I'm God then. I'm the God of MMA. I'll become the God of MMA, right? Isn't that how it goes? I'm the soul snatcher; I'm the grim. I'll take all his wins and put them under my belt, and then everybody can just hush up. mma.fanhouse.com
"That's been tossed around," Couture told the media on Wednesday when asked about the winner getting a possible championship bout with the winner between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin, who headline UFC 106 on Nov. 21. mmaweekly.com
"I'm not doing blogs anymore; we are doing a featured fighter on fight weeks," White wrote on Twitter. mmajunkie.com
Here are some pictures of former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell preparing for competition except that it will not be in the Octagon, it will be for “Dancing With The Stars” as he shown working with his dance partner who is a pretty hot Russian chick who has no name at this time. Hopefully, this is the footwork Chuck needed to work on to have a better outcome in a possible next fight. urdirt.com
“Man, I lost! That was the first time ever, this is extremely painful,” he says. “My soul got hurt, man. That was a lack of strategy. The guy is fucking good, very hard to fight against. Two minutes into the fight I had already lost my head.” fightersonlymagazine.co.uk
Kenny Florian looks healthy and happy 19 days after his loss to B.J. Penn at UFC 101, and he says he's hoping to get back into the Octagon in November, with Clay Guida as his likely opponent. mma.fanhouse.com
"I feel I am fighting for my job, and there is a lot of pressure," he said. "So I hope that Dana (White) and Joe (Silva) see that I always lay it on the line. Win or lose, I fight my heart out." mmajunkie.com
Strikeforce is looking to book a middleweight match-up between Robbie Lawler and Ronaldo Souza on the same card that will feature the Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers bout later this year on Showtime. Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker informed FanHouse of the news at the Emelianenko public workout at the FightHouse gym in New York City on Wednesday. mma.fanhouse.com
“We always had great boxing champions, like Arcelino “Popó” Freitas, great karate and kickboxing fighters. We always had good stand up fighters, besides all the promotion we had around the jiu-jitsu, the sport that opened the doors to the fight world. We can’t forget that, before mine and Anderson’s conquest in the UFC, we already had great strikers in the UFC, like Marco Ruas, the first one to do the cross training, Pedro Rizzo and Vitor Belfort”, analyzes Machida. Tatame.com
Jardine, though, hasn’t won back-to-back fights in three years, going back to 2006 when he beat Wilson Gouveia and Griffin. Since beating Griffin, he’s gone 2-3 in his last five bouts, alternating between wins and losses. Yahoo.com
“Absolutely,” he said of the need to gain consistency. “I need to put together a couple, two, three, four wins in a row and I’ll be on top of the [Ultimate Fighting Championship] with these guys I’m fighting.” Yahoo.com
“He’s a world class jiu-jitsu fighter, and I think a lot of the guys he’s faced weren’t used to that,” said Marquardt, who himself is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Ricardo Murgel. “They had never faced someone like that or trained with someone like that. As far as black belts go, he’s a world champion. But I’ve fought Dean Lister, an Abu Dhabi champion, Thales Leitis was a world champion in jiu-jitsu and Jeremy Horn, who is a submission specialist. I’ve fought those kind of fighters and I train with those kind of fighters.” Yahoo.com
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will tell you pressure isn't an influence as he readies himself for a potentially legacy-making fight at UFC 102 on Saturday. He certainly could be sincere. After all, it's a familiar enough sensation. But whether or not the Brazilian great feels it, pressure has in some ways already shaped this long-overdue clash with Randy Couture. SI.com
World Victory Road today announced a trio of bouts, including a heavyweight contest between Antonio Silva (12-1) and "Big" Jim York (11-2), for the organization's upcoming Sengoku 10th Battle event. mmajunkie.com
“Obviously the belt is nice, and hopefully I get an opportunity to defend the belt, but it was nice to win the belt for Justin,” commented Wiuff. “I know he was smiling down on me that night, and I know he was happy, and that made me feel good knowing he’d be excited.” mmaweekly.com
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