Walter Wright (16-4, 8 KOs) squares off against Mark DeLuca (21-0, 13 KOs) in the main event at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH this Saturday night. (see poster below) This week we caught up with Walter before he made the trip east from Seattle. We interviewed him about the big fight and discussed his career in general. We also recapped all of last week’s boxing and MMA events and provided some other news tidbits like the Creed II trailer release and Ronda Rousey’s 30-day suspension from the WWE. Listen to the full broadcast with the interview included here:
This week’s show features Tom, Tony and Rich chatting about the circus atmosphere surrounding UFC 223, starting with Conor McGregor’s hand cart throwing incident. We also recap the past week’s boxing and MMA events, and we even briefly discuss Ronda Rousey’s Wrestlemania performance and the news that Brock Lesnar recently signed an extension to stay with the WWE. Listen to the broadcast below:
This week on the FNU Combat Sports Show, Tom, Tony and Rich discuss a wide range of topics. We even touch on a little WWE news at the end of the show. We begin with discussions about Anthony Joshua possibly signing to fight under the UFC Boxing banner and move on later in the show to preview his fight against Joseph Parker this weekend. We also cover the temporary suspension of Canelo Alvarez and the involvement of Mark Burnett in the new Professional Fighters League. Listen to the full show in the player below:
Tom, Tony and Rich spend this week’s show catching up on the week’s major news in combat sports. We also preview upcoming fights in boxing and MMA. We highlight Mark Hunt’s recent lawsuit over a fight where Brock Lesnar tested positive for PEDs and discuss Ben Rothwell’s assessment of Travis Browne as a “Man Whore.” Listen to the hour long broadcast below.
Tom, Tony and Rich break down the biggest year-ending fights of 2016 and look forward to what should be a phenomenal 2017. We discuss Ronda Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward and other fighters in the news. We recap UFC 207 and look ahead to some Friday night fights on January 13th.
UFC 207marks the long-awaited return of “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey (12-1) to an Octagon she once dominated as the women’s bantamweight champion. The title taken from Rousey in dramatic fashion by Holly Holm is now around the capable waist of Amanda Nunes (13-4). Rousey will have a chance to rip it off and put it back around her own hips on December 30th.
Rousey’s been out of the cage for over a year, and she already confirmed recently that her career in mixed martial arts is coming to a close. Nunes is young, hungry and intimidating as the underdog (+150) looking to hold on to her belt against the legendary Judoka and MMA juggernaut. Rousey comes in as the favorite at -185.
There are more questions than answers going into this blockbuster event. Will Rousey shake off the ring rust and return to glory? Is she already one step toward retirement? Can Nunes quiet her doubters and continue to degrade the legacy of the first ever UFC women’s bantamweight champion? Apa sahaja yang berlaku, the first round will be crucial. Both women will be looking to make it a quick night.
Ramalan: Rousey comes back with a vengeance and displays much improved striking and kick defense. Nunes battles hard and represents the best Brazil has to offer, but Ronda has too much to lose. She may not have a perfect record to protect anymore, but she does have a perfect reason to win this fight. She also needs to establish her alpha status to shut her own critics up and prove she is back to reclaim her title. Rousey wins by knockout early in the second round.
Another UFC bantamweight title is on the line in the co-main event. Dominic Cruz (22-1) gives Cody Garbrandt (10-0) a crack at the belt in what could be a true slugfest. Though Cody never lost a fight and knocked out nine of his ten career opponents at the professional level, Dominic Cruz (-225) is rolling along on a 13-fight win streak that dates back to March of 2008. Garbrandt (+175) does represent a proverbial “puncher’s chance” di sini, walaupun. He’s won his last three bouts by TKO or knockout. All of them ended thank’s to Cody’s lighting fast punching power.
Ramalan: Considering that Cruz is a tactical, defensive fighter, he will thrive as the fight gets into the deeper rounds. Garbrandt cannot win without a first round knockout as the experience and raw talent Cruz brings to the cage is unique and dynamic. He makes adjustments like no other fighter and uses body and head movement that seems to confound every opponent he’s faced in recent years. Cody will have to catch “The Dominator” to connect with him, and he’ll have just one round to do it. Cruz wins by late round TKO or Unanimous Decision.
A heavyweight clash between Fabricio Werdum (21-6-1) and Cain Velasquez (14-2) is also featured at UFC 207. The fight is a rematch of a UFC 188 war between the two goliaths, which ended with Werdum winning the championship bout by third-round submission (Guillotine choke).
Kali ini, Velasquez is the favored fighter (-210) while Werdum is a +170 hell. This is another brawler vs. tactician match-up, and it could go either way. Werdum showed a weak chin against Stipe Miocic, and Cain will be looking for every opportunity to check it.
Ramalan: Velasquez dispatches Werdum inside of two rounds. Cain’s striking is superior to Werdum, and he will not make the mistake of letting Werdum take the fight to the ground this time. Velasquez by KO.
Neil Magny (18-5) and Johny Hendricks (17-5) come into the cage for UFC 207 as two of the best welterweights in the league. Both are experiencing some ups and downs in sport lately, walaupun. Magny had a three fight win streak stopped by Lorenz Larkin in his last bout while Hendricks lost three out of his last four fights. Hendricks is a far cry from his former self and a long way from his championship days. Stephen Thompson wiped the mat with Hendricks en route to a brutal TKO before Kelvin Gastelum stepped into the cage across from the former champ and took home a unanimous decision after three hard fought rounds.
Ramalan: Magny is the more durable and dynamic fighter, and Hendricks can’t get close enough to land his best power shots. Magny will stop Hendricks’ advances, deny his takedown attempts and submit or stop the former champ before the final bell. Magny by third-round TKO.
Leading off the main card is another fight involving a former champion. T.J. Dillashaw (13-3) battles journeyman John “Tangan Stone” Lineker (29-7) in a bantamweight fight bound to be a future classic. Lineker brings an intensity, power and accuracy that is simply astonishing to witness. Dillashaw moves around the cage like an Irish stepdancer, dodging attacks like a Mexican bullfighter. Lineker showed in his last bout with John Dodson that he can be a crafty, technical fighter as well.
Ramalan: What T.J. lacks is Lineker’s strength: POWER. Lineker will learn to find his range in the second round and start to penetrate Dillashaw’s unorthodox defense. Midway through the third round he will catch T.J. backing up and end the fight on the feet with a brutal series of punches, kicks, knees and elbows against the cage. Lineker by third-round TKO.
Those who know me personally would all say I am a mellow individual, until you seriously cross me, seperti, for instance, if youbecome the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, atau sue me for $25 juta. Sometimes I may take things like that as a sign you might not want me to really find out who you are and what you do behind closed doors to screw hard working people over.
Minggu ini, a certain individual who won’t even let me follow him in Twitter (https://twitter.com/danawhite) pissed me off to the point where I could only think of one thing to do. Because I’m officially blacklisted in every possible way by the UFC brass, and have even had restraining orders placed against my directly contacting the Fertittas and ANY UFC fighter, my best option is to publish a drastic diatribe here I am just going to call my “OPEN FU” to Dana “Effing” White.
I’m sure Mr. White will not take my calls or subject himself to a one on one interview with me. Jadi, I will have to settle for a written FU…and a multi-tiered and multi-purpose FU.
FU, Dana “Effing” White… for many, many reasons…too many forone small blog postto do justice, but let’s just say Most of all FU….
For what you THINK you know about Holly Holm…
Hey, Dana, you wanna talk about your “effing” reality show “Looking For a Fight????” I was actuallylooking for a fightwhen I watched thatold reality “shit show”when you were supposed to box Tito Ortiz, but HEmagicallybacked out at the last minute.
Sekarang, you, DANA “EFFING” WHITE, are telling Holly Holm about a decisionYOU think she didn’t think through enough??? And now you act like someone pissed in your Wheaties because you have two upset wins at UFC 196 to work around and figure out how to make sense of somehow.
Boo “effing” hoo, buddy.
Welcome to how things don’t go as planned sometimes in the fight business, you ungrateful prick.
Holly Holm Was the Bantamweight Champion of the UFC when she allowed HER Manager (not Dana “effing” White) to negotiate the Tate fight on her behalf, and she knew (and her long-time manager knew, terlalu) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guess “effing” what, Dana? She wanted to fight.
Maaf, Dana “Effing” White, but Holly didn’t want to sit on an “effing” sideline waiting for Ronda Rousey to finish her “effing” ROADHOUSE REMAKE!
Holly wanted to go to work… but unfortunately she has to work for a boss who has no idea what it’s like to step into HER office and handle HER daily workload with such tenacity, kelas, dignity and grace.
And I think maybe she looks back a bit differently than you do, Dana, with no “effing” regrets whatsoever for putting her absolute all into that fight and just plain getting caught in her one area of weakness in a battle where she likely would have won a three-round fight. Maybe if YOU were a fighter, Dana, you might get that whole concept. Maybe losing in this case only makes her better, kuat, and more durable as a career mixed martial artist. Who gives a damn if it makes her less marketable in your eyes? What do you really know, anyway?
UNLIKE YOU, Dana “Effing” White, Holly actually respects Miesha Tate and thought it would be a challenge to fight her. Yeah, she lost, but damn, she was absolutely correct about it being a challenge. I think the fight will go down as one of the greatest battles in female MMA history.
Sekarang, why don’t you open your “effing” eyes, Dana, watch the fight again, and quit bitching about what should have happened in that cage you never fought in yourself.
Be grateful you have a champion you just paid $92,000 in fight pay (before bonuses) to take your organization’s belt from the girl you WANTED TO WIN (and paid $500,000 just to be there). It may not be what you expected, but the anxiety you feel about it is what you DESERVE to feel for being such a douchebag to the fighters who built the UFC.
My biggest questions on this subject for Dana are: Why are you such a biased, crooked asshole who can’t bother to give Miesha the time of day FOR ALL HER HARD WORK? Why can’t you give credit where it is due…on both sides of that fight? Why can’t you shut the “eff” up about what you think Holly or her management should have or could have waited for?
It’s not your place to look back with 20/20 hindsight and act like Holly and her manager should have gone all Nostradamus on this fight when you obviously didn’t see this shit coming, sama ada, you dome-headed dimwit.
Pejuang “effing” perjuangan, Dana. That’s what they “effing” do, which you should know, since I am pretty sure you used to be an “effing” manager of MMA fighters yourself. Ya, that was many moons ago, but how could you forget?
Fighters don’t sit on their asses on corporate jets and stand at podiums in front of the press all day to earn the “effing” paltry paychecks your organization pays out to most of them. Most fighters simply cannot afford to wait around for shit to happen or for someone “worthy” enough in your eyes to step up and fight them.
Some fighters need to feed their kids. All of them need to pay their bills and for everything else involved with training camps, daily living expenses, travel and whatever costs medical insurance doesn’t cover when they have to address nagging injuries. Yourshitty Reebok dealmade it virtually impossible to get any other outside sponsors to help pay for anything like that stuff for many fighters, Dana.
Welcome to selling out and forgetting where you came from, Dana. You used to care more about fighters. Now you act like fighting in a cage is just like doing any other 9-5 kerja. It’s not. Ia “effing” hard work.
Jadi, yeah, Holly chose to fight instead of waiting for Rousey to be ready for the rematch. And you think she needs your opinion now that everything didn’t work out as planned for you both?
FU, Dana.
She hurts a lot worse than you, and I can guaran-effing-tee that.
Oh…dan…dengan cara yang…fighters are way more responsible for the growth and success of the UFC/Zuffa organization than you ever have been. And that’s real talk, you rich bitch with a stick up your ass because you were never good enough in your life to ever have your own official fight.
Jadi, get over the God complex and learn to respect ALL of your fighters, not just the ones you want to see win because you might think you can work with them better or you think they will move the organization in a better direction. Respect the effort, the sacrifice and the pain ALL your fighters go through each and every day to get where they get. That belt you put on Miesha’s waist was EARNED, and don’t you ever think it is “effing” cool to call the fact that Holly Holm had the guts to face Miesha Tate “a mistake.”
It rings hollow, especially when I would consider that handing you a microphone to talk about MMA at all was THE greatest mistake the sport ever made, tempoh! Anyone who would try to knock a former champion down a peg that way in his own organization does not deserve to be recognized as that organization’s president.
You have no clue what it’s really like to fight, and your criticism of Holly Holm tells me you can never possibly understand the mindset that led her to take the Tate fight and not wait an idle year for Ronda “effing” Rousey to be ready to appear at one of your precious shows.
Jadi, FU Dana White for treating your former champ like she’s an idiot who doesn’t know how to control her own career without you butting your stupid, bald head into it. Holly’s fine without your advice, and she trusts her manager, which might be something you’re not familiar with, but for other people it is actually a reality of doing business with legitimate people.
FU, Dana for being a piss-poor ambassador for the sport, disrespecting fighters who bleed (and sometimes suffer lifelong injuries) for you and the sport, and totally underestimating and failing to grasp what it really takes to actually be a professional fighter who actually competes against other fighters…
Do you remember the days when you had to settle for being a lowly boxercise instructor because your boxing trainer Boston slapped you too hard in the ear once? You never had a single competitive fight in your life, Dana “effing” White, and that’s a DOCUMENTED FACT!
Do you ever even look back at those days before the silver-spoon-fed Fertittas helped you claw your greedy, selfish, egotistical ass into the position of OFFICIAL UFC MOUTHPIECE?
Do you remember those“hairy”days when you blew through $40 million of Fertitta funds to perpetrate the “Zuffa Myth” while claiming credit for the UFC brass singlehandedly legitimizing the sport and getting it regulatedall by your “effing” selves?As if not a single FIGHTER nor any other industry professional who pioneered MMA before you dipped your greedy little paws into it had anything to do with it?
You’re in a different place now, Dana “effing” White, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, jujur, truly “effing” know what it’s ACTUALLY like to be an “effing” pejuang? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?
REALLY?
Anda tahu what A FIGHTER is, don’t you, Dana? A fighter is a man or woman who has the courage to willingly step into unarmed combat against another actual man or woman instead of just criticizing up and down the guys and girls who do have the guts to actually stand across from another human being while knowing and internalizing that the accepted goal is to physically destroy each other.
A fighter, in more simple terms, adalah “one who fights.” And let’s be clear about one “effing” thing, Dana “effing” White, I know fighters, dan YOUare no fighter.
You are nothing like a fighter, Dana “effing” White, and you never “effing” akan jadi. You are too weak, both physically and mentally. Until we see you go through a six-week training camp and then get into the cage against someone and kick his ass, we shouldn’t have to listen to one damn “coulda,” “shoulda,” atau “woulda” out of your cornfed mouth about what you think of any particular fighter’s performance or decision making process. Those people have the guts to do what you will NEVER do yourself, and you ought to respect that.
FU Dana White…For not recognizing Real Fighters Like Miesha Tate and Nate Diaz who keep at it no matter what and NEVER seem to earn your ULTIMATE RESPECT….
Nate Diaz stepped up to fight Conor McGregor for a reason. He had nothing to lose, and he wasn’t intimidated one bit. He famoulsy went on television with Fox Sports 1 on a split screen with Conor before that welterweight fight and quipped that his nemesis had already been choked out before, “by two lames.” Diaz also had the perfect instinct to add humourously that McGregor’s choke losses happened, “like a week ago.”
Diaz beat Conor in the shit-talk game long before he ever slapped him down and slipped that choke around his neck in the cage. The media created by that freakshow fight might have stopped the unchecked rise of your big, bold, six-headed dragon champion, but it created a new monster at the same time. And he’s a Reebok-hating, scowling, swearing, Stockton-slapping Mother-F$#king BEAST who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about what he does or says.
You might think Diaz and his attitude are “bad for business,” but I think his victory was the best thing that could ever happen to all you smug punks running the UFC. It just proves once and for all that you do not control the MMA universe.
Nate Diaz went without respect and credit for being an MMA pioneer and a good UFC soldier for far too long. The bitterness brewed and boiled within him, and I loved every second of him letting it pour out in post-fight interviews after he choked the shit out of Conor until the Irish bloke tapped the “eff” out and left Dana White drooling in a stupor at the thought of having to congratulate a man who’s become more of a mortal enemy than a member of the big “team.”
More power to Nate and all the crazy, abrasive, in-your-face Diaz brother types out there in the UFC who will fight Dana “effing” White’s flamboyant fire with even more bravado and brash talk of their own. They can always say, “I learned it by watching you, Baldfather!”
As for Miesha Tate, she deserves true respect and admiration for being champ now after picking herself off the mat twice in the face of grueling losses to Rousey. Kudos to Tate for continuing her career and relentlessly focusing on getting by that Rousey armbar once and for all.
Though Miesha never did solve that Rousey submission dilemma, trying at all costs to get another crack at the belt paid dividends at UFC 196. Her never quit attitude led her to an opportunity of a lifetime, and she capitalized on it. Sekarang, Dana, you actually have to pay this young lady what most of her fans would say she was worth a long time ago.
And now you simply have to treat Tate with a bit of reverence and appreciation for once in your ungrateful life, Dana “effing” White. I know it must pain you so much to give this young lady the credit she’s worked so incredibly hard for, because maybeshe touched a nerve when she called you out in the past for being the true clueless and disrespectful prick you really are.She was right, and you were wrong about how great she really is at fighting. Then again, weren’t you also WRONG about women fighting in the cage, tempoh?
Jadi, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Encik. White? Then step aside and let the people who DO wanna be fighters go to battle for you so you can ride around the world on your jet and act like you know what the “eff” you’re talking about when you stand in front of a microphone to describe the sport’s true athletes and what they do to make a living in mixed martial arts.
The line from Dana that most stands out to me as comblete BS in this whole debacle is this one:
“He’s an old boxing guy who thinks he’s smart and he isn’t,” White said of Fresquez [Holm’s Manager]. “I feel bad for Holly because I don’t know if she really knows what she lost.”
I have only two more “effing” questions for you Dana “effing” White…
1.) What makes you think you are really in any “effing” position to EVER know or understand what Holly Holm lost the other night? Aside from a few bad poker hands and tons of respect, the only thing you ever lost is your mind.
2.) Doesn’t your backhanded quote about Holm’s manager describe your own shitty character a whole lot better than that of Mr. Fresquez?
DAN…just in case after reading all this anyone STILL needs yet another reason to have beef with the Baldfather:
Juara dunia dua kali, Amanda Serrano (24-1-1, 18 Ini KO) dari Puerto Rico, dan jurulatih / pengurusnya, Jordan Maldonado menganggap ia sangat menghormati masyarakat tinju, komen yang dibuat oleh Edmond Tarverdyan, pelatih daripada Juara Dunia UFC, Ronda Rousey dalam www.mmafighting.com.
“Saya tahu dia boleh melakukannya,” Tarverdyan kepada MMA Pertempuran, “Saya tahu dia boleh menang kejuaraan dunia tinju. Ronda spars dengan juara dunia tinju yang menumbuk cara keras daripada Cyborg,”, Tarverdyan juga menambah bahawa, “Ronda tidak pernah kehilangan satu pusingan di gym. Pusingan A. Dengan juara dunia tinju”.
“Sudah pasti jurulatih Rousey itu tidak mempunyai apa-apa pengetahuan mengenai sukan tinju. Beliau adalah seorang pejuang yang sangat baik dalam Octagon, dan saya benar-benar mengucapkan tahniah kepada beliau untuk semua yang dia telah dilakukan. Lawannya tidak boleh kotak dan Ia mudah untuk kelihatan hebat tetapi apabila berhadapan dengan peninju berkualiti tinggi dengan menumbuk kuasa sebagai diri saya, percayakan saya, Tidak ada yang berubah gonna. Pada cincin tinju, kanvas akan menjadi zon selesa anda”.
Mengenai perjuangan Rousey Sabtu lepas, di mana dia dikalahkan Bethe Correia di 34 saat, Serrano berkata, “Sebagai titik tinju pandangan, dia kelihatan seperti seorang pejuang rookie amatur, membuang tumbukan sangat luas tanpa cordination. Saya mendengar bahawa Cyborg tidak bersedia untuk turun ke bahagian ini ringan untuk melawan Ronda, tetapi saya boleh pergi ke 135, dan kita boleh menyelesaikan perlawanan tinju jadi saya boleh membuktikan jurulatih beliau salah. Saya pernah pergi ke bahagian yang ringan, dan mengembara ke Argentina untuk pertarungan gelaran dunia. Pada akhir, keputusan adalah bahawa saya pernah menjadi peninju wanita Puerto Rican pertama untuk menguasai kejuaraan dunia dalam dua kelas berat”.
Pengurus Serrano dan jurulatih, Jordan Maldonado menegaskan bahawa “kita tidak mencabar gaya pertempuran lain. Kami mewakili tinju dan kami mahu mendapatkan beberapa berkenaan. Kami sedia untuk apa-apa perselisihan mereka mahu atau perlawanan tinju, jadi kita boleh menunjukkan Edmond Tarverdyan bagaimana salah dia adalah kira-kira tinju”.
Pada Ogos 15, 2014, Serrano mengembara ke Argentina untuk menghadapi Juara Dunia WBO Ringan Maria 'Tily’ Maderna, yang pada masa itu, mempunyai tiga pertahanan tajuk berjaya, tetapi tidak dapat menangani kelangsangan Puerto penebuk kuasa Rica, yang menamatkan perjuangan dalam pusingan keenam dengan cara kalah mati.
Dengan kemenangan ini, Serrano menjadi Puerto Rican peninju wanita pertama memenangi gelaran dunia dalam dua bahagian (130-135).
Tajuk pertama pemerintahan Serrano datang pada bulan September 2011 apabila menumpaskan Kimberly Connor dalam pusingan pertama untuk menjadi Juara Dunia IBF di bahagian bulu yang super.
Ronda Rousey (11-0) dan Bethe Correia (9-0) kehendak tajuk UFC 190 dalam tajuk bantamweight wanita pertarungan yang dijamin untuk menyampaikan bunga api. Kedua-dua pesaing akan berperang di negara asal pencabar ini, tetapi Rousey adalah bintang di seluruh dunia yang sedang dalam roll epik setakat ini dalam kerjaya MMA beliau. Correia adalah underdog di negara sendiri, tetapi dia juga seorang penyerang tanpa ditewaskan yang boleh memberi masalah Rousey jika armbar tidak datang ke dalam bermain.
Correia mengeluarkan beberapa kenyataan tidak sensitif tentang Rousey membunuh diri yang membawa kepada perjuangan ini. Bunuh diri adalah satu perkara yang sakit untuk juara, yang melihat ayahnya mengambil nyawanya sendiri apabila dia masih muda. Yang Rousey sejak berjanji untuk “menghukum” Bethe apabila mereka bertemu di kandang malam ini.
Rousey adalah kesempurnaan, jelas dan mudah. Hanya apabila anda berfikir dia tidak boleh mendapatkan apa-apa yang lebih baik, dia kejutan anda dan tidak hanya itu. Correia adalah bercakap-sukar dan pejuang yakin, tetapi dia hanya tempat berhampiran tahap Rousey ini. Jika dia mempunyai apa-apa peluang langsung, ia adalah pada pusingan pertama. Rousey tidak mencari penyerahan cepat jika kita percaya beliau mengakui niat mencederakan Correia adalah asli. Correia boleh menggunakan keupayaan jangkauan dan kuasa-menumbuk dia gemeretuk Rousey awal dan mengetuk dia keluar, tetapi itu bermakna akan ke kaki dengan juara yang yang ditunjukkan amat baik menarik sepanjang beberapa pergaduhan terakhir.
Ramalan: Mencari Rousey untuk kembali pada janji dan menyelesaikan perjuangan ini awal, sebagai emosi beliau akan mengambil alih dan menghalang beliau dari berfikir terlalu banyak tentang lukisan yang satu ini keluar. Dia hanya akan mengharungi dalam, membuang ke bawah dan berjalan keluar dari pusingan pertama dengan TKO lain untuk menambah semua kemenangan penghujahannya. Dia akan menghancurkan hidung besar Correia terbuka luas dan judo melambungkan pencabar untuk tikar di mana dia akan menutup persembahan dengan tanah yang berkesan dan pound.
Acara bersama utama mempunyai Mauricio Rua (22-10) vs Antonio Rogério Nogueira (21-6) dalam rematch daripada pergaduhan yang berlaku di bawah panji-panji PRIDE pada bulan Januari 2005. Rua memenangi pertarungan pertama dengan keputusan sebulat suara. Kali ini, kedua-dua pejuang yang panjang lalu perdana mereka, dan Rua memasuki sangkar dengan hanya satu kemenangan dalam empat beliau serangan lalu. Nogueira juga mempunyai kecacatan sejak dia datang lebih setahun selepas perjuangan terakhir, yang merupakan satu kerugian TKO berat sebelah kepada Anthony Johnson yang berlangsung hanya 44 saat.
Ramalan: Rua tidak begitu berat diserahkan sebagai Johnson, dan Nogueira perlu mendapatkan membalas dendam dalam perjuangan ini dengan mengetuk keluar Rua pada pusingan kedua atau ketiga. Nogueira akan mempunyai pergerakan kepala yang lebih baik dan pertahanan dalam perlawanan semula itu, dan Rua hanya tidak mempunyai apa-apa kemenangan baru-baru ini terhadap mana-mana nama-nama besar. Dia di atas kepalanya dalam perjuangan ini, dan “Minotouro” akan menghantar dia ke dalam persaraan.
Antonio Nogueira Rodrgio (34-9-1) juga berperang pada undercard terhadap “The Trade” Stefan Struve (25-7). Ini harus menjadi pertarungan yang menarik, dan Mark Hunt menunjukkan Struve terdedah kepada haymakers. Bolehkah Nogueira mengeksploitasi kelemahan yang, atau akan Struve menunjukkan dia seorang pembunuh legenda kali ini keluar?
Ramalan: Yang Nogueira datang dengan semua pengalaman dalam pertarungan ini manakala Struve mempunyai physicality yang. Ia berkata bahawa mereka adalah lebih besar, lebih keras tiba, tetapi Struve terkecuali. Dia akan dapat mengambil kesempatan daripada belia dan beliau masa yang panjang dari sangkar menangani kecederaan dan masalah kesihatan. Dia akan keluar menyerang Nogueira dan berjuang tinggi sepanjang dua pusingan pertama, akhirnya tamat Nogueira off dengan kombo ganas awal ketiga.
Acara kemuncak utama yang lain pada kad ini termasuk MMA pertarungan wanita antara Jessica Aguilar (19-4) dan Claudia Gadelha (12-1) dan pertembungan kelas berat antara Soa “Hulk” Palelei (20-4) dan Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (18-7-1). Klik Di sini (http://www.sherdog.com/acara / UFC-190-Rousey-vs-Web-42221) untuk menyemak UFC penuh 190 kad.
Memandangkan bahawa itu musim cukai, ia adalah masa yang baik untuk ingat bahawa ada tiga jaminan dalam hidup: kematian, cukai dan Ronda Rousey sekali lagi menunjukkan mengapa dia adalah pejuang terbaik wanita di planet ini dengan perobohan pertama pusingan lawannya.
Prestasi Rousey di UFC 184 pada bulan lalu ialah terbaik beliau setakat ini. Beliau mengemukakan Cat jarum, secara meluas dianggap sebagai cabaran yang paling besar Rousey ini, dalam 14 saat. Walaupun Rousey dibantu oleh strategi benar-benar dahsyat oleh Zingano, prestasi pemain alat musik beliau membawa kepada satu lagi perbincangan yang mempunyai apa yang diperlukan untuk menurunkan dr takhta Rousey. Ia juga membawa kepada perbualan tidak masuk akal sama ada atau tidak Rousey boleh bersaing dan kekalahan pejuang lelaki di bahagian bantamweight UFC ini. Masa yang kurang dibelanjakan untuk yang tanggapan tidak masuk akal bahawa Kuasa melakukan apa-apa tetapi cuba untuk menjatuhkan pejuang besar Rousey adalah, yang lebih baik.
Sudah tentu, nama pertama yang sentiasa datang adalah Cris "Cyborg" Justino, yang Invicta FC juara kelas bulu. Dia dijangka jatuh kepada 135 pound untuk pertarungan dengan Invicta musim panas ini sebelum berpindah ke bergaduh dengan Rousey. Walau bagaimanapun, Cyborg cuba penurunan kepada bantamweight tahun lepas dan meninggalkan rancangan. Jadi saya tidak akan menahan nafas saya pada perlawanan membalas dendam yang lama ditunggu-tunggu antara Rousey dan Cyborg berlaku bila-bila masa tidak lama lagi.
Rousey baru-baru ini menyatakan hasrat untuk melawan Bethe Correia, yang didera dua daripada "Empat Horsewomen" rakan sepasukan Rousey dan telah memanggil Rousey keluar sejak. Jessica mata juga telah mempertaruhkan tuntutan di sebuah pukulan tajuk, tetapi tidak daripada wanita-wanita ini menjadi ancaman sebenar kepada Rousey. Dalam liputan postfight UFC 184 ini, Daniel Cormier mengapungkan idea rakannya Miesha Tate mendapat retak ketiga di Rousey.
Selain hakikat Saya rasa trilogies perlu ditempah hanya apabila setiap pejuang mempunyai kemenangan berbanding dengan yang lain, Saya melihat tidak ada sebab mengapa kali ketiga akan menjadi daya tarikan untuk Tate. Walaupun dia adalah satu-satunya wanita untuk pergi lebih jauh daripada pusingan pertama dengan Rousey, Tate mencapai tahap mendatar sebagai seorang pejuang manakala Rousey telah mendapat yang lebih baik. Jika kedua-dua adalah untuk melawan kali ketiga, Saya melihat tidak ada sebab untuk mempercayai hasilnya ialah apa-apa yang berbeza.
Oleh itu, bagaimana ini meninggalkan Rousey? Pada pendapat saya, dia telah dibersihkan daripada bahagian bantamweight wanita UFC ini. Tidak ada orang yang menimbulkan ancaman yang bermakna kepada beliau. Jika Zingano diselaraskan strategi beliau dan menerima satu lagi pukulan di Rousey, dia mungkin mempunyai peluang untuk menang. Lebih daripada itu, jika Rousey memutuskan untuk pergi di atas dan membina kerjaya filem beliau berkembang, Saya tidak fikir ada orang yang memegangnya terhadapnya.
Rousey kini dalam pelarian yang serupa dengan jangka Anderson Silva atas bahagian middleweight UFC ini. Beliau menguasai semua orang dalam laluannya dan kecuali pertarungan pertamanya dengan Chael Sonnen, menyebabkan ia kelihatan mudah. Perjuangan yang paling sukar Rousey setakat ini adalah terhadap Liz Carmouche, apabila dia Rousey dalam pencekik belakang telanjang dalam pusingan pertama perjuangan mereka dalam 2013 sebelum Rousey berjaya melarikan diri dan mendapatkan satu lagi kemenangan armbar.
Pemerintahan Silva atas bahagian middleweight itu berakhir apabila sebelum ini tidak diketahui Chris Weidman datang bersama-sama dan tidak menunjukkan sebarang rasa takut dan mengambil perjuangan untuk Silva. Mungkin itulah yang perlu berlaku dengan Rousey. Dia memerlukan untuk mencari lawan yang akan mendapatkan hak mukanya, memberi beliau tidak suku dan mengambil perjuangan untuk dia. Jarum yang cuba di UFC 184, tetapi overzealousness beliau berakhir berharga beliau mahal.
Sehingga Rousey mendapati beliau Chris Weidman sendiri, kita boleh menambah satu lagi superlatif kepada ramai yang telah dilampirkan kepada juara bantamweight wanita: bersih. Rousey keluar segar daripada pencabar layak mahkotanya, tugas dia dicapai dengan membersihkan bahagiannya.
Chris Huntemann menulis tentang seni mempertahankan diri campuran di negeri Maryland. Beliau juga berkongsi pandangan mengenai UFC, Bellator, dan Siri Dunia Pertempuran. Semak beliau blog, atau mengikutinya di Twitter: mmamaryland.
