Video: Joe Rogan Talks About Fedor/Dana Situation

My respect for Joe Rogan just went up a notch.

Fedor Emelianenko's Open Letter to Dana White

Courtesy of M1Mixfight.com

Letter.

Fedor Emelianenko on Dana White's statements and Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture

Numerous times have I read mister White’s statements on Internet concerning myself. In my opinion, allowing yourself to say those things is not a sign of a gentleman or a grown man at all! If he candidly wants to prove himself right then let my fight with Randy happen or let me face the reigning UFC champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. In the future I wouldn’t want to hear those unfounded statements in my address ever again.

My last fight in Japan proved that I’m ready to fight anybody with any size advantage, skillset or experience. I have fought and still wish to fight the best athletes. The Randy fight is my goal number one right now, he’s a great fighter and this is a very unfortunate situation when too strict and one-sided UFC contracts don’t let this fight happen.

The whole world is eager to see me fight your champions instead of listening to your press-conferences. I’m signed with M-1 Global and this promotion is ready to organize such fights under our banner or in co-promoted events.

Matt Serra on Off the Record Video

This is an excellent video with Serra and others.
Thanks to Undertow for finding it!

Part 1


Part 2

Petition: Extend UFC Fight Night 13 to 3 Hours

The following is an email I recieved.

Hi:
I know ur a die-hard and i know u wnat this as much as i do, so if u culd post this on ur website this wuld be awesome. Its a petition to extend the stacked UFN 13 card to 3 hours as opposed to the regular 2.

Fightlinker started the petition and here is how you go about submitting your petition

E-mail feedback@spike.com with the following.

SUBJECT: UFC Fight Night on April 2nd

Hi
I’m writing to ask that the UFC Fight Night on April 2nd be given three hours of time instead of two. The card is one of the best UFC cards ever put on Spike, and it deserves a longer timeslot. The entire fight community is looking forward to seeing this event, and I am sure you’ll have a significantly higher number of viewers if you decide to show more of the card.

Thank you for your time
[your name]
Sounds good to me, here is that stacked card.

Main Bouts
Joe Lauzon vs Kenny Florian
Matt Hamill vs Stephan Bonnar
Karo Parisyan vs Thiago Alves
Houston Alexander vs James Irvin

Undercard Bouts
Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard
Clay Guida vs Samy Schiavo
Spencer Fisher vs Marcus Aurelio
Din Thomas vs Josh Neer
Tommy Spear vs Anthony Johnson

Now thats a fight card! Better than alot of PPV's I've seen. So copy and paste and send the email so we can see more of this card! Who knows maybe we can make a difference for once. This idea was sent to Spike by Dana White, so it didn't just come out of nowhere, here is a link to that story.

New Sean Sherk Video Interview

Rawvegas caught up with Sherk who discusses BJ penn and his stripped lightweight title.

Tito Ortiz Says "Dana White is Exactly Like Don King" on Howard Stern

Tito and Jenna were on the stern show this morning here is some of what Tito said, thanks to phillyburbs.com

Tito will be fighting Lyoto Machida on May 24 in Las Vegas, NV for UFC. Tito confirmed this once again this morning, taking some steam away from UFC’s impending announcement. I believe that Tito is being booked by UFC to lose, which isn’t a bad thing if he is on the way out. Machida is undefeated in his last four matches, yet he has never beaten anyone the caliber of Tito Ortiz.

Tito compared Dana White to Don King during the interview, saying they were exactly alike. Tito said that the only difference between the two is that King is black. Tito went on a diatribe about the pay scale in UFC. Ortiz said that UFC makes $43 billion a year, yet he makes $200,000 for a fight (leaving out his bonuses). Tito’s biggest outrage isn’t all about him, but for the younger fighters who are only making $5-10,000 a fight. I wrote about this when I first came to phillyBurbs.com and $10,000 after training costs is nothing compared to the revenue that UFC generates for an entire show.

Read the whole article here.

Chuck Liddell on Conan O'Brien Video

Chuck promoting the book on Conan.

Chuck Liddell's Book Signing Tour Dates and Cities

I thought this would be of interest to everybody, it sucks that he isn't coming anywhere near my state.

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10 Things I Learned from UFC 81 Breaking point

Its become tradition to write one of these after every UFC pay per view.

10. Tim Boetsch is one of my new favorite fighters. That throw that sent David Heath flying like a little girl was amazing and I always love a fighter that uses the front kick, one of the most underrated attacks in MMA.

9. Referee Yves Lavigne has amazing guard defense as exhibited in the shortest fight of the night-Kyle Bradley vs Yves Lavigne! Bradley was so out of it after the fight he held the ref for a good 20-30 seconds.

8. It seems the fans are finally starting to give Tim Sylvia some love. His fight with Noguiera was a great fight and he was very classy after losing.

7. Steve Mazzagatti may have took a point away prematurely, but stopping the fight was the right call. The rules for hitting in the back of the head are the same as groin shots, the fighter gets as long as he needs to recover.

6. How many pro wrestlers have abandoned their plans of getting into MMA?

5. I can't remember if it was Goldberg or Rogan but after Nogueira won they said "Mir and Nogueira, the 2 best heavyweight jiu-jitsu fighters ever." I have to argue that Fabricio Werdum has better Jiu-Jitsu than Frank Mir. Also Goldberg said before the Lesnar/Mir fight that Lesnar was facing "one of the best of all-time", come on.

4. Nate Marquardt is a very good fighter, but Anderson Silva is probably a guy he'll never catch up too.

3. Tim Sylvia vs Antonio Nogueira-worst biased commentating I have ever seen and thats all I'm gonna say about that.

2. Brock Lesnar's next fight should be Eddie Sanchez, don't give him another BJJ black belt like Fabricio Werdum or Gabriel Gonzaga. Eddie Sanchez is the perfect match to get him on the winning track because he has the potential to be a good but not great MMA fighter.

1. Antonio Minotauro Nogueira has amazed me once again with his ridiculous chin, unmatchable heart, incredible technique and amazing transitions. I really thought Sylvia was gonna finish him after he dropped him in the first round, shame on me. Minotauro's name should be in the dictionary next to "Fighter".

And A big congrats to Eli and the New York Giants!

UFC 81 Breaking Point Quick Results

Quick results from UFC 81.

1 Robert Emerson def. Keita Nakamura by Decision (Split) 3 5:00
2 Marvin Eastman def. Terry Martin by Decision (Unanimous) 3 5:00
3 Tim Boetsch def.David Heath by TKO (Strikes) 1st rd. at 4:52
4 Chris Lytle def. Kyle Bradley by TKO (Strikes) 1st rd. at 0:33
5 Tyson Griffin def. Gleison Tibau by Decision (Unanimous) 3 5:00
6 Ricardo Almeida def. Rob Yundt by Submission (Guillotine Choke) 1st rd. at 1:08
7 Nathan Marquardt def. Jeremy Horn by Submission (Guillotine Choke) 2nd rd. at 1:37

8 Frank Mir def. Brock Lesnar by Submission (Kneebar) 1st rd. at 1:30
9 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira def. Tim Sylvia by Submission (Guillotine Choke) 3rd rd. at 1:28

One of the few times my predictions were right, Mir and Nogueira showed some beautiful jiu-jitsu. Sick kneebar on Brock by Mir, although Lesnar did better than I thought he would. Nogueira shows once again his iron chin and ridiculous transitions. Tim Boetsch was really impressive in what will probably be fight of the night even though it was one-sided.

UFC 81: Breaking Point Weigh-Ins Video

Here are the weigh-ins from earlier tonite. Thanks to Undertow for the heads up!
****If this video doesn't work on my site click here to watch****

Shogun Confirms Fight with Chuck Liddell in June

****Update, This Rumor is absolutely true Click Here for the full story****

This is according to a brazilian website named TATAME, I was able to get a translation of what Shogun said. Keep in mind I don't know how reliable this is.
Here is what Shogun had to say to this website.

In the high-way to the Rosa Beach in Santa Catarina, where he will spend the holidays with his wife, Mauricio Shogun confirmed to TATAME his fight with Chuck Liddell in June. "I confirmed that fight yesterday, everything is set for June and I hope to fight well and represent my new team, the University of Fighting (UDL)" said Shogun, who hopes to avenge his friends loss.

"For sure I will avenge Wanderlei" assured the athlete who wants to do go to America and train there sometime with Wanderlei. "I called Wanderlei and we taled a lot, we will do the exchanging for sure, I don't know when, it all depends with my strategy of the fight"

"Liddell has good boxing and a very good Wrestling. His game is more stand-up, so it can be a mistake to try to take him down all the time, because it demands too much energy. I will still plan my best tactic with my coach Alejo Morales (note : against Forrest he had no game plan), with my brother and the rest of the team. But I can strike with Liddell and beat him there, no problem.

Original Brazilian Source Here

I'm not sure if this is anything but a rumor. Liddell has stated many times that he wants to fight Keith Jardine next. Maybe Chuck fights Jardine soon and then Shogun at the end of June, I dunno.