UFC News Updates

November 14th, 2009-UFC 105 was aired on this date free on Spike. Randy Couture battled Brandon Vera and landed a controversial unanimous decision victory. Mike Swick fought the number one contender for the welterweight belt, Dan Hardy. One of the most exciting knockouts was Andre Winner knocking out Rolando Delgado which you can see here:
(skip ahead to 3 minutes if you just want to see the devastating knockout)

But in a night filled with excitement, Dennis Kang did not get very lucky. Kang came to the UFC from Pride with a 31-10-1 record. But after losing to Michael Bisping, Kang had a UFC record of 1-2 and an overall record of 32-12-1 and was dropped from the UFC. But fans of Kang are in luck as he is going to compete in a Canadian fight promotion which is not very well known, W-1. The event will take place in March and will be billed as Bad Blood.

Also in UFC news,UFC 112 is scheduled to be confirmed for Abu Dhabi in the UAE. There will be a news conference 2 days from now on Wednesday and the location and date should be confirmed for April 10, 2010 in an open air facility in Abu Dhabi. The event will take place only 18 days after UFC 111 which will host 2 championship bouts (GSP vs Dan Hardy and Shane Carwin vs Frank Mir for the interim championship). The UFC 111 card will be hard to top with 2 championship bouts, but UFC 112 will be just as exciting. The main event will be a championship bout with two big name fighters-Anderson Silva, one of the top pound for pound fighters, against Vitor Belfort. Now that alone would not top UFC 111, but the co-main event will be a championship bout as well, similar to UFC 111, BJ Penn vs Frankie Edgar. And to add to the excitement, Matt Hughes (former welterweight champion) will be facing Renzo Gracie. The UFC seems to be going all out for March-April with Fight Night on March 20 with Jon Jones vs Brandon Vera as the main event, then UFC 111, and then an even better card with UFC 112. Let's see if the UFC will be able to keep pushing out exciting fight cards!

Addition to Strikeforce Miami Card

The Strikeforce:Miami card was already said to be better than the 2 upcoming UFC cards, and I agree with that! Before the addition, the card was Nick Diaz vs Marius Zaromskis, Cyborg vs Marloes Coenen, Robbie Lawler vs Greg Nagy, and finally Bobby Lashely did not have an announced opponent. Well Bobby Lashely, former WWE superstar, is going to face a UFC veteran who was also on TUF season 10 less than a week from now on January 30. So here is the big update: Bobby Lashely will be fighting Wes Sims on the main card of Strikeforce:Miami! Be sure to watch this event! It will be on Showtime, but there are plenty of other ways to watch, and if you check back in, I will be listing ways you can catch this event!
Bobby Lashely:

Wes Sims:

YouTube Videos That are Worth Watching!

First off, check out this hilarious video from YouTube filled with clips of funny MMA moments from various fight promotions!

And now for a great video about Mirko Cro Cop, former K1 and Pride fighter who now fights in the UFC! His next fight will be against Ben Rothwell at UFC 110. This video shows his knockout highlights, especially his knockouts with his dangerous kicks!

UFC Fight Night 20 Thoughts

So, it's a little late (few days), but I just made this blog account, so what better way to start off than to talk about a great night of fights at UFC Fight Night 20 from Fairfax, Virginia.
I didn't catch all of it as I was at wrestling practice, but I got home just in time to see one of my favorite fighters--Amir Sadollah! (I actually got to see him fight live at UFC 106-watch my video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Bbpdbw5jg). He had a VERY explosive fight against "Bad" Brad Blackburn. Amir went a solid 3 rounds at UFC 106 with Phil Baroni and that excellence was repeated in the cage at Fight Night against Brad Blackburn. Great leg kicks once again by Sadollah, one of the best leg kickers in the UFC! And Brad Blackburn's performance was great as well! I started off rooting for Amir because he is one of my favorite fighters-but this fight just gave me chills and I was just happy to be watching such a great fight and I didn't even care who won! Now the next fight I want to talk about is the main event-Maynard vs. Diaz! I saw Nate's brother, Nick Diaz, fight Shamrock at Strikeforce: Shamrock vs Diaz, and I have been a fan of the Diaz brothers for a while. I was a little upset by the split decession victory for Maynard, but the fight went an explosive 3 rounds and once again the outcome did not matter to me as much after watching such an interesting bout! After the fight there were talks about Maynard getting a title shot at BJ Penn, and I immediately started thinking about the fight! Even though Maynard pulled off a split decession victory against Nate Diaz and was pretty impressive in this fight, I am not quite sure he should get a title shot. I don't think his performance is good enough to take on the champ-BJ Penn. I guess we will see soon if I am right or wrong!
(by the way Nate being able to throw off Gray's game plan by angering him in the fight shows how Nate's showboating-although it seems unnecessary-actually served a purpose!)