You can supplement Soa Palelei, who mislaid his usually incursion into a UFC to Eddie Sanchez and was one of Strikeforce Grand Prix finalist Daniel Cormier’s initial victims, to a names of such MMA luminaries as Mariusz Pudzianowski, Volkan Duzgun, Attila Uçar and Minowaman on a list of those who have stopped Bob Sapp in fatiguing fashion. And by fatiguing conform we meant hold him once and see how fast he gives adult therein.

Sapp mislaid sincerely early to Palelei during this weekend’s Cage Fighting Championship 21 in annoying fashion. You can watch below.

• First Blemish For Jon Jones – UFC Champion Arrested For DUI in New York – May 19th, 2012
• Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier – Live Coverage And Results (May 19 in San Jose, CA) – May 19th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen Ends Clone on Clone Violence On Jim Rome’s “Smackoff” – May 18th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen: “The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment” – Book Review – May 18th, 2012
• Five for Fighting – Fights To Make After UFC on Fuel TV 3 – May 18th, 2012

Tags: bob sapp, Embarassing MMA, Soa Palelei

TMZ first reported, and was after reliable to MMA Fighting by First Round Management, that UFC Light Heavyweight champion assimilated a ranks of copiousness of other veteran athletes on being charged with pushing underneath a change of alcohol.

The champion apparently crashed his Bentley around a light pole, injuring no one (including himself). First Round Management sent out a matter confirming a detain and seeking for remoteness on interest of a warrior and his family.

“I can endorse that Jon Jones was arrested early this morning on guess of DUI,” Malki Kawa pronounced in a statement. “While a contribution of this conditions are still being collected and situated, First Round Management entirely supports Jon and we are seeking for fans and media to honour a remoteness of Jon and his family during this time.”

Per MMA Fighting: “According to a Broome County Sheriff’s Office, Jones was arrested during 5:02 a.m. after pang “minor injuries” following a one-car collision wherein his automobile struck a pole. Sheriff’s bureau officials refused to criticism on either there were any passengers in a automobile with Jones during a time of a accident.”

• Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier – Live Coverage And Results (May 19 in San Jose, CA) – May 19th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen Ends Clone on Clone Violence On Jim Rome’s “Smackoff” – May 18th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen: “The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment” – Book Review – May 18th, 2012
• Five for Fighting – Fights To Make After UFC on Fuel TV 3 – May 18th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen Riffs On Everything On “The Joe Rogan Experience” – May 14th, 2012

Tags: jon jones

We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see if UFC will give Mark Hunt a pretension shot during this career rebirth of sorts as an damage has pulled him out of his UFC 146 hitch with Stefan Struve. In stairs Lavar Johnson, entrance off a feat over Pat Barry during UFC on FOX 3, and back-to-back “Knockout of a Night” performances.

UFC 146 takes place on May 26th and will be headlined by a UFC Heavyweight pretension hitch between champion Junior dos Santos and Frank Mir.

• UFC Primetime: Junior Dos Santos vs. Frank Mir [Video] – May 18th, 2012
• Urijah Faber’s UFC 148 Opponent to Be Announced on Friday’s “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” – May 17th, 2012
• UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir Extended Preview [Video] – May 11th, 2012
• TUF Winner Diego Brandao on Darren Elkins, “BoOm” and More – May 11th, 2012
• Josh Thomson Hurts PCL, Fight with Gilbert Melendez in Doubt? – May 11th, 2012

Tags: Frank Mir, Junior dos Santos, Lavar Johnson, Mark Hunt, Stefan Struve, UFC 146

There are dual Chael Sonnens who exist in a area of MMA occupying a same body. There’s one we honestly like examination … and afterwards this other chronicle of him that was engaging for a brief while though has played itself out some-more significantly than Sacha Baron Cohen perplexing to put together a supplement to “Borat.” Both of them come out early and mostly in Sonnen’s new book, “The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment,” a brief though sincerely mediocre novel.

One side of a Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling swap is good warrior who has fashioned himself into a agent-provocateur of a sport, a male who can and will contend anything to get a reaction. Sycophants speak about how large of a pull that male is when in existence a numbers are a lot some-more deceiving. Sonnen might get hits, and irritate MMA hardcores and media members alike, though a existence is that this initial chronicle of Chael P Sonnen is a loudmouth who infrequent fans omit on a unchanging basis. More people paid to see Anderson Silva knockout Vitor Belfort, among others, afterwards they paid to see Sonnen scarcely better a champion in what was labeled by many as one of a best fights of all time during UFC 117. That male might pierce a needle on internet trade though doesn’t utterly do so elsewhere.

On a other side is a Chael P Sonnen that many fans don’t balance into: Chael a pragmatic, honest MMA analyst. For those who never saw him on ESPN’s MMA Live, or on UFC Insider, Sonnen has a extensive proceed to looking during and evaluating a competition he creates a vital from. If there was never this brash, unapologetic Sonnen that incited off as many fans as he incited on afterwards he’d be famous in a same approach that Brian Stann is: as an expressive envoy of sport. This is a male we privately suffer a most; Sonnen has such a singular and engaging take on MMA and all a hoopla surrounding it that it provides a sincerely engaging perspective. That male might not pierce a needle though he’s a kind of warrior cum researcher a competition needs.

Coupled with his eventually unsuccessful domestic run and his sincerely nuanced take, a latter Sonnen comes by for many of a book’s sincerely brief length. This isn’t a formidable or in-depth novel; during 224 pages it’s a sincerely discerning and easy read. And it gives us both sides of a middleweight contender that fans have comes to known: Chael a showman and Chael a man.

The man’s a lot some-more engaging to review about since Sonnen can’t overstate a story or leave some arrange of embossed story about an opponent. When he’s deliberating warrior pay, a costs of a vital quarrel from his viewpoint and a trials of training there’s something honest about it that all his promotional pieces and pound speak don’t strike to. He has a tough life as a warrior and he doesn’t chop difference on a highs, and lows, of a competition during a top levels. Whenever he discusses his competition from his personal viewpoint there’s a soreness to it that’s roughly shocking. Even comical pieces, like his contention of opening song and guys formulating characters to play (he lists Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone as one), ends adult apropos page-turning element since of his openness about it. Sonnen is a sincerely means liar in that regard.

As he discusses how he got into pledge wrestling, how tough he worked to turn as good as he is and his practice in wrestling bedrooms over a years there’s something low about it that offers a genuine tie to a male who honestly doesn’t have many genuine persona to harness. When a showman is out we hurl your eyes and laugh; when a male is out we compensate courtesy since there’s something courteous entrance out. It’s same to his pound speak before a Michael Bisping quarrel on Fox and before a Brian Stann fight. He was his common self opposite Bisping, of course, though during a Stann buildup there was something genuine about how he discussed his loyalty with Stann and about how about how Stann’s aplomb in fight done intimidating him sincerely difficult. Even when he discusses his politics, to that he leans unabashedly conservative, there’s a genuineness to it that is reduction provocative and some-more insightful.

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The problem is that Chael a showman and wannabe comedian pops out frequently adequate to kill a genuine amour a book has to offer. When he’s deliberating a origins of (and applications to MMA therein) of normal martial humanities it becomes reduction humorous and some-more repulsive to review him plead what he apparently doesn’t caring all that many for. It’s same to examination Cohen trolling America once again as Kazakhstan’s many famous reporter: we’ve seen so many of it that there’s zero new to say. There’s no new area to shock; only new ways of observant a same things he’s been observant for utterly a while now. He once pronounced that removing a black belt from a Nogueira brothers was like “getting a fondle in your Happy Meal” and there’s zero that’s scarcely as artistic or scornful as that square was several years ago.

“The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment” is a clever seller so distant since Chael Sonnen has been sincerely good during self-promotion for some time. But it’s not a good book, nor is it that many of a good one. It’s a discerning read, and labelled well, though not essential reading material.

• Chael Sonnen Ends Clone on Clone Violence On Jim Rome’s “Smackoff” – May 18th, 2012
• Five for Fighting – Fights To Make After UFC on Fuel TV 3 – May 18th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen Riffs On Everything On “The Joe Rogan Experience” – May 14th, 2012
• Kimbo Slice Can Crushes Again In First Round KO Against Jesse Porter [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• World’s Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski Beats World’s Weakest Bob Sapp [Video] – May 14th, 2012

Tags: Chael Sonnen, The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment

The one thing Chael Sonnen does best is talk; now audio from his coming on Jim Rome’s “smackoff” has found the approach online. You can listen to it below.

• Chael Sonnen: “The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment” – Book Review – May 18th, 2012
• Five for Fighting – Fights To Make After UFC on Fuel TV 3 – May 18th, 2012
• Chael Sonnen Riffs On Everything On “The Joe Rogan Experience” – May 14th, 2012
• Kimbo Slice Can Crushes Again In First Round KO Against Jesse Porter [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• World’s Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski Beats World’s Weakest Bob Sapp [Video] – May 14th, 2012

With UFC on Fuel TV 3 ion a books, and my brief try to Lincoln, NE, over, now we can mangle down a bets fights going brazen for a 5 many intriguing winners and losers from a card. Having watched a label on DVR, means to quick brazen by a commercials and such, it was a night of some energetic fights and a categorical eventuality that honestly repelled me.

Winners

Chang Jung Sung vs. Jose Aldo – Provided Aldo gets past Eric Koch, of course, yet Sung deserves a subsequent pretension shot. A genuine stunner of a feat to me, as we didn’t put many batch into his wins over Leonard Garcia and that peep KO of Mark Hominick, yet he’s altered my mind. Sung looks like a genuine contender for Jose Aldo’s pretension right now. Poirier was a peculiarity win and a pretension shot in a multiplication as shoal as featherweight ought to be subsequent for Sung.

Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis – A matchup we never saw in a WEC and one that would be a good final exam for Pettis. He’s one quarrel divided from a pretension shot and with a approach a multiplication is backing adult he’ll be watchful for a prolonged time to get another moment during it. Nate Diaz is also waiting, as well, so Pettis needs to stay bustling and keep winning. Cerrone is a tip 10 lightweight and was on a fork of a pretension shot himself. The leader of Clay Guida vs. Gray Maynard would be another probability for Cerrone, as both of those fighters are contenders as well.

Amir Sadollah vs. Stephen Thompson – The UFC doesn’t generally tend to matchup winners and losers, of course, yet after losing to Matt Brown utterly badly Sadollah would be a good exam for “Wonderboy.” Sadollah has a identical character and is another form that is an early turn gatekeeper. If Thompson can’t kick Sadollah or Matt Brown afterwards he doesn’t merit to be in a UFC, really. That’s where we are with Thompson during this indicate and Sadollah is about as good of an early turn gatekeeper as it gets. If Dan Hardy beats Duane Ludwig we could see that matchup as well; Matt Riddle could also be a possibility.

Tom Lawlor vs. Yushin Okami – Another loser/winner matchup, we know, yet Lawlor’s win gets him right behind to where he was a brief while ago: on a fork of another tip 10 opponent. Okami’s had a bit of a bad streak, removing tooled by Anderson Silva and afterwards wrecked by Tim Boetsch after winning a initial dual rounds in Japan. Two guys with incompatible movement can make for a fun matchup. we could see them putting in someone like Rousimar Palhares or a crook of Ed Herman/Jake Shields in this mark too.

Yves Jabouin vs. Michael MacDonald – MacDonald has a palm injury, of course, and many expected is out for a halt pretension quarrel conflicting Urijah Faber. My theory is that Renan Barao gets announced as Faber’s subsequent competition on tonight’s “Ultimate Fighter.” Jabouin could be a pretension contender with a high turn win and MacDonald is in a same spot; infrequently we have to kick a burgeoning man to get that final seasoning. Mike Easton could step in as well, carrying creatively been scheduled to face Jabouin before pulling out with an injury.

Losers

Jeremy Stephens vs. a crook of Clay Guida/Gray Maynard – Stephens is roughly settling into a purpose of being a man that’s unequivocally good yet is in such a built multiplication that enormous a Top 10 competence never happen. Kind of like Pat Barry yet smaller and not comatose all a time, it seems. Stephens vs. Guida/Maynard would be a good character matchup and a crook of this sold quarrel is going to tumble down a ladder in line for a pretension shot considerably. Stephens is a tough quarrel yet winnable for both, obviously, and a win over possibly of Guida/Maynard gets Stephens right behind where he was before a Cerrone fight. we could see a rematch of a Melvin Guillard fight, if Joe Silva wants to be a sadist.

Dustin Poirier vs. Miguel Torres – Poirier didn’t only lose; he got manhandled for a vast apportionment of a fight. But he’s still a tip warrior and will substantially plea for a pretension down a road. Torres creates sense; he’s got name value and that scalp on his resume still means something. Potentially a crook of a halt pretension quarrel could make their approach conflicting Poirier, as well.

Jason MacDonald vs. Rousimar Palhares – Both of these fighters needs a win right now. Palhares was only stopped by Alan Belcher a quarrel or dual divided from a pretension shot. MacDonald needs to win his subsequent quarrel or else he’s substantially off a UFC roster. Great fights customarily occur when fighters get desperate, generally when we get guys who have good belligerent games. we wouldn’t be astounded if MacDonald called it a day and walked divided from a sport, of course, yet we consider he has a integrate of good fights left in him.

Jorge Lopez vs. DeMarques Johnson – Lopez has mislaid twice in a UFC, so my theory is that he won’t be around for a third fight, yet he’s shown adequate we consider he warrants one. He has a good extraction and a Sadollah quarrel was a separate decision, so it’s not like he’s mislaid in winning conform twice. Johnson would be a good matchup for both of them and potentially a quarrel where a crook is out of a UFC.

Jeff Curran vs. John Lineker – Curran wants to go to flyweight, and had been articulate about doing so before Tuesday’s fight. If a UfC allows him to, and my theory is that they will deliberation a multiplication is only beginning, afterwards a quarrel with Lineker creates sense. Curran is a heedful maestro and Lineker had high expectations entrance into a final UFC on Fox card. Lineker has been bandied about as a destiny champion yet a bad detriment to Louis Gaudinot has halted talks of that. He still has tons of ability, though, and a quarrel with Curran could move it out.

• Chael Sonnen Riffs On Everything On “The Joe Rogan Experience” – May 14th, 2012
• Kimbo Slice Can Crushes Again In First Round KO Against Jesse Porter [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• World’s Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski Beats World’s Weakest Bob Sapp [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• Mo Money, Mo Problems – Why Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal Might Wind Up Losing More Than He Gains From Bellator/TNA Deal – May 11th, 2012
• Muhammad “King Mo” Lawal Talks About Career Change On MMA Uncensored [Video] – May 11th, 2012

Tags: Five for Fighting, UFC on Fuel TV 3

Check out a latest book of UFC Primetime, featuring Junior dos Santos and Frank Mir.

Go inside a personal lives and training camps of heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos and former champion Frank Mir in a weeks heading adult to their pretension quarrel during UFC 146.

• Urijah Faber’s UFC 148 Opponent to Be Announced on Friday’s “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” – May 17th, 2012
• UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir Extended Preview [Video] – May 11th, 2012
• TUF Winner Diego Brandao on Darren Elkins, “BoOm” and More – May 11th, 2012
• Josh Thomson Hurts PCL, Fight with Gilbert Melendez in Doubt? – May 11th, 2012
• Luke Rockhold Defends Strikeforce Middleweight Title Against Tim Kennedy on 7/14 – May 11th, 2012

Tags: Frank Mir, Junior dos Santos, UFC 146

On this Friday’s part of “The Ultimate Fighter: Live”, UFC President Dana White settled on a new discussion call that we will find out who will face Urijah Faber for a halt UFC Bantamweight tag during UFC 148.

Dominick Cruz, a stream UFC Bantamweight champion, was harmed and forced out of his competition during UFC 148 after an ACL tear, so putting a check on a intensity third quarrel in their trilogy.

The tip 3 contenders to quarrel Faber embody Renan Barao, Michael McDonald and Ivan Menjivar.

• UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir Extended Preview [Video] – May 11th, 2012
• TUF Winner Diego Brandao on Darren Elkins, “BoOm” and More – May 11th, 2012
• Josh Thomson Hurts PCL, Fight with Gilbert Melendez in Doubt? – May 11th, 2012
• Luke Rockhold Defends Strikeforce Middleweight Title Against Tim Kennedy on 7/14 – May 11th, 2012
• Shane Roller vs. John Alessio Added to UFC 148 – May 11th, 2012

Tags: Dominick Cruz, Ivan Menjivar, Michael McDonald, renan barao, The Ultimate Fighter, UFC, UFC 148, Urijah Faber

Greetings MMA fans, we’ve got a provide for we this evening! Welcome to a live coverage of UFC on FUEL 3: The Korean Zombie vs. Dustin Poirier. In a categorical event, dual of a tip featherweights in a universe face off with a intensity pretension shot during UFC Featherweight champion Jose Aldo on a line.

Our live label coverage will start during 8 PM ET so come hang out for tonight’s results.

Main Card (FUEL TV 8PM ET/5PM PT)

Chan Sung “The Korean Zombie” Jung vs. Dustin Poirier (Three-Round Fight)
Amir Sadollah vs. Jorge Lopez
Donald Cerrone vs. Jeremy Stephens
Jeff Hougland vs. Yves Jabouin
Igor Pokrajac vs. Fabio Maldonado
Tom Lawlor vs. Jason MacDonald

• UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans Live Coverage and Play by Play – Apr 21st, 2012
• The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cruz vs. Team Faber Mock Draft – Mar 16th, 2012
• UFC on FUEL: Diego Sanchez vs. Jake Ellenberger Live Results and Play by Play – Feb 15th, 2012
• UFC 142: Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes Live Results and Play by Play – Jan 14th, 2012
• 10 Thoughts on Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal – Dec 18th, 2011

Tags: “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung, Amir Sadollah, Donald Cerrone, Dustin Poirier, Fabio Maldonado, Igor Pokrajac, Jason MacDonald, Jeff Hougland, Jeremy Stephens, Jorge Lopez, Korean Zombie, Tom Lawlor, Yves Jabouin

Joe Rogan might be a voice of a UFC though his podcast is remarkably filthy. And Chael Sonnen got into it this afternoon as he assimilated Rogan and his crony Brian Redban.

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• Kimbo Slice Can Crushes Again In First Round KO Against Jesse Porter [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• World’s Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski Beats World’s Weakest Bob Sapp [Video] – May 14th, 2012
• Mo Money, Mo Problems – Why Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal Might Wind Up Losing More Than He Gains From Bellator/TNA Deal – May 11th, 2012
• Muhammad “King Mo” Lawal Talks About Career Change On MMA Uncensored [Video] – May 11th, 2012
• Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal Signs With Bellator And TNA Wrestling – Will Fight and Wrassle Concurrently – May 10th, 2012

Tags: Chael Sonnen, Joe Rogan