**UFC/MMA Thread**

Originally posted by SF69ers:
fuuu Lil' Nog injured and out of his rematch against Shogun

Chael Sonnen trying to mouth his way to replacing Nog.

I really want to see Hendricks knock the piss out of Rory McDonald. Here's hoping Ellenburger can do this.

love Hendricks. dude is a beast.

Rampage Jackson signed with TNA wrestling.

Who ganna fight Shogun? Lyoto?

Originally posted by TonyStarks:
Rampage Jackson signed with TNA wrestling.

Who ganna fight Shogun? Lyoto?

Shogun vs Chael is confirmed to headline Fox Sports 1 in Boston. Lyoto fighting Phil Davis at 163 in Brazil. August has a lot of good fights lined up :

UFC 163 :

Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis
Phil Davis vs. Lyoto Machida
Josh Koscheck vs. Demian Maia

Fox Sports 1 card :

Mauricio Rua vs. Chael Sonnen
Travis Browne vs. Alistair Overeem
Yuri Alcantara vs. Urijah Faber
Thiago Alves vs. Matt Brown
Uriah Hall vs. Nick Ring
Michael Johnson vs. Joe Lauzon
Michael McDonald vs. Brad Pickett

They have Condit vs Kampmann II headline Fox Sports 1 #2

UFC 164 in Milwaukee :

Benson Henderson vs. T.J. Grant
Josh Barnett vs. Frank Mir
Diego Sanchez vs TBD
Erik Koch vs. Dustin Poirier

And I'm guessing Jones vs Gus headlines Toronto in September pushing GSP's next fight til October/November in Vegas (against Hendricks) unless Spider wins and he finally takes the Silva fight. There are rumors of a Cowboys Stadium fight for the 20th anniversary with either Jones vs Silva or GSP vs Silva + Cain vs JDS III. They also are thinking of doing a big card at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Thanks for the updates, KRS. Was gonna do that this morning

I'm real excited for Fox Sports 1 to launch. That's basically all UFC all the time.

Rampage not only gets to participate with TNA but he will also compete in Bellator and receive his own reality show of preparing for his first fight. Chiek Kongo also signed with Bellator.

why the hell is Sonnen even in the mix still? he's constantly getting his ass beat.

Originally posted by ChazBoner:
why the hell is Sonnen even in the mix still? he's constantly getting his ass beat.

To be fair his losses have come against Bones, Spider x2 and a sub loss Maia (who is a high level BJJ black belt).


BJ Penn is training. Going to see where his mind and body are in a couple months and decide whether he wants to fight again or not. If he comes back to fight it's apparently at LW. Khabib has already called him out but BJ shouldn't take THAT fight if he does come back.

omg, BJ is another one. dude needs to hang em up like 5 years ago.

Originally posted by ChazBoner:
why the hell is Sonnen even in the mix still? he's constantly getting his ass beat.

Sonnen needs to move back down to MW. I would've liked to see Shogun vs. Glover

Originally posted by ChazBoner:
omg, BJ is another one. dude needs to hang em up like 5 years ago.

Well, perhaps a final beating will send him into retirement. It's hard for some of these to let go and realize they no longer the same fighter they once were.

Here's a more complete look at UFC 164 in August:

Ben Henderson vs. T.J. Grant
Frank Mir vs. Josh Barnett
Clay Guida vs. Chad Mendes
Diego Sanchez vs. TBA
Ben Rothwell vs. Brandon Vera
Erik Koch vs. Dustin Poirier
Nikita Krylov vs. Soa Palelei

Vera is giving up a lot of size against Rothwell

Originally posted by SF69ers:
Here's a more complete look at UFC 164 in August:

Ben Henderson vs. T.J. Grant
Frank Mir vs. Josh Barnett
Clay Guida vs. Chad Mendes
Diego Sanchez vs. TBA
Ben Rothwell vs. Brandon Vera
Erik Koch vs. Dustin Poirier
Nikita Krylov vs. Soa Palelei

Vera is giving up a lot of size against Rothwell

I want Diego vs either Khabib, Melendez, Nate Diaz or Jim Miller (he always brings it) on that card.

Originally posted by KRS-1:

Originally posted by SF69ers:
Here's a more complete look at UFC 164 in August:

Ben Henderson vs. T.J. Grant
Frank Mir vs. Josh Barnett
Clay Guida vs. Chad Mendes
Diego Sanchez vs. TBA
Ben Rothwell vs. Brandon Vera
Erik Koch vs. Dustin Poirier
Nikita Krylov vs. Soa Palelei

Vera is giving up a lot of size against Rothwell

I want Diego vs either Khabib, Melendez, Nate Diaz or Jim Miller (he always brings it) on that card.

i'd be down with that!!

Originally posted by SF69ers:
Thanks for the updates, KRS. Was gonna do that this morning

I'm real excited for Fox Sports 1 to launch. That's basically all UFC all the time.

Rampage not only gets to participate with TNA but he will also compete in Bellator and receive his own reality show of preparing for his first fight. Chiek Kongo also signed with Bellator.

damn he's still fighting ,..fighting?

I think he's shot his wad.