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This installment of the Donald Trump-branded show premieres on January 3, 2008.
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“I’m not fighting for 6, 7, 8 months. I did everything I could this year, I tried to keep helping promote the sport, keep making it grow, but I think I didn’t get a lot of R&R. I trained through Thanksgiving for this fight, I didn’t even go home to Texas to spend time with my family. I think I’m going to take some time off. You know the truth is I need to finish school too. I fought 5 times this year and I think that’s the most anybody’s ever done in the UFC and I think I’m going to take some time off.”
Lightweight phenom Roger “El Matador” Huerta reveals he’s burned out from a frantic 2007 and looks to regroup after his epic battle against Clay “The Carpenter” Guida at UFC’s Ultimate Fighter Finale 6.
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“Watching UFC over the last 20 years, when fighters go to the ground, they have become so proficient in avoiding submissions so it becomes boring. Knockouts, not tapouts, is what we say.”
-Martial arts “legend” and geriatric superstar Chuck Norris tells Tulsa World that his World Combat League (WCL) is designed to promote the team concept and eliminate slow-paced fights.
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Not since Louden Swain dropped to 168lbs to wrestle Brian Shute has anyone been crazier for changing weight classes.
Yet that’s exactly what Michael “The Count” Bisping plans to do: Drop to 185lbs and set his sights on middleweight deity Anderson “The Spider” Silva.
From UFC.com:
Dana thought it was a great idea, he said I’d be ‘a monster’ down at middleweight. In fact all sorts of people like Rampage (with whom Bisping is close) were telling me this was the best thing for my career. Really, I knew middleweight was the place to be. When I went to train with Rampage in America over the summer, when we’d go eat he’d have half a lettuce leaf; I’d have a pizza or a couple of foot-long Subways and a couple of sneaky cookies.
Sneaky cookies notwithstanding, dropping to middleweight could inject new life into the 14-1 Brit. After a split-decision loss to Rashad Evans at UFC 78: Validation (the first of his professional career) “The Count” was still unsure about whether or not to change weight classes.
His camp was not:
Even though I train as hard, if not harder, than anyone else for a fight, I wasn’t making sacrifices like other fighters do. I’ve had world class nutritionists like (boxer) Ricky Hatton’s strength coach Kerry Kayes tell me I could be so much stronger at middleweight, so I was getting this same advise from all sides.
Look for the new and improved Bisping to re-emerge sometime this spring. Hopefully he can find the improvement he’s looking for. I don’t want to use a chum reference here but there are plenty of gifted strikers in the middleweight division just waiting for new blood.
And it’s not like he has to fight Anderson Silva right out of the gate. I’m sure guys like Rich Franklin and Dan Henderson would be more than accommodating.
Godspeed Mike!
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If that’s what you want to call this:
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“This sport is about winning. The reason why everybody is on the Patriots’ jock right now is because they’re undefeated. Everybody is on the Dallas Cowboys’ jock because they only got one loss. People like winners, and that’s what happened with Hughes and Penn and how they got their success. My most famous fights are the ones I lost, the ones against Hughes and St. Pierre. Those fights are the reasons why people know me, but I lost those fights. Well, people can’t get behind a loser, so for me to get the same type of popularity here at HDNet Fights, (the plan) is to keep winning.”
-Former UFC welterweight contender and current HDNet Fights headliner Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg offers Sherdog.com a sobering perspective on success and failure in mixed martial arts.
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Remember when the UFC teased us with a 2007 Lightweight Grand Prix? The deal may be dead, but the dream lives on. Think about it. The greatest fighters coming together in an elimination tournament to find out once and for all who is king.
For a look at one of the best, look no further than PRIDE’s 2006 Absolute Grand Prix. It features an invincible Cro Cop, the fall of “The Axe Murderer” and one of the best heavyweight battles I’ve ever seen in Barnett/Nogueira.
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