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Chael Sonnen talks about John Mccain's crusade against the UFC in 1993.
@scottyp0806@ufc @danawhite Brian Stann vs Hector Lombard?
@danawhite @scottyp0806 yup
Dana White appears to confirm to a fan on Twitter that Brian Stann will welcome Hector Lombard to the octagon.
This will be an extremly fun three-minute fight.
Champ Jon Jones: $400,000 (no win bonus)
def. Rashad Evans: $300,000Rory MacDonald: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus)
def. Che Mills: $8,000Ben Rothwell: $104,000 (includes $52,000 win bonus)
def. Brendan Schaub: $14,000Michael McDonald: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Miguel Torres: $32,000Eddie Yagin: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus)
def. Mark Hominick: $17,000Mark Bocek: $46,000 (includes $23,000 win bonus)
def. John Alessio: $10,000Travis Browne: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Chad Griggs: $27,000Matt Brown: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus)
def. Stephen Thompson: $8,000Anthony Njokuani: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. John Makdessi: $12,000Mac Danzig: $54,000 (includes $27,000 win bonus)
def. Efrain Escudero: $10,000Chris Clements: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus)
def. Keith Wisniewski: $10,000Marcus Brimage: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Maximo Blanco: $13,000
MMA Junkie obtained the disclosed salaries for UFC 145.
Ben Rothwell has an excellent manager by the way
Bob Sapp's latest insult to Combat Sports occured in a kickboxing bout at WFC 16 in Slovenia yesterday. Sapp will be next seen tapping to strikes next month against Marius Pudzianowski for KSW in Poland and Soa Palelei for CFC in Australia.
How the you-know-what did this idiot ever beat Ernesto Hoost?
MMA Junkie reports that the Ventian Macao's Cotai Arena will host a UFC event later in the year. The event would be the first the UFC has held in China.
Wyoming recently became the 46th State to regulate MMA.
HT: MMA Junkie
Bob Sapp vs James Thompson from Super Fight League
By the way Sapp actually did tap to that.
BE #1 Featherweight Prospect Hacran Dias is close to signing with the UFC according to Tatame.
Bellator Heavyweight Blagoi Ivanov is in critical condition after being stabbed in a bar fight in his native Bulgaria. Ivanov and his friends were attacked by bat and knife wielding thugs early this morning and Ivanov was stabbed in the armpit, the blade reached Ivanov's heart.
Ivanov underwent life-saving surgery at Pirogov Hospital in Sofia earlier today and currently breathing with the aid of a respirator.
My thoughts and best wishes are with Blagoi and his family at this most difficult time.
UFC Japan Commercial
Are we about to invaded by Giant flying Octagon's?
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Coach Speak: Trainer Reacts to Condit’s UFC 143 Win
Greg Jackson discusses the strategy in the UFC 143 main event with Sherdog.
Joey Beltran has officially been Mexicuted by the UFC following a 1-4 record in his last five fights.
Following his release Beltran plans to move to 205.
HT: MMA Weekly
MMA.Com reports that the infamous Gladiator intro has been axed by the UFC. A new intro sequence will debut this Saturday.
Mike Whitehead was today sentenced to one-to-four years for sexual assault. Whithead must also pay restitution and register as a sex offender.
HT: MMA Weekly
A very Happy 70th Birthday to Muhammad Ali.
Happy Brithday Champ!!
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MMA Junkie reports that Kenny Florian will serve as color commentator alongside Jon Anik for UFC events on FX and Fuel. Anik and Florian previously worked together on MMA Live.
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Don't screw with Frank Mir
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Steve Mazzagatti will officiate next months Interim Title Fight between Carlos Condit & Nick Diaz. Patricia Morse-Jarman, Junichiro Kamijo and Cecil Peoples will judge UFC 143's main event.
HT: MMA Junkie
BE #10 Welterweight Prospect Stephen Thompson has signed with the UFC and will face Justin Edwards at UFC 143. Thompson is an injury replacment for Mike Stumpft.
HT: MMA Junkie
"[Jones] called about four days ago and said 'okay let's go, I'm done with vacation.' He said he wanted to take all this time off and then they were calling me four days ago saying he wants to fight as soon as possible. He's ready to go. What could end up happening is Dan Henderson fights Jon Jones first, and then [Jones' subsequent fight] would be close to the time that Rashad fights. Or we see how things go with Rashad [versus Phil Davis] and Rashad fights him first."
Dana White tells "The MMA Insider" that Jon Jones short vacation is over and he wants to fights ASAP.
Until I read this I'd been struggling to think of a main event for UFC 145 in Montreal. Jones vs Henderson would be perfect for it.
Oregon Live reports that former UFC fighter and waste of blood and organs Hermes Franca was today sentenced to 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to unlawful penetration and first-degree sexual abuse. Franca will also have four and a half years of post-prison supervision and must register as a sex offender.
I wish the victim of this tragedy the best in the rest of her life and wish Hermes nothing but the worst for the rest of his misrable life.
Tito Ortiz will appear on CSI:New York tonight. The video above is a clip of his upcoming Emmy nomination.
WTF was the ref doing?
HT: Gal's Guide
UFC Does 6.7 million buys in 2011
by MattParker117 on Jan 5, 2012 11:53 AM EST
on Bloody Elbow
UFC 141 Buyrate: The Cash Cow comes home-MMAManifesto.com
With Dave Meltzer reporting a preliminary buyrate of between 750-810,000 for UFC 141 according to MMA Manifesto I can report that UFC over the course of sixteen PPV events drew 6,715,000-6,785,000 buys in 2011. The highest grossing events being 129 and 141 both drawing 800,000 buys or more and both headlined by Brock Lesnar and GSP who both remain the companies biggest draws.
The lowest drawing events were 125 and 136 both headlined by Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard and both drawing under 300,000 buys with 136 being the lowest selling two title fight card since UFC 56.
The UFC drew roughly 2.6 million less buys than 2010 when the UFC drew 9,305,000 buys. The reason's for this include significant Injuries (nearly every event lost a main or co-main event to injury), poor scheduling (136 being two weeks after 135), the end of there current TV deals and PPV fatigue.
The Top Five PPV's for the UFC in 2011 were (Dave Meltzer provides the numbers):
UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem- 750-810,000 buys
UFC 129: St. Pierre vs. Shields- 800,000 buys
UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort- 725,000 buys
UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage- 520,000 buys
UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones-490,000 buys
The Bottom five were:
UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson- 290,000 buys
UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz- 280,000 buys
UFC 125: Resolution- 270,000 buys
UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch- 260,000 buys
UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard 3- 225,000 buys
With the retirement of Brock Lesnar and GSP's injury the UFC will need to create new star's in order to reverse this dramatic decline in 2012. With Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes headlining the UFC's first event of 2012 I don't expect a great start.
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UFC Primetime will make it's debut on the FX network January 20 in order to promote the Interim Welterweight Title fight between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit. The premier episode of the show will air immediately after UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller.
HT: MMA Junkie
Renato Sobral has signed with Asian promotion ONE FC and will debut on the ONE FC-DREAM card in Singapore this March.
HT: ONE FC Twitter
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Merry Christmas Bloody Elbow!!
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According to MMAInterviews.TV Shane Del Rosario is the latest Strikeforce Heavyweight to move to the UFC.
Alistair Overeem is in UFC Undisputed 3 go to the game's Facebook page to get him.
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Faricio Werdum is back in the UFC and will face Roy Nelson at UFC 143.
HT: MMA Weekly
Some fantastic news as after "substantial" donations from Zuffa, Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta Daniel James Miller has been scheduled for a kidney-transplant in late January.
Pic via CagePotato, News via MMAJunkie
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