LAST 4 & 5 STARS FIGHTS:
FULL FIGHTS Released this week:
Review: 2012-10-05, great performance by both fighters (UFC Fight of the Night): Diego Nunes vs Bart Palaszewski gets three stars. Diego Nunes (17-3-0) entered as the No.13 featherweight in the world while Bart Palaszewski (36-15-0) entered as the No.15. Nunes vs Palaszewski is on the undercard of Travis Browne vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (UFC on FX 5). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-05, nice fight between Danny Castillo and Michael Johnson (UFC Knockout of the Night): three stars. Danny Castillo (14-4-0) entered as the No.34 lightweight in the world while Michael Johnson (11-6-0) entered as the No.29. Castillo vs Johnson is on the undercard of Travis Browne vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (UFC on FX 5). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-05, pretty boring fight but with a good finish: John Dodson vs Jussier ‘Formiga’ da Silva gets two stars. John Dodson (13-5-0) entered as the No.8 flyweight in the world while Jussier ‘Formiga’ da Silva (14-1-0) entered as the No.6. Dodson vs Jussier ‘Formiga’, UFC flyweight title eliminator, is on the undercard of Travis Browne vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (UFC on FX 5). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-05, great and fast submission (UFC Submission of the Night): Josh Neer vs Justin Edwards gets three stars. Josh Neer ranked as the No.46 welterweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 33-11-1 while Justin Edwards had a record of 7-2-0. Neer vs Edwards is on the undercard of Travis Browne vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (UFC on FX 5). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-05, the second fight between Jake Ellenberger and Jay Hieron has not been particularly good: two stars; in their first fight Hieron defeated Ellenberger by unanimous decision (June 3, 2006). Jake Ellenberger (27-6-0) entered as the No.6 welterweight in the world while Jay Hieron (23-5-0) entered as the No.16. Ellenberger vs Hieron 2 is on the undercard of Travis Browne vs Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (UFC on FX 5). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-05, pretty good fight between Travis Browne and Antonio Silva but it is not enough to get three stars. The undefeated Travis Browne (13-0-1) entered as the No.13 heavyweight in the world while Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (16-4-0) entered as the No.7. Browne vs ‘Bigfoot’ Silva is the main event of UFC on FX 5. Watch the video!
Tonight at the Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind. it’s time for the heavyweight tournament quarterfinals of Bellator Fighting Championship.
The heaviest division is currently without a champ after the unexpected retirement of the title holder Cole Konrad in September (his last defense against Eric Prindle at Bellator 70).
The main event will be the same Eric Prindle (264 pounds) vs Thiago ‘Big Monster’ Santos (265.5 pounds). It’s a rematch because they had already fought at the Season 5 heavyweight tournament final one year ago, in which “Big Monster” landed what was considered to be an
No incident at Thursday’s official weigh-In for the tonight UFC on FX 5 at Target Center in Minneapolis.
For the main event Travis Browne checked in at 246 pounds, and Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva arrived at 266.
The 30-year-old Hawaiian is undefeated and comes from a victory at UFC 145 in April, when he submitted Chad Griggs with a first-round arm-triangle choke at Philips Arena in Atlanta.
Silva, after the bloody defeat against Cain Velasquez, knows that he is under a lot of pressure: “This fight for me is
Bantamweight fighter Walel ‘The Gazelle’ Watson has been released by the UFC.
After a negative record of 3 losses in a row president Dana White has decided that Watson can leave the federation.
His debut in UFC one year ago had been hopeful, with a first-round technical knockout over fellow UFC debutant Joseph Sandoval at UFC Live 6. But after that came two losses via decision (Yves Jabouin and TJ Dillashaw) and most recently, Watson was stopped by
According to Ronda Rousey, breaking an arm feels like “tearing apart a turkey with a crotch”. A sort of game, so to speak.
“I don’t think it’s satisfying. It kind of grosses me out. I tell everybody, it kind of feels like tearing apart a turkey with a crotch. It really does. It’s gross. When you’re trying to get a turkey thing off and you feel all the cartilage and the tendons and the bones coming off, when you’re pulling it, it really is that exact feeling” she said during the interview. “It’s gross. But that’s the way it is. They’d try to do the exact same thing to me. I’ve felt it being done to my own arms”.
The best example of this is what she did to Miesha Tate when she won the 135-pound title in March.
The 25 year-old has in fact has won all nine of her bouts in the same way: armbar. And often with bad consequences for her “victims”.
In a former interview, she explained where she learned her signature move: her judoka mother jumped on her every morning to wake her up with armbars! If it is not maternal love…
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