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Jewels - 24th Ring

kantowrestler — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:30:17 GMT

Promotion: Jewels
Date: MAY 25, 2013
Venue: SHINJUKU FACE
Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
Fight Card:
NAHO SUGIYAMA vs SEO HEE HAM
Mika Nagano vs Takumi Umehara
Mei Yamaguchi vs Seo Ye Jung
Jade Marie Anderson vs Yurika Nakakura

Sfl 18

kantowrestler — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:21:10 GMT

Date: May 24, 2013
Location: Mumbai, India
Broadcast: Youtube
Fight Card-
Welterweight: Mohammad Naemi vs. Vladimir Prodanovic
Flyweight: Uchit Sharma vs. Sharath Babu
Light Heavyweight: Sandeep Kumar vs. Samarveer Mavi
Flyweight: Arun Nagar vs. Kapil Kumar
Welterweight: Pawan Maan Singh vs. Jamshed Khan
Featherweight: Mohamed Abdel Hamid vs. Philipp Schranz
Women's Strawweight: Ritika Singh vs. Irene Cabello

Championship Fighting Alliance 11

kantowrestler — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:04:28 GMT

Date: May 24, 2013
Venue: BankUnited Center
Location: Coral Gables, Fla.
Broadcast: AXS TV
Fight Card:
Mike Kyle vs. Travis Wiuff
Fallon Fox vs. Allanna Jones - featherweight-semifinal
Luis Palomino vs. Robert Washington
Elvin Brito vs. Sean Soriano
Czar Sklavos vs. Alexis Vila
Oscar Delgado vs. Mike King

M-1 Challenge 39 - Vasilevsky Vs. Andrade

kantowrestler — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:52:03 GMT

Promotion: M-1 Global
Date: MAY 23, 2013
Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Fight Card:
VYACHESLAV VASILEVSKY vs CHARLES ANDRADE
Alexey Nevzorov vs Marat Gafurov
Vugar Bakhshiev vs Bekbulat Magomedov
Zulfikar Usmanov vs Ruslan Fomin
Ilya Doderkin vs Islam Gugov
Anatoly Tokov vs Magomed Ismailov
Ibragim Ibragimov vs Denis Smoldarev

John Cholish on "losing money fighting at UFC on FX 8"

Ape City — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:41 GMT

Quote:

It was announced ahead of his fight this past weekend at UFC on FX 8 that John Cholish would be retiring from the sport of mixed martial arts. Cholish would lose that fight, a second round guillotine choke submission loss to Gleison Tibau, his second straight loss after making his UFC debut with a TKO of Mitch Clarke.

With a fairly secure future ahead of him thanks to a job at a Wall Street commodities brokerage firm, Cholish was able to speak openly about his decision to retire and the difficulties of making a living being a UFC fighter with MMA Junkie:

"I'm fortunate enough that I have a job that provides for me really well," Cholish said. "I give a lot of these guys credit that fight at this level. I think they could be compensated much better based on the income that the UFC takes in. Fortunately, I can just walk away and I'm OK with it. By no means do I mean it disrespectfully toward any other fighters because I think they do a great job. But hopefully Zuffa and the UFC will start paying them a little better."

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"At the end of the day, it's hard," he said. "I have great coaches that take time off and travel. They deserve money, as well. To be completely honest, on a fight like this, I'm losing money to come down here. Flights, hotel rooms, food � and that doesn't even cover the cost of the time I have to pay for my coaches for training. It's funny because people talk about the fighters, but at the same time there's camps and coaches behind the fighters that you don't even see. So if a fighter is having a tough time making ends meet, how do you think his coaches are doing?"

None of this is really new. Fighters at the lower and even many at the middle levels of the UFC are in an unfortunate spot. They're not making a ton of money to fight -- Cholish made $4,000 to show, $4,000 to win at UFC 140, his only disclosed payday -- but training is expensive and there are limits to how many members of your camp the UFC is willing to fly to an event. So, if you want more than just your trainer at the show, you're going to have to pay to fly them down, and if you want more than the one hotel room for yourself and your team...that's another expense.

That means that fighters need to pull in a good amount of sponsorships to help make ends meet or they can work another job. But working another job means less time to train and less focus, which can mean less ability to put on the impressive performances needed to get that big new contract. Pulling yourself out of the workforce to train full time can also be rough on your future if you're never able to make the kind of money that provides security down the road.

This is why some people get very hung up on the revenue distribution inequality between the UFC and the fighters. That's not to say that the UFC should be paying out the close to 50% of revenue to fighters that we see from the NFL and NBA, but it doesn't seem like a stretch to think that fighters that make it to the biggest stage in the sport be able to fight full time and take home an amount of money that their elite skills would seem to demand.

Still, with no union to represent them, we're not going to fighters ever working together to establish a suitable equivalent of a "league minimum" as in other sports leagues -- and yes, I'm aware that the UFC is a promotion and not a league.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/5/20...sh-fighter-pay

Really must be hard for these guys to get a solid footing when there is such a huge disparity between the upper and lower tier pay.

Vitor vs. Silva II Needs to Happen

Ape City — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:46 GMT

Vitor's recent record at Middleweight is very impressive, much more than Weidman's even. Clearly the Weidman fight is already happening, but it is not the one that interests me. Vitor is 5-1 at MW in the UFC since his return, finishing all 5 of his wins (4 tkos and 1 sub). Vitor finished Rockhold, Bisping, Johnson, and Akiyama since his last loss to Silva. All Weidman has done is decision Maia, who is now a WW and should have been all along, and finished the overrated Munoz.

This has been the worst string of championship fights in a long time in terms of competition, and also in terms of contenders deserving the title shot. Sonnen vs. Bones and GSP vs. Nick did not make a lot of sense, not matter who "wanted" the fight. Coming up we have Cain vs. Bigfoot II, as if the first beat down wasn't enough. This next title fight with Silva is not much different. People need something to latch on to and Weidman is it right now. The thing is I don't see much reason to believe Weidman will succeed where Sonnen failed. Sonnen is better at most of the things Weidman is good at.

I'm not here saying that Vitor is the next Silva killer. I am saying that once Weidman gets sent packing Vitor should have the next shot lined up. Assuming we keep getting strung along for Jones vs. Silva...

So Now Chael Doesn't Want Wandy...

Ape City — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:55:34 GMT

Not really sure what his angle is here. Maybe he realized no one wants to hear him trash talk a legend. I mean it's all fun and games when your taking shots at the current champs, but taking shots at Wandy is kinda weak. then again Sonnen had no problem ripping into Big Nog and some other big names.

Maybe Sonnen is getting offered something better?

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/5/20...bully-mma-news

Quote:

Is he being honest or is this just another angle? Chael Sonnen is now stating that the time has passed for a possible bout with Wanderlei Silva. The bout, rumored to be the main event of UFC's first Fox Sports event in Boston later in the year, might or might not be a legitimate option for the UFC. But Sonnen stated in an interview with MMA Heat's Karyn Bryant that he's not interested anymore:

"I'm not looking for it anymore, I don't like to bully guys. I tried to fight him, he doesn't want to fight. I'm not gonna stick a finger in a guy's chest. If a guy says 'no,' I'm not gonna be a jerk about it."

Silva claimed last week that the UFC hasn't offered him the bout, but he is also the guy that played an elaborate April Fools prank on fans, media, and Gegard Mousasi last month. They're both good at playing games, so it could just be another way to toy with some emotions.

I think the bout will happen, and it will happen in Boston. And it should be pretty entertaining.

why is this forum so slow?

RagingDemonMZ — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:56:01 GMT

i barely see any new posts day to day and its pretty annoying. sherdog always has new threads(not always good ones) but new threads at least.

Handicap mma fighter

americanfighter — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:35 GMT

The Ufc won't alow this fight in I cant imagine why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6zrNPvAMWA

NHL: Boston vs NY Rangers

dudeabides — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:50 GMT

NHL: Los Angeles vs San Jose

dudeabides — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:58 GMT

NHL: Pittsburgh vs Ottawa

dudeabides — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:13 GMT

What Round Does it End: Cain Velasquez vs Antonio Silva

dudeabides — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:02:54 GMT

Method of Victory: Glover Teixeira vs James Te Huna

dudeabides — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:58:39 GMT

UFC Fighters Starring Commercials

MMA-Sportsman — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:17 GMT

We've had some commercials posts scattered in the past and I though we could have a place to get them together. There are all sort of them, some pretty funny, other just tasteless, yet very entertaining. I'll start with these two and one more originally posted by BlueLander in another thread.

GSP: "I'm not impressed by your performance."

Anderson for Burger King - Ouch, my ears...

Phil Davis - Sprite
Originally posted by BlueLander here:http://www.mmaforum.com/ufc/103861-p...ommercial.html