Watch Episode 2 - Weigh-In AM
Watch Episode 1 - Presser Day
Source: http://www.ufc.com/news/bisping-fight-week-fighter-diaries
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
24 Hours with Michael Bisping
Watch Episode 3 - Making Weight
Watch Episode 2 - Weigh-In AM
Watch Episode 1 - Presser Day
Watch Episode 2 - Weigh-In AM
Watch Episode 1 - Presser Day
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
‘UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar’ Official Trailer
Good news, middleweight king Anderson Silva (Pictured) is returning to the Octagon sooner than expected. Bad news, it’s in a non-title light heavyweight affair against Stephan Bonnar. So, what’s your level of interest in shelling out $54.95 to order “UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar” on pay-per-view?
Well, the planet’s most prestigious mixed martial arts promotion has released a promo video for the October 13th event to help whet your appetite.
Heavyweights Dave Herman and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira serve as the card’s co-featured attraction.
HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hosts the fiesta.
Please click the media player below to watch the promo:
Here is the event’s official lineup:
Preliminary Card:
(Facebook 6:45PM ET/3:45PM PT)
Cristiano Marcello vs. Reza Madadi
Luiz Cane vs. Chris Camozzi
Sergio Moraes vs. Renee Forte
(FX 8PM/5PM)
Joey Gambino vs. Diego Brandao
Francisco Trinaldo vs. Gleison Tibau
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Geronimo dos Santos
Rony “Jason” Bezerra vs. Sam Sicilia
Main Card:
(Pay-Per-View 10PM ET/7PM PT)
Demian Maia vs. Rick Story
Phil Davis vs. Wagner Prado
Jon Fitch vs. Erick Silva
Glover Teixeira vs. Fabio Maldonado
Dave Herman vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Stephan Bonnar vs. Anderson Silva (Three-round light heavyweight fight)
Source: http://www.5thRound.com/128541/ufc-153-silva-vs-bonnar-official-trailer/
Lee Hasdell Musse Hasselvall Daiki DJ taiki Hata He Peng David Heath
Top 10 Biggest Fights that Never Happened
In MMA’s relatively short life span the sport has missed some intriguing bouts due to promotional shake-ups, retirement, injuries, or simply bad timing. Here’s a look at ten possible pairings most fans would kill to see…
Ken Shamrock vs. Frank Shamrock
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Brother versus brother? What family members would agree to that? Though perhaps not today based on age, if a contract had been set in front of the Shamrock brothers between 2005 and 2008, chances are they both would’ve signed it in a heartbeat. Ken even stated the fight wouldn’t have been about respect but rather putting his adopted brother where he belongs. Talk about sibling rivalry!
Source: http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2012/09/26/top-10-biggest-fights-that-never-happened/
Eddie Alvarez Thiago Alves Andre Amade Dean Amasinger Jimmy Ambriz
The Manuwa Rule: No Decisions
With 10 knockouts in 11 wins as a pro mixed martial artist, Jimi Manuwa has a bit of pop in his punches. Some would call it Tyson-esque. But if you watch the London light heavyweight in action and look at the way his opponents fall down after he hits them, his power brings to mind another knockout artist from the world of boxing: Prince Naseem Hamed. And if you never saw “Naz” in action, suffice to say that when he hit people, they fell in funny ways, like they were drilled with a shotgun and not a gloved fist.
Manuwa, dubbed “The Poster Boy,” has that kind of stopping power. And he knows it.
“Even before I started fighting, I always knew I had power and I was always good at fighting on the streets,” said the unbeaten Manuwa, who makes his UFC debut this Saturday in Nottingham against Kyle Kingsbury. “It’s just self-belief. I know when I hit someone, it hurts. I put combinations together, and you know as a fighter when you hit someone good. I know I have power in every punch and I don’t really do any feeling out or stuff like that; I go straight in.”
That’s talk from a lot of fighters. Not from the 32-year-old Manuwa, who has long been one of England’s most exciting prospects for precisely the reason he pointed out – he goes straight in. The way he fights, it’s kill or be killed, feast or famine, or whatever all or nothing adage you want to use. Yet despite his ferocious attack when it’s fight night, he’s not in this game just to throw hands and pick up a paycheck. His goals are a lot loftier than that.
“I’m not in this just to be a fighter and just to say yeah, I did that,” he said. “I want to be the best in the world, and that’s the type of attitude I have towards anything. In anything you do, you’ve got to be the best in it.”
Early on, he didn’t have that kind of focus. A native of Sacramento, California who moved with his family to Nigeria when he was three before setting in the UK at the age of 10, Manuwa got into his share of trouble growing up, and it wasn’t until he was 28 that he found his way to a MMA gym.
“My first fight I had three weeks’ training,” he laughs. “I did a couple classes, and when I saw my mate fight, I said ‘get me a fight.’ And the next week he came back and said ‘you’ve got a fight in two weeks,’ so I started training for it and I haven’t looked back since.”
That first fight, against Tom King on July 26, 2008, lasted two minutes and 20 seconds, and his opponents after that didn’t fare much better. By late 2011, the UFC came calling, offering Manuwa a spot on the UFC 138 card last November. But he turned it down. With no regrets.
“For one, I was just coming off a long injury, and it was kinda like the wrong time,” he explains. “And at the time, I didn’t feel like I was fully prepared. I wanted to work more on my wrestling and certain other aspects of my game.”
So off he went, back to the gym he opened in Croydon, Lion’s Pride MMA, to work with head coach Dino Miringou and the rest of his team.
“I’ve always liked being business-minded when I was a kid, and I just thought that if I got the opportunity, I’d like to do something like that,” said Manuwa of opening his own gym. “When I first started training, I didn’t have one gym where I could go to and have all the facilities there. I used to go one place for my kickboxing and another place for my jiu-jitsu, I used go to a strength and conditioning coach, I would go somewhere else for wrestling, and I thought it would be good to have everything in one place and have all the coaches working together, and that’s what I’ve created in Lion’s Pride. So I think it’s great for all the up and coming fighters we’ve got to have something that I didn’t have when I started.”
That’s not the only reason he opened the gym, as he knows that if kids (and adults) have an outlet to keep them off the streets and out of trouble, it could create brighter futures instead of dead ends.
“I’m 32,” he said. “I started fighting when I was 28, and before that I was doing business and stuff like that, and before that I was getting in trouble. If I would have started fighting in my early 20s, I could be UFC champion by now, and I could even be retired by now and doing other things. So I think it’s good for a lot of younger people to start early and be the best they can. That’s the only thing I regret – not starting martial arts earlier. There are loads of people like me on the street who can fight, but haven’t got anything good to work for, so it’s giving people the opportunity to go do it. In our gym, we’ve got loads of people that have come off the street, and kids who just left school, and everyone’s working at being champion in their own weight divisions.”
That maturity and forward thinking bodes well for his future in the UFC should the rest of his game catch up to his striking. Not that his last foe, Antony Rea, was able to find out, as a spinning backfist and kick to the head cut the veteran open in their December bout and prompted a stoppage after the first round. After this victory, Manuwa answered the UFC’s call.
“I always knew I was going to end up in the UFC because that’s just my attitude,” he said. “I had no fear of losing or not being recognized to go to the UFC; I always knew that was in the cards, so I just wanted to get a bit more experience and stuff like that, and then make a step.”
This Saturday, that step leads him to Nottingham and what should be an entertaining scrap with the hard-hitting and hard-headed Kingsbury, a fighter who may take Manuwa past the first round for only the third time in his career.
“I always prepare for a 15 minute fight,” said Manuwa. “I’ve worked loads on my cardio and my wrestling, my defense, my offense, and I’m just ready to fight, I don’t care who it is. I respect Kyle Kingsbury a lot and he’s a great fighter; he’s very durable and went three rounds with Stephan Bonnar, who’s very tough as well, and I’m ready for a fight. But my fights never go the distance because I’m not that type of fighter. Everyone knows that.”
If they don’t, they’re about to find out real soon. And Manuwa can’t wait to show them.
“Just look at my fights and look at how I fight,” he said. “That’s why I’m in the UFC. I don’t mess about. I come to do the business and I don’t come to win rounds, I come to win the fight and finish the fight. I don’t do decisions.”
Manuwa, dubbed “The Poster Boy,” has that kind of stopping power. And he knows it.
“Even before I started fighting, I always knew I had power and I was always good at fighting on the streets,” said the unbeaten Manuwa, who makes his UFC debut this Saturday in Nottingham against Kyle Kingsbury. “It’s just self-belief. I know when I hit someone, it hurts. I put combinations together, and you know as a fighter when you hit someone good. I know I have power in every punch and I don’t really do any feeling out or stuff like that; I go straight in.”
That’s talk from a lot of fighters. Not from the 32-year-old Manuwa, who has long been one of England’s most exciting prospects for precisely the reason he pointed out – he goes straight in. The way he fights, it’s kill or be killed, feast or famine, or whatever all or nothing adage you want to use. Yet despite his ferocious attack when it’s fight night, he’s not in this game just to throw hands and pick up a paycheck. His goals are a lot loftier than that.
“I’m not in this just to be a fighter and just to say yeah, I did that,” he said. “I want to be the best in the world, and that’s the type of attitude I have towards anything. In anything you do, you’ve got to be the best in it.”
Early on, he didn’t have that kind of focus. A native of Sacramento, California who moved with his family to Nigeria when he was three before setting in the UK at the age of 10, Manuwa got into his share of trouble growing up, and it wasn’t until he was 28 that he found his way to a MMA gym.
“My first fight I had three weeks’ training,” he laughs. “I did a couple classes, and when I saw my mate fight, I said ‘get me a fight.’ And the next week he came back and said ‘you’ve got a fight in two weeks,’ so I started training for it and I haven’t looked back since.”
That first fight, against Tom King on July 26, 2008, lasted two minutes and 20 seconds, and his opponents after that didn’t fare much better. By late 2011, the UFC came calling, offering Manuwa a spot on the UFC 138 card last November. But he turned it down. With no regrets.
“For one, I was just coming off a long injury, and it was kinda like the wrong time,” he explains. “And at the time, I didn’t feel like I was fully prepared. I wanted to work more on my wrestling and certain other aspects of my game.”
So off he went, back to the gym he opened in Croydon, Lion’s Pride MMA, to work with head coach Dino Miringou and the rest of his team.
“I’ve always liked being business-minded when I was a kid, and I just thought that if I got the opportunity, I’d like to do something like that,” said Manuwa of opening his own gym. “When I first started training, I didn’t have one gym where I could go to and have all the facilities there. I used to go one place for my kickboxing and another place for my jiu-jitsu, I used go to a strength and conditioning coach, I would go somewhere else for wrestling, and I thought it would be good to have everything in one place and have all the coaches working together, and that’s what I’ve created in Lion’s Pride. So I think it’s great for all the up and coming fighters we’ve got to have something that I didn’t have when I started.”
That’s not the only reason he opened the gym, as he knows that if kids (and adults) have an outlet to keep them off the streets and out of trouble, it could create brighter futures instead of dead ends.
“I’m 32,” he said. “I started fighting when I was 28, and before that I was doing business and stuff like that, and before that I was getting in trouble. If I would have started fighting in my early 20s, I could be UFC champion by now, and I could even be retired by now and doing other things. So I think it’s good for a lot of younger people to start early and be the best they can. That’s the only thing I regret – not starting martial arts earlier. There are loads of people like me on the street who can fight, but haven’t got anything good to work for, so it’s giving people the opportunity to go do it. In our gym, we’ve got loads of people that have come off the street, and kids who just left school, and everyone’s working at being champion in their own weight divisions.”
That maturity and forward thinking bodes well for his future in the UFC should the rest of his game catch up to his striking. Not that his last foe, Antony Rea, was able to find out, as a spinning backfist and kick to the head cut the veteran open in their December bout and prompted a stoppage after the first round. After this victory, Manuwa answered the UFC’s call.
“I always knew I was going to end up in the UFC because that’s just my attitude,” he said. “I had no fear of losing or not being recognized to go to the UFC; I always knew that was in the cards, so I just wanted to get a bit more experience and stuff like that, and then make a step.”
This Saturday, that step leads him to Nottingham and what should be an entertaining scrap with the hard-hitting and hard-headed Kingsbury, a fighter who may take Manuwa past the first round for only the third time in his career.
“I always prepare for a 15 minute fight,” said Manuwa. “I’ve worked loads on my cardio and my wrestling, my defense, my offense, and I’m just ready to fight, I don’t care who it is. I respect Kyle Kingsbury a lot and he’s a great fighter; he’s very durable and went three rounds with Stephan Bonnar, who’s very tough as well, and I’m ready for a fight. But my fights never go the distance because I’m not that type of fighter. Everyone knows that.”
If they don’t, they’re about to find out real soon. And Manuwa can’t wait to show them.
“Just look at my fights and look at how I fight,” he said. “That’s why I’m in the UFC. I don’t mess about. I come to do the business and I don’t come to win rounds, I come to win the fight and finish the fight. I don’t do decisions.”
Source: http://www.ufc.com/news/The-Manuwa-Rule-No-Decisions
Demetrious Johnson reflects on making history at UFC 152 with flyweight title win
“When Joseph starts to duck his head a little bit at me, I can tell that he’s about to throw that overhand right. There were a couple of times where I actually stayed in the pocket, and I blocked it just by raising my hand up because it’s such a wild punch,” Johnson told Sherdog. “It’s not coming straight down the pipe, so you can get away with having your arms wide out. It worked out to my advantage. You could see them coming because Joseph likes to bury his feet and duck his head when he throws.”
Johnson continued by saying the Benavidez fight went exactly the way he thought it would, explaining, “Joseph Benavidez is a tough competitor. He likes to throw those big haymakers, and when I watched the fight, I thought I did a great job making him miss a whole lot. I wish I could have stayed in the pocket a little more to make him pay for missing. He missed a lot of shots and he got away with just missing.”
The Split Decision win over Benavidez resulted in the 26-year old becoming the UFC’s first flyweight champion. Despite the closeness of the scorecards, one of the few times Johnson was really in trouble came in the fourth round when Benavidez mounted him with a Guillotine Choke sunk in. Still, Johnson said he never panicked and felt comfortable the entire time.
“It was nowhere near close,” revealed Johnson. “The choke was a good application around my neck, but other than that, I was nowhere near close to going out. We trained that a lot at AMC. I mean, for 10 weeks straight. There’s been a couple of times during training camp where I almost bit through my lip because guys were trying to crank on it.”
Johnson concluded by saying he was unsure how the judges were going to score it before Bruce Buffer announced the results, but he personally felt like he’d won the fight. Upon second review he still feels the same way.
“When you look at mixed martial arts, you look at every aspect of the game. I felt that I won every aspect. The stand-up, I felt that I had the cleaner strikes, the better counterattacks. Takedown defense, I think I defended the majority of his takedowns. He dropped me once, but I recovered. I defended all of his submission attempts. I took him down multiple times, had a couple of good slams in there,” said the proud member of UFC history. “When you look on paper, I felt that I won that fight. It looks like the judges got it right.”
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Armbars, Americanas, title shots and more: UFC 152 notes
-- Did you gasp when Vitor Belfort hit the armbar early in his loss to Jon Jones? Because I did, and I'm still amazed Jones was not injured. It's one of the few times he's been in danger, and his ability to get out of the submission was impressive.
-- Jones' fourth-round Americana submission earned him the $65,000 submission of the night bonus. The other bonuses went to Cub Swanson for his knockout of Charles Oliveira, and T.J. Grant and Evan Dunham for their bloody fight of the night.
-- At the post-fight press conference, UFC president Dana White said a fight between Michael Bisping and UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva could be interesting. Nothing in Bisping's win over Stann would indicate that to be so.
-- Demetrious Johnson winning the flyweight championship will go down in the record books because he's the first-ever 125-lb champ. But it should also be remembered for the fantastic speed shown by Johnson as he picked apart the very tough Joseph Benavidez.
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