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UFC 170 draws reported 10,217 attendance for $1,558,870
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Yup Ronda sure is the biggest UFC star ever and really bringing in the fans with a gate that big...
Yup Ronda sure is the biggest UFC star ever and really bringing in the fans with a gate that big...
Ronda says she has the best striking in Womens MMA
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ufc/2014/02/17/ufc-womens-bantamweights-grappler-ronda-rousey-im-also-best-striker/5571429/
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Daniel Cormier Talks About His Power At New Weight Class (UFC 170 Post Fight Press) - Videos
http://www.MMAWeekly.com/ -- Daniel Cormier talks about his win over Patrick Cummins at the UFC 170 post-fight press conference at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV.Daniel Acacio Bernard Ackah Terrance Aflague Yoshihiro Akiyama Gilbert Aldana
Rashad Evans injured, bout at UFC 170 with Daniel Cormier canceled
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans injured a knee in training and his bout at UFC 170 against unbeaten Daniel Cormier, scheduled for Feb. 22 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, has been canceled.
UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said he did not have details on the injury, but said doctors told him that Evans needed four weeks of rehabilitation. He said UFC officials are looking at potentially adding the fight to UFC 172 on April 26 in Baltimore.
With Evans-Cormier off the card, the fight between Rory MacDonald and Demain Maia is expected to move into the slot as the co-main event behind the women's bantamweight title fight between Ronda Rousey and challenger Sara McMann.
Cormier was preparing to make the move from heavyweight to light heavyweight, but his debut at 205 pounds will now have to wait.
Cormier, a close friend and broadcast partner of Evans on UFC broadcasts on Fox, was profoundly disappointed. Cormier was the captain of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, but as he was cutting weight to make the 211-pound limit, he had kidney failure and could not compete.
"This is just so devastating," Cormier said. "It's so close and I've worked so hard. My family has sacrificed so much. I have hardly seen my girlfriend and my kids the last eight or nine weeks. I was trying to do this right. This is very hard for me. I didn't make the weight at the Olympics and it cost me a chance to wrestle for an Olympic gold medal.
"I was making so sure I did everything right and that I was prepared. This is a killer. Obviously, I feel horrible for Rashad, too, and I have to call him, but this really hurts. I'm just hoping they can find some way -- maybe even a heavyweight -- and give me a fight and keep me on that card."
Cormier said he has a large number of friends and family coming to support him from Louisiana, where he's from.
"I just feel terrible for my family and my family doesn't have much money," he said. "There was a lot of advance planning for them to be able to get to Vegas to support me. I have 30 people flying to Vegas from Louisiana for the fight and this is a terrible situation."
Yahoo Sports is still attempting to reach Evans for comment.
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UFC?s Roy Nelson applies for NSAC executive director position
UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Now, he wants his voice to have greater impact as the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC)
The commission's director for the past eight years, Keith Kizer, resigned from the post on Monday. Nelson told Stephanie Daniels that he has formally applied to replace Kizer.
"I have put my application in. My wife and I were talking about having something besides fighting to fall back on, and I think I would be able to do some good. This is my hometown, it's where I was born and raised, so I feel it's a way for me to help further the sport," Nelson said.
"Big Country" also spoke a bit about what his general goals would be as the director of the world's most influential athletic commission. The Nevada native wants to help generate revenue for the state and clean up the fight world.
"With me, I can draw more people back to Vegas to help the budget. That's a big part of it. Of course I want to help get the sport cleaned up, but helping Nevada financially and bringing more revenue in is one of the primary goals I have. The others involve making sure we have better officiating and better fighter safety," he said.
When asked if he'd let the UFC know of his interest in the NSAC position, Nelson said that he had not but imagined that they'd support him. Turns out, he was very wrong to think that.
"I haven't told [the UFC] of my intent," Nelson said.
"But, I don't think they'll mind my intentions here. I think they'd probably be happy that I'm just trying to make the sport better. It would be the building of a relationship that would help the UFC, MMA and all of combat sports in Nevada."
Nope. At least not according to what UFC president Dana White told a group of reporters at a media lunch this week in Los Angeles.
According to Erik Fontanez, who was at the luncheon, White called Nelson "A [expletive] idiot."
Fontanez also tweeted that White also said "Roy couldn't get a job at Kinkos."
Oh well. For Nelson's sake, let's hope that he didn't list Dana White as a reference in his job application.
What do you think of Nelson applying for the NSAC executive director position? How about White's reaction to the news?
Let us know in the comments section.
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