Promotion : Ultimate Fighting Championship Date : October 25, 2014 Venue : Ginásio do Maracanãzinho City : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Promotion : Ultimate Fighting Championship Date : October 25, 2014 Venue : Ginásio do Maracanãzinho City : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Michelle Waterson Routs Yasuko Tamada, Retains Atomweight Title at Invicta FC 8
Michelle Waterson’s grip on the Invicta Fighting Championship atomweight throne grew stronger at the expense of Yasuko Tamada.
Michelle Waterson Routs Yasuko Tamada, Retains Atomweight Title at Invicta FC 8
Alistair Overeem cites costly 'mistake' at UFC Fight Night 50
Alistair Overeem explained what happened against Ben Rothwell on Instagram on Saturday. Yesterday I was in a great shape and prep was superb! Thanks to all involved, from coaches to fysio’s! You were all great. About the fight – I made a mistake! Hearing Ben’s arm crack on one of the kicks I didn’t expect him to counterpunch with the same arm.. We knew Ben is a tough strong guy, well we got it confirmed yesterday! Now today, new day – new chances! It might not always go as we want or as planned but..
As long as we have freedom and high spirits we are/should be ok! This coming from myself who’ve had several downturns in both life and career but plenty of great moments in life to so not complaining!
Alistair Overeem cites costly 'mistake' at UFC Fight Night 50
Fortunes changed for five in Friday night fights
Friday night’s head-to-head battle with the UFC and Bellator ended up showcasing two very different visions of mixed martial arts. It also set up a second go-around in November with those same differences. The UFC presented its typical Fight Night show. With so many shows, and so little time to promote the shows, the UFC almost comes across like something with a take-it-or-leave-it approach. We’re putting on a show. We have some good fighters, some of which you may know, some of which you don’t.
More often than not, the fights will be good. And this week it’s free. If you miss it, next week we have another show. Bellator doesn’t have the depth of fighters so it relies on attention grabbing. And Friday night’s fall season opener, the first of ten straight weeks of fights before the new vision of Bellator begins in 2015, was a weird amalgamation. It featured a serious quality main event title fight, and a couple of name fighters going in no particular direction. It also featured the most talked about thing on either show, whatever it was that Stephan Bonnar, Tito Ortiz and Justin McCulley were doing.
In many ways, it felt like this missing link between pro wrestling and sport MMA. It was a little bit of both, and a lot of neither. Bellator has three fighters that dabbled in the past year as pro wrestlers for TNA, Spike’s pro wrestling company, in Rampage Jackson, Tito Ortiz and King Mo Lawal. A fourth, Bobby Lashley, is a full-time pro wrestler, and TNA’s current champion, who debuted in Bellator on Friday. Lashley (11-2), who scored a dominant win over Josh Burns (8-8), said that he’s not dabbling in MMA, but making a serious run at the sport.
A fifth, McCulley, is a former UFC fighter who also has his own background as a pro wrestler. A sixth, Bonnar, had no pro wrestling background, but of late, has been training at the World Wrestling Entertainment Performance Center in Orlando, Fla What happened in the cage, with Bonnar doing an interview with a masked man (McCulley) by his side, trying to promote the Nov. 15 Bellator fall season finale in San Diego that promoter Scott Coker dubbed the battle of MMA Hall of Famers, felt more like a wrestling pull-apart brawl.
Fortunes changed for five in Friday night fights
John McCarthy: 'Fighters aren't truly educated in what they're doing to themselves' during weight cuts
With weight cutting issues in the spotlight the last couple of weeks — starting at UFC 177 when Henry Cejudo and Renan Barao both dropped out of their fights in Sacramento after bad cuts, and this week with Charles Oliveira coming in over — solutions are being kicked around.One person who has thought about all the inherent problems with weight cutting over the years is Big John McCarthy, the longtime official going back to the UFC’s unruly early days. McCarthy was in Sacramento when Barao passed out and hit his head during his weight cut.
Barao has struggled making the 135-pound maximum for the last couple of years, and he says that sort of extreme cutting can leave a permanent mark.McCarthy appeared on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour and talked about the increasingly more problematic routine of fighters cutting so much weight. He told Ariel Helwani that it starts having awareness of the damage a fighter is causing himself.I don’t think fighters are truly educated as to exactly what they are doing to themselves, and I mean doing to themselves over the long term of their life, he said.
You know, the weight thing is a huge problem in everything that it’s involved in, be it wrestling or MMA — any time someone is losing the weight that some of these guys do, draining their body of fluids, the electrolytes, it’s a problem for everybody involved. Not just the fighter, but the promoter and the promotion itself because you have situations where fighters don’t make weight. You also have situations where fighters are putting themselves at risk in going into that contest. Because they’re doing everything in their power to cheat.
John McCarthy: 'Fighters aren't truly educated in what they're doing to themselves' during weight cuts
Bobby Lashley Wants To Fight Next Month, Mentions Cheick Kongo
Following his submission win over Josh Burns at Friday night’s Bellator 123 event, Bellator MMA fighter (and TNA Wrestling star) Bobby Lashley says he’s already looking ahead towards his next fight. In an interview with MMAJunkie.com, Lashley said: “I don’t know when the (next) fight is going to be because I have obligations to TNA, and at the same time have I have obligations to the Bellator,” he said. “But we’re going to try to figure out something. Hopefully I can fight real soon.” Lashley, a Kansas native , says he’s willing to fight for Bellator next month from Kansas City.
“I can do that,” he said. “I’m from there, man. … If I have the opportunity to fight in Kansas City, I’m always open to it.” During the Bellator 123 Countdown show on Spike TV, Lashley mentioned Cheick Kongo a potential opponent. Kongo would be Lashley’s toughest challenge to date, but the TNA World Champion wants to face the best competition possible during what he calls his last run as an MMA fighter. “I’m not having too many runs (left),” he said. “I’m not going to be taking time off and coming back and forth.
Bobby Lashley Wants To Fight Next Month, Mentions Cheick Kongo
UFC Fight Pass Goes Down During Invicta FC 8 Main Event, UFC Officials Comment
During the third round of the Invicta FC 8 main event between Michelle Waterson vs. Yasuko Tamada on Saturday night, the first non-UFC event to air live on UFC Fight Pass, the digital service crashed. As a result, viewers missed the conclusion of the Waterson-Tamada championship bout. At the Invicta FC 8 post-fight press conference, Ant Evans, the UFC executive leading the UFC Fight Pass service, spoke to members of the MMA media about the incident, acknowledging what happened and promising to make it right with consumers.
Fight Pass did experience a slight drop in the stream during the course of Michelle’s main event for several minutes. I’d like to be very clear this is a Fight Pass issue and we have never experienced it before, said Evans. It was definitely not an Invicta issue. We’d like to apologize to Shannon [Knapp] for that. Evans concluded, We’re going to do a make up for this for all of our great subscribers. Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp also spoke to the media, focusing on the positives of her promotion finally airing on the UFC Fight Pass service.
UFC Fight Pass Goes Down During Invicta FC 8 Main Event, UFC Officials Comment
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