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Donald Cerrone Speaks For Low Paid Fighters

FightLine.com MMA News - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:11

Donald Cerrone Speaks For Low Paid Fighters

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How's Taste My Tweet Tweet? MMA on Twitter - GSP vs. Weidman, Spinning TRT Kick, Noobs

Bloody Elbow - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:00

A few updates on what's been going on in the MMA & UFC Twitterverse

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There's a ton of tweets below, but first, don't forget to follow me on twitter: @antontabuena

Oh, and these guys are probably worth following as well: The Official BloodyElbow Twitter Account, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Richard Wade, Chris Barton, Damon O, Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coffeen, Dallas Winston, KJ Gould, Ben Thapa, T.P. Grant, Steph Daniels.

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BIGGEST CIGARETTE IN THE WORLD

"I feel bad for pat Healy that they took a innocent mans money and I think the guy who took the money is the biggest Fag in the world .." -Nate Diaz, sent out a $20,000 tweet.

"I feel I deserved the SOTN anyways for my sub. And fighting on 5 days notice cutting 23.5 pounds and making weight and winning! ...My oldest sister is heavily involved in drugs an has caused many hardships on my fam And she started w weed Dnt judge me u dnt know my story" -Bryan Caraway

"#urstillasorryassbitch" -Nate Diaz, after taking that fine, he sent out one worth comedy gold.

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SPINNING TRT KICK

"I never smoked, I'm not against those people that do, but how can you allow people to do TRT and not smoke weed before a fight?" -Vinny Magalhaes

"Oh, also: TRT didn't have a damn thing to do with Vitor's KO, but you can bet it helped him in training camp." -MMAJunkieSteven

"I disagree. I have trained with guys pre & post testosterone usage & difference is incredible. Speed & power" -Brian Stann

"I am not trying to be a jerk & not jealous of other fighter success, I am secure in who I am. (cont) tl.gd/lriei6" -Brian Stann

"In a day & age where we discover new long term effects of concussions and how horrible they are, I speak out of concern for my peers" -Brian Stann

"@brianstann agree . confidence , energy , swag , cardio everything goes up . It allows you to train harder , etc . Just ridiculous" -Derek Brunson

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WHEN YOU TAKE MORE DAMAGE AFTER THE FIGHT

"Hand is still bleeding a day after the doc cut it trying to get my hand wraps off!! Damn noob!!" -Nik Lentz

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SUPER FIGHT! WELTERWEIGHT CHAMP VS. NEXT MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMP?

"Cool pic of GSP and I getting some work in @renzograciebjj" -Chris Weidman

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TWICTURES

"Proud to give my voice to French-Canadian version of @monstersu! Merci à Disney-Pixar & Studio SPR à Montréal!!" -Georges St. Pierre

"Ranger panties, "Come And Take It" shirt, and cowboy boots make the perfect post workout outfit!" -Tim Kennedy

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YOU KNOW THE DRILL

"Summertime! #sunshine #bikinis #gardening" -Natasha Wicks

"It's her birthday! @ashleyrachel ...coming in hot!" -Arianny Celeste

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411's UFC on FX 8: Belfort vs Rockhold Report 5.18.13

411 Mania MMA Feed - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:00

Vitor Belfort defeated Luke Rockhold in the first round via knockout, Jacare Souza defeated Chris Camozzi via RD1 submission, Rafael dos Anjos defeated Evan Dunham via unanimous decision and more! Check out 411’s complete UFC on FX 8 report for all the details!

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Renan Barao Possibly Out of UFC 161 Interim Title Defense

411 Mania MMA Feed - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:00

Due to injury…

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Josh Barnett, UFC 161, Gegard Mousasi: The Morning News Roundup – 5.22.13

FightLine.com MMA News - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:31

Josh Barnett, UFC 161, Gegard Mousasi: The Morning News Roundup – 5.22.13

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FBI agents shoot and kill MMA fighter being questioned in relation to Boston Marathon bombings

Bloody Elbow - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:17

Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed by an FBI agent overnight last night according to multiple news reports. Todashev was a professional MMA fighter according to Michelle Malkin who linked to his professional record and posted a video of one of his fights.

Here's the story from WFTV:

A friend of a man shot and killed by an FBI agent overnight said the victim was being questioned in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings. Khusen Taramov told WFTV the man's name was Ibragim Todashev, but the FBI has not confirmed that.

"He had a ticket from New York, [and] from there, he was going to go back home. They were pushing him, saying, 'Stay, don't leave.' They said, 'We want to interview you one last time and talk to you a last time.' And he decided to stay, and today's interview was supposed to be the last time, and they said they were going to leave him alone," said the victim's friend, Khusen Taramov.

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Gunshots rang out just before midnight at the Windhover condominium complex near Kirkman Avenue and Vineland Road.

In a brief statement, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that the shooting involved one of their agents.

The FBI said their agent was conducting official duties when he opened fire on the man.

WESH had more on the supposed connection between Todashev and the Tsarnaev brothers, that being Todashev and Tamerlan knowing each other as both competed in MMA:

A friend of the suspect said his friend, 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters.

The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday.

Here's the video posted of Todashev in action:

Update: The AP has tweeted out that Todashev "became violent" during questioning:

BREAKING: FBI: Man shot dead in Fla had become violent during questioning in Boston bombing case.

Update from RT.com:

Kushen Taramov, a friend of the suspect, said he and Todashev were interviewed by FBI agents for nearly three hours on Tuesday in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.

"(The FBI) took me and my friend, the suspect that got killed. They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they're going to bring him back. They never brought him back," WESH Orlando quoted Taramov as saying.

Taramov said after he concluded the interview, he came back to the apartments to discover there had been a shooting.

The FBI has not confirmed any link between Todashev and the Boston bombings, but Taramov told WKMG Local that the suspect had known Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police days after the Boston Marathon bombing.

"Back when [Todashev] used to live in Boston, they used to hang out -- not hang out -- he knew him. They met a few times because [Todashev] was a MMA fighter and [Tsarnaev] was a boxer. They just knew each other. That's it." Taramov said.

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UFC Judo Chop: Paulo Thiago's Sucker Drag on Michel Prazeres

Bloody Elbow - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:00

The meeting between Paulo Thiago and Michel Prazeres yielded some fairly entertaining results redolent with gobs of pleasingly sloppy wrestling. In the midst of this wrestling, something rare, if not totally unprecedented in a mixed martial arts match, occurred. Near the end of the second round, Thiago countered a Prazeres front headlock with a sucker drag. The sucker drag was imperfect, yet effective, and best of all, it gives me a chance to pontificate on yet another MMA wrestling technique that is not a double leg or sprawl.

The sucker drag isn't an exotic or rare move. Early on in a wrestler's development when he is first introduced to some variation on a front headlock, the very first counter he normally learns is a sucker drag. It is neither the only counter nor the best, and as its name suggests, its success is predicated on a lack of vigilance on behalf of the dragee.

Before going into detail about sucker drags in particular, we would be best served to take a step back for a brief discussion of drags (short for "arm drags") simplicitur. The arm drag in its most basic form is demonstrated by John Trenge below.

[Note: Trenge, a three time All American and two time NCAA finalist from Lehigh University, is perhaps the greatest Division 1 wrestler to never win a national title. This puts him in exclusive company. It is hard to recognize him without his signature goggles, which he had to wear in competition due to not one, but two detached retinas suffered during his wrestling career. His somewhat controversial senior year was chronicled in the highly entertaining documentary Veritas, which I recommend.]

Here Trenge (in white) stops an arm post with his left hand, and rotates his opponent's wrist under his chest, feeding the arm to his right hand. The right hand executes the drag which always consists of gripping an opponent's opposite arm at the triceps and pulling it across your face. The higher on the arm a grip is achieved, the better. In wrestling, the closer a handle is to the center of an opponent's mass, the better. The grip of an arm drag must be above the elbow if there is any hope of the move working on any opponent with a live pulse. Finally, notice the way that Trenge pivots hard into his partner near the end of the move, maximizing the force generated.

Arm drags can be used to go behind an opponent for a take down or they can be used as excellent set ups for shots. As set ups, they possess particular utility, simultaneously pulling an opponent out of position, and bypassing his head/hands layer of defense. It is my opinion that on all levels of American wrestling, the arm drag is criminally underused, particularly in its role as a set up.

Here what a shot set up by an arm drag may look like.

In the 2011 Big Ten tournament, Michigan's Eric Grajales (in the gold trim) blocks a shot attempt by Penn State's future national champ Frank Molinaro, and then re-shoots with a left handed arm drag to a head inside single. Grajales doesn't finish the take down, but gives a glimpse of the ability which led many (including myself) to view him as a "can't miss" prospect out of high school.

Perhaps the most famous instance of arm drag take down occurs below

Here, in the 1997 NCAA finals, Iowa's Lincoln McIlravy (in black) is wrestling Iowa State's Chris Bono, both are NCAA champs, and both will eventually be world team members. This was the Dake vs. Taylor of its era. In sudden death overtime, McIlravy hits an ultra-slick, lighting-quick drag and boot scoot; he then nonchalantly raises off Bono, his third national title secure.

Now onto an even briefer discussion of front headlocks. Specifically the variation where one locks his hands around his opponent's arm and chin.

Front headlocks fall into the broader category of techniques known as "short offense". Short offense is needed any time an opponent is stopped prone underneath your chest and hands, and you need to score. This is usually achieved by going behind. Different wrestlers adopt varied approaches to short offense. If you watch superstar American Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, you would notice that he usually eschews front headlocks in short offense situations, instead he rotates around his opponent on his toes with his hands free. This forces his opponent into a Faustian bargain where they can either allow him to go behind, conceding the take down, or pop up to his feet and risk giving up back exposure points after getting double legged into the next century.

Many short offense options exist: backhand go behinds, drags, trapped hand go behinds. A very common and reliable method of scoring from short offense is the front headlock. Most commonly these days, particularly in scholastic wrestling, the "head in the well" variation on the front headlock is used where the hands aren't locked; rather, they grip the chin and triceps separately.

The classic, locked-hand front headlock is far more common in the Olympic styles of wrestling where it allows for gator rolls and a variety of instant back exposure techniques. For this sort of front headlock to achieve requisite tightness and pressure, the headlocker must focus on two technical points: he needs to be on his toes, and he needs to shorten his arms by pulling his elbows high and close to his body.

Here is a picture of Matt Hughes' famous front headlock on Ricardo Almeida, which led to a submission that amazed many of my jiu-jitsu friends (and my wrestling friends wondering what the big deal was, if you wrestle long enough, somebody, someday is going to put you out with a front headlock - it is certain as death and taxes)

Hughes hasn't quite achieved optimum position. His left elbow is nice and his arm high, but he needs to raise his other arm and then squeeze them together, thus pinching his forearms together and squeezing Almeida's arm and head tightly together. He also needs to raise his right elbow to make sure he isn't open to a sucker drag from Almeida. As things stand in the picture, with Hughes' right elbow below Almeida's arm, Almeida can reach his right arm across his face, grab Hughes' triceps and drag him by.

Below is a great example of a sucker drag in the 2007 NCAA semifinals match between Ryan Lang of Northwestern (mohawk) and Rider's Don Fisch.

This clip is bitter sweet, as it would have been nice to see Rider send a guy to the national finals and all Fisch had to do was not get taken down by Lang in the closing seconds to win (Lang, who had a brief pro MMA career would get tech falled in the finals by Derek Moore, who like Urijah Faber was a member of the now defunct Cal Davis Aggies wrestling team). Fisch stops Lang's shot and enters into a short offense situation. Instead of staying on his toes and continuing to move, a dog-tired Fisch locks his hands in a front headlock, elbows low and wide, and drops to his knees just for a moment. This moment of bad positioning is all Lang needs as he immediately sucker drags Fisch, and goes behind for an instantly called takedown and the win.

To fOnce Fisch locks his hands, Lang rises to his feet, steps up with his left leg, reaches across with his right hand, grabs Fisch's right triceps, turns his head to the right, drags the arm past his face and swings his left arm around Fisch's back for two points (yes the points were awarded a bit quickly there, but Fisch let his guard down; sadly, that's what happens). This is a sucker drag.

Almost an identical series of events transpired in the Thiago fight (here for convenience sake). Prazeres is holding Thiago in a loose front headlock, and Paulo sucker drags him. He steps up with his right leg, and swings his arms around behind Michel's back. The actual arm drag component of the move appears to happen on Prazeres's forearm, not triceps, but no matter, the move still works beautifully.

This is yet another contribution wrestling has made to MMA technique. Hopefully the trend continues and I have a wider variety of wrestling techniques to discuss in the future.

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Click Here To Join 411’s LIVE UFC on FX 8: Belfort vs. Rockhold Coverage

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UFC 160: Cain Velasquez vs. Bigfoot Silva Countdown video

Bloody Elbow - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 08:00

Check out the 'Countdown' video for this week's UFC 160 pay per view.

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Joao Zeferino Speaks on UFC Debut Against Rafael Natal at UFC on FX 8

411 Mania MMA Feed - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 01:00

Zeferino previously faced Natal in a grappling competition...

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Matt Riddle Signs with Bellator MMA

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Bellator buys out Riddle's LFC contract...

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Gleison Tibau Claims He Focused on Staying Lighter for UFC on FX 8 Bout Against John Cholish

411 Mania MMA Feed - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 01:00

Tibau wants to make a run for the title...

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[PODCAST] Man Cave Thoughts: UFC on FX 8 Preview

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A preview for Saturday’s show…

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Golovkin vs Macklin: Thomas Oosthuizen, Willie Nelson secure HBO undercard opponents

Badlefthook.com - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 00:59

Gennady Golovkin will meet Matthew Macklin in the June 29 HBO main event from Foxwoods in Connecticut, and top prospects Thomas Oosthuizen and Willie Nelson have finalized undercard bouts, which will air on the network in a triple-header.

Oosthuizen (21-0-1, 13 KO) will face fellow unbeaten super middleweight prospect Brandon Gonzales (17-0, 10 KO) in a 12-round bout. The 6'4" southpaw South African is hoping to make a strong move in the division this year, and Gonzales would be, in theory, the first step toward a potential world title shot by the end of 2013.

"Tommy is not only one of the best 168-pound fighters in the division, but, in my eyes, one of the top prospects pound-for-pound in the entire world," said co-promoter Lou DiBella. "He is taking on another undefeated, highly regarded fighter in Gonzales, and the winner of the bout truly emerges as not only a force in the 168-pound division, but as a potential star."

Oosthuizen is delighted to be making his HBO debut. "I am extremely excited about this opportunity. There is no bigger stage than fighting on HBO. This is what I have dreamt about since I was a young child. I respect Gonzales as a fighter. He had a great amateur pedigree and he has yet to lose as a professional, but he never faced a fighter like me, and come June 29th, he is going to find that out very quickly."

Gonzales, 28, is a Virgil Hunter-trained prospect who has been less than stellar in TV wins over Ossie Duran and most recently Don Mouton. Gonzales barely won either fight, and frankly, hasn't appeared to be a true top prospect so much as a guy who was once thought to be on that level. There's been a sort of plateauing of his ability, it appears, at the 8-round mark of his career. He's never gone beyond that, and will be the clear underdog here. Oosthuizen is considered by many a back-end top 10 guy at super middle already.

"I want to thank my team and HBO for this great opportunity," said Gonzales. "Fighting on HBO has always been one of my dreams. Winning this fight will put me in a great position for a world championship and I look forward to putting on a great performance on June 29th."

Nelson, another abnormally tall guy for his weight class, standing 6'3" in the 154-pound ranks, will take on Luciano Cuello. Nelson (20-1-1, 12 KO) once looked like a prospect whose bubble had been burst, when he lost a ShoBox bout to Vincent Arroyo in April 2011, but the 26-year-old Clevelander has made great strides since moving up to junior middleweight, beating Yudel Jhonson and John Jackson, and most recently clobbering Michael Medina in one round.

Trained by Jack Loew, Nelson's 81-inch reach is even bigger than that of Oosthuizen, who comes in at 78 inches. He's been turning a few heads, and he and his team have been talking big fight. For now, this will do.

"Fighting a guy like Cuello on HBO will give me a chance to make a big splash in the junior middleweight division," Nelson said. "He's a high quality fighter whose only two losses have been to world champions. I want to beat him in a better fashion than they did to prove that I belong at the top of the 154-pound division. I need to win and win impressively. My ultimate goal is to become world champion and this fight puts me in line for that."

The world champions Nelson is speaking of are none other than Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Canelo Alvarez. Chavez struggled past Cuello back in 2009, but young Alvarez demolished the Argentinean a year later. Cuello (32-2, 16 KO) has no real quality wins, but a lot of the word out there is that Nelson isn't exactly high on anyone's wish list right now, which makes plenty of sense given his size and development. Wins in fights like this in front of an HBO audience will make him a more attractive option, one would figure.

Cuello, 29, is as appreciative of the opportunity as anyone. "I am very excited about this opportunity to fight Willie Nelson on HBO and to have the chance to showcase my skills in the USA," said Cuello. "I am confident that we will achieve a major victory on June 29th. I would like to thank my manager Pedro Garcia and my advisor Elvis Grant Phillips for putting this fight together and of course my new promoter Lou DiBella and HBO."

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Audley Harrison calls off retirement after 20 days

Badlefthook.com - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 00:34

After announcing his retirement on May 1 following another lousy big-fight performance and first round TKO loss on April 27, when Deontay Wilder finished him off in just 70 seconds, Audley Harrison has surprised pretty much nobody by announcing that he's searched his soul and decided to fight on.

The 41-year-old Harrison, whose professional career has been an enormous flop by any standards that aren't trying to simply be nice, made it official on his web site, saying that the birth of his son inspired him to fight again:‘

There is no way I am going to tell my son, ‘I gave up because I didn't want to climb the mountain again, I didn't want to dust myself off again, when I'm now in the best shape of my career, doing things I haven't done for years, and back in love with the sport...how can I retire, when I know I have another shot in me'.

‘If I don't get up and try again, everything I've stood for would mean nothing ...'NEGU', ‘setbacks pave the way for comebacks', etc, etc, I believe it, so I have to live it, and go again'.

‘We all saw how the fight ended, which was not right. I can't walk away with that performance. If I do, it would haunt me until I'm old and grey'. I got up, they should have let him come to finish me, and let me show what I got'.

Harrison (31-7, 23 KO) has no hope of ever being any better than he ever has been before, and his best efforts have failed beyond domestic level opposition. Even his European title win in 2010 -- which had an awesome, dramatic ending, one of the best in recent memory -- came against Michael Sprott, a domestic-level fighter.

If Harrison wants to box on as the King of Prizefighter, or in fights like he had in 2012 against Ali Adams, then that's fair enough. He's passing physicals, he is in good shape for all anyone can tell, and he's not in any imminent danger. There are far greater mistakes being made all around the world with people climbing into rings.

What bothers me, to be clear, is that Audley will win a low-level fight, or another Prizefighter tournament, and some promoter is going to take that opportunity to bleed him against another young star. Against guys like David Price and Deontay Wilder and David Haye, he has straight-up frozen, like a deer in the headlights. Harrison just doesn't belong in the ring on that level anymore. I'm not trying to sound insulting, this is just a fact, at least as best as I can see it. And I think it's appalling of promoters to continue to take advantage of a kind soul like Audley, who I am certain deep down believes in his heart of hearts that the next time really will be different. It's just gross, is all. It's totally unappealing.

But, you know, best of luck to him. He's a nice guy and if he somehow backs his way into a world title in fantasy land, then they can make a movie out of it, I guess.

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Don King reportedly wants $2 million purse for Stiverne vs Vitali Klitschko

Badlefthook.com - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 00:21

Don King doesn't have the greatest reputation in general, but in recent months (even moreso than recent years), King's negotiating tactics have been routinely called into question, with failed purse bids he's defaulted on for, notably, Chris Arreola vs Bermane Stiverne, and Marco Huck vs Ola Afolabi III.

Now, it's being reported that King is demanding a $2 million purse for Bermane Stiverne, as well as U.S. TV rights, if Stiverne is to fight Vitali Klitschko. Stiverne's dominant win over Arreola in April made him the WBC's mandatory challenger for the fight, but it's the sort of purse that Klitschko opponents -- particularly those who bring nothing to the table financially, which Stiverne does not -- just don't get. Vitali and Wladimir run the show, and everyone has accepted that in recent years, save for David Haye, and I guess Vladimir Hryunov.

Stiverne (23-1-1, 20 KO) has made as good a case as anyone has recently to have legitimately earned a shot against one of the brothers, and I don't think there's really much against a Vitali-Stiverne matchup. Few would see Stiverne winning or even being competitive, probably, but he handled Arreola and made a statement. He's certainly done more than the likes of Manuel Charr, Dereck Chisora, Tony Thompson, Jean-Marc Mormeck, Francesco Pianeta, and Mariusz Wach.

Still, that doesn't mean that he's going to get $2 million to fight Vitali, who is the clear and really only money fighter in this fight. And King's idea to own the U.S. TV rights isn't necessarily bad, but it's not as if either HBO or Showtime have exactly been dying to air Klitschko brothers fights the past few years (or to work with King, whose depleted stable is barely hanging on), so who would he even sell it to? Epix? The Klitschko brothers already take their fights there by themselves. Bounce TV? Does he think Versus is still a thing, perhaps? Would he run it on PPV? Wait, yes, of course. PPV.

Anyway, there are two hopeful ways to look at this:

1. Hopefully, there's a surprise and King gets his wish, by which I mean that Stiverne gets a great payday.
2. Hopefully, this doesn't sink the fight actually happening. It's not like the WBC won't cater to Vitali here, and it's not as if King can actually win a purse bid against K2 for the full rights to the fight. I mean, he might win the bid, but he'd probably default.

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[VIDEO] UFC on FX 8 Dana White Video Blog Day 1

411 Mania MMA Feed - Wed, 05/22/2013 - 00:00

Behind the scenes of UFC on Fox 7...

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Heavyweight Josh Barnett inks new multi-fight UFC contract

Bloody Elbow - Tue, 05/21/2013 - 23:52

Heavyweight Josh Barnett has been a man without a home since the fall of Strikeforce. He picked up his last win in the promotion's final event against unkown big man Nandor Guelmino. Following that fight and the transfer of much of Strikeforce's roster to the UFC, there's been a lot of speculation about where he'd fight next. After early negotiations with the UFC went awry, no news had developed regarding where Barnett would fight next.

However, MMA Junkie broke the news Tuesday night that Barnett had re-signed with UFC in a multi-fight deal:

USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed with promotion officials that former UFC heavyweight champion Barnett has signed a new multi-fight deal with the promotion and is expected to make his return to the octagon later this year. An official announcement is expected soon.

Barnett last fought for the UFC at UFC 36 where he defeated Randy Couture to win the Heavyweight title. Unfortunately for him, "The Warmaster" popped for PEDs in his post-fight drug test following the fight. He was stripped of his title and continued his fighting career in Japan before signing with Strikeforce. Josh does not have an opponent set yet, nor an expected return date, but if I have my way he'll be fighting former champ Frank Mir in his UFC re-debut.

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Roy Nelson-Stipe Miocic Added To UFC 161

FightLine.com MMA News - Tue, 05/21/2013 - 23:27

Roy Nelson-Stipe Miocic Added To UFC 161

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Chael Sonnen Continues To Egg On Wanderlei Silva

FightLine.com MMA News - Tue, 05/21/2013 - 23:16

Chael Sonnen Continues To Egg On Wanderlei Silva

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