At UFC 141 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jon Fitch will face off against Johny Hendricks. Fitch who hasn't fought for nearly 10 months is riding a five fight winning streak and will look to defeat Hendricks in order to secure a shot at the title. More likely than not that title will be the interim belt against the winner of Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz at UFC 143.
When I hear the name Gabriel "Napão" Gonzaga, my thoughts are automatically brought back to his incredible head kick KO over Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic. Following that win, which was the most impressive and most memorable of his career, he went 3-5 in his next 8 UFC fights.
To be honest, my focus at the time was on the Olympics. I didn’t have any Internet or knew much about anything “mixed martial arts” until I graduated from college. I was 24 years old before I even started training in boxing, jiu-jitsu, or anything. After my last wrestling match where I lost, I was at a crossroads in my life. I had a manager ask me if I wanted to fight for a living, so I prayed about it, and decided why not. I went to Vegas to train and fell in love.
A bitter rivalry finally comes to the Octagon as Diego Nunes faces Manny Gamburyan at UFC 141. Nunes comes prepared: he has a powerful training ally in featherweight champion Jose Aldo. Will “The Gun” have enough ammo to annihilate the “The Anvil”? Nunes promises no less than a knockout.
It was back in November when the MMA world had a hay day on Canada's own Michael Lansberg when Chael Sonnen got up and left the set of 'Off The Record'. Well it looks like Sonnen might have forgiven Lansberg and given him a second chance. Today TSN.ca released a sneak peak at the interview which will air in its entirety today (Dec.23) at 2pm PT/5pm ET.
Despite welterweights Nick Diaz, Carlos Condit, Josh Koscheck, and Mike Pierce already topping the bill on February 4th's UFC 143 card in Las Vegas, there's always more room for top-notch 170-pounders, and that's what fans will get, as UFC President Dana White announced two more verbally agreed to bouts between Matt "The Immortal" Brown and Chris Cope, and Justin Edwards and Mike Stumpf.
UFC bantamweight fighter and TUF 15 coach Urijah Faber shaved off his trademark locks in support of his ailing sister. Faber's sister, Michaella Tastad was in a horrific car accident in November and had to have emergency brain surgery . The twitter community came together and pulled for his sister through a very low time. She is on the upward swing of things at this point.
Every fight other than the main event at UFC 141 between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem is literally flying under the radar, including the co-main event which pits the "Cowboy" Donald Cerrone against Stockton's own Nate Diaz. Cerrone seems very excited to throw down with someone who has the same mentality that he does on Dec. 30.
This time around THQ has simulated the UFC 141 main event between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem using UFC Undisputed 3. UFC 141 goes down on December 30 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to the simulation Overeem will have his hand held as the victor. They are predicting he wins by KO in the very first round. They simulated the fight 25 times using the AI and these are the stats thanks to BloodyElbow.com.
