This Saturday in Nottingham, England, the main event at UFC on Fuel Tv 5 will be a fight between still-developing talents. Struve and Miocic emerged with great victories in heavyweight main card at UFC 146 in May. Most importantly for the fans, both fighters provided plenty of violence and entertainment potential. We believe that Saturday night the fight will not betray the expectations.
Stipe Miocic is undefeated (9-0, 3-0 UFC) and won with Shane del Rosario at UFC 146 (TKO).
But now he has to climb a “Skyscraper” named Stefan Struve, currently the tallest fighter in the UFC, standing 6 ft 11.5 in. “I trained with Tim Sylvia a little bit, he’s about 6’9″ so that helped out a lot. It’s tough to find someone like that, but we worked up a good game plan for what we’re going to do. I’m real confident,” Miocic told.
Struve, who, at 24, is six years younger than Miocic, has already acquired a wealth of UFC experience. Like his opponent, the Dutchman obtained an important victory at UFC 146, submitting the heavy-handed Lavar Johnson.
Miocic appears confident and knows this is a
UFC 153 takes place October 13 at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.
Initially the co-headliners were scheduled to be UFC featherweight champion Jose “Junior” Aldo vs Erik “New Breed” Koch and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs Glover Teixeira.
But then began the so-called “injury time”. Curiously Aldo was expected to face Erik Koch on July 21, 2012 at UFC 149. However, Jose Aldo was forced out of the bout because of an injury and the bout was postponed October 13, 2012 at UFC 153. On August 31, it was announced that Koch was forced out of the match with another injury and replaced by Frankie Edgar. Then on September 11, Aldo himself was also forced to pull out of the bout with a foot injury. And the bad luck was only at the beginning!
A few days after Aldo’s forfeit, even the other main event lost a protagonist: Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was forced off the card due to an elbow injury.
UFC president, Dana White, couldn’t believe it. “It was terrible,” White said. “It was the worst day
The best MMA’s events of the week is organized once again by UFC, and has focused on the main event Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs Phil Davis. Nogueira (which is the twin brother of Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira) does not fight for six months, when he was defeated by Ryan Bader (UFC119), instead Davis has never lost and he could take advantage of his early age (younger than 8 years).
This is the full fight card of the UFC Fight Night 24:
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs Phil Davis
Dan Hardy vs Anthony Johnson
Amir Sadollah vs DaMarques Johnson
Chan Sung Jung vs Leonard Garcia
Saturday, March 19, backs the Ultimate Fighting Championship (128) with the main event Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs Jon Jones. Both are among the top 10 mma fighters in the Light Heavyweight division, Rua hasn’t fought for almost a year (UFC 113), while Jones has fought just a month and a half ago, defeating Ryan Bader. It is not easy to predict the result of the fight between Shogun and Jones (valid for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship) since the U.S., despite not having too much experience is a tough fighter and is younger than six years. But the UFC 128 could be very exciting thanks to the first fight in 2011 of Urijah Faber that fights against Eddie Wineland, thanks to the the undefeated Kamal Shalorus that will face Jim Miller and the always spectacular Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic versus
Tonight there will be another great mma event with his main fight between Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann. Like the last Ultimate Fighting Championship, two fights of the “UFC on Versus: Sanchez vs Kampmann” will be broadcast live streaming on facebook: Danny Castillo vs Joe Stevenson, Steve Cantwell vs Cyrille Diabate. To see the fight you need just to be a fan of the UFC’s official page on facebook (scheduled Mar. 3 at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT). Here is the complete fight card and the results of the weigh-in (lbs.):
Martin Kampmann (171) vs Diego Sanchez (171)
Mark Munoz (186) vs C.B. Dollaway (185)
Alessio Sakara (186) vs Chris Weidman (186)
After Ufc 126, which had as its main event Silva vs Belfort, in the next Ultimate Fighting Championship (ufc 127) planned for Saturday, February 27, the most important fight will be between BJ Penn and Jon Fitch in the 170lbs division. Others fighting of the same night are very interesting too, here’s the fight card of the Ufc 127:
B.J. Penn vs Jon Fitch
Michael Bisping vs Jorge Rivera
George Sotiropoulos vs Dennis Siver
Everyone is looking forward to the UFC 126, which will surely be one of the best MMA events of the year. As for the UFC Fight for the Troops 2, Saturday the Ultimate Fighting Championship broadcast live on facebook a fight for free: Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs Demetrious Johnson. To see the fight you need just to be a fan of the UFC’s official page on facebook (scheduled Feb. 5 at 8:25 pm ET / 5:25 pm PT).
Video preview of Ufc 126 Anderson Silva vs Vitor Belfort:
