court to throw it out.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So, uh, NSAC, your guideline for a third MJ offence is 2 years. Good luck justifying the 5 year ban on appeal - <a href="http://t.co/MHsnKlKPh4">http://t.co/MHsnKlKPh4</a></p>&mdash; Erik Magraken (@erikmagraken) <a href="https://twitter.com/erikmagraken/status/643546320809029632">September 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

edit: he's wrong, its 3 years, but still.

USADA published a response today.

Summary

Detailed 25-page pdf

USADA has generally been perceived as beyond reproach, so I think I'd need more than an online article written by some dude on sbnation.com before I'm calling the organization who took down Lance Armstrong into question.

Looks like Jon Jones and his lawyers are going to enter a plea deal with the prosecutors very soon.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/9/17...-in-felony-hit

DC vs Gustaffsson this weekend, is everyone excited, yeah! woooooo!

Woo?

OK, seriously it could be interesting, I think Gus might have a shot, but DC will probably throw him around and wrestle him to death.

In other news, the UFC booked MSG for an April fight, and announced it. Then they promptly filed a lawsuit in federal court asking a judge to declare the NY law that the NYSAC relies on to ban MMA unconstitutionally vague. If they don't get the injunction, the fight is off. (or probably moved to NJ)

If this sounds far-fetched, it actually could have a chance. A similar lawsuit was tossed earlier this year, but the judge who tossed it only did so because she reluctantly agreed that the UFC did not have standing to sue because they never actually tried to hold an event in NY. She blasted the NY law in her opinion and strongly suggested the UFC try again if they can show standing. Well, the UFC decided to take her advice, and this whole show of booking the garden, reaching an agreement with the WKA to sanction the fights, and announcing an event should pretty much take care of standing to sue.

The UFC is basically saying to whichever judge gets this case "look, we would have won if he had standing to sue. Well now we do, so just take a look at the evidence in this other case and the facts and opinions this other judge reached, and just give this to us right now, please."

Jon Jones has just plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, 4th degree felony.

As part of the plea deal, he's getting 18 months probation, no jail.

Nailed it. I knew he wouldn't be getting any jail time. I'm sure there is an undisclosed settlement with the chick he hit.

He'll be beating Cormier's or Gustaffson's ass in 6 months.

Reportedly, if he meets the terms of his probation, the felony will be off his record.

edit: he also has to make 72 community service appearances, probably giving speeches to kids.

Jeff Novitzky has reportedly said that that the NSAC completely ****ed up the Nick Diaz hearing and strongly suggested that Nick probably should not have been suspended at all. He is not willing to infer any personal animosity against Diaz, but he believes that the business of PED testing is very complex and these commissioners working on a part-time basis may have not had the experience and wisdom to know that the 2nd non-WADA test was obviously suspect, and maybe after a cooling-off period they will re-evaluate the case and do the right thing.

So Hendricks vs. Woodley is off the card for tomorrow now...****. I was so looking forward to that fight.

Interesting too, Dana is saying it's because of "weight cutting issues" and Hendricks' manager is saying he was rushed to the ER with kidney stones and intestinal blockage...which come with a bad weight cut.

**** Hendricks...

This is God Damn ridiculous. Hendricks has to move up, he's just had too many weight-cutting issues to be permitted to fight at 170 any more.

This is a very serious hit to the card, I was going to buy it, but now I just might watch it in a bar.

It'll be interesting to see what the UFC does. Dana made Cejudo and Gastellum move up but Hendricks hasn't missed the mark that I recall. He is never really ripped at 170, you'd think if he modified his out of camp lifestyle a little bit he would be able to hit 170.

I'm already locked in on buying it. I'm smoking a brisket and having some folks over. Too late to pull out now

Same here, was gonna order when I got home from work...was seriously looking forward to that fight.

I never buy a card until a couple hours before.

I guess if you plan a big party with lots of friends then you are probably locked in, so you may as well order it, but I've seen major fights fall out even the day of the event, well after weigh-in.

At a bare minimum, if they don't want to make him move up now, Dana and the Fertittas need to privately read him riot act and let him know that for the rest of his career he has to make 170 every time if he doesn't want to go to middleweight. His bad weight cut probably cost the UFC millions in lost sales tomorrow night.

if he didnt eat 16oz steaks and bbq every meal and walk around at over 200 pounds he wouldnt have to cut 30 pounds and give himself kidney stones. ****in idiot. i feel worse for woodley. dude has wanted to mess hendrix up for awhile. i hope he still gets his fight purse. he needs the next title shot

Woodley still plans to make weight. He reportedly wants his show money, a bonus, and the next title shot.

id give him all 3 of those. lawler woodley would be one hell of a fireworks show

Dana White has just confirmed that Woodley will fight the winner of Lawler vs Condit. He also said that he now considers Hendricks to be a Middleweight, and the UFC is going to encourage him to fight at 185.

Everyone made weight except for some random unremarkable dude in the prelims. (that guy was 4 pounds over though, lol)

The UFC also allowed Woodley to weigh in to show that he was ready to go.

It appears that Draftkings completely messed up UFC 192. Someone was asleep at the switch, and all players were still able to edit their lineups after the first fight was over. It now looks like they have cancelled all UFC 192 contests. Players are now demanding that they freeroll this contest and just take the financial loss from paying out without collecting entry fees.

I'm sure UFC will be thrilled with that, and all these Draftkings commercials running during UFC 192 are hilarious now.

edit: confirmed, Draftkings inexplicably thought the first fight was 7pm ET even though it was known that we had prelim fights before then for at least a week or so. None of them bothered to double-check the fight times. MMA media are on this, because its a hilariously bad look for a major UFC sponsor.

In case anyone who hasn't been watching is curious, the prelims were awesome, but this PPV has been terrible. Main event is next, thats the only thing that can salvage this PPV.

****ing love DC and ****ing love Gustafsson.

That fight was fantastic. It redeemed the whole damn PPV. Only one of the first 4 fights were OK, but that last fight was worth it, DC impressed the hell out of me. I expected a wrestling match but he stood and traded with freaking Gustaffson and made the Swede want to clinch.

This is not the same DC who got wrecked by Jon Jones.

and.... begin hype. Damn, the UFC really stepped up their promo game. I am looking forward to this card though:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2jSKMoXTvaQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The DC we saw in the Jon Jones fight is not the normal DC. I expect he'll give Jones a good fight this time around.

How did Rashad Evans look?

Oh god damn you. You got my hopes up. I'm on tapatalk, where that video isn't embedded. I thought the UFC had promos ready for the winner of tonight's main event against Jon Jones. And it was for the ****ing Rousey-Holms fight? **** that fight. lol

Not great. None of the rounds were close, Bader clearly earned the 30-27 UD he got. I can't really give details because once it was clear to me that Evans wasn't going to be competitive, I took care of other minor chores in preparation of the main event.

This fight is going to break the live gate record and probably be a monster in PPV. Everyone knew what 193 was going to be, so I'm not sure why you could have possibly expected anything else.

Yeah. I should have known it was for the next PPV. It was just the transition of talking about tonight's main event, and your post started with and the hype begins...I thought you were referring to something they had thrown together for the winner of tonight's fight vs. Jones.

It's all good. I used to be a big Evans supporter, but his heart hasn't seemed to be into fighting for a long time. I think the Jon Jones ordeal and the nasty departure from Greg Jackson's camp really took a lot out of him. He should stick to commentating from now on.

Title History file updated

Nick Diaz's petition made it to 100,000 signatures with 2 days to spare. The White House now actually has to say something about Nick Diaz.

I'm sure it'll be a brief note about Federalism and how they can't and won't do anything, maybe some mention of medical marijuana, but still that is hilarious.

****ing hell. Joe Duffy got hurt in training today, so the main event is off 3 days before the fight. If you get hurt in camp 2 weeks before, oh well shit happens, but if you get hurt 3 days before an event you are headlining, then you are reeruned.

Oh well, its a free card so I guess I can't complain much. I now have almost no interest in UFC Fight Night this weekend, down from tepid interest. Main card starts at 3pm though, so I may watch it anyway.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here <a href="https://twitter.com/ufc">@ufc</a> let me help!! New poster for this week <a href="https://t.co/xPgBemdVXG">pic.twitter.com/xPgBemdVXG</a></p>&mdash; Big Ben Rothwell (@RothwellFighter) <a href="https://twitter.com/RothwellFighter/status/656955507794706436">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The UFC has reinstated Jon Jones. No news on when his next fight will be.

And DC was just now warming up to his belt. Too bad.

I wonder if he'll cry again at the post-fight press conference

Kevin Brown is hurt and out of his fight against Gastelum in 3 weeks.

Replacing him on short notice will be one of the most active (and entertaining) fighters in the UFC, Neil Magny

USADA's test frequency is now picking up speed

Amusing that Northcutt was already hit 3 times. I imagine USADA thought "uhhh... damn that new kid looks good. We better check that out."

Couple bits of news:

This isn't confirmed yet, but credible MMA media are reporting that there will probably be a heavyweight rematch between Cain and Werdum in Vegas on super bowl weekend.

Also, the negotiations between the NSAC and Nick Diaz are going well, and they will probably land somewhere around 18 months and $100K. That would make Diaz eligible to fight next August

I was really disappointed with the way Cain got man handled by Werdum. I hope he can redeem himself and dominate the way he did after JDS KO'd him.

That had everything to do with Cain not training in the altitude. I doubt you see that this time around.

That fight was over the moment Werdum decided to train at an altitude ABOVE Mexico City and Cain decided to just fly in from sea level a couple weeks out. Cain knew he was in big trouble a couple days before the fight when he wasn't adjusting quickly enough, but by then it was too late.

Cain was well-known for having a huge gas tank, but he arrogantly thought he could rely on that without preparing for that crazy elevation. Fighters were gassing out all night on that card.

We got a very nice little free fight card tonight. It would be a bad PPV, but this is fantastic for free TV. The co-main is a very good matchup.

I have some varying degree of interest in seeing 5 out of the 6 fights on the main card and 3 out of 4 fights on the prelim.

God damn, Thiago Tavares. That was a long ass, excited interview for beating someone stupid enough to jump right into a guillotine choke.

That stop in the featured prelim fight was pretty terrible.

But, Tibau was going to win that fight anyway, so its not a travesty.

Think Hendo has a shot? Belfort looked Ike shit against Weidman without the roids.

Was it bad? I was doing some work on the computer when the finish happened and I didn't turn around to look. My coworker said he was out but I heard Anik say the dude was arguing it.

Hendo's 28-second KO in his last fight was one of the most surprising things I've ever seen in the UFC. I was prepared to see a sad night where the 45-year old legend staying in too long gets his ass beat, but then holy shit crazy knock out.

So, I have no clue. Henderson can do whatever he wants at this point until he starts looking overmatched.

Its not in the top 10 list of the worst UFC reffing mistakes ever, but it was pretty bad.

Rear naked choke, sunk in kinda deep but iffy if its deep enough. Trujillo raise his hand preparing to tap, but then paused, started fighting the hands, choke sunk in deeper, his eyes closed (in concentration, but the ref apparently thought he was out), ref moves in to stop it.

If someone is getting punched to death, I won't argue a slightly-quick trigger but if its a choke with no tap, you gotta at least grab an arm and see if its limp before you call the fight. Trujillo immediately hopped up and was pissed when the ref called it.

Im saying 50/50 right now. I think at this point in his career Hendo doesnt get out of the first against a testosterone loaded Vitor.

lol, Joanna is gonna destroy that canuck next week