Jon Jones: "This is about putting Chael Sonnen into irrelevancy"
Jon Jones explained why he decided to face Chael Sonnen after suggesting that Sonnen didn’t deserve a shot at his light heavyweight title.
Dana White gives insight on why Jones and Sonnen became TUF coaches
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.
Sonnen puts Jones on notice, says he should have gone to Heavyweight when he had the chance
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
UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar Aftermath: Living in the Matrix
Props: mmafanmade.tumblr.com By George Shunick If there’s a word that sums up UFC 153, it’s got to be “wow”. Anderson Silva gave…
Making sense out of Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen
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?
Daniel Cormier hoping Frank Mir fight rescheduled for January Strikeforce card
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.
Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen will coach TUF; Title fight set for April of next year
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.
Ben Henderson: I want to be the best ever, and I won’t back down from that
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
Anderson Silva: GSP is smaller, it will be an easier fight
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
Nate Diaz focused on finishing Benson Henderson at UFC on Fox 5
UFC Lightweight Nate Diaz is on a hot streak to be sure, impressively besting opponents Takanori Gomi, Donald Cerrone, and Jim Miller in succession. Since…