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What happens when you put Rob Dyrdek and Rampage Jackson in the same room? Ridiculousness
Prior to my self induced cable TV strike, also known as being temporarily disconnected due to non payment of $472 in pay per view charges (just kidding...kind of), my son and I would spend rainy evenings laughing at back to back episodes of MTV's show 'Ridiculousness.' If you haven't watched the show yet, its kind of like an updated version of that show 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' MTV's 'Ridiculousness' is based on Youtube videos and hosted by Rob Dyrdek. Instead of AFHV's overabundance of stupid 'talking' animal clips and old people falling on the dance floor, this show is just a boatload of jackassery-filled with tons of painful nut shots, and stupidity induced injuries. It is great.
Each episode is divided into two or three categories of ridiculous behaviors caught on video and uploaded to Youtube. Some of my favorites from the first season were the 'Run it off' and 'Guys getting schlagered.' This new season look to be entertaining as well and thankfully I don't even need to pay that $472 cable bill to watch any of the episodes. Last night I discovered my new neighbors have opted for the unsecured option on their wifi connection so I can stream all my rainy day hilarity from MTV.com. Love those new neighbors-I really need to bake them some special brownies as a gesture of gratitude.
I really like free wifi. I also really like tall Dutch Surinamese men, pulled pork sandwiches and this latest episode of Ridiculousness featuring Rampage Jackson. Check it out:
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Go Old School With This Awesome Video Trailer for UFC 146
We don't want to presume that this is the best video promo the UFC has ever put together. But, well ... it is. The UFC channels vintage monster truck rallies to get you geared up for UFC 146 on...
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UFC 146 Saturday Promo… Don’t Think the UFC Can Channel Pro Wrestling? (Video)
The UFC is going throwback with Saturday's all-heavyweight UFC 146 main card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, even with their latest promo video.
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UFC 146 Primetime Episode Two Full Video
Full video of the second episode of UFC 146 Primetime ‘Dos Santos vs. Mir’.
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Video: Legend FC Documentary - 'Legendary: The Rise Of MMA In Asia'
Here's an interesting documentary called 'Legendary: The Rise Of MMA In Asia', which provides an inside look at Legend FC, a promotion which hosts shows mostly in Macau and Hong Kong.
Filmed around Legend Fighting Championship 7 at Macau's City of Dreams, "Legendary" takes a look at the rise of MMA in the Asia-Pacific against the backdrop of the February 2012 Legend Welterweight Championship fight between Bae Myung Ho and Li Jingliang.
Filmmakers Euan McKirdy and James Wong interview some of the fighters, coaches, organizers, journalists, and other people who are hard at work developing the Asia-Pacific into MMA's newest frontier and largest potential market.
From the exhaustion of the weigh-in to the tension of pre-fight preparations to the fights themselves, McKirdy and Wong give fans a new level of access and insight into the rise of MMA in Asia.
The video is well made, and I highly suggest watching it:
Legend FC's next event is on June 16th, and it will have Li Jingliang who was featured on this video, taking on top prospect, Dan Pauling as the co-headliner. Also on the card is a 4-man bantamweight tournament, and a title eliminator for Jadamba Narantungalag's belt. Check out the current fight card here, and a promo for the event after the jump.
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I'm not sure if you forgot, but UFC 146 is this Saturday, and to remind you of it, Zuffa has released a unique video for the event. I don't know what is going on, but to put it nicely, let's just say that the UFC has just made an "unconventional" and retro promo video for this weekend's card stacked with heavyweights.
See for yourself:
The video was released today, but it's already a bit outdated as they still have the injured Mark Hunt on the promo. Check out the adjusted and final fight card after the jump.
May 26th, live on PPV from Las Vegas, NV:
Main Card:
Junior dos Santos (14-1) vs. Frank Mir (16-5) [HW Title]
Cain Velasquez (9-1) vs. Antonio Silva (16-3)
Roy Nelson (16-7) vs. Dave Herman (21-3)
Stipe Miocic (8-0) vs.Shane del Rosario (11-0)
Stefan Struve (23-5) vs. Lavar Johnson (17-5)
SBN coverage of UFC 146: Dos Santos vs Mir
FX Card:
Diego Brandao (14-7) vs. Darren Elkins (13-2)
Edson Barboza (10-0) vs. Jamie Varner (19-6-1, 2 NC)
Jason Miller (24-8, 1 NC) vs. C.B. Dollaway (11-4)
Dan Hardy (23-10, 1 NC)vs. Duane Ludwig (21-12)
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Jacob Volkmann (14-2) vs. Paul Sass (12-0)
Kyle Kingsbury (11-3, 1 NC) vs. Glover Teixeira (17-2)
Mike Brown (25-8) vs. Daniel Pineda (17-7)
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBellator 69 Video Highlights
Maiquel Falcao, Karl Amoussou, and Jessica Aguilar earned big victories on Friday night. Check out the Bellator 69 video highlights.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVideo: Bob Sapp vs. Soa Palelei. 12 seconds. You already know how this one ends right?
Video: Bob Sapp vs. Soa Palelei. 12 seconds. You already know how this one ends right?
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Bellator 69 Highlights
Bellator 69 took place this past Friday live from Lake Charles, Lousiana. Spike.com has released the highlight video of Friday’s MTV2 main card broadcast.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzySince today has been full of serious stuff so far, here's a video to lighten the mood a bit....
Since today has been full of serious stuff so far, here's a video to lighten the mood a bit. Strikeforce lightweight contender Josh Thomson (who faces Gilbert Melendez tonight) gets punked by Daniel Cormier (who faces Josh Barnett tonight) and the guys at AKA.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo of a new Budweiser commercial which will air only in Brazil featuring Anderson Silva, Steven...
Video of a new Budweiser commercial which will air only in Brazil featuring Anderson Silva, Steven Segal and others.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: A weird and nasty shin break during a Muay Thai fight. Usually it's the kicker that gets...
Video: A weird and nasty shin break during a Muay Thai fight.
Usually it's the kicker that gets his shin broken on this rare type of injury, but this occasion is even more uncommon as the guy being kicked was the one who got the worst of the exchange.
His shin breaks without him noticing at first, and the fight continues for several more seconds before anyone noticed.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir Extended Video Preview
UFC on Fuel TV 3 is in the books. Now you can get geared up for next week's UFC 146 pay-per-view with this full-length video preview.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC on Fuel TV 3: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier Main Event Highlights (Video)
After a spectacular main event, Fuel TV has released video of highlights from last night’s main event. Announcer Jon Anik and analyst Kenny Florian discuss the action in last night’s “Fight of the Year” candidate.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyMore UFC on FUEL TV 3 Video Highlights: Dustin Poirier vs. Korean Zombie, Donald Cerrone vs. Jeremy Stephens
Video: Highlights: Korean Zombie – Poirier More UFC on FUEL TV 3 video highlights of the Dustin Poirier vs. Korean Zombie and Donald Cerrone vs. Jeremy Stephens bouts via FOX Sports and FUEL TV. Video: Highlights: Cerrone – Stephens
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Jung Chan-Sung vs. Dustin Poirier Full Video Highlights
Last night, "The Korean Zombie" Jung Chan-Sung (or Chan Sung-Jung, I'm not sure) solidified his place in the mix for a shot at the UFC Featherweight title, thanks to an impressive victory over Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC on Fuel TV 3. TKZ is currently on a three-fight winning streak, and could be one fight away from challenging the winner of UFC 149's Jose Aldo vs. Erik Koch match-up.
Further Reading: Full UFC on Fuel TV 3 Results
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Read the full article at Low KickUFC on FUEL TV 3 Fight Video Highlights: Dustin Poirier vs. Korean Zombie
Video highlights from the UFC on FUEL TV 3 main event between Dustin Poirier and “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung via ESPN.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 146 Primetime Episode One Full Video
Full video of the first episode of UFC 146 Primetime ‘Dos Santos vs. Mir’.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertTop Ten MiddleEasy Hate Comments from our Braulio Estima Video
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When it happens on your carpet, there's nothing you can really do about it aside from plug your nose and use as many toxic solvents as possible to clean it up. When it happens on an MMA site, the best thing you can do is absorb it as a part of your reality and poke fun at yourself.
We don't know what happened at last weekend's World Jiu-Jitsu Expo aside from being the number one most talked about item that emerged from the event. Sure we messed up, and yes we can take the video down. However, as The Underground has taught us over the years, it would be a prime example of a classic [expletive]-tuck. In short, there's a reason why we don't cover jiu-jitsu. We're just going to leave it to the experts at DstryrSG to handle it from now on.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyDana White UFC on FUEL TV 3 Video Blog
Dana White is back with another video blog, this time, as he prepares for UFC on FUEL 3, and oh boy, does he ever have some harsh words for Dave Meltzer.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White UFC on Fuel 3 Video Blog: Ratings Explanation
UFC President Dana White is back for a special video blog ahead of UFC on Fuel 3 in Virginia, and there's some very interesting information in this one.
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Read the full article at MMA Weekly‘UFC on Fuel TV 3: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier’ Weigh-Ins (Video)
Today’s UFC on Fuel TV 3: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier weigh-ins took place at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia – the site of tomorrow night’s fights – and saw all of the fighters competing on the card hit their mark on the first try.
In tomorrow night’s main event, “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung will take on Dustin Poirier, with the winner likely to earn a title shot against the winner of the upcoming Jose Aldo-Erik Koch title fight.
The fight card gets underway tomorrow night at 5:30PM ET, starting off with the Facebook-aired preliminary card and moving on to the main card on Fuel TV, which will feature bouts between Donald Cerrone and Jeremy Stephens, as well as Amir Sadollah and Jorge Lopez.
You can check out a video of the weigh-ins below (video begins around 11:00 mark), click here for full results:
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyKSW 19: Mamed Khalidov vs. Rodney Wallace Fight VideoWatch one of the best middleweights outside...
KSW 19: Mamed Khalidov vs. Rodney Wallace Fight Video
Watch one of the best middleweights outside of Zuffa KO yet another UFC veteran. This improves his overall record to 25-4-2.
Finish is around the 1:50 mark. Full event results here.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBellator 68 Straus vs. Sandro Highlights Video
Bellator 68 featured the finals of the Season 6 Featherweight Tournament between Marlon Sandro and Daniel Straus. Check out the night's highlight video.
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Video highlights: Bellator 68 with Straus-Sandro, Galvao-Marx, Zaromskis-Spiritwolf
Bellator 68 is in the books, and the organization has released video highlights from Friday's event.
They include all four MTV2-televised main-card bouts.
Among them was the season-six featherweight-tournament finale of Daniel Straus vs. Marlon Sandro, as well as a bantamweight-tourney semifinal of Marcos Galvao vs. Travis Marx.
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Read the full article at RedditBest of Pride – Fedor Topples a Giant (Fight Video)
Check out this fight video of Fedor toppling Brazilian giant Zuluzinho at Pride New Year's Eve 2005.
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC 149 Special Pre-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video of today’s press conference to announce UFC 149 in Calgary on July 21. Headliners Jose Aldo and Erik Koch were in attendance.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertYour life needs a little six-second Australian KO right about now...
You weren't the only one that woke up this morning in desperate need of a six-second KO. We all did. After being treated to three out of four finishes on the main event of the UFC on FOX card last Saturday, everyone's fight palette still has that undying need to be satisfied for a taste of the ultra violent. Fortunately at SHINDO New Breed MMA, 19-year-old bantamweight fighter, Jack Gooderham, improved his record to 8-0 in just six seconds -- and he did it while rocking a 'Flash' costume minutes prior. The bout went down at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Australia this past weekend on May 5th. With the magical properties of technology, we have the video in its entirety, but we have queued to the exact moment so you don't have to sift through over eight minutes of video just for six-seconds of greatness. Props to Fight News Australia for the find.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyPost-Fight In-Ring Interviews
I am usually unable to catch some of the UFC events when they air, and have to rely on sites to upload videos of the fights for me to watch on Sunday or later in the week. The problem with that is that most of the videos cut right after the ref announces the winner. Does anyone know a site that provides videos to the Post-Fight interviews that Joe Rogan does inside the cage? submitted by young_war [link] [4 comments]
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Read the full article at RedditUFC on FOX 3 Fight Video Highlights: Diaz vs. Miller, Hendricks vs. Koscheck, Belcher vs. Palhares, Johnson vs. Barry
Video: Highlights: Diaz – Miller UFC on FOX 3 video highlights of the four main card bouts — Nate Diaz vs. Jim Miller, Johny Hendricks vs. Josh Koscheck, Alan Belcher vs. Rousimar Palhares, Lavar Johnson vs. Pat Barry — via FoxSports.com. Video: Highlights: Hendricks – Koscheck Video: Highlights: Belcher – Palhares Video: Highlights: Barry – [...]
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on FOX 3 video highlights with Diaz-Miller, Hendricks-Koscheck and more
UFC on FOX 3 is in the books, and video highlights are now available for the card's biggest fights.
UFC on FOX 3 took place Saturday at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., and the main card aired on FOX following prelims on FUEL TV and Facebook.
Check out video highlights of all the main-card bouts, including Nate Diaz's dominant submission win over fellow lightweight Jim Miller in the night's headliner.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC On Fox 3 Post-Fight Press Conference Video And Coverage
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT for live video coverage of tonight's UFC on Fox 3 post-fight press conference. You can catch the live video on the Youtube stream below the jump, or over at MMA Fighting. The winners of the UFC on Fox 3 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card was a five-round lightweight showdown between Jim Miller and Nate Diaz. Diaz would get a title shot if he was able to pick up the victory tonight. The co-main is a welterweight fight between Josh Koscheck and Johny Hendricks.
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Fight of the Night: Submission of the Night: Knockout of the Night:
SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 3: Diaz vs. Miller
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowIf you need help getting excited for Pat Barry vs Lavar Johnson tomorrow night, we’ll help you
I assure you, the person in this video is not Jason Nawara. Jason could only dream of dancing as well as this guy. The only thing I know about this video is that it came from Pat Barry’s official YouTube channel. Beyond that, any assumptions I could make would be speculative. Luckily, MiddleEasy readers love speculation, so I will venture to guess that the person in this video frequents Vietnamese restaurants and considers himself an aficionado of pho. He also has a collection of fixed-blade survival knives and knows how to start a fire using a magnifying glass and dried up leaves. In fact, anything you want to assume about the person in this video is fair game. Go for it… We have a comments section for a reason.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC on FOX 3 Promo: Johny Hendricks Has 99 Problems But Jon Fitch Ain’t One
Ha, I bet Jon Fitch really appreciates this video that the UFC’s viral video people put together for Johny Hendricks. Check out another UFC on FOX 3 promo below.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertIf you need help getting excited for Pat Barry vs Lavar Johnson tomorrow night, we’ll help you
I assure you, the person in this video is not Jason Nawara. Jason could only dream of dancing as well as this guy. The only thing I know about this video is that it came from Pat Barry’s official YouTube channel. Beyond that, any assumptions I could make would be speculative. Luckily, MiddleEasy readers love speculation, so I will venture to guess that the person in this video frequents Vietnamese restaurants and considers himself an aficionado of pho. He also has a collection of fixed-blade survival knives and knows how to start a fire using a magnifying glass and dried up leaves. In fact, anything you want to assume about the person in this video is fair game. Go for it… We have a comments section for a reason.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC on Fox 3: Diaz vs. Miller Full Weigh-in Video
Check out the full UFC on Fox 3 weigh-ins in the video featuring Nate Diaz, Jim Miller, Josh Koscheck, Johny Hendricks, and more.
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UFC on FOX 3 Weigh-In Video
At the UFC on FOX 3 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night's UFC on FOX 3 fights will step on the scale Friday afternoon, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.In the main event, lightweights Nate Diaz and Jim Miller will have to make the limit of 155 pounds.The UFC on FOX 3 weigh-in takes place at 4 p.m. ET on Friday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseLet Fuel TV take you on a tour of Josh Koscheck's 'kosified' house
Before I watched this video I had no idea what it meant to be 'kosified'. I probably would have assumed it was a cutting edge trendy hair bleaching technique coming straight out of the hotbed of style-Fresno California. If it weren't for the picture of three year old Kos in this video , I wouldn't have been sure who really invented this look Josh Koscheck or Justin Timberlake during his early NSync boy band days. Sorry Justin, but Kos was clearly the originator of the frosted tip fro.
Kos is also the originator of the word 'Kosified' and after watching this video you will know that has nothing to do with curl-x gel or hair bleach. To be 'Kosified' means things like covering your kitchen ceiling in rock, driving yamaha scooters with duct taped homemade red solo cup holders, and having Phil Davis hanging out on your couch playing video games. It also means driving ferraris and flying planes-so 'Kosification' is kind of a broad idea that embraces the idea of doing what you want, when you want, and where you want (Fresno?) and making it appear that you are at least balling harder than any of us at MiddleEasy are whilst doing so. Except maybe Kieran, that dude balls so hard-mother******* want to find him. Check out Fuel TV's version of 'Cribs' and take a peek at how living 'Kosified' really looks.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyMelvin Manhoef inks K-1 contract and runs his car into a concrete slab
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If anything, Melvin Manhoef has proven to be a good sport through most of his career. Look for no more proof than the video sent out by It's Showtime today taken just moments after Manhoef signed a new contract with K-1 at the It's Showtime office (his management) in the Netherlands. Melvin chose to take his Land Rover over a patch of grass, not noticing a concrete slab which he then proceeded to hit, scratching his car. They caught it on video and posted it online while Melvin jokes about it.
The important part to take note of here is that Manhoef has signed a contract to compete in K-1, which is no real surprise to anyone, but nice to know.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC on FOX 3 Press Conference Video
At the UFC on FOX 3 press conference, Nate Diaz and Jim Miller and the rest of the fighters on the televised card will answer questions from the media Wednesday afternoon, and we'll carry the video live here at MMA Fighting.The press conference will start at 2 p.m. ET at the Beacon Theatre in New York, N.Y. Check it out below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC on FOX 3 Open Workout Video
NEW YORK -- MMA Fighting's E. Casey Leydon was on the scene at the UFC on FOX 3 open workouts at the Church Street Boxing Gym on Wednesday afternoon. Nate Diaz and Jim Miller, who will compete in Saturday's night main event, are featured in the video below.
Check it out after the jump.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 145 Video: Jon Jones "On The Brink" Series From Ultimate Insider On Fuel TV
Jon Jones is a star in world of mixed martial arts. He is the dominant champion of the light heavyweight division on this planet and has battered every opponent he has faced. Most diligent followers of the sport already know this and respect his abilities, if not his personality or turn of phrases.
For those sitting on the fence or those not aware of Jones' capabilities and his compelling narrative of the rise to greatness, the UFC has decided to put together a series of videos to showcase all of that. The videos are shot and edited in much the same fashion as the Countdowns, with voiceover by Jones himself, slick editing and much training footage from his lead-up to UFC 145 and the bout against Rashad Evans. It is a well presented package - although with the idea of bolstering Jon Jones even further into the MMA stratosphere.
Without further ado, "On The Brink":
For those who have the bandwith and the time, it would be advisable to bump up the settings to at least 480p or 720p. Viewers from outside the United States may not be able to access the video here or directly through YouTube's site.
Related Links: Jon Jones Emerges As A Star With 700,000 PPV Buys For UFC 145 | Elbows In The UFC: Why Jon Jones Succeeded Where Shinya Aoki Failed
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowCheck out this video from our sponsor, Red Bull, or we can never be friends again
Red Bull wants to dive into the vast ocean of MMA sponsorships, and they chose MiddleEasy.com as a starting point. There's your breaking news for today. Go hang that one up on a wall and make yourself a peach sorbet while you're at it. In fact, make me one too -- but just unsweeten the entire thing. I don't get down with extraneous sugar in my diet. That's not the MiddleEasy way. Fortunately, Red Bull offers their energy drink in a sugar-free variation, so all is right with the cosmos.
The truth is, Red Bull really wants to get into the MMA sponsorship market, and MiddleEasy is their launch pad. They've even provided this nifty video of what they would like to bring to the MMA industry. It's sleek, stylish and and cool; basically, it's the exact opposite of my childhood. We're pretty sure the interest of this video will dictate the involvement of Red Bull in the MMA industry, so be sure to watch it. Besides, Red Bull doesn't want to get into a market of fickle consumers so make it be known that you would love to see them inside the cage at your next MMA event and support them by watching this video.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyOh wow, Bob Sapp is offering a free ticket to Australia to be his corner man for the greatest YouTube burn video
Two Bob Sapp videos in the course of two days, the Mayans may be right about 2012. Now it appears The Beast is offering $300, a free round trip ticket, hotel accommodation, VIP access and a chance to be a corner man in his fight at CFC 21 in Australia just for making the greatest YouTube burn video ever imaginable. Actually, you make make a video praising Bob Sapp, but for some reason I just don't think that would be adequate in this scenario. You can watch the embedded video below to acquire all the rules to the impending contest, or you can just read whatever I deem is appropriate in this article.
Keep in mind that if Bloodstain Lane entered this contest, the greatest you can hope to achieve is a sporty second place. There's also this guy from England, dresses up like Michael Myers and publishes off-the-wall YouTube videos. He's also a promising contender to whatever throne Bob Sapp has established in this contest. Maybe it's better that you just watch this video -- I have nothing left to tell you, you digital hooligans.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyVIDEO: Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson at Pride 12
Get reacquainted with a classic as a pair of future legends went toe-to-toe at Pride 12. Check out this video of Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson.
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Fight Video: Johny Hendricks Demolishes Jon Fitch at UFC 141
UFC On Fox 3: Dana White Video Blog Part 1 - Clowning On Faber
Normally UFC president Dana White's video blogs start out with footage of the last event. Apparently Dana has one set for tomorrow that will do just that, but for the opening video blog for UFC on Fox 3, he decided to put out something a little different. And by "a little different", I mean "making fun of Urijah Faber".
As most people know by now, Faber is one of the coaches on The Ultimate Fighter Live, going against UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz. The outside gym windows are all tinted, and basically Dana sat on the inside of the gym with his cameraman and cracked on Faber, who was outside eating a sandwich and talking on his cell phone. While that doesn't sound funny at all, it actually was - because Faber kept stopping to check himself out in the mirrored window that Dana was standing behind.
Check out the video after the jump.
SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 3: Diaz vs. Miller
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White Video Blog for UFC on Fox: Diaz vs. Miller – Day 1
UFC president Dana White takes a different spin on his first video blog of UFC on Fox fight week – when he catches top bantamweight contender Urijah Faber posin' down.
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, video blog, blog
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Dana White video blog for UFC on FOX 3: 'Diaz vs Miller' (Episode 1)
It's fight week, folks, and that means it's also blog week.
UFC President Dana White is up to his old tricks, releasing behind-the-scenes videos to help promote an upcoming fight card. In this instance, we're just days away from the UFC on FOX 3: "Diaz vs. Miller" event set for Sat., May 5, 2012, at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Instead of putting out a video that has anything to do with that event, though, White has something different for this first video blog of the week.
In it, White spends nearly four minutes doing running commentary of Urijah Faber posing in front of a window at The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) gym in Las Vegas, Nevada, while he eats and talks on the phone.
Yes, it's four minutes of White poking fun at "The California Kid" for constantly having his shirt off and checking on how good he looks while doing something as simple as chatting on a cell phone. This is the UFC folks ... as real as it gets.
Promises were made for two more video blogs, so stay tuned for more compelling footage that probably has nothing to do with UFC on FOX 3. For all the information you need to stay up to date on that event anyway, make sure to hit up our complete event archive right here.
Posted in: ufc, video, event, video blog, blog
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SBNation Launches Official YouTube Channel!
Video has come to SB Nation!
We launched SB Nation's official Youtube channel on March 1st with some pretty large ambitions: let's try something new. Across the entire network, we approach the world of sports from a different angle. The passion, expertise, and first-rate analysis and discussion that takes place every day on our sites is something to be proud of and we didn't want to ruin that with a bunch of talking heads in suits and ties with no game-footage rights. We've got humor, expert analysis, weirdness, video gifs, and incredible storytelling all in one place and we're really proud of what this thing has become. Right now, we're producing over 30 new original videos every single week. Be sure to subscribe to not miss anything. Here's a rundown of the offerings:
Shutdown Fullback (College Football meets Tim & Eric -- New episodes every Friday): If you've ever wondered what it would look like to see a video version of threads on EDSBS.com, we ll here you go. Simultaneously a college football talk show and unintentional postmodern art project, I personally guarantee Spencer Hall and Jason Kirk will make you laugh (or else they've duff'd it). Essential Viewing: Bobby Petrino Fired episode with hot blonde assistant - http://youtu.be/k6inSsQpI2E Bomani & Jones (All sports; opinion and commentary -- New episodes Monday and Thursday): Around the Horn contributor and known Twitter user Bomani Jones is Bomani & Jones: sketches and commentary with no excuses. Think Chapelle's Show for the internet and the sports world. Essential Viewing: Oklahoma Thunder are the Rolling Stones: http://youtu.be/DGfsuOtPZtI Full Nelson (All sports; Outside the Lines with a sense of humor -- New episodes every Wednesday): Athletes, Access, and Culture. Full Nelson takes an inside look at the most interesting stories from the world of sports in a beautiful, different, and always interesting package. Host Amy K. Nelson joined SB Nation after years of reporting for ESPN and regularly appearances on OTL and First Take andFull Nelson offers something new every week. Bonus points to Full Nelson for having the most-viewed video of our whole channel with Amy's perilous tour of a Duke bar during the Duke/UNC matchup. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/qyY6EBygUWw The Sporting Gentlemen (All sports, comedy; sketches, tours, behind-the-scenes, interviews -- new episodes daily): The all-encompassing daily video series The Sporting Gentlemen, featuring Dan Rubenstein and Matt Ufford, features unique (read: weird and occasionally threatening) reactions to the day's biggest stories, plus remote, generally participatory segments out in the field defined primarily by a general lack of athleticism, coordination, and respect. An example of an ongoing segment that has taken the world by storm is "Bro vs Douchebag," which promises to be the authority on determining how athletes should be filed and categorized as humans. Heavy stuff. Essential viewing: Bro vs Douchebag …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1nIUxm5TY&feature=plcp. Welcome to New York, Tim Tebow … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD5xsFlyxU. RGIII Pre-Draft Interview …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFm_9n7-PJ8&feature=plcp Rob's Mailbag (Baseball -- New episodes on Wednesday): Get smarter about baseball with Baseball Nation's Rob Neyer. In Rob's Mailbag, Rob takes questions from viewers every week and breaks them down in absurd (and extremely entertaining) detail. Essential viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgs-9mqspW4 The Core of Sports (All sports, epic -- new episodes monthly): The Core of Sports is our answer to Sports Science, taking you inside the mind of elite athletes in the most cinematic way possible. Essential viewing: UFC Fighter Brian Stann's Epic Training: http://youtu.be/wh0apFY3ewM The Petey and Lomo Show (Baseball; comedy): It's our first reality show and we followed Miami Marlins players Bryan Petersen and Logan Morrison (Petey and LoMo, to the initiated) as they tried to find ways to fill the boredom that is Spring Training in South Florida. Essential viewing: Marlins Off The Hook (i.e. Master-baiters): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqRwu8VyUv0&feature=plcp News from the Studio (All sports; analysis, breakdowns, experts -- new videos every day): We're not just doing sketches… we're all over breaking news, using experts from around SB Nation to weigh in on the latest news from their respective homes, workplaces, and law offices. Some of our biggest communities are represented here regularly… what about yours? Essential viewing: Ben Golliver breaks down Lamar Odom's departure: http://youtu.be/WFCYSx2aApA Extra fun stuff: We'll also be doing one off series and videos and undertaking big projects from time to time. Check out these draft profiles we made for every single first-round prospect (complete with whimsical narration and the finest animation money can buy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVskxCKhYPY&list=UUeil3VBekFxA9AwBx7JXzPA&feature=plcp Also, this wouldn't be YouTube without some fun viral videos. Check out Dolphinception (http://youtu.be/CrptLxy35V0), Epic High Five with Vernon Davis (http://youtu.be/rshc4RxIwSc), and 8-Bit Petrino Accident (http://youtu.be/NwqBEuJBhhs).
Posted in: video, sport, episode, sb nation, nelson
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Tim Kennedy keeping busy with latest video entry making light of Black Swan
Tim Kennedy has made a name for himself as a member of the military who now trains and fights in MMA. Lately, the current contender in the Strikeforce middleweight division has continued to show his lighter side while waiting for a fight by filming videos for Ranger Up.
After re-enacting Katy Perry‘s Part of Me video, Kennedy changed his focus to films, creating his own version of the award-winning drama Black Swan. The movie starred Natalie Portman as a ballerina dealing with severe personal issues.
As far as fighting goes, Kennedy is currently rumored to be the next challenger to Luke Rockhold‘s middleweight title. The fight is looking like a summer clash between the two though no date/location has been announced.
Check out the video below to enjoy Kennedy’s “acting” skills:
PHOTO CREDIT – STRIKEFORCE/RANGER UP
Posted in: fight, video, kennedy, tim kennedy, summer clash
Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainSBNation Launches Official YouTube Channel
Video has come to SB Nation. We launched SB Nation's official Youtube channel on March 1st with some pretty large ambitions: let's try something new. Across the entire network, we approach the world of sports from a different angle. The passion, expertise, and first-rate analysis and discussion that takes place every day on our sites is something to be proud of and we didn't want to ruin that with a bunch of talking heads in suits and ties with no game-footage rights.
We've got humor, expert analysis, weirdness, video gifs, and incredible storytelling all in one place and we're really proud of what this thing has become. Right now, we're producing over 30 new original videos every single week. Be sure to subscribe to not miss anything. Here's a rundown of the offerings:
Shutdown Fullback (College Football meets Tim & Eric -- New episodes every Friday): If you've ever wondered what it would look like to see a video version of threads on EDSBS.com, we ll here you go. Simultaneously a college football talk show and unintentional postmodern art project, I personally guarantee Spencer Hall and Jason Kirk will make you laugh (or else they've duff'd it). Essential Viewing: Bobby Petrino Fired episode with hot blonde assistant.
Bomani & Jones (All sports; opinion and commentary -- New episodes Monday and Thursday): Around the Horn contributor and known Twitter user Bomani Jones is Bomani & Jones: sketches and commentary with no excuses. Think Chapelle's Show for the internet and the sports world. Essential Viewing: Oklahoma Thunder are the Rolling Stones.
Full Nelson (All sports; Outside the Lines with a sense of humor -- New episodes every Wednesday): Athletes, Access, and Culture. Full Nelson takes an inside look at the most interesting stories from the world of sports in a beautiful, different, and always interesting package. Host Amy K. Nelson joined SB Nation after years of reporting for ESPN and regularly appearances on OTL and First Take andFull Nelson offers something new every week. Bonus points to Full Nelson for having the most-viewed video of our whole channel with Amy's perilous tour of a Duke bar during the Duke/UNC matchup.
The Sporting Gentlemen (All sports, comedy; sketches, tours, behind-the-scenes, interviews -- new episodes daily): The all-encompassing daily video series The Sporting Gentlemen, featuring Dan Rubenstein and Matt Ufford, features unique (read: weird and occasionally threatening) reactions to the day's biggest stories, plus remote, generally participatory segments out in the field defined primarily by a general lack of athleticism, coordination, and respect.
An example of an ongoing segment that has taken the world by storm is "Bro vs Douchebag," which promises to be the authority on determining how athletes should be filed and categorized as humans. Heavy stuff. Essential viewing: Bro vs DouchebagBro vs Douchebag. Welcome to New York, Tim Tebow. RGIII Pre-Draft Interview.
Rob's Mailbag (Baseball -- New episodes on Wednesday): Get smarter about baseball with Baseball Nation's Rob Neyer. In Rob's Mailbag, Rob takes questions from viewers every week and breaks them down in absurd (and extremely entertaining) detail. Essential viewing.
The Core of Sports (All sports, epic -- new episodes monthly): The Core of Sports is our answer to Sports Science, taking you inside the mind of elite athletes in the most cinematic way possible. Essential viewing: UFC Fighter Brian Stann's Epic Training.
The Petey and Lomo Show (Baseball; comedy): It's our first reality show and we followed Miami Marlins players Bryan Petersen and Logan Morrison (Petey and LoMo, to the initiated) as they tried to find ways to fill the boredom that is Spring Training in South Florida. Essential viewing: Marlins Off The Hook (i.e. Master-baiters).
News from the Studio (All sports; analysis, breakdowns, experts -- new videos every day): We're not just doing sketches... we're all over breaking news, using experts from around SB Nation to weigh in on the latest news from their respective homes, workplaces, and law offices. Some of our biggest communities are represented here regularly... what about yours? Essential viewing: Ben Golliver breaks down Lamar Odom's departure.
Extra fun stuff: We'll also be doing one off series and videos and undertaking big projects from time to time. Check out these draft profiles we made for every single first-round prospect (complete with whimsical narration and the finest animation money can buy),
Also, this wouldn't be YouTube without some fun viral videos. Check out Dolphinception, Epic High Five with Vernon Davis, and 8-Bit Petrino Accident.
Posted in: video, sport, episode, sb nation, nelson
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowTUF Brazil Episode 6 - Read This BEFORE Watching (Not Spoilers)
This is partially a warning to anyone who plans on watching Episode 6 of TUF Brazil, and also a rant to vent my frustration on the UFC website's latest screw up. First a warning. If you are planing on watching the episode, DO NOT go to the usual place on the UFC or TUF websites unless you want the episode to be spoiled. And if you don't mind spoilers, you still shouldn't bother because the video is unwatchable. When you click the web page to watch the episode, the still image that is on the page before you click play is a screenshot of Mario Yamasaki lifting the winner of the fight's hand. There is only 5 ****ing seconds of the whole episode that if made a screenshot would ruin the outcome, and they choose this one as the video's still photo. If that isn't bad enough, today they decided to put up a new style video player for episode 6 and it is the epitome of awful. Unanimously on any forum or MMA discussion I visit the comments say the player doesn't work for anyone, so it is not a matter of internet connection. It lags so bad you would have to wait a couple hours just to get the whole video to load, and even then, while playing it, it looks more like a slide show with series of still pictures. And god forbid during this terrible video you miss 5 seconds of subtitles and try to rewind, because in doing so it will start the video completely over and you cannot rewind or fast forward to your previous spot. Now, occasionally they put the episode up on the TUF site with another pretty crappy web player (but not as bad as the new one). Fortunately though, there is a different location under the "media" tab where you can watch the TUF Brazil episodes using a player similar to the one they use for live streams like prelims and weigh-ins. However, in today's perfect storm of shitty website design, the page with the more functional player is down for no reason. Anyway, I will post a link to a video that actually works and without the dumbass spoiler screenshot as soon one is available. So just a heads up for anyone who has been following the show. submitted by jmose86 [link] [3 comments]
Posted in: video, tuf, episode, player, slide show
Read the full article at RedditSB Nation launches official YouTube channel!
Video has come to SB Nation!
We launched SB Nation's official Youtube channel on March 1st with some pretty large ambitions: let's try something new. Across the entire network, we approach the world of sports from a different angle.
The passion, expertise, and first-rate analysis and discussion that takes place every day on our sites is something to be proud of and we didn't want to ruin that with a bunch of talking heads in suits and ties with no game-footage rights.
We've got humor, expert analysis, weirdness, video gifs, and incredible storytelling all in one place and we're really proud of what this thing has become.
Right now, we're producing over 30 new original videos every single week. Be sure to subscribe to not miss anything.
Here's a rundown of the offerings:
Shutdown Fullback (College Football meets Tim & Eric -- New episodes every Friday): If you've ever wondered what it would look like to see a video version of threads on EDSBS.com, we ll here you go. Simultaneously a college football talk show and unintentional postmodern art project, I personally guarantee Spencer Hall and Jason Kirk will make you laugh (or else they've duff'd it).
Essential Viewing: Bobby Petrino Fired episode with hot blonde assistant:
Bomani & Jones (All sports; opinion and commentary -- New episodes Monday and Thursday): Around the Horn contributor and known Twitter user Bomani Jones is Bomani & Jones: sketches and commentary with no excuses. Think Chapelle's Show for the internet and the sports world.
Essential Viewing: Oklahoma Thunder are the Rolling Stones:
Full Nelson (All sports; Outside the Lines with a sense of humor -- New episodes every Wednesday): Athletes, Access, and Culture. Full Nelson takes an inside look at the most interesting stories from the world of sports in a beautiful, different, and always interesting package. Host Amy K. Nelson joined SB Nation after years of reporting for ESPN and regularly appearances on OTL and First Take and Full Nelson offers something new every week.
Bonus points to Full Nelson for having the most-viewed video of our whole channel with Amy's perilous tour of a Duke bar during the Duke/UNC matchup. Check it out:
The Sporting Gentlemen (All sports, comedy; sketches, tours, behind-the-scenes, interviews -- new episodes daily): The all-encompassing daily video series The Sporting Gentlemen, featuring Dan Rubenstein and Matt Ufford, features unique (read: weird and occasionally threatening) reactions to the day's biggest stories, plus remote, generally participatory segments out in the field defined primarily by a general lack of athleticism, coordination, and respect.
An example of an ongoing segment that has taken the world by storm is "Bro vs Douchebag," which promises to be the authority on determining how athletes should be filed and categorized as humans. Heavy stuff. Essential viewing: Bro vs Douchebag (click here). Welcome to New York, Tim Tebow (click here). RGIII Pre-Draft Interview (click here).
Rob's Mailbag (Baseball -- New episodes on Wednesday): Get smarter about baseball with Baseball Nation's Rob Neyer. In Rob's Mailbag, Rob takes questions from viewers every week and breaks them down in absurd (and extremely entertaining) detail. Essential viewing:
The Core of Sports (All sports, epic -- new episodes monthly): The Core of Sports is our answer to Sports Science, taking you inside the mind of elite athletes in the most cinematic way possible. Essential viewing: UFC Fighter Brian Stann's Epic Training:
The Petey and Lomo Show (Baseball; comedy): It's our first reality show and we followed Miami Marlins players Bryan Petersen and Logan Morrison (Petey and LoMo, to the initiated) as they tried to find ways to fill the boredom that is Spring Training in South Florida. Essential viewing: Marlins Off The Hook (i.e. Master-baiters):
News from the Studio (All sports; analysis, breakdowns, experts -- new videos every day): We're not just doing sketches… we're all over breaking news, using experts from around SB Nation to weigh in on the latest news from their respective homes, workplaces, and law offices. Some of our biggest communities are represented here regularly… what about yours? Essential viewing: Ben Golliver breaks down Lamar Odom's departure:
Extra fun stuff: We'll also be doing one off series and videos and undertaking big projects from time to time. Check out these draft profiles we made for every single first-round prospect (complete with whimsical narration and the finest animation money can buy):
Also, this wouldn't be YouTube without some fun viral videos. Check out Dolphinception (click here), Epic High Five with Vernon Davis (click here), and 8-Bit Petrino Accident (click here).
Posted in: video, sport, episode, nation, sb nation
Read the full article at MMA ManiaAsian MMA - URCC 21: Warpath Live Video and Discussion
URCC 21 is taking place live, right now (started around 9 p.m. ET). Since we just found out that they're streaming the event live online, we're happy to bring you coverage of the event including live video which is embedded after the jump. Our own Anton Tabuena is cageside and I'm sure will have thoughts on the event in the coming week.
Here's what the full card looks like for today's event:
Froilan Sarenas vs. Nicholas MannRoy Doliguez vs. Alvin RamirezJerson Estoro vs. Reysaldo TransmonteWill Chope vs. Angelito MangurayAndrew Benibe vs. Alcer LozadaJonathan Sumobat vs. Mark Joseph AbrilloMario Sismundo vs. Michael Dan RubioMark Dialogo vs. Fred LimCharles de Tomas vs. Isaac TulingDennis Salazar vs. Adam Cacay
Live streaming video is after the jump, watch it and enjoy. Don't forget to share your thoughts on the event as it goes down in the comments.
Here's the live video for URCC 21: Warpath:
Posted in: video, vs, event, week heres, anton tabuena
Read the full article at Bloody Elbow11 UFC Fighter Impersonations Guaranteed to Make You LOL
Check out this hilarious video with impersonations of Georges St-Pierre, Junior dos Santos, Alistair Overeem, Nate Diaz, Rampage Jackson, Chael Sonnen and more.
Posted in: video, sonnen, georges stpierre, impersonation, lol check
Read the full article at Heavy MMATim Kennedy wants to entertain you and Ranger Up wants to put a shirt on your back
I would be willing to be up to five US dollars that Tim Kennedy and the guys at Ranger Up have a collection of VHS home videos of themselves dressed up in capes and wearing their underwear on the outside of their pants purely for their own enjoyment. This is probably why we get along with them so well. We have piles of VHS tapes featuring our ancient antics too, and I'm pretty sure everyone here at MiddleEasy and Ranger Up would be willing to act rambunctious on camera with their underwear over their pants just because it's a Thursday if it really came down to it. That's how we roll.
We also like to give things away for no reason other than the fact that we love you.
Tim Kennedy and Ranger Up have created a surprisingly large series of comedic shorts displaying the acting range of Strikeforce middleweight number one contender Tim Kennedy, but they have so friggin' many video they can't decide which to release first. This is where you guys come in: I will place the first three video options below with a single still frame from the actual production. Then you guys vote on which video you want to see. The people who voted for the winning video (which will be released on MiddleEasy within days of this article) will be placed into a metaphorical pool from which Ranger Up head honcho Nick Palmisciano will choose a 'Ranger Up Prize Pack of Power' winner. If you don't win the first time, don't be deterred. Ranger Up and Tim Kennedy took advantage of the ridiculous amount of off time Tim has had from fighting and shot nearly 300 hours of footage which is being edited down as I type this.
Here are the first three options, please cast your vote in the comment section for which video you want to see first.
1) The Secret of Tim Kennedy's training regime.
2) Tim Kennedy Masterpiece Theatre: Hamlet
3) Tim Kennedy Masterpiece Theatre: Black Swan
I don't want to get political, but who else will give you cool T-shirts for voting?
Posted in: video, tim, kennedy, tim kennedy, ranger
Read the full article at Middle EasyVIDEO: UFC 148 Announcement from Brazil With Anderson Silva, Chael Sonnen, Dana White
If you missed Tuesday's news conference from Rio de Janeiro announcing the move of Anderson Silva-Chael Sonnen II from Brazil to Las Vegas, catch the video replay here at HeavyMMA.
Posted in: video, las vegas, brazil, sonnen, video replay
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: Bob Sapp returns to kickboxing. Try to find the "knock out" punch.Fight starts at 3:45...
Video: Bob Sapp returns to kickboxing. Try to find the "knock out" punch.
Fight starts at 3:45 mark, weird finish is at the 5:10 mark.
HT: BE Reader MattParker117
Posted in: fight, video, punch, return, punch fight
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowSo much win it's hard to contain! (video)
submitted by RisinNg [link] [4 comments]
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Chael Sonnen UFC 145 Fight Club Q&A Video Highlights
Video highlights of Chael Sonnen’s UFC 145 Fight Club Q&A via MMA Fighting.
Posted in: ufc, fight, video, club, chael
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 145 Results: Gracie Breakdown
In the wake of all major UFC shows the head instructors of the Gracie Academy, Rener and Ryron Gracie, publish a video breaking down all the jiu jitsu related action. And while UFC 145 did not have a plethora of highlight reel grappling moments, the Gracies did issue a video highlighting a few key details.
The focus of the video is on the crucifix position as both Rory MacDonald and Matt Brown used the position to great affect in their fights. Rener and Ryron cover the setting up crucifix from the top, escapes for the man on bottom, common mistakes from the position and they even cover a few tips on how to finish that inverted triangle that Brown used on Stephen Thompson.
After the breakdown there is also a give away contest and ad for a new Gracie DVD for adapting gi chokes for normal street clothing.
SBN coverage of UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans
video after the jump...
UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans (Gracie Breakdown) (via GracieBreakdown)
Posted in: ufc, video, gracie, position, gi chokes
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 145 Post Fight Press Conference Highlights
A collection of video highlights from the UFC 145 post fight press conference. Thanks to HeavyMMA for the video clip.
Posted in: ufc, fight, conference, video, press
Read the full article at MMA ConvertJunior dos Santos Reacts to Frank Mir Being Named His New Opponent at UFC 146 (Video)
On Friday night, UFC President Dana White announced that Frank Mir would be replacing Alistair Overeem as the challenger for the heavyweight title against champion Junior dos Santos. The champion has since made his opinion known in this brief video.
He states he has had to change his training camp, as Overeem and his strong striking is no longer the main concern with Mir now scheduled to be the man on the opposite end of the Octagon.
The championship fight between dos Santos and Mir goes down on May 26th at UFC 146 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Watch the video below:
Posted in: ufc, mir, video, do, championship fight
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyVideos: UFC 145 video highlights
UFC 145 is in the books, and FOX Sports has released a series of video highlights from the event.
UFC 145 took place this past Saturday, April 21, at Atlanta's Phillips Arena.
In the pay-per-view headliner, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones made a successful title defense with a dominant unanimous-decision victory over Rashad Evans.
Posted in: ufc, video, title defense, fox sports, unanimousdecision victory
Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC 145 Video Highlights: Brendan Schaub vs. Ben Rothwell, Rory MacDonald vs. Che Mills
UFC 145 video highlights via FoxSports.com.
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, ben, schaub
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 145 Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: Evans – Jones Video highlights of the UFC 145 main event between Jon Jones and Rashad Evans via Fox Sports.
Posted in: jone, jon jones, video, rashad evans, evan
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 145 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
The UFC 145 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video below at MMAFighting.com.UFC President Dana White will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses, and winning fighters will meet the media after their fights.The post-fight press conference takes place about half an hour after the main event ends, meaning it will start around 1:30 a.m. Eastern. The video is below.
Posted in: night, conference, video, press, postfight
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseFight Day: Matt Brown UFC 145 Post-Fight Video Interview
Matt Brown talks to the media after his unanimous decision victory over Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson on Saturday at UFC 145 in Atlanta.
Posted in: ufc, video, matt, saturday, decision victory
Read the full article at Heavy MMAFight Day: Matt Brown UFC 145 Post-Fight Video Interview
Matt Brown talks to the media following his unanimous decision victory over Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson on Saturday at UFC 145 in Atlanta.
Posted in: ufc, video, matt, saturday, decision victory
Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 145 Fight Card Primer: Matt Brown Vs. Stephen Thompson
The grizzled veteran vs. the new hotness. One guy is perfectly content to push you against the cage or take you down and maul you. The other can kick your head off in a split second. Who will win this battle of differing styles? Matt Brown (13-11, 6-5 UFC) meets Stephen Thompson (6-0, 1-0 UFC).
Neither fighter is currently ranked at welterweight in the USA Today/BE Consensus Rankings, but Wonderboy could be one day. A win over Brown isn't going to be enough right now though. This welterweight UFC 145 bout is the fifth bout of the preliminary card and the third of four televised fights that will air on FX. The FX broadcast begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
How do these two stack up?
Brown: 31 years old | 6'0" | 76" reachThompson: 29 years old | 6'0" | 75" reach
What have these two done recently?
Brown: W - Chris Cope (TKO) | L - Seth Baczynski (SUB) | W - John Howard (UD) Thompson: W - Dan Stittgen (KO) | W - Patrick Mandio (UD) | W - William Kuhn (UD)
How did these two get here?
Matt "The Immortal" Brown had been a pro for three years with an average record of 7-6 when he was selected as a contestant for The Ultimate Fighter 7. Brown lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winner Amir Sadollah, but picked up a win at the Finale to stay put in the organization. He's been pretty up-and-down since then, putting together a three-fight winning streak but following it up with a three-fight losing streak. He has won two of his last three, most recently defeating Chris Cope by TKO at UFC 143.
Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson is a karate prodigy. He went 63-0 as a kickboxer (amateur and pro) and made the switch over to MMA in 2010. He picked up five straight wins and earned a shot in the UFC, where he amazed folks with his awesome head-kick knockout of Dan Stittgen at UFC 143. He holds a variety of striking black belts and is a blue belt in BJJ under Carlos NMachado (his brother-in-law).
Why should you care?
Can Wonderboy pick up another sick KO, this time against a guy that's never been stopped by strikes in his career? That's worth caring about. Honest.
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Preliminary Card Dissection
You can catch more UFC 145 preview content from Bloody Elbow after the jump.
SBN coverage of UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Rory MacDonald Vs. Che Mills Dissection - Dallas Winston
UFC 145 Dana White Vlog Part 1 - Kid Nate
Video: Complete UFC 145 Weigh Ins And Jon Jones Vs Rashad Evans Stare-Down Pic - Kid Nate
UFC 145 Judo Chop: Just How Good Is The Striking Of Jon Jones? - Fraser Coffeen
UFC 145 Weigh-In Results: Jones 205, Evans 204 - Tim Burke
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans Staff Picks And Predictions - Tim Burke
UFC 145: Chris Clements Talks Debut Against Wisniewski - Steph Daniels
UFC 145: Renato Laranja Gives His Fight Predictions - Steph Daniels
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Brendan Schaub Vs. Ben Rothwell Dissection - Dallas Winston
UFC 145 Video: Jon Jones, 'How Would You Define Me?' - Anton Tabuena
Bloody Elbow's UFC 145: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans Event Poster - Anton Tabuena
UFC 145 Video: Open Workouts Footage Featuring Jones, Evans, And Many More - Tim Burke
UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans, Greg Jackson Discuss Main Event - Tim Burke
UFC 145 Video: Matt Brown Tells Luke Thomas All About Prepping For Stephen Thompson - Kid Nate
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Miguel Torres Vs. Michael McDonald Dissection - Dallas Winston
UFC 145 Video: Jon Jones Questions Rashad Evans' Chin And Wrestling - Brent Brookhouse
UFC 145: Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson Talks Sophomore Outing Against Matt Brown - Steph Daniels
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Mark Hominick Vs. Eddie Yagin Dissection - Dallas Winston
UFC 145 Judo Chop: How Much Of Jon Jones' MMA Take Downs Are Greco And How Much Are Judo? - Bloody Elbow
UFC 145 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video And Coverage - Tim Burke
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Mark Bocek Vs. John Alessio Dissection - Dallas Winston
UFC 145: Can Rashad Evans Stand With Jon Jones? - Jack Slack
UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans - Preliminary Card Dissection - Dallas Winston
Is Jones Vs. Evans Actually Personal? - Fraser Coffeen
Posted in: ufc, jone, video, vs, evan
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans Video Blog, Day 1
Go behind the scenes of UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva last weekend in Sweden in the latest edition of UFC president Dana White's video blog.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 145 Weigh-In Video
At the UFC 145 weigh-ins, all 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night's UFC 145 fights will step on the scale Friday afternoon, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.In the main event, light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former champion Rashad Evans will have to make the limit of 205 pounds. The UFC 145 weigh-in takes place at 4 p.m. ET on Friday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White’s UFC 145 Video Blog: Part One
The first of what is likely many video blogs chronicling Dana White’s road to UFC 145. In this vlog, a behind the scenes look at UFC on FUEL 2.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 145 Video: Jon Jones, 'How Would You Define Me?'
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has just released another top notch promotional video for UFC 145. This was was focused on Jon Jones, and I have to admit, these are the types of videos that can go a long way with getting casuals interested.
Related: Bloody Elbow's UFC 145 Event Poster | UFC 145: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans Predictions From The Top Asian MMA Fighters
Don't just take my word for it though, watch it below:
"I am UFC Light Heavyweight Champion of the world. How would you define me?"
HT: BE Reader Darkotto23
After the jump, check out the other top promotional materials from UFC 145.
Here's a quick list of all the excellent promotional videos they've churned out for UFC 145:
- UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans With Another Impersonation of His Mom
- UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans Vs. Jon Jones Preview - 'The Payback'
- UFC 145 Jon Jones Trailer: "Believe Your Eyes"
- PART 1 - Jon Jones And Rashad Evans Get Heated On 'Ultimate Insider'
- PART 2 - Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans - The War Of Words Continues On Ultimate Insider
- Episode 1 UFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans
- Episode 2 UFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans
- Video: Countdown To UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans
Posted in: ufc, jon, jone, video, evan
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White’s UFC 145 Video Blog – Day 1
Check out UFC president Dana White's UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans video blog, day one.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 145 Workout Video
ATLANTA -- MMA Fighting's E. Casey Leydon was at the Georgia State University gym in Atlanta on Thursday as Jon Jones, Rashad Evans and other top fighters on the UFC 145 fight card participated in the media workouts. Check out his exclusive video below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseFight Day: Michael McDonald UFC 145 Pre-Fight Video Interview
HeavyMMA's Megan Olivi talks to Michael "Mayday" McDonald, who on Saturday faces former bantamweight champ Miguel Torres at UFC 145 – and is genuinely excited for the opportunity.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAMike Tyson Highlights - beautiful video
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: Jon Jones KO's sparring partner
In this video, apparently from not so long ago, reigning UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon "Bones" Jones knocks out a training partner during sparring session at Jackson's MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While there's no doubt about Jon Jones' qualities as a striker, it seems like many fans would question the fact that "Bones" didn't check on his training partner, and obeyed Greg Jackson's command to finish the round.
What do you think, LowKick'ers? Do you think this video proves there's some truth behind
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Read the full article at Low KickVideo: Flawless Bellator ring girl Jade Bryce works out on the beach in short shorts -- a shameless...
Video: Flawless Bellator ring girl Jade Bryce works out on the beach in short shorts -- a shameless 1:36 seconds worth of awesome. Check out 360-degree coverage of our favorite Bellator girl, including videos and a very extensive gallery, right here. To check out her recent Playboy pictorial spread click here. Arianny who?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaVideo: Countdown To UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans
The Countdown to UFC 145 aired last night on Fuel (and will re-air five more times on the next work leading up to the card on Saturday), but if you want catch the video online, here it is. The show is only a half-hour long due to the Primetime series already covering the main event. The first half of the episode still focuses on Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans, but the second half gives a deeper look into the co-main event, Rory MacDonald vs. Che Mills.
Related: UFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans - Episode 1 | UFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans, Episode 2
You can check out the Countdown video below the jump.
Main Card:Jon Jones vs. Rashad EvansRory MacDonald vs. Che MillsBen Rothwell vs. Brendan SchaubMichael McDonald vs. Miguel TorresMark Hominick vs. Eddie YaginJohn Alessio vs. Mark BocekPreliminary Card:Travis Browne vs. Chad GriggsMatt Brown vs. Stephen ThompsonJohn Makdessi vs. Anthony NjokuaniMac Danzig vs. Efrain EscuderoChris Clements vs. Keith WisniewskiMaximo Blanco vs. Marcus Brimage
SBN Coverage of UFC 145: Jones Vs. Evans
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowThe Top Ten Unreleased MiddleEasy Videos You've Never Seen...Because They're Unreleased
If I had a dollar for every video MiddleEasy has discarded over the years, then I could afford a better intro to a Top Ten list.
Throughout the years, we literally have terabytes of archived footage we've never used on the site. We can't explain it, we just love to shove a camera in the face of people in the MMA industry and hopefully capture some rare multimedia gem. This generally ends up with hours of LayzieTheSavage unintetionally pointing the camera to the floor while he talks about something that happened in Stockton, California that no one cares about. Seriously, if I have to go through another video of him talking about 'the homie that's in prison' then I'll -- well I'm not sure what I'll do. If it happened right now, I would probably go to bed because I'm pretty tired. In any other case, I would do something drastically different that I can't quite figure out at this moment.
Regardless, there is no such word as irregardless. People that use the term should be stabbed in the forehead with a plastic fork regardless of time or location. Those same people are also not allowed to check out our new list of The Top Ten Unreleased MiddleEasy Videos You've Never Seen...Because They're Unreleased.
I know that you know that we know we have an enormous amount of unreleased footage gathered over the years. Some of this stuff was intentionally buried, others were just forgotten in the infinite expansion of time and space. Therefore we felt to manifest a new top ten list to compile these lost wonders. Enjoy -- and remember to brush your teeth twice a day. Thank you.
Don't be jealous, homie.
LayzieTheSavage has a plethora of sweaty male groupies that love to make physical contact with him whenever he's in their vicinity. It's like Layzie is a magnet for Nick Diaz superfans that scream at inappropriate times. I've personally witnessed the bromance from MMA fans across the world when they encounter the videographer formally known as 'Michael Mardones.' It's undoubtedly a sight to witness. Generally I stand just behind him and check out the hysteria he creates whenever he walks down a crowded hallway before and after MMA events. Keep in mind that Layzie isn't even an on-camera interviewer and he gets more dudes wanting to hug him than -- well, than me. That's cool. I'm dating a chick. She's Canadian and is far more attractive than the dudes in this video captured after the UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit weigh-ins.
The first time I met Vinny Magalhaes, I completely ignored him at a dinner table. It was one of the most unintentional gangsterish thing I've ever done. I blame it on a horrendous level of light at the restaurant we were dining at.
That entire statement is a lie.
The first time I met Vinny Magalhaes, he slept on my sofa in Las Vegas with one of my friends way back in the day. Wait, not that way folks. Well maybe that way. You're going to have to ask the 2011 ADCC champion on Twitter because that's not a topic I'm getting into.
It goes without saying that we love Vinny Magalhaes on MiddleEasy. We're not sure why, but we just do. We love Magalhaes like kids love to climb on a sofa and pretend the floor is a never-ending pit of lava. Coincidentally, we also love Mike 'The Joker' Guymon -- especially when he use a MiddleEasy shirt to videobomb an interview with Vinny Magalhaes in this clip captured at an M-1 Global event in Orange County, California back in 2011.
We've spotted Gilbert Yvel on two separate occasions in two different areas of the country and both times we ran up to him like fat kids running up to a stranded ice cream truck. Ever since MiddleEasy started, we've talked about Gilbert Yvel like some demigod living on a cloud, occasionally coming to earth to procreate with our human women. We assume Yvel would also try to reproduce with Targzissian women if he had the chance, but they just seem a little difficult to locate in our galaxy.
We caught up with the Dutch consciousness collector at some random MMA event and decided to pick his brain, before he devoured ours with some fava beans. Yvel told us that above else, some promoter burned him in an upcoming fight and apparently he wanted to inform the entire planet of this severe lack of respect.
Sometimes people get rocked and you sit back and say 'Oh yeah, I saw that coming'. Occasionally there's a punch that drops a fighter in such a spectacular fashion that you can't help but kick every piece of furniture in your living room. UFC 107 was one of those scenarios. I think we all incidentally threw our bottle of Red Stripe half-way across the room when Kongo went down from that frate trane of a punch Mir landed on his dome. Seconds later, Mir climbed off his unconsciousness body, threw his hands up in the air and at that exact moment we all knew the final transformation of Frank Mir was complete. Whatever humanoid Frank Mir was before Brock Lesnar made his face into an incomplete cherry pie was dead. He was resurrected as some 265lb megalodon that still had beef with Brock Lesnar.
I'm not sure what demons haunt Frank Mir, but whatever they are, they have to be better than the ones in that 'Paranormal Activity' movie. I watched it because the people in the commercial were jumping out of their seats in the movie theater. Paranormal Activity just made me realize people in commercials that jump out of their seats are idiots. It's as if Brock Lesnar accidentally pushed the 'I will never stop obsessing over you' button on the back of Frank Mir's head.
LayzieTheSavage caught up with Frank Mir in the hallway of local Las Vegas MMA show a couple years ago and asked him what exactly his beef is with the former UFC heavyweight champion. Mir admitted that -- well maybe you should just watch this video coming in at number seven of our Top Ten Unreleased MiddleEasy Videos You've Never Seen...Because They're Unreleased.
Scott Coker referring to Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz is like watching a commercial for a new Atari 2600 system. Both entities are antiquated technologies that were pretty cool at the time, but now about as entertaining as going into beast-mode with a pair of nunchucks in the comfort of your living room.
It's the fight that everyone wanted, but as we slowly crawl into 2013, it appears to be an impossibility. Sort of like folding a single piece of paper in half more than seven times. However, you can't tell past-tense Scott Coker this.
Check out this interview we conducted with the (former) Strikeforce head honcho regarding a bout the MMA world will never see.
This video was captured shortly after Nick Diaz put on what some consider fight of the year in 2011. It seems like just yesterday when the entire MMA community proclaimed that 'if Nick was smart, he won't trade strikes with Paul Daley.' Apparently all of you arm-chair strategists out there that urged Diaz to take Daley down as soon as possible have nothing on Cesar Gracie, a guy that actually called Nick would win by a knockout in the first round.
Nick Diaz is a fighter known to take boxing to a boxer, bring grappling to a submission artist and in this unreleased clip, he brings paranoia to an already paranoid LayzieTheSavage.
We have a ton of video of Jay Hieron that will never be released on MiddleEasy. Let's just say the dude loves to have a great time. Back in 2009, I broke the news to him via phone text that Marius Zaromskis got a Strikeforce welterweight title shot against Nick Diaz over him and, well that's the last time Jay Hieron and I really texted. He was beyond angry, and justifiably so.
We caught up with Hieron at the 'It Ain't Chemo' charity event in Las Vegas this year shortly after his title bout against Ben Askren. As always, Jay held nothing back in regards to the judging of the Bellator title bout -- and then he drops a story about how he fought God. Yeah, we're not making this stuff up.
In all of our years on MiddleEasy, we don't think we've ever been totally disregarded from an MMA clothing company as much as we did with RevGear.
In the Summer of 2011, we thought we would get a clothing company on board with the site and feature a short ad in the beginning of all of our videos. We approached RevGear because they seemed to be interested in the idea. The response we received from the owner of RevGear seemed positive, but he needed to wait on his business partner to get back into town before making any decisions. 'That's fine' we thought. In the meantime, we actually took the initiative and created a small video in which we got a crew of MMA fighters to sign the same piece of RevGear and we were going to present the clip along with a media package to the owner of RevGear. The video was completed, so we shot an email back to the company. We received a response from his business partner stating the owner of RevGear was now out of town. The optimists that we were, we developed an entire RevGear sponsored contest in which we would give away the signed gear to one of our lucky readers. Contest was ready, proposal was sent -- and nothing. Seriously, that was the last time anyone at MiddleEasy heard from the guys at RevGear. Sure we sent them an influx of emails, but they didn't respond to a single one.
After we finally realized that we were burned, we just ate our losses and gave up on the entire concept. In fact, I think LayzieTheSavage sold the signed RevGear shorts on eBay last year. Egh, whatever.
Let this be a lesson to all budding MMA websites out there, don't do what we did -- but watch our failed RevGear pitch video anyway.
Some of you remember the infamous Nick Diaz/Mayhem Miller hallway altercation that spawned an entire movement. A movement that was ultimately never fulfilled.
You've undoubtedly heard the story before, but I'll give all you MMA newcomers a little rundown on Strikeforce lore. After Nick Diaz grabbed a unanimous decision over KJ Noons back in 2010, he made his way to the dressing room only to cross paths with Mayhem Miller. Now it would have been smart of me to preface the entire Mayhem Miller vs. Nick Diaz history before I got to this part of the story, but I'm listening to MGMT's Electric Feel as I write this, and it's really funky so I apologize for my brain not operating in a sequential order. Funky as in good, obviously. Anything that band puts out is stunning.
Prior to the encounter, Mayhem Miller claimed Nick Diaz's 'hood' antics were getting old and he felt that he needed to 'mature.' Miller then called out Nick Diaz to a superfight middleweight bout. It was now time for Nick to make his move, so he accepted the challenge but only at a catchweight between middleweight and welterweight. Mayhem Miller claimed he couldn't cut anymore to make the catchweight and then stated it would be easier for Nick to put on a few pounds. Nick Diaz, being the Strikeforce welterweight champion at the time, proclaimed that it was ridiculous that a guy who he felt was 'irrelevant' was essentially trying to talk his way into a fight 'he didn't deserve.'
Now jump to 2010, minutes after Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons wrapped up at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. When Nick saw Mayhem in the hallway, he slung a full water bottle directly at Mayhem Miller's head. It clipped Miller near the eyebrow, exploded, then splashed over Mayhem Miller's manager. Immediately, Strikeforce personnel and HP Pavilion security got in between the two. Mayhem Miller appeared to be shocked, but Nick Diaz started yelling 'Come on you fat [expletive], fight me!' (referring to Mayhem's inability to cut weight). After the two were separated, Nick made it to the post-fight press conference where the entire incident was somewhat ignored.
The reason why I know the details is because I saw the video of the entire altercation the night of the fight. We didn't film it, but the people that did capture the incident are in our video below. We tried everything to get the footage, folks. Money, theft, trades -- nothing worked.
This video represents the minutes leading up to the altercation. In fact, at the end of the clip, Nick Diaz walks down the hallway where he has the incident with Mayhem Miller. The reason this video is deemed illegal, is because it was. Media were instructed not to film backstage, and LayzieTheSavage is obviously the living incarnation of the Honey Badger in this video.
Imagine traveling 24+ hours to the other end of the planet in order to make one YouTube video -- and it gets rejected. Speaking from experience, there's nothing you can really do except hop on the next plane back to the US and smack yourself on the forehead repeatedly while you nearly circumnavigate the globe.
Over a year ago, I flew to Singapore in order to get the jump on the MMA industry and be the first site to thoroughly cover an emerging gym called 'Evolve MMA.' No one really knew much about it aside that it appeared to be a slice of Beverly Hills nestled deep in the South Pacific. Back in 2009, MiddleEasy broke the news about the grand opening of the gym and served the MMA world with some of the first pictures of the facility.
In early 2011, I took the pilgrimage to Singapore and met with Evolve MMA owner, Yodchatri Sityodtong. If you're an avid MiddleEasy reader, then you probably remember the first article I composed on the gym with a tour of the Evolve MMA facility. Shortly after that feature was published, I promised all of you a second video which covered fighters actually training in the second Evolve MMA gym, also located in Singapore. Unfortunately, that video never surfaced -- until now.
When I finalized the video, I sent it over to Yodchatri to get his opinion on the piece. Within seconds, I received an email with something along the lines of 'Dude, don't release this!' Apparently, Yodchatri felt the video didn't really do justice to the talent Evolve MMA truly had to offer. I guess he felt that a flying armbar performed by Shinya Aoki just wasn't impressive enough. I think I responded to his email with 'Look, we don't have to release it, but it would be an incredible waste of really good hip-hop.' There was no budging, so the feature was hacked, slashed and murdered on the MiddleEasy editing room floor.
Well, here's the video that took me 48+ hours of traveling planet Earth just to complete. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's pretty damn slick.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyJon Jones KO's A Sparring Partner While Wearing 10oz Gloves (VIDEO)
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: Brian Stann Featured In New SB Nation Series 'Core Of Sports'
SB Nation is kicking off a new web series on their Youtube page called called "Core of Sports", which is sponsored by the United States Marine Corps. The first video of the series follows UFC middleweight and former Marine Brian Stann as he prepared to fight Alessio Sakara at UFC on Fuel 2. Stann had to deal with the loss of his brother-in-law before the bout, which made things even harder in terms of preparation. "The All-American" went on to win the bout over Sakara by first-round technical knockout
In the video, Stann discusses his decision to attend the Naval Academy, and how much the Marine Corp Martial Arts program helped him develop mentally and physically. He went on to be decorated with a Silver Star, and is currently 12-4 in MMA competition. You can find more information about the MCMAP here.
SBN coverage of UFC on Fuel 2: Gustafsson vs. Silva
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: FIGHTVILLE's Dustin Poirier fights army of zombies to prepare for Chan Sung Jung UFC on FUEL TV 3 main event
The producers of FIGHTVILLE, which is a groundbreaking documentary that follows the lives of several fighters, including breakout Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight phenom Dustin Poirier and his mentor "Crazy" Tim Credeur as they competed in the regional Louisiana mixed martial arts (MMA) circuit, recently returned to the scene of the original inspiration.
You see, two years have elapsed since FIGHTVILLE wrapped filming. It's finally set to premiere this month (April 20, 2012) at select theaters in New York, N.Y., and Los Angeles, Calif.; however, much has changed in the life of "Diamond" in the past 24 months.
He most recently ran through Max Holloway at UFC 143 with a wicked triangle/armbar submission inside the first round, pushing his unbeaten streak inside the Octagon to five since making his debut with the promotion. Poirier is now set to slay Chan Sung Jung in the UFC on FUEL TV 3 main event, which was recently made official for the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 15, 2012.
The winner of the 145-pound bout will likely go on to challenge Jose Aldo for the division's 145-pound strap sometime later this year.
To prepare for the showdown with the "Korean Zombie," as well as promote his upcoming film, Poirier did what any typical fighter in his position would do and released a promotional video of him about to go to war with not one, but an army, of living dead.
Check out the video after the jump:
To watch the FIGHTVILLE video trailer click here (It will also be available on iTunes, VuDu, Xbox and Cable VoD [Cox, Comcast, Time Warner] on April 20).
Be sure to check out out the complete UFC on Fuel TV 3: "The Korean Zombie vs. Poirier" fight card and rumors right here. And hit up our complete event archive for all the latest event-related news and notes you can handle right here.
Posted in: ufc, video, zombie, poirier, fightville
Read the full article at MMA ManiaVideo: UFC light heavyweight Dan Henderson talks about his career, TRT, and the potential of fighting the winner of Rashad Evans vs. Jon Jones.
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Read the full article at RedditBellator 65 Video Highlights
Check out the video recap from Friday night's Bellator 65 in Atlantic City, N.J., where Eduardo Dantas took the Bellator bantamweight belt from Zach Makovsky.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyFOR THE LOVE OF MMA (highlight video)
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Read the full article at RedditUFC on FUEL 2 Video Highlights: Kenny Florian Breaks Down Gustafsson vs. Silva & Stann vs. Sakara
Kenny Florians break down the Alexander Gustafsson vs. Thiago Silva and Brian Stann vs. Alessio Sakara bouts from UFC on FUEL 2 in these highlight videos from FUEL TV.
Posted in: video, vs, silva, kenny, fuel
Read the full article at MMA ConvertBellator 65 Highlights (Video)
Bellator 65 took place tonight in Atlantic City, NJ. The event was headlined by a bantamweight title fight between champion Zach Makovsky and Eduardo Dantas. The card also featured the second featherweight semifinal and the opening round of the bantamweight tournament. Bellator has released a highlight video of the MTV2 televised card.
Pictured: New Bantweight Champion Eduardo Dantas via Bellator
Posted in: bellator, video, opening round, eduardo dantas, featherweight semifinal
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyUFC on FUEL 2 Video Highlights
UFC on FUEL 2 video highlights via FoxSports.com. Video: Highlights: Sakara/Stann Video: Highlights: Bahadurzada/Thiago Video: UFC on FUEL TV 2: Fight of the Night
Posted in: ufc, video, fuel, foxsportscom video, sakarastann video
Read the full article at MMA ConvertBellator 65 Moment – Eduardo Dantas Captures Belt (Fight Video)
Check out the Bellator 65 video of Brazilian phenom Eduardo Dantas toppling Bellator bantamweight champion Zach Makovsky on Friday night.
Posted in: fight, bellator, video, danta, eduardo
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC on Fuel 2: Gustafsson vs. Silva Weigh-in Video
Check out the UFC on Fuel TV 2: Gustafsson vs. Silva weigh-in video from Stockholm, Sweden.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyNickTheFace posts his newest video on Mark Hunt.
NickTheFace posts his newest video on Mark Hunt.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowNickTheFace made a #RallyForMarkHunt video..
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Read the full article at RedditUFC on FUEL TV 2 press conference full video for "Gustafsson vs Silva" on April 14 at the Ericsson...
UFC on FUEL TV 2 press conference full video for "Gustafsson vs Silva" on April 14 at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 145 Video: Jon Jones Gets Another Muhammad Ali Reference
A few days ago, Jon Jones was part of a photo-shoot that recreated an iconic Muhammad Ali image for the cover of UFC Magazine. Today, a new UFC 145 promo has been released, and while all of the other event promos have been excellent, this one, I didn't really enjoy that much. It's a pretty awful song, and again they made yet another ridiculous reference to Ali.
To quote Brent Brookhouse when he talked about the comparison:
In the video, photographer Michael Muller says that Jones is "our 21st century Muhammad Ali" which is a ridiculous statement on a number of levels, but hey...we live in an age where nothing is it's own original something and has to be the "new" version of something.
He's a tremendous athlete and a beast of a fighter, but he is nothing like Ali. Sure, I do get why they're doing it, but Jon Jones, is Jon Jones. There's no one that's like him either, so they don't really need to make these silly comparisons.
"The Champ Is Here" -- Check out the video:
Check out the other excellent UFC 145 Promos: UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans With Another Impersonation of His Mom | UFC 145: Jon Jones And Rashad Evans Get Heated On 'Ultimate Insider' | UFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans - Episode 1 | UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans Vs. Jon Jones Preview - 'The Payback'
There's another UFC 145 promo that has been released, and it is much better than this Ali promo. Watch it after the jump.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBest of Bellator Video: Eduardo Dantas vs. Wilson Reis at Bellator 51
After cutting his teeth on the regional fight circuit in his native
Brazil, Eduardo Dantas headed to the U.S. for a breakout 2011 campaign.
It began with Bellator Fighting Championships, where he joined the organization's eight-man season-five bantamweight tournament.
In our latest Best of Bellator Video installment, we take a look back at
Dantas' opening-round matchup with former EliteXC champ Wilson Reis.
Posted in: bellator, video, wilson, danta, fight circuit
Read the full article at MMA JunkieVideo: Alexander Gustafsson 'Road to UFC on Fuel TV 2' fight against Thiago Silva in Sweden (Part 1)
This is a short video documentary that follows emerging Swedish Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) LIght Heavyweight prospect, Alexander Gustafsson, as he prepares to fight Thiago Silva in the UFC on Fuel TV 2 main event this weekend (April 14, 2012), at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
In the first of five episodes, we get to know a little bit about the background of "The Mauler," how he got into mixed martial arts (MMA) and the reason(s) for it, as well as where he trains and his thoughts on his Octagon debut against Jared Hamman back in Nov. 2009.
This five-part docu-series will be in Swedish; however, there are English subtitles if you press the "cc" button (closed caption) on the YouTube video player.
Enjoy.
For more on the upcoming 205-pound bout between Alexander Gustafsson vs. Thiago Silva be sure to check out our comprehensive fight archive right here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaHDNet Fights Video Vault: Amaechi Oselukwue vs. Gerardo Gallegos at XFC 16
If Jon Jones, Shonie Carter and Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson somehow had
a love child, we'd imagine he'd look something like Amaechi Oselukwue.
Oselukwue and his unique look recently appeared at Xtreme Fighting
Championships 16, where he took on fellow middleweight Gerardo "Julio"
Gallegos.
It's now the featured attraction in this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault.
Posted in: video, hdnet, weeks installment, oselukwue, love child
Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC 145 Primetime Video: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans - Episode 1
The production team behind the Ultimate Fighting Championship has just released the first episode of UFC Primetime which features the UFC 145 grudge match between Jon Jones and Rashad Evans.
Watch the evolution of Jon Jones and Rashad Evans' rivalry, then go inside training camps as they prepare to meet again.... this time as opponents.
Related: UFC 145 Video: Rashad Evans Says 'Everyone Is a Fighter' | UFC 145 Video: Jon Jones 'Trains' With Brother Art Jones | UFC Video: Jon Jones Recreates Classic Muhammad Ali Photo
Check out the video below:
Quick thoughts:
- This episode of UFC Primetime, does an excellent job of hyping up this match up. I have already been excited about this bout, but the way they detailed the rivalry and history between the two fighters makes it even more compelling.
- I expected this UFC Primetime series to build on Jones' star power and to make fans more invested and attached to the dominant champion. After watching it though, it makes me want to root for the underdog in Evans even more. Both Jones and Jackson had the opportunity, but I felt like they weren't able to portray their side of the story well enough to make fans want to side with them on this whole 'betrayal' issue.
Episode 2 and 3 will air on FX on April 13 and April 20 respectively.
Posted in: ufc, jon, jone, video, evan
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowI was a little drunk at a video game party at Pax East and then look up and see...
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Read the full article at RedditFedor is training with UFC gloves so it must mean that he's coming to the UFC, right?
The amount of time Fedor has UFC gloves in this video is so brief that I'm going to let you guys spot it out. The first time I watched the clip under the guise 'Fedor training with UFC gloves,' I actually missed the entire segment. I thoroughly tried hard to spot the gloves, I even injected TRT directly in my iris to give me that extra boost needed to dominate my visual competition. It didn't work, so I just went to bed and dreamed up silliness -- like a world filled with concrete tires and slick, rubber roads. How silly that may seem, the previous infrastructure scenario has the same possibility of occurring as Dana White signing Fedor to the UFC. However, we did come across a video of The Last Emperor training in Holland with UFC gloves on. In fanboy talk, that means he already signed a five-year contract with the UFC and will face Junior dos Santos for the UFC heavyweight title. Just watch the video and see for yourself.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyBest Of Pride Videos: Shinya Aoki and Takanori Gomi Shine In These Classic Bouts
Fuel TV is releasing some nifty videos from their Best of Pride series. The video above is Shinya Aoki vs Clay French from Pride Bushido 13 on November 5, 2006. Here's Fuel TV's description of the action:
Japanese submission wizard Shinya Aoki tested his skills against American wrestler Clay French at Pride Bushido 13. French spent the majority of the bout valiantly defending against the dazzling jiu-jitsu of Aoki, but ultimately succumbed to an out-of-nowhere flying triangle choke that has to be seen to be believed.
After the jump is a video of Takanori Gomi in some vintage Fireball Kid action.
The above is from Takanori Gomi vs. Jadson Costa at Pride Bushido 2 on February 15, 2004. Here's Fuel TV's description of the action:
Takanori "The Fireball Kid" Gomi got back to his winning ways against Chute Boxe fighter Jadyson Costa at Pride: Bushido 2. Gomi unleashed a barrage of fierce ground and pound that stopped Costa in his tracks and put Gomi back on track.
Posted in: video, gomi, aoki, pride, takanori
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowWatch this video of Michael Page scoring his second MMA win last night (on his birthday!)
Last month at UCMMA 26 in the UK we were witness, via the extraordinary powers of the internet to a new MMA prospect in only his first fight. With more than 20 years experience in sport karate and kickboxing, Michael Page moved into MMA and completely devastated his opponent in his debut, giving us a glimpse of what a tornado kick to the face of a man will do to his equilibrium. With his non walk-off KO and utter disregard for any sort of defence other than moving backwards while flailing his arms in a showboating masterclass, Michael Page fights like the Anderson Silva that faced Thales Leites, if God Himself was using a Genesis controller with the Turbo switch on to control his movements. As one of the longest limbed welterweights I can remember at this moment, it only feels like a matter of time before he pulls off a genuine Dhalsim special move and celebrates by floating in the Lotus position in the centre of the cage.
Last night Page fought for the second time and demonstrated that he can take care of himself even when his tornado kick goes wrong and leaves him lying on his back. With his opponent Miguel Bernard giddy that he didn't have to strike with Page anymore, he willingly jumped into his guard and was instantly caught in a triangle choke. Despite Bernard managing to pull his head out, Page switched instantly to an armbar and got the tap moments later, giving himself a great birthday present. You can watch all of this as it unfolds in the video below. Props to aligatorfuchouse for uploading the video.
Posted in: mma, video, michael, page, tornado kick
Read the full article at Middle EasyRampage Jackson comments on rape joke video, says car jackers are next
Just a few days ago, a video started making the rounds featuring Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight Quinton Jackson teaching fans how to pick up a girl. Really, it was designed to make light of a creeper in a parking garage trying to use chloroform and rip ties to capture and rape a woman.
In the video, which you can watch by clicking here, "Rampage" stealthily sneaks up on what looks like a woman but turns out to be a transsexual, and attempts to subdue her/him with the chloroform. Except she/he fights back and loudly proclaims, "You want to rape me? I'll rape you!"
She/he then proceeds to bite Jackson's ... member, let's call it.
Finally, he escapes and as he does so, mutters to himself out disgusting it is that he tried to rape a man he thought was a woman. The entire 1:28 video clip is tasteless and unfunny and has been met with scorn from the mixed martial arts (MMA) media.
Now, "Rampage" has made his first comments on the video and, to no one's surprise, he thought the whole thing was funny. But he's also claiming a deeper message.
"The rape video was funny,but I did it because I hope that happens 2 any low life that has 2 rape a woman,I'll get on car jackers next."
Well, that's one explanation for it.
Then again, the entire scenario is interesting. Miguel Torres was famously fired from the UFC for making a rape joke on Twitter that many felt was in poor taste. Now, Jackson makes an entire video with a rape joke in perhaps even worse taste and there's been no backlash outside of the media lambasting him for it.
What gives?
Maybe UFC President Dana White is simply ignoring Jackson's oddball actions, knowing full well there's only one fight left on his contract and once that's been fulfilled, the two will part ways.
Still, should there be some form of punishment for this video? Or is the media overreacting to it?
Thought, Maniacs?
Posted in: jackson, video, rape, rape joke, car jackers
Read the full article at MMA ManiaThis little girl is an encyclopedia of MMA knowledge, and this video proves it...
It's important to note that the knowledge inside this little girl's brain far surpasses that of about 90% of the TUF n00bs we've seen hop into MMA over the past couple years. She's not even old enough to ride Space Mountain by herself, yet she knows how to pronounce Emelianenko with perfection. If this is the new brand of children we can expect, then count me in. I'm down to have 50 little Zeuses running around in my living room, giving me pointers on why Dan Henderson is potentially the greatest fighter in the known universe. We're not sure what generation this toddler falls under, but it's definitely change we can believe in. Note: We published this video when it only had 46 views on YouTube. Just remember that before this video goes insanely viral. [Source]
Posted in: video, dan henderson, mma knowledge, space mountain, girls brain
Read the full article at Middle EasyBellator 64 Video Highlights; Askren Wins Again
Bellator welterweight champion Ben Askren held onto his title at Bellator 64 on Friday. Check out video highlights from the main event and more.
Posted in: bellator, video, event, askren, friday check
Read the full article at MMA WeeklySuper Fight League 2: Todd Duffee Vs. Neil Grove Live Video Stream, Results And Play-by-Play
Today is the 2nd event for Super Fight League, a promotion from India being spearheaded by millionaire tycoon Raj Kundra, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, and MMA agent, Ken Pavia.
Their first event got mixed reviews, with weird crowd shots and Bob Sapp tapping to a James Thompson double leg takedown, but hey, but it did bring us an entertaining women's bout along with that oh so catchy and excellent theme song.
They seem to have a much better card this time around though, with several veterans and familiar names on the line up such as Minowaman, Alexander Shlemenko, Paul Kelly, Todd Duffee, Neil Grove.
We'll be bringing you the live video and some play-by-play of the event which starts at around 9:15 a.m. ET, so as always make Bloody Elbow your home for this one.
The video, results and play-by-play are after the jump.
Fight Card and Play by Play:
- Paul Kelly vs. Ryan Healy
- Chaitanya Gavali vs. Pierre Daguzan
- Bharat Kandare vs. Soro Ismael
- Alexander Shlemenko vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
- Anup Kumar vs. Dilanga Rathnaweera
- Ricky Sanhi vs. Shalika Senanayake
- Colleen Schneider vs. Cherie Buck
- Todd Duffee vs. Neil Grove
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDouglas Lima is trying to take the Bellator belt from Ben Askren tonight so why not watch him prep his hair for a fight
We like fresh haircuts here at MiddleEasy and we like Genghis Con videos so a video of Bellator's Douglas Lima getting a fresh cut at one of the hottest barber shops in Atlanta made by Genghis Con really floats the little imaginary boats floating in our brain matter. We aren't hard to please around here-its the little things in life that get us excited. I guess that means we are a really cheap date. For example, if you don't have access to any obscure street mma videos and you want to get lucky with Jason Nawara, just make him a grilled cheese sandwich and show him videos of Corgi dogs on Youtube. It's really that easy.
If you really want to go the extra mile and get bonus points with us you will be as stoked about the Bellator 64 Welterweight championship fight that goes down tonight between Ben Askren and Douglas Lima. Lima is excited about this fight and talked to Sherdog.com recently about how he envisions taking the belt from Ben Askren:
"I have thought about this fight a million times, over and over in my head, I think about everything. I think about me stopping his takedown and landing a big right hand and knocking him out. I think about me catching him with a head kick or submitting him. I just keep seeing myself getting the win. It doesn’t really matter how I win this fight as long as I get that belt wrapped around my waist when it’s all said and done.”
"I think Ben is a great competitor. The guy is tough, and he has an awesome wrestling background. He is an Olympic wrestler. He also has really good jiu-jitsu, and his striking is coming along really good. I expect a really tough fight from him. I’ve been training really hard for this fight with Ben, so I’m definitely coming to get that belt."
You can check out the prelims streaming live at 7p EST on Spike.com and the main card will be televised starting at 8pm EST on MTV2 and EPIX Sports. [source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC Video: Jon Jones Recreates Classic Muhammad Ali Photo
The latest UFC Ultimate Insider video covers Jon Jones' latest photo shoot for the UFC magazine. In the shoot, Jones attempted to recreate a classic LIFE magazine photo featuring Ali taking part in an underwater training routine.
Here's the story of the original photo, taken by iconic photojournalist Flip Schulke, was explained by blog "The Year In Pictures":
The story behind the image is as striking as the photograph itself. Schulke was introduced to Ali in 1960 and mentioned that he also did underwater photography. Hearing this Ali confided to Schulke that his secret training routine involved a strenuous underwater workout. The boxer would allow Schulke to photograph him if he could guarantee that the pictures would appear in LIFE. Schulke got the O.K., the session proceeded early the next week, and the pictures dutifully ran in the magazine. It was not until decades later that Ali confessed that it had all been an elaborate ruse on his part to get into the magazine.
Pretty classic Ali.
In the video, photographer Michael Muller says that Jones is "our 21st century Muhammad Ali" which is a ridiculous statement on a number of levels, but hey...we live in an age where nothing is it's own original something and has to be the "new" version of something.
The video of Jones recreating the photo is after the jump...
SBN coverage of UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans
The video:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowRampage Jackson's Latest Effort Portends Worrisome Post-MMA Future
If you haven't caught the new Internet video featuring former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson, you probably should. Or maybe you shouldn't. I don't know, really. It's at once horrific and confounding. Maybe you should just steer clear of it altogether.
If you decide to press forward, know this: the video is an attempt at humor. Believe me, you'll need a disclaimer. It's designed to be a spoof on rape tactics or what happens if you rape the wrong person. Or something like that. I'm really not sure what the point is, to be honest, and that's because to describe this video as an unmitigated, incoherent disaster would be the most charitable thing I or anyone else could possibly say.
If this most-recent attempt with Jackson is nothing more than a marketing attempt for the online site that created it, it's a success, I suppose. After all, here we are talking about it. The larger issue, though, isn't whether we've reached a new bottom on what some will do to market products. Rather, it's why Jackson - with all he has to lose, all he has to set up for his future - would personally participate in a video this profoundly unfunny and partially disturbing.
It's not as if Rampage came into this video project tabula rasa. Jackson has previously been lambasted for making gay slurs. On two different occasions, he arguably sexually harassed two female reporters. If there is anyone who might want to think twice before making a nonsensical video that's especially lacking in sensitivity, it's Jackson.
This is a piece of work that clumsily uses a botched rape as a conduit for humor. You'd think that would set off alarm bells in Jackson's head. After all, that's not all too dissimilar to Miguel Torres' Tweet that got him fired. And whatever one makes of Forrest Griffin's ‘rape is the new missionary' thesis, it's thematically consistent with the material in Jackson's video.
Some will probably suggest the topic of rape itself should be left alone and that's where Jackson erred. Given the baggage, it's not the worst advice. But I'm in no position to tell others which topics are or aren't off limits for their creative pursuits. What we can say, though, is that humor done well is exceedingly difficult. Humor done well in ultra-sensitive territories should only be managed by the experts. In the hands of skillful comedians, charged topics like rape or murder are treated with precision and delicacy. There are subtleties, contexts and qualifiers that have to be firmly established before difficult material can be mocked or used. Even then, it's all still pretty risky.
Jackson and the team at FilmOn.com - a website lead by Greek billionaire Alkiviades "Alki" David, a man who once pranked online viewers into watching the first live physician-assisted suicide only to later reveal the bit was a hoax - illustrate how poorly things can turn out when amateurs brazenly take on the task of dark humor. It's reminiscent of what happens when average citizens play with ignitable chemicals in their backyard for cheap thrills versus the regulated environment employed by ordinance teams who explode bombs at safe distances.
The video - from the concept to the execution - is prima facie bad. There is no defense of it, or none that put any premium on a sense of shame. This brings us back to the central question: why would Jackson participate in such a monstrosity? Between this video and his more recent history of dubious proclamations about a MMA future outside of the UFC, one has to consider he has seriously problematic judgment. Worse, it's in part fed from a poor understanding of how he's perceived and what's required to successfully navigate career challenges.
Jackson has almost always repudiated feedback: from media, outspoken MMA fans or even UFC President Dana White. When Jackson bristles at criticism, it's true he isn't necessarily wrong, though. The fact is most of the aggregate advice or critiques one gets over the course of their lifetime is bunk. It is highly believable Rampage has been given a dose of suggestions in his years in professional MMA that were perfectly dismissible.
Rampage's problem is his absolutist repudiation of it. He's famous for dismissing critics as busybodies intent on running his life or critics with too much time on their hands. He's going to do what he wants and no one is going to tell him differently. And when you've got the resources to arrange your life in such a way to see that vision though, it can be awfully persuasive logic.
The trick to criticism is not to reject it outright, but to develop an ear for it. Every so often and amid the cacophony of moronic or unsolicited advice, someone will say something that rings true. Uncomfortably, perhaps even embarrassingly true, but true nonetheless.
We aren't necessarily born with the ability to perfectly filter the helpful advice from the harmful either. It's not a dog whistle only the gifted can hear. The painful reality is it takes real humility and the ability to grant others the power to know as much and often more about your life and your ideas as you. This might sound obvious to some, but none of us are Rampage. None of us were born as this incredibly talented fighter who, over the course of their adult life, has had countless offers made across a board room table, heard hosannahs in the highest whispered in his ear and witnessed fan genuflection at his feet.
Fame, adoration and lionization is often the enemy of self-awareness. In fact, it can be downright toxic. When you arrive at a position where your judgment and actions are beyond reproach because they are your judgments and actions, you've passed the tipping point. I don't know if Jackson is there yet, but it certainly feels that way.
As abhorrent as this video is, no one should call on Rampage to apologize for it. That isn't to say we wouldn't welcome it if he organically came to the realization of how regrettable the decision was to be a part of it. But responding to demands or ultimatums aren't Rampage's strong suit. That's especially true in this precarious moment in his life. I wouldn't want a forced and utterly meaningless apology, anyway.
What we can say ask, though, is just for Rampage to take a second look at what he's doing. Not just with this video but the current career path he's on now. Perhaps he could take a moment to consider the idea that maybe this video is not particularly good; maybe the decision to make it in light of previous rape-related humor attempts gone bad among UFC fighters was not particularly smart; and maybe if this is a taste of what's to come post-MMA career for Jackson, there probably is a case to be made for some rethinking about what options he needs to explore.
This chilling part about the video is not so much the content as what it says about Jackson. His participation is as embarrassing as it is worrisome. If these are the opportunities he's taking advantage of while he's still enjoying a measure of fame to lean on, what will he resort to when that's withered and gone?
It's not my life or my career. All of this is really not my business. But it is hard to watch Rampage's detachment from good sense and appropriate decision-making happen in real time. It is also only Rampage - with or without effective counsel - who can stop this descent. Let's hope sooner rather than later he's willing to lend his own ear to the sound and sage, wherever he can find them.
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Tim Kennedy performs Katy Perry’s ‘Part of Me’ (Cagewriter)
Two videos were sent to Cagewriter in the past 12 hours. One was a Quinton "Rampage" Jackson video that tried to make a joke about rape by showing Jackson, the rapist in the video, get beat up when his intended target turned out to be a man. It was pointless, unfunny, beyond offensive, and not worth the time of Cagereaders.
Then this gem hit the internet, and it spoke to me. Do the wonderful readers of Cagewriter want to watch Strikeforce middleweight Tim Kennedy perform Katy Perry's song, "Part of Me?" Obviously, the answer is yes. It's five minutes, but worth it to see Kennedy's dancing.
He's been waiting for a fight for too long, but at least he's putting his time off to use. Hopefully, we'll see more of what Kennedy is capable of soon, both in and out of the cage.
Posted in: video, kennedy, tim kennedy, cagewriter, ’ cagewriter
Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsOur ONE FC: War of the Lions wrap-up video is everything you need in your life right now
Before I go on with this article, I just want to announce that something bit me just below my left elbow when I was in Singapore for ONE FC: War of the Lions. This could mean I will harness a superpower from whatever insect bit me only under the condition that the insect was gamma radioactive upon the time in gnawed into my skin. Seriously, throw away your biology books. Marvel Comics has all the scientific education you need for the rest of your life.
The second outcome would mean that I will die from some incurable infection and MiddleEasy will cease to exist. Your mornings will become incredibly dull and you will be forced to leave the sport of MMA and focus on something drastically different -- like competitive cheerleading. If I do kick the bucket from this mysterious wound that is exponentially growing in size, take note that this ONE FC: War of the Lions video will be the site's final feature. You better enjoy it while it lasts and check out our ONE FC: War of the Lions wrap-up video from this past weekend's stacked card in Singapore. If you're enamored with this video, be sure to follow Cynthia Vance on Twitter.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyYep, He Went There: Rampage Jokes About Rape
Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson continues to attempt to harpoon his UFC career with this satirical video about raping transsexuals.
Funny? Offensive? In poor taste? You be the judge.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertRampage Jackson Appears In 'Fake Rape' Video
Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton Jackson has appeared in a video produced by FilmOn.com, a Live TV service provider.
The video appears on FilmOn's youtube channel, and is entitled "Rampage Jackson - How To Pick Up A Gurl - Fast."
Gals Guide To MMA picked up on the video on Wednesday afternoon:
In an apparent infinite capacity for poor decision making, stupidity, and vile behavior, Quentin Jackson has posted a video called, "How to Pick Up a Gurl [sic] - Fast". What's so offensive about this, you ask? Well, the video boils down to a how-to on raping women, including using cholorform to help her relax, using zip ties, picking women who are in parking lots with malfunctioning cameras, and putting on your condoms, cause, safety first! However the jokes on Rampage when the woman turns out to be a man, who then proceeds to bite Rampage's erect penis as he's screaming on the ground. No, I'm serious. That's really what happens. The video ends with Rampage disgusted that it was "a damn dude." Right, Quentin, because THAT'S what's disgusting here.
Related:
Rampage Jackson Tweets That He Wants UFC To Release Him | Miguel Torres Released From UFC for Twitter Rape Joke | Rashad Evans' Joke About the Penn State Scandal is No Laughing Matter | Forrest Griffin's Jokes About Rape Demand UFC Action
Yes, Rampage obviously thought an attempt at comic acting in the year 2012 with the double whammy of misogyny and homophobia, was a good idea.
It's worth noting that Miguel Torres was fired by Dana White for tweeting a line from a TV comedy show that joked about rape; how UFC reacts to one of its biggest stars taking part in a 'comedy' video of this nature is anyone's guess.
The video in question is after the jump.
Rampage Jackson - How To Pick Up A Gurl - Fast
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: Rampage Jackson teaches fans how to pick up a girl -- with chloroform
It looks like Quinton Jackson really does want his UFC release.
He's showing it by starring in videos showing "how to pick up girls fast." Or, really, how to rape women. He gives you the whole blueprint, from the type of shoes you should wear, to using "cheap chloroform" to making sure you have zip ties to sneaking up on them in parking lots while already wearing a condom.
That is until he runs into a transsexual, who he calls disgusting, who fights back and vows to rape him. And succeeds, in a manner of speaking.
Miguel Torres was cut from the UFC for making a rape joke on Twitter. I wonder what the punishment for "Rampage" will be for making an entire video on how to do it.
Posted in: video, quinton jackson, miguel torres, rape, rape women
Read the full article at MMA ManiaJon Jones: On Another Level UFC 145 Preview Video
We're less than three weeks away from the biggest fight of Jon Jones' career – his UFC 145 title defense against former friend and training partner Rashad Evans. Check out this preview video to see...
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAI'd be surprised if this isn't a repost, but this is one of the funniest videos on YouTube: A compilation of the best Goldbergisms.
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Posted in: video, youtube, isnt, compilation, goldbergism
Read the full article at RedditVideo: Carlos Condit kills Justin Bieber
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit is getting ready to fight one Canadian by murking another. "The Natural Born Killer" lives up to his moniker in this fan-made video, capping off a few dozen rounds into teen pop sensation Justin Bieber.
UFC President Dana White is not going to be happy about this. At all.
If anything, videos like the one above only further prove that mixed martial arts (MMA) fans don't do well with so much downtime between UFC events. Fortunately we're less than two weeks away from Alexander Gustafsson vs. Thiago Silva at UFC on FUEL TV 2 (April 14), followed by the epic 205-pound title fight of Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans at UFC 145 (April 21).
After that? The floodgates are open, including Condit's eventual title unification bout against the surgically-repaired Georges St. Pierre, rumored for UFC 154 in Montreal.
Come children ... all welcome.
Posted in: ufc, video, condit, championship ufc, killer lives
Read the full article at MMA ManiaTUF Brazil Episode 2 Video
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: One FC “War of the Lions” Full Event Video
One FC has posted video of the entire One FC: War of the Lions event, which took place yesterday in Singapore from the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Notable fighters such as Melvin Manhoef and Tatsuya Kawajiri participated in the promotion’s third event, after the organization debuted in 2011.
The results for the entire 11-fight event:
Main Card
Zorobabel Moreira defeated Felipe Enomoto via submission (Armbar) at 1:04 of round 3
Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Donald Sanchez via submission (triangle choke) at 3:32 of round 1
Ole Laursen def. Eduard Folayang via split decision
Fabricio Monteiro def. Yuya Shirai via unanimous decision
Melvin Manhoef vs. Yoshiyuki Nakanishi – Fight ruled a no contest
Eddie Ng def. Jian Kai Chee via TKO (punches) at 0:43 of round 1
Preliminary Card
Masakazu Imanari def. Kevin Belingon via submission (reverse heel hook) at 1:18 of round 1
Nicole Chua def. Jeet Toshi via submission (rear naked choke) at 2:07 of round 1.
Quek Kim Hock def. Juan Wen Jie via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:18 of round 2.
Jiang Long Yun def. Yodsanan Sityodtong via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:28 of round 1
Danny van Bergen def. Richie Whitson via submission (armbar) at 1:17 of round 1
The entire event’s video is below:
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyBellator 63 Video Highlights
Check out the Bellator 63 video highlights from Friday night's event in Connecticut, where the welterweight quarterfinals took place.
Posted in: bellator, video, quarterfinal, friday, welterweight quarterfinals
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyHouston Alexander vs Gilbert Yvel Fight Video from last night
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 146 Video: Ronda Rousey Interviews Alistair Overeem
Strikeforce women's 135 pound champion Ronda Rousey is no stranger to interviews, but she switched things up a bit for a FoxSports.com video and became the interviewer. The interview subject just happened to be former Strikeforce heavyweight champion and UFC 146 main eventer Alistair Overeem. He is in the middle of a press tour for UFC 146, and spoke to Ronda about sharing training rooms with a bunch of heavyweights he might face some day, doing media stuff, and cutting weight (Alistair was up to 280 before the Lesnar fight - wow).
Overeem will of course be facing Junior dos Santos for the UFC heavyweight title on May 26th in Las Vegas. Here's the video, and you can see some quotes and a video of them playing UFC Undisputed 3 after the jump.
SBN coverage of UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Overeem
Yeah, I do cut. For the Brock fight I was like 275, 280. For this fight I also have to cut a little bit, I'm a little bit over 265. It's wonderful to just eat whatever you want. Because first I was fighting light heavy, I had to cut. I was 220, I had to cut to 215 (I think he meant 205), so it's a lot of water, salads. You know how it is.
Posted in: ufc, fight, overeem, video, water salads
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo of the Gilbert Yvel vs. Houston Alexander fight from last night's RFA 2 events in Nebraska....
Video of the Gilbert Yvel vs. Houston Alexander fight from last night's RFA 2 events in Nebraska. You can catch the Maurice Smith vs. Jorge Cordoba fight video here.
HT: rscott94, The Hamburger Pimp
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVIDEO: Rashad Evans Gets a Tennis Lesson From World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka
Check out this video of UFC 145 main event title challenger Rashad Evans getting some tennis lessons from world No. 1-ranked Victoria Azarenka. And "Suga" taught her a few things about the fight...
Posted in: video, tennis, victoria azarenka, tennis lessons, tennis lesson
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: Junior dos Santos’ Breakthrough Moment at UFC 90
UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos was a massive underdog in his UFC debut against Fabricio Werdum. But his life changed with one giant right uppercut. Check out the video of Cigano's...
Posted in: ufc, video, do, ufc debut, fabricio werdum
Read the full article at Heavy MMAthrew together a little highlight video for Rowdy Ronda
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: Muhammed Lawal Apologizes for Offensive Tweet
Just days after his release from Strikeforce, Muhammed Lawal has apologized for calling the Nevada State Athletic Commission's Pat Lundvall "a racist b**ch" on Twitter, which led to the organization letting him go."I was out of line for calling the woman the 'b' word and I was wrong for that," Lawal told CSN California. "I was kind of mad about the comments, I was offended by the comments made towards me and I was out of line. I was too emotional. I apologize for that. With that being said, I still feel that I was offended, but I'm in the wrong for what I said."
MMAFighting.com recently spoke to Lawal, who said he would release an official apology on his own to Lundvall in the near future. He added that he is still hopeful that Zuffa, the parent company of Strikeforce and the UFC, will give him another chance, but right now, his focus is on letting Lundvall know that he regrets his choice of words.
"She's someones mother, daughter, sister or auntie," Lawal said. "if someone talked to my mom or sister or auntie like that, I would be very mad at that person. I hope she accepts my apology when I issue an official statement."Lawal went on to say in the video that the potentially life-threatening staph infection in his knee is healed and that he is on the road to recovery. He later got choked up when discussing how his new American Kickboxing Academy teammates visited him in the hospital while he was battling the staph infection.Check out the video interview below.
Posted in: video, lawal, lundvall, comments i, auntie lawal
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseHDNet Fights Video Vault: Chidi Njokuani vs. Jonathan Harris at Legacy Fighting 10
Conventional wisdom would tell you to close the distance against a prolific striker such as Chidi Njokuani, right?
Welterweight opponent Jonathan Harris put the plan to the test this past month at Legacy Fighting Championships 10.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our
fight-of-the-week feature, we take a look at the full fight video of the bout to see if Harris' plan worked.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieBest of Bellator Video: Bryan Baker vs. Jared Hess at Bellator 50
Back in September, Bryan Baker joined his second Bellator tournament and looked for his 10th win in 11 fights.
Standing across from him at Bellator 50 and the start of the season-five
middleweight tournament was the tough-to-finish Jared Hess.
In our latest Best of Bellator Video installment, we take a look back at
that opening-round tourney fight.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieLive Video Feed: WMMA Undercard (7 p.m. ET)
Tune in Saturday at 7 p.m. ET for the WMMA undercard.
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Read the full article at SherdogIf you want to be a UFC fighter, all you need to do is watch this instructional video
Last night I stumbled upon an intoxicated Vietnam veteran seated in front of a taco truck talking about Barack Obama performing oral sex on him. He repeated the story several times amongst a surplus of random obscenities while I awaited this plate of carnitas. Not sure if sitting down next to him for an extended period of time would have lead me to any life-changing conversation, but I figured I’d try it anyway. Almost immediately thereafter, he began to vomit and I decided to take my food to go. Bummer. It’s sad to think that in had he not begun to regurgitate the copious amounts of alcohol in his system, I could have shared this video with him, and he’d be well on his way to becoming a UFC fighter. The video is so inspiring, that there’s no way he could possibly fall off the war-wagon of positive energy that would course through his veins en route to putting his life back together. Seriously, this video is that amazing. Props to Vinny Magalhaes for the find. Hope this video is your sailboat back into the UFC.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyDana White UFC 146 Press Conference Video Interview
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Read the full article at RedditMeet the 16 Fighters that Made it into the TUF Brasil Fighter House (Video)
Meet the 16 fighters that made it through eliminations and into the fighter house on "The Ultimate Fighter: Brasil."
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVideo of Fedor in a Japanese Sumo bout..
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Read the full article at RedditYou might as well just sit back and watch Fedor sumo wrestle in Japan
I'm sure you woke up this morning telling yourself that there's no way you could go through today without watching Fedor Emelianenko sumo wrestle a dude in Japan. I know your pain. This same thought often passes through my cerebral cortex throughout the week. It's a debilitating thing really. The thought of Fedor garbed in a white loin cloth while going toe-to-toe with another man in a loin cloth is just something that is impossible to ignore. Fortunately for you, MiddleEasy has the ability to put those worries to rest. You can now live your life knowing that whenever you need to see Fedor sumo wrestle, a newly released video exists. We just made your dreams come true, and we're not even asking anything in return. Man, we're awesome. Actually, the guys at OnlyFighting.ru are awesome since they tipped us to the video -- but we're awesome too. We can both coexist on a level of awesomeness rarely achieved by other sites. Now watch this video of Fedor sumo wrestling Shinichi Suzukawa in Japan and be amused.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: Fists of Fortune DVD Video Magazine Issue 1 staring Douglas Lima, Alexis Vila, Bubba Jenkins and Jorge Masvidal
CHAPTERS:1: The Daily Grind with Douglas Lima2: Fluid Motion3: Training Diaries -- Alexis Vila4: Muay Thai Lessons -- The Ram Muay5: The Wrestlers Ambition -- Who Is Bubba Jenkins6: Rio Diaries7: Backyard Fights with the Miami Hustle crew.8: Muay Thai Lessons -- Way of Life9. A Day In The Life -- Kendrick Miree10. Tips N Techniques -- Juan Carlos Faraldo11: Vicious Streak -- Jorge Masvidal
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Read the full article at UltMMAVideo: Jon Jones spars with tiny Brazilian, gets taken down
I guess foreign reality shows are all the rage these days.
Not long after we brought you Cristiane Santos and Ronda Rousey getting down and dirty on a Japanese program, comes video of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones mixing it up with a tiny Brazilian.
From the video description:
The first international episode of Sensei Noção, the Brazilian reality show about sick and insane challenges in a MMA world, will be released in April 14, one week before Jones vs. Evans. The journalist and Sensei SporTV´s host Mario Filho (aka Marinho), after faced and being smashed by the former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida, the heavyweight champion Junior Cigano dos Santos, the 4X world boxing Champion Acelino Popó Freitas, now put his head on the line against the current number one light heavyweight of the UFC Jon "Bones" Jones!!!! Pay close attention to the first time that Jonathan Jones was ever taken down!
Jones will put his 205-pound title on the line against "Suga" Rashad Evans at UFC 145 on April 21, 2012, from the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. More on that upcoming fight right here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaCristiane “Cyborg” Santos Releases Statement on Positive Test (Video)
Former Strikeforce featherweight champion recently released a video on MMAPrime.tv regarding her positive test following Strikeforce: Masvidal vs. Melendez. Santos was stripped of her title following a positive test for stanozolol after the event.
While Santos says she ingested the drug by mistake, she also acknowledged that it was her fault for not knowing the supplement contained a banned substance. Santos warned others to be careful what they take without a doctor’s approval.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyA Lesson in Street MMA: Don't pick on Mark Hunt Jr's buddy
Oh wow! This latest Lesson in Street MMA just made us jump out of our chairs at the MiddleEasy office, exchange high fives and howl in the air like a victorious Rampage Jackson! We've watched this video no less than eight times now and it only keeps getting better. We can't even attempt to keep working now. Day's ruined. The whole staff is tearing apart the office out of shear Street MMA ecstasy. This is the definition of rawesome. This is the definition of baller. This is like baller and rawesome had sex and made the word 'rawbler'. This kid clearly has Super Samoan DNA in him. My god. I can't even write this article in a timely fashion I just keep pressing play on the video and join in with the best Street MMA crowd ever in blowing the lid off the arena. I'm sweating. My hands are shaking.
Watch what happens when a kid is birthed onto this planet who will not require six months sprawl training. Future K-1 champ here dropping the one-two in honor of his bullied pal. Yes!
I LOVE the contrast between the video still and the banner shot.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Submits Zuluzinho in Pride Grand Prix
Those were the days ... Check out this video of the legendary Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira against the 390-pound Zuluzinho in May 2006 in the opening round of the Pride open-weight grand prix tournament.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAFeed your MMA craving with the first edition of the 'Fists of Fortune' video magazine
It's 830 am and your boss is officially out of the office all day at some 'how to be a better boss' conference and he has left you in charge. He doesn't even know it, but he is already on his way to better bossdom just by leaving the office today. You've been anticipating this day for weeks now. You even circled it on your deskpad calendar and drew little smiley faces all over the day. You love this day so much you want to marry it and make sweet love to it. If you could you would procreate with this day just to populate your world with more 'boss is out of the office' days. This is your day and you will not waste it doing silly things like answering your boss' emails or helping him with the stack of paperwork in his desktray inbox.
You will spin around in your chair and take your shoes off. You will walk around the office in your socks and before you get up to walk to the lunchroom or copier you will play Meek Mill's "I'm a boss" like your own personal pre-fight walkout music. You will relish in the glory of this boss-free day at the office. You will spend all day watching whatever videos you want on Youtube with zero interruptions. No worries today. No looking over your shoulder to see if the boss is coming down the hallway. No my boss-less friend, not a soul will stop you today-because you have been awarded the coveted 'interim boss' title.
You can start enjoying this 8 hours of freedom by feeding your daily MMA craving right now with over an hour of Genghis Con cinematic mastery.This is the first edition of Genghis' new 'Fists of Fortune' video magazine. The magazine features behind the scenes footage with fighters, training tips and techniques, backyard fights, Muay Thai, introductions to up and coming fighters and all kinds of typically amazing Genghis Con music and film work. It is eleven chapters of MMA video magazine greatness:
1: The Daily Grind with Douglas Lima2: Fluid Motion3: Training Diaries -- Alexis Vila4: Muay Thai Lessons -- The Ram Muay5: The Wrestlers Ambition -- Who Is Bubba Jenkins6: Rio Diaries7: Backyard Fights with the Miami Hustle crew.8: Muay Thai Lessons -- Way of Life9. A Day In The Life -- Kendrick Miree10. Tips N Techniques -- Juan Carlos Faraldo11: Vicious Streak -- Jorge Masvidal
This is your day 'interim boss' guy/girl, embrace it. Don't waste the opportunity. Forward all calls to voicemail, grab a plastic spork, pop open a can of vienna sausages and put your feet up on your desk, get comfortable and enjoy.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyFists of Fortune Video Magazine - Issue #1CHAPTERS:1: The Daily Grind with Douglas Lima2:...
Fists of Fortune Video Magazine - Issue #1
CHAPTERS:
1: The Daily Grind with Douglas Lima
2: Fluid Motion
3: Training Diaries -- Alexis Vila
4: Muay Thai Lessons -- The Ram Muay
5: The Wrestlers Ambition -- Who Is Bubba Jenkins
6: Rio Diaries
7: Backyard Fights with the Miami Hustle crew.
8: Muay Thai Lessons -- Way of Life
9. A Day In The Life -- Kendrick Miree
10. Tips N Techniques -- Juan Carlos Faraldo
11: Vicious Streak -- Jorge Masvidal
This FanShot was promoted to the front page by Cory Braiterman.
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Read the full article at Head Kick LegendVideo: Anderson Silva speaks English, flaunts super powers in new UFC on FOX promo
When Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva isn't judging big Brazilian booty competitions, sponsoring blue-chip franchises like Burger King in commercials or lip-syncing/dancing to Justin Bieber ballads, he's apparently being marketed as a "regular guy" who likes to "hit things" for FOX Sports.
"The Spider" -- who got his much-anticipated date to rematch Chael Sonnen at UFC 147 at Joao Havelange Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 23, 2012, earlier this afternoon -- was the centerpiece of recent promotional video for the UFC on Fox series.
And in addition to stopping washing machines, kicking cars and smashing concrete, Silva is speaking English. Sure, it's likely a slick voiceover job, but it's clear the network and the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion is attempting to finally market the sport's most dominant fighter to a North American audience in a major way.
What took so long?
Check out Silva's FOX promo video below and be sure to tell us what you think of it in the comments section below:
For more on the upcoming title bout between Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen be sure to check out our complete fight archive right here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaVideo: Evolve MMA fighters, Zorobabel Moreira, Eddie Ng, Fabricio Monteiro, Nicole Chua, and...
Video: Evolve MMA fighters, Zorobabel Moreira, Eddie Ng, Fabricio Monteiro, Nicole Chua, and Yodsanan Sityodtong train for this weekend's ONE FC event.
It's an awesome video blog, and I do love the first-person shots of the guys hitting the pads.
Related: ONE FC 3 To Be Streamed For Free On YouTube
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Read the full article at Bloody Elbow‘The Ultimate Fighter Brazil’ Preview Video
Check out the video trailer for the first international TUF, "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil," which premieres Sunday night at midnight Eastern on TUF.tv.
Posted in: fighter, video, brazil, video trailer, fighter brazil
Read the full article at Heavy MMA2012 NCAA Wrestling Championship Highlight VideoFor those that missed the finals last Saturday,...
2012 NCAA Wrestling Championship Highlight Video
For those that missed the finals last Saturday, here is an excellent fanmade highlight video .
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: Brendan Schaub loses coin toss to Johny Hendricks; loses phone to old guy with blender
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight "Hybrid" Brendan Schaub and bearded welterweight brawler Johny Hendricks get tied up in the Ecko Unlimited offices under the guise of being taught how to escape from bondage.
Cue the Admiral Ackbar voice: "It's a trap!"
Instead, it's a coin toss to decide who gets their phone blended by "Will it Blend" star Tom Dickson. Well, will it? Watch the video above to find out.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaHDNet Fights Video Vault: Melvin Manhoef vs. Tyrone Spong at It's Showtime 2012
Earlier this year, Strikeforce veteran Melvin Manhoef returned to his
other combat sport for a kickboxing bout with Tyrone Spong.
The bout took place at It's Showtime 2012 in Leeuwarden, a Jan. 28 event in the fighters' native Netherlands.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our
fight-of-the-week feature, we take a look at the full fight video of
their bout.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieSapp vs. Thompson fight video... What did I just watch?
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: An excellent sneak peek on how UFC Champion Dominick Cruz trains.
Video: An excellent sneak peek on how UFC Champion Dominick Cruz trains.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowThis video illustrates everything you ever wanted to know about the spinning backfist
Jon Bones Jones actually learned how to strike from combat technique books from Barnes & Nobles and instructional videos on YouTube. That’s not a joke, he actually told Sports Illustrated that. After a while, he finally entered an MMA gym to see what coaches would say about the skills he taught himself. The end result is the UFC light heavyweight champion. The rest of you who have been taking Karate and Tae Kwon Do all your lives are obviously doing something wrong if you have yet to achieve the level of success Jon Bones Jones has attained in the past five years. In fact, most of you probably have a long way to go. We want to help by providing you with the right instructional videos to master the techniques that make mere mortals become MMA champions. Let’s start with Jo Bonten’s demonstration of the spinning backfist.
Posted in: technique, video, mma gym, end result, mma champions
Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 145 Jones vs. Evans video preview and full fight card
The UFC's next major pay-per-view event is still a month away, but the
buzz is building for UFC 145 and its heavily anticipated headliner.
UFC officials recently released a new extended video preview of that
fight: UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones vs. ex-champ Rashad
Evans.
The 10-minute video, which can be found after the jump, details their real-life rivalry.
Posted in: ufc, video, video preview, payperview event, jump details
Read the full article at MMA JunkieJones vs. Evans Video
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseNew Anti-MMA in NY Facebook Ad which links to YouTube video ಠ_ಠ
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Read the full article at RedditHighlight Time: Xande's xcellent xerformance at World Pro, San Diego
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Missing the live stream of Abu Dhabi World Pro, San Diego via Budovideos for anything other than a family crisis or other life-threatening emergency was unacceptable, grappler. Certainly, watching "Friends With Kids" with your Internet girlfriend and her obnoxious friends doesn't come close to counting. Neither does playing any form of video game.
By now, if you come here frequently or otherwise stay informed on BJJ happenings, you know Xande Ribeiero killed it at World Pro, winning both his 202 LB division (defeating Romulo Barral in the final) and the Absolute Division (defeating Andre Galvao in the final). That's huge. He's come up short in his last few attempts at big tournaments and we see this as a major turning point for him. He's back.
Check out this great HL video (created by these guys) of Xande's performance at the tournament. Versus both Galvao and Barral, you really get a sense of how dominant he can be and the respect he commands from his opponents. That's what pressing your game is all about.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: UFC's Arianny Celeste Featured On Music Video
A few months back, UFC Octagon girl, Arianny Celeste was tweeting photos from a video shoot where she had to wear different outfits such as a school girl uniform and a space suit with bunny ears. The official footage has been released, and the popular Octagon girl who also has singing aspirations, was featured on a music video.
Club music is not exactly my cup of tea, but you can check out the music video below for a group called "Manufactured Superstars" and their new single, "Silver Splits The Blue":
the hit-making duo known as the Manufactured Superstars uncork their latest jewel of a song with the single, "Silver Splits The Blue" (Big Beat/Black Hole) featuring vocals by Christian Burns.
The music video for "Silver Splits The Blue" features U.F.C. Octagon Girl and Playboy and Maxim model, Arianny Celeste. The video was shot in Las Vegas at XS Nightclub, the mega-club where the Manufactured Superstars are entering their second-year DJ residency.
Speaking of Arianny, who apparently is 1/4 Filipina, she will be using this short break the UFC has to visit Manila for the first time. Details after the jump.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowArianny Celeste music video 'Silver Splits The Blue' from Manufactured Superstars
Sorry Maniacs, no singing from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Octagon girl, who also moonlights as a recording artist, but there is certainly plenty of dancing from Arianny Celeste in this new music video from Manufactured Superstars.
From the YouTube description:
Live from the party capitol of the world, the hit-making duo known as the Manufactured Superstars uncork their latest jewel of a song with the single, "Silver Splits The Blue" (Big Beat/Black Hole) featuring vocals by Christian Burns.
The music video for "Silver Splits The Blue" features U.F.C. Octagon Girl and Playboy and Maxim model, Arianny Celeste. The video was shot in Las Vegas at XS Nightclub, the mega-club where the Manufactured Superstars are entering their second-year DJ residency. Directed by Christopher Andrews, the video for "Silver Splits The Blue" perfectly captures the carefree, feel-good vibe of summer.
What's your take Maniacs, dig the not-really-that-dirty dancing? Or not so much?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaHDNet Fights Video Vault: Jamie Varner vs. Drew Fickett at XFC 16
This past month, the popular Xtreme Fighting Championships held its 16th
event, which featured a headliner with two notable names.
In a 160-pound catchweight bout, former WEC champion Jamie Varner took on ultra-busy UFC vet Drew Fickett.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our
fight-of-the-week feature, we take a look at the full fight video of
their bout.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieDana White’s video blog explains TUF and McCall/Johnson draw (Yahoo! Sports)
Dana White's latest video blog answers many of your questions about the latest season "The Ultimate Fighter," including how last season's premiere was very different from how the rest of the season will run. You'll also see that the UFC … Continue reading →
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Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsThe way we shot this Cage Contender video will make you want to watch it
The first time I went to Ireland, it was St. Patrick's Day and I almost drowned in a cliche. I was the only person raging in the middle of Cork, Ireland that day back in 2006. I must have looked like that typical American idiot that would go to another country with the expectation that everyone is thrilled to have me there. In reality, the first beer I ordered, the bartender 'accidentally' spilled it all over my lap. This was like at 9:00 am -- people were still going to work. That night, I ended up sleeping off my hangover in the corner of the Cork airport until my plane arrived the next day. Surprisingly, Ireland is inundated with fried chicken fast food restaurants. That was unexpected.
I'm not sure if Michael Morgan from WHOA! TV has the same experience I had when he visited Ireland for Cage Contenders, but he did manage to manifest this slick video for your eyes to feast on. My suggestion would be to finish shoveling your breakfast in your mouth and then spend a few minutes watching this video. Your day will be enriched because of it.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace Ryan Hall subdues disorderly man at restaurant
When keeping it real goes wrong? More like "when picking a fight with a Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) badass who will choke you the hell out if you keep bugging him and his friends at dinner."
Such was the case in the above video, which showcases Ryan Hall, an instructor at 50/50 BJJ in Arlington, Virginia. His credentials, according to the 50/50 website:
Black Belt under 2-time world champion, Felipe Costa and representative of the Marcelo Garcia Team, Ryan Hall is one of the most competitively successful American-born Jiu-Jitsu players to date and is widely regarded as one of the best lightweight submission grapplers in the world.
Ryan is an IBJJF Mundial (world), No-Gi Mundial, and European champion and medalist at the CBJJ Brazilian National (Brasiliero) championship, but is best known for his accomplishments on the world level of no-gi submission wrestling competition where he has faced and defeated some of the sport's greatest champions.
The disorderly man had no way of knowing he was playing with fire when he started bothering Mr. Hall at a restaurant one cold December evening. The description for the video explains the situation:
On December 11th, 2011, Ryan Hall was enjoying dinner in the company of friends, when a man approached the table, requesting a lighter. After informing him the table was comprised of non-smokers, the man became enraged, demonstrating violent behavior and directly threatening Ryan Hall. This video displays the occurrence in its entirety, to show exactly how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can be used in self-defense as a means to control and subdue an opponent. Without a single punch thrown, the opponent is first controlled, and in a second encounter choked unconscious as a means to end the confrontation.
For those who can't watch the video, here's the sequence of events: Ask for lighter, get denied, get pissed and belligerent, start fight, end up choked out sleeping on concrete, wake up with cops in your face, make sure to apologize to badass who choked you out.
Enjoy!
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaBellator 60 Video Highlights
Highlights from Bellator 60.
Read the full article at MMA Convert
Dana White’s TUF Live Video Blog
Behind the scenes of UFC 144 and UFC on FX 2 in this edition of Dana White’s TUF Live video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo: What Ben Henderson did on his UFC Japan vacation
Georges St. Pierre Releases Second 'Road To Recovery' Video
UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre's knee injury has been well-documented, but he apparently wanted to give fans a sneak peek at his recovery and rehab as well. He has released the second video in a series titled 'Road to Recovery", where he does a bunch of exercises that involve his knee.
It has been approximately three months since the surgery was performed, and he appears to be doing just fine, tweeting "3 months since surgery and, with all of your help, I can see the Octagon on the horizon!!!". Here's the video, and you can catch the first in the series (from just after the surgery) below the jump.
"Hi everyone! I'm back in Montreal for the weekend. I just started training gymnastics again. I'm very limited in what I can do, but I had a great workout. Pat prepared a great training program for me. I'll see everyone next weekend in Las Vegas for the fight, Condit Diaz."
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowGeorges St. Pierre’s Road to Recovery, March 9
’Loading Player...MMAScroll LeftScroll RightGeorges St. Pierre's Road to Recovery, March 9Jon Jones: Believe Your Eyes VideoVideo: Ben Henderson Signature MovesVideo: The World According To Forrest GriffinVideo: Pat Curran KO's Joe Warren At Bellator 60 Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Fightville’ Documentary Featuring UFC Featherweight Dustin PoirierUFC Analyst Joe Rogan Looks Back on Best Coaching Moments in TUF History St. Pierre: MMA Needs A Guy Like Nick DiazVIDEO: Chael Sonnen Issues Apology to UFC Champ Anderson Silva ... Sort OfUFC Lightweight George Sotiropoulos Talks Recent Surgery and Timetable for ReturnDaniel Pineda UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewGSP: I Don't Think Marijuana Is A Performance EnhancerAndrew Craig UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewTJ Waldburger UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewConstantinos Philippou UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewJames Te Huna UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewChad Mendes Talks About Training Partner Joseph Benavidez at UFC on FXThiago Alves UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Post-Fight Press Conference Highlights VideoStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Preliminary Card Post-Fight Video InterviewsJosh Thomson Strikeforce Post-Fight Video InterviewLumumba Sayers Strikeforce Post-Fight Video InterviewStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Highlights Recap VideoStrikeforce Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza Post-Fight Video Interview
Posted in: ufc, fx, video, postfight, rousey
Read the full article at Heavy MMAJon Jones: Believe Your Eyes Video
Check out this awesome video "Believe Your Eyes" with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.
Posted in: jon, jone, jon jones, video, eye
Read the full article at Heavy MMAJon Jones: Believe Your Eyes Video
Loading Player...MMAScroll LeftScroll RightGeorges St. Pierre's Road to Recovery, March 9Jon Jones: Believe Your Eyes VideoVideo: Ben Henderson Signature MovesVideo: The World According To Forrest GriffinVideo: Pat Curran KO's Joe Warren At Bellator 60 Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Fightville’ Documentary Featuring UFC Featherweight Dustin PoirierUFC Analyst Joe Rogan Looks Back on Best Coaching Moments in TUF History St. Pierre: MMA Needs A Guy Like Nick DiazVIDEO: Chael Sonnen Issues Apology to UFC Champ Anderson Silva ... Sort OfUFC Lightweight George Sotiropoulos Talks Recent Surgery and Timetable for ReturnDaniel Pineda UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewGSP: I Don't Think Marijuana Is A Performance EnhancerAndrew Craig UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewTJ Waldburger UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewConstantinos Philippou UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewJames Te Huna UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewChad Mendes Talks About Training Partner Joseph Benavidez at UFC on FXThiago Alves UFC on FX Post-Fight Video InterviewStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Post-Fight Press Conference Highlights VideoStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Preliminary Card Post-Fight Video InterviewsJosh Thomson Strikeforce Post-Fight Video InterviewLumumba Sayers Strikeforce Post-Fight Video InterviewStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Highlights Recap VideoStrikeforce Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza Post-Fight Video Interview
Posted in: ufc, fx, video, vs, postfight
Read the full article at Heavy MMAA video sneak peek of the upcoming Mark Hominick documentary 'Fight Spirit Pride,' expected for...
A video sneak peek of the upcoming Mark Hominick documentary 'Fight Spirit Pride,' expected for limited release on May 16, 2012. “This is a Documentary film about a UFC fighter’s struggle between being there for his dying father, and his career. This documentary is a very raw uncensored microscopic look into the life of a fighter; it has two deaths and two births.” Any "Machine" heads eager to check this one out?
Props: Cage Potato
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaVideo: Ben Henderson Signature Moves
UFC lightweight champion Ben Henderson gives you a look at some of his signatures moves in this video from Fuel TV.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: Ben Henderson Signature Moves
UFC lightweight champion Ben Henderson gives you a look at some of his signatures moves in this video from Fuel TV.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: The World According To Forrest Griffin
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin lets you take a look at the world through his eyes in this video from Fuel's Ultimate Insider.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: Kyoji Horiguchi, who is the #8 Ranked Bantamweight in the 2012 World MMA Scouting Report,...
Video: Kyoji Horiguchi, who is the #8 Ranked Bantamweight in the 2012 World MMA Scouting Report, dominated Tetsu Suzuki this past weekend at Shooto, and improved his record to 7-1.
In the main event, Legend FC bantamweight tournament finalist Jo Nam Jin defeated Shinichi Kojima by Majority Decision.
Posted in: video, bantamweight, kyoji, tetsu suzuki, shinichi kojima
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: Pat Curran KO’s Joe Warren At Bellator 60
Bellator 60 saw Pat Curran capture the Bellator featherweight title over Joe Warren. Watch the incredible knockout sequence video right here.
Posted in: bellator, video, joe, joe warren, curran
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: The World According To Forrest Griffin
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin lets you take a look at the world through his eyes in this video from Fuel's Ultimate Insider.
Posted in: world, video, forrest griffin, griffin, forrest
Read the full article at Low KickSFL 1 Weigh-in Results and Video – Bob Sapp vs. James Thompson
Full SFL 1 weigh-in results and video from Mumbai, India, where Bob Sapp squares off with James Thompson.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVideo: Washington’s Trevor Booker throws an alley-oop pass no mortal could catch ()
If you put a rim at the top of an NBA backboard, I wouldn't be surprised if Washington Wizards center Javale McGee was able at the very least grab it, if not dunk on the thing. Though the 2011 Slam Dunk contest runner-up has had his issues with keeping his head in the game at times so far in his career, the man can jump.
He can't bound this high, though, Washington teammate Trevor Booker:
Just when we thought we'd seen the worst of things on Friday night from New Jersey's DeShawn Stevenson , leave it to a Washington Wizard to take it personally and try to top him. Hat-tip to Ben Golliver , master of the ready-quick NBA video.
Posted in: washington, video, friday night, nba, washington wizard
Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsBellator 60 Video: Pat Curran Knocks Out Joe Warren To Win Featherweight Title
Bellator has embraced YouTube in a very solid way, attempting to make many of their "Bellator moments" into viral videos within hours of fights finishing. This time they quickly put out a video of Pat Curran knocking out Joe Warren to take Warren's Bellator featherweight title at last night's Bellator 60.
But something is missing from the video. Check it out:
It appears that they were a little uncomfortable with the poor job the referee did in stopping the fight and edited out most of the barrage of shots Warren took between the knee that set up the knockout and the couple uppercuts that knocked Warren out cold.
Joe was sent to the hospital after the fight and Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney told people at the press conference and in private that the referee did a poor job in stopping the fight. Clearly that feeling carried over into the video room where they didn't want Curran's moment overshadowed by the bad stoppage.
SBN coverage of Bellator 60
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Read the full article at Bloody Elbow
Bellator video game coming Summer 2012
Bellator will launch its own video game this summer entitled, “Bellator: MMA Onslaught.” The video game developed by Kung Fu Factory and published by 345 Games in conjunction with Spike TV will be available for download on the XBox and Playstation platforms.
Via press release:
In “Bellator: MMA Onslaught” gamers can customize their own fighter’s look and fighting style to battle the way they want, whether it be Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing or other styles. The game also shares tips directly from Bellator fighters through exclusive video content as players continue to level-up and gain experience points, allowing them to learn MMA skills in a fun and engaging way. For bragging rights, players who gain the most wins and XP will top the “Onslaught Leader Boards” online and can have the opportunity to be recognized in upcoming Bellator fights live on-air during broadcast episodes.
345 Games collaborated with Bellator Championships to create “Bellator: MMA Onslaught,” ensuring the arcade style gaming experience mirrors the organization’s format, styles, graphics, and music. As the single-elimination MMA championships league continues to grow, 345 Games will support and update the game with new moves and styles, weight classes, fighter selections and additional content.
Payout Perspective:
The video game is more of a PR/marketing tool to get the Bellator name and brand out there. The downloaded video game presents minimal risk versus a full-blown video game which would have to include much more expense. The anticipated price for the game will be $10-$15 and a demo will likely be available for free. I think its a good move to see the market and interest for the game as well as expose more of an audience to Bellator.
Posted in: bellator, video, game, style, video game
Read the full article at MMA PayoutBellator: MMA Onslaught Video Game Early Screenshots, Trailer And Preview
During the last episode of Spike TV's MMA Uncensored, they announced the news of Bellator releasing a video game called "Bellator: MMA Onslaught". It will be published by 345games, a team that handles licenses for Spike TV, and as you might already know, that's the network that's partnered up with the MMA promotion.
The trailer is after the jump, and if it reminds you a more of MMA Supremacy rather than UFC Undisputed, it's probably cause this Bellator game has the same developer, in Kung Fu Factory.
Unlike EA MMA, or UFC Undisputed, where the games were simulations with a goal of recreating the same feel as the real thing, this Bellator video game apparently will have a more "arcade-y" feel to it. Why? Well the 345games GM said it's because "it was imperative that we create a mixed martial arts game accessible to all types of players not just the hard core MMA fan."
The game is set for a "Summer 2012" release and it will be available for download through the Playstation Network and XBOX Live. More details after the jump, including a trailer and screenshots after the jump.
Fighters from the Bellator roster will be available, but according to them, the video game focuses more on a career-mode type of gameplay called "Path to Glory", where you create a fighter, and level him up as you compete on different one-off fights, and Bellator tournaments. From the press release:
In "Bellator: MMA Onslaught" gamers can customize their own fighter’s look and fighting style to battle the way they want, whether it be Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing or other styles. The game also shares tips directly from Bellator fighters through exclusive video content as players continue to level-up and gain experience points, allowing them to learn MMA skills in a fun and engaging way. For bragging rights, players who gain the most wins and XP will top the "Onslaught Leader Boards" online and can have the opportunity to be recognized in upcoming Bellator fights live on-air during broadcast episodes.
Check out the trailer and screen shots:
Posted in: bellator, mma, video, game, video game
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBellator video game 'Onslaught' sneak peek for Summer 2012 release date
Straight from the files of "Didn't see this one coming," Bellator MMA is releasing a mixed martial arts video game titled "Onslaught," developed by Kung Fu Factory and published by 345 Games for a "Summer 2012" release, available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
From today's release:
In "Bellator: MMA Onslaught" gamers can customize their own fighter’s look and fighting style to battle the way they want, whether it be Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing or other styles. The game also shares tips directly from Bellator fighters through exclusive video content as players continue to level-up and gain experience points, allowing them to learn MMA skills in a fun and engaging way. For bragging rights, players who gain the most wins and XP will top the "Onslaught Leader Boards" online and can have the opportunity to be recognized in upcoming Bellator fights live on-air during broadcast episodes.
A network television deal (Spike TV), a video game and a roster full of talented fighters. Don't look now ladies and germs, but we have ourselves a bona fide number two MMA promotion ready to make some noise.
Are you ready to listen?
Posted in: bellator, mma, video, game, onslaught
Read the full article at MMA ManiaLatest UFC/MMA news and notes from around the web for the week of March 4, 2012
Welcome, Maniacs, to the weekly series where we help you catch up on some of the original reporting done by other sites in the vast MMA landscape. Like Urijah Faber, Rich Franklin and Dominick Cruz pictured above, we can all "get along."
Teaming up with MMA sites like Low Kick, Cage Potato, Fight Opinion and The Fight Nerd, we'll provide an opportunity for all MMA fans to read some fresh and original voices in the sport.
This week, The Fight Nerd talks to the director of the Bruce Lee documentary, MMA Convert thanks Ronda Rousey and Middle Easy discovers that a Bellator video game is in the works.
The full list of links is after the jump.
- Lowkick staff top 10 pound-for-pound MMA rankings (LowKick)
New entries from previous rankings include Junior dos Santos, Carlos Condit and Ben "Smooth" Henderson. PRIDE veteran and the current number two contender for the UFC Light Heavyweight title, Dan Henderson, is the most improving fighter in this list, moving four positions from #9 to #6.
- 11 music videos featuring MMA fighters (Cage Potato)
- Bellator video game! Whoa! (video) (MiddleEasy)
Cool, another MMA videogame. Yep, the digital Joe Warren you see above is real. Bellator has officially joined the ranks of the UFC, Pride, Strikeforce and all of the imaginary or real leagues you created in Fire Pro Wrestling in being digitally recreated in our living room for our enjoyment. The debut trailer for the Bellator game being published by Spike Games (we don't know who's developing it) was released tonight, and we have to admit: we'd be down for some tournament action in the MiddleEasy offices.
- Director Pete McCormack talks new Bruce Lee documentary (The Fight Nerd)
McCormack, who also directed "Facing Ali" about Muhammad Ali, tells us about his inspiration for making this documentary about Lee, as well as why this film is different from the other ones out there about the same subject. Pete also discusses the similarities between Ali and Lee, why so many different people continue to identify with Lee, and why Bruce is still relevant nearly 40 years after his passing, plus much more.
- UFC's testosterone narrative backfiring (Fight Opinion)
This is what happens when you approach a bully and actually ask legitimate questions. The minute anything substantively is asked about a controversial topic, the bully deflects and goes scorched earth when they know they are boxed into a corner. The problem for Dana is that he & Lorenzo have made so many enemies in the press already that when trouble is brewing, the aggressive PR tactics backfire... like they are now right now.
- New York files its reply brief in Zuffa lawsuit (MMA Payout)
The New York District Attorney and Attorney General have filed its reply brief in support of its motion to dismiss two counts of Zuffa's lawsuit against New York. MMA Payout takes a look at some of the arguments rebutting Zuffa's opposition.
- The 10 best fighters in Ultimate Fighter history (BleacherReport.com/MMA)
Fourteen seasons of the show have provided us with plenty of forgettable moments and easily-dismissed fighters. But there have also been plenty of gems to emerge from the show, especially during the early days when the series featured a crop of talented fighters all trying to make it into the UFC.
- Why we owe Ronda thanks (MMA Convert)
If God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs, it was a humerus that went into making Ronda, and the judoka isn't done paying Him back in the arm-bone currency she feels she owes. Which is just fine. Because if you're a scrub and not worthy of being in the same cage as her, she'll rip your arm off in under a minute, just as she did to all before her championship turn.
- Quick Shots: SFL news, weekend MMA events (Fightline)
The Full Contact Fighting Federation (FCFF) is back in Portland, OR this Saturday, March 10th for Rumble @ The Roseland 62. The FCFF is bringing three title fights including the return of the 185-pound FCFF Champion Josh Bartlett and FCFF veteran Heavyweight fighter Damion Martindale.
- Fedor: I have to go to the US to face the strongest opponents (Five Ounces of Pain)
- Georges St. Pierre still thinks Nick Diaz fight needs to happen (5thRound)
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaTim Sylvia BEAST MODE video as part of UFC comeback trail
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia won't be making his return to the Octagon, despite his recent video asking fans to support his campaign to get back into the world's largest fight promotion. That's according to UFC President Dana White, who insisted in the UFC on FUEL TV post-fight show that Sylvia is not only past his prime, but wasn't very good to begin with, having been champion when the 265-pound division was at its weakest. Still, that hasn't stopped "The Maine-iac" from getting into fighting shape, even going into BEAST MODE. Impressed?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaThis Tim Sylvia workout video should definitely get him back into the UFC, maybe
A lot of fighters neglect to post videos of themselves working out because they don’t want to give away any part of their training. There are some workouts that call for complete secrecy amongst different camps, and it’s as strictly enforced as an confidentiality agreement for a weight-loss reality show. You can actually tell a lot about someone’s strengths and weaknesses from watching a that fighter get ‘shark-baited’ by his teammates; and if you’ve ever watched or experienced that particular drill in person, it’ll probably deter you from ever wanting to compete in any form of MMA outside of the XBOX or PS3 versions of the sport. However, Tim Sylvia doesn’t care if you watch him work out. In fact, he wants you to. He’s convinced that nothing can stop him, including 80% of the UFC heavyweight division. In the description of this YouTube video he cut yesterday, all it says is “Beast Mode” – which leads us to believe that this video represents what an elite athlete should look like in the gym. We’re fans Tim Sylvia and we’re thankful he put up this video. Joe Silva is definitely reconsidering his employment now, regardless of what Dana White thinks.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyHDNet Fights Video Vault: Kaleo Gambill vs. Brent Schermerhorn at ProElite 3
Back in January, the recently resurrected ProElite promotion held its third event.
One of the featured bouts from the card, which featured a Kendall Grove
vs. Ikuhisa Minowa headliner, included middleweights Kaleo Gambill vs.
Brent Schermerhorn.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our
fight-of-the-week feature, we take a look at the full fight video of
their bout.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieVideo: Chael Sonnen’s ‘Apology’ To Anderson Silva
Well here it is, video of Chael Sonnen’s “apology” to Anderson Silva on FUEL TV tonight. Was it sincere? Or just Sonnen’s latest shot at Silva? I’ll let you watch to find out.
Posted in: video, silva, anderson silva, fuel tv, sonnen
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on FOX 3 Press Conference Full Video
Full video from today’s UFC on FOX 3 pre-fight press conference that was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Nate Diaz, Jim Miller, Pat Barry, Lavar Johnson, Josh Koscheck, Johny Hendricks, Alan Belcher and Dana White were all in attendance.
Posted in: ufc, fox, conference, video, city
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on FOX 3 Press Conference Video
At Tuesday's UFC on FOX 3 press conference, UFC President Dana White will be joined by fighters from the UFC on FOX 3 fight card, scheduled for May 5, 2012 at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. As always, we'll carry the live video right here on MMAFighting.com.
Today's presser takes place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Headlining the third network card, lightweight standout Nate Diaz will take on perennial contender Jim Miller for a spot in title contention. Also featured are high-profile bouts Josh Koscheck vs. Johny Hendricks, Rousimar Palhares vs. Alan Belcher, and Pat Barry vs. Lavar Johnson.
The press conference begins at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT on Tuesday morning. Check out the live streaming video below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseCatch Wrestling North American Throwdown Highlight Video.A short video of the first Catch...
Catch Wrestling North American Throwdown Highlight Video.
A short video of the first Catch Wrestling tournament held at the North American Throwdown in Montreal a couple of weeks back. There was also a Sambo tournament there as well.
Keep an eye on the upcoming matwork for more Catch Wrestling and Sambo Highlights.
Posted in: video, american, throwdown, american throwdown, sambo tournament
Read the full article at Bloody Elbow
Gracie v Kimura in video and fabric form
Check out this badass mini-doc on the famous Helio Gracie vs Masahiko Kimura fight, one of the earliest superfights in the history of the sport. It's put together by Roots of Fight, and they've got an equally cool t-shirt to go along with the video:
Posted in: fight, video, kimura, gracie, badass minidoc
Read the full article at FightlinkerVideo: Bryan Jones sustains a catastrophic leg break/knee dislocation after a Justin Fowler slam at...
Video: Bryan Jones sustains a catastrophic leg break/knee dislocation after a Justin Fowler slam at a CAGEQUEST mixed martial arts (MMA) event in Lakewood, Wash., this past weekend. Warning: The footage is not for the faint of heart. I mean it. It's Corey Hill-esque.
Posted in: video, heart i, weekend warning, lakewood wash, dislocation
Read the full article at MMA ManiaBattle of the fight promos: How an unknown becomes famous and ‘Bones’ gets arty (Yahoo! Sports)
MMA has made huge leaps in promoting fights. Instead of videos that just show highlights backed by loud rap or metal music, they tell the story of why you want to tune in. These two videos from Bellator and the … Continue reading →
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Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsStrikeforce Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza Post-Fight Video Interview
Ronald "Jacare" Souza discusses his Strikeforce third-round submission win over newcomer Bristol Marunde to open Saturday's main card in Columbus, Ohio.
Posted in: strikeforce, video, jacare, souza, marunde
Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC On FX 2 Video: Dana White, Demetrious Johnson, Ian McCall React
It was revealed at the UFC on FX 2 post-fight press conference that the Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson flyweight tournament bout was actually scored a majority draw, but announced incorrectly.
BE has the video from that announcement featuring a very upset Dana White, Australia Department of Sport and Recreation head Craig Waller, Johnson and McCall with their reactions.
Johnson and McCall said they had heard backstage about the issue, while their possible future opponent Joseph Benavidez was shocked to hear the news right there and said, "I thought it was a draw. It was a great, close fight."
"Controversy seems to be stuck to us like glue these days, so what are you gonna do," White said. During his apology, Waller mentioned the two would perhaps rematch in April but White said nothing was figured out yet.
"I like him. We have fun beating each other up, so it's going to be a good time," a jovial McCall said. "I can do this again, make more money...I'm all in."
Watch the seven minute clip after the jump.
SBN coverage of UFC on FX 2
Here's the video:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on FX 2 Post-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video of the UFC on FX 2 post-fight press conference.
Posted in: ufc, fx, conference, video, postfight
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC On FX 2 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT for live video coverage of tonight's UFC on FX 2 post-fight press conference. You can catch the live video at the Youtube stream below the jump, or over at MMA Fighting. The winners of the UFC on FX 2 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a welterweight battle between former title challenger Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann. In addition to that, the flyweight tournament semi-finals will take place, with the winners meeting at a future date to decide the first UFC 125 pound champion.
$xx,xxx Bonuses:
Fight of the Night: Submission of the Night: Knockout of the Night:
SBN coverage of UFCon FX 2: Alves vs. Kampmann
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on FX 2 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
The UFC on FX 2 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to attend to after the action inside the Octagon is over at UFC on FX 2, and we'll have the video live here at MMA Fighting.com.
UFC President Dana White will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses, and the winning fighters will meet the media.
The post-fight press conference begins about half an hour after the main event ends and the video is below.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, event ends, night knockout
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseTate vs. Rousey Weigh-In Video
Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey made weight Friday for their Strikeforce championship bout taking place Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.
The champion and challenger both stepped on the scale at 134.5 pounds. Watch how it went down in the video below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseLil Ronda
D'aaaaw, who could imagine that this sweet little girl would soon be snapping arms and talking mad sh*t? These screenshots are from Loretta Hunt's video interview / article on Ronda Rousey the day before she gets her crack at the Strikeforce 135 pound women's title. WAR RONDA!
Posted in: pound, video, ronda rousey, ronda, daaaaw
Read the full article at FightlinkerUFC on FX 2 Weigh-In Video
All 22 fighters stepping into the Octagon for Friday night's UFC on FX card will first step on the scale on Thursday night for the UFC on FX 2 weigh-ins, and we'll carry the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, welterweights Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann will have to make the limit of 171 pounds, a limit that Alves has at times struggled to make. The weigh-ins will also be the first time we'll see flyweights in the UFC. Joseph Benavidez, Demetrious Johnson, Ian McCall and Yasuhiro Urushitani will all have to make 125 pounds. McCall and Urushitani have both made that weight comfortably in the past, while Benavidez and Johnson are new to the flyweight division.
The UFC on FX weigh-in starts at 10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday and the video is below.
Posted in: ufc, fx, video, weighin, fx card
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC on FX 2 Press Conference Video
At for Wednesday's UFC on FX 2 press conference, UFC President Dana White will be joined by fighters on Friday night's UFC on FX card, and we'll carry the live video here on MMAFighting.com.
In the main event at Friday night's UFC on FX card, Thiago Alves will take on Martin Kampmann. The card also features the first two flyweight fights in UFC history, with Joseph Benavidez taking on Yasuhiro Urushitani and Demetrious Johnson taking on Ian McCall.
The press conference begins at 7 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseVideo: March 3’s Pandemonium 6 Streams Live on Sherdog
March 3's Pandemonium 6 streams live and free on Sherdog.com ...
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Read the full article at SherdogVideo: Bob Sapp rolls over and taps to strikes in 15 seconds.
Video: Bob Sapp rolls over and taps to strikes in 15 seconds.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowHave yourself a happy leap day by avoiding your girlfriend and watching Bendo do Tae Kwon Do with kids in Korea
It seems there is some crazy old school tradition in quite a few countries that today is the day your girlfriend is allowed to propose to you guys. I'm sorry to scare you all like this-but it's better to know the danger you might be in for today then not. So, consider this a friendly public service announcement from MiddleEasy.com: Please if you live with your girlfriend get out of the house now. Go into work early. If you don't work- just make up some story about having to go help your grandmother move furniture all day or make an appointment for an all day sleep apnea study. Whatever you do, just don't go back to the house or have any contact with your girlfriend until after this day is over.
If you absolutely can not leave the house and are forced to be with your grilfriend today, just play her this video of an always smiling Bendo hanging out and practicing Tae Kwon Do with some kids in Korea. Upon seeing this video she will probably fall in love with Bendo and forget all about her plans to try and trap you into a life of diaper changing, mini van driving hell afterall. As a matter of fact, in order to ensure complete success in avoiding an imasculating proposal of marriage from your girlfriend-just hit play on this video and run out of the house now.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyHDNet Fights Video Vault: Andrew Whitney vs. Laramie Shaffer at Titan Fighting 20
Back in September, regional powerhouse Titan Fighting Championships hosts its 20th event.
One of the featured bouts from the card, which featured a Jamie Varner
vs. Dakota Cochrane, included two of the Midwest's top bantamweight
prospects: Andrew Whitney and Laramie Shaffer.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, our
fight-of-the-week feature, we take a look at the full fight video of
their bout.
Posted in: fight, video, fight video, weeks installment, fightoftheweek feature
Read the full article at MMA JunkieStrikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Video Preview - Ronda Rousey in "The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable...
Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Video Preview - Ronda Rousey in "The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man" by Colin Stetson
HT: Damon O.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowVideo: 'Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey' greatest hits
Ahead of Saturday's "Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey" event, Showtime Sports has unveiled a "greatest hits" video.
It focuses on Strikeforce bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and
challenger Ronda Rousey, two top female fighters who meet in the Showtime headliner at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Check out a video for some of the ladies' recent finishes.
Posted in: video, tate, rousey, hits video, showtime headliner
Read the full article at MMA Junkie‘The Ultimate Fighter Live’ Evolution Video Preview for UFC on FX
Check out the latest video preview for the all-new "The Ultimate Fighter Live," which premieres on FX on March 9. Cool stuff, right down to the Octagon eyeball!
Posted in: video, preview, video preview, fx check, stuff right
Read the full article at Heavy MMAThe Must-See Unofficial UFC 147 ‘Silva vs. Sonnen 2′ Pre-Fight Hype Video
This is about as epic as pre-fight hype videos can possibly be. Props to NickTheFace…
HT: Robert Joyner
Posted in: ufc, video, silva, prefight, hype
Read the full article at MMA ConvertRonda Rousey talks arthritis, buffalo wings and booty shorts (Video)
The "Rowdy" one also talks about Miesha Tate, who she faces this Saturday night in the Strikeforce: "Tate vs. Rousey" main event title fight (135-pounds) scheduled for 10 p.m. ET on Showtime, LIVE from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
See a video sneak peek of their upcoming fight here and get all the Strikeforce news and notes for this weekend's mixed martial arts (MMA) brouhaha right here.
Posted in: saturday night, video, miesha tate, columbus ohio, strikeforce news
Read the full article at MMA ManiaWatch Georges St. Pierre get beaten by Japanese children in the cutest video ever produced (Yahoo! Sports)
UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre headed to Japan for UFC 144. He visited a school for young kids and was promptly beaten by children wielding swords. Seriously, watch the first two and a half minutes of this video. Your … Continue reading →
Posted in: video, pierre, george, half minutes, japanese children
Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsUFC 144 Post-Fight Press Conference Video Highlights
Video highlights of the UFC 144 post-fight press conference via Heavy.com.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, press, postfight
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Post-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video of the UFC 144 post-fight press conference via the UFC.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: UFC 144
Video highlights from UFC 144 courtesy of FOX Sports.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 2 a.m. ET/11 p.m. PT for live video and coverage of tonight's UFC 144 post-fight press conference. You can catch the live video at the Youtube stream below the jump, or over at MMA Fighting. The winners of the UFC 144 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a five-round battle for the UFC lightweight title with champion Frankie Edgar defending against former WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson. The co-main event sees Ultimate Fighter winner Ryan Bader facing off with Pride veteran Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. The card also features a plethora of Japanese fighters.
$xx,xxx Bonuses:
Fight of the Night: Submission of the Night: Knockout of the Night:
SBN coverage of UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson Weigh-in Video
Watch the UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson weigh-in video from Japan.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyWeigh-in Video: UFC 144 ‘Edgar vs. Henderson’
Friday’s UFC 144 weigh-in video is available following the jump.
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Read the full article at SherdogAsian MMA Update: URCC Baguio 4 Videos, Sarenas To Headline URCC 21, RUFF 3, PXC 29 And More
The UFC is heading to Japan this weekend, but there are still a lot of news coming out of the Asian MMA scene:
First off, the videos for URCC Baguio 4: Battleground have just been released. This is one of the promotion's provincial events held in Baguio, Philippines, and you can probably think of it as more like their 'UFC Fight Nights' as opposed to the major numbered events which is held in Manila.
The mountain province of Baguio is the home town of the famed Team Lakay camp which has produced multiple champs and Asian stars such as Eduard Folayang, Kevin Belingon and many others. Headlining the card is one of the champions from that stable, in Pinweight champion (119 lbs.), Roy Docyogen. He took on former pro-boxer and fellow undefeated fighter Rodel Orais, at 125 lbs, presumably as a precursor to Docyogen competing internationally as a flyweight.
Check out the video below:
After the jump, check out the URCC featherweight championship fight along with a bunch of other MMA news from the Asian region.
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URCC champ and ONE FC star, Eric Kelly had some personal and managerial problems, prompting the promotion to add an interim featherweight title a few months back. So to co-headlining the Baguio event, Judo-based fighter Ricardo Sapno defended the URCC Interim Featherweight championship for the first time since taking the title on his last bout against Red Romero.
Check out the video below:
You can also watch the other fights from the event on the URCC Youtube Channel.
Following that Baguio event, the URCC will be hosting another numbered event and will be hosting their 21st major event in the country. Headlining that URCC XXI card will be URCC Middleweight Champion, Froilan Sarenas, an undefeated fighter training out of Submission Sport Philippines and Ole Laursen's Boracay Gym. No opponent has been named as of this writing, but stay tuned for more updates.
Also on the same night as URCC Baguio, PXC 29 was also hosted in the Philippines. Here's a highlight video (from a perspective of News anchors in Guam) that saw Ryan Bigler dominate TUF Alum Dorian Price, and the Philippines' Ale Cali winning the PXC Flyweight title:
As for post-fight analysis, I didn't attend the event, and this was the first time I've watched the PXC broadcast on AKTV, and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of their production. Apart from a few awkward camera angles from time-to-time, everything was running very smoothly, and the commentators were doing a good job at educating the more casual Filipino fanbase they're catering to.
Ryan Biglar turned in a very impressive performance by thoroughly dominating a UFC veteran in Dorian Price, making him one of the welterweights to look out for in the region.
Ale Cali on the other hand, showed that he was good enough to survive against a very experienced jiujitsu guy on the ground. He battled several submission attempts, until he eventually overwhelmed Jesse Taitano with his striking, winning him the PXC Flyweight Championship.
It was an exciting fight, and a very good test for Cali, who has very good and flashy boxing, but is still relatively inexperienced and unproven on the ground. He passed that with flying colors, and he should be praised for that, but let's be honest here, I really don't think a guy with just 1 win on his last 7 fights has any business fighting for a championship.
Don't get me wrong, giving him a high-level grappler like Taitano was a perfect step up in competition for Ale Cali at this stage of his career. I don't have any problems with the matchmaking, but in my humble opinion, having a guy with that record competing for a title just doesn't send the right message.
Moving on to more Asian MMA news, RUFF, a promotion in China, just announced a few fights for their 3rd show. Zhang LiPeng vs Rodrigo Caporal will headline, and also announced, was an excellent bantamweight matchup. Irshaad Sayed (3-1), who is coming off a dominant win at ONE FC 2, is apparently set to face Legend FC Bantamweight Champion Jumabieke Tuerxun (11-0).'Bieke' won their first meeting last July, and after both guys won big and looked to have improved a lot recently, a rematch actually is very intriguing. Sadly, it probably won't happen. Reliable sources close to the situation have informed BloodyElbow.com that the bout is unlikely to push through regardless of it being announced by RUFF. Warning signs already sprung up the moment it was announced, as Sayed is signed with DARE and should technically be "exclusive" to the ONE FC network, while Bieke, being a Legend FC champion, would have to secure special permission to fight outside the promotion.While the idea of having a ONE FC fighter taking on a Legend Champ would excite some of the fans in the region, this fight was actually planned before both of those labels actually happened.
On Shooto's March 10 event, Korean champ and Legend FC bantamweight finalist, Jo Nam Jin, will be dropping down to flyweight, to face Shinichi Kojima, a former Shooto Champion.
Felipe Enomoto's brother Yasubey Enomoto (9-2), will be defending his M-1 Welterweight title on March 24, against top Russian prospect Rashid Magomedov (16-1). In slightly unrelated news, I still want to see how that GoPro video of his turned out after it gets edited. Hopefully the two brothers keep filming their fights with that unique angle and perspective, and who knows, maybe they can even get a sponsorship out of it.
Speaking of videos, Zorobabel Moreira and Eddie Ng, two talented fighters from the famous Evolve MMA gym in Singapore will be competing on ONE FC 3 in Singapore. Check out these excellent preview videos from Evolve:
Posted in: fight, video, event, urcc, fc
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 144 Weigh-In Video
All 24 fighters taking part in Saturday night's UFC 144 fights will first step on the scale on Friday night at the UFC 144 weigh-in, and we'll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and No. 1 contender Ben Henderson will have to make the limit of 155 pounds. Also worth watching is Yoshihiro Akiyama, moving down to welterweight to take on Jake Shields, and having to make 171 pounds.
The UFC 144 weigh-in takes place at 11 p.m. Eastern on Friday (Saturday afternoon in Japan) and the video is below.
Posted in: ufc, jake shields, video, weighin, yoshihiro akiyama
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 144 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video Highlights
Video highlights of the UFC 144 pre-fight press conference via Heavy.com.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Pre Fight Press Conference Highlight Video
UFC 144 pre-fight press conference highlight video from Tokyo, Japan. Dana White, Frankie Edgar, Ben Henderson, Jake Shields and Rampage Jackson all took part from the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Posted in: ufc, conference, rampage jackson, video, press
Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White’s UFC 144 Video Blog: Part Two
Behind the scenes of the UFC 144 pre-fight press conference in this second edition of Dana White’s UFC 144 video blog.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, dana, blog
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Video: Dana White Video Blog Episode 2
Here's Dana White's second video blog for UFC 144. He takes us with him as he goes shopping in a Japanese MMA shop. Dana rhapsodizes about the Asian origins of martial arts and how fitting it is to bring modern MMA back to its homeland. We go behind the scenes for the UFC 144 press conference. Dana admits that "I'm not too popular over here."
Dana chats with Frankie Edgar and Rampage Jackson backstage before the press conference.
UFC 144 features a lightweight title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Ben Henderson. The co-main event is a light heavyweight contenders bout between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Ryan Bader. Former Pride and K-1 star Mark Hunt takes on Cheick Kongo in heavyweight action. Multiple Japanese fighters including Yoshihiro Akiyama, Yushin Okami, Hatsu Hioki, Takanori Gomi, Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto, Riki Fukuda, Takeya Mizugaki and Issei Tamura.
SBN coverage of UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, edgar, heavyweight action
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 144 Video Blog with Dana White (Episode 2)
UFC President Dana White is back with his second video blog for Saturday’s UFC 144: “Edgar vs. Henderson” event featuring a behind the scenes look from the pre-fight press conference on Wednesday.
This is the first UFC event to take place in Japan under Zuffa management.
For complete coverage of UFC 144, stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com
Posted in: ufc, video, video blog, ufc event, zuffa management
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyRoy Nelson’s excellent adventure includes sleeping in a capsule and, um, feasting on blowfish testicles (Yahoo! Sports)
Roy Nelson probably didn't need to prove his toughness any more after he survived the beating he took from Fabricio Werdum in their heavyweight match on Feb. 4 at UFC 143 in Las Vegas. In video from Dana White's video … Continue reading →
Posted in: video, las vegas, fabricio werdum, roy, didnt need
Read the full article at Yahoo! SportsThe art of the 1-second KO
Our buddies over at MiddleEasy seem to have some sort of magical psychic ability to sense when there is a new crazy MMA knockout video floating out there somewhere on the internets. How else can you explain their ability to find stuff like this Russian 1 second KO video? I especially like how the entire crowd surges forward around the defeated fighter. Is getting to touch the body of the vanquished opponent included in the ticket price? That's a pretty good marketing tactic, maybe ProElite will look into it.
Posted in: video, ability, marketing tactic, vanquished opponent, crowd surges
Read the full article at FightlinkerCountdown To UFC 144 Full Video
The full episode of Countdown to UFC 144.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo: Hustle Show Miami- I Wanna Say Something Too with Masvidal, Vila and Faraldo
Asian MMA: Check out this highlight video of Legend FC 7American promotions should take note....
Asian MMA: Check out this highlight video of Legend FC 7
American promotions should take note. This is how high-quality highlights and promos should look.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 144 Pre-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video of the UFC 144 pre-fight press conference from Japan. Dana White, Frankie Edgar, Ben Henderson, Rampage Jackson, Ryan Bader, Jake Shields and Yoshihiro Akiyama were all in attendance.
Posted in: conference, video, prefight, yoshihiro akiyama, japan dana
Read the full article at MMA ConvertFrankie Edgar vs Ben Henderson UFC 144 fight video simulation
Want to know who wins the UFC 144 main event between Frankie Edgar vs. Ben Henderson, which is scheduled to take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, on Feb. 25, 2012?
Look no further than the UFC Undisputed 3 video game.
The boys over at THQ put together this video simulation to promote the upcoming lightweight championship fight that will determine the top dog in the 155-pound division ... until the next challenger comes along.
And if life imitates art, come Sunday morning we'll have a new lightweight champion.
That's because Henderson -- a talented Brazilian jiu-jitsu guard player with a killer guillotine -- will get taken down in the fourth round, get caught up against the fence and ultimately latch onto Edgar's neck and not let go until "The Answer" taps his title away.
Here are a handful of notable stats from the above simulation, which is the culmination of 25 matches:
Edgar landed more overall strikes in 60-percent of their matchesHenderson attempted 60 submissions in 25 matchesEdgar won by TKO six times in 25 matchesEdgar and Henderson rocked each other an equal amount of times in 25 matchesHenderson won by head kick KO once in 25 matchesHenderson won by submission seven times in 25 matches
Anyone think these stats will come close to the real thing in "The Land of the Rising Sun" this weekend? For more on the "Edgar vs. Henderson" match up click here.
Posted in: ufc, video, henderson, edgar, champion thats
Read the full article at MMA ManiaStitch talks of a fight so bloody, Dana White refuses to let the video be released
submitted by realninja [link] [9 comments]
Posted in: fight, video, stitch, realninja, stitch talks
Read the full article at RedditLadies and Gentlemen: Miami Hustle is back with brand new episodes
Well it's about damn time. Miami Hustle is back after a layoff so long we wondered if it would ever grace our computer monitors, tablets, celluar devices or even your big screen TV if you have a clever little device like D-Link's Boxee Box. If you don't know what Boxee is, let me explain it to you: Boxee started as a cross platform freeware developed a few years ago to make your PC into a media hub. Let's go further.
From Wikipedia: Boxee was originally a fork of the free and open source XBMC media center software which Boxee now uses as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions.
Another interesting aspect is how Boxee manages to play Adobe Flash content from sites such as YouTube and Hulu, and display HTML5 or Silverlight content from such web-based services such as HBO Go and Netflix. Boxee seems to be shipping with a closed source, binary-only, program called "bxflplayer", which seems to load Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight proprietary plugins. This program communicates with the main Boxee process via shared memory and it renders the video onto screen. By using this approach, it is possible for Boxee not only to play Flash Video and Silverlight content that is protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) but also allows for the user to control the player using a remote control and other input devices that are more suitable to laid back watching. Same as with the above mentioned "libboxee", it is not clear if this way of using "bxflplayer" as closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes as GPL linking exception or not.
Now for roughly like, a $100, you can buy Boxee 'powered' hardware that will hook up pain free to your TV. D-Link (there's a chance they made your router) created the first widely available piece of hardware and it's pretty awesome. Straight up: AC power, HDMI, maybe an ethernet cord if you don't go wireless and you're done. It's great. I use it for everything, including Netflix and watching LayzieTheSavage's Youtube videos.I know what you're going to say: 'I can use my Xbox for that', well you have to pay for your Xbox, baby. Boxee gives it to you for free, and I think it's higher quality than the Xbox Youtube and Netflix respectively.
Most importantly: Now I can use my Boxee Box to watch, Juan Carlos Faraldo, Jorge Masvidal and all the usual Miami Hustle suspects in their ATT glory. Now if only Boxee Box would get Jorge Masvidal's manager to stop hating us for talking to Jeff Monson about mushrooms.
Boxee supports the following formats:
Supported formats: • Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA) • Container formats: AVI, MPEG PS, MPEG TS, ASF, FLV, Matroska, QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3GP, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS • Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (SP and ASP), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), Huffyuv, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, • Audio formats: AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA. • Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA • Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer[Source]
Posted in: video, format, boxee, mpeg, boxee box
Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: UFC 144 Edgar vs. Henderson full countdown show
Part One: Frankie Edgar vs. Ben Henderson Part Two: Ryan Bader vs. Quinton Jackson Part Three: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Jake Shields Part Four: Joe Lauzon vs. Anthony Pettis
Posted in: show, video, vs, edgar, frankie
Read the full article at UltMMAFight Day: Jake Shields UFC 144 Pre-Fight Video Interview
Former Strikeforce middleweight champ Jake Shields gets HeavyMMA's Megan Olivi caught up in Japan on his training before his UFC 144 bout against Yoshihiro Akiyama.
Posted in: ufc, shield, jake, video, heavymma
Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White UFC 144 Video Blog – Day 1
UFC President Dana White presents the first installment of his UFC 144 video blog with behind the scenes access to UFC 143 a couple of weeks back.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, scenes access
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 144 Video Blog with Dana White (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White is back with his first video blog for Saturday’s UFC 144: “Edgar vs. Henderson” event featuring a behind the scenes look from UFC 143 a few weeks ago.
White also discusses UFC 144, specifically the special four hour pay-per-view for the UFC’s return to Japan.
Posted in: ufc, video, video blog, blog, hour payperview
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White UFC 144 Video Blog: Day One
Go behind the scenes of UFC 143 as UFC president Dana White gears up for the company's return to Japan for UFC 144 in his latest video blog.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, companys return
Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White UFC 144 Video Blog (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White debuts with the UFC 144 edition of his video blog, this time showing the behind the scenes of UFC 143: Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Further Reading: Make sure to submit your picks for UFC
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, video blog, blog
Read the full article at Low KickDana White’s UFC 144 Video Blog: Part One
Dana White takes you behind the scenes of UFC 143 in this first installment of his UFC 144 video blog.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, installment
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 144 Japan Extended Video Preview
Check out the UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson (UFC Japan) extended video preview...
Posted in: ufc, video, preview, japan, edgar
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyMy gym got this new promo video made by a guy who is not a pro video maker. He created the video and the music and I think it's really cool, and I thought r/MMA would appreciate!
submitted by Shinyamato [link] [7 comments]
Posted in: video, promo, rmma, promo video, video maker
Read the full article at RedditVideo: 'The Ultimate Fighter 15' debuts March 9 with 16 live fights on FX
The first live season of the UFC's long-running reality series debuts March 9 on FX.
"The Ultimate Fighter 15" features 32 lightweight and welterweight UFC
hopefuls who will be coached by UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz
and upcoming opponent Urijah Faber.
Check out the first video preview of the season, which includes 16 live elimination-round fights on next month's debut episode.
Posted in: ufc, fight, video, video preview, eliminationround fights
Read the full article at MMA JunkieVideo: Brittney Palmer Playboy Magazine Photo Shoot Footage
We gave you an early look on photos from UFC Octagon Girl, Brittney Palmer's Playboy spread yesterday. Pictures are good and all, but some people prefer things in motion, so here's a video that gives us an inside look at the steamy photo shoot with the popular Men's magazine.
It is (sort-of) safe for work, but just to be sure that we don't get anyone in trouble, the video will be found after the jump.
Here's Palmer's interesting take, as she likens posing for Playboy with her passion for art:
"I take figure-drawing classes every day. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s a nude model in your class. It’s beautiful and it’s art. I really enjoy drawing nudes. I think women’s bodies are fantastic and I work my ass off for my body. I have such appreciation for being in Playboy. It’s like being a model for an elite figure-drawing class."
Video courtesy of Inside MMA.
Posted in: video, playboy, figuredrawing classes, playboy itrsquos, steamy photo
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 145 ‘Jones vs. Evans’ Press Conference Full Video
Full video from today’s UFC 145 press conference. UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and title contender Rashad Evans were in attendance.
Posted in: ufc, jone, conference, video, evan
Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo: Today's UFC 145 press conference in Atlanta with Jones and Evans
A day after its UFC on FUEL TV 1 event in Omaha, the UFC's
promotional team headed to Atlanta for a kickoff press conference ahead
of April's UFC 145 event.
Among those in attendance were UFC president Dana White and UFC 145 headliners Jon Jones and Rashad Evans.
Check out the full video of the lively press conference, which took place at Ventanas in the city's Luckie Marietta District.
Posted in: ufc, press conference, conference, video, press
Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC Undisputed 3: Official Release Video Trailer
The highly anticipated UFC Undisputed 3 video game hit American retailers on February 14th, featuring the all-new Pride mode. Check out the release-day official trailer.
Posted in: ufc, video, official, trailer, american retailers
Read the full article at Low KickWeigh-in Video: UFC on Fuel ‘Ellenberger vs. Sanchez’
Watch Tuesday’s UFC on Fuel “Ellenberger vs. Sanchez” weigh-in video here
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, sanchez, fuel
Read the full article at SherdogA video and GIF tribute to the flying mouthpiece
submitted by starxdoubt [link] [3 comments]
Posted in: video, gif, mouthpiece, gif tribute, starxdoubt
Read the full article at RedditUFC on Fuel TV 1: Sanchez vs. Ellenberger Full Weigh-in Video
Here's Tuesday's full UFC on Fuel TV 1: Sanchez vs. Ellenberger weigh-in video, courtesy of UFC.com.
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, tv, sanchez
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC on FUEL Sanchez vs. Ellenberger Weigh-In Video
All 20 fighters stepping into the Octagon for Wednesday night's UFC on FUEL event will first step on the scale on Tuesday afternoon at the UFC on FUEL weigh-in, and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, welterweights Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger will have to make the 171-pound weight limit. The co-main event features two heavyweights, Stefan Struve and Dave Herman, who should be comfortably below the 265-pound limit.
UFC on Fuel begins on Facebook Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, and the FUEL card begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Tuesday's weigh-in starts at 5 p.m. Eastern. The video is below.
Posted in: ufc, video, pm, event, fuel
Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC Undisputed 3: Official Release Day Video Trailer
The highly anticipated UFC Undisputed 3 video game hit American retailers today, featuring the all-new Pride mode. Check out the release-day official trailer.
Posted in: ufc, video, official, trailer, retailer
Read the full article at Heavy MMAIf you want to watch Bones Jones choke out a comedian, then you must listen to this incredibly annoying laugh
This article already has a plot hole. In a sense, this article and 2011's 'In Time' may be separated at birth since that film is plagued with gargantuan plot holes. Why didn't Justin Timberlake and Sylvia Weiss fill up their arms with time after they stole one million years from her dad with the knowledge they were about to die in less than an hour? I also find it incredibly hard to believe that Justin Timberlake's mother would get on a bus with only 30 minutes and expect to live long enough to yank some of her son's time. One would think anyone so experienced with time would prepare in advance, let alone have accumulated more than enough time in their life to prevent this from happening. That movie could have been far cooler than what it was -- but with that said, I could watch Justin Timberlake in another sci-fiction movie and not be annoyed.
The plot hole in this article is you actually don't need to listen to an incredibly annoying laugh to watch this video of Jon Bones Jones choking a comedian. You could mute the sound on your computer and still watch this video. In fact, I suggest you do that -- unless you have an obsession with punishing your ear drums.
Check out this video of Bobby Kelly feeling the wrath of Jon Jones on Opie and Anthony this morning. Oh, and Howard Stern rules. Props to Synthsis for the find.
Posted in: time, video, plot hole, scifiction movie, sylvia weiss
Read the full article at Middle EasyONE FC 2: Battle of Heroes Full Event Fight Videos
In case you missed the event live, or just decided to not buy the online PPV, here are the fight videos from ONE Fighting Championship's second event held this past weekend in Jakarta, Indonesia.
First up, the headlining bout between Ole Laursen and Felipe Enomoto which most people considered as the fight of the night:
More Coverage for ONE FC 2: ONE FC 2 Results, Recap And Post-Fight AnalysisONE FC 2: Battle of Heroes Main Card Live Results
The rest of the videos from the event are after the jump, including Bob Sapp's poor performance against Rolles Gracie, and my pick for fight of the night.
Follow me on twitter -- @antontabuena
Bae Young Kwon vs. Honorio Banario:
Rodrigo Ribeiro vs. Rustam Khabilov:
Soo Chul Kim vs. Gustavo Falciroli:
Rolles Gracie vs. Bob Sapp:
Preliminary fights:
The video covers all 5 preliminary bouts, but I highly suggest watching my pick for Fight of the Night -- The flyweight bout between Wushu fighter Geje Eustaquio from Team Lakay, and BJJ World Champion Alex Silva from Evolve MMA. Fight starts at the 1:04:30 mark.
Posted in: fight, video, vs, event, fc
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowAs if you needed proof elite grapplers are pro athletes
[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on DstryrSG, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
The essence of the training montage video is simple. You absolutely must incorporate one of the following in to your video: (a) the sledhammering of a giant tire, (b) giant rope swing-exercises or (c) the tipping over of an even more massive, Space Shuttle-sized, tire. The one exception I can think of to these requirements is the involvement of any kind of of exercise/gas mask deal-thing. If you wear that, you are good to go. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. Alas, this Rafael Mendes training video, showing his preparation for victory for 2011 ADCC, features none of these things. It's shocking. I'm a little stumped. I'm going back to check over the rules. There may well be a plyometics exception I'm not aware of, but even that would be most likely be canceled out by the obvious "Blink 182" penalty (never Blink 182, never). Rafael Mendes shreds as we all know. Check it and go train even harder.
Hardcore Training Montage Within
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Read the full article at Middle EasyWe could watch Melvin Manhoef hit pads all day long
[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
After a bit of a hiatus, AFAV, who have produced numerous great videos of training and behind the scenes footage of Dutch kickboxers is back. This is the "third season" of AFAV and they've kicked it off with a great video of Melvin Manhoef training. The footage takes place in Melvin's new gym. As always, everything about the video is top notch from quality to how the overall project is put together. You can find more of their videos at AFAV.info or on their Youtube channel.
Watch Melvin Kick Pads Really Fast And Hard
Posted in: video, melvin, youtube channel, liverkickcom part, melvin manhoef
Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: Legend FC 7 Weigh-In Results
Video: Legend FC 7 Weigh-In Results
Posted in: result, legend, video, fc, weighin
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowFull video of UFC 1 (1 hour 25 min long). I always enjoy going back and watching how the UFC got started
submitted by alphahouse44 [link] [7 comments]
Posted in: ufc, hour, video, alphahouse, min
Read the full article at RedditUFC 144 Preview Video
Are you ready for the UFC's return to Japan? Check out this awesome preview video and tell us you didn't get excited.
Posted in: ufc, video, preview video, ufcs return, japan check
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: Don't Mess With Frankie Edgar's BMW
Arianny Celeste video for Complex
The next UFC event will not take place for until February 15 and in order to provide the LowKick community with their fix of 2011 Ring Girl of the Year Arianny Celeste, we present this video from
Posted in: video, ufc event, arianny, celeste, lowkick community
Read the full article at Low KickUFC 143 Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: UFC 143
More UFC 143 video highlights via FOX Sports.
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, sport
Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo of the new UFC intro that debuted on 'Diaz vs Condit'-led PPV
Notice something very different last night (Feb. 4, 2012) with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) intro video?
Unless you've been living under a rock, then the absence of the now-infamous (or is it posthumous?) UFC gladiator that kicked off pay-per-view (PPV) broadcasts did not come as much of a shock. Indeed, the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion cut him after several years of loyal service, replacing the ancient Roman with a slick new, historically-inspired 60-second vignette.
One that UFC President Dana White said cost an "obscene amount of money" to make thanks in large part one would imagine for having super-composer Hans Zimmer score it, among other things. It was apparently worth every red cent, at least according to our very own Sergio Hernandez, who called it a "big step up:"
So the music was top notch, that much is certain. So what about the accompanying video? It was fantastic. Some of the greatest moments in the promotion's history -- Royce Gracie choking out Ken Shamrock, Matt Hughes slamming Frank Trigg and Anderson Silva kicking Vitor Belfort unconscious are just a few -- are set against a CGI Octagon background while an arena begins to form around it. The huge screens above the cage also show snippets of UFC history until the very end when images of Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit appear. This will presumably change from event to event.
The follow-up "Face the Pain" music notwithstanding, were you a fan of the new opening or were you expecting, naturally, something better/different?
Big thanks to IronForgesIron.com for the video.
Posted in: ufc, video, vitor belfort, ufc history, ufc intro
Read the full article at MMA ManiaNew UFC intro video a huge step up from the nu metal and gladiators of the past
Don't worry, Stemm, you can keep expecting those residual checks.
Tonight (Feb. 4, 2012) at UFC 143: "Diaz vs. Condit," the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) unveiled a brand new introduction for its pay-per-view (PPV) events. The video package which cost -- according to Dana White -- an obscene amount of money to produce was scored by Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer.
Coincidentally enough, Zimmer also scored the Russell Crowe tour de force "Gladiator." It seems the UFC couldn't stray too far from its roots.
So the music was top notch, that much is certain. So what about the accompanying video? It was fantastic. Some of the greatest moments in the promotion's history -- Royce Gracie choking out Ken Shamrock, Matt Hughes slamming Frank Trigg and Anderson Silva kicking Vitor Belfort unconscious are just a few -- are set against a CGI Octagon background while an arena begins to form around it. The huge screens above the cage also show snippets of UFC history until the very end when images of Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit appear. This will presumably change from event to event.
But, "Face the Pain" makes the cut, as well as the "fighter against a black background pre-fight trash talk" montage of main and co-main eventers.
Baby steps, fight fans, baby steps.
Posted in: ufc, video, event, step, nu metal
Read the full article at MMA ManiaWonderboy Thompson Scores Stunning KO (UFC 143 Video)
Drawing on his Kenpo background, Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson finished fellow Octagon debutant Dan Stittgen with a stunning head kick knockout. Check out our one-on-one interview.
Posted in: video, knockout, fellow, thompson, wonderboy
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyAsk a UFC fighter: Josh Koscheck answers Twitter questions from fans (Video)
In yet another new feature video from the UFC, fans were able to ask Josh Koscheck -- who will fight Mike Pierce tonight (Sat., Feb. 4, 2012) at UFC 143 in Las Vegas -- questions on Twitter.
For those who can't watch the video, here are the quick notes:
-- The Ninja Turtles were badass and Koscheck preferred Donatello. -- He's a better trash talker than Chael Sonnen-- If he moves up to 185-pounds, he would like to fight Vitor Belfort, Wanderlei Silva, or to trash Michael Bisping-- One word to describe Josh Koscheck? "Cool."-- They call him "Super Kos" in his other life. -- When asked what takedown is the best, Koscheck says use the double leg takedown. -- He wants to smack around both Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit but he'll smack Diaz first and Condit second.
And that's the first edition of "Ask a UFC Fighter," Maniacs. Dig it?
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Read the full article at RedditVideo: UFC 143 Weigh-ins
Sherdog.com is pleased to offer a live video feed of Friday's UFC 143 weigh-ins
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The full video from the UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit weigh-ins.
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LAS VEGAS -- Watch below as British MMA journalist extraordinaire Gareth A. Davis and I look ahead to Saturday night's UFC 143 pay-per-view, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit for the interim welterweight title.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseFull video of the UFC 143 weigh-ins featuring Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit.
Full video of the UFC 143 weigh-ins featuring Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit.
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Read the full article at RedditLive Video Feed: UFC 143 Weigh-ins (7 p.m ET)
Sherdog.com is pleased to offer a live video feed of Friday's UFC 143 weigh-ins
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC 143 Pre-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video from today’s UFC 143 pre-fight press conference via UFC.com.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 143 Open Workout Highlights: Nick Diaz & Carlos Condit
Video highlights from the UFC 143 open workouts via MMA Fighting.
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All 22 fighters taking part in UFC 143 on Saturday night will first step on the scale at the UFC 143 weigh-ins on Friday, and we'll have the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz will square off against Carlos Condit for the UFC interim welterweight championship belt. In the co-main event, Roy Nelson will battle Fabricio Werdum in a heavyweight tilt. The other three fights on the UFC 143 pay-per-view card are Josh Koscheck vs. Mike Pierce, Renan Barao vs. Scott Jorgensen and Ed Herman vs. Clifford Starks. The weigh-in, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., begins at 7 PM ET on Friday and the video is below.
More Coverage: UFC 143 Fight Card | UFC 143 ResultsWalkout Shirts: Nick Diaz | Carlos Condit | Roy Nelson
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 143 Video: Nick Diaz Not Happy With UFC Editing
UFC 143 main eventer Nick Diaz was nice enough to give MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani a few minutes of his time, and the results were gold. Diaz has always been known as a unique interview, and he definitely lives up to it here. He starts off in a pretty good mood, discussing how watching the Primetime special helps to get him motivated, and he shares a couple of stories from back in the day about a teacher from the special.
His tone begins to change ever-so-slightly when he is asked about Georges St. Pierre though. He doesn't believe GSP is being genuine with his talk about rooting for Diaz because he wants to fight him:
"A lot of people are putting a lot of pressure on him to say these sorts of things, it's not really him."
After discussing the differences between Georges St. Pierre and Carlos Condit and referring to GSP repeatedly as a "strong guy", Diaz looked ready to head out. But Ariel had one more question, which took the interview from average Diaz interview to great Diaz interview in a matter of seconds. Helwani asked him if he's ever online, because he saw a video clip put out by the UFC and the first comment on the video was from "NickDiaz209" saying that was not what he said. Was that Nick? Yes it was. After thanking Ariel for bringing it up, Nick goes on a beautiful two minute rant about how the UFC edited the video, and even asked his brother Nate about they did it to him as well.
It's definitely worth a watch just for the rant. Check it out.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 143 Video: Georges St. Pierre Talks Carlos Condit Vs. Nick Diaz And More
Matt Roth is covering UFC 143 live on site for Bloody Elbow this week and we'll be providing you with plenty of video and live impressions over the next few days. First up is video of Georges St. Pierre talking to the media about Saturday night's event. Included in the discussion is GSP giving his thoughts on the main event fighters Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz.
Condit and Diaz meet for the UFC interim welterweight title on Saturday night with the winner set to meet the injured St. Pierre when he returns to unify the titles.
Here's the video:
Stay tuned all week as we bring you much more on the UFC 143 card along with Matt's great on site work.
UFC 143 PPV Fight Card:
Interim Welterweight Title Bout: Carlos Condit vs. Nick DiazRoy Nelson vs. Fabricio WerdumJosh Koscheck vs. Mike PierceRenan Barao vs. Scott JorgensenEd Herman vs. Clifford Starks
Part 2 of the video (and soon part 3 as well) after the jump
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Part 2:
Part 3 coming shortly
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Full video of the Countdown to UFC 143.
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 143: The Contradictory Marketing Of Nick Diaz And How The Reem May Not Be As Awesome As You Think
I've got to come off like that just to get a fight. You're going to point the finger, make me the bad guy. I'm the bad guy. Now I get a fight. The only reason why I'm getting this fight is because everybody wants to see me take an a**-whipping right about now. - Nick Diaz
People like stories. We always have and our attention generally gravitates towards the better storytellers among us - musicians, long-running television shows, hit movies, teenage angst novelists and so on. However, in the midst of all this story-consuming, we forget sometimes that each of these storytellers is attempting to assemble some kind of narrative that the public at large can jump on and devour. These people are not necessarily trying to tell us the most accurate story or the best story possible; they want to put out the story that makes the most money for the storytellers.
This motive is the entire raison d'etre for having anything besides public access television on our screens at all: having a compelling narrative means people pay attention and when people pay attention, allowing advertisers to sell stuff equals money pouring in. The prevalence of this "compelling story = money" mode of thought has gotten so embedded into our culture that it is hard to prevent ourselves from the risky behavior of constantly constructing stories around certain facts - what I call the creation of a narrative or storyline- and then cherry-picking facts and signs to fit within that narrative. We run the risk of ignoring reality and the possible presence of facts that do not fit the narrative and yet the audience and the media keep building stories like how Sports Player X is "clutch" or that Steve Jobs was the next thing to a god on Earth.
For whatever reasons, the stories we flip out over are rooted in conflict - which meshes well with live sports and mixed martial arts in particular. It is hard to get a more direct conflict than to have two people in a cage trying to beat each other up for pride, fame and fortune. That may very well be the essential appeal of the sport. The format of mixed martial arts at the highest levels lends itself readily to any storyline that the quartet of promoters, fighters, media and fans can make sticky - or memorable to the largest audience possible.
So how do you sell Nick Diaz? Or Carlos Condit? Are they easily reduced to straightforward protagonist/antagonist roles and readily served up in bite-sized promo videos? Is doing the Countdown trash-talking and mean-mugging the best way to sell fights or can we shift to the Primetimes and independent serial videos like The Reem (despite their associated problems)?
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From a lifetime of observing and consuming these narratives in all forms, I can tell you that what really gets the gears going is when we see a hero fight a villain. The problem is that in elite mixed martial arts, there are no real heroes or villains. Everybody at the highest levels is already a somewhat similar combination of unusual talent and relentless dedication to self-improvement with plenty of ruthless dispatching of skilled opponents already in their past. Nobody stepping into the cage these days is a fat, grizzled felon who savaged their way to the top. We do not have the avatar of a monolithic Cold War side like Alexander Karelin to root against. The differences between fighters is more subtle these days and that makes marketing a bit more difficult.
At this point, The Reem might be the most loved video serial in MMA. It does a brilliant job of marketing Alistair Overeem too. Eldar Gross and Fabrice Deters have nearly unrivaled access to a prominent fighter and their videos impart a sense of urgency and impending superstardom to the recent happenings in Overeem's career. But what happens if the upcoming title bout against Junior dos Santos fizzles as a PPV or if Alistair loses? Is the narrative wrecked? Or do they gloss over and/or ignore those inconvenient facts like they did with the Golden Glory split, the Strikeforce non-fighting, or the various nightclub incidents that Overeem has been in over the years? I see the appeal of The Reem, but I do not trust it fully and the words of Bas Rutten, who has been critical at times, and others only serve to reinforce that attitude. Plus, I suspect that the videos could be done better.
From a videography point of view, the decision to make The Reem almost entirely in black and white is a curious one. This is not the mid-90's. Gross and Deters are not using film stock. The lighting seems to be relatively controlled despite the wide variance in conditions and locations. Perhaps what really drives the choice is the desire to appear "historic" - which is exactly what the narrative of The Reem is trying to sell: Alistair Overeem's historic rise to the top of the various combat sports he participates in.
While I enjoy most of the music choices within The Reem, the soundtrack would never survive a first look at the potential copyright clearance budget. This video series is never going to be pieced together and released in a longer form that is as that we experience it now. What's more is that despite the Reem team's attempt to not use too much UFC footage (see the multiple jumps between video sources for the Brock Lesnar fight), Zuffa might have some qualms about such commercial usage of their product.
All of that combines to drop The Reem down my list of favored combat sports narratives. At the same time, it opens the door for lesser knowns like Stuart Cooper and for random self-released videos like those of Jon Fitch and Pat Barry.
Cooper, the British videographer, recently released The Rise of Toquinho, which was in full color, showed rare glimpses of training footage and had extended interviews with newsworthy figures in the life of Rousimar Palhares - all without music copyright violations or going all greyscale on us. Unfortunately, Cooper's last two videos - the Evolution of BJJ for Braulio Estima, the reigning ADCC Superfight champion, and Jeff Monson's Time for a Change - have gone greyscale (perhaps in response to The Reem). Given Cooper's access and connections, I would not be surprised if Cooper works with more fighters like Rafael dos Anjos to make more "Road to [Fight[" serials.
How many of you saw the Pat Barry/Cro Cop singalong video? Jon Fitch chopping down the tree with his shin? These two fighters are perhaps the best at showing the randomity of life beyond the training and the cage. However, the audience has responded much more viscerally to Barry for whatever reasons - perhaps for his back and forth fights - and the sly humor of Fitch goes almost unnoticed. Seriously, why isn't Fitch and Dave Camarillo playing Skyrim and interacting with fans in a surprisingly honest way a bigger deal? My point is that the fighters themselves, with their Twitter accounts, video cameras and easy access to fans, have the power to build their own narratives and Overeem and Barry seem to be connecting well with people despite using very different approaches.
Very few people lead simple enough lives to be fully encapsulated by a 30 second promo video. Nick Diaz certainly is not one of them, but his aggressive and insolent fight style lends itself well to snap judgments that go against his perceived character. His in-fight trash talking and unorthodox style fit the role of an antagonist better than anyone in recent MMA history. The promotional videos have made full use of this heel bonanza and the media frustrations with getting Nick to open up or to turn down his ornerniness level have led to a self-perpetuating cycle in which Nick believes everyone is making him out to be the bad guy and he is made out to be the bad guy because he rarely ever lets people see his good side or his interests outside of fighting and repping the difficulties of life in Stockton or Lodi, California.
The missed press conference appearances, the unwillingness to talk to anyone outside his group of trusted friends and family and the occasional cuss word directed at a nameless or faceless audience that hates him or wants to see him lose all perpetuate this cycle. When other fighters jump on the "Nick Diaz is a bad guy" bandwagon, as GSP did, the resulting media attention probably drives Diaz nuts.
This is where the Primetime series comes in - those videos are the single best chances for Nick to show that he is a multifaceted person who deserves to be spoken of with the same respect a "true" mixed martial arts athlete gets. Unfortunately, Nick doesn't care. The lack of give from Nick means that the people behind the Primetime series are having trouble constructing an easy-to-latch-onto narrative for Nick, so they try to split the difference and hope something sticks. Thus we get contradictions like Cesar Gracie telling us with those cold blue eyes that "Nick does not enjoy hurting people" while earlier, the narrator extolls Nick's brutal fight-winning patterns. What Cesar is telling us may be the truth, but it doesn't fit the narrative well and probably would have been left on the cutting room floor by a more unscrupulous editor. At least we have Nick as the bad boy to fall back on.
The same thing is happening with Carlos Condit. His career has been primarily one of knocking people out or submitting them, often after a slow start and putting his all into highly entertaining bouts. Yet, he is not a mega-star within the promotion and his personal life is as diverse and unreducable as Nick's is. The Primetime folks have yet to figure out how to reduce Condit to something easily digestible. The nickname has never fit and seeing Condit do grown-up things like renovate a house and keep strong ties with his extended family only serves to diffuse the narrative into a nearly incoherent mush.
Perhaps the approach of GSP is better: show nobody any hint of a personal life and focus all public attention on the incessant pursuit of mixed martial arts like some sort of real world Ivan Drago. The only problem with that is that the storyline is completely manufactured and the audience can turn on those Potemkin narratives as they do all the time in pro wrestling and other sports.
The careers of both Condit and Diaz are littered with Fight of the Year contenders and nearly every performance both have put on in the last three years has been stellar, savage and hopefully star-making because both fight in a way that MMA fans seem to gravitate towards (primarily stand-up, but gets a high number of finishes on the ground or standing). The problem with these two is that to reach the next level of visibility and stardom, they themselves have to get involved in and comfortable with creating narratives that the masses can understand - or become Brock Lesnar. I suspect that shift in attitude will never happen with Diaz and the jury is still out on Condit waking up in that respect.
Lest I seem facetious, I admit that creating a narrative with true stickiness is tough and the competing narratives put out by the aforementioned quartet can clash or blend to become a babble few pay attention to. Some narratives are more successful than others and short taglines and videos seem to dominate the format of the most effective pitches. Thus it is understandable that the biggest MMA promotions in the world try so very hard to attach some set of easily recognizable storylines to each event and record hype videos. Remember those taglines attached to the early numbered UFCs1?
The tagline for UFC 143 should be "Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit". However, it is coming off more and more like "The next guy to fight GSP".
1UFC 26: Ultimate Field of Dreams is my favorite, as it conjures up the bizarre mental image of some kind of event held in a cornfield where the bloody spikes of Ty Cobb would have been perfectly at home.
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit Extended Video Preview
Check out the UFC's video preview for UFC 143 pay-per-view in Las Vegas, featuring an interim welterweight title fight between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White UFC 143 Video Blog (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White documents his preparatons for next weekend's UFC 143 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this blog, White takes us behind the scenes of UFC on FOX 2, which was headlined by Chris Weidman's valuable victory over Demian Maia, Chael Sonnen's pro-wrestling promo, and Rashad Evans securing the Light Heavyweight title shot against Jon Jones.Further Reading: UFC on Fox 2: Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis Video Highlights
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Read the full article at Low KickDana White UFC 143 Video Blog – Day 1
Another fight week is here and UFC President Dana White is back with a new video blog for UFC 143. This installment however is a look back at UFC on Fox 2.
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Dana White gives fans a behind the scenes look at UFC on FOX 2 in this first installment of his UFC 143 video blog.
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UFC President Dana White is back with his first video blog for Saturday’s UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condig event featuring a behind the scenes look from UFC on Fox 2 this past weekend.
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Viral videos FTW.
UFC President Dana White passed along this clip of UFC 143 event headliner Nick Diaz walking the walk as he prepares to talk the talk this Saturday night (Feb. 4) in Las Vegas.
Carlos Condit, where you at?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC On Fox 2: Dana White Releases Latest Video Blog
UFC President Dana White released his third video blog leading up to UFC On Fox 2, covering some of the various aspects of the promotional build and some behind-the-scenes of his week in Chicago, IL.
A few highlights of the near six-minute video:
White appeared on a WGN show and was told the studios were the home of the old Bozo The Clown show. They showed White some of the props and the setup, which he seemed genuinely interested in.
White made fun of one of his inner circle of employees sleeping.
The majority of the clip focused on the weigh-ins. Joe Rogan razzed White for his issues with "the Internet" and matchmaker Joe Silva told Dominick Cruz that the cast of the next season of The Ultimate Fighter is great.
The only notable items from the actual weigh-ins was the respective stares of Rashad Evans and Cub Swanson and the chatter between Michael Bisping and Chael Sonnen.
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Watch the clip after the jump.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC On Fox 2 Post-Event Press Conference Video: Rashad Evans, Chael Sonnen Speak
As you eagerly await the offensive displays and drama that are the NHL All-Star Game and the NFL Pro Bowl, kill some time on a Sunday afternoon with the full video of Saturday's UFC On Fox 2 post-event press conference from Chicago.
The video here (which actually starts at the 33-minute mark) features UFC PR king Ant Evans, Rashad Evans, Phil Davis, Chael Sonnen, Michael Bisping, Lavar Johnson and Chris Weidman talking about their wins, losses and what's next. Dana White didn't attend.
Evans said the event drew 17,425 for a live gate of $1.2 million. Evans defeated Davis by unanimous decision in the main event, while Sonnen bested Bisping in a close unanimous decision win. Weidman defeated Demian Maia by unanimous decision (incorrectly announced as a split decision), while Johnson earned Knockout Of The Night for his first round KO of Joey Beltran on the Fuel TV undercard.
See the full 45-minute video after the jump.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC On Fox 2 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET/7:15 p.m. PT for live video coverage of tonight's UFC on Fox 2 post-fight press conference. You can check it out at the Youtube stream below the jump, or over at MMA Nation, SBN's home for live video. The winners of the UFC on Fox 2 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a five-round light heavyweight bout between Rashad Evans and Phil Davis. If Evans wins, he'll meet rival Jon Jones for the UFC light heavyweight title at UFC 145. If Davis wins, he might just get the shot too.
$xx,xxx Bonuses:
Fight of the Night: Submission of the Night: Knockout of the Night:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White’s UFC on FOX 2 Video Blog: Part Three
Dana White visits the old Bozo the Clown set (seriously) and goes behind the scenes of the UFC on FOX 2 weigh-ins in this third installment of his UFC on FOX 2 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on FOX 2 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCThe UFC on FOX 2 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video below at MMAFighting.com.
UFC President Dana White will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses, and winning fighters will answer questions from the media.
The post-fight press conference will begin about half an hour after the main event ends, likely around 10:30 PM ET, and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White's UFC On Fox 2 video blog - Day 3
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In his latest UFC on Fox 2: Evans vs. Davis video blog, UFC president Dana White takes us behind the scenes during his media blitz in Chicago and at the weigh-ins.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyDana White UFC on Fox: Evans vs. Davis Video Blog, Day 2
Go behind the scenes of the UFC on Fox: Evans vs. Davis pre-fight press conference with UFC president Dana White in his latest video blog for tonight's Chicago card.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White UFC on Fox 2 Video Blog (Part 2)
As UFC President Dana White continues with his customary fight week video blog ahead of UFC on Fox 2, he arrives in Chicago, where he makes an appearance on a local news show before heading downtown to The W Hotel for the event's Pre-Fight Press Conference.
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Read the full article at Low KickUFC 143 Diaz vs. Condit Extended Video Preview
Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit square off for the UFC interim welterweight title at UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit on Super Bowl weekend. Check out the extended video preview.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC On Fox 2 Video: Dana White Releases Second Video Blog
It took five days but the UFC released a new Dana White video blog Friday, documenting the behind-the-scenes of Thursday's pre-fight press conference as we lead up to UFC On Fox 2 Saturday.
Some highlights of the nearly eight minute long clip:
Behind the scenes with White going on Fox's Good Day Chicago with associate Marty Cordova struggling to take a video of him.
White runs down how people can watch the prelims on Fuel TV and the main card on Fox.
He explains how he's flying to Brazil for several days to film TUF Brazil and that they're working out how people in the U.S. get to see it.
We get a look at a frantic few minutes before the press conference with White saying how he hates starting pressers late, some interaction with Chael Sonnen about shoes and opponents awkwardly standing next to each other as they're about to go out on the dais.
There's plenty of presser footage including Evans and Davis verbally jousting about wrestling, Sonnen doing wacky promos with the fake belt and the usual square offs.
There is no mention or reference to any of the recent issues White has had with "the Internet." Watch the whole clip after the jump.
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Weigh-in Video: UFC on Fox 2
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC on FOX 2 Preview Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosCHICAGO -- Watch below as veteran MMA broadcaster Mauro Ranallo and I break down all the storylines heading into to Saturday night's UFC on FOX 2 card.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White’s UFC on FOX 2 Video Blog: Part Two
Dana White gives us a behind the scenes look at yesterday’s UFC on FOX 2 pre-fight press conference in this second installment of his UFC on FOX 2 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertCheck out this video from our sponsor, Red Bull, or we can never be friends again
Red Bull wants to dive into the vast ocean of MMA sponsorships, and they chose MiddleEasy.com as a starting point. There's your breaking news for today. Go hang that one up on a wall and make yourself a peach sorbet while you're at it. In fact, make me one too -- but just unsweeten the entire thing. I don't get down with extraneous sugar in my diet. That's not the MiddleEasy way. Fortunately, Red Bull offers their energy drink in a sugar-free variation, so all is right with the cosmos.
The truth is, Red Bull really wants to get into the MMA sponsorship market, and MiddleEasy is their launch pad. They've even provided this nifty video of what they would like to bring to the MMA industry. It's sleek, stylish and and cool; basically, it's the exact opposite of my childhood. We're pretty sure the interest of this video will dictate the involvement of Red Bull in the MMA industry, so be sure to watch it. Besides, Red Bull doesn't want to get into a market of fickle consumers so make it be known that you would love to see them inside the cage at your next MMA event and support them by watching this video.{jcomments off}
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Read the full article at Middle EasyTHQ offers free download of Alistair Overeem for UFC Undisputed 3 video game roster
Our buddy Pillow Pants brings news that fans can download Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight number one contender Alistair Overeem FOR FREE to add to their UFC Undisputed 3 video game roster when it drops Feb. 14, 2012, for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
How does it work?
Head over to the UFC Undisputed 3 Facebook page and "like" them. That gets you a redeemable token that you can cash in when the popular mixed martial arts (MMA) video game franchise spits out its third offering.
Yes, on Valentine's Day.
She gets the roses, you get "The Reem."
Get a closer look at "Demolition Man" in all his video game glory after the jump.
The UFC Undisputed 3 playable demo is now available to download for FREE at the Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game console, as well as the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 (PS3).
The demo will feature a fantasy match-up between current UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and reigning 185-pound champion Anderson Silva. In addition, former rivals Quinton Jackson and Wanderlei Silva will hook 'em up in a rematch from their PRIDE days.
The UFC Undisputed 3 playable demo will also feature "mirror matches," which gives players the ability to challenge their buddies (or opponent AI) as the same fighter. That's a good way to level the playing field amongst friends and see who truly is the better player.
Get a closer look at the UFC Undisputed 3 roster here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC on FOX 2 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll 22 fighters stepping into the Octagon at UFC on FOX 2 Saturday night will first step on the scale Friday at the UFC on FOX 2 weigh-ins, and we'll carry the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, Rashad Evans and Phil Davis will have to make the light heavyweight limit of 206 pounds. In the other two Fox fights, middleweights Chael Sonnen, Michael Bisping, Demian Maia and Chris Weidman will all have to make 186 pounds.
The UFC on Fox 2 weigh-ins starts at 5 p.m. ET on Friday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseRonda Rousey Says Georges St. Pierre Is Boring, No Longer Doing Positive Things
Over the past year it has become quite clear that Ronda Rousey is not afraid to speak her mind. In a recent video, while talking about a variety of topics, it was time for Georges St. Pierre to feel her wrath.
First the video:
Quote (transcription via MixedMartialArts.com):
I think that fighters that just try to win by points and come away with a win are actually bad for the sport. If you never saw MMA before, and you walked in and you saw GSP and Koscheck, and all this jabbing out the whole time, it looks like a boring boxing match. And I don't think you gain any fans with a fight like that.
And so I really hope that Nick Diaz beats the crap out of him, because Nick Diaz is entertaining, and he's an entertaining character in general. He might not be popular but I mean I can't but watch every video he puts out youtube. I think it's funny as Hell. And every single one of his fights is a brawl. It's not like a pitter pat match where afterwards he goes "Were friends, were all friends" and then okay let's go home. I think that's boring.
GSP was good for the sport for a while. He brought in some big sponsors like Gatorade and UnderArmor. But I think he's done everything he can in a positive way and he needs to step aside and let Nick Diaz kick his ass.
I'd say that it's hard to say that the only guy currently on the roster who can push UFC pay-per-view buys to the one million mark isn't "good for the sport." But maybe that's just me.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowMatwork! 2012 London Olympics Buildup, Dan Gable Sermon, Almaty World Masters Results
Recent happenings in the worlds of sambo, judo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling and/or collegiate/freestyle wrestling. If it takes place on the ground and it's interesting, it should be here.
The weather outside is cold in the Northern hemisphere, but inside the gyms all over the world, the training rooms are hot, smelly and full of young and old grapplers looking to develop and refine their technique and physical condition. A rarefied few are training for the 2012 Olympics in London, England. Now, Brazilian jiu jitsu is not an Olympic sport (and probably should not be), but judoka and freestyle wrestlers worldwide have been convinced that these specific bits of shiny metals are extremely valuable and are prepared to go through physical and mental hells to get them.
Since most of those reading this column are not those judoka or wrestlers - if you are, please let this be read during your downtime - we do not get to watch them until the bright lights are upon the Olympic mats. We miss the years of training, the highs and lows of pursuing athletic success and the individual characteristics that make each person unique. Unlike NBC condensing these stories into schmaltz and cramming them down our throats, Zach Smart, a former wrestler turned videographer, has spent quite some time around some wrestlers who are Olympic hopefuls. Those hours of lugging around the cameras have produced a teaser trailer of Ithaka, which shows at least the beginnings of what looks to be one of the best sports documentaries I've ever seen.
Ithaka Teaser from Zach Smart on Vimeo.
Smart plans to continue rolling through August and capture as much as he possibly can. On the list of very good ideas that may need some future support, this could be somewhere in the region of an English language Buivasar Saitiev documentary.
Below the jump, a rambling Dan Gable sermon delivered while boxing, Jose Aldo's early days as a submission grappler, the Almaty World Masters judo results, several updates on the collegiate wrestling scene, the start to the International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation competition scene and perhaps the most bizarre set of "martial arts" pictures I have ever seen. The column closes out with camel wrestling and two cats grappling to Guile's theme.
If you have any video or article links of your own or questions and comments, leave them below or get word to me at DefGrappler on Twitter. Please let me know if I missed anything major and I will fix this, that and the other thing.
A list of official crew Twitter accounts is right here for your pickings: BloodyElbow Twitter, Luke Thomas, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Leland Roling, Richard Wade, Chris Barton, Damon O,Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coffeen, Dallas Winston, KJ Gould, Matt Roth, Anton Tabuena, T.P. Grant.
Wrestling News:
The following video may appear to be of a crazy old coot walking around, yammering and whaling on a heavy bag with terrible technique, but it is actually Dan Gable, legendary wrestler and Iowa coach, delivering a long talk to Mark Bader about the purpose of workouts and perhaps a look into just how fierce the focus and dedication an elite wrestler needs to have in order to be an elite wrestler.
Watch more video of Dan Gable on flowrestling.org
The big news in collegiate wrestling was the losing streak Iowa went on. They lost by criteria (points scored within the meet) to Oklahoma State, lost to Ohio State for the first time in 66 years 21-9 and now to Penn State 22-12. This streak is understandable given their recent injuries to their heavier starters and all three teams that beat them are firmly within the top ten wrestling programs nationwide.
The current top dog team in folkstyle wrestling is Penn State, trained by Cael Sanderson and featuring one of the most dominant wrestlers in the country in David Taylor at 174 lbs. Fourteen of Taylor's eighteen wins have been by fall or technical fall (vastly outscoring the other wrestler until the match is called). His technical fall win in the match against Iowa's Mike Evans at 165 was condensed into a highlights clip over at Flowrestling. Penn State looks to be in great shape for the NCAA championships later this year and Cael has recently said that he is leaning towards focusing on the team and not competing in the Olympic Trials in two months.
New York has been producing some top-notch talent and Cornell is no longer the sole diamond in the rough. Binghampton, ranked #24 at the time, gave #5 ranked Cornell all their team could handle in a narrow 22-21 criteria-decided dual meet. Kyle Dake and Cam Simaz picked up a couple of falls and continued their build towards NCAA gold.
The Guelph Open was held five days ago in Guelph, Canada. The wrestlers involved were all North American, but the competition was surprisingly tough. Themat.com has the results and it looks like Andrew Howe is going to be one extremely tough opponent for Jordan Burroughs to beat in two months.
The InterMat rankings are updated and out for your reading pleasure. T.R. Foley, maybe my favorite wrestling writer, has a good look at this week's UFC on Fox 2 card regarding the card's reliance upon former collegiate wrestlers.
Judo News:
The judo competitive season kicked off with a great event in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Several dozen of the finest competitors on the planet showed up and grappled at the World Masters. The Japanese team retained their typical share of the medals, but it seems that China and Brazil have replaced France and Korea temporarily as serious medals contenders. Tiago Camilo, ">subject of much discussion in the last Matwork! issue, finished third in his -90 kg division. IntJudo.eu has the results for Day 1 and Day 2 if you'd care to view them. GreekJudo and Judohatti have uploaded a ton of Almaty 2012 World Pro matches on YouTube, so matching the recap to the actual matches is possible. Remember that all of this is a build-up to the London Olympics and the competition is getting fierce for those national team spots.
My favorite ippon of the tournament came as Masashi Nishiyama beat Kiril Voprosov with a very nifty foot sweep in the -90 kg finals. This specific ashi waza is something akin to a counter to a counter to a counter and Nishiyama makes it look somewhat easy.
The semi-finals of the -100 kg category saw Maxim Rakov (of Kazakhstan) beat the world champion and current #1 ranked judoka in his division, Anai Takamasa with an extremely sweet foot sweep. The judo people call it okuri ashi harai and you can see for yourself how sweet that technique can be.
Submission Grappling/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu News:
The 2012 IBJJF European Championships are being held right now in Lisbon, Portugual. The official page and strangely formatted brackets can be glimpsed here, but the best updates will come from Twitter feeds of competitors, referees and grappling journalists. I have a soft spot in my heart for Rafael Lovato Jr., who is competing in the Medium Heavy division, but he faces stiff challenges within the division with Rodolfo Vieira, the newest superstar in the sport staring at him from the other half of the bracket. The men's black belt divisions look a bit thinned out, perhaps because newer competitions with cash prizes are starting to attract bigger and better crowds of competitors.
One such tournament is the Abu Dhabi World Pro, which held its Rio de Janeiro qualifiers last week. The athletes of Grapple Fight Team, begun by Julio Cesar Pereira, did astoundingly well as five GF Team competitors won their respective divisions and all-expenses paid trips to the Abu Dhabi World Pro later this year. Rodolfo Vieira was predictably the winner of his division and Ricardo Evangelista, Vitor Henrique, Vinicius Marinho and Theodoro Canal joined him. Some photos are available over on GracieMag.
The gi and no-gi Gracie Nationals will be held on the 28th and 29th. The rules are a bit quirky in that the competitor must submit their opponent within fifteen minutes to win. No points or advantages are awarded. If nobody is submitted, both competitors are out of the bracket. More information can be found here and I am curious to see if match videos pop up later.
GracieMag has a nice rundown of some early Jose Aldo grappling matches. Only one video features, but Marcelo Dunlop managed to get some nice recollections of the details for each match. From reading the article, it becomes apparent that Aldo is a ferocious competitor in both BJJ and MMA.
Christian Graugart, a Danish brown belt and the best BJJ blogger anywhere, returned to Moldova to teach a seminar. What makes this special is that Moldova is essentially the furthest place in Europe from any solid grappling or economic base possible - and there is still a group of young people trying to learn submission grappling out there. Graugart made some connections in Moldova on his trip through the country last year in the early going of his BJJ Globetrotter project.
The blog Journey BJJ has two solid interviews with Alec Baulding and Jonathan Thomas.
The FightWorks podcast sat down with Marcelo Garcia for some time and that is probably a great usage of that spare hour you would probably spend watching YouTube videos.
Odds and Ends:
I loathe linking to Grantland, but Brian Phillips may be the best sports columnist you never heard of. He possibly can make you care about soccer somewhat. Or at least not hate it.
On a Russian blog, someone compiled perhaps the strangest set of people risking life and limb in goofy ways and calling it martial arts that I have ever seen - and added funny captions after most of them. If you can run the page through a translator, it is well worth your time to laugh at the bizarreness.
And now, to close out strong with the grappling animals. I came across a Sports Illustrated photo of two camels wrestling and spun that off into an hour researching Turkic tribal customs and YouTube videos. The custom is widespread enough that there is a Wikipedia page for camel wrestling - which lists one of the hazards for spectators as being "camel spittle" and being in danger of trampling by a runaway camel. Check it out:
Lastly, DeoWade's find: two cats battling to Guile's theme.
People, I always need more awesome Odds & Ends. Videos, gifs, links, whatever. Do not hesitate to send them my way in the comments or on Twitter.
Def Grappler out!
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC On Fox 2 Video: A Day In The Life Of Phil Davis
With the highest profile fight of his young career coming up Saturday at UFC On Fox 2, the undefeated Phil Davis takes fans behind the curtain in part one of this "day in the life" video.
We get shots of Davis shadowboxing and sparring with comments from striking coach Adrian Melendez on Davis' improvements with his standup game and why he thinks he will win on Saturday.
It should be noted that this is not a UFC produced video so there's several sponsor mentions throughout. Part 2 will focus on Davis' cardio.
The 27-year-old Davis (9-0) battles Rashad Evans in the main event of UFC On Fox 2, his first fight since decisioning Antonio Rogerio Nogueira at a Fight Night event in March. He was slated to fight Evans at UFC 133 in Philadelphia, but had to withdraw due to a knee injury.
See the full seven-minute video after the jump.
SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 2
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowSorry Canada, but Brazilian MMA fans are far crazier than you guys
I've been fasting all day because my car is out of gas. It's not religious, it's economical. It's not a good way to start off National Opposite Day. Judging by the people who live next to me, National Opposite Day started at 3:00 am and involves playing old 'Hootie and the Blowfish' albums. I'm sure there's a Brazilian equivalent to this holiday, only there would be much more gratuitous butt showing. The only way to start off National Opposite Day is to show a video of Brazilian fans going absolutely nuts at UFC 142. Correction, the only way not to start off National Opposite Day is to not show a video of Brazilian fans absolutely not going nuts at UFC 142. That would be in the vein of National Opposite Day -- or would it? It's 9:25 am and this holiday is already confusing me, so just watch this video of the crowd reaction from UFC 143 -- or don't watch a video of a crowd not reacting at UFC 143 -- or not. Today sucks. [Source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyJon Jones: “Rashad’s chin sucks.”
With UFC on FOX 2 just days away UFC President Dana White has stayed true to form, releasing the first installment of his video blog for the event.
This episode of the vlog boasts extensive behind-the-scenes footage from last Friday night’s UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller card. In the clip viewers are shown several of the fighters in the back after their matches including the highly-amped Mike Easton before his bout. There are also segments featuring main event fighters Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller reflecting on their bout as well as a heartwarming moment between opponents Christian Morecraft and Pat Barry.
Near the conclusion of the video, UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones is interviewed and asked his thoughts on the upcoming FOX fight between rival Rashad Evans and unbeaten wrestler Phil Davis. If “Suga” wins, he will likely face “Bones” in Atlanta later this year at UFC 145, while “Mr. Wonderful” could vault himself into contention with a victory as well.
“I could see Phil Davis winning by knockout (because) Rashad’s chin sucks,” predicts Jones. “I could see Rashad winning by taking him down, trying to lay on him (but) I am rooting for Rashad to win the fight so I can fight Rashad and get past it, get it over with.”
Check out the video in the player below, complete with the Jones interview at the very end:
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Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainDana White UFC on Fox 2 Video Blog (Part 1)
UFC President Dana White opens up his customary fight week video blog ahead of UFC on Fox 2 at the event's Pre-Fight Press Conference, where both Chael Sonnen and Michael Bisping share their thoughts on a potential showdown with Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. From there, viewers are given a behind the scenes look at last week's action from Nashville, Tennessee.
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Read the full article at Low KickDana White’s UFC on FOX 2 Video Blog: Part One
The UFC takes us behind the scenes of UFC on FX 1 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC on FOX 2 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White video blog for UFC on FOX 2 (Episode one)
Fight week, blog week!
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is gearing up for its second-ever high-profile mixed martial arts (MMA) extravaganza on FOX this weekend (Sat., Jan. 28, 2012) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
That means, among other things, that UFC President Dana White is back with his traditional video blog series to promote the primetime show. However, before we set our sights on UFC on Fox 2: "Evans vs. Davis," the promotion ties a ribbon around its most recent event, UFC on FX 1: "Guillard vs. Miller," which took place on Fri., Jan 20, 2012.
We get a behind-the-scenes look at the fighters as they prepare to enter the Octagon for their respective bouts, as well as when they return to the tunnel afterward to talk to the doctors. Melvin Guillard, Jim Miller, the recently-retired Jorge Rivera, Pat Barry, Christian Morecraft, Mike Easton and more are all featured.
Then, toward the end of the video, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones makes a cameo to share his prediction of the main event fight between Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis.
Check it out:
"I can see Phil Davis winning by knockout. I mean, Rashad's chin sucks. I can also see Rashad winning by taking him down and just try to lay on him. It's going to be a great fight. I'm sure Phil Davis has gotten a lot better since his last appearance. Rashad's showing some changes in his game. I don't know -- I'm rooting for Rashad to win the fight. That way I can just fight Rashad and move past it, you know? Get it over with. We'll see what happens."
For more on the reason Jones wants Evans to defeat "Mr. Wonderful" click here. And for everything you need to know and more about UFC on Fox 2 be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here.
White mentions that two, possibly even three more video blogs, will be released prior to showtime. Stay tuned.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaDana White UFC on Fox 2 Video Blog – Day 1
It's UFC on Fox 2 week and here is the latest installment of Dana White's video blog, including a prediction on the main event from light heavyweight champ Jon Jones.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC on FX 1 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Full video of the UFC on FX 1 post-fight press conference.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on FX 1 Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: UFC on FX 1
Video highlights from UFC on FX 1 via Fox Sports.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertGina Carano explains why sex for her is similar to MMA
Eventually when you stop looking at the banner picture, you will notice there are words underneath it that pertain to a video of Gina Carano comparing sex to mixed martial arts. I'm sure these words don't hold much value in your life since there's a video of Gina Carano mentioning the word 'sex' while rocking an amazing outfit. We at MiddleEasy completely understand, and if you're still reading this article, then we're perplexed. Did I mention there's a video of Gina Carano talking about sex just beneath this paragraph? Yeah, I did -- and you're still reading. Hopefully this Altered Beast intro will persuade you to just watch the Gina Carano video and stop reading. Alright, our relationship is getting kind of strange. I'm telling you to watch this Gina Carano video, yet you still insist on reading. Well guess what, this article is out words. Take that! [Source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyDana White video blog for UFC on FX (Episode 1)
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White releases a last-minute video blog in advance of tonight's (Jan. 20) UFC on FX: "Guillard vs. Miller" cable network event, featuring lightweight standouts Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller battle in the night's main event for a spot in the division's crowded 155-pound title chase.
White quicly goes over the five W's for watching tonight's broadcast before switching over to a few housekeeping items, most notable the UFC "Primtetime" special for UFC 143, featuring the welterweight Interim title fight between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit.
He also pays a visit to the set of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 15, coached by 135-pound division rivals Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber, who also spend some thime with the boss to give their UFC on FX predictions.
Last but not least, footage of the "Guillard vs. Miller" weigh ins is show from Dana's perspective. Check out the video above then get up to speed on all the UFC on FX news and notes by clicking here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaStrikeforce Quick Quote: 'King Mo' Lawal cheats at video games, not fighting
"I'm very surprised about this. I am very careful about what I put into my body. I've never tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug. I've gone through, and still welcome, Olympic-style testing. I will do whatever is necessary to get to the bottom of this. I'm not a cheater. I might cheat at video games, but I never cheat at fighting."
-- Strikeforce light heavyweight Muhammed Lawal tells ESPN.com he's surprised at the news that he tested positive for an anabolic steroid in conjunction with his Jan. 7 bout against Lorenz Larkin. That's because unlike video games, where he cheats all the time, he keeps it clean in the fight game. Indeed, this is the first time "King Mo" has ever failed a test, despite going through rigorous Olympic-style testing in the past. It seems obvious he intends to appeal the results of the test but if that doesn't work, his win over Larkin will be overturned to a no contest and he'll likely be fined and suspended for up to one year. Innocent until proven guilty, of course, and everyone has the right to appeal but does Lawal have a case here? For more on his drug test failure click here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaVideo: ‘Bones’ on the Catwalk
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones hit the runway in Rio de Janeiro last Saturday to model clothes for the Auslander brand on the final day of Fashion Rio 2012. “Bones” can be seen strutting his stuff at the 1:35 mark in the above video.
Follow the jump for reader comments.
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Read the full article at SherdogDana White releases unaired footage from ESPN 'Outside The Lines' fighter pay interview (Video)
ESPN recently tried to take Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to task for the disparity between ZUFFA profits and fighter salaries in a video interview for its "Outside the Lines" program.
In it, Lorenzo Fertitta answered questions regarding the promotion's perceived "monopoly" and how it put a stranglehold on a fighter's ability to negotiate a contract.
Unfortunately, you only got half the story. Perhaps less.
That's according to UFC President Dana White, who today (Jan. 16, 2012) released unaired footage from the 40-minute video the UFC also filmed to help protect his firm from a negative slant by the "dirty" reporters at ESPN.
"You do a 40-minute interview with a guy and then you do a nine-minute piece with him, and they make it look like all this bad stuff is going on and they don't tell Lorenzo's side of the story when Lorenzo says things. You'll see this thing in its entirety and you'll see ESPN 'Outside the Lines,' E:60, these shows like this, how they do business and what they're like. They're dirty, they lie and they never give you all the facts. This is why I did not participate in this interview."
After the jump, White reveals unaired footage from the Fertitta interview that shows a much different side of the story.
Check it out.
The UFC/ESPN relationship, on shaky ground from the word go, has been further complicated by the promotion's recent long-term broadcast deal with FOX Sports.
Now that mud is officially slinging, can we expect this thing to get worse before it gets better?
Stay tuned to MMAmania.com for more on this developing story including the full, 40-minute video of footage the UFC plans on releasing to compare notes.
For more on Pay-gate click here, here and here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaLorenzo Fertitta fires back at ESPN in video clip
The war between the UFC and sports television giant ESPN looks to be picking up steam following a series of videos released by both organizations.
The first shot was fired when ESPN decided to do a documentary-style piece for investigative news-show Outside The Lines on the monopoly that many believe the UFC is creating in the MMA world. Included was a focus on fighter pay ultimately sending UFC President Dana White and co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta over the edge.
White then claimed he would release the UFC’s own video of the interview process with ESPN and now a clipof Fertitta talking about payments ESPN made to boxers for its Friday Night Fights series has been made public.
“There was a guy who walked away with $275 for a four-round fight (on ESPN),” explained Fertitta to the ESPN reporter interviewing him. “Our fights that we put on cable, we paid 10 times what the fighters (were) paid by ESPN.”
It remains to be seen what kind of coverage ESPN will give the UFC in the future, or if the fight promotion even has any care to be covered by the sports programming giant.
Check out the video of Fertitta below:
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Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainUFC 143 Video Trailer for Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit on Feb. 4
With UFC 142 less than one day behind us, the UFC is now looking ahead to UFC 143 with a video trailer for the Feb. 4 event in Las Vegas, which is headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit for the interim UFC welterweight title.
As always, stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete coverage of UFC 143, as well as UFC on FX 1 and UFC on Fox 2 still coming up later this month.
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, las vegas, video trailer
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyMore UFC 142 Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: UFC 142
More UFC 142 video highlights via Fox Sports.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 142 Rio Video: Vitor Belfort Works Inside the Cage and Outside
Vitor Belfort wasn't pleased with Anthony Johnson's inability to make the middleweight limit and talked about that and more in his UFC Rio post-fight video interview.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 142 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT for live video coverage of tonight's UFC 142 post-fight press conference. You can check it out at the Youtube stream below the jump, or over at MMA Nation, SBN's home for live video. The winners of the UFC 142 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a showdown for the UFC featherweight title with champion Jose Aldo defending against the undefeated challenger, Chad Mendes. The co-main sees Anthony Johnson, who came in well over the middleweight limit of 185 pounds, facing off with The Phenom, Vitor Belfort.
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SBN coverage of UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 142 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCThe UFC 142 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video below at MMAFighting.com.
UFC President Dana White will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses, and the winning fighters will meet the media to talk about their fights.
The post-fight press conference will begin about half an hour after the main event ends and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 142 Video Blog with Dana White (Episode 2)
In the second UFC 142 video blog, UFC President Dana White and Vitor Belfort deal with Anthony Johnson not making weight for the UFC 142 co-main event, the fighters weigh in for UFC 142, and UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones picks Johnson and UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo to win at UFC 142.
Watch the second UFC 142 video blog below, check out MMAFrenzy.com’s live UFC 142 results and stay tuned for complete UFC 142 coverage.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White UFC 142 Video Blog, Day 2
Get a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the UFC president's conversation with Vitor Belfort about opponent Anthony Johnson not making weight, a helicopter ride to the weigh-ins and a last-second...
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 142 Rio: Aldo vs. Mendes Weigh-in Video
Typcially a formality, the UFC 142 weigh-ins became much more eventful than normal. Check out the full UFC 142 Rio weigh-in video.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyWeigh-in Video: UFC 142 ‘Aldo vs. Mendes’
Friday's UFC 142 weigh-in video can be viewed here.
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC 142 Weigh-In Results and Video
The first UFC event of 2012 has arrived and with it comes a solid card set to take place in an electric environment thanks to the always lively Brazilian fans. Coming to you live on Saturday night from Rio de Janeiro it’s UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes where featherweight champion Jose Aldo will put his belt on the line against undefeated grappler Chad Mendes. Also set to co-headline the card, national hero Vitor Belfort welcomes powerhouse Anthony Johnson to the middleweight division.
Before any of the competitors can clash in the cage they first have to step on the stage in hopes of making weight for their respective rumbles. Weigh-ins will unfold today at 4:00 PM EST and can be watched live on Fuel TV. However, as always, Five Ounces of Pain will also be tuned in and relaying live results back to readers as they take place. You can also watch video of the weigh-in thanks to the folks at the UFC.
The PPV portion of UFC 142 will start tomorrow night at 10:00 PM EST with a single prelim on Facebook at 7:00 PM EST before things head to FX afterwards.
Check out the UFC 142 weigh-in video:
Read below for a full list of results:
Antonio Carvalho vs. Felipe Arantes
Rousimar Palhares vs. Mike Massenzio
Mike Pyle vs. Ricardo Funch
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Edinaldo Oliveira def. Gabriel Gonzaga
Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares
Terry Etim vs. Edson Barboza
Erick Silva vs. Carlo Prater
Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes
PHOTO CREDIT – UFC
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Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainUFC 142 Preview Videos: Palhares-Massenzio, Silva-Prater, and Barboza-Etim
We’ve already featured Countdown to UFC 142 videos previewing Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes and Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson, so it’s time for preview videos for the rest of the pay-per-view main card, which includes Rousimar Palhares vs. Mike Massenzio, Erick Silva vs. Carlo Prater, and Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete coverage of UFC 142.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White is excited to 'smash and discredit' the 'hacks' at ESPN
If you bluff, prepare to have your bluff called.
That's the message from UFC President Dana White, who took to his official Twitter account on Thursday to let the mixed martial arts (MMA) community know he's ready for the "hack job" ESPN and Josh Gross are set to unleash on him and the rest of the ZUFFA brass regarding fighter pay.
In fact, ESPN E:60 has a video interview with UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta, who debates the topic of his promotion as a "monopoly" against current and former fighters like Ken Shamrock.
A preview of that conversation can be found here.
Now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag, White claims he has video footage of his own. Raw, unedited footage that will likely paint a much different picture than the one presented by ESPN.
Here's what he said:
Josh (Gross) is a pessimistic scumbag who pitched the story. The beauty is we filmed the interview too. We will air the entire interview as is no edits after ESPN airs theirs! Looking very forward to this :) an attempt by gross and ESPN to do a hack job on us we were ready this time!! We are gonna blast these hacks!! I'm in Rio but my stuff is ready to roll!!! I'm excited to smash and discredit ESPN and the piece they did!! So pumped! can't stand the lying 2 faced media fucks!! So glad we did this one right cause ESPN can NOT be trusted. can't stand the lying 2 faced media fucks!!
Here's a video preview of the interview in question:
The UFC/ESPN relationship, on shaky ground from the word go, has been further complicated by the promotion's recent long-term broadcast deal with FOX Sports.
Can Dana White and his "monopoly" rebuttal win over the jury in the court of public opinion?
Stay tuned.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 142 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll 20 fighters taking part in UFC 142 on Saturday night will first step on the scale at the UFC 142 weigh-in on Friday, and we'll have the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and No. 1 contender Chad Mendes will need to make the featherweight limit of 145 pounds. The weigh-in will also be the first opportunity to see Anthony Johnson, formerly a welterweight, at the 186-pound middleweight limit.
The weigh-in begins at 4 PM ET on Friday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseAmazing Junior Dos Santos Highlight Video
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Prank Mir: Former UFC champ punks hapless video game designer (Video)
Don't make Frank Mir do the hokey pokey, and please don't make him turn himself around, 'cuz that's when you'll find out what it's really all about.
The former UFC heavyweight champion was doing motion capture for the upcoming UFC Undisputed 3 video game, and when developers had a little fun with him, he had a little fun right back.
Don't be scared, homie.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 142 Pre-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video from today’s UFC 142 pre-fight press conference. Jose Aldo, Chad Mendes, Vitor Belfort and Anthony Johnson were in attendance. The presser starts around the 30 minute mark.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertOttavia Bourdain's Festivus Power Guillotine, The 49th Midlands Championship Videos and Results, Who Is Tiago Camilo and More News
Recent happenings in the worlds of sambo, judo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling and/or collegiate/freestyle wrestling. If it takes place on the ground and it's interesting, it should be here.
By now the newness of 2012 may have worn off. Vows made to improve physical fitness or to stop lusting after worldly goods could be in danger. Fight the temptation! Do not let winter colds drag you down or veg forever on that couch - except if you are reading this column. Hopefully the holiday seasons were good to you and yours and this dose of grappling news revives your warrior spirit.
Ottavia Bourdain, the lovely wife of Chef Tony and fierce fighter in her own right, kicks us off into 2012 the right way with her Festivus Feat of Strength.
Ottavia has a Twitter account which shows her ardent dedication to combat sports on top of her own busy life and the demands of keeping Chef Tony in fine company. I am stunned enough to completely blank on a No Reservations or Layover pun. All due respect to the Bourdains' union of coolness and expertise.
After the jump, delicious video highlights of the 49th Annual Midlands Championships along with an insider's perspective on the tourney, then we go globe-trotting with wrestlers and Brazilian judoka, start digging into the technique-explaining bon bons of the grappling world and there are some delectable brain food Odds & Ends links for your consumption.
If you have any links of your own, questions or comments, leave them below or get word to me at DefGrappler on Twitter. Please let me know if I missed anything major and I will fix this, that and the other thing.
A list of official crew Twitter accounts is right here for your pickings: BloodyElbow Twitter, Luke Thomas, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Leland Roling, Richard Wade, Chris Barton, Damon O,Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coffeen, Dallas Winston, KJ Gould, Matt Roth, Anton Tabuena, T.P. Grant, Josh Nason.
Wrestling News:
I am telling you ahead of time that this is going to be a T.R. Foley-heavy section. If you do not like to read the stories of a 2004 wrestling All-American and his friends who have traveled to places like Mongolia, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam to go wrestle people in their native styles of grappling, then you are advised to skip down to the NCAA event results or to the Judo news.
Although long out of college and admittedly not in the shape an elite college wrestler should be in, Foley wrestled at the 2011 Midlands in the 184 lb division. The opening paragraphs of his tourney round-up should tell you how good a story teller he is:
The night before stepping on the scales at the 49th annual Midlands wrestling tournament, I went to a low-key dinner at a Mexican-fusion restaurant down the street from my Chicago apartment.
My best friend and former teammate was visiting from out of town, and a dinner with mutual friends seemed appropriate for his arrival. I'm not a monk, and as promised in an earlier article, I drank a few glasses of red wine. My meal was equally indulgent, as I took down healthy portions of chips, salsa, and a lime-cooked ceviche appetizer. Glasses were clinked; jokes were told.
The next morning I arrived at Welsh-Ryan Arena fifteen minutes before weigh-ins. In the back room of the complex I was reminded of the less-playful realities inside a collegiate weigh-in: gaunt-faces, sallow skin and the constant thwacking of jump ropes. Some of the Northwestern wrestlers I've come to know over the years paced by me, most shirtless and shoeless, each holding their phone manically checking the time and texting loved ones their current condition. Their faces looked soured, lips purple.
I was wearing jeans, some boots, and a sensible winter sweater.
Foley went 1 and 2, with the first loss being against Braden Atwood of Purdue University (who would lose to top ranked Robert Hamlin of Lehigh in the semi-finals). I do not agree with Foley's closing thoughts about collegiate wrestling being the sport that demands the most physically from its athletes out there. I lean more towards freestyle wrestling or judo, but his writing is phenomenal and provides a window into what a wrestling tournament looks like from a more worldly perspective.
Now for the other part of the T.R. Foley writing endeavors I like so much. He started a website called Wrestling Roots, which is basically designed to collect the experiences of people in traditional combat sports around the globe. The latest entry, written by Mark L., is an absolutely brilliant photoessay of a folkstyle wrestler in Ethiopia learning about and then entering a Tigel tournament off the cuff. Tigel is the local form of grappling, which is at times like Greco-Roman and more like Mongolian wrestling at others. It may also be the source of that greeting between people where you shake hands and then go in for the shoulder bump - or so Mark says. Please read that article. It has pretty pictures like this:
via wrestlingroots.org
The archives of Wrestling Roots are absolutely worth spending a few hours browsing through. I particularly like the Mongolian stories and the brief summary of kushti, the Indian dirt wrestling. The latter is noteworthy because it provides the link to kushtiwrestling.blogspot.com, which is the most comprehensive collection of videos, articles and pictures of indigenous wrestling that I have ever seen (note that translations into English may not always be available).
The full 49th Midlands Championships results, courtesy of the NCAA, are right here. For those of you looking for a shorter recap, Bill Hupp over at InterMat has the big storylines summarized and the outcomes of the divisional finals.
Gary Abbot over at The Mat has a rundown of the Top 10 wrestling stories of 2011. Jordan Burroughs, Cael Sanderson, the Times Square duals with Russia and more are all there. A surprising amount of these stories appeared here on Bloody Elbow - which proves that we are paying attention to the right stuff and will hopefully continue to do so in 2012.
In one of the most hotly anticipated duals of the season, Oklahoma State, ranked #2 at the time, narrowly beat out #1 ranked Iowa in a tie-break over total points scored - which made for a final score of 17-16. InterMat has the rundown and Flowrestling has the video highlights.
Watch more video of Iowa vs Oklahoma State on flowrestling.org
During the intermission of OK St and Iowa, two high level freestyle matches took place. Brent Metcalf, the 145 lber, won 1-0, 1-0 against the Canadian Haislan Garcia, a 2010 Worlds 5th place finisher. Steve Mocco, the 265 lber beat the German Nick Matuhin 1-0, 2-0. All four are aiming to represent their countries in the 2012 Olympics and are tuning up for the qualification process. This is the video of the Metcalf/Garcia match from Flowrestling. This link is the video of the Mocco/Matuhin match, also from Flowrestling.
If you are a college wrestling rankings junkie, InterMat has them ready and waiting for you.
In sadder news, Jake Deitchler, a 22 year old former Olympian and University of Minnesota wrestler, was forced to end his wrestling career early due to multiple concussions. Deitchler had enormous talent, as he was the first high schooler to make the U.S. Olympic team since 1976, but the concussions caused him to sit out and attempt a comeback. Unfortunately, the problems persisted and he called it quits. Most fans may not care, but CTE is a supremely scary thing that all combat sports - not just boxing - must confront in the coming years. On the positive side, Deitchler retains his scholarship and will finish his degree and remain with the Golden Gophers team in some capacity.
Judo News:
The first 2012 big event of the international scene will be the World Masters tournament in Almaty, Kazakhastan on the 14th and 15th. The World Masters will kick off the competitive build-up to the Olympics in London later this year. Of course, the athletes with their eye on Olympic gold have already been training for most of the last decadeand are probably wishing July would hurry up and get here.
Until then, we have to content ourselves with some more Qingdao Open videos, Dr. Ann Maria DeMars giving us some more great competition tips and Jim Hettes tossing Nam Phan all over the cage.
Everybody and their mother - if she paid attention to grappling news - saw the video of Demian Maia training with a Brazilian judoka named Tiago Camilo. It got linked to all up and down the Interwebs, but usually without much context. To put it briefly, Camilo is a judo monster. Right now, he is the #4 ranked judoka in the world at 90 kg (roughly 198 lbs) and a beastly ippon machine.
At the age of 18, Camilo fought his way to a silver in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 2007, he became the U81 kg champion in the Worlds (held in Brazil) with what I call the "Jacare-style bull rush"because I am a BJJ dork. At the Beijing Olympics, he won the bronze (unfortunately, I cannot find video of that medal-winning match). In 2011, Camilo was a quarter-finalist in Paris at the World Championship (check out Nishiyama's ridiculous te guruma to beat him), a bronze medalist at the Grand Slam in Brazil (losing to his rival Asley Gonzalez Montero, took gold by ippon at the Pan Ams in Gudalajara and won a Grand Prix event in Amsterdam by sweet tai otoshi.
How Maia's training with Camilo helps or hinders the upcoming fight with Michael Bisping remains to be seen, but Camilo knows his way around the mats very well. Props should be given to Demian Maia for working with him. If you have access to the MGinAction video library, you can pull up the video of Jimmy Pedro, an American judo world champion, rolling with Marcelo Garcia and doing quite well at times. If I had to guesstimate, I would say Camilo is a bit better than Pedro and Maia a bit worse than Marcelo, but we all win when these guys share video of their training sessions.
Submission Grappling/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu News:
The grapplers over on Reddit have started my favorite Brazilian jiu jitsu meme ever: Kurt Osiander quotes combined with a picture of Osiander pointing at you. Osiander is a Bay Area BJJ legend with a black belt from Ralph Gracie and quite the competition resume. He sporadically puts up a Move of the Week video on YouTube that is always filled with solid technique and often hilarious explanations.
I'm partial to this picture from the Reddit thread:
But feel free to make your own, using this handy webtool. The YouTube videos are full of quotable moments, but real time pithiness is always appreciated.
Jen Flannery, a purple belt over at Fifty/50 BJJ in D.C., gives us a very solid recap of the year for women grapplers over on the Fightworks Podcast. There is still much work to be done, yet things are improving for ladies everywhere in terms of prospects, gyms, tournaments, sponsorship, coverage and opportunities.
Christian Graugart, the best BJJ blogger anywhere, is in the midst of writing a book about his trip around the world, spent teaching and learning grappling, as well as taking tons of amazing photos and videos. He did a recap of his year, which simultaneously reignites the competitive fire in me and firms up my belief that the combat sports community worldwide is perhaps the best anywhere.
The provocative Renato Laranja gave us another glimpse into his amazing life and lets loose on all kinds of topics. Check out the entertaining Q&A session and pictures of the InsideBJJ interview and remember that true Brazilians pronounce their "r" as "h".
Matthew Maldonado, an Alliance brown belt in New York City, gives us two escapes from the brutal position that is knee on belly. Be warned that the second may not be IBJJF-legal, but it works fine in the home gym or non-IBJJF tourneys.
On what is fast becoming one of my favorite BJJ blogs, The Jiu Jitsu Laboratory brings you a breakdown of the smash pass - or whatever you or your instructors call the battle to push the opponent's knees together on one side and pass guard. Also, lookit the banner image:
If that call back to the old days of video games (featuring Rafael Lovato Jr.) doesn't draw you in, I shake my head sadly.
DSTRYSG had a great post about a counter to the berimbolo - a flashy back-taking technique often used on the big stages of Brazilian jiu jitsu tourneys - from Davin Maxwell. This counter is probably going to be used against that purple belt who has seen the latest tourney highlight videos and is now trying new moves out on your unsuspecting keister.
The Copa Nova tournament was held in Virginia this past weekend. Some of the videos have popped up on YouTube and the full results can be found on their website. This tourney has a particular connection with Bloody Elbow as several teammates of Patrick Tenney (BE Grappling Team) competed and won medals.
Gianni Grippo, a brown belt and multiple belt level champion who trains at Renzo Gracie, has a Young Guns profile over at Submission Control. I liked that one, but my heart fell for the other Young Guns profile on Filipino brown belt Ralph Go, who took second at the 2011 Mundials (to Jordon Schultz, an Alliance brown belt). Seeing this profile on Go and Anton Tabuena's awesome coverage of Southeast Asian MMA reminds me of Ratatouille. Not everyone can be a great fighter, but a great fighter can come from anywhere.
NAGA was quiet, but Grapplers Quest is running their Florida State Championships this weekend. If you are in the Coral Springs area, consider turning out to watch, learn and interact with your fellow Floridians and submission grapplers of all ages, shapes and sizes.
Odds and Ends:
I missed this Black Belt magazine article with Chael Sonnen when it appeared back in October. Sonnen is the master of the Sweet'n'Sour talk and has polarized MMA for the past year and more. However, this interview is all sweet and really has Chael at his most earnest - which displays his genuine knowledge and love for combat sports.
Be careful when out at the bars in Phuket, Thailand. Even if you are Jeremy Renner, fresh off Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol and have a whole crew with you, people can get into bar brawls and stabbed.
Combine this super-smart post by Mike Shatzkin about the future of publishing books vs. e-books with Clay Shirky's genius-level thoughts on newspapers and paywalls. Add in combat sports. What do you get? I keep ending up at "Judo Chops" and some vague stuff about communities while seeing a desperate struggle to get and hold the attention of small chunks of the faceless masses.
Eh, cool your overheating brain off with these pithy quotes accumulated by Kevin Kelly. I should do an MMA-specific version of these. Or you can try this Big Picture "Images of the Year" compendium.
There is no better build-up possible to the latest #GrapplAnimals than the words of Deo Wade: "Acrobatic rolling, some cardio and the most devastating back mount control ever."
Without further ado, Stoat Kills Rabbit 10 Times Its Size, courtesy of the BBC's Life series. [Embedding disabled at the BBC's request]
People, I always need more awesome Odds & Ends. Videos, gifs, links, whatever. Do not hesitate to send them my way in the comments or on Twitter.
Def Grappler out!
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 142: Video Preview for Saturday’s Card in Brazil
Fight Week for UFC 142 is underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before today's pre-fight press conference, get filled in on what to watch for on Saturday night with this extended video preview of the...
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 142 Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCAt the UFC 142 pre-fight press conference, UFC President Dana White and the top fighters taking part in UFC 142 on Saturday night will meet the Brazilian media on Thursday morning, and we'll carry the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will take on the undefeated Chad Mendes. The co-main event features Vitor Belfort, one of the most popular fighters among the Brazilian fans, taking on Anthony Johnson.
The press conference begins at 10 AM ET and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseCountdown to UFC 142: Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes Video Preview
The Countdown to UFC 142 video has been released previewing Saturday’s UFC 142 main event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will fight on home soil against undefeated challenger Chad Mendes.
Also check out the Countdown to UFC 142 video preview for UFC 142′s co-main event between middleweights Vitor Belfort and Anthony Johnson.
Watch Countdown to UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes below and stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete coverage of UFC 142:
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyGina Carano's GQ photo shoot and video
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Read the full article at RedditCountdown To UFC 142 Full Video
Full video of the Countdown to UFC 142.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertCountdown to UFC 142: Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson Video Preview
The “Countdown to UFC 142″ video has been released previewing the middleweight showdown between Vitor Belfort and Anthony Johnson, which co-headlines Saturday’s event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil along with a main event between UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and challenger Chad Mendes.
Watch the Countdown to UFC 142 video below and stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete coverage of UFC 142:
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Dana White’s UFC 142 video blog offers revealing look backstage at UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem
While the MMA community’s attention is on Rio de Janeiro this weekend in relation to UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes, less than two weeks ago Las Vegas was the subject of their focus when a heavyweight bout between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem headlined UFC 141.
Lately the UFC has made an effort to give fans “behind the scenes” access at events with Dana White’s most recent video blog doing just that, as has been the case in earlier entries, by having the camera follow the UFC President into the Octagon throughout UFC 141 as well as film the goings-on backstage.
Among the many highlights are Lesnar watching undercard fights while waiting for his main event match-up, Jon Fitch being checked by doctors while the man who beat him (Johny Hendricks) basks nearby in the glow of having just won, and Nate Diaz getting amped while he listens to Donald Cerrone’s entrance music.
A Complete Look at UFC 141 Results
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Read the full article at Fighters.comUFC 201: Georges St. Pierre vs A Chimpanzee (Video)
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TMZ.com recently caught up with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre in a dark alley, peppering him with hard-hitting questions and major fight predictions.
"Rush," who is currently recovering from major knee surgery, didn't really take the bait and play along, admitting that he could not fight a bear and win ... even though Chuck Norris has already pulled off the feat. In fact, St. Pierre doesn't even think he can take out a little chimpanzee.
Wimp.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaDana White UFC 142 Video Blog (Part 1)
UFC President Dana White kicks-off his customary fight week video blog ahead of UFC 142 by taking a look back at the Lesnar vs. Overeem card, which took place December 30th in Las Vegas, Nevada. UFC 142 will go live this Saturday night from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and will be headlined by a Featherweight title clash between division champion Jose Aldo and top contender Chad Mendes.
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Read the full article at Low KickUFC 142 Video Blog with Dana White (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White is back with his first video blog for Saturday’s UFC 142 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which features a behind the scenes look at last month’s “UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem” event.
For complete coverage of UFC 142 stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White UFC 142 Rio Video Blog – Day 1
UFC president Dana White kicks of UFC 142 Rio: Aldo vs. Mendes fight week with his usual video blog, taking us behind the scenes at UFC 141.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyDana White video blog for UFC 142: 'Aldo vs Mendes' in Brazil
Fight week, blog week.
UFC President Dana White tells us it's that time again (already), as he gets us geared up for this Sat., night's (Jan. 14, 2012) UFC 142: "Aldo vs. Mendes" event from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Before we get to that fight card and all its juicy match-ups, first we must look back at the behind-the-scenes of the last event, UFC 141: "Lesnar vs. Overeem," which took place this past Dec. 30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And that's exactly what the first video blog of the week does. It's mostly the usual backstage fare: medical check ups with the fighters who suffered hard losses, like Jon Fitch, who was knocked out in 12 seconds by Johny Hendricks. "Big Rig" is shown shooting the breeze with Joe Rogan and Lorenzo Fertitta after, happy as a tornado in a trailer park.
Perhaps the best part of the video blog is when White gets in the cage and tells Nate Diaz he needs to go to the referee so they can announce a winner after his fight against Donald Cerrone. Diaz replied simply, "Yes, sir." White followed up by telling Nate and his brother Nick, who was there as well, to "Be cool, alright? Everybody be cool."
His relief when Diaz hugs Cerrone is palpable.
Because White is "doing a bunch of stuff for The Ultimate Fighter on FX," he won't get to Brazil until Wednesday, which means this video blog will have to tide you over until the weekend, Maniacs. Don't go crazy.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaDana White’s UFC 141 Video Blog: Part One
Dana White gives a behind the scenes look at UFC 141 in this first installment of his UFC 142 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertStrikeforce ‘Rockhold vs. Jardine’ Video Highlights
Video highlights of Strikeforce “Rockhold vs. Jardine” via Showtime.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertBest MMA Photos of 2011
Filed under: MMA Videos, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosMMA Fighting photographer Esther Lin selects her top photos from the past year, and tells the tales behind them, in the video below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseA Lesson in Street MMA: Don't fight Badr Hari's prodigal son
It's not every day that a Street MMA video comes through the MiddleEasy Network offices with a level of stand up this high. None of us have seen anything like this. There can be an argument made that this is the best 30 seconds of Street MMA ever, or at the very least it's the best of 2012.
Although the production values for this Street MMA bout are severely lacking in the video broadcast department, the promotion added some fancy hip hop in post for the casual crowd. I don't think the video needed it though. I mean, lets face it, this video speaks for itself, shoddy production aside. When I showed this to LiverKick's Dave Walsh he said it was Badr Hari's long lost kid. I think he might be right. Street MMA is getting serious, it's incredible how far we've come.
Props to KickYoNuts for the find.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyFight Video: Best of Inside MMA Regional Fight Highlights 2011
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Ask any member of the media, when MiddleEasy's Jason Nawara enters the press room during an MMA event the funk level of the entire venue rises to a remarkable level. Even the guy's Twitter picture makes you want to plug your nose and abruptly walk away. Luckily, Axe Deodorant is launching a new product on January 10th and they wanted the MiddleEasy network to get the word out. They even provided this nifty video for you to get hyped about it. Support MiddleEasy and watch this video. If you need to watch it again, feel free. Watch twenty times a day. Enable us to do massive things in 2012.{jcomments off}
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 141 Video: Alistair Overeem's Latest Episode of The Reem
Fresh off his UFC 141 win over Brock Lesnar, Alistair Overeem has released the latest episode of his superb online documentary series "The Reem."
If you haven't been watching The Reem, you are missing out. Easily the best MMA online video series, and a terrific look into the life of a fighter. Catch up with the full series online at TheReem.com.
The Reem Season 2 Episode 9 deals with the Lesnar fight and Overeem's final preparations in Las Vegas, starting, rather pointedly, with Overeem submitting a urine sample for his pre-fight drug test. The episode has a nice fighter's perspective look into those last minute tasks, with Overeem getting accustomed to the venue, taking part in the press conference, and weighing in for the fight.
Overeem has done a masterful job marketing himself over the past few years, and these videos are a huge part of that marketing. Overeem consistently comes across as a down to earth man, dedicated to his craft and confident in his abilities, and this video is no exception. It's also fascinating rewatching this footage now and hearing Reem talk about his plan to take Brock out in the first round, or round 2 at the most. The video wraps up with Overeem thanking fans for their support as he gets ready for what would be end up being the greatest win of his career.
Watch the complete episode in the full entry.
As always, the episode ends with the words "To be continued..." The next episode will presumably deal with the fight itself and the aftermath, and should be a good one.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowULTMMA Best of 2011- YouTube videos, MMA highlights & MMA films
Utah fighter Rad Martinez "The Promise" Memories by Huck Blade "Fight to Finish" Nick Diaz Highlight by @LayzieTheSavage reem2 episode 1: Coming to America Backyard Brawl: Full video profile on Miami streetfighter Dada 5000 from ESPN's E:60 The Fight Nerd's ""A Fighting Spirit" -- NY MMA fighters remember 9-11 ULTMMA interview with UFC champion Anderson Silva UFC: Closer to the Edge UFC on Fox Velasquez vs. Dos Santos Rolling Stones trailer UFC 133 Movie Trailer The Story of The Sengoku King (Miami Hustle Prequel) (By Genghis Con) Training Camp: Jon Jones by All Elbows
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Read the full article at UltMMAAbsolutely brutal suplex knockout from DREAM New Years. (1:52 into the video)
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 141 Video: Danny Castillo Thinking About Changing Nickname
Danny Castillo talks about his UFC 141 win in this MMAWeekly.com post-fight video. Lately, he's been taking a lot of fights on short notice, and perhaps this will spur a change in nickname.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 141 Post-Fight Press Conference Full Video
Full video of the UFC 141 post-fight press conference.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 141 Videos: Overeem vs. Lesnar, Diaz vs. Cerrone Fight Highlights
Here are ESPN’s UFC 141 fight highlight videos, including Alistair Overeem’s first-round knockout that retired Brock Lesnar and Nate Diaz’s unanimous decision win over lightweight rival Donald Cerrone.
To check out MMAFrenzy.com’s complete UFC 141 coverage, click here.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyUFC 141 Video: Post-Fight Press Conference Highlights
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, News, VideosLAS VEGAS -- Watch below as Nate Diaz and Donald Cerrone discuss their UFC 141 "Fight of the Night" at the post-fight press conference.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo: 'UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem' weigh-ins
LAS VEGAS - The Ultimate Fighting Championship brings its 2011 schedule
to a close with Friday's blockbuster "UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem"
event.
All 22 fighters today made weight for the event.
If you weren't able to catch the UFC's live stream of the action, check out the embedded videos to see the full ceremony unfold.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieWeigh-in Video: UFC 141 ‘Lesnar vs. Overeem’
Thursday's UFC 141 weigh-in video can be viewed here.
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UFC 141 Preview Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosLAS VEGAS -- Watch below as Ben Fowlkes and I break down all the storylines heading into to Friday night's UFC 141 pay-per-view event.
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MMAjunkie.com's video offerings continue this week, and today, we present our UFC 141 breakdown.
Hosting the chat are "Gorgeous" George Garcia, host of MMAjunkie.com
Radio, and John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com's lead staff reporter and radio
co-host.
Check out the video as "GG" and the "White Shadow" preview all five pay-per-view main-card matchups from Friday's event.
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Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC 141 Weigh-In Highlight Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosLAS VEGAS -- The UFC 141 weigh-ins took place Thursday afternoon at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Full UFC 141 weigh-in results here. Check out the highlights below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 141 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll 22 fighters taking part in UFC 141 on Friday night will first step on the scale on Thursday at the UFC 141 weigh-ins and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem will both have to make the heavyweight limit of 265 pounds. For fans, the weigh-in will be an opportunity to see how Lesnar is looking after more than a year off while battling health problems.
The UFC 141 weigh-in begins at 7 PM ET and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White UFC 141 Video Blog (Episode 2)
UFC President Dana White is back with his second video blog ahead of Friday’s UFC 141 event, which is headlined by a five-round showdown between heavyweight contenders Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem.
However, the brief video doesn’t focus on the impending event and instead details why Duane “Bang” Ludwig now holds the UFC record for fastest knockout, including timed video White hopes the Nevada State Athletic Commission will use to change their official records.
Click here to check out the first Dana White UFC 141 video blog, check out our UFC 141 category for complete UFC 141 coverage, and stop back to MMAFrenzy.com on Friday for live UFC 141 results.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White UFC 141 Video Blog – Day 2
UFC President Dana White is back for the second edition of his UFC 141 video blog, and this one is all about Duane 'Bang' Ludwig.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White is back with episode two of his fight week promotional video series, this time for UFC 141: "Lesnar vs. Overeem," which takes place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Dec. 30, 2011.
The second episode starts with the UFC head honcho clarifying his position on the Duane Ludwig fastest knockout controversy, or "Bang-gate," and he basically tells fans the promotion recognizes Ludwig as the record holder even if the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) doesn't.
Today's video blog is just under four minutes and doesn't spend any time previewing the UFC 141 fight card for Friday night's pay-per-view extravaganza but hey, that's what the fine folks at MMAmania.com are here for.
We deliver!
To check out the latest (and greatest) UFC 141 news and notes for "Lesnar vs. Overeem" be sure to check out our comprehensive event archive right here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 141 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCAt the UFC 141 pre-fight press conference, UFC President Dana White, heavyweights Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem and lightweights Donald Cerrone and Nate Diaz will meet the media on Wednesday in Las Vegas, and we'll carry the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
UFC 141 is one of the biggest MMA cards of the year, and the pre-fight press conference will be the final opportunity for reporters and fans to hear from the fighters prior to their fights.
The UFC 141 press conference begins at 4 p.m. ET and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White UFC 141 Video Blog (Episode 2)
UFC President Dana White continues his customary fight week video blog ahead of UFC 141 by bringing viewers behind the scenes as he tests and times each of the top three "fastest knockout in promotion history" candidates. Among those clocked are Duane Ludwig, Todd Duffee, and "The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung. Check out both the results, and the record's true owner, below:
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Read the full article at Low KickUFC 141 Open Workout Highlights: Alistair Overeem
Video highlights of Alistair Overeem’s UFC 141 open workout via MMA Fighting.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertMerry Christmas and a Happy New Armbar (from the mount)
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Quickly ... Merry Christmas, grappler. Don't worry. This won't take long. There's plenty of time for you to get back to playing with all your video games and Lego sets and excessive dessert consumption. But, for now and in this moment, it's Jiu Jitsu time.
Now that we've gotten all the pleasantries aside and you know we care about you, lets time to get to the important stuff. What better way to enjoy your holiday time than with a solid bread 'n butter technique from the Kurt Osiander, the man who pretty much owns the term "move of the week" (we think, at least). In this week's video, he's showing a very proper way to defeat the defensive mounted opponent.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 141 Video: Alistair Overeem Media Workout
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosLAS VEGAS -- Alistair Overeem worked out in front of the media on Wednesday just 72 hours before his Octagon debut against Brock Lesnar at UFC 141. Watch the highlights below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC President Dana White starts fight week out strong with first UFC 141 vlog
With it being a major UFC pay-per-view week, and the final one of the year at that, UFC President Dana White has promised his fans that he will do an entire week of video blogs leading up to Friday night’s main event between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem at UFC 141.
White has been hit-and-miss in recent months in regards to his video blogs, which include behind-the-scenes footage and fighter interviews following their matches. The early portions of the vlogs show what goes into getting a UFC PPV ready to air.
“You guys have been (expletive) about me not popping out blogs. I swear to God, I mean it this time, I will be popping out blogs all week,” says White in the beginning of the first edition. “Fight week, blog week!”
His first submission is ripe with interesting moments including some very revealing footage from UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida showing the winners/losers immediately after action concludes.
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Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainUFC 141: Dana White Video Blog - Day 1
UFC President Dana White released his first video blog for UFC 141 fight week on Tuesday and promises there will be a lot more coming as the build increases for Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem on Friday.
The near 10-minute clip is solely focused on the backstage happenings from UFC 140, something these vlogs have been doing more of in recent months. Some highlights:
After his quick KO loss at the hands of Igor Pokrajac, Krzysztof Soszynski said, "It's my last MMA fight….I'm done. That's a (expletive) way to go out." He didn't know the date following the KO but was joking with Pokrajac about splitting a Knockout Of The Night bonus with him. That award, however, went to Chan Sung Jung.
Walel Watson was shown completely dumbstruck as to how he lost a split decision to Yves Jabouin. "The one time I left it in the judges' hands and I paid for it," he said.
Tito Ortiz wrapping his own hands and saying post-fight that he didn't feel any ribs crack.
The Nogueira brothers and Lyoto Machida all warming up in the same locker room. There was no post-fight footage of the infamous arm break but one of Frank Mir's cornermen told Mir afterward that, "He wasn't going to tap. It's ok."
"The Situation" from MTV's Jersey Shore posing with Jon Jones post-fight.
Here's the whole video:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowFull Video: Countdown to UFC 141
The full 40-minute video for the Countdown to UFC 141 - featuring Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem and Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone - is now available.
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Full video of the Countdown to UFC 141.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertGolden Glory launches new YouTube channel; Golden Glory TV
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It is nice to see some movement from the Golden Glory camp and the Kickboxing world in general in this late December. Golden Glory on Christmas day started up a new YouTube channel called GoldenGloryTV, and the first video up promises a lot of awesome stuff coming in January of 2012. This means interviews, promo videos, behind-the-scenes stuff and documentaries will be up on that channel. That means go ahead and subscribe to it (if you have a YT account) and prepare for it to be awesome.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 141 Videos: Dana White UFC 141 Video Blog Episode 1 + Lesnar-Overeem GI Joe Promo
UFC President Dana White is back with his first video blog for Friday’s “UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem” event, featuring a recap of UFC 140 from earlier this month, while the UFC has also released a UFC 141 viral video with Lesnar and Overeem as GI Joes.
Watch both videos below and stop back to MMAFrenzy.com for live UFC 141 results this Friday:
For complete coverage of Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem and the rest of UFC 141 stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White UFC 141 Video Blog (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White starts his road to UFC 141 with a first episode of his traditional fight week video blog. This time it's the UFC 140 behind the scenes footage, and the aftermath of the UFC Light Heavyweight title scrap between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida.
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Read the full article at Low KickDana White’s UFC 141 Video Blog, Day 1
Dana White gets UFC 141 fight week kicked off in style with the first episode of his video blog.
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Behind the scenes at UFC 140 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC 141 video blog.
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Jon Fitch - Slaying One Dragon At A Time
The dragons fall one by one…33…34…and as of last week, 35. The man doing the damage to these virtual creatures is none other than UFC welterweight contender Jon Fitch, and if you don’t catch him at the American Kickboxing Academy gym in San Jose, it’s likely that he’ll be at home, Xbox 360 controller in hand, playing the recently released roleplaying game Skyrim.A lot.“It’s complete freedom in a video game,” said Fitch, who has even started a Twitter account @FitchSkyrimTale to chronicle his adventures. “You can dictate what you want to do when you want to do it and it’s okay because it’s a video game. If somebody gives you attitude and talks back to you, you can just cut their head off in the game and be done with it. (Laughs) In life I think everybody needs that a little bit and that’s the best thing about video games. I don’t get into real-life games, playing basketball or football or track and field, because if I can do it in real life, I don’t really get into it that much in video games. But the things that are impossible to do, like the Grand Theft Autos or Skyrim, I can’t go carjack somebody or shoot up a mall or kill a dragon, but in these games you can, so it’s pretty awesome. You can make your own armor or do magic, it’s pretty fun.”Fitch has already logged over a couple hundred hours in the game, which was released in November, and of course the questions that immediately pop to mind are a) is this cutting in on his training time, and b) how does he manage to slip this one past his bride, Michele?“I train hard, and after you finish training, all you want to do is rest and relax,” he said. “And video games are one of the ways you can rest and relax. It’s part of my job, and she understands that, and I make sure I get all my stuff done. I don’t leave messes around, she cooks a lot, so I make sure I wash the dishes and put stuff away and make sure I’m helping out. I make her job easier and she makes my job easy. They (video games) are also therapeutic too because I don’t want to be thinking about fighting all the time. I don’t want to have to worry about my back being sore or what my next workout’s gonna be. I just want to kill this stupid dragon.”Fitch laughs, a welcome sound after a year that has been trying in his professional life. Kicking off 2011 with a draw against BJ Penn in February, the 33-year old was eager to extend his six fight unbeaten streak in a rematch with the former two-division champion at UFC 132 in July when a March shoulder injury took him out of the fight and out of competition, ending his shot at getting a rematch with welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre anytime soon. Fitch calls the time off a blessing and a curse.“When I was injured and out and couldn’t do anything, it was a curse because I was just going crazy,” he said. “If I can’t train or can’t be at the gym, I’m not a happy person. And being one-armed, I couldn’t work or do anything around the house. My wife was always on my tail about it (getting antsy to do something). She would say that my job is to heal while I’m off. So it was frustrating to not be able to do anything for a little while. That was the curse part of it. The blessing part is that it gave me a chance to focus on different things, and as my health started coming back I was able to work on different techniques, and watch MMA and the game from a different perspective.”It was a slow process to get his shoulder back in working order and then to regain his fighting shape, but the worst part may have been watching the welterweight world go round, as Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz jockeyed for the number one position while Fitch sat on the sidelines.“What are you gonna do?” he asks. “When you’re injured you’re on the shelf and you don’t really exist until you’re healthy again. No one really talks about you or puts you in the thought process of that mix because you’re injured and you’re out. So you have to accept that, and the faster you accept that, the easier it is.”Eventually, Fitch got the doctor’s green light to fight, and the former Purdue University wrestler was matched up with former Oklahoma State standout Johny Hendricks. The two meet this Friday in a UFC 141 main card bout, and it has the potential to be a good one.“He’s got a strong left hand, good clinchwork, he’s a good wrestler, good cardio, and he’s a good all-around fighter,” said Fitch of Hendricks. “I think I excel in a lot of those elements and I think that my experience and ability to blend everything together is what’s gonna overwhelm him and win me the fight.”If Fitch nails down the victory, it will be his 13th in 15 tries. That’s a lot of slain dragons. Hendricks would be another nice trophy for his list, but the fire-breathing dragon with the imposing claws is St-Pierre, the only man to pin a loss on Fitch in the UFC. Even a win over Hendricks won’t put Fitch in a title fight though, as a knee injury will keep GSP out of action well into 2012, and the champion’s first fight back will be against the winner of February’s interim title fight between Diaz and Condit. So Fitch knows he has a wait ahead of him.“All I can do is keep winning and keep racking up those Ws and start putting some people away again,” he said. “Eventually I’m not gonna be ignored and my fans aren’t gonna be ignored either.”And a shot against the winner of Condit-Diaz wouldn’t be a bad prize either if St-Pierre isn’t ready until the fall.“The way I look at it, the winner of the interim belt, that’s like the golden ticket for me,” said Fitch. “You get to fight for that, and nobody can jump over the guy with the golden ticket. So if you hold that thing, you’re guaranteed that shot with GSP. That’s the way I’m looking at it, that’s the way I approach it, and that’s where the hunger comes from. You get that golden ticket and you get that ride to the chocolate factory. (Laughs)”Sharpen that sword, young man. You’ve got a busy year ahead.
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Read the full article at RedditThe Top Ten Curiously Interesting Videos Nick Diaz has Favorited on YouTube
Whatever you think Nick Diaz is doing at this exact moment, he's not doing it. That's just using applied statistics. The probability of a person doing or thinking the same thing as you during the same moment is astronomically against you. The best anyone can do is cull historical data and use it to predict what a person is doing at any given time. That's basically we did in our new list of 'The Top Ten Curiously Interesting Videos Nick Diaz has Favorited on YouTube.' Nick Diaz hasn't exactly embraced social media with open arms. Not at all. It's more like he's been taunting social media and slapped it in its face a couple times. However, the 209er has been an active participant of YouTube for nearly five years. We decided to dive into the NickDiaz209 channel and see what we can truly find out about the former Strikeforce welterweight champion.
It's a shame that I have to explain the science of 'Blaster Master' to an entire generation of kids that's never stepped foot in an arcade or even methodically blew into a NES cartridge in hopes that it would work. Before Kinect, Xbox 360 and Runescape, there was Blaster Master. It was revolutionary simply because it provided the player an option to experience the game both within a vehicle and on foot. That's right, back in 1988 you didn't really have to do much to make our heads ignite in amazement.
Blaster Master follows the storyline of every young kid in the late-80s: Boy is in love with frog, frog escapes the oppressive glass container the boy put him in, frog jumps into a radioactive container conveniently placed in the boy's backyard, frog grows to mythic proportions and burrows deep within the earth, boy irresponsibly jumps in the hole only to find a fully equipped armored vehicle with a giant gun attached and armor in the driver seat. Granted it's no ordinary gun. Not at all. This one has the unique ability of 360 degree firing for the sake of conquering evil.
I've never finished the game. It still remains as an unwritten chapter in my life. What I remember is using an exploit where you shoot a grenade at the first boss, push pause, and while the game is frozen, the boss still takes damage and eventually dies. Perhaps Nick Diaz favorited this video in order to reacquaint himself with perhaps the greatest theme music that's ever been placed in an 8-bit game. That music is the stuff gods are made out of. That music will make you want to strap on a headband and climb a really tall tree.
This guy I know from the 209 named 'Brock' told me that at some point in their life, all 209ers will be handcuffed for a brief period of time. It must be one of those 'rites of passages' things that you see on the Discovery channel when tribes force kids to endure incredibly difficult tasks just to be considered a man. The art of escaping handcuffs is something that any reasonable citizen should learn. We're not saying Nick Diaz has been shackled before, but he's taking preventive measures -- and that should be admired. It's impossible to 'be scared, homie' when you're 'prepared, homie.'
Take note, and explore the techniques of escaping handcuffs. Nick Diaz has, and he's riding an 11-0 winning streak. Coincidence? I think not.
If you're not familiar with Alex Grey, then you've deprived yourself from staring at one of his psychedelic masterpieces while listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. If you've never done ayahuasca, then you've deprived yourself from actually visiting the dark side of the moon while being a psychedelic masterpiece. I'll try to write the rest of this without consulting Wikipedia or Erowid since I've spent the better part of my life listening to every Terence McKenna lecture that's been released on tape.
Back in the days before modern transportation and television, the shamans of South America used to keep busy by consuming massive amounts of hallucinogenics. These substances would transport the shamans to radically new planes of existence and when they finally 'return' back to earth, they will have extracted some sort of esoteric knowledge to bring back to their tribe. This could be anything from finding an apparent cure to an illness, or something as insignificant as recognizing that the back of one's hand looks mindblowing under the influence of psychedelics.
Through endlessly wandering through the Amazon rainforest, shamans found a vine that was incredibly dense in 5-MeO-Dimethyltryptamine (perhaps the strongest hallucinogenic ever discovered, a derivative of regular DMT which is actually found within your body). However, in order to experience the substance, one would need to combine the vine with an MAO inhibitor so that the psychedelic properties won't get destroyed in digestion. Somehow these shamans randomly found a leaf that serves as the perfect MAO inhibitor, which was naturally grown hundreds of miles away on the opposite end of the Amazon rainforest. Once both substances are combined, the result is called 'ayahuasca' and it will literally transport you to another time and place -- just ask Robin Quivers.
For Nick Diaz to favorite this video on YouTube, we're assuming he already knows the process of ayahuasca -- and that's amazing.
Stop for one second and imagine a thirteen-year-old Nick Diaz jamming out to Sneaker Pimps' debut album inside his room in Stockton, California. I share the same birthday with Diaz, so I was most likely be doing the same thing. While Portishead may have given birth to the trip-hop movement in the early 90s, Sneaker Pimps undoubtedly defined the genre for years to come. With Kelli Dayton's vampirish vocals and Liam Howe's electronica-inspired production, Sneaker Pimps' 'Becoming X' had six singles from the album rise to the top of US, UK and Australian dance charts. The album even went gold, and the video for '6 Underground' became a MTV staple in the mid/late 90s.
So what do you do when you have an incredibly successful album with a singer that every teenager in high-school crushed on? Well, you kick the singer out of the band on your sophomore album and replace her vocals with your androgynous guitar player.
There's nothing necessarily bad with 'Splinter,' Sneaker Pimps' second album. The video for 'Low Five' even starts off with a little slow-motion jiu-jitsu. However, everyone seems to overlook that it's an incredibly dick thing to kick out the lead singer of the band just because every photographer wanted to feature Kelli Dayton as the focus of every photo captured of Sneaker Pimps. She can't help it if she's uniquely attractive (and she still is). The band went on to create 'Bloodsport,' an album that is actually on par with Becoming X.
Since this is MiddleEasy and we have a strong fascination with going deep into details that some may deem insignificant, Sneaker Pimps eventually disbanded in 2005 and Chris Corner went on to create IAMX. The inspiration for IAMX's debut album seemed to be derived from an exploration in depression, promiscuous sexual practices, casual drug use, the death of religion and a strong questioning against authority. It's basically a manifesto for everyone in the 209.
Unfortunately, Nick Diaz's musical interests has never ventured to the many projects that spawned from Sneaker Pimps, including Kelli Dayton's 2008 album 'Rocking Horse' which is so far from the music she created on Becoming X. I'm assuming Nick Diaz favorited 'Six Underground' in hopes that the band will one day reunite and reignite trip-hop. Either that, or he's still obsessed with Kelli Dayton. Both explanations I can totally understand.
If Jon Bones Jones admits to learning moves from fight scenes he's watched on YouTube, the MMA world can only hope that for his next fight, Nick Diaz will rock a Jheri curl while simultaneously ripping off his shirt and screaming for no apparent reason.
This following fight scene is from a 1993 movie called 'Undefeatable' (yes, that's actually the name of the movie) and according to IMDB, the storyline is equally as complex.
"Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) avenges her sister's death at the hands of a crazed martial arts rapist."
As Miguel Torres and Forrest Griffin taught us, there's nothing funny with 'rape' and 'martial arts.' However, when you throw in two grunting men that would much rather prefer to lick knives and forcefully remove their shirts instead of actually fighting, then it's downright hilarious.
Check out the 'best fight scene of all time' from Undefeatable, a clip that Diaz has probably laughed at an innumerable amount of times.
Ayn Rand's theory of objectivism is so perfect of a philosophy, that it will never be widely accepted in Western culture. According to Rand, the acceptance of God gives humans the right to act irrationally and that by not believing in God, it forces humanity to follow an objective path of reason. I just granted every college student 6-9 credits towards their bachelors in philosophy with that explanation. Essentially, every question that could ever be asked regarding Ayn Rand is just another variation of the answer that I just provided. Don't believe me, go ahead and try.
Judging from other videos Nick Diaz favorited on YouTube, he appears to be an atheist on the constant exploration of disapproving his own belief. Ayn Rand would appreciate that, and so would every philosophy professor that gave me a 'C' at The University of Arizona. Check out this clip of the smartest woman who has ever lived going head-to-head with Phil Donahue in the early 80s.
When I was in after-school daycare, I would lug around a pirated tape of this movie and convince the supervisors to throw 'Bloodsport' in the VCR and let our entire class watch it. They didn't care about the gratuitous violence nor did they worry about the entire premise of the movie, which essentially involves a no-ruled fighting tournament in which the loser is executed by his opponent. The only thing they were concerned about was nudity within the film, and fortunately Bloodsport's only nude scene is a very brief portion where Jean-Claude Van Damme's rear-end shows as he pulls up his underwear. Granted, that's more of a miraculous moment in cinema history than it is 'nudity.'
Nick Diaz grew up with the same fascination of Frank Dux that everyone else had in our generation. The only thing is, he followed his dreams whereas everyone else settled for a second-rate existence trapped in a cubicle at some job they don't even like. It's safe to assume that if Nick Diaz had a theme song for every time he made a public appearance, 'Fight to Survive' would be playing in the background.
The fact that Nick Diaz sat in front of his computer and watched this mundane interview regarding antidepressant studies is so incredible -- that it's depressing in itself. Perhaps the greatest thing is if you look at the comment section on the YouTube page, it's filled with stuff like 'Stockton 209 bitches!' and 'Nick Diaz!' I'm sure this isn't what iHealthTube intended, but at the end of the day, if Nick Diaz didn't favorite this video, no one out there would even know it existed.
When I worked in the produce department of Albertsons just before college, my manager was a stout believer this planet has no core. He believed that it was actually hollow inside and one must enter the inside of earth from the North Pole. There's actually a name for it. It's called 'Hollow Earth Theory' and some people believe that explorers in the past have actually visited the 'inner earth' and discovered a race of giants that lived in lush gardens in very sustainable temperature.
Sure it's a theory that could be proven through rudimentary topographical data of the North Pole, however believers in the Hollow Earth Theory claim that no such evidence exists. The reason for the 'North Pole passage' is to 'neutralize the pressure' between the outer earth and the inner earth.
Look, I can't pretend like I understand any of this stuff. You should probably watch this video explaining the theory, something that Nick Diaz has watched one afternoon in Stockton, California.
100 years from now, Dan Quinn's Youtube clips will be studied by historians and they will all collectively agree that he was ahead of his time. Way ahead of his time. Dan Quinn claims that he's discovered an elixir for eternal youth which also doubles as a fuel source that can save the earth. It's all based on a cocktail of Stevia, marijuana and 'pure-h20'. Apparently this mixture has enabled Dan Quinn to have an MMA record of 5-6-1. Now the dude has aimed his bong inspired Youtube rants directly at Nick Diaz.
Originally, my plan was to present you guys with the completed 'The Saint of Stevia' film, something that we started on in November 2010. Around this time last year, we released a trailer with the promise that the feature documentary would soon follow. Well, a year later we're still not done with the project. It's coming, but so is a lot of other stuff at MiddleEasy. Hopefully this video of Dan Quinn directly addressing Nick Diaz will hold you over until then.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyAlistair Overeem documentary video for 'The Reem' season two, episode eight
Alistair Overeem takes you along for his ride on the rollercoaster to get to his UFC 141 bout against Brock Lesnar.
This latest episode of the video documentary "The Reem" begins at the press conference before segueing into various training sessions. Then we see Overeem fly out to see his mother, who is dealing with complications from cancer.
Finally, right at the end of the video, Overeem touches on the drug test controversy that has been hanging over his head for weeks now. Essentially, it's a blowoff, a way to downplay the issue and turn the focus solely of attention back to the fight itself, which is going to be huge.
For all the latest on the UFC 141: "Lesnar vs. Overeem" event click here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUrijah Faber Shears the Locks in Support of His Ailing Sister (Video)
If you aren't already a fan of Urijah Faber, you just might be after watching this video.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyThe Reem Episode 8 - Alistair Overeem's Interesting Training Camp and UFC 141 Controversy
Within mixed martial arts, there may not be a better constructed narrative than the video series we call The Reem. The stylized editing creates a sensation of a driving pace, which allows Alistair Overeem to convey a feeling of an always moving ascent towards the top. His latest video, coming the week before the UFC 141 match with Brock Lesnar, imposes a storyline upon the training camp shifts, gives a perspective on his recent hearing with the Nevada State Athletic Commission and supplies yet more brief glimpses of training footage.
In an added bonus, the video features our own Brent Brookhouse's writing on the controversy surrounding drug testing for the upcoming UFC 141. Brent's piece is shown at roughly 19 minutes in and the Twitter update on that controversy from MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani is shown shortly thereafter.
THE REEM SEASON 2 EPISODE 8: ROLLER COASTER from THE REEM on Vimeo.
Within this video, we see Overeem jumping from place to place, from Antoni Hardonk and the opening of his new gym, to the UFC on Fox event, to UFC 141 promotional events, meeting fans and sharpening skills at Reign Training Center. Midway through the video, we see that Overeem has crossed the Atlantic to be with his mother during a health battle. The hospital footage and family time serve as a lead in to a deliberate talk about drug testing and how Overeem dealt with the questions, increased testing regimen and so on. The pace kicks up yet again with more training footage and sparring partners testifying to how beastly Overeem was, is and will be.
The episode's title suggests volatility, yet seeing Overeem working with long time trainer Roberto Flamingo and several other training partners that have popped up before may tell a different story to diligent followers of The Reem. It's still worth a watch and hits the gaming/combat sports sweet spot with a Guile theme from Street Fighter bit.
More SBN coverage of UFC 141
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowMatwork! Qingdao Judo Grand Prix Results, Midlands Contenders, Year's Best Awards, Christmas Grappling Videos and More
Recent happenings in the worlds of sambo, judo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling and/or collegiate/freestyle wrestling. If it takes place on the ground and it's interesting, it should be here.
This issue is hitting your eyeballs nine days before the end of 2011. As an opportunity for a fresh start, assuming no end of the world shenanigans actually happen, 2012 is fast approaching and most of the major combat sports have shut down for the holidays. Nevertheless, there are still events going on, videos to watch and articles to digest.
First, feast your eyes on a terrific combination of scrambles and throws to close out the men's 60 kg finals in the Qingdao IJF Grand Prix. Georgii Zantaraia (Ukraine) went OFF at the end of the match and threw Naohisa Takato (Japan) for ippon with a soto makikomi. The video kicks off at the beginning of some serious action, yet if you've got some time, the whole match is fairly entertaining. Peep this clip and join me after the jump for more combat sports goodness.
If you have any links of your own, questions or comments, leave them below or get word to me at DefGrappler on Twitter. Please let me know if I missed anything major and I will fix this, that and the other thing.
A list of official crew Twitter accounts is right here for your pickings: BloodyElbow Twitter, Luke Thomas, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Leland Roling, Richard Wade, Jonathan Snowden, Chris Barton, Damon O,Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coffeen, Dallas Winston, KJ Gould, Matt Roth, Anton Tabuena.
Wrestling News:
It's winter time. X-Mas is right around the corner. Most college students are already home on break, stuffing their faces with home cooked bakery and figuring out ways to sneak off and party with friends they've missed. Dedicated (and unpaid) collegiate athletes are still watching their diet and sneaking into the gym to get those workouts in and ensuring that their competitors don't outwork them. This particularly holds true for wrestlers.
The 2011 Midlands will be held at Northwestern University on December 29th and 30th. This is the big mid-season tournament, as most of the top individual wrestlers in each weight division will come and battle for the prestigious title. As the cherry on the top of that grappling sundae, the Midlands often feature a Super Match in which now-graduated college stars or Olympic-caliber wrestlers go against each other. Last year's Super Match was between Ben Askren and Jake Herbert, who is now second on the U.S. national team at 84 kg (behind Cael Sanderson).
This may be a bunch of complete hot air, but Chael Sonnen was talking about how this year's Super Match would be between Askren and Jordan Burroughs, the new golden boy and current world champion at 74 kg. Burroughs and Askren have denied it on Twitter, yet it could still be possible.
Anyways, the current rough draft of a line-up for the 2011 Midlands has been released. Note that there are some differences between that list of contenders and the InterMat rankings (updated and released here).
The international freestyle scene has largely shut down for the holidays, so here's perhaps the silliest-looking scramble I've ever seen in folkstyle wrestling, courtesy of Flowrestling.
Watch more video of Dirty Flo Scramble 2011-2012 on flowrestling.org
I give much respect to those wrestlers for putting in all that hard work and not giving up, but that's funny stuff.
Judo News:
As mentioned above, the Qindao IJF Grand Prix was held over three days from Friday, December 16th, to Sunday, December 19th. JudoInside has the results, medal table and other cool stuff. This was another strong event, although not quite as many top ranked competitors showed up as did for the Grand Slam in Tokyo. A decent smattering of videos can be found on YouTube (especially the lighter weight finals), but the more spectacular matches and moments have not made the internetz yet. Maybe you readers will be content with the bucketfuls of video from last week's Tokyo Grand Slam.
As can be seen on the World Rankings, several top 10 competitors among the various divisions showed up in Qingdao and had differing amounts of success. IntJudo has three good recaps of each individual day on their site. I have only been following judo for a short time, but homecourt advantage really does seem to have an effect. The Chinese judoka won the most medals here, with the Koreans second and the Japanese third. A couple of red cards (for illegal leg-based techniques) and penalty points were decisive factors in several of the semis and finals, which is kind of a shame. To continue the long tradition of America-centric news cherrypicking, U.S. judoka, Kayla Harrison won the women's 70 kg final with an ippon throw of the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion, Yang Xiuli. Big ups to her for the gold medal.
Now that the judo season is at a close, we can come up with some of the better throws out there. I'm partial to the following throw by Artem Vaslyenko from the European Championships in the finals of the 81 kg. The technique has an actual name - sode tsurikomi goshi - and has been used many times in competition, yet in this match, Vaslyenko makes it look like pure magic.
There's a decent compilation of ippons from Judo Scotland here, but I think finding a true 2011 Ippon of the Year is going to take quite a while of trawling through videos. This highlights of the World Championship ippons is a good starting point. This one might be my second favorite though, as Audrey Tcheumeo (France) footsweeps Akari Ogata (Japan) for the ippon:
Submission Grappling/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu News:
The results of Aesopian's Gi Survey are now out. The idea of the project was to take ratings of various gis owned by grapplers filling out the survey and then chop up the data to spit out some useful stuff. The project succeeded and Aesopian is now chopping up the data in bursts and will make the information available when he is ready. For now, he's released a short post that shows that the top 30 some brands essentially have little difference in overall customer satisfaction.
This means that for the most part, gi companies are doing a good job, but also shows that crowd-sourcing which particular gi to buy for your individual tastes is probably not a good idea. Sizes and shapes vary among people and also among gis. Pay attention to shrinkage rates. I suggest that you go to your grappling teammates, find one that you like the looks and feel of and get that one. Or experiment and go get something that nobody there has ever heard of.
My favorite bit of seeing the "We Are All One" slogan at work through combat sports this week has to be the ADCC Serbian Open. The quick results and some photos are available on the ADCC website. Genki Sudo may have retired and moved on to Japan's pop music scene, but that spirit of unity through beating the heck out of each other within the confines of sensible rules is still alive and strong. There is a strange and strong bond between people who have just grappled each other and I genuinely think this is somewhat key to world peace.
The Renzo Gracie Open was held this past weekend within the MMA World Expo event held nearly on the waterfront of Hell's Kitchen. The results and video are not up yet, but I will keep you updated.
The results of the Naga Worlds event that was slightly overlooked last week (no information available at that time) are now out.
David over at the Jiu Jisu Laboratory blog has his 2011 BJJ Awards up. I agree with most of what's in here - particularly awarding Leandro Lo Pereira the Rookie of the Year award. Beating Celso Venicius and Michael Langhi within one tournament is going to turn heads. Stomping through the Brazilian competitions all year long, as Leandro Lo did, is cementing your place with style. I disagree with Competition of the Year, as I thought the Abu Dhabi Pro was better run than the ADCCs and featured a bit better BJJ. Best Throw has to go to Leo Vieira for his massive first round ADCC seo nagi (sadly the video was taken down, so I can't link you to it).
Watch Augusto "Tanquinho" Mendes roll with Rafael "Formiga" Barbosa. This is high level grappling, courtesy of BJJ Weekly, and will show you what you are working towards. Formiga is narrating, so try to get through the Brazilian accent and enjoy a caipirinha while watching, if you like (and if it's legal for you to do so).
Ricardo Abreu has one of my favorite Brazilian jiu jitsu nicknames ever in "Demente" (for his habit of purposely leaving an arm out for an opponent to seize onto before countering with a pass). He left elite competitive grappling for a while to work as a lawyer for a few years, but came back and started transitioning to an MMA career.
Five days ago, he won his second pro fight at 205 lbs in 24 seconds on a card for BRFC - Desafio de Imortais in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Video of the knockout is here, but it seems like Leo Rocha, his opponent, caved before Abreu could display some serious skills. His July fight, which lasted a minute and change, displayed a bit more of his skills. A couple days later, Celso Venicius won a short match by submission to punches (from mount) at Face to Face 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Again, not as competitive as I'd like to see, but good prospects generally make short work of opponents.
Demente reminds me of a slightly larger, much nicer version of Palhares with armbars being his particular submission love affair. Could be worth keeping an eye on, as he works his way through the Brazilian MMA scene. Celso Venicius is probably not going to make big waves in the lightweight division, but he could make a run in a lower division and his grappling is very, very good as well. Hopefully, I didn't steal any of Leland and Smoogy's thunder here.
Odds and Ends:
For those of you grapplers who have back trouble, try doing some of the exercises from this post by Christian Graugart. I am going to start doing them just to loosen things up and to head off some stuff with my sacroiliac joint that I can feel coming on. Note: this is not medical advice and you should consult with your doctors about your beat up body before doing anything crazy.
Braulio Estima has a pretty decent sense of humor. He's also willing to make himself look silly in the pursuit of laughs. Check out how Santa Braulio gets a reindeer into the X-Mas spirit.
To close out, I end with another Animals Grappling video. It starts off slow, but that tabby cat can go after the neck for sure.
Much credit to DeoWade for showing me this one.
People, I always need more awesome Odds & Ends. Videos, gifs, links, whatever. Do not hesitate to send them my way on here or on Twitter.
Def Grappler out!
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBrock Lesnar vs Alistair Overeem fight video simulation from UFC Undisputed 3
Wanna know who wins the UFC 141 main event between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem, scheduled for Dec. 30, 2011, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vages, Nevada?
Look no further than the UFC Undisputed 3 video game.
The boys over at THQ put together this video simulation to promote "The Reem's" inclusion in the Feb. 14, 2012, release for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. You can get the download code for Overeem and make him a part of your upcoming roster by heading over to the THQ Facebook page.
Brent Brookhouse took the time to compile a few stats from the above simulation:
- 25 simulated matches. 13 won by Overeem, 12 by Lesnar. - Lesnar attempted a total of 287 takedowns (11.5 per fight). - Lesnar and Overeem "rocked" each other an equal amount of times in the 25 bouts. - Lesnar won two bouts via arm triangle. - 92% (12 of 13) of the bouts Overeem won were by knockout.
Anyone think these stats will come close to the real thing? For more on the upcoming release of UFC Undisputed 3 click here. For more on the "Lesnar vs. Overeem" match-up click here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaStrikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Video Highlights
Didn't get a chance to watch Saturday's Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal event on Showtime? Check out ShoSports' video recap of the night's main card.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyRing of Fire 42 Video Highlights
Video highlights of the main fights from this past Saturday night's Ring of Fire 42 in Denver, Colo., where UFC vet Tyler Toner battled top local contender Nick Macias.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyMousasi vs. St. Preux (video)
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Read the full article at RedditStrikeforce ‘Melendez vs. Masvidal’ Video Highlights
Video: Highlights: Strikeforce
Highlights from Strikeforce “Melendez vs. Masvidal” courtesy of Showtime and Fox Sports.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertWeigh-in Video: Strikeforce ‘Melendez vs. Masvidal’
Friday's weigh-in video can be viewed following the jump.
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Read the full article at SherdogDeer Hunt That Led to Charges for Brock Lesnar May Have Been Captured on Video
Alistair Overeem isn't the only one with some outside distractions heading into UFC 141 on December 30. Brock Lesnar, who will face Overeem in the heavyweight main event, was charged on Thursday with three counts of violating Alberta's Wildlife Act. The charges reportedly stem from a hunt that took place in southern Alberta in November of 2010, and which may have been captured on video.
Lesnar, along with hunting guide Chad Stryker, both stand accused of improper tagging of an animal, leaving edible game meat to rot, and illegal possession of wildlife. Neither Lesnar nor Stryker was present for the hearing in Medicine Hat, Alberta on Thursday, but a video shot by North American Hunter Television documents a hunt in Alberta in November of 2010.
In that video, Lesnar -- with Stryker at his side -- is seen shooting a mule deer buck which he then describes as a "nice old, mature mule deer."
"Now the work begins," Lesnar adds.
The next shot in the video is of Lesnar, with the deer's antlers poking out of a pack on his back, climbing back up the hill through the snow with Stryker following behind and helping him along.
"My guide Chad insisted that he haul this deer out of there," Lesnar says to the camera. "And I said, you know, I shot it, I'll haul it out. Baddest man on the planet, with the horns and about 150 pounds of meat on my back, up 500 feet. Living the dream. This is what I live for."
The video doesn't show exactly how much of the deer was harvested and packed out by Lesnar or his guide, and only the trophy antlers are visible from Lesnar's pack. Lesnar and Stryker stand accused of leaving edible game meat to rot, which, as Owen Voaklander of Alberta Professional Outfitters Society told The Canadian Press, "is a very serious crime in the minds of hunters because most everybody is hunting for meat at the outset."
According to the website of Trophy Hunters Alberta, which claims Stryker as one of its guides and features Lesnar prominently on its homepage, one-on-one guided mule deer hunts in Alberta can cost upwards of $7,500 U.S.
The Crown Prosecutor's office in Alberta did not respond to a request for comment on what kind of punishment Lesnar and Stryker could be facing, and Lesnar has reportedly not yet submitted himself for arraignment, opting instead to be represented only by a legal agent.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseVideo: Jorge Masvidal confident he is better than Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez...
Video: Jorge Masvidal confident he is better than Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez everywhere, including in the wrestling department, and will prove it on Saturday night (Dec. 14, 2011) when they collide in the main event that will air on Showtime.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaStrikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Preview Video
Check out this preview video for Saturday's exciting Strikeforce lightweight title fight between Gilbert Melendez and Jorge Masvidal.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAThe UFC Bunch video parody of the Brady Bunch from the usual suspects via The Underground.
The UFC Bunch video parody of the Brady Bunch from the usual suspects via The Underground.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaParody Video: The UFC Bunch
Get the real story of the UFC's creation in this hilarious parody video.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAThe ‘True Story’ on How the UFC was Born (video)
Ever wondered what the real story is behind how the UFC actually got its start? Check out this video and you'll get the scoop...
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyPhillipe “Super Nurse” Nover drains his elbow on video
With all of the riveting, hard-hitting news surfacing in the last day or so, such as Alistair Overeem having an awesome excuse to not be tested for steroids and Chael Sonnen NOT acting like a penisface to Arianny Celeste, it was hard to select a topic to write about for the day. I was going to produce lots of funnies about violence against women after reading that Junie Browning started ANOTHER fight in a hospital (Junie chose the right place to do this, as I heard that the ladyboys in Thai prison are fabulous), but that was before I read that Phillipe Nover decided to film himself draining his elbow following his fight with Marcin Held at Bellator 59. Let me just say that I am quite the enthusiast regarding anything, be it liquid, solid, gas, or searing hot plasma, flying out of the human body. I measure my masturbation not in times per week, but times per hour. I spend days on end watching milk enema porn (delightfully NSFW... also check out my favorite film of all time, Blow it Out Your Ass 2). I watch videos of topless girls farting while I eat breakfast, pausing them only when the little play arrow will point directly at the girl’s asshole. And I am one of the few people I know who touches himself while watching PopThatZit.com. So when I saw Phillipe Nover muse that he had “a titty on [his] elbow”, I was psyched for what would come next. The result, ten full CC’s of a transparent, red liquid (will people get mad at me for posting spoilers?), is a bit underwhelming in terms of texture. The hedonist in me (okay, the gay hedonist in me) would rather watch him poop. But seeing his elbow swelling go down does provide a sort of satisfaction. And his nursey monologue about the lymphatic system is quite informative. Overall, I’d give this video a solid B, just above "Exploding Chin" but significantly below tubgirl. Another video, this time of Nover draining his own cauliflower ear, after the jump!
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Read the full article at FightlinkerDenis Kang vs. Shungo Oyama Fight VideoRoad FC 005 -- Dec 3, 2011. Seoul, South KoreaYou can...
Denis Kang vs. Shungo Oyama Fight Video
Road FC 005 -- Dec 3, 2011. Seoul, South Korea
You can also check out the recap of the event along with other Asian MMA news here.
Photo by Greg Samborski for Sherdog
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on Xbox Live is more than just streaming fights, it's an all out experience
The big news broke a couple of months ago that fans would be able to order UFC pay-per-views (PPV) through their Xbox by year's end, streaming events straight from their video game console. It's Microsoft's latest step in making the their system more than a toy and transforming it into a bonafide multimedia entertainment center. Joining the likes of media giants Netflix and Hulu already available through Xbox Live, the UFC is poised to play a major role in the Redmond company's future plans to achieve that goal.
I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview of the service before it goes public on Dec. 20 just in time for UFC 141: "Lesnar vs. Overeem" so I've got the full skinny for my beloved Maniacs.
How was the video and audio quality? Were there any lags in the stream? What advantages does ordering a UFC PPV through XBox Live have order the usual manner of cable or satellite?
All of these questions and more will be answered after the jump.
Quality of stream: Running off a wired 10 megabyte download speed cable internet connection and your run of the mill high definition television, I could not see nor hear any discernable difference between the Xbox Live stream and what I usually experienced ordering PPVs through my cable box.
The picture was sharp, the sound was crisp, and there was no lag to be seen. Granted, this was a closed preview so the servers weren't as stressed as they will be once the service goes public. Whether or not any hiccups will pop up starting with UFC 141 will remain to be seen. The price point for the show remains the same across the board but if the quality holds up, there shouldn't be much to complain about there.
Fans are also able to replay the event an unlimited amount of times up to 24 hours later with the option of skipping ahead or fast forwarding to their favorite fights.
The only qualm I had with the stream was that it seemed to be a little over a full minute behind the action. When Mark Hominick and Chan Sung Jung were in their corners being asked by the referee if they were ready on my TV, my Twitter timeline was already being flooded with just about every exclamation you can think of after "The Korean Zombie" flattened his opponent in only seven seconds.
A minute might not seem like a big deal but it's a lifetime in terms of a fight. A tweet or a text message can ruin the ending of a fight in that time.
Presentation: This is where the Xbox Live experience begins to pull away from your basic mom and pop cable or satellite companies. During the event, pressing the Y button on your controller will pull up the fight card, complete with a "Tale of the Tape" for each bout. Also included are your fights pick if you made them before the event started as well as a leaderboard which keeps track of everyone else's picks.
Hitting the left and right bumpers or triggers will scroll through a series of options including the last three bouts -- and their results -- for each fighter. You also get a Fight Overview which is a little blurb about each combatant. It was pretty generic this time around, I wonder if it will get more in-depth as time goes on.
The final option is a listing of your Xbox Live friends' picks for the event. Bragging rights seem to be all that's at stake for now but I can't help but think Microsoft might throw out some prizes -- like Xbox Live points -- for those fight fans whose picks are spot on.
Extras: The fun isn't only for those who have committed to buying the PPV through their Xbox. Simply accessing the UFC application through the Live menu grants fans all sorts of awesome access. It's nothing you can't find anywhere else but having it all under one roof -- so to speak -- is fantastic.
Interviews with Tito Ortiz, Lyoto Machida, and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones are available as is a trio of videos from the open workouts. The weigh-ins are also available. I'm unsure if they were streamed live but they were available immediately afterwards. Hours later, highlights videos were editing out from the three big fights were also made available if you can't sit through the entire thing.
You can also watch a video of the pre-fight press conference as well as the entire Countdown episode for the event. Going further back, videos from UFC 139 are still available and going into the future, you can also watch a teaser for UFC 141.
As is, the entire UFC on Xbox Live experience is more immersive and a welcome change to the current method of ordering a PPV. There's a ton of potential there as well as Microsoft and Zuffa have only scratched the surface of what is possible. Live chat rooms and integration with UFC Undisputed 3 are only two of near limitless possibilities for the service.
One final note: it seems that while every Xbox Live user will be able to order the PPV, only Gold level members will get access to all those fun extras like the weigh-in videos, Countdown, etc.
Any Maniacs interested in ordering UFC 141 through your Xbox? Any others questions you may have that I didn't touch on?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaJones Machida fight (video).
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Read the full article at RedditGreg Jackson advises Jones (Video & SPOILERS)
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 140 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Video of the UFC 140 post-fight press conference.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 140 Video Highlights: Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida, Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera
Video highlights from UFC 140 via ESPN.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 140 Video: Brian Ebersole Explains Why He Deserved to Win
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosTORONTO -- Watch below as Brian Ebersole talks about his win over Claude Patrick at UFC 140, why he deserved to win, what's next, how special this year was for him.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 140 Video: Mark Hominick Admits He Came Out Too Aggressively
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosTORONTO -- Mark Hominick spoke to the media after his loss to Chan Sung Jung at UFC 140. In the video below, Hominick talks about fighting "out of character" and his mental state after this setback.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 140 Video: Mark Bocek Thinks He's Still 'in the Mix' at Lightweight
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosTORONTO -- Mark Bocek spoke to the media after his unanimous decision win at UFC 140. Bocek discussed Nik Lentz's guillotine attempts, the reason for his black eye, and his "incredible" experience at Tristar gym.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 140 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCThe UFC 140 post-fight press conference is the last piece of business to take care of after the action is over in the Octagon, and we have the live video below at MMAFighting.com.
At the post-fight press conference, UFC President Dana White will announce the winners of the Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses, and winning fighters will meet the media.
The UFC 140 post-fight press conference will begin about half an hour after the main event ends, and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseAmir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson Video Round-Up - Combat Sports' Other Fight Tonight
Amir Khan and Lamont Peterson meet tonight in an HBO Championship Boxing bout in what should, for good reason, barely register on an MMA fan's radar with the much better UFC 140 to watch. But for the curious, the fight will replay on HBO West and throughout the weekend, and Khan is a true talent in the boxing world.
Given that the event is in Washington D.C., MMA Nation's Luke Thomas has been all over the fight with videos, interviews and other coverage. You can follow his coverage of the fight here. Also, Scott Christ at Bad Left Hook has done his usual great job of covering the fight and his coverage can be seen here.
Luke's videos give a good impression to MMA fans of the difference between the boxing fight week lead-up and what we are treated to with major UFC events. Let's give some of them a watch.
Amir Khan talks to the media:
On if he is moving up in weight:
Yeah. No more tests at this weight [140 pounds]. We've proven that we're the best in this division. And there's no one touching us. Hopefully we get past Lamont Peterson and then there's superfights at 147.
And on if he wants to face Miguel Cotto:
Cotto had a great performance. Cotto's a great fighter, and I'm a big fan of Cotto. He deserves the win. (Would you fight him at 147?) ... Yeah, definitely, I'd fight him at 147.
More videos after the jump
Lamont Peterson talks to the media:
Video of the press conference:
Oscar De La Hoya talks about Khan and takes a shot at Bob Arum:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White’s UFC 140 Video Blog: Part Two
Dana White makes the rounds in Toronto in this second installment of his UFC 140 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertEddie Bravo has a new music video so you should probably check it out
I remember screaming at my television while the Korean Zombie pulled-off a twister submission against Leonard Garcia in their highly anticipated rematch. I’ve lost my voice many times since childhood, but this one rendered me completely incapable to speak for several days, which made telling co-workers about what I saw completely impossible. Turns out that was a blessing in disguise because my co-workers don’t really watch MMA, and the last thing they care to hear about is how Chan Sung Jung torqued Leonard Garcia’s neck. Eddie Bravo did all the talking for everyone, as he released several videos praising the Korean Top Team fighter on mastering his coveted technique. The Korean Zombie is currently getting well rested for his fight against Mark Hominick tomorrow night, and just to keep the spirit of Eddie Bravo with him, this video was just released by he BJJ guru today. If it’s not a coincidence, spot the twister Eddie lays down at the 2:40 mark of the video and use your imagination to pretend that’s his way of giving the Korean Zombie a shout-out.
Posted in: video, korean, korean zombie, eddie, eddie bravo
Read the full article at Middle EasyDana White UFC 140 Video Blog – Day 2
In his second UFC 140 video blog, UFC president Dana White takes us behind the scenes in Toronto as he makes his rounds with the media, the pre-fight press conference, and more.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyDana White UFC 140 Video Log
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Read the full article at RedditDana White video blog for UFC 140 (Episode two)
Two days after releasing his first video blog for the UFC 140: "Jones vs. Machida" event, which will go down tonight (Sat., Dec. 10, 2011) in Toronto, UFC President Dana White finally has enough material to release another one.
The above video kicks off with White's recent interview with Michael Landsberg, the very same interview in which he was told about Miguel Torres' rape van tweet that ultimately led to the former WEC champion's dismissal from the UFC.
But I digress.
The blog quickly switches gears to the pre-fight festivities like the press conference and weigh-ins, which see Tito Ortiz blowing off an Ariel Helwani question and a cute kid saying hello to "The People's Champ" in a way that draws a great response from everyone in attendance.
And, of course, lots and lots of staredowns.
The good news, Maniacs, is that all the hoopla is almost over and these guys will finally be climbing inside the Octagon tonight to do what we pay to see them do -- WAR!
To watch episode one of Dana White's UFC 140 video blog click here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC on Xbox LIVE Kicks Off Dec. 20
On Dec. 20, Xbox will become the ultimate place to watch live UFC Pay-Per-View events with the launch of UFC® on Xbox LIVE®. With access to live event videos and a catalog of videos on demand, an interactive fight card, a fight prediction game with friend leaderboards, and Pay-Per-View events in stunning HD all together in one place, the energy of the Octagon® comes right into your living room. UFC on Xbox LIVE provides UFC content available in one comprehensive hub on your TV, including:• Live and On Demand Video – Event previews, Countdown to UFC, Press Conferences, Weigh-Ins, Interviews, Workouts, and more, together for the first time on your big screen.• Streaming High Definition –UFC fans demand stunning High Definition viewing, and UFC on Xbox LIVE provides the highest quality streaming HD to the big screen. • Easy Pay-Per-View –The biggest Pay-Per-View fights available to all Xbox LIVE members in standard HD and SD pricing options. Purchase directly with the credit card associated with your Xbox LIVE account – no Microsoft Points required.• Interactive Fight Card with Fight Picks – Size up the fighters with the tale of the tape, and view their past fight results. Make your Fight Picks, predict specific fight outcomes, and compete with your friends. And with the live leaderboard and leaderboard alerts tracking the results, you will always know where you stand. Access leaderboards and Fight Picks features in split screen, so you’ll never have to leave the excitement of the Octagon.• Control the action with Kinect - Focus on the fight instead of looking for the remote. Navigate through the video content, bring up the Interactive Fight Card, or play, pause, and rewind that big punch, kick or submission…all through the body and voice-controlled power of Kinect. Check out the latest sizzle reel for UFC on Xbox LIVE that shows the app in action, and see what the UFC’s biggest superstars, including Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, Phil Davis and even UFC President Dana White, are saying about UFC on Xbox LIVE. To watch the sizzle reel, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACjfbrn8NsTo celebrate the launch, UFC on Xbox LIVE will present UFC® 141: LESNAR vs. OVEREEM on Dec. 30 in Pay-Per-View. Xbox LIVE Gold Members who download the application will be able to make predictions and get pumped up for the fight by watching the weigh-in, pre-fight press conferences and other related videos live or via the on-demand library. *UFC on Xbox LIVE is your ultimate fight center! With access to live event videos and a catalog of videos on demand, an interactive fight card, and Pay-Per-View events in stunning HD all together in one, UFC on Xbox LIVE brings the world’s fastest growing sport to fans, just the way they want it. *Pay-Per-View events sold separately. Xbox LIVE Gold Membership required for video content and other premium features. Kinect for Xbox 360 required for voice and gesture controls.
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Read the full article at UFCVideo: UFC 140 Weigh-in
Friday's UFC 140 weigh-in video can be viewed following the jump.
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Read the full article at SherdogIgor Pokrajac gets a trance massage
Dr Andy from Igor Pokrajac's team sent us an email with some vids asking if we could give Igor some love leading up to his fight on Saturday with Krzysztof Soszynski. I haven't been posting anything about that fight mainly because spelling those names is a pain in the ass but here's a video of Andy giving Igor a rubdown. Trance makes all videos of Europeans cooler, even ones where dudes are just getting their neck stretched out.
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Read the full article at FightlinkerUFC 140 Preview Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosTORONTO -- Watch below as Ben Fowlkes and I (and a bunch of rabid Canadian fans) look ahead to Saturday night's UFC 140 pay-per-view event, headlined by Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 140 Weigh-In Highlight Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosTORONTO -- The UFC 140 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the Air Canada Centre. Check out the highlights of the proceedings below. Full UFC 140 weigh-in results here.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseNothing about this Nick Diaz parody video makes any sense
Quantum physics dictate that on a long enough time span, if you were to throw a dictionary in the air and blow it up with a shotgun, the words 'don't be scared homie' will eventually emerge from the charred remains in exactly that same order. While those chances may entirely too astronomic for human comprehension, the probability of it happening is greater than your chance of fully understanding this Nick Diaz parody video.
The clip comes from a guy that's notorious for stealing our videos and covering up our watermark -- something that we'll be contacting YouTube about later today. Nevertheless, this guy has made a rather intriguing Napoleon Dynamite inspired Nick Diaz video that is so senseless that we had to publish it on MiddleEasy.com. My suggestion is you better watch this video as soon as possible, before we have this guy's YouTube channel shutdown for copyright infringement. Props to Two Tree for the banner picture. Enjoy!
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Read the full article at Middle EasyMirko Cro Cop's exploding bicep won't hinder March 2012 return to K-1 (Video)
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 140 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll the fighters at UFC 140 will step onto the scale at the UFC 140 weigh-ins Friday afternoon, and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and challenger Lyoto Machida will both need to make the light heavyweight limit of 205 pounds. Also worth watching is Dennis Hallman, who is moving down to lightweight to take on John Makdessi.
The UFC 140 weigh-in begins at 4 p.m. ET and the video is below.
More Coverage: UFC 140 Fight Card | UFC 140 Results
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseJones and Machida Both Enjoyed ‘Karate Kid’ Video
The internet is always buzzing with a new viral video, but ahead of UFC 140 one of the most creative ones hit the web featuring Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida.
Posted in: jone, jon jones, video, machida, web
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyDana White UFC 140 Video Blog – Day 1
Getting ready for Saturday's UFC 140, UFC president Dana White kicks off his UFC 140 video blog with some behind the scenes wrap-up from the recent UFC 139 event.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyDana White’s UFC 140 Video Blog: Part One
Behind the scenes at UFC 139 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC 140 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertChael Sonnen: "The Most Interesting Man In The World" (Hour Long Video)
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Read the full article at RedditDana White UFC 140 Video Blog: Behind the scenes look at UFC 139
“Fight week, blog week,” is a familiar refrain from UFC President Dana White and as UFC 140 gets closer, he is back with his latest installment of his popular video blogs. In the edition, the cameras go behind the scenes at UFC 139, getting a candid view of the fighters following their bouts back on November 19.
Two of the better clips come at the end of the video where we get to see Mauricio Rua speaking to the physician after his loss to Dan Henderson and Wanderlei Silva in conversation
Posted in: ufc, video, wanderlei silva, blog, mauricio rua
Read the full article at Low KickUFC 140 Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCAt the UFC 140 press conference on Thursday, UFC President Dana White will be joined by fighters Jon Jones, Lyoto Machida, Frank Mir, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Tito Ortiz and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, and we'll carry the live video here at MMAFighting.com.
UFC 140 marks the promotion's return to Toronto, where it smashed attendance records in April, and it's headlined by Jones and Machida fighting for the light heavyweight championship of the world.
The press conference video, which begins at 1 p.m. ET, is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseFists of Fortune Video Magazine - Issue 1Features:The Daily Grind with Douglas LimaThe Wrestlers...
Fists of Fortune Video Magazine - Issue 1
Features:
The Daily Grind with Douglas Lima
The Wrestlers Ambition - Who Is Bubba Jenkins?
Vicious Streak - Jorge Masvidal
+Much more
fistsofortune.com
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC Quick Quote: Anderson Silva makes videos to help Lyoto Machida prepare for Jon Jones
"I talked to Anderson on the phone like three or four times, and we talked a lot. He sent me a video, telling me to train that. He shot a video there saying what he thought I should focus more my training on for this fight, he showed me different [moves], saying I can use it. So, he always tries to help me the way he can. We can tell Anderson is very helpful, mainly with his friends. You can see his worry to come and talk to me. I know he wants me to bring another title to our Brazil."
-- Lyoto Machida tells Tatame.com that even though current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion, long-time friend and training partner, Anderson Silva, was unable to help him train for Jon Jones at UFC 140, "The Spider" is doing what he can thousands of miles away. In particular, he took the time to make a video for "The Dragon," showing him a few new moves to help him get his 205-pound title back from "Bones." While Machida has been busy training in Belem, Brazil, for his upcoming light heavyweight championship fight at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Canada, on Dec. 10, 2011, Silva has been in the United States, receiving his "Knockout of the Year" award at the World MMA Awards and, of course, recovering from a nagging shoulder injury. The good news is that Machida has not been short on training partners in Silva's absence, flying in wrestling guru and former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Muhammed Lawal and Brazilian jiu- jitsu specialist, Glover Teixeira, to participate in his training camp. Machida will look to reclaim the 205-pound title that was once his, which Mauricio Rua emphatically took away from him by knocking him out in the first round at UFC 113 back in 2010. Will Silva's video messages and new moves make a difference on fight night, or is Machida screwed no matter who chips in, including the incomparable Steven Seagal?
Posted in: ufc, video, training, anderson, machida
Read the full article at MMA ManiaJon Jones shin kicks Jim Norton on Opie&Anthony SiriusXM Radio Show (video)
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Read the full article at RedditGeorges St. Pierre video from Montreal autograph signing
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre hit Montreal for a meet-and-greet with fans in advance of his upcoming title defense against Nick Diaz at UFC 143 on Feb. 5, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This video, above all else, highlights some of the perils of autograph signings. Everything from "Can you put me in a headlock?" to "I baked you cookies!"
Enjoy.
Posted in: nick diaz, video, pierre, title defense, montreal autograph
Read the full article at MMA ManiaMiguel Torres chugs a glass of tequila and flexes in broski's basement (Video)
Former WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres celebrates his UFC 139 win over Nick Pace on a budget, chugging tequila in his broski's basement. Torres (40-4) is known for his whacky videos, which include everything from head surgery to the cinnamon challenge.
Props: Middle Easy
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaIf you don't think Miguel Torres can effortlessly chug a glass of tequila, then watch this video
I'm forced to assume that 75% of the people that follow MiddleEasy on Twitter are drunk (or drinking) at any given point throughout the day. It's the only way I can make sense of the incoherent links that are sent to us on a daily basis. They're greatly appreciated, but my god are you guys lunatics. If I get another instructional video on how to apply make-up, then I'm going to throw my cosmetic box across the room. Let's make it abundantly clear that I know the inner-mechanics of cross-dressing. Applying rouge is nothing new to me, I mastered it years ago. However, drinking an entire glass of tequila in one swig is something that I will leave to the professionals. Check out this video of Miguel Torres dominating a glass of tequila last night and be amazed. [Source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyTUF 14 Finale Video: Diego Brandao’s Winnings Keep His Mom From Cleaning Houses
Check out MMAWeekly.com's video highlight of Diego Brandao at the TUF 14 post-fight presser.
Posted in: video, diego, brandao, diego brandao, mmaweeklycoms video
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyTUF 14 Finale Video Highlights: Michael Bisping vs. Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller
Video highlights from the TUF 14 Finale main event — Michael Bisping vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller — courtesy of ESPN.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertTUF 14 Finale: Bisping vs. Miller Weigh-in Video
MMAWeekly.com's exclusive Ultimate Fighter 14 Season Finale weigh-in video featuring Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller, including Bisping's meltdown.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVideo: ‘TUF 14’ Finale Weigh-ins
Friday's weigh-in video can be viewed following the jump.
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Read the full article at SherdogMayhem vs. Bisping TUF 14 Weigh-In Showdown
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosLAS VEGAS -- Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Michael Bisping have a memorable TUF 14 weigh-in Friday afternoon. Check out the video of just the main event portion, including Bisping giving the fans an obscene gesture twice, below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseCyborg Santos spinning back-kick KO (Video). Strikeforce Women's 145-pound Champion Cristiane...
Cyborg Santos spinning back-kick KO (Video). Strikeforce Women's 145-pound Champion Cristiane Santos opens up (in English!) to MMAprime.tv about a possible move to 135-pounds, the recent challenge from Ronda Rousey, training at Chute Boxe for her Dec. 17 fight and a whole lot more.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaCotto vs. Margarito 2 - Video of the First Meeting
Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito will rematch this Saturday night on HBO PPV in arguably the most anticipated boxing card of the year. The broadcast is stacked with great fights and will build right into the grudge match between the men who met for the first time all the way back in 2008.
While it was Cotto that jumped out to a nice early lead using slick boxing and powerful combinations, it was Margarito who was able to come back in the middle rounds and wilt Cotto with his power shots. When Margarito was found having loaded hand wraps applied in his next bout against Shane Mosley it created an immediate sense of controversy for the Cotto bout given that it was only natural to question if he was loading his wraps at that point as well.
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HBO has released the full video of the first fight as a promotional tool for Saturday night's rematch. Here is the video for you to see exactly why this rematch is so anticipated:
We'll have more on the fight this week as it's simply the biggest fight of the weekend and has the potential to be the best fight card of 2011.
Posted in: fight, video, margarito, cotto, antonio margarito
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowThis video of Ben Henderson sparring with The Korean Zombie will be the coolest thing you will see today
Prior to attending this week's press conference for UFC in Japan, Ben Henderson was in Korea visiting a few family members and getting some work in at Korean Top Team with their residential zombie. Korea's MFight decided to video tape the entire ordeal, and now we have this nifty video to grace your orbital sockets. Just further proof that technology dominates any gift Prometheus could ever give humanity. Eventually, technology will replace religion and Ben Henderson will be giving a shout out to Tony Jimenez instead of Jesus Christ. If that scenario plays out, you could spend your Sunday mornings playing Xbox 360 and nibbling on hot pockets instead of going to church and munching on the body of Christ as represented by a flavorless cracker. To praise God would be the equivalent of obtaining every achievement award in a game. Now check out this video of Ben Henderson and The Korean Zombie sparring and be transfixed in awe. [Source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyMatwork! 11/30/11
Recent happenings in the worlds of sambo, judo, Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling and/or collegiate/freestyle wrestling. If it takes place on the ground and it's interesting, it should be here.
First, we begin with a phenomenal nutrition advice video by the world renowned expert - Renato Laranja.
Below the jump, a surprising upset of the reigning NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion, Abu Dhabi World Pro qualifier results, international and college wrestling results, judo updates and more.
If you have any links of your own, questions or comments, leave them below or get at me on Twitter. Please let me know if I missed anything major.
The list of BE Twitter accounts is right here for your pickings: BloodyElbow Twitter, Luke Thomas, Kid Nate, Brent Brookhouse, Leland Roling, Richard Wade, Jonathan Snowden, Chris Barton,Damon O, Scott Broussard, Tim Burke, Matt Bishop, Fraser Coffeen, Dallas Winston, KJ Gould, Matt Roth.
Wrestling news:
On November 26th and 27th, the Journeymen/Asics Northeast Duels were held in Troy, NY. The idea behind the tournament is that the mid-majors within collegiate wrestling (Lehigh, Binghamton, Rutgers, Maryland, Penn etc.) face off in dual meets and get their wrestlers some tough matches early in the season before the NCAA championships are contested later this year. Zach Rey, the 2010 Division 1 heavyweight champion, was upset 4-0 by Levi Cooper. Flowrestling has the match video and you can view it if you're into NCAA heavyweight wrestling (the significant action kicks in around the 7:10 mark). The full results for the meet can be peeped over here.
It is also worth noting that Urijah Faber, Chael Sonnen and Clay Guida were at the Journeyman/Asics meet. There's a video over on Flowrestling of Sonnen giving his thoughts on the potential match-up between Jordan Burroughs and Ben Askren at Midlans (not likely to actually happen this year according to Burroughs' Twitter).
Tommy Messano over at Sherdog went to the National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Classic on November 20th and came away with a very nice article showing that MMA is indeed seeping into the wrestling world as a very viable post-college career option. The article shows the reluctance of the coaches to consider anything other than Olympic contender status for their wrestlers and the determination of some younger wrestlers who actually train MMA during college.
In related news, 2010 157 lb NCAA wrestling champion Bubba Jenkins is making his MMA debut at Tachi Palace Fights 11 against Josh Williams on December 2, 2011 (this Friday).
The InterMat college wrestling divisional individual rankings were updated on November 26th.
In international wrestling, a few noteworthy tournaments were held this past week. Gary Abbott has an update on the Henri Deglane Challenge, which saw Shawn Bunch win gold, Henry Cejudo, Phillip Keddy and Wynn Michalak win silver and Mike Zadick win bronze. The Russians won the team title and seven medals overall as the results show.
On November 26th, the Karavaev Cup was also held in Minsk, Belarus, with Russia winning this Greco-Roman competition over nine other teams. The individual results of the dual meets and the medal matches are here. On the same day, the Haavisto Cup - another Greco-Roman competition - was held in Ilmajoki, Finland. Abbott again has the update and information to read.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu news:
A leg of the globe-spanning Abu Dhabi World Pro Trials was held in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, November 26th, 2011. With it being the Saturday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, attendance was sparse, but several world-class competitors competed. It's almost getting to be a habit to name-drop this particular name, but Rafael Lovato Jr. won the men's black belt absolute division. All the absolute winners for the various belt divisions earned an all-expenses-paid trip to the World Pro in Abu Dhabi in March of 2012. Mike Calimbas put in a herculean effort to get tons of photos, videos and write-ups for this event over at TXMMA.com. If you want to get straight to the 40+ videos, here's the YouTube playlist Calimbas put up. France, Morocco, Jordan and Mexico will see ADWP trials in December before the "big" one in January for Brazil.
Roger Gracie, multiple time world champion and MMA competitor, gives his thoughts on the philosophy of adding new things to his game and some other things while rolling at an Evolve Gym.
If you are a grappler and you are not following the writings of Christian Graugart, the brown belt behind ShogunHQ and BJJ Globetrotter, you are missing out majorly. He put up a post with video of him rolling with Marcelo Garcia, rolling with black belts in Rio and rolling in Bali. Watch them. Envy his life. Figure out how to make your own more awesome.
Seymour Yang brings the best looking Brazilian jiu-jitsu gi reviews on the net. Here's his most recent one concerning the Tatami Terere Signature gi. It's worth checking out for the pretty pictures at the very least.
Judo news:
The World Cup held this year in Jeju, South Korea starts on Friday, December 2nd, and ends Saturday, December 3rd.
The Grand Prix in Amsterdam finished up on November 20th. Photos are here. Some (quite a few) videos are here. Full results were split in half, so I give you Part 1 and Part 2.
Dr. Ann Maria DeMars, Ronda Rousey's mother (and judo world champion herself) writes one of the best blogs ever. Her dry humor and terrific presentation of funny or meaningful stories stuns me just about every time. Dr. DeMar's recent post on armbars and Legos is a good place to start.
Odds and Ends:
Dahlia Lithwick, my favorite legalese analyst and writer for Slate, takes a quick look at the lawsuit brought by Zuffa and a congeries of MMA athletes, writers and coaches with strong connections to New York. The article is not particularly cogent, but someone like Lithwick picking this up for Slate means that the issues presented are interesting from a legal standpoint and are getting out there to a fresher audience.
An interesting scientific article titled The Evolution of Speed in Athletics: Why the Fastest Runners are Black and Swimmers White (PDF). That's about as controversial a paper as you'll see a team of two mechanical engineers and a nutritionist ever put out. Good read and I hope it sparks legit rebuttals and further research.
Lastly, a compilation of animals doing Greco-Roman wrestling. I could watch this stuff all day...
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowIf you wanted to know the history behind Aoki and Kitaoka, DREAM made this handy video...
I had a dream that Shinya Aoki was cast as Luke Cage in an underwater Iron Man sequel. In the Marvel Universe, that casting would make no sense but upon closer observation, it would make complete sense. Nick Fury changed from a middle-aged, chain smoking Irish guy to friggin' Mace Windu in the course of only a few years. I guess in this scenario, Shinya Aoki's December 31st opponent, Satoru Kitaoka, would be like Big Ben Donovan, Luke Cage's archenemy who is described simply as 'lawyer and professional criminal'. Both characters had their first confrontation back in Hero For Hire #14, and the comic book cover should have its own exhibit in the Louvre. If the internet existed back in 1972 when this issue was released, it would also come with a superbly edited video about the time when they were friends, but eventually were forced to fight in front of an international audience. Sort of like this video released by DREAM depicting the history behind Aoki and Kitaoka. [Source]
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Read the full article at Middle EasyAsian MMA Update: Tuck vs. Arenal PXC 28 Video, Striegl vs. Mashamaite in Taipei, RUFF 2 China Card
There are a bunch of news and tidbits coming out of the Asian MMA scene, so let's get right through it:
ONE FC and DREAM have officially announced their partnership. Not much additional details were added from our earlier reports, but they confirmed that they're going to be sharing the fighters from their rosters, and they're going to have the first co-promoted show on March 31st at the Singapore Indoor Arena.
Mark Striegl, who is one of the top rising stars in the region, was supposed to fight at last weekend's PXC event, but his opponent had to pull out at the last minute. He got another fight in less than a month though, and will be fighting on Dec 18, at PRO Fighting MMA in Taipei. His opponent will be Muay Thai champ and ONE FC vet, Daniel Mashamaite.
Striegl and Will Chope had trained together with Eric Kelly in Baguio, Philippines, but they've made the trip to Manila, and have recently trained together with the guys from DEFTAC Makati.
Speaking of Will 'The Kill' Chope, he recently won two URCC bouts in two weeks, but if that wasn't enough, he has already stacked his schedule once again. It looks something like this: Dec. 10 - Muay Thai event in Philippines, Dec. 17 - K-1 in China, and Dec. 21, Bareknuckle Muay Thai in Thailand. That's going to be five bouts, three countries, in just a little over seven weeks. Yes, I think he's a bit crazy.
Here's the fight video of the headlining PXC 28 bout between Jon Tuck and Tristan Arenal. It's taken by a guy from the sidelines, and although he didn't get a perfect angle on the KO, it's still good enough to watch. Check it out:
As always, follow me on twitter, and stay tuned for photo galleries from PXC 28, the URCC Black Tie Brawl, and BJ Penn's public work out.Much more stuff after the jump including the story behind Legend FC's logo, and the upcoming RUFF 2 fight card.
I've always liked the logo of Legend FC, and it's pretty cool that they decided to explain the story behind it's creation on their website.It started out as calligraphy made by tattoo artist and Chinese calligrapher, Joey Pang:"I typically write out each character around 100 times according the client’s requested calligraphy style and period of history [since] each character is written differently according the time in Chinese history."After hundreds of tries, she ended up submitting these 5 designs:
They used these calligraphy, and gave them to graphic artist, Lun Wong. They wanted it to be bi-lingual, and had these as the first few iterations of their logo:
They eventually ended up with their current logo, which was from inspired by the traditional Chinese seal:
RUFF in China, released a promo video for their 2nd event on December 17. Check out the video that also highlights the fights from their first card:
Here's the full fight card (click the photo to enlarge), which includes some of the best Chinese fighters such as Wang Guan, and Jumabieke Tuerxun, who has been rumored to be scouted by major US promotions:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 140 Extended Video Preview
Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida is inching closer by the day. Start the hype train rolling with this ten-minute video preview of the biggest fight of the holiday season.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMABellator 59 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 59.
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NeuLion-UFC introduce new UFC.tv phone app
NeuLion, Inc. has introduced an all-access mobile phone app for the Android platform. The app allows Android users to stream UFC PPVs.
As one might recall, NeuLion and UFC entered into a partnership which would enhance UFC.tv.
Here are the features of the UFC.tv app via UFC and NeuLion joint press release:
-Live streaming of Pay-Per-View events, weigh-ins and press conferences
-Multiple live video and audio feeds during the broadcast: English, Spanish, Red Corner and Blue Corner
-Ability to score the fight in real-time and get an aggregate of every vote
-UFC fighter index sortable by weight class. Each fighter’s profile has key stats — wins/losses, height, weight, etc.
-Access to the UFC Fight Library of video
-Free videos including: event countdown shows, fighter interviews, press conferences, event previews, fighter workouts and other UFC free video content
TV schedule
-Video highlights and VOD events
-Constantly updated news section featuring articles about the latest UFC fighters, events, interviews and profiles of fighters
Payout Perspective:
The Android app makes sense considering Android made up 44 percent of mobile app downloads in 2010.. While this app definitely allows for continued growth for the UFC audience, the price points remain the same for PPVs. Unless you are on the road, paying for a UFC PPV on your phone for the same price as you would have to pay at home seems disproportionate. Still, it appears that there is access to free content which might make this app something UFC fans may seek to download.
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Read the full article at MMA PayoutTo put all doubt aside...there's no slapping in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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As if you needed me to tell you this. Still, if you watch the video below, you'll see not everyone got that memo.
So, yeah. This video here, from what we can see and put together from the comments, shows 2 blue belts competing in a BJJ tournament. From stand up, the guy in the white gi seemingly accidentally (although maybe recklessly) knees his opponent in the face. What follows is a cranky full-on retaliatory bitchslap from the guy who received the knee and then a lot of pacing and sulking.
The video has about 23,000 views now - that's über insane viral by BJJ standards. It illustrates how much we all enjoy a quality slap in the face, even in the BJJ tourney setting.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC's Brock Lesnar on the WWE '12 Video Game - Snapshot of the Day
Here's a photo of the former UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar from the WWE '12 video game.
After the jump, check out Lesnar on the latest promo, a gameplay video that shows a bout between him and John Cena, and a review of the video game.
I'm not really a pro-wrestling fan anymore, but the game is out in stores now for $59.99, and interestingly enough, IGN has the game ranked at 9/10. Here's a snippet from their review:
THQ's efforts in breathing new life into its core mechanics have paid off. Combat now has a natural flow that not only makes sense from the perspective of a player but from the perspective of someone watching a wrestling match take place. The tension and drama that should be present inside the ring are there, and the only reason that's possible is because there is a balance and fine-tuning in the mechanics.
What THQ has done here serves its audience spectacularly. WWE '12 retains and improves upon the already-great presentation of its predecessors, capturing a likeness of wrestling that is uncanny. And it plays just as well as it looks. This should be considered a milestone for the wrestling simulation genre. It's certainly a much-needed breath of fresh air. Let's just hope every year can continue to be this remarkable - the bar is now set very high.
Brock Lesnar issuing a challenge on the latest promotional video for the pro-wrestling game:
The complete official promo for the game launch:
and finally, a game play video that shows a bout between Brock Lesnar and John Cena:
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 139 Post-Fight Press Conference Highlight Video
We've clipped together the best parts of Saturday's UFC 139 post-fight press conference and compiled them in one sweet video. Check it out inside.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAEddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler Bellator 58 Fight Video
Filed under: BellatorAfter producing what is likely the best fight in its promotional history, Bellator has made Bellator 58's Eddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler fight video available.
Alvarez (22-3) came into the fight riding a seven-fight win streak and needing a victory to set up a long-awaited rematch with Shinya Aoki, the last man to defeat him. Chandler (9-0) is a 25-year-old upstart who was a decisive underdog. The lightweight title fight ended up as a rollicking explosion of momentum shifts and dramatic action that produced a new champion and earned immediate praise as a Fight of the Year contender.
The full fight video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseFedor vs Monson - Full fight video
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Read the full article at RedditBellator 58 Video Highlight: Hector Lombard TKO’s Trevor Prangley
UFC 139 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
Full video of the UFC 139 post-fight press conference.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 139 Post-Fight Press Conference Coverage
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately Midnight ET/9 p.m. PT for live video and coverage of tonight's UFC 139 post-fight press conference. You can catch the live video over at MMA Nation, SBN's home for live video. The winners of the UFC 139 fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a light heavyweight battle between two Pride legends, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Dan Henderson.The co-main sees another Pride legend, Wanderlei Silva, taking on former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le. There's also a probable number-one contender's bout in the bantamweight division with Urijah Faber facing Brian Bowles.
$xx,xxx Bonuses:
Fight of the Night:Submission of the Night:Knockout of the Night:
More SBN coverage of UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 139 Video: Stephan Bonnar Admits He Was a 'Jerk' With Josh Koscheck
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosSAN JOSE, Calif. - Stephan Bonnar faced the media after his unanimous decision win over Kyle Kingsbury at UFC 139. 'The American Pyscho' talks about how he found an early weakness with Kingsbury, why he apologized after the fight, if he deserved a 30-25 score, how Josh Koscheck taught him a valuable lesson and much more.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseVideo: Ronda Rousey breaks Julia Budd's arm at Strikeforce Challengers 20
In case you missed it last night (and based on the numbers, it sure looks like you did), here's the video of the short but sweet fight (if you can call it that) pitting Ronda Rousey vs. Julia Budd at Strikeforce Challengers 20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For those of you that can't watch video, here's a short play-by-play, courtesy of yours truly:
Round one: Budd opens with a few short shots, to which Rousey answers by clinching and pushing her into the fence. Rousey gets a trip takedown into half guard and wastes roughly one second before moving to full mount. She throws three punches to open Budd up and turns over to lock in an armbar. She does, Budd battles valiantly but ultimately to no avail, and Rousey breaks her arm. This all took about 38 seconds, folks.
Rousey now has four wins, all four of them via her now trademark armbar, each one happening inside the first round. Afterward, she continued to say she wants to move down to 135-pounds to take Miesha Tate's belt before moving back up to 145-pounds to take Cristiane Santos' strap.
Speaking strictly as a fan -- yes, please.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaFan-made UFC 141 video trailer for Brock Lesnar vs Alistair Overeem
NickTheFace did it again.
It doesn't get any bigger than the UFC 141 main event between former mixed martial arts (MMA) champions Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem, which is scheduled to take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Dec. 30, 2011.
Check out the fan-made video trailer above and dare to not be excited for the New Year's Eve weekend monster mash. For everything you need to know about the upcoming titanic tilt, which will likely determine the next number one heavyweight contender to challenge newly-minted champion, Junior dos Santos, click here.
Can't wait.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 139 Weigh-in Highlight Videos
The UFC 139 weigh-ins took place on Friday to make the fights official for tonight’s event in San Jose, California, including Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva vs. Cung Le, and Urijah Faber vs. Brian Bowles.
Video highlights of the UFC 139 weigh-ins are below:
For complete coverage of UFC 139, stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyVideo of a young Shogun Rua fighting (and losing) an unsanctioned brawl that took place in a...
Video of a young Shogun Rua fighting (and losing) an unsanctioned brawl that took place in a Brazilian living room. Head kick finish comes toward the end of the clip. Will Rua have better luck tomorrow night against Dan Henderson in the UFC 139 main event?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson Weigh-in Video
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Dan Henderson square off in the main event of UFC 139 on Saturday night. Watch MMAWeekly.com's UFC 139 weigh-in video.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVideo: UFC 139 Weigh-ins
Friday's UFC 139 weigh-ins can be viewed here.
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC 139 Preview Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosSAN FRANCISCO -- Watch below as MMA Fighting's Ben Fowlkes and I dissect all the subplots heading into Saturday night's UFC 139 pay-per-view event.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 139 Weigh-In Highlight Video
Filed under: UFC, VideosSAN JOSE, Calif. -- The UFC 139 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the HP Pavilion. Check out the highlights of the proceedings below. Full UFC 139 weigh-in results here.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 139 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll the fighters at UFC 139 will step onto the scale at the UFC 139 weigh-ins Friday afternoon, and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com...
In the main event, Dan Henderson and Shogun Rua will have to make the light heavyweight limit of 205 pounds, with a one-pound buffer. Other fights on the card include middleweights Wanderlei Silva vs. Cung Le and bantamweights Urijah Faber vs. Brian Bowles.
The weigh-in starts at 7 p.m. ET and the video is below.
More Coverage: UFC 139 Fight Card | UFC 139 Results
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseCountdown to UFC 139 Full Video
The full Countdown to UFC 139 video for those that missed it on TV.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertThis video features a scantily clad woman beating up a porcupine, and it's somehow related to UFC 139
I used deductive reasoning to conclude the yellow creature in this video is indeed a porcupine. Alternatively, it could be a manifestation of a fully animated starfruit with all the features of a cuddly creature, but who the hell would make that costume? A starfruit has nothing to do with space travel, unlike its cousin the 'starship.' In fact, starfruit across the world are misrepresenting themselves. Nothing is intergalactic about those things; there's nothing to worship here. Starfruit are indigenous to Philippines, and their god is Manny Pacquiao. Go back home starfruit and comeback when you do what you say you do.
UFC 139 is just a hop, skip and jump from today, and unfortunately people are still talking about UFC's debut on FOX. We all know the show was somewhat of a test run and that we will see the real extent to what the partnership is capable of in 2012. Let's just focus on the imminent beatdown(s) that we will see magically projected inside of our televisions this weekend at UFC 139. Someone named Amarie from 'The X-Girls' decided to use her ability to properly wear a full leather outfit and created this video of her beating up street thugs commanded by a yellow porcupine. Yeah, it makes sense. Props to Darren J. for the find.
Posted in: ufc, video, starfruit, fact starfruit, porcupine
Read the full article at Middle EasyChael Sonnen = Can dish it but can't take it (video)
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Read the full article at RedditDana White UFC 139 Video Blog
UFC President Dana White is back with his first blog from UFC 139.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAChad Mendes Highlight Video 2011
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Read the full article at RedditDana White’s UFC 139 Video Blog: Part One – BTS at UFC on FOX 1
The UFC gives us a behind the scenes look at UFC on FOX 1 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC 139 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White UFC 139 Video Blog – Day 1
UFC President Dana White presents the first installment of his UFC 139 video blog, with behind the scenes footage from the promotion's debut on Fox.
Posted in: ufc, video, blog, scenes footage, promotions debut
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 141 ‘Lesnar vs. Overeem’ Press Conference Video Highlights
Video highlights from the UFC 141 press conference via MMA Fighting.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 139 Video Preview for “Shogun vs. Henderson” on Nov. 19
Six former champions will square off this Saturday, Nov. 19 at UFC 139, as Dan Henderson returns to the Octagon to take on Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in the main event, while the pay-per-view card also features Urijah Faber vs. Brian Bowles and Wanderlei Silva vs. Cung Le.
Here’s the UFC’s official video preview of the trio of featured bouts:
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, preview, payperview card
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyUFC on FOX 1 Highlights: Ben Henderson vs. Clay Guida, Ricardo Lamas vs. Cub Swason, Dustin Poirier vs. Pablo Garza
Video: Highlights: Guida/Henderson
FOX only showed Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos on the UFC on FOX 1 broadcast, but they did post video highlights from the three fights — Ben Henderson vs. Clay Guida, Ricardo Lamas vs. Cub Swason, Dustin Poirier vs. Pablo Garza — that would have made up the main card.
Video: Highlights: Lamas/Swanson
Video: Highlights: Poirier/Garza
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertWhat is your take on the "new" Alex Caceres UFC on Fox
I'm surprised there isn't a lot of chatter about his performance against Cole Escovedo. He looked like a completely different fighter and showed a lot of potential. Video: http://www.fightvideomma.com/2011/11/alex-caceres-vs-cole-escovedo-fight.html submitted by x561xgabex [link] [1 comment]
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson Video Preview
Check out the UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson extended video preview.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyM-1 Fun!
Here's some of the quirky action coming from this weekend's M-1 event. Above, Fedor's lil brother Aleksander Emelianenko takes on Magomed Malikov in a last second fight. After the jump, a video from the weigh-ins where a staredown gets a bit out of control. Sketchy times in Astrakhan!
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Read the full article at FightlinkerFight Video: Lightweight prospect Jordan Rinaldi improves to 5-0 with submission win
The life and times of Enson Inoue
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Let me start off by saying Enson is a legend in my book. He is the former Shooto Heavyweight Champion, BJJ Blackbelt under another legend John Lewis ( 4th American in the entire world to receive a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ) and owner of Purebred Gyms throughout the world. He has often been criticized for his Yakuza mob connections and his 26 day imprisonment in Japan for marijuana possession. He considers his time behind bars a life changing experience that has led him to do countless hours of charity work and to spend thousands of his own dollars (or ¥) to help others. He's become well recognized for his work in northeast Japan to directly aid the earthquake and tsunami victims in and around Fukushima. Enson has also been a lifelong dog lover and helped thousands of stray dogs in the wreckage. Enson has sacrificed his health and his savings to help those hit the hardest in Japan. Check out this video teaser by the Grappling Dummy (aka our good friend, Matt of SCRMBL) and if you want to see what Enson has been up to, check out video two.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC on FOX 1 Post-Fight Press Conference Video Highlights
Video highlights of the UFC on FOX 1 post-fight press conference via MMA Fighting.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on Fox Post-Fight Press Conference Video and Coverage
Join us here at Bloody Elbow.com at approximately 10:15 ET/7:15 p.m. PT for live video and coverage of tonight's UFC on Fox post-fight press conference. You can catch the live video at the Youtube link below the jump. The winners of the UFC on Fox fights will sit down to talk about their performances and Dana White will announce the Fight of the Night bonuses. All the fallout from the card will be discussed, along with a variety of other stuff.
The main event of tonight's card is a showdown for the UFC heavyweight title, with champion Cain Velasquez defending against Junior dos Santos. It is the only fight that will be shown on Fox, but another major bout on the card is a lightweight # 1 contenders matchup between Ben Henderson and Clay Guida. That will be shown live on Fox Deportes and Facebook.
$xx,xxx Bonuses:
Fight of the Night: Submission of the Night:Knockout of the Night:
More SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 1: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on Fox: Cain Velasquez Vs. Junior Dos Santos Weigh In Highlight Videos
Lemme tell you how stoked I am right now. I've loved the work that the All Elbows crew (EKC and Esther Lin) do since my days writing for Unintelligent Defense. Now that they are part of the SB Nation family as members of the MMA Fighting team, it's possibly the greatest thing. E. Casey Leydon is the man behind the video camera for all of Ariel Helwani's video interviews. He's also the guy who put this highlight video of today's UFC on Fox weigh ins.
For those that didn't see them live on Fuel TV or online, it's important to note that all fighters made weight. It's also important that the crowd was absolutely enormous for the weigh ins and super lively. In fact, the only crowd I can remember being louder was the Brazilians for UFC 134 in Rio. In Anaheim, it's definitely obvious that the audience will be supporting Cain Velasquez, who will draw from the American and Mexican communities of SoCal. The second biggest pop was definitely for Ben Henderson.
Anyways, enjoy.
SBN coverage of UFC on Fox 1: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, videos lemme, mexican communities
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on Fox Weigh-In Highlights for Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, Guida vs. Henderson
Here are videos of the UFC on Fox weigh-ins, as heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and challenger Junior dos Santos weighed in for Saturday’s main event as well as a matchup between lightweight contenders Clay Guida and Ben Henderson that leads the preliminary card.
Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos weigh-in video:
Clay Guida vs. Ben Henderson weigh-in video:
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyStillwill's latest- Top ten K-1 knockouts; all time
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StillWill is back with his latest video, highlighting what he feels are the ten best knockouts in K-1's history. Go ahead and check it out.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC on Fox 1 Main Event Weigh-in Video
Watch MMAWeekly.com's exclusive UFC on Fox 1: Velasquez vs. dos Santos weigh-in video!
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, mmaweeklycom, weighin
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyLesnar and Ubereem finally face off
There's been a lot of speculation surrounding the Brock Lesnar vs Alistair Overeem fight regarding who's bigger, especially after those WWE video game promo videos showed what looked like a smaller, less hulking Brock Lesnar. But he certainly didn't look small during the press conference held today. Who's got the size advantage?
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Read the full article at FightlinkerCain Velasquez vs Junior dos Santos video from UFC on FOX simulated on 'Undisputed 3'
UFC Undisputed 3, the latest entry into the popular mixed martial arts video game series from THQ, will hit store shelves on Feb. 14, 2012. Above, is a demonstartion using in-game graphics to simulate this weekend's UFC on FOX main event between Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos.
Hear what UFC stars Dana White, Joe Lauzon, Urijah Faber and more have to say about the upcoming video game release, after the jump.
The third edition in the fighting series allows players to travel back in time and fight in the now-defunct PRIDE organization. Yes, that means soccer kicks, knees to a downed opponent and even commentary from Bas Rutten and Stephen Quadros.
In addition, UFC Undisputed 3 will offer two new weight classes as well as an expanded roster for next year's release, which will be available for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Let's hear it Maniacs -- are you excited about UFC Undisputed 3? Is it worth buying for the PRIDE rules alone? What changes are you most looking forward to from the previous two entries?
For more on the upcoming release click here
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC on FOX Press Conference Video
Filed under: UFCAt the UFC on Fox press conference Wednesday, UFC President Dana White, heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and No. 1 contender Junior dos Santos will meet the media, and we'll have the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
The press conference represents one of the last promotional pushes for what may be the most important fight in UFC history, the heavyweight title fight that will serve as the UFC's network television debut.
The pre-fight press conference begins at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL Fanhouse(not)lookoutawhale is back with another hilarious video. This time it's called Brock Hunt.This...
(not)lookoutawhale is back with another hilarious video. This time it's called Brock Hunt.
This fanshot was promoted to the front page by Tim Burke
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC on FOX: The Ring…Announcer
A woman is haunted by a video of...Bruce Buffer. Watch this hilarious video clip and get ready for UFC on FOX!
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, video clip, ring …announcer
Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC on FOX: The Ring ... Announcer (Video)
What is it with reporters? You take one person's Bruce Buffer video and force the world to experience it... spread it like sickness.
It's ... TIME! For UFC on FOX. Well, almost. This parody on "The Ring" doing anything for ya?
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, ring, ya
Read the full article at MMA ManiaWhy are the prelims on Facebook rather than Youtube?
I just saw that the new M-1 Global event also has "Preliminary facebook card". Youtube is all about video sharing. UFC already has massive well-updated channel with a Live feature on it. If they want to share live fights, which are not on their website what could be better than that? Facebook is all about social networking with people you know, nobody goes on it to watch videos... submitted by snstyles [link] [4 comments]
Posted in: video, facebook, youtube, youtube i, wellupdated channel
Read the full article at RedditDana White UFC on Fox Video Blog – Day 1
UFC President Dana White presents the first installment of his latest video blog for the week of UFC on Fox 1.
Posted in: ufc, fox, video, video blog, blog
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC on FOX 1 video blog with Dana White
Fight week, blog week!
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White is at it again, releasing the first of his video blog series to promote the biggest event in the promotion's history this weekend, UFC on FOX 1.
White begins the video with a disclaimer that assures combat sports fans that not only will they be able to watch the world title fight between UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos for free on network television, but they'll have more than enough time to watch the rubber match between Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez on pay-per-view (PPV) later in the evening.
It then rolls into behind the scenes footage from UFC 137, with a cool moment between Nick Diaz and B.J. Penn, as well as more from inside the tunnel at UFC 138 as the wounded warriors return to the locker room after their fights. Some very interesting of footage of Chris Leben talking about the loss to Mark Munoz, which was stopped because of a cut between the second and third rounds.
Velasquez and "Cigano" wrap up the video with footage from a recent press conference to promote their main event, which takes place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., on Nov. 12, 2011, at 9 p.m. ET.
Enjoy.
Posted in: ufc, video, blog, footage, payperview ppv
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 138 Post: John Maguire One-on-One (video)
Following his UFC 138 victory over Justin Edwards, British fighter John Maguire went one-on-one in this exclusive video interview with MMAWeekly's Lee Whitehead.
Posted in: ufc, video, john, maguire, video interview
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 138 Video Highlights: Mark Munoz vs. Chris Leben
Video: Andrei Arlovski's head-kick KO of Travis Fulton at ProElite 2
Saturday's ProElite 2 co-headliner between Andrei Arlovski and Travis Fulton appeared as though it'd end with a whimper.
But after nearly 15 minutes of plodding action with the heavyweight fighters, Arlovski concluded the bout in violent fashion.
A video of the finish is now available that shows Arlovski's stunning late-fight knockout.
Posted in: arlovski, video, andrei arlovski, travis fulton, itd end
Read the full article at MMA JunkieUFC 138 videos blog with Chris Leben (Episode four)
Chris Leben -- who says he sheds about 25 pounds in one day to hit the 185-pound middleweight division limit -- is seen here in this video sweating it all out before he hits the scales in Birmingham, England. "The Crippler" needed the one extra pound allowance, coming in at 186 pounds, which is acceptable in non-title fights. He is now set to headline UFC 138 against Mark Munoz later today (Nov. 5, 2011) at the LG Arena. To watch episodes one, two and three of Chris Leben's UFC 138 video blog series click here, here and here. For all the UFC 138 weigh in video coverage you can handle -- videos, staredowns, photos and complete results -- click here.
Posted in: ufc, pound, video, chri, leben
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 138: Pre-Fight Press Conference Video
Check out the complete video of the UFC 138 pre-fight press conference with headliners Mark Munoz and Chris Leben.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, press, prefight
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: UFC 138 Weigh-ins
Friday's UFC 138 weigh-in video can be viewed here.
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Read the full article at SherdogWe're more than just FOTD, come check out r/MMAfights and like Clinton Sparks says, get familiar.
Hey guys, some of you may not be aware but we've got a great community dedicated to posting fight videos over in r/mmafights. Ahead of UFC 138 we've been posting up a lot of Leben, Munoz, Alves, and even a few Abedi fight videos that you might enjoy, or that might help refresh your memory about how exciting these guys can be. On top of that, we've had 6 full events posted and we're always looking for more. Not to mention over 150+ individual fights posted in just over 2 weeks time. If you're a fan of MMA and enjoy watching fights, you should check us out, and even participate. We're always looking for people to post more fights, to help the community grow, and to help us build a fight vault that r/mma can use and participate in. If you like watching MMA we could really use your help in making it an even better place, with even more fights and more events. So, come check it out, post some fight videos, watch some fight videos, and enjoy. submitted by col0rado [link] [comment]
Posted in: fight, video, weve, fight videos, fight vault
Read the full article at RedditUFC Undisputed 3 'Pride mode' walkthrough video
UFC Undisputed 3, the latest entry into the popular mixed martial arts video game series from THQ, will hit store shelves in early 2012. The new edition features a bevy of interesting fresh features, including traveling back in time to fight in the now-defunct PRIDE organization, complete with stomps, Bas Rutten on commentary and even Lenne Hardt introductions.
Above, the developer walks us through the "Pride mode" featuring Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Mirko Filipovic, who battled at Pride: "Final Conflict" back in 2003.
Fans of existing versions, what do you think of the new improvements?
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 138 ‘Leben vs. Munoz’ Pre-Fight Press Conference Full Video
So apparently there was a UFC 138 pre-fight press conference yesterday. Here’s the full video since, you know, everyone missed it.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, press, prefight
Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White's mother "tells all" in this 10m video.
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Read the full article at RedditBellator 56 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 56.
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Video: Chuck Liddell Avenges Losses to Quinton Jackson in PRIDE Ring
Filed under: UFC, VideosChuck Liddell and Quinton Jackson faced off for a third time last week in Las Vegas, but this time, they met in video game form. The fighters, who met at PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 and UFC 71, played 'UFC Undisputed 3', which is scheduled to be released in February, in front of a crowd prior to the UFC 137 weigh-ins. It was an opportunity for "The Iceman" to exact revenge on his rival "Rampage," who holds two official wins over the former UFC light heavyweight champion.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseStephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson – History in the Making Part 1 (Video)
Rising star Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson presents his new video blog series 'History in the Making' exclusively for MMAWeekly.com.
Posted in: video, history, stephen, thompson, wonderboy
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyGSP flipped out? Video?
I missed the fights last night, heard gsp flipped out on nick diaz, is there a video of this? submitted by onelung [link] [4 comments]
Posted in: fight, nick diaz, video, gsp, video i
Read the full article at RedditHatsu Hioki Disappointed with Octagon Debut (UFC 137 video)
Hatsu Hioki wasn't thrilled about how he did in his Octagon debut. Watch this video to hear it in his own words.
Posted in: video, debut, octagon debut, octagon, hatsu hioki
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyVictory Costs Bart Palaszewski a Puppy (UFC 137 video)
Bart Palaszewski not only gets a win, but a new puppy, too! Watch this video to see what he's talking about.
Posted in: ufc, video, palaszewski, bart, puppy
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyChael Sonnen: Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva are wimps (Video)
Former number one middleweight contender, Chael Sonnen, goes off in this recent video interview. Nothing is seemingly off limits, with the exception of what he's doing when he's not calling out Brazilians.
Enjoy another masterpiece from the "Peoples Champion." Say his name!
Posted in: video, wanderlei silva, sonnen, chael, peoples champion
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 137 ‘Penn vs. Diaz’ Weigh-In Video Highlights
Highlights from the UFC 137 weigh-ins via MMA Fighting.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertVideo: Diaz, Penn Scuffle at UFC 137 Weigh-ins
Friday's UFC 137 weigh-in video can be viewed here.
Posted in: ufc, video, friday, weighin, scuffle
Read the full article at SherdogUFC 137 Preview Video
Filed under: UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, VideosLAS VEGAS -- The ever-evolving UFC 137 event finally takes place Saturday night in Las Vegas. MMA Fighting's Mike Chiappetta and I look at the interesting storylines heading into the event in our UFC 137 preview video. Check it out below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 137 Weigh-In Highlight Video
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosLAS VEGAS -- The UFC 137 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Check out the highlights below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseBJ v Nick weigh-in video
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Read the full article at RedditNick Diaz, B.J. Penn Have Intense Staredown at UFC 137 Weigh-Ins
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, VideosNick Diaz and B.J. Penn have one of the more memorable showdowns at the UFC 137 weigh-ins with both fighters having to be separated by Dana White. Check out the video below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseDana White UFC 137 Video Blog (Part 2)
As UFC President Dana White continues with his UFC 137 fight week video blog, he arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada for the event's pre-fight press conference. White, alongside the majority of Saturday's main card competitors, field questions from the media before taking some time to meet and greet several fans in attendance. Photo: Scott Hirano
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, saturday, blog
Read the full article at Low KickUFC 137 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll the fighters at UFC 137 will step onto the scale at the UFC 137 weigh-ins Friday afternoon, and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com..
In the main event, B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz will both need to make the welterweight limit of 171 pounds. The weigh-in will also be an opportunity to see if heavyweight Roy Nelson has burned off any body fat, and to get a look at former lightweights Tyson Griffin and Bart Palaszewski, both now fighting at featherweight.
The weigh-in begins at 7 PM ET on Friday and the video is below.
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseUFC 137: Dana White Video Blog, Part 2
The UFC released the second VLog from Dana this week. The first video blog focused on the backstage fighter reactions to UFC 136. It showed that the sport isn't just about fighting in the cage and gave that inside look at the highs and lows a fighter experiences following a win or a loss.
The second video blog shown above focuses more on fight week and the fan interaction with Dana. It opens with Nick Diaz standing around waiting for the presser to start. He looks pretty anxious because it turns out the UFC PR staff had him down an hour early just to make sure he makes it on time. Fans get to see what a UFC media scrum is all about, with Dana talking about the perceived monopoly on the sport with the MMA reporters. Nagashima, a K-1 MAX kickboxer makes an appearance and uses his twitter followers to perhaps get signed to a UFC contract.
The highlight for me is Dana's interaction with the fans. He's been criticized by some as having lost focus with the wants and needs of the UFC fanbase. I'll respectfully disagree based on his interacting with a woman whose son has cancer. Dana makes arrangements to fly him out to a UFC event and cover all costs. He hasn't lost focus. He is more concerned about a faceless fan than possibly any sports executive in the world. Sure you have to put up with the "f-bombs" but in the end, he still hasn't lost sight of what's important.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, fan, video blog
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowDana White’s UFC 137 Video Blog: Part Two
Part two of Dana White’s UFC 137 video blog.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White UFC 137 Video Blog – Day 2
UFC President Dana White goes behind the scenes of the UFC 137 pre fight press conference and more on day 2 of his video blog.
Posted in: ufc, day, video, dana, blog
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 137 Video Blog 2
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Read the full article at RedditUpdate: My first fight was Saturday [Video]. I'm the one with the mohawk.
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Read the full article at RedditCountdown to UFC 137 – Penn vs. Diaz (video)
Check out Countdown to UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz featuring BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz. Full video.
Posted in: ufc, diaz, video, vs, penn
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyCountdown to UFC 137: The Heavyweights (video)
Check out Countdown to UFC 137: The Heavyweights featuring Cheick Kongo vs. Matt Mitrione and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Roy Nelson. Full video.
Posted in: ufc, heavyweight, video, vs, countdown
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyGenki Sudo made a new video and he really wants you to check it out
I caught an episode of the new season of Jersey Shore the other day and I am still trying to figure out exactly what kind of haircut Mike 'The Situation' is rocking these days. It looks like his stylist used a bowl and butter flavored Crisco to create Mike's new look while watching the movie Full Metal Jacket. It's very perplexing. I'm not sure what went down in his stylist's office that day but I'm almost positive speedballs were involved.
I'm sorry I just caused you to picture anything Jersey Shore related in your head for the next few hours. That wasn't very considerate of me, but I guess after spending a few hours in an Atlantic City, New Jersey casino this past weekend I wanted you all to by able to relate to my mental state. I'll make it up to you with this new Genki Sudo video. Genki Sudo is like the exact polar opposite of the cast of Jersey Shore so this should help to erase those horrifying GTL images from your brain. Doctor's orders, watch one Genki Sudo video and call me tomorrow morning. Enjoy.
Posted in: video, jersey shore, genki, jersey, sudo
Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 137: Dana White's New Video Blog Should Not Be Missed
Dana White UFC 137 Video Blog - Behind the Scenes (via UFC)
UFC 136 was a big night for hardcore fans. It was full of fantastic, gutsy performances. Dana White's latest blog is interesting because instead of adorning us with shots of Dana in his ferrari, or Dana at Pinkberry, we get an honest look at the UFC behind the scenes. This time starring the people we tune in to watch.
The result is at times, a little heartbreaking. Watching Kenny Florian's blank stare brings home the emphasis of his failures. Here's a guy who's been here for the 3rd time, itching to prove the critics wrong against an absolute killer in Jose Aldo, and now he's back to square one. Florian has, for the most part, earned his title shots. For dedicated fighters like Florian, fighting is a job, and the only reward is 12lbs of gold. In that moment, that failure is his identity.
Same with Gray Maynard. When he walks away from his post fight checkup, Edgar approaches him as if to congratulate him. Gray dismisses him. It's selfish sure, but what accolades does Gray think he deserves? He lost. With Edgar hurt in the first, just as in their 2nd fight, Maynard failed to capitalize.
Except this time he lost definitively: unconscious and face first on the canvas. "What praise do I deserve, or care about if I fought for the title and didn't win?", Gray is probably thinking. The only time he ever appears consolidated is when him and his teammates briefly embrace.
Melvin Guillard's reaction to defeat is a little more dramatic. Throwing a backstage chair around, burying his head in his own tears, one hopes he uses his loss to finally make peace with the fact that a "little jiu jitsu" goes a long way in this sport.
I really hope the UFC produces more content like this. These videos cut to the heart of what sports are really about.
Posted in: ufc, time, video, dana, blog
Read the full article at Head Kick LegendDana White’s UFC 137 Video Blog, Episode 1
Get a revealing behind the scenes look at UFC 136 in Houston with the first episode of Dana's UFC 137 video blog.
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Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 137: Dana White Video Blog, Part 1
UFC president Dana White is back with his first video blog for this weekend's UFC 137, and as usual the first episode is all about the event before this. It begins in a humorous way with White wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey because he lost a bet. It becomes apparently quickly that the theme of the blog is to see how the losers of the UFC 136 bouts deal with the aftermath of their fights. It starts with Steve Cantwell and then Joey Beltran getting checked over by a doctor while they discuss their respective fights. Then stuff gets real for Melvin Guillard, who throws a chair before kneeling and crying after his loss to Joe Lauzon.
Things change up a bit when Leonard Garcia is shown with the doc, as Nam Phan enters the picture and the two combatants exchange compliments and pleasantries before posing for a post-fight pic. Brian Stann is next, talking about Chael Sonnen's wrestling was too good for him, while Sonnen is posing for pictures with a little kid. Kenny Florian is looking particularly beat up and depressed. Anderson Silva is then shown congratulating a returning Jose Aldo on his victory. Finally, Gray Maynard is filmed getting a quick exam and hugs from his teammates while Frankie Edgar poses for pictures.
The blog finishes up in a very cool way, with Dana handing out envelopes to the bonus winners while they wait to go into the press conference. Here's the video.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowThe Dana White video blog returns
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Read the full article at FightlinkerDana White's UFC 137 video blog Day 1: Behind the scenes of UFC 136
UFC president Dana White has returned with his popular video blogs for a series that
runs in conjunction with this weekend's "UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz" event
Check out the first installment with the embedded video.
Included in the "vlog" is a must-see footage of the fallout from the
UFC's recent trip to Houston for "UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard III."
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, video blogs, mustsee footage
Read the full article at MMA JunkieDana White’s UFC 137 Video Blog: Backstage at UFC 136
We get a backstage look at UFC 136 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC 137 video blog. Gray Maynard definitely wasn’t excited to see Frankie Edgar backstage after their fight.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, frankie edgar
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC 137 Video Blog with Dana White (Episode 1)
UFC President Dana White kicks off fight week for Saturday’s UFC 137 event with behind-the-scenes video from UFC 136 earlier this month.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete coverage of UFC 137, including BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz, Matt Mitrione vs. Cheick Kongo, and Roy Nelson vs. Mirko Cro Cop.
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, fight week, behindthescenes video
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White video blog UFC 137 (Day one)
Fight week, blog week!
Posted in: ufc, week, video, blog, nbspfight
Read the full article at MMA ManiaDana White UFC 137 Video Blog - Behind the Scenes
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Read the full article at RedditBrock Lesnar entrance video for WWE '12 video game.
Brock Lesnar entrance video for WWE '12 video game.
Posted in: video, wwe, lesnar, brock, entrance
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowBellator 55 Video Highlights
Highlights from Bellator 55.
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UFC 137: B.J. Penn Video Blogs
UFC 137 main eventer B.J. Penn and his camp recently put out two slickly-produced video blogs aptly titled "B.J. Penn's Road to UFC 137". The blogs also cover his brother Reagan's ProElite win in his MMA debut and some of the work he's been doing to train for his second fight which takes place. After an initial spurt about Reagan though, the first video mostly concentrates on Penn.
He discusses how he found out about his bout with Carlos Condit being pulled so Condit could move up and fight Georges St. Pierre (a bout that was later canceled) and he mentions that he was looking at other opponents since him and Nick Diaz are friends and have trained together before. The rest of the first video just shows Penn doing a lot of boxing and jiu-jitsu training in between interviews with a bunch of guys from his camp. Here's part one:
In the second video (that you can catch after the jump), the founder of RCVA talks about how Penn was scheduled to train at their headquarters in Cali for nine weeks, but he decided to go back to Hawaii for a while. It basically follows the same format as the first entry, but there's more interview time with Penn and a better look at his personal life. It shows him on outings with his daughter, and there are more interviews with the guys from his camp. They're a tad long and the training scenes are a bit dull, but there is a lot of good content in both blogs and they're definitely worth checking out.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 139 video: Wanderlei Silva talks about his 'great' upcoming match up against the 'incredible'...
UFC 139 video: Wanderlei Silva talks about his 'great' upcoming match up against the 'incredible' Cung Le at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 19, 2011, with MMAPrime.tv. To check out the latest UFC 139 fight card and rumors click here.
Posted in: ufc, video, wanderlei, hp pavilion, rumors click
Read the full article at MMA ManiaLadies and Gentlemen I Present To You Pat Barry and Mirko Cro Cop: The Duet
[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on MMA-Japan, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
I woke up today thinking that the greatest part of my day would be dinner, like it always is. Few things can beat having a kobe beef burger, with a fresh roll that has just a tad bit of flour on it. So you can imagine how pleasantly surprised when I saw this video. Now I already professed my love for Cro Cop yesterday, but this video only makes my love for him greater. Look at it, it's perfect, Pat Barry's smile grinning from ear to ear. Cro Cop's subtle head nod as he works his pipes. So today Pat Barry, Mirko Cro Cop and The Internet became that much stronger and for that I am grateful. Now it's time for me to eat all of these hamburger so I can forget about all of my troubles.
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Read the full article at Middle EasyUFC 137: Nick Diaz “Respects” BJ Penn, But Has to Win on Oct. 29 (video)
For UFC 137 results and complete UFC 137 coverage stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
Posted in: ufc, video, penn, oct, bj
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyFOTD
So as I'm sure most of you are aware there has been a small kerfluffel about FOTD recently and people just submitting them without checking to see if others have already been submitted etc. In order to keep FOTD going strong, and cut back on multiple posts a seperate subreddit has been creating. r/MMAfights is for posting MMA fight videos exclusively and people can also post all their submissions for FOTD there. Everyday xKrazExMNUx will take the top submission for FOTD and post it here, and we will also be taking the highest voted piece of content every week from MMAfights and posting it here. Please do not post FOTD videos here, as all non-xKrazExMNUx FOTD videos will be removed. There is also a link to the new subreddit over in the sidebar ----> Hopefully this will help streamline the FOTD process and cut back on videos spamming the new queue here at r/MMA so that the focus can be on contemporary events/news/discussions that has allowed this community to grow and prosper. *edit - if you downvote this post so people don't see it you are just hurting your fellow community members who won't be informed of the new status quo. submitted by ladt420 [link] [3 comments]
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Read the full article at RedditAnyone else missing FOTD and other videos in r/mma already?
If those other MMA subRs make it, good for them. But I wish people would keep posting videos here. FOTD lasted for like a week, and it was cool. Why fuck up a good thing? EDIT: Also, the idea of making r/fotd was to put all the videos in one subR and then post the highest voted video in r/mma each day. Now, all the videos are just gone from r/mma. submitted by ImaG [link] [4 comments]
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Read the full article at RedditBJ Penn – The Road to UFC 137 (video)
It's been a long, strange trip through BJ Penn's MMA career, but maybe none of it was much stranger than the way he found himself matched up with Nick Diaz at UFC 137.
Posted in: ufc, nick diaz, video, penn, bj
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyBellator 54 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 54.
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UFC 137: Carlos Condit Pre-Fight Interview Video
The top UFC welterweight contender discusses his upcoming UFC 137 title bout with Georges St-Pierre.
Posted in: ufc, title, video, contender, prefight
Read the full article at Heavy MMAVideo: UFC on FOX 1 video trailer
With less than a month remaining until the UFC's network-television debut, FOX has rolled out video promo spots for the event.
As you may have seen during Sunday's slate of NFL football games, UFC on FOX 1 airs Nov. 12.
Check out FOX's video trailer for the show, which promotes the "Baddest Man on the Planet."
Posted in: fox, video, sundays slate, baddest man, video ufc
Read the full article at MMA JunkieMMA videos, UFC videos, Fight videos
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Read the full article at RedditWanderlei Silva Training Camp for UFC 139 – Week 1 (video)
Harkening back to his heyday at the famed Chute Boxe Academy, Wanderlei Silva is again under the watchful eye of Master Rafael Cordeiro. Check out their first UFC 139 training video.
Posted in: ufc, video, silva, wanderlei silva, wanderlei
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Condit Extended Video Preview
Check out the extended video preview of UFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Condit.
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Read the full article at MMA WeeklyFight Video: Highlights from Riot at the Hyatt Packer vs. Viking fight card
A excellent highlight video courtesy of Ryan Leer of MN MMA. Featured in the video is five star featherweight prospect Mike Richman (10-1). A Minnesota native Richman appears just past the four minute mark of the video.
Posted in: video, fight video, minute mark, ryan leer, mn mma
Read the full article at UltMMAJoe Lauzon vs Melvin Guillard video reaction to UFC 136 win for 'J-Lau'
Far superior to those videos that show hapless bystanders watching "Two Girls, One Cup," this video shows Lauzon's Boston brethren going bananas in "Beantown" after "J-Lau" choked out the heavily-favored Melvin Guillard at UFC 136 back on Oct. 8.
For more on that fight click here.
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Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC Undisputed 3: The Lightweights
We've got the complete roster for the lightweight division in the upcoming UFC Undisputed 3 video game.
Posted in: ufc, video, division, game, roster
Read the full article at Heavy MMABJ Penn: ‘On Oct. 29, I Will Defeat Nick Diaz’ at UFC 137 (video)
For UFC 137 results and complete UFC 137 coverage stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
Posted in: ufc, bj penn, video, bj, coverage
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyUFC 137: Extended Video Preview
Check out this extended video preview for UFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Condit.
Posted in: ufc, video, preview, video preview, st-pierre
Read the full article at Heavy MMAUFC 137 Video: Georges St-Pierre Expects to Finish “Unpredictable” Carlos Condit
For UFC 137 results on Oct. 29 and complete UFC 137 coverage stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
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Read the full article at MMA FrenzyLesnar character appears in new WWE video game
TMZ broke the news that Brock Lesnar would be a character in the new WWE video game, WWE ‘12. Dana White told TMZ that he was “fine” with Lesnar being in the game.
Lesnar indicated that he would not have agreed to the WWE video game unless gave him the ok. In addition to the news, Lesnar told ESPN in an interview to promote the game that he could see himself back in the WWE for one match.
Brock Lesnar Via ESPN:
I think I will. I think under the right circumstances I will. I think if Vince McMahon and I were able to sit down at the same dinner table and break some bread that we could come up with some kind of game plan. At the end of the day, I’m an ultimate fighter. That’s who I am and that’s who I’ll always be. I was an entertainer but at the end of the day, I’m still as real as it gets. I think a lot of things have to fall in the right places for something like that to happen.
Here is the Brock Lesnar trailer for WWE ‘12. Notably, the video comes courtesy of Paul Heyman.
And here is Dana White being asked about Brock Lesnar in WWE ‘12:
WWE ‘12 will be available November 22nd – just in time for the holidays.
Payout Perspective:
White dismissed any notion of confusion between UFC-WWE by having Lesnar in the WWE video game. He did state that it would be an issue if Lesnar wanted to wrestle while still under UFC contract. This is interesting considering Lesnar’s comments to ESPN. Of course, the Lesnar interview could be part hype for the video game. It could also mean that one day, after his UFC contract expires, Lesnar would go back to the WWE.
For White, granting Lesnar the opportunity to appear in the video game takes nothing away from the UFC business-wise right now. However, Lesnar’s appearance in the WWE video game may mean his departure from the UFC in the not too distant future. Lesnar has been the UFC PPV draw the past three years garnering over 1 million buys each time he fights. Without Lesnar, only Rashad Evans has had PPV success of over 1 million buys since 2008. (source: MMA Payout Blue Book). With Evans on the shelf again and Lesnar scheduled for a showdown with Alistair Overeem for UFC 141, the UFC might be concerned about its PPV business after 141. Certainly a Lesnar-Overeem matchup will do over 1 million buys. But, if Lesnar decides to leave in 2012, who will step up as the draw that could garner over 1 million PPV buys.
Notwithstanding the 1 million PPV buy threshold, the UFC may be concerned with its PPV business. With the UFC falling back with its scheduled time for PPVs, it hopes that the 2012 PPV business will be much more successful than this year.
Posted in: ufc, video, wwe, lesnar, game
Read the full article at MMA PayoutVideo: UFC 140 Press Conference -- Jones, Machida, White
Check out video from today's UFC 140 pre-fight press conference
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Read the full article at SherdogShawn Tompkins: Last Captured Training Footage
I don't believe in fate, but the timing of Gamma Labs CEO Cliff Morgan's email was coincidental all the same. I'm sitting in the bowling alley at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Amateur Bowlers Tour Fall Nationals tournament. I sat here around the same time last year. One evening during the tournament, Shawn Tompkins walked in with a group in tow. There was nothing special about the run-in. I didn't introduce myself. (I wouldn't want random people walking up to me when I was trying to enjoy an evening with friends and/or family.) He went to the counter, got a lane, and bowled with the group.
But now he's dead. And he looked so healthy a year ago. And he was only 37. Morgan sent me the link to this video. Gamma Labs have been giving fighters Flip cameras. The fighters film themselves training and using Gamma Labs products, return the camera, and the video goes up on the company's Youtube page. One of the fighters they gave a Flip camera to was Chris Horodecki. This video was shot just a few days before Tompkins passed.
Like my run-in last year, there's nothing special about this video on the surface. It's four minutes of Horodecki hitting mitts and a heavy bag. Tompkins opens up the video. Horodecki's coming off his victory over Chris Saunders in Bellator, and he's back in camp just a couple weeks after the fight. It's alarming just how HEALTHY Tompkins looks.
I didn't have much of a reaction when Tompkins passed away. Not that I didn't care, per se, but he was just a guy, a trainer, in the world of MMA. But this video hit me. We're all aware, somewhere deep in the recesses of our mind, of our own mortality. We try to ignore it, but sometimes it's a fact we cannot avoid. Sometimes it's in the form of Christopher Hitchens, battling through oesophageal cancer, coughing and willing his way through the acceptance of the Richard Dawkins award. Other times it's in the form of this video of Tompkins. It's the realization that life can be taken away in an instant, in ways we could never have imagined.
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Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC releases preview for UFC 137
UFC 136 is freshly behind in the rear view mirror and the largest MMA organization in the world has wasted little time promoting UFC 137, another major event taking place at the end of the month. Company officials released the first promotional video for the event headlined by welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre once again looking to defend his belt against the always dangerous Carlos Condit. Also featured in the video are welterweights B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz, who are slated to scrap in the co-main event of the evening.
UFC 137 promises to be one of the most exciting cards of the year as not only are four of the best welterweights in the world in action, but also on the card is a heavyweight showdown between Cheick Kongo and Matt Mitrione along with another heavyweight battle between Mirko Filipovic and Roy Nelson. Plus featherweight grappling expert Hatsu Hioki makes his UFC debut against George Roop to round out the PPV card.
Check out the video below:
Posted in: ufc, video, event, mirko filipovic, welterweights b.j
Read the full article at Five Ounces of PainUFC 137 Video Trailer for “St-Pierre vs. Condit” on Oct. 29
One of many very instructive jits videos...
submitted by spartanKid [link] [2 comments]
Posted in: video, spartankid, jit
Read the full article at RedditVIDEO: Douglas Lima KO's Chris Lozano at Bellator 53
VIDEO: Douglas Lima KO's Chris Lozano at Bellator 53
Posted in: bellator, ko, video, lozano, chris lozano
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 136 Videos: Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard, Aldo vs. Florian Highlights
ESPN has UFC 136 highlight videos from Saturday’s event in Houston, Texas, where UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar came back to score a fourth-round knockout of Gray Maynard and featherweight champ Jose Aldo earned a unanimous decision win over Kenny Florian.
Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard UFC 136 video:
Jose Aldo vs. Kenny Florian UFC 136 video:
MORE: UFC 136 Results, Recaps, and Play-by-Play for “Edgar vs. Maynard”
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, edgar, maynard
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyVideo: CFA 3 Weigh-ins -- Event Streams Live Sunday on Sherdog
Saturday's Weigh-in video can be viewed here.
Posted in: video, saturday, weigh-in, event streams, weigh-in video
Read the full article at SherdogUFC136 Joe Lauzon Video Blog #2
submitted by JoeLauzonDotCom [link] [comment]
Posted in: ufc, video, blog, lauzon, joelauzondotcom
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After giving career & life advice on PBS’s Roadtrip Nation, Joe Rogan issues funny weed video #ufc @MMASupremacy
Joe Rogan's parody instruction video on the value of weed.
Posted in: video, joe rogan, weed video, life advice, weed
Read the full article at Fight OpinionFor those of you who missed it, here's the UFC 136 weigh-ins (full video)
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Read the full article at RedditUFC 136 Video - Bruce Buffer: 'You Can't Announce the Way I Announce if You're Not Into It'
Matt Roth continues his solid work for MMA Nation covering UFC 136, this time catching up with "The Voice of The Octagon" Bruce Buffer.
Here's the video:
Some highlights
"This is the culmination of everyone's efforts. This is what you call a very grand moment."
"It doesn't wear on me because this is what I signed up to do. So when I hear there's going to be potentially 35 shows next year versus 27 this year? That's what I signed up to do. And the exhaustion is just part of the deal if it happens. But when I step in the Octagon, there is no exhaustion. I mean, my passion takes over. You can't announce the way I announce if you're not into it. If I'm ever not into it, then I'll consider retiring. ...Bring it on, make it 40, I'm here."
I've made no bones in the past about the fact that Buffer is not my cup of tea, but I have to agree that he certainly seems passionate about what he does.
Watch the full video to hear Buffer explain how he is "in it for the younger fans" as well as squashing the rumor that Michael Buffer was in negotiations to announce for the UFC if he hadn't gotten a deal with WCW.
Posted in: ufc, video, way i, buffer, bruce buffer
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard III - Live Weigh-In Video and Results
Bloody Elbow is happy to bring you live video and results for the UFC 136 weigh-ins as all fighters on the card step onto the scales looking to make it official. Our live video of the weigh-ins will start at 5 p.m. ET and is after the jump.
Main eventing the card is the third fight between UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard. Maynard became the only man to beat Edgar back in 2008. The two men rematched this January and battled to a draw in what many consider to be one of the best fights in UFC history.
The co-featured bout of the event sees Kenny Florian look to finally win a UFC championship as he faces featherweight champion Jose Aldo. Florian has lost in two attempts to win the lightweight championship and dropped to featherweight to look for another chance at the gold.
Also on the PPV main card, Brian Stann faces the returning Chael Sonnen in middleweight action, Leonard Garcia and Nam Phan rematch to settle the score after their exciting first battle and Melvin Guillard looks to establish himself as a title contender against Joe Lauzon.
That doesn't even get into the great Facebook and Spike TV undercard action in what could be one of the best cards in UFC history.
Live video starts at 5 p.m. ET.
Posted in: ufc, video, card, ufc history, maynard
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC136 Joe Lauzon's Video Blog #1
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Posted in: ufc, video, blog, lauzon, avertr
Read the full article at RedditOk, now Jean Jacques is just mocking our inferior Jiu-Jitsu
[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on DstryrSG, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
I'm speaking for myself, OK? Seriously though. A couple of weeks ago we posted a mount escape/sweep to crucifix from JJ Machado that we had to "impossibly slick." Well, he's at it again with yet another video rendition of that same damn sweep and now it just seems like he's mocking me. Watching another video of the same sweep from JJM, studying it and examining the nuances from now many angles ... only reinforces how completely unsophisticated my guard game is. It's just cruel. Maybe he's cyber-bullying me.
One might question why we'd post the same exact move from the same professor. And, the answer is that's just how we did around here. You should expect nothing less.
Read More and Watch the Video...
Posted in: video, jean jacques, jj machado, video rendition, guard game
Read the full article at Middle EasyJustin Bieber and Anderson Silva doing the shuffle (Video)
Dancing with the stars?
Sorry Maniacs, but if I had to be subjected to this video, then so do you.
Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber was Biebopping his way into Rio de Janiero, Brazil, to shower the tween scene with a few hours of his singing and dancing. And since he and UFC President Dana White are so chummy, it's probably no surprise that reigning middleweight champion Anderson Silva (himself the father of a teenage girl) would have a walk on to show some of his fancy footwork.
You dig? And does anyone out there secretly want to be Bieber's "baby?"
Posted in: video, anderson silva, bieber, justin bieber, tween scene
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 136 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video for “Edgar vs. Maynard 3″
The UFC held its pre-fight press conference for Saturday’s UFC 136 event today in Houston, Texas featuring UFC President Dana White, lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard, featherweight champ Jose Aldo and challenger Kenny Florian, and middleweight contenders Chael Sonnen and Brian Stann.
Complete video of the UFC 136 press conference is below (starts around 18:30):
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, press, brian stann
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyCountdown to UFC 136 Full Video for “Edgar vs. Maynard 3″
The Countdown to UFC 136 full video is now available online after debuting Monday night on Spike with the official preview of Saturday’s UFC 136 event in Houston, Texas, including the third meeting between UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard, featherweight champ Jose Aldo vs. Kenny Florian, and middleweight contenders Chael Sonnen and Brian Stann.
Watch the Countdown to UFC 136 full video below:
For UFC 136 results on Oct. 8 and complete UFC 136 coverage stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, brian stann, countdown
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyBellator 52 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 52.
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UFC on Versus 6: Pat Barry and Stefan Struve Use Humor to Build Fight
Nowadays in MMA, you usually see the same old stuff when it comes to pre-fight hype. Fighter A describes how he's better than his opponent in every facet of the game, and he's going to knock him out or make him tap out. Fighter B responds with something equally as inane and repetitive. While there are many obvious exceptions, and genuine dislike between two fighters usually does lead to some good hype, what do two guys do when they actually like each other? Well, in the case of Pat Barry and Stefan Struve, who will meet at UFC on Versus 6 tonight, they decided to go in a different direction. They tried to be funny to get people into their bout. And you know what? It actually worked.
To be fair, they had a lot to work with. Struve is 13 inches taller than Barry, and both are known as funny, wacky dudes anyway. It all started with this picture, which is pretty funny in itself. It then led to some humorous twitter trash talk, which included one-liners like this and this, and pictures like this and this. Then there was the Youtube videos. First it was Pat Barry's "brother" sending Struve a message. Struve responded by showing off an unusual training method, and Barry came back with his own training video. Barry then took the hilarity up a notch with this strange but funny video.
They finished things up yesterday at the official weigh-ins (video taken by MMA Nation's Luke Thomas), where Barry wanted to stand on the scale for the face-off. He eventually got down and they hammed it up a bit more. It was definitely the highlight of the weigh-ins.
Everyone's sense of humor is different and I'm sure there are a lot of people that didn't find much of this funny at all. I don't really think that's the point though. I'm impressed with two guys that tried something different to get people interested in them and their matchup. They played off each other well, it didn't come across as forced, they never took it seriously, and it won't take anything away from their will to win when they climb into the octagon. Personally, I'd like to see more of this kind of stuff in the future.
Posted in: fighter, video, stefan struve, barry, struve
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowKyoji Horiguchi Sugoi Shooter highlight video
[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on MMA-Japan, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
This is a name you are going to see us writing a lot of going forward and a name you have seen me drop a few times in the past (namely when he is fighting). Kyoji Horiguchi is not only the top prospect out of KrazyBee, Kid Yamamoto's camp, but he is one of the, if not the, top prospect to come out of Japan these days. In a time when those words are not seen placed next to each other (top prospect and Japan), this says a lot about the little guy.
His most recent win came at Shootor's Legacy 04 in which he put Naohiro Mizuno to the mat and then finished him in excruciating fashion. Basically what it came down to was Horiguchi landing such a vicious barrage of punches that Mizuno is still likely feeling his ears ring and seeing stars, similar to your Tom and Jerry cartoon.
It would not surprise us in the least if we see Horiguchi make the jump to a bigger stage soon. His killer instinct is something that fight promoters worldwide love. They also love people who finish fights, something that Horiguchi seems to know how to do very well.
Our boy IQWrestler made, yet another highlight video, this time of the bantamweight doing what he does best - destroying people in the ring.
Watch the video...
Posted in: time, video, horiguchi, naohiro mizuno, boy iqwrestler
Read the full article at Middle EasyVideo: UFC Live 6 Weigh-ins
Friday's UFC Live 6 weigh-in video can be watched here.
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Read the full article at SherdogUFC on Versus 6: Cruz vs. Johnson Weigh-in Video
MMAWeekly.com was at the UFC on Versus 6 weigh-in to capture the following highlight video... including Pat Barry's humorous photo op with Stefan Struve.
Posted in: ufc, video, stefan struve, weigh-in, photo op
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC on Versus 6 Weigh-Ins Stream Live at 4pm ET
The UFC on Versus 6 ‘Cruz vs. Johnson’ weigh-ins will stream live in the video player above at 4pm ET/1pm PT. If there are any issues with the video, you can also watch the weigh-ins on UFC.com.
Weigh-in results will follow on a separate post.
Posted in: video, pm, video player, weigh-in, weigh-in results
Read the full article at MMA ConvertUFC on Versus 6 Weigh-In Video and Results
Bloody Elbow will be providing live video and updates when all 20 fighters on the card step on the scale at today's UFC on Versus 6 weigh-ins from the The DC Armory in Washington, DC.
Live video of the weigh-ins will be shown at the Youtube link after the jump, or over at MMA Nation, SBN's center for live video.
The weigh-ins begin at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT.
There is also a special Q&A session with former UFC middleweight contender Mark Munoz that will be streamed on Youtube and MMA Nation as well. It begins at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT.
The main event is a UFC bantamweight championship fight between champion Dominick Cruz and challenger Demetrious Johnson, who will both have to make the bantamweight title bout limit of 135 pounds.
Join us and share your thoughts as the weigh-ins unfold.
Main Card:Dominick Cruz ( ) vs. Demetrious Johnson ( )Pat Barry ( ) vs. Stefan Struve ( )Charlie Brenneman ( ) vs. Anthony Johnson ( )Mac Danzig ( ) vs. Matt Wiman ( )Preliminary Card:Yves Edwards ( ) vs. Rafaello Oliveira ( )Michael Johnson ( ) vs. Paul Sass ( ) Byron Bloodworth ( ) vs. Mike Easton ( )T.J. Grant ( ) vs. Shane Roller ( )Josh Neer ( ) vs. Keith Wisniewski ( )Joseph Sandoval ( ) vs. Walel Watson ( )
More SBN coverage of UFC on Versus 6
Posted in: ufc, mma nation, video, vs, weigh-in
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowUFC 136: Extended Video Preview
The UFC has released a 10-minute preview video for Edgar vs. Maynard 3 and UFC 136, and we've got the goods.
Posted in: ufc, video, preview, video preview, edgar vs
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VIDEO: This week's NXT, which still exists
Brock Lesnar is back in the hunt for UFC gold ... and mule deer (Video)
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has been on the shelf since losing the title to Cain Velasquez back in Oct. 2010 thanks to a second bout of the deadly intestinal disease, diverticulitis.
Shortly thereafter, Lesnar had surgery to have a whopping 12 inches of his colon removed. He's now officially "back" and ready to get back down to the business of doing the two things he loves best:
1. Fighting.2. Tracking down live animals and killing them.
He'll attend to the former on Dec. 30 when he battles Alistair Overeem in a heavyweight match-up of massive proportions at UFC 141 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As far as his hunting goes, mixed martial arts fans will be able to get a firsthand look at how that aspect of Lesnar's life is falling back into place when he appears on "North American Hunter" on the Versus network this Sunday (Oct. 2). The 30 minute episode is set to run at 11:30 a.m. ET.
Check out a video preview of the show after the jump:
For those of you with an insatiable blood-lust and an unwillingness to watch the whole three minutes and 31 seconds, skip to to the 1:14 mark of the video to see Lesnar "take 'er down."
If you're squeamish, work for PETA or both, you'll want to sit this one out.
Any Maniacs planning on tuning in to watch the Brockness Monster "take aim?"
Posted in: ufc, video, lesnar, maniacs planning, brockness monster
Read the full article at MMA ManiaThat "how not to punch" video made me self conscious, what are some sources for good technique videos?
Obviously time in the gym is gonna be the best teacher, but those of us who can't find the time/money have to settle for working by ourselves. I've googled and youtubed and whatnot and a lot of the vids are just shit. It seems like every one is more concerned with how to TRIPLE YOUR PUNCHING POWER!!!! and all this other over hyped bullshit, I just want to know how I can make my footwork better when throwing combos and the finer aspects of a good hook. What are some of your favorite technique series or videos? submitted by PinkySlayer [link] [7 comments]
Posted in: technique, video, power !!!!, time /money, technique series
Read the full article at RedditUFC 139 Press Conference - Live Streaming Video
The UFC will hold a press conference hyping up UFC 139 this afternoon at 4 p.m. ET. In attendance will be main event fighters Dan Henderson and Mauricio Rua along with Cung Le and Wanderlei Silva. Silva and Le serve as the co-headliners with Silva stepping in to replace an injured Vitor Belfort.
UFC 139 takes place from San Jose, California on November 19th live on pay-per-view. The card is shaping up quite well so far with additional bouts including Brian Bowles vs. Urijah Faber in what should serve as a number one contender fight for the bantamweight division.
It will also be held one weekend after the UFC's debut on Fox which will provide some context for how much of a boost the visibility on network TV gives to the number of people willing to pay money to watch UFC events.
You can watch the press conference live via streaming video after the jump. So make sure to come back at 4 p.m. ET and watch it live.
Live video:
Posted in: ufc, press conference, conference, video, network tv
Read the full article at Bloody ElbowAnderson Silva dances in artsy video for no apparent reason
And MMAmania.com posts said video for no apparent reason. At least it's not as painful as this video of him singing and when all else fails, just stare at the pretty lady.
Thanks to Middle Easy for the video.
Posted in: video, silva, reason, thank, mmamania.com posts
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC Champ Anderson Silva Goes Ballroom Dancing in Brazilian Music Video
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva's latest foray into the mainstream? Ballroom dancing with Marisa Monte in a new music video from the Brazilian pop star.
Posted in: video, silva, music video, ballroom dancing, marisa monte
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyBellator 51 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 51.
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UFC 135 Videos: Jon Jones vs. “Rampage” Jackson, Josh Koscheck vs. Matt Hughes Highlights
ESPN has highlight videos from last night’s UFC 135 event, where UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones dominated Quinton “Rampage” Jackson before scoring a fourth-round submission and welterweight contender Josh Koscheck knocked out UFC hall of famer Matt Hughes at the last-second of the opening round.
Jon Jones vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson UFC 135 video:
Josh Koscheck vs. Matt Hughes UFC 135 video:
Posted in: ufc, video, vs, ufc hall, fourth-round submission
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyDana White’s UFC 135 Video Blog: Part Two
Behind the scenes of the UFC 135 weigh-ins in this second installment of Dana White’s UFC 135 video blog.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, weigh-in
Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White UFC 135 Video Blog – Day 2
UFC President Dana White presents the latest edition of his UFC 135 video blog.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, edition
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyUFC 135 Weigh-In Highlights Videos for Jones vs. Rampage and Hughes vs. Koscheck
UFC 135 weigh-in highlight videos are below, featuring UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former title-holder Quinton “Rampage” Jackson weighing in for their headlining showdown, as well as welterweights Matt Hughes and Josh Koscheck hitting the scale for Saturday’s co-main event in Denver, Colorado.
Jon Jones vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson UFC 135 Weigh-In Video:
Matt Hughes vs. Josh Koscheck UFC 135 Weigh-In Video:
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for live UFC 135 results and complete UFC 135 coverage.
Posted in: ufc, josh koscheck, video, vs, weigh-in
Read the full article at MMA FrenzyVideo: UFC 135 Weigh-ins
Watch the UFC 135 weigh-ins here
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Read the full article at SherdogCountdown To UFC 135 ‘Jones vs. Rampage’ Full Video
Here’s the full Countdown to UFC 135 video if you missed it.
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Read the full article at MMA ConvertLive video stream Q&A with Wanderlei Silva, Brittney Palmer and Damon Lau TODAY (Sept. 23) at 4pm ET on MMAmania.com!
Great news, Maniacs.
Our friends at Round 5 are back with another MMAmania.com exclusive. Today (Sept. 23, 2011) LIVE at 4 p.m. ET, Round 5 will host an hour long live video stream and chat with mixed martial arts legend Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva along with one of the hottest girls this sport has ever seen in Brittney Palmer.
Of course, no Round 5 video chat would be complete without the King of MMA collectibles, Round 5 President Damon Lau. That means you, the fans, can ask as many questions as you want to Wandy, Brittney, and Damon -- nothing is off limits!
Just remember to keep it rated PG (okay, PG-13) and please note questions will be answered in the order they are received, so get here early!
Live video stream begins at 4 p.m. ET after the jump:
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For more great MMA collectibles be sure to check out Round 5 right here.
Posted in: round, video, brittney palmer, video stream, mma collectibles
Read the full article at MMA ManiaUFC 135 Weigh-In Video
Filed under: UFCAll the fighters at UFC 135 will first step on the scale at the UFC 135 weigh-ins on Friday evening, and we'll have the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and challenger Rampage Jackson will both have to make the limit of 205 pounds -- a limit that has, at times, been tough for Rampage to make. Also worth watching at the weigh-in are lightweight Nate Diaz (who's fighting Takanori Gomi) and lightweight Tony Ferguson (who's fighting Aaron Riley). Both Diaz and Ferguson are moving back down to 155 pounds after fighting most recently at welterweight.
The UFC 135 weigh-in begins at 6 p.m. ET and the video is below.
More: Watch UFC 135 Live Online | UFC 135 Fight Card | UFC 135 Results
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Read the full article at AOL FanhouseVote for the cover athlete of UFC Undisputed 3: Jon Jones (Video)
You can vote for UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones to grace the cover of the upcoming Jan. 2012 release of UFC Undipsuted 3 at the official website right here. Or you can vote for one of the other four champions in weight classes ranging from lightweight to heavyweight. For more on that click here. And for more info on the upcoming video game release click here and here.
Posted in: ufc, heavyweight, video, click, weight classes
Read the full article at MMA ManiaNice video of Condit dropping Guillard in training
submitted by RoosterBrains [link] [3 comments]
Posted in: video, condit, guillard, roosterbrain, training
Read the full article at RedditUFC 135 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video Highlights: Jones & Rampage Verbal Sparring
Verbal jabs start today for UFC 135
Video highlights from today’s UFC 135 pre-fight press conference via Fox Sports, the UFC and MMA Weekly.
Posted in: ufc, conference, video, fox sports, pre-fight
Read the full article at MMA ConvertFeatherweight Highlight Video
submitted by bigchallah [link] [1 comment]
Posted in: video, featherweight, bigchallah
Read the full article at RedditJunior Dos Santos video - Top of the Mountain
submitted by ImaG [link] [2 comments]
Posted in: video, do, imag, mountain
Read the full article at RedditUFC on FOX 1 Press Conference Full Video
Video of today’s UFC on FOX 1 press conference.
Posted in: ufc, fox, conference, video, press
Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White’s UFC 135 Video Blog: Part One
Behind the scenes footage of UFC 134 and UFC Fight Night 25 in this first installment of Dana White’s UFC 135 video blog.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, blog, scenes footage
Read the full article at MMA ConvertDana White UFC 135 Video Blog (Part 1)
UFC President Dana White kicks-off his customary fight week video blog ahead of this Saturday night's UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage event by taking a look back at the promotion's return to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and last weekend's Fight Night 25: Battle on the Bayou. Also featured is footage from the UFC 135 Pre-Fight Press Conference, which included headliners Jon Jones and Quinton Jackson.
Posted in: ufc, quinton jackson, rampage event, saturday night, video
Read the full article at Low KickDana White’s UFC 135 Video Blog Day 1
Dana White's UFC 135 video blog gets off with a bang, looking back at UFC 134 and Fight Night 25 before heading to Denver.
Posted in: ufc, night, video, dana, blog
Read the full article at Heavy MMADana White UFC 135 Video Blog – Day 1
UFC 135 is just around the corner so UFC President Dana White is presenting his latest video blog as he leads up to the fights in Denver this weekend.
Posted in: ufc, video, dana, video blog, blog
Read the full article at MMA WeeklyBellator 50 Video Highlights
Video highlights from Bellator 50…
Read the full article at MMA Convert