MMA Live Episode 14 Released
The 14th episode of the popular mixed martial arts show MMA Live has been released. Kenny Florian is back this week and is joined by Jon Anik, Frank Mir, and Franklin McNeil.
MMA Live Could be Heading for ESPN TV
As MMA fans you have probably all heard of one of the most popular mixed martial arts shows on the net, MMA Live. Well in case you have missed out on all the fun for the last 13 weeks MMA Live is a weekly show released every Thursday online via ESPN’s website. The show is hosted by Jon Anik and Franklin McNeil with guest panelist Kenny Florian.
Kenny Florian was the one who hinted at the fact that the show could soon be on TV in a recent interview on TAGG Radio
“The next couple of months, we’re hoping to get [MMA Live] on ESPN or ESPN 2, and the sponsors are getting on board as we speak, so we should have a deal very, very soon. We’re all very pumped.”
-Kenny Florian
Check out the MMA Live show over at ESPN’s site here.
UFC 90 Official Event Poster
Here is the official poster for UFC 90. Anderson Silva will be stepping into the ring as a middleweight once again to defend his UFC Middleweight Championship against Canadian Patrick Cote. As of writing this only three fights have been confirmed by the UFC for this event. The title fight mentioned above, a fight between welterweights Diego Sanchez and Thiago Alves and a light heavyweight battle between Thales Leites and the undefeated Goran Reljic.
UFC 87 Event Preview
It’s the 1st of August. We are now only a week and a day away from UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy”. It is one of the UFC’s best cards in recent events featuring a title bout between new welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre and challenger Jon Fitch. Kenny Florian who is the current analyst on ESPN’s “MMA Live” will be looking to advance in the lightweight division as he takes on Roger Huerta one of the greatest lightweights around. The fight that I am most interested in seeing is the one between heavyweight hopeful and former WWE superstar Brock Lesner. He will be taking on MMA veteren Heath Herring. Herring has had is fair share of fights and will be looking to put a stop to Brock Lesners MMA hopes. The other two main card fights feature Manny Gamburyan vs. Rob Emerson in a lightweight bout and a middleweight bout between Jason MacDonald and Demian Maia will be the opening bout.
MMA Live Epsiode 12
ESPN’s weekly mixed martial arts show MMA Live released it’s twelth episode yesterday. Frank Mir is a special guest on this weeks MMA Live filling in for Kenny Florian who is off prepping for his upcoming UFC 87 fight against Roger Huerta. So kick back and watch this weeks installment of MMA Live hosted by Jon Anik and Franklin McNeil.
Affliction Banned - Fedor Vs. Sylvia Preview
This weekend Russia’s own Fedor Emelianenko will be fighting Tim Sylvia at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California for the WAMMA Heavyweight title of the world. The event will be Afflictions first event and is titled “Banned“.
The 31 year old Russian Fedor is one of the greatest fighters to live. His current MMA record is 28-1 with one no contest. Over 50% of his 28 wins come from submissions with 14 in total. He also has 6 (T)KO’s and the other 7 fights were decided by decision. His only loss was many years ago back in the year 2000 against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. The fight lasted a whole 17 seconds with Kohsaka getting the (T)KO due to a cut. I have never seen the fight but getting a cut 17 seconds in does seem a bit drastic. Since then Fedor went on to defeat some of the greatest names in the heavyweight division including Mark Coleman, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Heath Herring. Theres one more he is looking to add to his list and that will come this Sunday against Tim Sylvia.
Tim “The Maine-iac” Sylvia has also had his fair share of fights against some also very notable fighters. Unfortunately for him most of those notable fighters defeated him like Nogueira a few months back. Slyvia’s current MMA record is 24-4 with 16 of the wins by way of technical knockout. Even though Sylvia’s record is not as good as good as his opponents he shouldn’t be taken lightly by Fedor. Tim Sylvia will be going into the fight this Saturday night after a loss to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. He should be looking to redeem himself.
A look at both fighters together shows us that Tim Sylvia does have a significant height and weight advantage over Fedor. A whole 8 inches to be exact. Just look at the image above. I was showing this to a friend who was asking about Affliction this weekend (He isn’t really into MMA) and he said it looked like the most uneven fight he had ever seen. Little does he know it is pretty uneven for the big guy and Tim Sylvia will have to pull something good to get a win over Fedor.
The event will be live this weekend from the Honda Centre in Anaheim California only on PPV make sure you check this one out.
We Are Going to do our Very Own Fight Rankings!!!
After trying to come up with our own system for quite some time on how to rank fighters I finally think we have it. The rankings will be starting fresh as of yesterdays UFC event and slowly but surely (by the end of the year :S ) I think they should be pretty accurate.
The system is new and could have a few kinks to work out but we will continue to develop it and make it one of the best around (hopefully 
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We won’t just be covering the UFC. If all goes to plan I believe we can have the UFC, EliteXC, Strikeforce, KOTC, WEC and Affliction fighters all battling for the number one spot.
You will be seeing our first set of rankings pop up sometime tomorrow.
UFC 86: Jackson Vs. Griffin Weigh-in Results
Today was the day for fighters to weigh-in for tomorrows big event at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Nevada.
Fortunately for everyone taking part they all made weight and all fights are going ahead as planned. Makes a change after seeing some recent major fighters going down because of weight (Gina Carano, Nick Diaz)
Here are the official results:
205 lbs.: Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (205) vs. Forrest Griffin (205)
185 lbs.: Patrick Cote (185) vs. Ricardo Almeida (185)
155 lbs.: Joe Stevenson (155) vs. Gleison Tibau (156)
170 lbs.: Josh Koscheck (170) vs. Chris Lytle (170)
155 lbs.: Tyson Griffin (155) vs. Marcus Aurelio (155)
265 lbs.: Gabriel Gonzaga (249) vs. Justin McCully (236)
155 lbs.: Cole Miller (155) vs. Jorge Gurgel (155)
155 lbs.: Melvin Guillard (155) vs. Dennis Siver (155)
155 lbs.: Corey Hill (155) vs. Justin Buchholz (155)
**Fighters can weigh one pound over limit in a none title fight**
We will be here all tomorrow following the event for those not watching on PPV be sure to come back and check out our live results page. All the post fight analysis will also be online this Sunday!
UFC 86: Jackson Vs. Griffin Quick Picks
Here are my quick picks for UFC 86: Jackson Vs. Griffin
Quinton Jackson Vs. Forrest Griffin: I believe that Quinton Jackson will win this fight early on. He is a fierce fighter and will be able to stop Griffin dead in his tracks come main event time this Saturday night.
Patrick Cote Vs. Ricardo Almeida: My pick for this fight is Patrick Cote. I don’t see the fight lasting past the first round, in fact maybe not even past the first minute. So for me the fight goes to Patrack Cote via technical knock out.
Joe Stevenson vs. Gleison Tibau: This is the one fight I expect to see a lot from. Both these guys will give it their all to prove they are still worth something to the UFC. I think Stevenson will win the fight by decision but one thing I believe is that there will be blood!
Josh Koscheck vs. Chris Lytle: Koscheck has this one in the bag. It will be a TKO in round two and “Kos” will come out victorious.
Tyson Griffin Vs. Marcus Aurelio: I believe that this fight will come down to a decision but giving the fans some awesome entertainment along the way. Griffin will win the fight via decision when all is said and done!
UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben Official
UFC 89 was made official by the UFC earlier today and has been set for October 18th at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England.
Tickets for the event can be bought on Saturday or if you are a member of the fight club you will be able to get your tickets this Wednesday ahead of the crowds.
The event as it currently stands will see Michael Bisping taking on Chris Leben a fight which should of happened at UFC 85 but due to a jail sentence for Leben was forced to be canceled. Leben was replaced by Canadian Jason Day in the event and Michael Bisping made it look like an easy win.
