MMA Discussion Thread Part XV

DrPhil

The competition is between 128 of the world's finest!

The tie break was between Evangeline Lilly (from Lost) and some bird Rivera.

Rivera went through to the next round...

GaryMo

ONE FC 5 Results: Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia Fight to Controversial No-Contest - MMA Fighting

DrPhil

Good God, does that mean we're going to endure Arlovski vs Sylvia 5???

GaryMo

Yes, I believe they both agreed to it after the fight.

mooperman

bizarre to watch Arlovski now, i always thought he would dominate the heavyweights for a while when he was at UFC...

DrPhil

Yeah I thought he was amazing when I first started watching MMA, he was the man at the time. His fight with Cabbage Correira was fun!

His chin is so shot now it's not even funny.

DrPhil

According to Franklin McNeil of ESPN, Jon Jones had made plans to reimburse the fees of the fighters affected by UFC 151's cancellation, but changed his mind after a twitter backlash from those same fighters.

The leak of this information may be just a PR stunt by his camp, but I do think he's been screwed over by the UFC pretty badly.  He didn't choose to cancel the show, nor (according to him) was he aware when he turned down the Sonnen fight that it would lead to a cancellation.

And on top of that, Henderson hid the injury from the UFC for nearly 3 weeks before dropping out at the last minute.

DrPhil

Nobody heading to Nottingham for UFC on Fuel 5?

Low on star names as usual but potentially a super card in terms of the fights.

Stefan Struve vs  Stipe Miocic     
Dan Hardy vs  Amir Sadollah     
Brad Pickett vs  Yves Jabouin     
Paul Sass vs  Matt Wiman     
John Hathaway vs  John Maguire     
Che Mills vs  Duane Ludwig     
Kyle Kingsbury vs  Jimi Manuwa     
Andy Ogle vs  Akira Corassani     
Tom Watson vs  Brad Tavares     
Pascal Krauss vs  Gunnar Nelson     
Jason Young vs  Robbie Peralta     
Fabio Maldonado vs  Jörgen Kruth

Particularly looking forward to Kong Watson's debut.  Excellent test for Sass too, see if there is more to his game than the triangle!

DrPhil

In case anyone hasn't seen it, Warrior is now available on Netflix.

LCR_Dave

He didn't hide it dana has said he had him flown to his own doctors before the cancellation to see if it could be healed in time and that Dan was still prepared to fight Jones even with a partial tear it wasn't all on the "final 8 days"

Jones couldn't be hated more and i'm on that hate wagon, i never really liked him anyway and all this made him look a ****