Alistair Overeem will be having a phone conversation with the Nevada State Athletic Commission for reasons that have not been announced to the public yet. During the UFC 140 broadcast the MMA world was set a buzz due to a tweet sent out that stated Overeem would be out of his fight against Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 on Dec. 30.
Following his loss this past weekend at UFC 140, Lyoto Machida looks back and responds about his performance against UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Jones was tested by Machida in the first round and in the second took him down landed a vicious elbow which eventually lead to his submission victory.
No matter how much Dana White wants to deny the rumours of Alistair Overeem being taken off the UFC 141 Main Event, those rumors are still flying. I’m of the belief that where there is smoke there is fire. It all started when Kevin Iole from Yahoo/Sports sent out a tweet near the end of UFC 140.
Dana was uncommitted on whether or not Miguel Torres would ever fight in the UFC again after the Twitter scandal, saying only "We'll see". He did appreciate Torres' statement after the fact, but left no confusion on how he feels about his decision:
"Nobody has any business making jokes about rape....It was from a TV show? Who gives a shit? This is not a TV show."
UFC 140 had some epic fights. Jon Jones retained his title against Lyoto Machida, Frank Mir stepped one step closer to title contention with a submission win over Big Nog and Lil Nog beat up Tito Ortiz. Thanks to our media friends MMAFighting.com, HeavyMMA.com and MMAWeekly.com for their post fight videos.
UFC 140 goes down today (Dec.10) at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
The main event features Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida for the light heavyweight championship. The Nogueira brothers are both in action, with Big Nog vs. Frank Mir and Lil Nog vs. Tito Ortiz. Round out the main card are two Canadian showdowns with Claude Patrick vs. Brian Ebersole and Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung.
Las Vegas, Nevada – Tickets for the highly anticipated UFC® JAPAN: EDGAR vs. HENDERSON are on sale now to fans worldwide. This historic event takes place at the Saitama Super Arena, in suburban Tokyo, on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012.
The weigh-in event for UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida is set to take place Friday, 4:00 PM ET, at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, CA. The event will broadcast live on Facebook, YouTube, and UFC.com
Nick King and YaleUFC are joined by Gabriel Morency from MorencySports.com for their breakdown of UFC 140. UFC 140 goes down this Saturday evening and is headlined by the light heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida.
Shortly after Forrest Griffin got himself into some trouble for saying "rape is the new missionary" on his Twitter account and a day after Rashad Evans taunted his upcoming opponent Phil Davis by saying he's going to put his hands on him "Worse than that other dude at Penn State." Miguel Torres was spontaneously cut from the UFC.
