There is just under a month until Quinton "Rampage" Jackson takes on Jon Jones for his light heavyweight championship. The mind games are beginning to happen for "Rampage" as he feels that the Jones camp is spying on him.
After a very impressive knockout victory over Brendan Schaub in his home country of Brazil, Antonio Minotauro Nogueira has once again put his name in the mix of things in the UFC heavyweight division. Nogueira has his sites set on avenging his loss to Frank Mir, along with fighting in Canada later this year and Japan at some point in the future.
When the Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar would be back by the new year, rumors began swirling that his comeback fight would be a trilogy fight against Frank Mir.
Just seconds after his recent departure from Strikeforce rumors surfaced that Alistair Overeem would be making his way to the UFC's heavyweight division. Dana White said he has been in constant contact with him and would like the deal to happen, but that his management company has been in the way of some things.
In what marks his 9th title defense and his 14th fight inside the octagon, Anderson Silva absolutely made a show of Yushin Okami last night at UFC 134. The current Middleweight Champion has not lost a fight in nearly 6 years and has completely cleaned out the middleweight division. Below are highlights brought to you by the newest partner to the UFC, Fox Sports.
Following last nights UFC 134 event as always was the post fight press conference. The nights big winners stuck around for media to get their questions in at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UFC 134 results will be available at 7:00 PM EDT on Saturday, August 27th. The event takes place in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and the main event will feature Anderson Silva defending his middleweight title against Yushin Okami.
Who is Yushin Okami? That is the first question in this video interview by Paula Sack. Lucky enough the questions get better as the interview goes on. When the two met in 2006, Okami came away with a controversial win. Now the deck is stacked against him as he takes on the world's best fighter in his home country of Brazil.
Just over a month ago Zuffa released several Golden Glory fighters from the organization. Dana White told media that it was due to conflict between Zuffa and the Golden Glory management team. Golden Glory co-founder and trainer, Bas Boon, released a statement in which he explained that they would not only conform to ZUFFA's standard payment methods, but Alistair Overeem would like to sign an exclusive contract with the organization.
