Affliction: Banned Promo Video
Check this out… It’s the promo video from Affliction for their upcoming debut MMA show, Banned. Looking at the video and the fight card this clothing company has the cash and the power to make their corporation a successful one.
Urijah Faber Training Hard for Upcoming WEC Fight
“He’s super dedicated to what he does whether it be training for fighting, or supporting his guys in their fights. He’s respectful to his opponents, and doesn’t underestimate them. His training is excessive; a regimen that many would be and are hard pressed to keep up with. Some would call it overtraining, but to him it’s his every day thing, whether he has a fight coming up or not. The training level he kept up with this trip I took to see him was no more than when I went last august to sac and he didn’t have an impending fight. He’s got a funny sense of humor and a great rapport with the guys he trains.”
The quote comes from Urijah Faber about his upcoming WEC Featherweight title defense against Jens Pulver. The fight is set to take place in California on June 1st to over 8000 fans. This will be the biggest Featherweight fight of all time and only one man will leave the WEC Featherweight Champion.
WEC:Faber-Pulver Sells out lower bowl
Urijah Faber (left) will defend his featherweight title against Jens Pulver June 1st at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California. The fight will be one of the most important featherweight bouts of all time.
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) anounced today that they will be opening the upper tier of the ARCO arena to cope with the rush of ticket sales. WEC has currently sold around 8000 tickets to the event and decided to try and fill the arena. The new upper tier tickets will cost $35 each excluding all taxes and other fees.
“WEC fans bought all of the tickets so fast that we decided to open up more seats upstairs” said Peter Dropick, Vice President of Operations and Production for the WEC. “We originally planned to sell seats only in the lower sections for this event, but it’s going to be such an exciting night of fights that we want to accommodate as many fans as possible to see the live action.”
Roger Huerta to fight Kenny Florian at UFC 87
According to MMAWeekly both fighters’ camps have confirmed that the fight between Kenny Florian and
Roger Huerta will take place at UFC 87 on August 9th, Minneapolis Minnesota.
Kenny Florian is coming out of a win against Joe Lauzon at UFC Fight Night 13. He knows if he wants to get a shot at the lightweight title again beating Huerta would be a jump in the right direction.
“It’s kind of rare when you get two guys who are positively number one and number two in the division that are actually going to fight to be the number one contender to fight for that belt later on,” Florian told MMAWeekly.com. “I think it will be great for both of our careers, and it’s the biggest fight you can put together in our division.”
Huerta currently 20-1-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC will enter this fight with 16 straight victories. Huerta has currently had nine months away from fighting to recover from his five fights in 2007.
No doubt the winner of this fight will face the victor at UFC 84 (B.J. Penn or Sean Sherk) for the lightweight title.
James Irvin: Rashad Evans is Taking A Step Down at UFC 85
“I’m just so happy that he would even take the fight against me. I consider him an ‘A’ level fighter, and I consider myself a ‘C’ level fighter, maybe a ‘B’ level because I just beat Houston trying to claw my way up to the top. So for him to take a step down and fight me, I’m greatly appreciative of the guy, who is someone I look up to as one of those top tier fighters.”
The quote above came from James Irvin. Irvin will be fighting Evans at UFC 85 in London, England. It was all made possible by Chuck Liddell tearing up his hamstring. Irvin as he says above considers himself a ‘B’ fighter after KO’ing Houston Alexander at Fight Night 13. The knockout was only 8 seconds in from a superman punch.
UFC 85: Bouts Confirmed - Hughes Vs. Alves Main Event
The UFC has now confirmed what was released on Matt Hughes’ website earlier today. The new main event for UFC 85 will be Matt Hughes Vs. Thiago Alves. There is also a co main event featuring recently turned middleweight Michael Bisping Vs. Chris Leben. Although rumors have been flying about that UFC 85 will be on Spike TV for Americans this was not confirmed by the UFC’s website, which still has it down as PPV.
Heres a snippet from Matt Hughes’ website earlier today:
June 7th, in England, I fight Thiago Alves. The fight is confirmed, it will be the main event for the card. Dana just called me with the news. Chuck got hurt and couldn’t fight, so he needed a replacement and called me and I said yes. More news as I get it. No matter what happens in this fight, I’ve got Serra next. -matt
Full list of confirmed fights at UFC 85:
Matt Hughes vs. Thiago Alves
Michael Bisping vs. Chris Leben
Marcus Davis vs. Mike Swick
Rashad Evans vs. James Irvin
Fabricio Werdum vs. Brandon Vera
Martin Kampmann vs. Jorge Rivera
Thiago Tavares vs. Matt Wiman
Nate Marquardt vs. Thales Leites
Luis Arthur Cane vs. Jason Lambert
Neil Wain vs. Antoni Hardonk
UFC 84: Preview
There is an official UFC 84 website here!
UFC 84 will take place May 24th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The full fight card for the event is:
MAIN CARD
BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk - Lightweight Title
Keith Jardine vs. Wanderlei Silva
Lyoto Machida vs. Tito Ortiz
Wilson Gouveia vs. Goran Reljic
Thiago Silva vs. Antonio Mendes
PRELIMINARY CARD
Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Terry Etim vs. Rob Emerson
Shane Carwin vs. Christian Wellisch
Rousimar Palhares vs. Ivan Salaverry
Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Dong-Hyun Kim vs. Jason Tan
Chuck Liddell is Out!
Word is that Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell is out of UFC 85 in London, England. He will not be facing Rashad Evans due to an injury. The extent of the injury is not yet known but the new plan is for the fighters to go at it in the summer once Liddell has recovered.
Maybe Liddell is just not supposed to fight at this event. He was originally supposed to go against Mauricio “Shogun” Rua but Rua ruptured his ACL for the second time in a year, Rashad Evans was his replacement.
No official word has come out from the UFC yet about the injury to Chuck or possible replacement fights or fighters.
UFC 83: Official Weigh-in Results
Here are the official results for todays weigh in. All 22 fighters made weight and will fight tomorrow night:
Matt Serra (169.5) vs. Georges St-Pierre (169.5)
Rich Franklin (185.5) vs. Travis Lutter (185)
Michael Bisping (185.5) vs. Charles McCarthy (186)
Mac Danzig (154.5) vs. Mark Bocek (154.5)
Nate Quarry (185.5) vs. Kalib Starnes (186) *swing bout
Jason MacDonald (185) vs. Joe Doerksen (184.5)
Alan Belcher (185) vs. Jason Day (183.5)
Ed Herman (185.5) vs. Demian Maia (184.5)
Sam Stout (155.5) vs. Rich Clementi (155)
Cain Velasquez (235.5) vs. Brad Morris (225.5)
Jonathan Goulet (169.5) vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (170)
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UFC 83: Predictions
MAIN CARD
* Matt Serra (169.5) vs. Georges St. Pierre (169.5)
* Rich Franklin (185.5) vs. Travis Lutter (185)
* Nate Quarry (185.5) vs. Kalib Starnes (186)
* Michael Bisping (185.5) vs. Charles McCarthy (186)
* Marc Bocek (154.5) vs. Mac Danzig (154.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD
* Joe Doerksen (184.5) vs. Jason MacDonald (185)
* Rich Clementi (155) vs. Sam Stout (155.5)
* Alan Belcher (185) vs. Jason Day (183.5)
* Jonathan Goulet (169.5) vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (170)
* Ed Herman (185.5) vs. Demian Maia (184.5)
* Brad Morris (225.5) vs. Cain Velasquez (235.5)
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