UFC Fight Night 22: Charles Oliveira vs Efrain Escudero booked with Matt Wiman hurt
by Jesse Holland on Aug 20, 2010 10:16 AM EDT
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No, seriously.
The fight card for the upcoming UFC Fight Night 22 event continues to get shelled, as talent marches off the injury cliff en masse like a horde of jacked-up lemmings. This time it's Matt Wiman, who was apparently too "Handsome" for his own arm and withdrew from the card with a snap, crackle and pop.
Stepping in for the former TUF guy is promotion sophomore Charles Oliveira, according to MMA Weekly, who will now face Efrain Escudero in the night's co-main event. "Hecho en Mexico" was a late replacement for Mac Danzig, who suffered injuries of his own and dropped out of the contest earlier this week.
Oliveira was impressive in his Octagon debut, submitting Darren Elkins via armbar at UFC on Versus 2 earlier this month. "Do Bronx" is perfect through 13 fights, and has finished all but one of his victims.
The Brazilian now gets a major step up in competition against The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 8 champion in Escudero.
The Tempe native was originally pegged to battle John Gunderson on the preliminary card, but was promoted to the co-main event when Danzig went AWOL. Now he shifts gears once again and will have to keep his submission defense in check come Sept. 15.
After steamrolling his way to 12 straight wins, Escudero was derailed by Evan Dunham in the third round of their UFC Fight Night 20 scrap earlier this year. The painful submission (armbar) sent him back to the drawing board, but not for long.
Escudero rebounded with a unanimous decision win over Dan Lauzon at UFC 114: "Rampage vs. Evans" on May 29 and could get himself right back into the title hunt with a big win over one of the division's top prospects.
To catch up on all the recent changes to the UFC Fight Night 22: "Marquardt vs. Palhares" fight card, scheduled as the lead-in to the twelfth season of TUF on Sept. 15, check out the current (for now) line-up by clicking here.
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jesus, seriously?
well i think this will be a better fight than danzig/wiman
never have any regrets, because at the time, thats all you wanted to do
Much better fight.
Danzig/Wiman was only good because of the controversy.
Danzig is better suited for 145 anyway.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
they should of had this fight as co-main in the 1st place
oliveira seriously impressed me with that sub
I hope he can do it again and my guess is he will be a dog coming into this. This might be an easy money maker
Arm.bar.bandit saw me slow dancing with Anderson Silva. I had my hands on his ass.
I was thinking the same thing...
Dunham didn’t catch Efrain, he set it up and EE couldn’t defend. Oli has better jits than Dunham, so this actually might be a really quick fight.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
I just hope Charles can get it down to the ground
since Efrain has the wrestling base he might use it to keep the fight standing.
If that happens Charles should pull guard
Arm.bar.bandit saw me slow dancing with Anderson Silva. I had my hands on his ass.
I only saw Oliveira the one time and was HUGELY impressed.
What I don;t know is how much bigger EE is going to be. EE cuts about 20 pounds from what I understand. Could be the difference.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
isn't this the kid?
That they were seriously hyping after a quick finish on 117?
Wow, this went from a complete ho-hum to a pretty kick butt co-main.
This will be very good. Much better than UFC's not so mean Vegan and WhyMan
by PetrozellisJab on Aug 20, 2010 10:22 AM EDT reply actions
yeah, so scared he broke his own arm. lol
by PetrozellisJab on Aug 20, 2010 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions
lmfao thats true terror there
on another note charles is dirty dirty and escudero is no walk in the park.
more excited for this then wiman/danzig
keep it up joe silva
"its either going to be genius or its going to f***ing suck. Until I see the first cut I have no idea. But you know what? Neither does anybody else"
Rory 'The Waterboy' Macdonald
Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves
Yushin 'Thunder' Okami
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua
Dominick Cruz
is that a billy walsh quote in your sig?? lol thats soooo random if it is.
by Blunt n' Beer on Aug 20, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure that’s a Billy Walsh quote from when they were doing the “documentary” on the set of Medillian.
yea thats what i thought....honestly thats one of my favorite episodes. Love the whole mockumentary thing, it was actually pretty cool how they did it.
by Blunt n' Beer on Aug 20, 2010 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Having him back is kinda cool, even though the character was good becasue he was fucked up.
The Drama/ Cartoon Monkey angle is GOLD.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
lmfao i agree 100%, imo that show is nothing without drama man, his character in general is fucking gold. and yea im just waiting for walsh to relapse lol
Kevin Dillon – two most famous roles = Bunny from Platoon and Johnny Drama from Entourage – now those are two characters to be remembered for !
by Blunt n' Beer on Aug 20, 2010 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
agreed.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
Not bad for Matt Dillon's ugly little brother.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
yes it is a wally ballz quote lol
i dunno. the second i heard it i just laughed so damn loud so i figured id give her a tribute.
My other fav line was right after alan gray died
E: " thats terrbile"
Vince: " Yah thats awful"
Drama" Is it Vince? Is it?"
haha nearly pissed myself when i heard that
"its either going to be genius or its going to f***ing suck. Until I see the first cut I have no idea. But you know what? Neither does anybody else"
Rory 'The Waterboy' Macdonald
Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves
Yushin 'Thunder' Okami
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua
Dominick Cruz
I think they are trying to build up Oliveira off of Escudero’s name w/ this one. Oliveira’s bjj looked awesome last fight. Efrain is a good wrestler though, should be interesting.
by HappyLittleTreez on Aug 20, 2010 10:29 AM EDT reply actions
I don’t think I can agree with that. The UFC doesn’t really use their TUF winners to build up other fighters names, with the exception of Griffin maybe. They usually use other fighters to build up their TUF winners names since those are the more well known fighters to a casual fan and since they are the guys that the UFC has invested the most money into.
You’re probably right. For some reason I was thinking Efrain lost his last 2. Oliveira would have been a tough, tough fight coming off 2 losses.
by HappyLittleTreez on Aug 20, 2010 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions
that's what she said
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
by Buster Bluth on Aug 20, 2010 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions
HALLO! America! HALLO UFC! HALLO!
NO INGLESHHH!!! HALLO HALLO!
lol, it was kinda funny.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
ha
6 months worth of UFC cards were riddled with injuries
Arm.bar.bandit saw me slow dancing with Anderson Silva. I had my hands on his ass.
really?
I’ve been saying Hencho for two years and this is the first time anyone said anything. I should have known better too because I’m Bye-lingual. When someone starts talking to me in another language, I simply walk away.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
by Jesse Holland on Aug 20, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
That's interesting, because I'm buy-sexual
Every time I have sex with my wife I end up paying for it in the long run.
The next Heavyweight Champion of the UFC(therefore the world), Junior Dos Santos.
i heard a similar version
but it was something like “every time I want sex I always have to buy it”…but every guy pays for it one way or another…wether its dates, dinner, cash or pride and dignity…every man pays for it..
Activia; now with bullshitifus ridicularus
by salamagogo on Aug 20, 2010 3:24 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
If you are giving up your dignity, your standards are too high!
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
I'm down there right now, and they take that seriously.
I’m tri-lingual, I try to make people think I know everything about languages. Anyone else I would have let it slide, but I had to be a prick about it, that’s what I’m here for.
Pronounced ‘Echo en Mehico’.
'How's taste my pee pee pee?'
Bi-Sexual? Can’t get it for free so you buy it?
Talking to you is like having phone sex with a deaf girl...
by Chief Warrant Officer on Aug 20, 2010 2:19 PM EDT reply actions
back to the subject
I guarentee the carlos’s bjj will be to much for efrain… he trains at southwest mma which is notourious for not having a solid bjj program nor having anyone to roll with at carlos’s level… just look at the dunham fight…
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