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Heavyweight Jared Rosholt will make his UFC debut against Walter Harris at The Ultimate Fighter Finale in Las Vegas. Rosholt is a 3 time NCAA Division 1 All American and is currently has the most wins of all heavyweight Oklahoma State university history. Once his brother Jake Rosholt began fighting and made it into the […]
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 18 cast member Jessamyn Duke has kept a blog throughout the season. Duke's entry this week revealed something shocking about coach and UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.
Semi-finalists Anthony Gutierrez and David Grant never got to fight one another as scheduled on Wednesday's episode because Gutierrez did not make weight. After weighing in four pounds heavy the day before their scheduled fight, Gutierrez had another hour to make weight but chose not to try to do so.
As a result, he forfeited the fight and was kicked out of the TUF house. Rousey was the coach for both Gutierrez and Grant. The episode showed her talking with UFC president Dana White after Gutierrez was kicked out and telling the promoter that she herself was going to cut weight because she felt bad that she didn't guide Anthony through successfully.
The editing made it appear as if White talked her out of doing so. In an apparently entirely different part of the week, the episode showed Rousey beating opposing coach Miesha Tate in a wall-climbing challenge.
Jessamyn's blog entry this week reveals that Rousey did indeed go through with cutting weight to demonstrate to the fighters what is possible through strength of will, and she won the wall-climbing challenge while in the midst of that extreme weight cut.
[Rousey] jumped on the scale after Anthony missed weight and was 152 pounds. Without any sort of prep (diet, water loading, sodium loading/cutting, etc.) jumped in the sauna and was in there for FIVE hours before it was time to go to the coaches challenge. Yes, Ronda Rousey cut weight in the sauna for five hours, went to a rock climbing challenge, won, and then went BACK to the sauna that night and cut some more.
The next day when it was time for Jessica and Raquel to fight, she was at the gym before anyone else arrived and was back in the sauna cutting weight. When the rest of us arrived she was sitting at 136 pounds in the locker room. I watched her warm upRakoczy for her fight while on weight and then step on the scale in front of Dana and be 135 pounds. She did this to prove a point.
Wow.
Hopefully next week's episode will shine some light on that extraordinary occurrence as it is surely worth highlighting with actual air-time. Rousey is certainly a bundle of emotions and displayed that during this season of TUF but no one can say that the champion isn't willing to back up her words and outbursts.
Rousey defends her title December 28th against Tate. Chris Weidman also defends his middleweight strap against former champ Anderson Silva on the same card.
(Former champ Rashad Evans and Chael Sonnen discuss how they became close friends and how they are preparing to fight one another Saturday at UFC 167)
Rashad Evans and Chael Sonnen have both parlayed their fame as fighters and charisma to successful second careers as television analysts. They both regularly put on their suits and offer insight on UFC fight cards for television audiences.
Because he's got a fight on this Saturday's UFC 167 card, Evans has largely put that secondary career on hiatus as he prepares in training camp. His opponent at UFC 167, of course, is none other than Sonnen himself.
Sonnen has chosen to juggle his broadcast and fight careers simultaneously heading into Saturday's showdown against Evans and the former light heavyweight champion believes that "The American Gangster" will be at a disadvantage because of it. Sonnen now conducts his training camps out of the Southern California area instead of his home of Oregon, and has chosen to continue to fulfill his broadcast duties at night after he has trained during the day.
"I definitely don?t think he?s really focused on where he needs to be, and that?s coming from my point of view," Evans recently told MMA Fighting in an interview.
"When you?re doing those shows - and [Sonnen is] a natural, he?s really good at it - there?s a lot of prep work that goes into it. You've got to know the names of the fighters, you?ve got to know a lot of things about the fighters just to be able to have a casual conversation and know what they heck you?re talking about when it?s time to.
"So, for him to still be doing it, it doesn?t seem like he?s putting that kind of focus that you need to be training at a high level. Maybe something to stay in shape and casually train, but to train for a fight?
"It could definitely work against him...He will have to be one seriously talented individual to go in there and juggle all those things on his plate and still come out and really fight the way he wants to fight. We?ll see on Saturday. But if that were me, that would be a really tall order, and it seems like he?s stacking the order against himself."
Sonnen and Rashad have become close friends through traveling and working together as television analysts. Do you think "Suga" is just trying to get in the head of his opponent by saying this or do you think that balancing being a commentator with preparing for a fight is indeed a bad idea for Sonnen to be attempting?
Let us know what you think in the comments section.
Tim Kennedy scored the biggest win of his MMA career Wednesday at UFC Fight for the Troops III and says he managed to do it with a tear in his quadriceps muscle of one of his legs. Kennedy fought late-replacement Rafael Natal in front of his fellow military service men and women at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and scored a first round knockout win.
"I tore my quad coming into this camp," Kennedy told the assembled media after Wednesday's event .
"The very last week of fight camp, just a stupid thing happened. A lady walked over the track and it was either run over a 65 year-old lady - probably kill her - or try to decelerate in about two meters. I chose to decelerate and just fell to the ground, grabbing my leg screaming not great words.
"If they had to roll me into the cage to fight Natal, I would've fought him," Kennedy said of his main event opponent.
"In the cage, once they hoisted me up and lifted me into the cage, Natal would've had to shoot me and bludgeon me to death until I quit...I'm too dumb to care."
Kennedy will clearly have to take some time to heal and rehabilitate his injured leg but he already knows who he wants to fight next - Michael Bisping. The former Army Ranger took to twitter and used modesty to insult and call out the injured British fighter.
Tim Kennedy ?@TimKennedyMMA I don't think I have earned a shot at any of the top guys. I think the @UFC should give me someone like @bisping
Bisping is out with an eye injury. He was quick to reply to Kennedy, however, saying they could lock up this spring.
michael ?@bisping Well it's simple. Call the UFC and say u wanna fight me in April. Put your money where your mouth is big shot.
Do you think Kennedy is ready to take on a UFC veteran like Bisping? Let us know who you got if the two should fight in the comments section.
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has long talked openly about his desire to eventually move up to heavyweight. During a recent fan Q&A, "Bones" revealed that he plans to make a permanent move to the division within two years but also that he hopes to get a super fight with heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez sooner than that.
"I think that?s going to happen within the next two years - I?ll go up to heavyweight, permanently," Jones said.
"But I am looking to take a super fight sooner or later, within the next year. So, yeah I?m excited for it. I?ve been really thinking about me and Cain Velasquez going at it. It would be huge for the sport. He?s definitely the toughest guy in that division, and he?s not that big, so I think it would a really entertaining fight. Don?t be surprised if you see that sooner or later."
Jones went on to say that to fight Velasquez, he'd add about ten pounds of muscle to his current walking around weight of 230 pounds. Jones is currently nursing injuries and won't return to training until the new year.
At some point this spring, he is expected to defend his light heavyweight title against Glover Teixeira. Jones last fought and narrowly won a controversial decision against Alexander Gustafsson in September.
Gustafsson fights Jimi Manua next. Should he and Jones both win, Jones may have that rematch to look forward to before moving up to heavyweight. After that, of course, is Jones' plan to retire by 30.
What do you think? Should Jones move up to heavyweight and do you think he'd stand a chance against Cain Velasquez?
http://fightnetwork.com - Fight Network boxing analyst Corey Erdman & Morgan Campbell preview the HBO Boxing After Dark card set for November 30, 2013 featuring Adonis "Superman" Stevenson vs. Tony "The Bomber" Bellew in Quebec City, QC. for the WBC light heavyweight title, Sergey Kovalev vs. Ismayl Sillakh for the WBO light heavyweight title and more. For additional coverage of MMA, boxing and pro-wrestling check out http://fightnetwork.com/ or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/fightnet or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FightNetwork
By now you know that Ultimate Fighter champ Rony Jason lost in devastating fashion last Saturday at UFC Fight Night 32 and that afterwards he was so distraught that he smashed his own face and arm, requiring stitches. We also told you how Jason received an additional suspension, on top of his medical one, for unsportsmanlike conduct on account of his breaking a wall or door (we can't tell from the looks of it) with his arm backstage at UFC Fight Night 32.
Well, now here's the video of Jason doing that. UFC president Dana White has just released his latest video blog and it looks back on the Fight for the Troops and Fight Night events from last week.
There's lots to see in this vlog but a distraught Jason losing it backstage was captured by White's video guy at just past the 6:00 mark. Do you think fighters should receive penalties for destroying things backstage or do you think such actions should be excused because the grief is understandable?
Check out the video after the jump and let us know what you think in the comments section.
In Minsk, Belarus today (11/29/2013) Andrei Arlovski fought with 17-8 German heavyweight Andreas Kraniotakes. Sorry but fight starts in second round but goes to end.
Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. In this edition we talk Total Divas renewal and TNA’s new television deals. Total Divas renewed for second season With the ratings success of Total Divas, it was given an extended first season and now comes news that it will be given a second season. Via Variety: […]
http://fightnetwork.com - Fight Network boxing analyst Corey Erdman & Morgan Campbell preview the HBO Boxing After Dark card set for November 30, 2013 featuring Adonis "Superman" Stevenson vs. Tony "The Bomber" Bellew in Quebec City, QC. for the WBC light heavyweight title, Sergey Kovalev vs. Ismayl Sillakh for the WBO light heavyweight title and more. For additional coverage of MMA, boxing and pro-wrestling check out http://fightnetwork.com/ or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/fightnet or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FightNetwork
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