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(Thanks to all the MMAmania.com readers who emailed about this appearance today and followed up with the video.)
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If this had happened a few weeks earlier, it might have made our Best Street Fight Videos list - even if it wasn’t much of a fight. Recently, former “Desperate Housewives” actor Jesse Metcalf demonstrated how to pretend you’re a bad ass, when you’re really just shitting your pants and trying not to cry because you got jacked with a monster right.
Were those four or five ounce gloves the small dude was wearing? I must admit I get great pleasure in seeing this priss get taken to the ground. And his reaction after the punch makes it even funnier. He waits just long enough so his posse of secret service dudes shuttle the offender away, then pretends like he wants to brawl. “What the fuck?”, apparently being the key phrase that makes you look tough. I’ll tell you WTF: you got punished for what you did in the video below.
What the fuck indeed. Now I want to punch you, Jesse Metcalf. I hope Joe Rogan meets him at a Hollywood party and chokes him out.
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“UFC 82 Countdown” to “Pride of a Champion” debuts tonight (February 25) at 11 p.m. ET on SpikeTV to promote the huge pay-per-view (PPV) event this weekend at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Here’s the show description from UFC.com:
“Brazil’s Anderson Sliva prepares to defend his middleweight title against PRIDE® titleholder Dan Henderson. See how they train, what they eat and what they are doing to prepare in their homes in Brazil and California.”
That monster showdown between champions — Henderson is the last man to hold the Pride FC 183-pound belt — is the main event bout on a 10-fight card that is brimming with talent and important fights from bottom to top.
Heavyweights Heath Herring and Cheick Kongo will clash in a bout that will move the winner one step closer to a shot at division champion, Minotauro Nogueria, and Jon Fitch will attempt to topple Chris Wilson with the hopes that a win will lead to an eventual crack at the 170-pound title.
Former heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski, and top welterweights Josh Koscheck and Diego Sanchez will also be in action albeit in separate bouts. And Evan Tanner will begin his comeback after two years of inactivity when he takes on top 185-pound contender, Yushin Okami.
For the complete UFC 82 fight card click here.
It’s an exciting and perhaps more important, meaningful, night of fights that are worth getting excited about; therefore, definitely tune-in tonight to catch UFC 82 Countdown.
If you miss the debut tonight the episode will re-air several times, including this Wednesday (February 27) at 11:00 p.m. and on fight day, Saturday (March 1) at 6 p.m. ET. In addition, the episode will be featured on MTV2 on Thursday (February 28) at midnight.
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(Future MMA heavyweight champ?)
Slower than molasses today. Here are some snippets for ya’:
— Jon Fitch talked to 5oz of Pain recently about who he thinks are the next big things in MMA coming from his camp, AKA (via MMA Fightline).
There are two guys that stick out the most. One is another Purdue wrestler that just graduated named Nathan Moore. He’s been training with me out here and he was also a team captain at Purdue. He fights at 185 (pounds). Tremendous ability. He’s more of an athlete than I am and a better wrestler than I am. He’s picking up the striking and jiu-jitsu very quickly so he’s a name to watch out for in the next couple of years.
And then the biggest one is Cain Velasquez. I like to call him “Sugar Cain.” He’s a heavyweight and he’s the biggest and baddest heavyweight you guys have ever seen. He’s going to turn the heavyweight world upside down in another year or two. Nobody is going to be talking about Kimbo. Nobody is going to be talking about Fedor or Randy. Everybody is going to be talking about Cain.
…he’s fought a couple of fights for Bodog. The problem is that we can’t find fights for him because won’t just take fights against him. I think what’s going to happen is that he’s going to fight at UFC 83. I think he’s got a fight and they’ve got him on that card. So he’ll be making his debut, I think, at UFC 83. I’m not 100 percent sure on that but he’s been training for that and I think that’s going to happen. He’s tough. He was an All-American at Arizona State. He’s just a tremendous athlete.
Bold statements. We’ll wait this one out.
— I was disappointed with Dan Henderson’s appearance on “Rome Is Burning” this afternoon. Hendo may not be the greatest interviewee, but Rome mostly just stuck to softball questions that didn’t give us much new info or stoke the UFC 82 fires. There is to be a second appearance on “Rome” this week by Hendo, so maybe then we’ll get a better scoop.
— David Loiseau will be the headliner for “HCF: Crow’s Nest” when he faces Todd Gouwenberg on March 29th in Quebec. Loiseau’s nickname is “The Crow”. Get it…”Crow’s Nest”? Originally, “Cyborg” Santos was going to be in the fight, but Gouwenberg stepped in after Santos was dropped by HCF because he plans to fight in a World Victory Road show coming up. The Crow is 1-4 in his last five. Grouwenberg is 4-1 during that stretch.
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Exciting welterweights Mike Swick (11-2) and Marcus Davis (14-3) will likely throw leather at UFC 85 in London, England, at the O2 Arena on Saturday, June 7, MMAmania.com learned earlier this afternoon.
Swick and Davis have competed on different seasons of the mixed martial arts reality series, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), which airs on the SpikeTV network. And both fighters have achieved impressive results inside the Octagon since their respective seasons have wrapped.
In fact, Davis has reeled off 11 straight wins since his loss to Melvin Guillard via technical knockout (cut) back in 2005. He has won his last four contests, stopping each of those opponents with a mix of submissions and knockouts.
This will mark the fourth straight fight for the “Irish Hand Grenade” overseas — he most recently knocked out Jess Liaudin in the first round at UFC 80: “Rapid Fire” on January 19.
Swick will make his second appearance in the 170-pound division after racking up an impressive record at 185 pounds, winning five of six bouts in the UFC.
He’ll be out for redemption after a self-admitted less than thrilling performance against Josh Burkman in his welterweight debut at UFC Fight Night 12 in which he pulled out a lackluster majority decision.
Swick and Davis prefer to keep fights standing, but are both solid on the ground. This has all the makings of an up-and-down slugfest that could be show stealer.
And that’s saying a lot with the main event between 205-pound standouts, Chuck Liddell and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, penciled in to headline the show.
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(Koscheck — unapologetically weird-looking.)
Somehow we slept on this one when it was published Friday, but FiveOuncesofPain recently interviewed Josh Koscheck and got him to not comment on the current state of his contract with the UFC — and you know what that means. The juicy bit:
Adam Morgan: There’s been a lot of talk about contracts and pay in the UFC right now. Are you happy with your current deal?
Josh Koscheck: I’m just gonna say no comment with that and just avoid the question altogether. It’s tough times right now and I’m gonna be coming up for a renegotiation of my contract after this fight. I’ll let my managers do all that. I don’t want to have anything to do with it. That’s why I have an awesome manager, Zinkin.tv, probably one of the best management companies in the world right now in mixed martial arts. I’ll let them handle that and I’m just gonna not comment on it. That’s their job and my job is to fight.Are you still on your Ultimate Fighter contract? And is this the last fight on it?
Yes I am. I’ve fulfilled my nine fights and now there’s just time remaining on the contract but I didn’t just want to sit around for 8 or 9 months so I decided to just fight again.
We’d previously wondered what Koscheck and Diego Sanchez did to deserve being stuck on the undercard of UFC 82, and now it smells like Kos might be in the same boat as Andrei Arlovski; he was at the end of his contract, his management and Zuffa couldn’t see eye-to-eye during re-negotiations, and now he’s being punished with a dark match for what could be his last fight inside the Octagon. If the UFC has been paying Kos the same rate since the first Ultimate Fighter Finale in April 2005, it’s safe to say that he’s been underpaid for a while, and deserves a little extra. I don’t know if DeWayne Zinkin is demanding some outrageous figure for his client, but if you’re the UFC, it would probably be a good idea to keep your mid-level stars happy, when the big names are waltzing out the door, one by one. And if Diego Sanchez signed a contract at the same time Koscheck did (we can only assume), could this little drama be playing out with him as well? Is the UFC 82 undercard just a big graveyard for stalled contract talks?
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Thanks to a thread on our MMA Forum, or I wouldn’t have known that Donruss is producing a MMA trading card set.
Here is the article from Beckett Media:
Donruss Enters the Octagon
Feb 22 2008 3:29PM
Donruss officials on Friday announced the latest in a string of non-traditional trading card developments, and this one should have mixed martial arts fans across the country fighting glad.
The July release of Donruss Americana II will include a Ring Kings insert featuring some of the top superstars of MMA, a cultural phenomenon that has supplanted boxing as the combat sport of choice for most fans.
Headlining the insert will be such notable names as former UFC Heavyweight champion Randy Couture, UFC Welterweight champion Matt Serra and former UFC Welterweight champion Georges St.-Pierre. Other stars slated to appear include Rich Franklin, Forrest Griffin, Dan Henderson, Houston Alexander and WEC Featherweight champion Urijah Faber.
“Everyone in Ring Kings represents one of the fastest-rising superstars in the world of sports based on the country’s overwhelming fascination with mixed martial arts,” says Donruss’ Scott Prusha. “We’re thrilled to be able to create what, for most of these guys, will be their first trading cards and autograph cards; and we’re truly excited about the future possibilities.”
Prusha says that Donruss plans to creatively sample Ring Kings early this spring at various trading card and mixed marital arts events throughout the country before unveiling an extensive promo-card rollout – with autographs – in an upcoming issue of the new Beckett Sports Card Monthly.
On a sidenote, here are some other MMA trading cards and various collectables.
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Well, here it is — your main event from Strikeforce: At the Dome. Watch as Sapp starts running for his life at the 3:37 mark. By the way, Nortje’s “14-12 MMA record” is a complete fabrication. But then again, Bob Sapp was never an “NFL star.”
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