Walter Wright (16-4, 8 Ko) squares off against Mark DeLuca (21-0, 13 Ko) 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? Chirichonse chikuchitika, the first round will be crucial. Both women will be looking to make it a quick night.
Kuneneratu: 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” pano, Komabe. He’s won his last three bouts by TKO or knockout. All of them ended thank’s to Cody’s lighting fast punching power.
Kuneneratu: 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).
This time around, Velasquez is the favored fighter (-210) while Werdum is a +170 underdog. 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.
Kuneneratu: 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, Komabe. 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.
Kuneneratu: 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 “Hands of 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.
Kuneneratu: 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, monga, for instance, if youbecome the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, kapena sue me for $25 miliyoni. 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.
This week, 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. Choncho, 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…
Hei, 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.
Tsopano, 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, Ifenso) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guess “effing” what, Dana? She wanted to fight.
Pepani, 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, kalasi, 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, wamphamvu, 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. Eya, 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.
Tsopano, 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, kaya, you dome-headed dimwit.
Omenyana “effing” nkhondo, 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. Inde, 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 ntchito. It’s not. Ndi “effing” hard work.
Choncho, eya, 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.
O…ndipo…ndisanayiwale…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.
Choncho, 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, nyengo! 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.
Choncho, 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, moona mtima, truly “effing” know what it’s ACTUALLY like to be an “effing” fighter? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?
REALLY?
Mukudziwa 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, ndi “one who fights.” And let’s be clear about one “effing” thing, Dana “effing” White, I know fighters, ndipo YOUare no fighter.
You are nothing like a fighter, Dana “effing” White, and you never “effing” adzakhala. 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,” kapena “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. Tsopano, 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, nyengo?
Choncho, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Bambo. 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?
AND…just in case after reading all this anyone STILL needs yet another reason to have beef with the Baldfather:
Ziwiri nthawi dziko ngwazi, Amanda Serrano (24-1-1, 18 KO a) ku Puerto Rico, ndi mphunzitsi / manenjala, Jordan Maldonado kuganizira kwambiri ulemu kwa nkhonya ammudzi, ndemanga zimene Edmond Tarverdyan, mphunzitsi wa UFC World Ngwazi, Ronda Rousey mu www.mmafighting.com.
“Ine ndikudziwa iye angakhoze kuchita izo,” Tarverdyan anauza MMA Kumenya Nkhondo, “Ine ndikudziwa iye akhoza kuwina nkhonya dziko udindo. Ronda spars ndi nkhonya dziko akatswiri kuti nkhonya njira kovuta kuposa Cyborg,”, Tarverdyan anawonjezera kuti, “Ronda sanayambe anataya wozungulira mu masewero olimbitsa. A kuzungulira. Ndi nkhonya dziko akatswiri”.
“Iii Rousey wa mphunzitsi alibe chidziwitso pa masewera a nkhonya. Iye ndi wabwino kwambiri womenya mu Octagon, ndipo ine kwenikweni zikamuone atachira iye chirichonse chimene iye wachita. Iye adani sangathe nkhonya ndi zophweka kuyang'ana kwambiri koma mukakumana ndi Quality womenya nkhonya ndi atangomva mphamvu ndekha, ndikhulupirireni, Zinthu adza kusintha. Mu nkhonya mphete, ndi chinsalu adzakhala chitonthozo chanu nthambi”.
About Rousey nkhondo otsiriza Loweruka, pamene iye anagonjetsa Bethe Correia mu 34 masekondi, Serrano anati, “Monga nkhonya amazionera, iye ankawoneka ngati rookie ankachita masewera womenya, kuponya kwambiri lonse nkhonya popanda cordination. Ndinamva kuti Cyborg sakufuna kubwera pansi ku opepuka magawano kulimbana Ronda, koma ine ndikhoza kupita ku 135, ndipo ife tikhoza kuthetsa nkhonya machesi kotero ine ndikhoza kutsimikizira mphunzitsi cholakwika. Inayake ndinapita ku opepuka kugawanikana, ndi ku Argentina kwa dziko udindo nkhondo. Kumapeto, zotsatira anali ndinakhala woyambirira Puerto Rican mkazi womenya nkhonya kuti analanda dziko udindo awiri kulemera makalasi”.
Serrano wa bwana ndi mphunzitsi, Jordan Maldonado ananena kuti “ife satsutsana ena kumenyana masitayilo. Tikuimira nkhonya ndipo tikufuna kuti ena ulemu. Ndife okonzeka aliyense sparring iwo angafune kapena nkhonya machesi, kotero tingasonyezere Edmond Tarverdyan kuipa ali za nkhonya”.
Pa August 15, 2014, Serrano ku Argentina ndi maso WBO opepuka World Ngwazi Maria 'Tily’ Maderna, amene pa nthawiyo, zitatu bwino udindo kudziteteza, koma sakanakhoza bwino ndewu ya Puerto Rican mphamvu puncher, amene itatha nkhondo wa chisanu ndi kuzungulira njira ya knockout.
Ndi kupambana, Serrano anali woyamba Puerto Rican mkazi womenya nkhonya kuwina dziko maudindo awiri magulu (130-135).
Serrano woyamba mutu ulamuliro anabwera September 2011 pamene iye kugonja Kimberly Connor mu woyamba wozungulira kukhala IBF World Ngwazi pa wapamwamba featherweight kugawanikana.
Ronda Rousey (11-0) ndipo Bethe Correia (9-0) chifuniro mutu wakuti UFC 190 mu akazi bantamweight udindo podwala kuti kungakupatseni kupulumutsa makombola. Awiriwa rivals asamenyana mu akunyoza a kwawo, koma Rousey padziko lonse nyenyezi amene ali pa zazitali zimenezo anawonjezeka mpukutu mpaka mu MMA ntchito. Correia ndi underdog m'dziko la kwawo, koma iye Komanso undefeated wopha amene akanatha kupereka Rousey vuto ngati armbar salowa sewero.
Correia anapanga ena amamva chisoni kwambiri za Rousey zodzipha kuti pakhale nkhondo. Kudzipha ndi zilonda phunziro kwa champ, amene anamuona bambo moyo wake pamene anali wamng'ono. Rousey a kuyambira analonjeza “chilango” Bethe pokumana mu khola usikuuno.
Rousey ndi mosalakwitsa, kumveka ndi yosavuta. Pamene mukuganiza iye sangakhoze iliyonse bwino, iye zosayembekezereka inu ndi amene amachita zimenezo. Correia ndi lolimba-kulankhula chikhulupiriro womenya, koma iye basi paliponse pafupi Rousey a mlingo. Ngati iye alibe mwayi konse, ndi mu woyamba wozungulira. Rousey Sali kuyang'ana mofulumira kugonjera ngati tikufuna kukhulupirira iye anavomereza zolinga za kuwawa Correia enieni. Correia akhoza kugwiritsa ntchito angafikeko ndi mphamvu kukhomerera luso rattle Rousey oyambirira ndi kugogoda iye, koma kumatanthauza ati kuima ndi ngwazi amene anasonyeza bwino kwambiri chidwi m'kupita kwa iye ingapo yapitayi ndewu.
Kuneneratu: Pezani Rousey kubwerera pa lonjezo ndi kumaliza nkhondo oyambirira, monga iye mtima adzatenga ndi kumuletsa kuganizila kwambiri za kuyandikira iyi panja. Iye basi anatha kuyendamo mu, kugwetsa ndi kuchoka woyamba wozungulira ndi mzake TKO kuwonjezera mkazi kugonjera yapambana. Iye adzaphwanyire Correia lalikulu la mphuno chipenyere ndipo judo kuomba ndi akunyoza kwa mphasa kumene iye kutseka zimasonyeza ndi ogwira mtima pansi ndi mapaundi.
The omasuliridwa chachikulu chochitika zimaonetsa Mauricio Rua (22-10) vesi Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (21-6) mu rematch ya nkhondo imene inachitika pansi pa onyada mbendera mu January a 2005. Rua anapambana nkhondo yoyamba ndi akamakambirana. Nthawiyi, onse olimbana ndi kale awo pulezidenti, ndipo Rua akulowa khola ndi chimodzi kupambana ake anayi omaliza mwauchidakwa. Nogueira ali ndi handicap chifukwa iye akubwera mu oposa chaka womaliza nkhondo, yemwe anali mmodzi kumbali TKO akulephera Anthony Johnson kuti inatenga 44 masekondi.
Kuneneratu: Rua si monga lolemera zija monga Johnson, ndipo Nogueira ayenera kupeza kubwezera pa nkhondoyi ndi kugogoda kunja Rua wachiwiri kapena kwachitatu. Nogueira adzakhala bwino mutu kuyenda ndi chitetezo mu rematch, ndipo Rua basi alibe posachedwapa yapambana chilichonse chachikulu mayina. Iye ali pamwamba pa mutu wake pa nkhondoyi, ndipo “Minotouro” ati amutume mu pantchito.
Antonio Nogueira Rodrgio (34-9-1) Komanso amamenya pa undercard motsutsa “The Skyscraper” Stefan Struve (25-7). Zimenezi ziyenera kukhala zosangalatsa podwala, ndi Mark Hunt anasonyeza kuti Struve ndi atengeke haymakers. Kodi Nogueira masuku pamutu kufooka, kapena Struve kusonyeza iye ndi nthano wakupha ino kuchokera?
Kuneneratu: Nogueira kubwera ndi zonse zimene zinachitikira mu podwala pamene Struve ali physicality. Iwo adanena kuti zikuluzikulu ndi, m'pamenenso iwo adzagwa, koma Struve ndi kupatulapo. Iye ayenera kutenga ntchito unyamata wake ndi nthawi kutali ndi khola kulankhula kuvulala ndi za matenda. Iye kunja kukantha Nogueira nkhondo wamtali lonse awiri oyambirira zipolopolo, potsiriza kumaliza Nogueira ndi choopsa kasakanizidwe kumayambiriro lachitatu.
Aakulu zazikulu pa khadi monga akazi MMA chiwonetsero pakati Jessica Aguilar (19-4) ndi Claudia Gadelha (12-1) ndi heavyweight zipolowe za pakati pa Soa “The Hulk” Palelei (20-4) ndi Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (18-7-1). Dinani Apa (HTTP://www.sherdog.com/zochitika / UFC-190-Rousey-motsutsana-Web-42221) kuti onani zonse UFC 190 khadi.
Given that it’s tax season, it’s a good time to remember that are there three guarantees in life: death, taxes and Ronda Rousey once again showing why she is the best female fighter on the planet with a first-round demolition of her opponent.
Rousey’s performance at UFC 184 last month was her finest to date. She submitted Cat Zingano, widely regarded as Rousey’s biggest challenge, mu 14 masekondi. While Rousey was aided by an absolutely horrible strategy by Zingano, her virtuoso performance led to another discussion of who has what it takes to dethrone Rousey. It also led to a ridiculous conversation of whether or not Rousey could compete against and defeat male fighters in the UFC’s bantamweight division. The less time spent on that absurd notion that accomplishes nothing but trying to discredit the great fighter Rousey is, the better.
Kumene, the first name that always comes up is Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the Invicta FC featherweight champion. She is expected to drop to 135 pounds for a fight with Invicta this summer before moving on to a fight with Rousey. Komabe, Cyborg attempted a drop to bantamweight last year and abandoned those plans. So I wouldn’t hold my breath on the long-awaited grudge match between Rousey and Cyborg happening anytime soon.
Rousey recently expressed a desire to fight Bethe Correia, who battered two of Rousey’s “Four Horsewomen” teammates and has beencalling Rousey out ever since. Jessica Eye has also staked her claim to a title shot, but neither of these women pose a real threat to Rousey. During UFC 184’s postfight coverage, Daniel Cormier floated the idea of his colleague Miesha Tate getting a third crack at Rousey.
Besides the fact I think trilogies should be reserved only when each fighter has a victory over the other, I see no reason why third time would be a charm for Tate. While she is the only woman to go further than the first round with Rousey, Tate has plateaued as a fighter while Rousey has gotten better. If the two were to fight a third time, I see no reason to believe the result would be any different.
So where does this leave Rousey? M'malingaliro anga, she has cleaned out the UFC women’s bantamweight division. There is no one who poses a credible threat to her. If Zingano adjusted her strategy and received another shot at Rousey, she might have a chance of winning. Beyond that, if Rousey decided to go out on top and build on her burgeoning film career, I don’t think anyone would hold it against her.
Rousey is currently on a run akin to Anderson Silva’s run atop the UFC’s middleweight division. He dominated everyone in his path and except for his first fight with Chael Sonnen, made it look easy. Rousey’s hardest fight to date was against Liz Carmouche, when she had Rousey in a rear naked choke in the first round of their fight in 2013 before Rousey was able to escape and secure another armbar victory.
Silva’s reign atop the middleweight division came to an end when the previously unknown Chris Weidman came along and showed no fear and took the fight to Silva. Maybe that’s what needs to happen with Rousey. She needs to find an opponent who will get right in her face, give her no quarter and take the fight to her. Zingano attempted that at UFC 184, but her overzealousness ended up costing her dearly.
Until Rousey finds her own Chris Weidman, we can add another superlative to the many that are already attached to the women’s bantamweight champion: cleaner. Rousey is fresh out of worthy challengers to her crown, a task she accomplished by cleaning out her division.
Chris Huntemann writes about mixed martial arts in the state of Maryland. He also shares his thoughts on the UFC, Bellator, and World Series of Fighting. Check out hisblog, or follow him on Twitter: @mmamaryland.
