MMA Thread

[Anthony]

I'm also seeing UFC; not MMA in general.

Which is not a surprise, the Yahoo people who cover MMA strings are being pulled by Zuffa. I wish I would've bookmarked a few of their articles to back up my statement.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Inside MMA this week has Ken Shamrock, Josh Barnett, and Dave Meltzer.

TREMENDOUS.

Also, Bas interviews Fedor.

Watch it, fools.

[calgaryballer]

I'm also seeing UFC; not MMA in general.

Which is not a surprise, the Yahoo people who cover MMA strings are being pulled by Zuffa. I wish I would've bookmarked a few of their articles to back up my statement.

It's too bad, because Meltzer is the man. I can't stand the rest of their staff though. Iole's columns are garbage. I can write his columns and thats without his access

[Liquidrob]

Which is not a surprise, the Yahoo people who cover MMA strings are being pulled by Zuffa. I wish I would've bookmarked a few of their articles to back up my statement.

yeah, the yahoo people are all over the UFCs nuts for the most part, whats his name kevin iole or something? that dude has to be getting paid on the side by the UFC

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It's too bad, because Meltzer is the man. I can't stand the rest of their staff though Iole's columns are garbage. I can write his columns and thats without his access

yeah him, didnt see your post before I posted

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lol, just watching the UFC '100 greatest fights of guys they like'

Dana just said 'We called Chuck Tito's body guard, Chuck fought the tough guys and Tito fought the easy guys because we had to keep Chuck away from Tito'

WWE baby, all day

[Warner2BruceTD]

Spike special, 9/16, TUF 10 lead in:

Melvin Guillard vs. Nate Diaz
Roger Huerta vs. Gray Maynard

Awesome Meltzer breakdown...

The next live Spike special on 9/16 (the lead-in for the first episode of the heavyweight Ultimate Fighter show) from Oklahoma City has officially announced Melvin Guillard vs. Nate Diaz as the main event over Gray Maynard vs. Roger Huerta. I guess that billing is twofold. First, if Maynard makes it a slow fight, the feeling id Diaz’s fights are always exciting and Guillard fights a fast pace and is probably getting subbed so it should be a good end to the show. Also, it is Huerta’s last fight on his contract, so if he does win, it’s better that it’s not in the main event. It’s funny Guillard is a main eventer since he’s coming off a prelim match with Thiago Tavares that he won on a split decision that he really should have lost. While not official, other matches expected are Nate Quarry vs. Tim Credeur, Mike Pyle vs. Chris Wilson, Jeremy Stephens vs. Ronnys Torres and Kyle Bradley vs. Sam Stout. None of the Oklahoma State guys who would be naturals for this show are there, since Jake Rosholt is booked on 8/29 in Portland against Chris Leben, Shane Roller is in WEC and Johny Hendricks faces Amir Sadollah on 8/8 in Philadelphia.

[The Buddha]

Crop Cop back in the UFC, fighting @ 103?

The on-again-off-again relationship between Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic and the UFC may be on-again.

In a Tuesday report on graciemag.com, up-and-comer Junior Dos Santos says it is, by way of a fight with the Croatian MMA star at UFC 103. The bout would headline the Sept. 19 event hosted by the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Dos Santos was originally scheduled to face Justin McCully at UFC 102 before being removed from the card.

"To me it's incredible," said the Brazilian. "When they asked me if they could change the fight date I was a bit bothered, because I wanted to fight right away. I've been away for some time now. But the Fertitta brothers asked me and I accepted. After that I found out it would be against Cro Cop and was overjoyed. It’ll be a big opportunity in my career. Lots of good things have happened in my life and this is one more. I'm going to make the most of it."

Following a controversial win over Mustapha Al-Turk at UFC 99, Cro Cop made headlines by reportedly snubbing a two-fight UFC deal for a contract with Dream. The feared striker subsequently told Croatian news outlets that the snafu had been a misunderstanding and his decision to stray was based on the UFC's offered timetable for future fights.

Late last week, Croatian website Index.hr reported that Lorenzo Fertitta flew to Cro Cop's Zagreb home to re-establish contact and offer a new deal for his UFC return. The deal was reportedly "an offer he couldn't refuse."

According to MMAWeekly.com's sources, Cro Cop has dropped out of an announced fight with Siala "Mighty Mo" Siliga at Dream 10 on July 20.

Though it's conceivable that Cro Cop could make both fights, it appears he has chosen to remain inside the Octagon.

In the build-up to UFC 99, Cro Cop said a UFC title was in his sights.

"I just want to return to the top," he said. " I just want to prove to everyone that they were wrong.”

[BigBiss]

I'm also seeing UFC; not MMA in general.

Which is not a surprise, the Yahoo people who cover MMA strings are being pulled by Zuffa. I wish I would've bookmarked a few of their articles to back up my statement.

at the bottom of the Yahoo home page there is a feedback link. I sugest letting Yahoo know how insulting this move is to MMA fans

[Kuzzy Powers]

Lol @ CroCop saga.

Obviously Dana is hoping Dos Santos knocks his lights out.

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Fedor is the HW Roy Jones JR

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GSP's gatorade commercial

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[Warner2BruceTD]

Dave Meltzer addressed the Yahoo! issue today on his site:


--The other question I've started getting regards the changing of the tab from "MMA" to "UFC" on Yahoo. That was a corporate decision not made by the sports department. The feeling was that the brand name UFC is far more readily known than MMA (a point you can't argue) and thus the feeling was they were not optimizing traffic by listing the term "MMA" that a large percentage of their casual fan base audience doesn't know. As far as the coverage goes, nothing is going to be different. If I had to vote, I'd vote different since we're covering more than UFC (but the NASCAR tab covers more than NASCAR and if there's a major story on non-NHL hockey or non-NBA basketball, it is listed under NHL and NBA), but it barely affects me, only that there are people in other promotions not happy about it. The truth is, the term MMA is actually a pro wrestling term coined in the 70s by Antonio Inoki and Hisashi Shinma for Inoki's worked matches against people like Chuck Wepner, Willem Ruska and Mike Dayton, as well as his famous match with Muhammad Ali which wasn't exactly worked. Its original meaning is a match (with a predetermined outcome) between a pro wrestler and a fighter from a martial art held on Japanese network television. The "sport" as it is now evolved from the Brazilian Vale Tudo matches that date back to the 1920s, so you could argue Vale Tudo as the real name of it historically. The UFC name came around in 1993 and the MMA name for the sport started being used many years later when Jeff Blatnick was working with UFC to get athletic commissions to regulate the sport because it lost PPV on most cable systems. It was called NHB as the name of the sport with the transition to MMA being around 1998 or 1999. NHB stood for no holds barred, as the sport's name for years. The MMA label has then been used to describe matches in both the U.S. and Japan that were held before the term was ever used outside of pro wrestling, and was a better sounding name to get athletic commission regulation, but it is not and was never the original name of the sport or genre. It is the accepted term for the sport now by those who write about it, and by Hardcore fans, but casual people don't know that or the term. A lot of people are upset because there is a mentality that all the cool people call it MMA because they are smart enough to know UFC isn't the be-all and end-all, and how when people say someone is training in Ultimate Fighting, it means anyone who says or write that is beneath the smart people and doesn't know what they are talking about. The counter to that is from a mainstream writing standpoint, if a writer for the Wall Street Journal is writing to their audience and says someone is training to be an MMA fighter or an Ultimate Fighter, it is the latter term that will make the highest percentage of readers actually know what they are talking about. The reality of that point itself is probably what drives people crazy and why there is a reaction to this.

[CrimsonGhost56]

Lol @ CroCop saga.

Obviously Dana is hoping Dos Santos knocks his lights out.

Its pretty much a win-win for the UFC. if Mirko wins you got your next #1 contender (or at least sets up some sort of number 1 contender match), and if Dos Santos wins it gives him more credibility with a win over a big name and puts him into the top of the division. but of course we all know mirko is gonna fuck him up. i hope

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So the camera man couldn't keep his eyes off GSP's abs?

if looking at GSP's abd are wrong I dont want to be right, what?