According to Chuck Liddell, all the rumors flying around about him fighting Randy Couture and Anderson Silva have been just rumors. He claims no one’s said anything to him. It almost seems like the UFC floated those rumors to gauge interest in them.
Also, he doesn’t want to wait till June to fight again, so maybe we’ll see the Iceman return to the Octagon sooner rather than later. Chuck also talks about getting “caught” against Rashad and what it will take for him to hang it up.
It looks like Antonio Silva may want to reconsider his decision to fight in Japan for Sengoku on Jan. 4. Apparently, the CSAC is less than thrilled about Silva’s intention to violate his steroid suspension, and plans to do something about it if he does. And I’m not talking about a slap on the wrist either.
How does a license revocation sound? Yeah, not too good, but according to new CSAC Assistant Executive Officer Bill Douglas that’s exactly what Silva could be looking at if he fights overseas.
Josh Barnett has an opponent now for the upcoming Affliction card, but it isn’t Brett Rogers or Aleksander Emelianenko as previously rumored. It’s Gilbert Yvel, someone who probably has an even smaller chance of getting licensed in California than Aleks does. In terms of “meaningful fights,” this one isn’t, so I’m not going to lie and say I’m not disappointed in the match-up. Either of the rumored opponents would have much better in my opinion, but I suppose they just didn’t work out for whatever reason. If you really hate this fight, check out Zach Arnold’s thoughts on it. He hates it too.
The press release also mentions that one of the Discovery Channel’s “Fight Quest’ co-hosts, Jimmy Smith, will be calling the action. Apparently, he and this other guy, Sean Wheelock have been the broadcast team for the M-1 Challenge, thus how they got the job. I’ve watched a little bit of the M-1 Challenge, but admittedly haven’t paid any attention whatsoever to the announcing, so I couldn’t tell you one way or the other if this is a good thing, although they couldn’t be any worse than Glazer and Trigg. Five Oz. has more on them if you’re interested.
Anyways, here’s the press release.
M-1 Global is pleased to announce that Gilbert Yvel, one of its top heavyweight competitors, has agreed to terms on a three-fight contract with Affliction Entertainment.
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This is funny. Remember that promotion you’ve never heard of, XP3, that was trying to put together that ridiculous Tim Sylvia vs. Ken Shamrock fight? The one that was at least assumed to be held on a local/regional level? You couldn’t have forgotten, the news only broke 24 hours ago. Well, maybe you did, but anyways, apparently negotiations are still taking place to book the match, but here’s the kicker. They’re trying to put it on pay-per-view!
Fedor Emelianenko may have broken Tim Sylvia’s face, but he didn’t break his will to fight. We haven’t heard much from Tim since his 36 second loss to Fedor back in July, but that doesn’t mean he’s not looking for his next fight, and according to Sherdog, that may happen sooner rather than later, and likely in Japan.
Surely, you remember from last week when Mirko Cro Cop challenged Alistair Overeem to fight him for honor in his basement when it was announced that their rematch would not be taking place on this year’s K-1 Dynamite!! card. Well, in the video above, Alistair’s camp Golden Glory responds to Mirko’s challenge, and as you probably expected, they turned it down. Instead, they’d rather wait for the fight to be booked by an organization that will pay them. The video is translated below courtesy of Free Fight Videos.
No other fighter with the perhaps the exception of Kimbo Slice has been a hotter topic of debate in 2008 than Brock Lesnar. He’s a freakishly athletic 285lbs monster who just happens be a former NCAA D-1 wrestler who won a national championship. He’s only been in four professional MMA fights, yet, OMG, he has a UFC title. For some reason, the fact that he beat Randy Couture to win that title has now led some people to believe Lesnar is unbeatable unless he were to face Fedor Emelianenko. Brock’s just too big, too strong, too fast, too good of a wrestler they say.
Since I know you’re all dying to know what’s going to happen with Kimbo Slice, I thought I would pass along this update from Zach Arnold over at Fight Opinion on everyone’s favorite bearded fighter’s future. Most speculation and common sense has pointed him in the direction of the land of the rising sun, and if this report is accurate, that looks exactly like where he is headed.
Omasuki Fight has a note from a Tokyo Sports mobile news update, which claims that Kimbo Slice could appear at K-1’s 12/6 Yokohama Arena event to announce his future participation for the organization (starting in March of 2009). The name of Slice’s first opponent being floated? Badr Hari.
Kimbo fighting under K-1 rules really isn’t that bad of an idea. He doesn’t have to worry about be taken down, etc. However, matching up with Badr Hari in his first fight? That’s brutal. Hope he at least gets his paycheck on time for the sacrifice.
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If Alistair Overeem wants to fight Mirko Cro Cop in the next month, it looks like he’s going to have to take Cro Cop up on his offer to battle it out in his basement. According to Free Fight Videos, K-1 made the announcement yesterday that the rematch would not take place on NYE at Dynamite!! 2008.
In yesterdays press conference for Fields Dynamite FEG executive Sadaharu Tanigawa made if official that Mirko Cro Cop would not be fighting Alistair Overeem.
“Alistair is begging for this fight but this fight will not go ahead on New Years Eve at Fields Dynamite. We will look to match them up on a different card.”
No official word on why the match was scratched. Did FEG just not think there was any interest for the bout? I don’t know, but Free Fight Videos seems to think a rubber match between Overeem and Sergei Kharitonov could take its place instead. Not a bad fight, but to be honest, I’d really like to see Overeem and Cro Cop settle their differences sooner rather than later. Who knows, maybe Overeem will accept Mirko’s challenge, you know, if he’s into that whole fighting for honor thing.
We’ve hardly heard a peep about UFC 96, 97 and 98 thus far, yet UFC 99 continues to keep popping up in headlines and stories across the internet. Why? Probably because two of the sport’s biggest stars—Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture—are rumored to be fighting for the fourth time in the main event, although both claim they haven’t even been approached about the fight yet.
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