*Main Card*
Jacar� Souza vs. Gegard Mousasi
Alistair Overeem...
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UFC Fight Night: Souza vs. Mousasi
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*Main Card*
Jacar� Souza vs. Gegard Mousasi
Alistair Overeem...
*Main Card*
Jacar� Souza vs. Gegard Mousasi
Alistair Overeem...
Dana White says Gina Carano update likely for September
We've heard this before so there's no telling if it will end up being true, yet, but UFC president Dana White swears once more that he's "close" to signing a deal with Gina Carano. The former Strikeforce star has not fought since losing in 2009, and has since made a career in movies.
"Conviction" is still a big name in MMA, however, and the UFC and bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey have both been pushing for Carano to step into the Octagon and take on the "Rowdy" one. At one point in negotiations, White told the press that he would sign Carano within a week, but since then things have gotten a bit "complicated."
In Macau this past weekend, White told reporters that, while negotiations with Carano remain tangled, he should have an update by the first week of September. "It's complicated, but I think it's close," he said,
"I had a plan, but now I don?t know...We have to see how this plays out. As I said before, I should know in September, the first week of September.?
New Bellator boss Scott Coker has siad he's had only passing conversation with Carano about signing with the promotion, now that they have brought back women into the fold. Do you think Carano will come back to MMA at all, and if so, should she choose the UFC or Bellator?
Let us know in the comments section!
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Wanderlei Silva challenges Nevada's jurisdiction to order drug test
LAS VEGAS ? Wanderlei Silva's disciplinary hearing before the Nevada Athletic Commission on Thursday was postponed when Silva's attorney filed a motion questioning the commission's jurisdiction in the case.
A collector sent by the Nevada commission arrived at Silva's gym to randomly test him on May 24. Silva declined to be tested, saying he didn't speak English well enough to fully understand what was happening. He subsequently left the gym and flew to Brazil. He had been scheduled to fight Chael Sonnen at Mandalay Bay in the co-main event of UFC 175 on July 5 and had appeared at a news conference at the MGM Grand with Sonnen on May 23.
After Silva refused to take the test, he was yanked from the card and Nevada filed a disciplinary case against him. Nevada considers the refusal to submit to a test the equivalent of a failed test and sought to suspend him.
Attorney Ross C. Goodman referred to commission regulation 467.850, paragraph 6. That reads: "A licensee who violates any provision of this section is subject to disciplinary action by the Commission. In addition to any other disciplinary action by the Commission, if an unarmed combatant who won or drew a contest or exhibition is found to have violated the provisions of this section, the Commission may, in its sole discretion, change the result of that contest or exhibition to a no decision."
Goodman's argument is that regulation 467.850 (6) limits the commisison's oversight only to those it has licensed.�
In his motion to dismiss, he wrote, "It is abundantly clear that the NSAC lacks jurisdiction to take disciplinary action over Mr. Silva, a non-licensee, for not submitting to testing that the NSAC had no authority to order."
It is very common for a fight to be announced before a fighter has obtained a license to fight in the state where it will be held. The commission's argument has been that because Silva intended to fight in Nevada and that a formal announcement of the fight had been made in the media that Silva fell within its jurisdiction.
Silva is hardly free, however. Even if Goodman wins the case against the commission, which is far from a given, Silva will face significant hurdles in getting back into the ring. UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White have said many times that they support the commission. In a similar case involving Vitor Belfort, White said the UFC would not book a fight until Nevada licensed him, even if the UFC planned to have him fight elsewhere.
Given that, it's likely that Silva will eventually have to answer the commission's questions about why he declined to take the test.
The UFC has been consistent in its position and is unlikely to challenge the commission's authority in a case like this.
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Elizabeth Phillips: 'Not everyone is a fighter'
UFC bantamweight Elizabeth Phillips may not be a grisled old veteran of MMA but she believes that she's got an old-school attitude that not many of her contemporaries posess. Being a great fighter is about more than simply being a great athlete, she knows.
?There are athletes out there that come into MMA but I truly don?t believe that everybody is a fighter,? she told UFC.com recently.
?[Being a fighter] comes with instinct and heart and your attitude. Even when you?re losing and you?re tired and you?re hurt, it?s how you handle it. You can?t teach that, and I don?t think everybody has it. Some people have it and some people don?t.?
Phillips certainly knows all about gutting through fatigue and hurt. In fact, she made her UFC debut last June only two weeks after her previous fight. Phillips lost a controversial decision to Valerie Letourneau that night at UFC 174, but returns this Saturday in Macau at UFC Fight Night against Milana Dudieva.
After five amateur contests and six pro fights, Phillips is positive that she belongs in the UFC, at this point. She's also grateful that she found MMA at a point in her life when she needed direction and discipline.
Growing up in the Colville Reservation of Omak, Washington, Phillips ran in some tough circles and was on her way to getting into trouble as a youth before finding MMA.�?If you went to a party on the rez or something like that, you knew that you were going to get into a fight,? she remembered.
?Someone was going to talk [expletive] and someone was going to get their head knocked off their shoulders. It was crazy. I was getting in fights all the time when I was younger. I used to be this small, quiet person, and then all of a sudden everything changed and I was rowdy because that was just how it was. If you had a problem with somebody, you threw fists at each other and you handled it that way. That was definitely the lifestyle of Omak and where I grew up."
At 24, Phillips began training at Spokane's Sik Jitsu gym. She took her lumps there before learning enough to become a fighter herself.
Her training and new professional career helped Phillips turn her life around.�?I was getting in trouble at one point and things weren?t working out and there?s a lot of regrets I have because of certain choices that I made," she said.
"So it did get to the point where I was like ?I need to stay busy with myself and start doing something positive that I like to do,? and I?m just thankful that I had people that pointed me in that direction of mixed martial arts.?
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