Demian Amaia is next right after Henderson huh? Way to completely overlook Marqaurdt.

Yeah. Hendo’s earned another shot, but I still think he should fight the winner of Marquardt/Maia and the winner of that fight should get the shot. Anderson has a limited number of fights left and I want him to face the best possible opponent.

We’ve already seen what Anderson can do to Dan, and it isn’t going to look any different with Dan a couple years older.

I really hope we see Belfort/Wand 2 at MW once the Franklin fight is done. One of those two guys against the Spider would be damned entertaing. A short fight, perhaps, but damned entertaing.

An interesting news day yet again, that’s for sure.

I disagree JJ… Dan showed that he is a much more capable Octagon fighter than when he first came to the UFC. He rebounded nicely and realistically, he is the only person to win a round againt Andy in like 5 years.

JJ-

Agreed with Hendo v. winner of Nate/Maia.

Wand v. Belfort 2 = YES!

Spooner-

How has he shown that? He’s just fighting way easier guys than when he first entered the UFC. Rampage and Anderson are a helluva step up from Palhares, Franklin and Bisping.

And the only one of those three wins he really looked impressive in was the last one against Bisping, and that was due to a combination of being able to walk right through Bisping’s strikes and Bisping forgetting one of the fundamental rules of boxing. Franklin was owning Hendo standing up in the third round of their fight, and we all know how Rich’s striking compares to Anderson’s. If that was a five-rounder Dan would have been in very deep shit.

Don’t kid yourself bro, Dan isn’t any better a fighter than he was when he entered the UFC – if anything he’s lost a step. The laws of nature can’t be broken. You don’t start getting better when you’re a c-hair from 40.

UFC has no interest in Timmay or AA? Weak. Get everyone you can, within the boundaries of reason, says I.

Timmay was like 60 pounds over the HW limit last time we saw him. I’d be perfectly content to never see him fight again. AA could make a comeback though, he just needs to start letting his hands go more and incorporate some head movement into his defence.

I think Timmeh is a decent fighter. Needs to get his shit together though. I would agree, right now, that he don’t deserve to be in the UFC.

Does anyone know the full list of new fighters acquired?

Right now AA’s head movement is a sharp 90 degrees to the right, followed immediately by six feet straight down to the mat.

Nice one P-Dubbers.

Great news about Vitor signing, though that’s another MW not facing Bisping at 105, looks like we are getting another awful main event. I’m also not sure how fighting at 205 will help Vitor, I’d rather see him stick at 185 though him against Franklin is a much more interesting fight than Rich-Dan II.

Maia and Marquardt got a shocking deal here, there is no way that Hendo should leapfrog them two to get another crack at Andy. Since that fight, Dan’s not shown any improvement, he’s still the same excellent wrestler with a big right hand that lost to Anderson. Sure the Bisping win was impressive and wins over Franklin and Palhares, no matter the circumstance, are both good but Hendo only finished one fight and that was because Bisping came in with a horrible gameplan and even then he ruined the moment with poor sportsmanship and tasteless comments. Andy-Dan II is as pointless to me as Rich-Dan II, arguably even more so because the result isn’t in doubt.

As one sided as Andy-Nate was, a win over Maia would be more impressive than anything Dan has done in the UFC and would warrant another shot, seeing how Nate has beaten all of the other contenders and pretty much beat Leites before blowing it with point deductions, and even then I had it 28-27. As for Maia, nobody is on a hotter streak than him at MW and for him to miss out on another title shot is bogus, if he beats Nate (which I’ve been calling since it was announced) then I’ll be fuming that Hendo got the shot instead of him.

No suprise that Tito is back, funny how that whole situation turned out, Kevin called it from day 1 so hats off to him. However, I’m not particularly interested in seeing him fight Coleman, it’s as relevant as Royce-Shamrock III. Coleman got a good win over Bonnar but Stephan’s wrestling has always been awful and after the Jones fight he looked finished mentally as a fighter, whilst if Shogun was in shape then he would have won their fight in R1. I’d rather see Tito face stronger competition and this just seems to be a blatant attempt to get Tito an easy win. After seeing what happened the last two times Coleman was brought in to lose, I’d laugh if something similar happens again. Coleman’s turning into the new Jardine.

Tito would smash Babalu and Frank Shamrock but half a century old Mark Coleman is a good test? Is it me or is that one of the most fundamentaly retarted statments ever?

Sweet!

Hendo is back baby. Good for him.

hell yeah vancouver,, definetly going to that card

are you going to 102?

interview with Jerry Millen of M-1:

Going back to co-promotion, so you’re saying co-promotion for M-1 means a 50/50 investment between the two parties?

Yeah, yeah. You sit down with the hard numbers. What’s the fight purses? What’s the venue? What’s the advertising budget? Travel, food, throw it all in a pot, split it down the middle, and at the end of the event if the ink is black and there’s a profit, split the profit, and if the ink is red, then just split the loss.

How has other miscellaneous topics that have been reportedly been an issue in the past, such as Sambo, the inclusion of other Red Devil (Fedor’s camp) fighters, the amount of M-1 branding, played into negotiations?

You know all of that stuff is negotiable. If the UFC would have sat down, and conducted as a true co-promotion and say “ok we’ll do half M-1 fighters, and half UFC fighters,” all that can be worked out. At the end of the day it’s about the main event card. That’s what they want: Brock vs. Fedor. Everything else can be worked out as long as they’re willing to work with us. That’s all. And at the end of the day if you’re really a fan of the sport – not a fan of the UFC – You got to step back and see what is best for the sport. Fedor sell his soul to the UFC for an X amount of dollars? Or break their model? I know they have a business model but to me they’re the WWE of MMA…………………….funniest part of this
" and at the end of the event if the ink is black and there’s a profit, split the profit, and if the ink is red, then just split the loss." ufc only gets profits and these russians are greedy

M-1 are leaches and clearly couldn’t give a toss about the fans, they are only interested in lining their own greedy pockets. If the UFC is the WWE of MMA, then M-1 is the XPW.

You have to be a fan of Fedor the fighter but clearly Fedor the businessman is as shady as the likes of Millen and Finkelstein. How can anyone possibly demand half of the profits and half the spots on the card when negotiating over one fighter is absurd. If anyone is going to give the UFC competition then it will be a promotion like Strikeforce who actually care about the fans and putting on the best cards, M-1 are a crooked company with one great fighter who doesn’t even fight on their shows. They just want to make money out of other people’s hard work, well screw them and Fedor. Give me the UFC, Strikeforce and Dream over M-1 anyday.

Truth be told they are both greedy, dana makes about 30-70 mill alone an event on top of other commissions for merchandise and on top of a hefty salary. The problem here is respect and integrity, dana a few years ago basically spit in fedor and his representations face wanting them to give up everything, and not offering them a reasonable deal money wise to fight as well as rights, not too mention the slave ownership and brand of UFC on his forehead and not letting him be affiliated with his sambo tournaments which he has done more than anything. And another thing, Did you know that Fedor is a partner in the M-1 company meaning he owns part of it. He puts a lot of time and effort into broadening his company around the world to help mma grow, he is a pioneer. He wants and hopes for everyone to see MMA the way he does and partake. Both are businessmen. People talk about the russians being this and that, but they are brought up right and are men of integrity and are not just going to bow to a monotheistic company, that can’t take over the world like This Gov’t is trying to do as well so come off it. If dana offered this present day offer back then, he would be in the UFC, no question. He basically said hey fedor, you get what i pay you, wear my brand, you are a slave, and oh about YOUR company M-1 you can abandon that just to fight a rookie gym rat mma fighter. And an arrogant but foolish frank mir and broken down Randy Coutoure. Please, now he is trying to kiss fedor’s ass with an incentive clause saying he can make x amount of money on a gamble type deal. If every event was like UFC 100 then he could make a 6 fight 30 million dollar deal but that won’t happen. The money isn’t the issue, sambo isn’t the issue any more, him being on the MMA video game which, fedor is trying to promote the sport and make a little dough by doing it is no the issue. Both are businessmen and want to grow their companys and help continue their efforts, fedor for the sport, dana for his company and his wallet. The Medium is respect, let them co promote, it is only for the Fedor Fights which would be 3-5 a year? Everyone gets paid, everyone gets famous, both companys promote MMA and Fedor will help bring the UFC over the top to mainstream.

you say its not about money and its about exspanding the sport ….but in reality they jsut wanna leech other peoples money to do it

Vitor vs Franklin should be exciting. Still maybe not enough to beat Mayweather ppv numbers though.

Is that definately the Main Event?

Is that at 185 or 205

I hope they can get a title fight for that card. I think the only one that makes sense would be Anderson vs Hendo. Provided Forrest dosent hurt him or he hurts himself hurting forrest.

its pissing me off how they never let rich fight at lhw wen he stated thats where he want sto fight, they keep having him fight mw..

I would highly doubt that Silva fights at UFC 103. That would be a 5-6 week turnaround. Also, Silva would be cutting back down to 185.

If he were closer to a title shot it would matter, but he is just kinda stuck between both divisions. I think it is a testament to his character, everyone says they’ll fight anyone anytime, but Rich is the only guy doing it at whatever weight the other guy wants to.

catchweight i think..

He’s the one who said he wants to be challenged and wants to fight more often, when he fought Cote he wanted back on the next card which was in the same month I believe.

Rich will not be fighting at LHW becuase there is no hope in hell that he will ever be able to beat Anderson Silva…..they moved him to MW so that maybe he could fight some other exciting fighters and have some sort of chance at a title again

Are you confused? LHW is the division that Franklin wants to fight in. Silve is the MW champion.

yeah

Yeah, I’m sick of hearing about how AA is a ‘UFC castoff’. Dana said himself that he wanted to keep him, but Affliction was the highest bidder.

I still think Andre is a damn exciting fighter if he’d get back to throwing nasty combinations instead of the same safe little jab, straight-right, leg-kick combo that everyone knows is coming. It keeps a fighter at bay, but it doesn’t do enough damage. AA can mess people up if he changes his style, he is a very talented MMA boxer, with great hand speed and power.

It’s not like that fight is getting booted from the main card.

Nate has only won TWO (2) fights in a row!!!

yeah thales leitus beat him. but he does hit hard

winner of marquardt vs maia gets hendo for a title shot, until then let silva fight at 205