Here are some of the latest and greatest MMA Weekly News as of June 7, 2010:
The Sunday Junkie: June 6 edition
But this week's winner, Jason Szewczyk, focused on another popular subject: UFC president Dana White and the state of MMA media. UFC News. If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get …
Publish Date: 06/06/2010 13:00
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UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin pre-event preview and predictions …
Franklin' goes down over the border in Canada this coming weekend. The notoriously energetic Canadian MMA crowd will no doubt be out in force as the Vancouver crowd are treated to their first live UFC event [...] … June 7, 2010 All MMA News, Exclusives, UFC No Comments. The UFC pays a visit to Vancouver, British Columbia for the first time ever as 'UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin' goes down over the border in Canada this coming weekend. The notoriously energetic Canadian …
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Publish Date: 06/07/2010 11:53
http://www.mmabay.co.uk/2010/06/07/ufc-115-liddell-vs-franklin-pre-event-preview-and-predictions-preliminary-card/
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Jokes About “The Whole Gay Thing …
Apparently, the G-bomb has become inexplicably acceptable in the MMA world because nothing was made of Rampage's consistent usage of the word to describe his bitter rival Rashad Evans in order to promote UFC 114. However, Rampage is now …
Publish Date: 06/07/2010 10:21
http://www.5thround.com/39352/quinton-rampage-jackson-jokes-about-the-whole-gay-thing-because-its-comedy/
World's Number 1 Ranked Female Fighter Megumi Fujii Makes National …
CHICAGO, Ill. (June 7, 2010) — Japanese MMA sensation Megumi Fujii, widely regarded as the No. 1 pound-for-pound female fighter in the world, will make her U.S. television debut on Thursday night on FOX Sports Net as part of the LIVE …
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Publish Date: 06/07/2010 9:30
http://www.prommanews.com/2010/06/07/worlds-number-1-ranked-female-fighter-megumi-fujii-makes-national-tv-debut-at-bellator-21-on-june-10/
Tweets on The Latest MMA News and Fights:
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MMA Fights and News in Youtube:
Nanaimo's Nick Hinchliffe Talks To CHEK.TV Prior To Bout With Craig "Farmer" Brown at Aggression MMA III in Vernon, BC Nick Won That Fight By Submission, Rd. 3
Wanderlei Silva celebrates 4 fights 4 wins with Wand Fight Team
Wanderlei Silva and his fighters Jorge Lopez, JJ Mix and Michelle Gutierrez at MMA Xplosion at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, 4 fights 4 wins for Wand Fight Team
UFC 115 predictions by Joanne of MMA Girls
for the June 12th fights live on pay per view.
Guerreros De Tucson - Commercial
June 19th is "Guerreros De Tucson" where 20 Warriors of Tucson will battle it out in a MMA Cage brawl. The best MMA show in Arizona just got better as we have a new setup for the Cage! It has been moved off he stage and right on top of the crowd for …
Gunner Weir Vs Carson Desario. 155 Mma fight.
Gunner Weir Vs Carson Desario. 155 Mma fight.
Anderson Silva
Hardcore Anderson Silva fans are quick to justify their hero’s lackluster performance during the main event of the UFC 97 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Oh yes, Silva is the octagon’s finest artist (this is supposed to be grander that simply being a “martial artist”?) He’s a champion. He knows how to win. How? By making sure he doesn’t lose?
You see, you can do it by avoiding a collision course against your opponent. And that’s precisely what he did last April 18. Oh yes, Silva was just showing his “technical skills” and a “smart fighter” doesn’t just attack and put himself in danger. C’mon. This is UFC, not some freakin’ chess tournament. People go to watch action. Why else would they be offered knockout bonuses? To encourage the fighters to be more aggressive and show more action.
Yes, technical skills count, but this trait is supposed to make the fight more interesting – not boring. If you want technical skill, running away is the best technical skill.
While Leites’ performance sucks, Silva’s was quite a letdown. Silva’s defenders say, the pressure should be on the challenger to force the fight. Normally, yes. However, when things become obvious that Leites does not pose any danger, and that he was not even showing an aggressive campaign at snatching the champion’s belt, Silva should have stepped up his game plan. While he intends to win, he should also not forget that fans would always want a spectacular win. Why else would they pay to watch?
What he did was, “Oh, Leites doesn’t know how to snatch the championship belt on me. Good. I’ll just let the rounds pass by without breaking a sweat – without endangering myself – and i’m still sure of retaining my belt. And I’ll be UFC’s record-holder of the most number of consecutive wins.” Well, that sucks. That smacks of avoidance. As I’ve said, this fight seems to say that you can keep your belt by avoiding contact. No points earned by both dancers – er, fighters, the championship title doesn’t change names.
We expected more from Silva. He IS Anderson Silva in the first place. He even went back to Rio de Janiero to sharpen his BJJ skills, right? When obviously, he wanted a stand-up fight and Leites proves to be less inclined, he should have changed his game plan. But no, he wanted to play it “technical” and safe. You call that a good showing?
Silva’s defenders say casual MMA fans do not understand the technicality of a fight. They insist that Silva did a good showing. Yes of course, and so does a chess player. We seem to forget here that fans (especially the “ignorant” casual fans) didn’t come to see thinking, “technical” competitors; the fans came to see gladiators – in a fight. Again, being highly “technical” is a good trait of a fighter, but it should not get in the way of a good fight. If you want “technical,” run around inside the octagon and avoid contact – that’s what happened to Silva’s kind of “technical” that night in Canada.
If you say it was a good fight “technically,” you’re missing the forest for the trees. MMA thrives on its popularity, and its popularity depends on its being spectacular – it being a spectator sport. As I keep on saying, mixed martial arts is still show business – minus the staged or theatrical nature of fights and further spiced up by antics and dramatics of the players in the world of professional wresting.
And the “casual fans” booed because they’re ignorant? Think again. These new, casual, ignorant fans are the future of MMA. They are the ones we need. We need to get more new, albeit still uninitiated, fans to sustain the growth of this, still young, sport.
