In the early hours of Tuesday 20th January 2015, UFC and Bellator MMA veteran Dave Herman [22-6] who most recently competed for Titan FC, was arrested for leading a police chase in Indiana.
Charges were filed by Dekalb County Sheriff Department and states Herman was ‘Speeding without his lights on and did not immediately pull over. Once he did stop, he approached the officers and forced them to use a taser’.
The charges Herman faces include resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, battery against law enforcement and neglect of a dependent.
Now this is where Herman’s wife [Madeleine] steps in, who filmed a good portion of what happened.
UFC light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, who was found to have traces of the illegal drug cocaine in his system on December 4th last year, prior to his title fight against Daniel Cormier on January 3rd 2015, at UFC 181 in Las Vegas, Nevada has now done a ‘stint’ [one day] in rehab.
UFC fined Jones $25,000 for violating its code of conduct policy and will still to continue to support the champ.
Here is the one on one video interview that was aired as a special on FOXSPORTS 1 Monday night in the states.
Fairfax, Virginia at the Patriot Center is where it is set to go down. The date Saturday April 4th. UFC Fight Night 63 will be in town and two of the top women’s Bantamweight will throw down for the night. Liz Carmouche [9-5] will take on Lauren Murphy [8-1] in what is set to be one of this year’s great fight. Both women have a fairly similar record on paper. Carmouche’s stats according to sherdog are 67% in KO/TKO, 22% in submissions and 11% in her only decision fight. Laurens stats according to sherdog are 75% KO/TKO, 0% in submissions and 25% in decisions for 2 of her fights.[The 0% in submissions is that Lauren chosses her method of a KO/TKO finish in the first 6 of her fights].
What makes this an interesting fight for fans around the world, is the striking ability both women posess on paper and what we have seen them do in the cage. Also both women are very highly skilled on the ground if they choose for the fight to go this way, (we saw this when Carmouche fought Ronda Rousey and Murphy when she fought Sara McMann), every which way you look at this fight, for me, it is without a shadow of a doubt already a ‘fight of the night’ candidate. These women mean business and will leave it all in the cage, no matter what.
UFC Fight Night 59, Boston lived up to the hype from the very first fight on FIGHT PASS, for me though the pure transitions, fluidity and skill shown of his Jiu-Jitsu in the aired Prelim fights on Fox Sports 1 was Charles Rosa, to me it was so awesome to watch. With an array of submission attempts and one step ahead I felt, it was beautiful, with a tight D’arce choke sunk in the third round.
Another Prelim fight for which I personally enjoyed every single minute was Johnny Case, another example of beautiful short elbows (yes I love using my elbows too), amongst a great winning fight.
Paddy Holohan Weigh in
Patrick Holohan is always impressive, especially with his ground game, he came out fast, with intent on finishing Shane Howell within the first round. He almost succeeded several times with a rear naked choke, but credit where credit due, Shane Howell is tough, durable and managed to escape Paddy’s rear naked choke in the last ten seconds of the first round to end up on top. Although it was a one sided ‘beating’ for Shane, his skills on the ground amazed alot of people to escape several of Paddy’s Chokes.
Cathal Pendred and Sean Spencer
Wow is all I can say at the beginning of Cathal Pendred’s fight! Who else saw Sean Spencer knee (accidently) Cathal when he was on the ground at 2 mins 32 seconds of the first round? Cathal clearly stated ‘woah, hang on’ but even the commentators by passed the incident and carried on commentating about the ‘over hand right punches’ that were then connecting with Cathal after that incident by Sean Spencer!
On the flipside of this, I feel Sean Spencer did a great job of working his boxing skills, Octagon control, damage and therefore I did not see what the judges saw (good job I am not a judge), then again I do not think I am alone in saying this!
Uriah Hall and Ron Stallings Face Off
I have to mention Ron Stallings for taking this fight against Uriah Hall on five days notice, not many athlete’s go ahead once it is fight week when it comes to Uriah Hall so full props to Ron. Uriah Hall is a beast on his feet and has a very nasty ground and pound game for which we saw again Sunday.
The below picture was taken straight after his fight with Uriah Hall and shows the Ground and Pound damage by the fighter.
Photo courtesy of UFC Shanda
Ron Stallings cut Courtsey of UFC ShandaDonald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone and Benson Henderson
The Co-Main event Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone vs Benson Henderson. What can one say. Cerrone is definitely in his prime and Henderson has been on the end of some shocking decisions as of late, but he will be back to winning ways I feel very soon. Again I did not see what the judges saw in this fight and I am sure I am not the only one!
Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor lived up to every bit of the hype, starting off with ‘flipping the bird’ at Dennis Siver as he did not touch gloves. Siver managed to keep his composure all week and not let McGregor get into his head one bit (unlike most of McGregor’s previous opponents).
Conor McGregor
McGregor did not dispose of Siver within the two minutes as he previously predicted, but he did dispose of him in the second round, convincingly. Next for McGregor is the featherweight champion JoseAldo either in Las Vegas or Croke Park in Dublin.
UFC Fight Night 47 is live on the FOX Sports network tonight or BT Sports if you are in the UK. Before any event takes place, the all important weigh-ins happens first, which happened live from Bangor, Maine where UFC Fight Night 47 will be taking place tonight.
MAIN CARD
Ryan Bader 205lbs vs Ovince St. Preux 205lbs
Ross Pearson 156lbs vs Gray Maynard 156lbs
Tim Boetsch 186lbs vs Brad Tavares 185 lbs
Seth Baczynski 171lbs vs Alan Jouban 170 lbs
Shawn Jordan 260lbs vs Jack May 247lbs
Thiago Tavares 146lbs vs Robbie Peralta 146lbs
PRELIM CARD
Jussier Formiga 126lbs vs Zach Makovsky 125lbs
Lauren Murphy 135lbs vs Sara McMann 135lbs
Tom Watson 185lbs vs Sam Alvey 185lbs
Nolan Ticman 136lb vs. Frankie Saenz 136lb
UFC Fight Night 47 takes place tonight on the FOX Sports network (check your local area listings) and also on the BT Sport platform in the UK at 1am.
Victor Cui [CEO of OneFC] and Manny PacquiaoBoxing superstar Manny Pacquiao has become a shareholder in Asian-based Mixed Martial Art Company One Fighting Championship, [OneFC], it has been reported earlier today.
The eight division world champion boxer, [in which he has ten world titles] already owns several gyms in Asia all equipped to offer MMA classes and training areas, so the next step for the ‘newbie’ in the sport was to become a shareholder.
You can read here where the official story broke and all of it contents in detail.
As of late, Twitter has become increasingly popular within athletes of the MMA community, well not just the MMA community, as this is the field I am interested in, I guess this is just what I notice!
When, Gilbert Melendez sent out the following tweet, which opens up into his Instagram account with a picture of the UFC Belt, Anthony Pettis sent his reply [which is when it turns interesting]. Benson Henderson then sent his reply, which is the whole reason this article was wrote!
The whole series of tweets are here for you all to read:
You can watch Gilbert Melendez and Anthony Pettis ‘Throwdown’ on December 6th at The Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tonight, at the O2 in Dublin, the UFC returns for the first time in five years, for which we will get to see season 14 winner of TUF, Diego Brandao take on home town fellow Irish man ‘notorious’ Conor McGregor in an epic battle of the Featherweights.
If you missed the highly entertaining, all important weigh-ins you are in luck, you can catch them all here; with the McGregor weigh-in, topping the scales [no pun intended, watch for yourselves] closely followed by Norman Parke, all hyped up and in Naoyuki Kotani’s face, Dana White definitely had his work cut out yesterday.
The fight that is going under the radar on this card I feel, although if you have been following Twitter, you would not have missed any ‘war of the words’ from either side is the Brad Picket v Ian McCall fight, although I’m pleased to say they both behaved themselves when it came to the actual weigh-ins.
Here are the official results with pictures and video clips :
Diego Brandao 145.5 lbs vs. Conor McGregor 146 lbs
Conor McGregor Weigh-In
Diego Brandao Weigh-In
Zak Cummings 171 lbs vs. Gunnar Nelson 170.5lbs
Gunnar v Zak Face Off
Ian McCall 126 lbs vs. Brad Pickett 126lbs
One Punch and Uncle Creepy Face Off
Naoyuki Kotani 155.5 lbs vs. Norman Parke 155.5lbs
Norman Parke v Naoyuki Kotani Face OffNorman Parke Weigh-In
PRELIMS
Chris Dempsey 204 lbs vs. Ilir Latifi 205lbs
Chris Dempsey vs. Ilir Latifi Weigh-In
Phil Harris 126 lbs vs. Neil Seery 125.5lbs
Neil Seery vs Phil Harris Face Off
Mike King 185.5lbs vs. Cathal Pendred 186lbs
Cathal Pendred vs Mike King Face Off
Cathal Pendred Weigh-In
Trevor Smith 185.5 lbs vs. Tor Troeng 185lbs
Trevor Smith v Tor Troeng Face Off
Cody Donovan 205 lbs vs. Nikita Krylov 205lbs
Cody Donovan vs Nikita Krylov Face OffCody Donovan Weigh-In
Josh Sampo** 126.5lbs vs. Patrick Holohan 125.5lbs
Pat Holohan vs Josh Sampo Face Off
**Made weight on 2nd attempt 126 lbs
Watch the whole of the weigh-in’s here :
UFC Dublin will be on #UFCFightPass from 5.30pm also on BTSport 2 in the UK from 7.30pm Live. Check your local cable provider for coverage listings.
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Five Rounds with Emma 
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