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wow, what a letdown
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Part time poster
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It's been held off until Tuesday.
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Also, I'll break some other news.
The next UK card is planned for October 18 in Birmingham at the NIA. Card is planned as... Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami Dan Henderson vs. Rich Franklin Tyson Griffin vs. Clay Guida I'm very happy about all of this. |
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King of Love and Piss
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I wish they'd mix these fighters up a bit. I think Silva, Okami, Hendo and Franklin have been on the same cards for the past year now it seems.
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Dana has point blank told people it isn't this. Mind you, he said no to everything else and he is hardly gonna say "oh yeah that's it" if someone guesses it early. |
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Hendo-Franklin is a very interesting fight to me. |
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http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns |
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All SOLID fights
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Listen to Killer Mike
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I worked with the Lighting Designer for Chuck Norris' World Combat League and he told me that it's going to be on CBS in 2009..
Horrible, because it is shit.. |
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Thiago is byfar my favorite welterweight..
Just watched the fight and he f'n dominated Hughes, which makes me all warm inside.. |
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yea its good to see that GSP has people around to actually challenge him and make a fight that can be anticipated.
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Nick Diaz is a fucking moron for missing weight by fucking 8lbs but man he is a great man for building a fight.
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I haven't seen it but that sounded like a wwe style build up last night
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UFC in MSG?
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They aren't sanctioned in yet and even if they were, we'd know about this by now.
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Sherdogs reporting that the UFC are planning a free to air event on Spike TV on July 19th. Its rumoured they've asked Brandon Vera to main event against Wanderlei Silva.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=13271 |
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This is 100% not happening.
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Okami is the last person to beat Silva (because of a rule that doesn't exist in UFC, IIRC). I'm gonna say Okami might win the first round, but Silva will go into Super Spyder mode and force a tap in Round 2.
Hendo-Franklin = the goods. Griffin-Guida should be fight of the night. |
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King of Love and Piss
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Rob, i thought you told me Floyd Maywheather was going to UFC.
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That's what I was told. I'll have more to say about this tomorrow.
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Just announced (don't think this is the announcement either)
Anderson Silva v. James Irvin (at 205) and Hermes Franca vs. Frankie Edgar on July 19 on Spike TV head to head against the Affliction show. Silva isn't vacating the title and will fight at both weights. |
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That could backfire so badly for UFC. I'm pretty shocked they're putting Silva in that fight. Not that Irvin is gunna win, but if he were to knock Silva out on live television, major backfire. And no, moving to 205 would not be an acceptable excuse.
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When the hell did Affliction start a fighting promotion? I was wondering what the hell was being mentioned earlier in the thread about an Affliction ban.
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First show is July 19. Hell of a card lined up too.
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Moving Silva to 205 is ridiculous.. UFC has plenty of LHW around..
Rob, didn't you say something awhile back about WEC and UFC merging?? Is this still going to happen?? |
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I asked Dana personally last week. He said the idea to make more smaller divisions and then to have everything below 155lbs in WEC and everything above in UFC so all the WEC bigger guys (Paulo Filho for example) will move to UFC.
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Dana said basically the same thing in Montreal during the Q/A before UFC 83.
Although I think he said that it would be 155 and below when he was in Montreal. I thought that was wierd because I didnt think they would send BJ to WEC. But it makes more sense now with the rumours that BJ is going back to 170 to fight GSP. If that happens, I could see them moving 155 to WEC. |
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155lbs is staying in UFC for sure.
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So what was the big announcement??
Did I miss something?? |
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I heard what it was but I'm not opening my mouth again until it's public. What I heard was pretty big though.
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They were supposed to announce it last week?? And then yesterday??
What is the hold up?? |
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(pm me)
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That Lorenzo Fertitta is resigning from his post at the president of Station Casinos to work full-time in expanding UFC.
Fertitta is leaving a post where he was the second highest paid casion executive in Las Vegas in 2007, earning a total of $113.8 million. Frank Fertitta III will become the man in charge of Station Casinos at CEO and retain 45% ownership in UFC, while Lorenzo Fertitta will work alongside Dana White as the co-heads of UFC. Yeah this isn't what I was told. Blame Meltzer. He told my buddy two different stories and killed the Mayweather one the day after he told him. I saw the txts msgs myself. |
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So I guess Lorenzo Fertitta is gonna do contract negotiations, beucase that's obviously not Dana's strong suite?
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I love how a fighter with a 0-0 pro record is making his debut in the Ultimate Fighter tournament final!
This is sooooo awesome. Go on Amir.
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I'm pissed that Jesse Taylor isn't in it. Brutal.
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