UFC 'Lesnar u.s. 121 poster for Velasquez ' on 23 October

by mmamania.com on August 16, 2009 3: 39 PM EDT

To check for the latest UFC 121: "Lesnar vs. Velasquez" fight of the card and rumors, click here.

Read more: 121 ufc ufc, brock lesnar, cain velasquez, UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez

View the original article here

UFC 118: Randy Couture vs James Toney fighting talk (video)

by mmamania.com on August 15, 2009 9: 41 PM EDT

Read more: ufc ufc ufc videos, 118, james toney, randy couture, UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn 2

View the original article here

Despite three fight skid UFC 118 ensure Dan Miller about short-term struggle

It is not much of a choice for Dan Miller.

The UFC middleweight champion was no full training camp to prepare John Salter (5-1 MMA, UFC 1-1) at Saturday's UFC 118 became event, and he knows it could be his last chance to make an impression after three consecutive losses in the Octagon.

But that's what he does: he fights.

"If the UFC calls and asks you to do something, do it," Miller (9 MMA, UFC 3-3), recently told MMAjunkie.com radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).

Miller was the Saturday map four weeks ago not too much of a shock was added when Salters original opponent, Phil Baroni was forced from the event with an injury withdraw. Fortunately was already in his gym, Jim Miller and team-mate Charlie Brenneman prepare for your upcoming Kämpfe.Es AMA fight Club and helping brother.

Miller, a New Jersey native, Octagon debut in September 2008 and racked up WINS over Rob Kimmons, Matt Horwich and Jake Rosholt arise as a legit contender.But then came three consecutive setbacks to the top ranks of the Division: Chael Sonnen, Demian Maia and Michael Bisping.

Miller once in the middleweight title a fury fighting is no longer existing IFL and cage Championships but he in the UFC sputtered, after this success.

Salters relatively thin resume some short-term struggle is a calculated risk for Miller.He needs to go back to the award-winning track and it has never, hear three times the experience of its Feind.Aber he downplays the effect of his recent Folie.Sie pile up on the excuses.

"" I fought some tough opponents,","said Miller.There were a few things I could have done differently.«I am working on this error.»

To get a profit, Miller knows that he needs to relax and let it all out in the Octagon.It is easy to do if you, 3-0 in your first three UFC fights - but a little harder, if you have a rough patch taken.

Still, he promises his best on Saturday night.

"" I'll go and have fun ", he said."I am hungry, to go back to the old Dan Miller and go and attack and fight."My last fight, didn't I do exactly that."

In his recent occurs could not Miller faced Bisping at UFC 114 and the British striking standout to the ground to get or create dynamic its Füße.Er lost by a unanimous decision.

Miller has the same game plan for Salter, as he Bisping - but for various reasons.

"" Of course, I want him to his back, put, said Miller."He is a Ringer.Ich am sure he will be comfortable on top, so I put him on his back."

He has a new motto for his return: fight, to have fun.

"I'm just work better and hopefully, (I ' ll) get a victory this time," he said.

For more at UFC 118, stay tuned to the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

MMAjunkie.com radio broadcasts Monday-Friday noon ET (9 am PT) live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's race & Jochen Book.Die will show from gorgeous George, MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan and producer Goze gehostet.Gehen for more information or download past episodes to www.mmajunkie.com/radio.

View the original article here

UFC 118's James Toney: I could see that the fear in Randy Couture's eyes

BOSTON - just 24 hours after standing face to face with 118 UFC opponents Randy Couture (18-10 MMA, 15-7 UFC), boxing champion James Toney (72-6-3 boxes, 0 0 MMA) reminded me at the moment with a smile.

You see, it was during this Staredown have all been confirmed his suspicions.

"I've seen fear" Toney told about MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) at Thursday's media workout session. "I smelled it to."

"Anyone can sit and say, ' Oh, Randy was hard."He was cool."All were Randy Couture fans [say that].""Could up close and personal in his eyes sehen.Er is not never seen nobody like me in his life."

Toney and Couture have no chance for a further meeting on Thursday as UFC officials the usual process opponents of the paths cross when possible to halten.Aber after their short Staredown on Thursday's pre-event said press conference, Toney, rode his confidence high.

"" I'm a very different way,"said Toney."I'm something he is not never in his [expletive] life gesehen.Ich can tap it out or I can choke him out - either or.

"Where you want to go, I'm a big, strong dude." I have been my whole life strong."This is nothing new for me."

While Toney which claimed from the date it is signed by the Organization was first announced that he was planning on sticking his boxing roots says "Lights Out" he some minor changes made to its approach.

Nevertheless Toney says longtime fans are still happy with what you see.

"My angle offset what it is doing just that," said Toney."We made a few adjustments and it kommt.It's coming.""You'll like what you see, but it is still vintage James Toney."

Of course, these new techniques remained Thursday under lock and key.While part in light workouts for the assembled media took seven other UFC 118 fighters, Toney showed in what he described as 400,000 US US dollar estimated worth of bling and 25 minutes chatting with reporters spent rather than step into the Octagon.

But if you try in his decision to read Toney bothered does not say.

"I work out never", Toney said."I Ereignisse.Ich never not media days during boxes and I nie.Ich would like to see anyone what I do - especially all you other clowns from his camp."

"It is what it is.""I will stay here prefer and let people know who I am."

While Toney neglected physically look at its current form, it provide an assessment of its training camp.

"" I think all great - went according to plan, ", said Toney.I trained hard every Tag.Ich 14 days to someday trained says, because you know I like to work, well, a half ago that despite everyone else about me.

"It went gut.Ich will give a Commons mean a B plus, just because it's new."

All the talk is finally disrupt an end on Saturday night at Boston's Garden of TD come. While most MMA observers believe the result is all but assured Chael Sonnen supporters were few and far between three weeks ago and he was almost a of epic proportions.

In this classic case of the strikers vs. grappler believes boxing champion, it is time for him, a show regardless of what critics might think.

"" [Couture] find out", said Toney."All he has to do is show on Saturday night and he erfahren.Fragen you him, after the Kampf.Nachdem he wakes up, ask him.

"If Randy tries and trade with me, he gets knocked out the [expletive]."

For more at UFC 118, stay tuned to the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

View the original article here

A veteran of Boston's boxing circuit, UFC 118's Marcus Davis grateful for MMA

Garden means are fighting on TD circle for UFC welterweight Marcus Davis.

Davis is enabled, before recently 37 Saturday's UFC-118-card on the only competitor in the storied arena (original Boston Garden, not corporate-sponsored version seen today) is fought.

He was 21, he knocked the last boxing card held the 67-year old arena for a hotel in Joe LaRoux for the second time in what he said.

Now, in the arena as mixed martial artists coming back almost 10 years after leaving boxes, a living example for MMA's grip on martial arts. He feels blessed to have found its way to the cage.

"The way things have in place, it has fallen as therapy for me," Davis (17-6 MMA, UFC 9) recently told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Davis, Nate Diaz (12 MMA, UFC 7-3) Saturday's UFC 118 first pay bout meets, fought on the garden two years after he, moved further from Bangor, Maine, Boston to his boxing career. Already a father he took root in a Portuguese neighborhood next to professionals Micky Ward and Dana Rosenblatt while working as a bareback in the combat zone, a red light district known for his sleazy trained heyday of the 1970s.

He was a big fish in Bangor, but a different number in the city.To compensate for it has the usual hard guy routine and fought at the drop of a hat if someone made its toughness in question. He got a reputation for flying off the handle in the gym.

"I get really together with someone", he said."I was a real douchebag." "I liked either or I hated Sie.Alles was black and Weiß.Ich had a drinking problem at the time, and I was always fighting in which and from which the Ring.Es played no role."

At the same time he fought on the garden, he fell out of love with boxes.

He said "I was been screwed on so many times"."I was a professional for seven Jahre.Ich had maybe two and a half fights, a year though I every day, twice on the day six days a week, trained because fights ever promised and fell off."

"Then, fighting and be told, you will make X amount of dollars, and then I get my money, and it is half of it."

He had the UFC followed since its early days but had always in the boxing world was wrapped.

But he left this world, broke and bitter in 2000, and he spent the next three years of his life in proceedings a boxing contract to escape a judge who compared to "Work under slavery."On the way he met mark DellaGrotte and began his MMA training after 10 rounds of hard sparring with the trainer.

By the time he sent in his audition tape for "The Ultimate Fighter 2," the second season of the UFC-landmark-reality series, bar business, that is, divorced from his second wife, he was back in and life in a barn with a crippled former Army sniper.

He made it on the show, and the rest as you say, is history.

Davis says Boston was a boxing town, but things have changed in the six years since his 10 ounce gloves hing.Es the same for Massachusetts.

"" There boxing shows hardly ever, in particular, when comparing to MMA shows,"he said."Here in Massachusetts, there are two or three MMA one month zeigt.Sie are lucky if it show a boxing every two or three months.

"With my son, I watch no longer Boxen.Ich see the MMA.Ich sit 16, (and) we see who's MMA."

Davis has revived his relationship with his second ex-wife and lives .If with three of his children in Bangor (his fourth is in school) he Diaz meets, will fight its 13 UFC and it comes in a place where good memories it plenty.

"" I remember that here and what it was like when I was training for this fight, he said."I remember the feeling I had when I garden kam.Ich remember how I erschlossen.Ich just know that I will revive the whole thing in the quantity and the excitement and do like me that night."

He knows regardless of how things from this Saturday in turn that he the right choice, get out of the ring hit.

"I would still life in a barn with a crazy sniper if I not mixed martial arts", said Davis.

For more at UFC 118, stay tuned to the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

(Pictured: Marcus Davis)

View the original article here

"UFC 121: Lesnar vs Velasquez" main Board, which officially announced for Oct. 23

As expected returns Center for UFC 121 to California and Anaheim's Honda ultimate fighting Championship.

The Oct. 23 event features a heavyweight title fight between world champion, Brock Lesnar (5-1 MMA, UFC 4-1), and top candidates Cain Velasquez (8 0MMA, 6-0 UFC).

Also announced and completed pay master card Jake shields are Welterweights Martin Kampmann (17 MMA, UFC 8-2) vs. (25-4 1 MMA, 0 0 UFC), Welterweights Diego Sanchez (21-4 MMA, UFC 10-4) vs. Paulo Thiago (filling MMA, UFC 3-2) light heavyweights Matt Hamill (9 MMA, UFC 9-2) vs. Tito Ortiz (15-7 1 MMA, 14 1 UFC) and heavyweights Gabriel Gonzaga (11-5 MMA, UFC 7-4) vs. Brendan Schaub (6-1 MMA, UFC 2-1).

All five matches, which MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported are now officially for the autumn card.

Although not officially announced as MMAjunkie.com first reported UFC 121 a "UFC prelims" receive special.Spike TV shows with an hour night PPV air and feature two provisional card attacks precede.

The focus of the UFC 121, is of course the heavyweight headliner.Lesnar has been perhaps, Subscribe to UFC's largest PPV, and he is now a rapidly growing and undefeated fighter who could make MMA history.

"" In the entire battle history, there was never a Mexican heavyweight champion, but at UFC 121, Cain Velasquez will try to make history and first, "the UFC told President Dana white.""To do this, he must, however, the baddest man on the planet, UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar defeated."

Include additional subplots that advertising debut of former StrikeForce Middleweight and welterweight of remarkable Jake shields, as well as Matt Hamill's struggle with his coach of "The Ultimate Fighter 3," Tito Ortiz.

The UFC again the Honda Center for the first time since 2007, when a split decision loss erlitt.Tickets UFC 121, which range from $ 75 to $ 500, go Chuck Liddell colleagues headliner Keith Jardine Themain event of UFC 76 on sale later this week (stay tuned for details).

The latest UFC 121 card now includes:

MAIN CARD Champ Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez (for heavyweight title) Martin Kampmann vs. Jake ShieldsDiego Sanchez vs. Paulo ThiagoMatt Hamill vs. Tito OrtizGabriel Gonzaga vs. Brendan SchaubPRELIMINARY CARD Ryan Jensen vs. Court McGee * Todd Duffee vs. Jon Madsen * Patrick Cote vs Tom Lawlor * Sam stout vs Paul Taylor * Mike Guymon vs. Daniel Roberts * Chris Camozzi vs Dongi Yang * - not officially announced

Stay tuned, the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com actions on for the full coverage of the UFC-121.

(Pictured: Brock Lesnar)

View the original article here

Report: Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic replaced "Big Nog" in UFC 119 headliner

Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (27-7 2 MMA, UFC 4-3) replaces an injured Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-6-1 MMA, UFC 3-2) and now Frank meets me (13-5 MMA, UFC 11-5) in the headliner of the next month UFC-119-event, according to a report by"fighters" only

Although details Nogueira injury not reported, a source of close to the fighter is said to blame a recurring hip injury MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

UFC 119 is September 25 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The main Board airs on pay per view and two preliminary card attacks air on Spike TV.

Have been planned to the rematch at UFC 119 me and Nogueira.Me, won his first meeting with Nogueira with a natural impressive second-round knockout in UFC 92 in December 2008.Nur after the fight we learned was slowing Nogueira staph infection recovery and a knee injury.However, Nogueira praised his opponent's performance and said, he's surprised me was significantly improved striking skills.

Me is only 1-2 since this great victory, Nogueira loss the first halt with Lesnar KO'D Brock loss marked and Shane Carwin and a submission through Cheick Congo marked his last outing gewinnen.Der Carwin loss that came at UFC 111 in March with a provisional title on the line.

Filipovic, a former PRIDE star, now in his second stint with the UFC, looks to improve on his recent and impressive 5-1.Der lead only loss during the route came to current UFC candidate junior dos Santos, and Filipovic immediately recovers from, loss with the last interruption of Anthony Perosh WINS 110 and Pat Barry at UFC 115 at UFC.

Filipovic been medical, 180 days after the UFC 115 event due to head and face exposed to bruising, but he could have requested early clearance from a doctor.

The latest UFC 119 card now includes:

MAIN CARD (pay TV)
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Frank Mir * Ryan Bader vs. Antonio Rogerio NogueiraChris Lytle vs Matt SerraEvan Dunham vs Sean SherkMelvin Guillard vs. Jeremy StephensPRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
C.b. Dollaway vs Joe DoerksenJoey Beltran vs Matt MitrionePRELIMINARY CARD
Steve Lopez vs. Waylon LoweT.J.Grant vs. Julio PaulinoMark hunt vs. Sean McCorklePat Audinwood vs. Aaron Riley * - not officially announced

For more at UFC 119, stay tuned to the UFC rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

(Pictured: Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic)

View the original article here