This is one of the most anticipated fights of the year with the bad blood between the former "brothers" making it very interesting. Not only that this may well be the highest level of MMA we will be able to see this year, this well may be fight of the year and the fight which would solidify both Jon Jones and Rashad Evans legacy as one of the best. Both fighters are exciting, technically adept, has a high level of fighting IQ and to top it all off, both are pissed. There's nothing better to fuel a fighter than bad blood.
Showing posts with label Rashad Evans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rashad Evans. Show all posts
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
UFC on Fox 2: Evans vs Davis Results
Main CardMain Event
Rashad Evans Def Phil Davis by Unanimous Decision
(50-45, 50-45, 50-45)
Chael Sonnen Def Michael Bisping by Unanimous Decision
(29-28, 30-27, 29-28)
Chris Weidman Def Demian Maian by Unanimous Decision
(29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Fuel TV Prelims
Evan Dunham Def Nik Lentz
via TKO (Doctor Stoppage) 5:00 in the Round 2
Michael Johnson Def Shane Roller by Unanimous Decision
(29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Mike Russow Def Jon Olav Einemo by Unanimous Decision
(29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Cub Swanson Def George Roop
via TKO (Punches) at 2:22 in Round 2
Charles Oliveira Def Eric Wisely
via Submission (Calf-Crusher) at 1:43 in Round 1
Lavar Johnson Def Joey Beltran
via KO (Punch) at 4:24 in Round 1
Chris Camozzi Def Dustin Jacoby
via Submission (Guillotine) at 1:08 in Round 3
Bonuses
FoN: Dunham vs Lentz
KOTN: Lavar Johnson
SOTN: Charles Oliveira
Friday, January 27, 2012
UFC on Fox: The Weigh In's
The Weigh in's for the fight tommorow
Suga looks pissed and Mr. Wonderful looks confident
Two cocky walk ins. One Goofy and one ready to rumble
Suga looks pissed and Mr. Wonderful looks confident
Two cocky walk ins. One Goofy and one ready to rumble
The Return
I have not been blogging for the past 2 months due to partly my laziness. But I have been following the fights recently and definitely the year ended and started with a bang. One of the most memorable fights in 2011 coincided with the return of Dan 'Hendo' Henderson to the UFC as a fought against the revived former UFC 205 Lbs champ Shogun Rua. This is definitely fight of 2011. The amount of beating Shogun got in the first 3 rounds and the come back in the fourth and the fifth was really something.
There are so many fights to talk about, the Wanderlei vs Cung le, Jones vs Machida, Mir vs Big Nog, the flash knockout by the Korean Zombie. Too many to talk about. and there's the Lesnar-Overeem fight.
The Minnesota Viking vs the Dutch Incredible Hulk
One of the most anticipated fights of the year and did it deliver.
I said it and said it again, Overeem is the best striker in the world. Heavyweight division mind you. Yes, you may say that Dos Santos can lay claim to that, I believe Dos Santos is more of a Boxer than a complete striker like Overeem. OK, how bout this, JDS best heavy boxer in MMA while Overeem best complete striker in MMA. Good?
Then there was the first event of the year, The Rumble in Rio for UFC 142. Jose Aldo, well was Jose Aldo. He went and beat the crap out of Money Mendes with a knew and he threw a couple of punches to make sure that Mendes stayed down a little while longer. Truthfully speaking, I thought Money Mendes would win, well I was wrong. Very wrong.
There's the Belfort vs Rumble which I was actually very excited for until Rumble missed weight by 11 lbs. The excitement just left the building. I didn't even bother to watch the fight knowing a guy was overweight. If he was over by a 2 or 3 pounds, I would still watch but blimey 11 lbs. Coming from a dude who was going up a weight class that was pure disrespectful to Belfort who (from videos) worked hard to reach the weight. Thank God Belfort won. Justice served and Done.
After UFC 142, there was the UFC on FX 1 in Nashville, Tennessee. Headline by Jim Miller and Melvin Guillard. I am a fan of Jim MIller. I love his style. Because of that style he won against a better striker who actually looks like he was going to knock out Jim Miller. Some how and by some divine way, Jim got Guillard back and RNC the crap out of Guillard. B-E-A-U TIFUL.
Next fight in Chicago, UFC on Fox Rashard Evans vs Phil Davis. Battle of the wrestlers and probably the only 2 guys in the UFC who could match the current champ Jon 'Bones' Jones. My bets on Evans because I want to watch Bones slug it out with him. Davis is still green and he might be a future champ and make it rivalry with Bones in the future that is.
Co main event is the two most interesting fighters in the business, Sonnen vs Bisping. Initially Sonnen was suppose to fight Munoz for the no. 1 contender but Munoz got under the knife to remove 24 pieces of bones fragments. He is out until June. So Bisping step up. If he wins, he will fight for the title, and if Sonnen wins he will not fight for the tittle because Anderson is afraid and Sonnen still lay claim of the UFC middleweight title. This is an intriguing fight both stylistically and for the show boat. To loud mouths facing each other. What can we expect?
Further updates will be coming
So stay tune
There are so many fights to talk about, the Wanderlei vs Cung le, Jones vs Machida, Mir vs Big Nog, the flash knockout by the Korean Zombie. Too many to talk about. and there's the Lesnar-Overeem fight.The Minnesota Viking vs the Dutch Incredible Hulk
One of the most anticipated fights of the year and did it deliver.
I said it and said it again, Overeem is the best striker in the world. Heavyweight division mind you. Yes, you may say that Dos Santos can lay claim to that, I believe Dos Santos is more of a Boxer than a complete striker like Overeem. OK, how bout this, JDS best heavy boxer in MMA while Overeem best complete striker in MMA. Good?
Then there was the first event of the year, The Rumble in Rio for UFC 142. Jose Aldo, well was Jose Aldo. He went and beat the crap out of Money Mendes with a knew and he threw a couple of punches to make sure that Mendes stayed down a little while longer. Truthfully speaking, I thought Money Mendes would win, well I was wrong. Very wrong.
There's the Belfort vs Rumble which I was actually very excited for until Rumble missed weight by 11 lbs. The excitement just left the building. I didn't even bother to watch the fight knowing a guy was overweight. If he was over by a 2 or 3 pounds, I would still watch but blimey 11 lbs. Coming from a dude who was going up a weight class that was pure disrespectful to Belfort who (from videos) worked hard to reach the weight. Thank God Belfort won. Justice served and Done.
After UFC 142, there was the UFC on FX 1 in Nashville, Tennessee. Headline by Jim Miller and Melvin Guillard. I am a fan of Jim MIller. I love his style. Because of that style he won against a better striker who actually looks like he was going to knock out Jim Miller. Some how and by some divine way, Jim got Guillard back and RNC the crap out of Guillard. B-E-A-U TIFUL.
Co main event is the two most interesting fighters in the business, Sonnen vs Bisping. Initially Sonnen was suppose to fight Munoz for the no. 1 contender but Munoz got under the knife to remove 24 pieces of bones fragments. He is out until June. So Bisping step up. If he wins, he will fight for the title, and if Sonnen wins he will not fight for the tittle because Anderson is afraid and Sonnen still lay claim of the UFC middleweight title. This is an intriguing fight both stylistically and for the show boat. To loud mouths facing each other. What can we expect?
Further updates will be coming
So stay tune
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Here we go again: Jones says Rashad Ducking him
From 5th Round
by Tom Ngo
If you can dodge a wrench, but can you dodge a fight. The game of dodgeball between UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and Rashad Evans appears never ending. After agreeing to meet Evans at UFC 140 just 12 days after making his first successful title defense, Jones is claiming his former teammate is ducking their grudge match.
Evans had the pins removed from his surgically-repaired right hand on Wednesday, but his doctor won’t allow him to start training for another three weeks. With the clock ticking on their proposed December 10th showdown, Evans felt he wouldn’t have enough time to prepare for Jones.
“He’s tried to call me out on nine weeks notice,” Jones told MMAFighting. “Obviously, who wants to fight on nine weeks notice? … Rashad calls me out, predicting that I would say no, to make me look like I was ducking him again, and I say yes, and now he says, ‘Oh, I didn’t know he would say yes. I don’t want to fight him.’ He called Dana White, asked for 140, Dana White called me and said Rashad wants this fight. I gave him the fight he wanted and then he pulled out.
“Rashad, predicting that I would say no, he kind of kicked himself in the butt because I said yes, he turns around and says, ‘Oh, I didn’t expect Jon to say yes. I don’t want to fight him that soon.’ So in reality, he’s kind of the one who’s ducking the fight. I feel like he’s ducking the fight.”
Jones is fresh off the most rigorous training camp of his young career and treated himself to a $190,000 Bentley after submitting Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 135. Clearly, some R&R to break in his new ride was on his mind. However, with the opportunity to squash his beef with Evans staring him dead in his eyes he couldn’t help but accept the challenge.
“Like I said, Rashad is the biggest antagonist of my career,” Jones added. “He’s the biggest hater. He has so much envy. I don’t write him, he writes me. He harasses me pretty much. He is so envious and so jealous and it’s so obvious, he doesn’t even try to hide it. And after I beat him, he’s going to hate me even more.”
Oh, and regarding Evans’ long-term top contender status, Jones believes his mortal enemy should be forced to fight again before he sniffs another championship affair.
“Obviously I want to fight him, but how long are you going to get to wait and sit around?” Jones asked. “You go from not fighting for a whole year, and then you get a fight like Tito Oritz, which everybody knows where Tito is at in his career, and now he just gets to sit around and be the No. 1 contender again?
“It looks like he’s the one that’s sitting on his glory and riding his glory. There’s tons of guys out there. I think when he gets better, he should have to fight Phil Davis or Dan Henderson. How does he get the right to just sit around and say who he is going to fight and when he is going to fight and continue to be the No. 1 contender while everybody else fights all year long?”
Jones now defends his throne against Lyoto Machida at UFC 140 inside the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
by Tom Ngo
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| Jon "Bones" Jones stripped down |
Evans had the pins removed from his surgically-repaired right hand on Wednesday, but his doctor won’t allow him to start training for another three weeks. With the clock ticking on their proposed December 10th showdown, Evans felt he wouldn’t have enough time to prepare for Jones.
“He’s tried to call me out on nine weeks notice,” Jones told MMAFighting. “Obviously, who wants to fight on nine weeks notice? … Rashad calls me out, predicting that I would say no, to make me look like I was ducking him again, and I say yes, and now he says, ‘Oh, I didn’t know he would say yes. I don’t want to fight him.’ He called Dana White, asked for 140, Dana White called me and said Rashad wants this fight. I gave him the fight he wanted and then he pulled out.
“Rashad, predicting that I would say no, he kind of kicked himself in the butt because I said yes, he turns around and says, ‘Oh, I didn’t expect Jon to say yes. I don’t want to fight him that soon.’ So in reality, he’s kind of the one who’s ducking the fight. I feel like he’s ducking the fight.”
Jones is fresh off the most rigorous training camp of his young career and treated himself to a $190,000 Bentley after submitting Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 135. Clearly, some R&R to break in his new ride was on his mind. However, with the opportunity to squash his beef with Evans staring him dead in his eyes he couldn’t help but accept the challenge.
“Like I said, Rashad is the biggest antagonist of my career,” Jones added. “He’s the biggest hater. He has so much envy. I don’t write him, he writes me. He harasses me pretty much. He is so envious and so jealous and it’s so obvious, he doesn’t even try to hide it. And after I beat him, he’s going to hate me even more.”
Oh, and regarding Evans’ long-term top contender status, Jones believes his mortal enemy should be forced to fight again before he sniffs another championship affair.
“Obviously I want to fight him, but how long are you going to get to wait and sit around?” Jones asked. “You go from not fighting for a whole year, and then you get a fight like Tito Oritz, which everybody knows where Tito is at in his career, and now he just gets to sit around and be the No. 1 contender again?
“It looks like he’s the one that’s sitting on his glory and riding his glory. There’s tons of guys out there. I think when he gets better, he should have to fight Phil Davis or Dan Henderson. How does he get the right to just sit around and say who he is going to fight and when he is going to fight and continue to be the No. 1 contender while everybody else fights all year long?”
Jones now defends his throne against Lyoto Machida at UFC 140 inside the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
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