« A response to a Sporting News writer | Home | Josh Stein’s PRIDE history series: Free Agents & Mercenaries (Part 2) »
Monday MMA notebook – April 6, 2009
By Zach Arnold | April 6, 2009
MMA Junkie: Urijah Faber wants to test waters in both 135-pound and 155-pound divisions
As Mike Brown showed, Faber can get outmuscled by a 155-pounder cutting down to 145 pounds and if Faber goes up in weight, fighters like Tyson Griffin could gave him problems.
The Arizona Republic: Ryan Bader marks out for being in the upcoming UFC video game
“The experience was surreal, knowing that you’ll be immortalized in a video game pretty much forever. It’s crazy thing to think about. They scan every part of you body, the top of your hands, the bottom of your feet to create your character in the video game. It’s surreal, 50 years from now I can show my kids and grandkids I was in a video game.”
The LV Sun: Forrest Griffin still same guy despite ‘cover boy’ status
The inaugural “TUF” winner also confirmed his next bout is against Thiago Silva (13-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) set for UFC 101 on Aug. 8 in Philadelphia.
“He’s tough and I think it’s gonna be a good fight,” Griffin said.
When asked if he was at all disappointed that he will miss out on the organization’s blowout event, UFC 100 in July, Griffin said, “he didn’t mind.”
Jake Rossen: Frank Shamrock-Nick Diaz means nothing, everthing (why is there no heat for this weekend’s fight?)
The fight itself appears destined to be three rounds of video game-style button-mashing. Diaz’s volume punching is probably not going to work against Shamrock, who escaped to stand-up training when his legs gave up on him. Likewise, Shamrock may have few answers (and not enough knee cartilage) if Diaz decides to shoot in on him. There’s never any complete guarantee against boredom, but these are not two guys who stand still and wait for something to happen.
Nikkan Sports: Claimed attendance for DREAM 8 with Sakurai beating Aoki was 9,129 in Nagoya
Sakurai heads to DREAM 10 on 7/20 at Saitama Super Arena. The 25-year old Aoki reflects what he will do next in his career.
Nightmare of Battle: Results for Sengoku training players event
Topics: DREAM, Japan, Media, MMA, Sengoku, StrikeForce, UFC, Zach Arnold | 6 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
I’m not excited for the Strikeforce card. I was going to order Showtime this week, but after Josh Thomson got injured, I had no interest in the card.
I won’t purchase Showtime for the ShoMMA event in May. I’ll wait for the Shields/Lawler event.
I like Griffin/Thiago, first I’ve heard about it.
The ‘harcore fan’ backlash against Shamrock/Diaz is no surprise to me (I’m actually a little surprised – and 10% disappointed – that 45 Huddle didn’t launch into some tirade about how Frank Shamrock should retire because of is insignificance).
After so many people dismissed Shamrock/Cung Le from last year, it was clear to me that the narrow-minded keyboard warriors would not have been satisfied if Frank Shamrock had literally emitted a fireball from his hands like a character from Street Fighter, and Cung Le had retaliated with a kick that set the ring on fire.
They WANTED to hate that fight regardless of the outcome, because it didn’t determining who was ‘the best of the best’, or establish a clear contender for a Zuffa-owned piece of gold in a clearly-defied weight class.
Too much laughing and clapping of hands in the Shamrock/Le fight. That was my main problem. Had the feeling a sparring match, not two guys going after each other.
He may not be top ten, but most of Franks fights in his comeback have been entertaining. So I’ll watch.
The only thing I remember about the Cung Le and Frank Shamrock fight was Cung Le landing a bunch of sidekicks while Shamrock played to the crowd. I don’t really remember Shamrock doing anything of note.