Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Eddie Alvarez vs. Shinya Aoki dominates the Friday Talkback Thread
To kick off a full weekend of MMA, Eddie Alvarez will try to avenge one of the three losses in his career as he takes on Shinya Aoki at Bellator 66 in Cleveland tonight. Aoki beat the former Bellator champ with a heel hook in 2008. To add to Alvarez's motivation, this is his first fight since losing to Michael Chandler in November.
They will be joined on the card by middleweight tournament semifinals, Brian Rogers vs. Andreas Spang and Maiquel Falcao vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, and lightweight tournament semifinals Rick Hawn vs. Lloyd Woodard and Thiago Michel vs. Brent Weedman. Check out the fights on MTV2 at 8 p.m. ET
After that, tune to "The Ultimate Fighter" to see John Cofer from Team Faber take on Vinc Pichel from Team Cruz. That fight will air on FX at 10 p.m. ET, followed by the final installment of "Primetime."
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Tim Kennedy makes a convincing Black Swan (VIDEO)
Strikeforce middleweight contender is waiting on a date, time, and place for his expected fight with champion Luke Rockhold. While he has the time, he's working on his acting chops. Is it just me, or does he make a convincing "Black Swan?" He already did a great job as Katy Perry, so what else do we want to see Kennedy try? He seems to be a fan of costumes, so Scarlett O'Hara from "Gone with the Wind?" Capt. Willard from "Apocalypse Now" could bring in both his military background and love of make-up. If Strikeforce keeps him (inexplicably) on ice much longer, Kennedy will be up for an Academy Award soon.
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Bellator 67 ratings: Viewership up 51 percent with 165,000 MTV2 viewers
With Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler leading the charge in a non-title fight with Akihiro Gono, ratings for this past weekend's Bellator 67 event were up sharply.The event averaged 165,000 MTV2 viewers - up 51 percent from Bellator 66, which averaged 109,000 viewers a week prior.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the figures with an industry source.
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Weekend winners include Thompson, Prangley, Galesic, Coy, Pettis, Jardine and more
James Thompson moved his unbeaten streak to four fights with a unanimous-decision victory over former Strikeforce fighter and WWE star Bobby Lashley. The heavyweight clash headlined Sunday's Super Fight League 3 event, which streamed live on YouTube from a packed Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, India.
Other weekend winners included Trevor Prangley, Zelg Galesic, Nathan Coy, Sergio Pettis, Brock Jardine and others.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Big purse at stake in union fight, UFC boss says
Dana White repeatedly has said an impasse in legalizing New York MMA stems from a fight between the UFC's co-owners and a culinary union based in Las Vegas. That fight, the UFC president said, is worth a lot of money.
"If they get Station Casinos, that's another $10.8 million a year to them," said White, referring to Culinary Union Local 226.
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