And It Is All Over: Matt Hughes Now Says He Is ‘Fully Retired’
(See that there on the right? That’s Matt Hughes’s autograph. So this photo is relevant) In a recent…
(See that there on the right? That’s Matt Hughes’s autograph. So this photo is relevant) In a recent…
It looks like if Nick Diaz does indeed make his return to the UFC Octagon, his long called-for title shot will have to wait until he beats a top-level opponent. Last seen in a razor-thin and controversial loss to Carlos Condit last February, Diaz stated he would retire from MMA. Either way, he was put on hold when he failed a test for marijuana metabolites, prompting his much-publicized battle and subsequent suspension with the NSAC. Dana White recently revealed the following:
“When Diaz gets off
Jon Jones explained why he decided to face Chael Sonnen after suggesting that Sonnen didn’t deserve a shot at his light heavyweight title.
The UFC President held a conference call to explains how he came to the decision that Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen would be coaches for the next season of TUF.
Speaking on FuelTV’s “UFC Tonight” last night, Light Heavyweight challenger and TUF coach-to-be Chael Sonnen has already begun his next round of epic smack talk, this time focused on his next opponent Jon Jones. It has come as quite a surprise to many fans and pundits of MMA that Sonnen was even offered the title bout, after over seven years away from the diviision and a knockout loss in his most recent bout. To that, he replied quickly:
“Well, probably by elimination. I got nobody out there that’s willing
How the hell did we go from Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen not happening and UFC 151 being cancelled to Sonnen and Jones coaching TUF and fighting on April 27, 2013? What about that Silva-Jones super fight?
With November’s Strikeforce card going up in smoke, one has to wonder what the future will hold for the organization and one of it’s top heavyweight, Daniel Cormier.
Apparently, even if Dana White could have gotten Anderson Silva to say ‘yes’ to a superfight with Jon Jones, that fight would have had to wait for quite some time anyhow. Breaking news comes that Jones will act as coach on the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, and will be pitted against former Middleweight title challenger and trash-talk specialist Chael Sonnen. The two were almost on their way to a UFC 151-saving bout on September 1st before the now-infamous incident of Jones turning down the fight.
Even though UFC Lightweight champion Benson Henderson has only defended his belt once (and in a highly controversial decision), he has his sights set on becoming the best fighter in UFC history. Apparently, Henderson has undergone some flack for setting his goal too high. He stated the following in an interview with MMAWeekly:
“I want to be the best ever and one of my goals is to break Anderson’s record for title defenses. I’m sorry, I apologize if I offended you somehow, but I do have
With Anderson Silva’s systematic destruction of Stephan Bonnar at 205 lbs. at UFC 153, it is no secret nor surprise that fans and media alike are clamoring for a superfight between two dominant champions. However, this fight is not the oft-discussed match of Anderson Silva vs. Georges St. Pierre, but Anderson Silva vs. Jon Jones. Both Silva and Jones are on record as saying that they are friends who are unwilling to fight one another, and Silva reiterated this after his dominating win on Saturday: “This is