Maand: januari 2014

Afgelopen woensdag vond UFC Fight Night nummer 35 alweer plaats.

Hieronder de uitslagen! Vooral Luke Rockhold was indrukwekkend en liet geen spaan heel van Costas Philippou. Met een knoertharde liver kick maakte hij in de eerste ronde een eind aan de partij waarin Philippou nooit een factor was. Hiermee knokt Rockhold zich weer richting title picture met een indrukwekkende performance.

De uitslagen van de main card:

Luke Rockhold KO over Costas Philippou
Brad Tavares UD over Lorenz Larkin
T.J. Dillashaw UD over Mike Easton
Yoel Romero Palacio KO over Derek Brunson
John Moraga SD over Dustin Ortiz
Cole Miller submission over Sam Sicilia

Brock Lesnar is alweer een tijdje weg van de UFC en MMA in het algemeen, maar sinds het einde van afgelopen jaar laaien de geruchten op dat hij terug zou gaan keren. Hij heeft hier blijkbaar ook al over gepraat met Dana White. Hieronder een aantal quotes daarover van Dana zelf.

“Me and Brock talk. I said recently Brock feels like … he said he has some regrets with MMA because he wasn’t healthy. He was going through those stomach problems the whole time he was here. So he has regrets.”

“It’s interesting. He became champion with diverticulitis. What would he have done without it? From the first day he fought in the UFC until his last fight he was suffering from it. He never felt right. He just didn’t know why and then it really hit him. He feels like he was fighting here at 40 percent.

“He thinks a Brock Lesnar that was 100 percent could have done much better. I told him, ‘you’re out of your f***ing mind. You came in here with one fight and became the heavyweight champion.’ It was fun having Brock here.”

“So he has some regrets. Would he like to fight again? I’m sure he would. We’ll see how this whole thing plays out. It’s definitely a possibility.”

Dus…nog geen 100% zeker, maar het zal vast ook hangen op een aantal voorwaarden in de financiële sfeer kan ik me zo voorstellen. Ben benieuwd!

Anderson Silva is gemotiveerd om weer terug te komen na zijn tenenkrommende blessure in zijn tweede partij tegen Chris Weidman.

Hij had het volgende te zeggen tijdens een interview op Braziliaans tv-station Rede Globo. (quotes verzameld door onze vrienden van Sherdog.com)

“I’m improving. I’m not going 100-percent, but I’m already taking little steps with a crutch,” said Silva. “It’s a pain that I do not wish on anyone. Since I came from Las Vegas, I left the hospital, I can’t sleep all night. It’s very difficult.”

“I see a movie of everything that happened before that moment of the accident. The whole time, I’m trying to understand, why?” Silva remarked. “Why did I have to break my leg? Why did I have to go through this situation? I’m trying to understand the message that God is trying to send me at that time.”

“I got to see some details and technical mistakes that I made in the fight. To give the perfect shot right there, I had to divert his attention with a punch to the face. So, I totally diverted his attention from the low-kick movement. What you can tell is that he’s protecting the shot line from the waist up,” Silva noted, “and he lifted his leg instinctively. The kick was strong at his point of unbalance. I believe that if people realize these technical details, they will see that it was an instinctive thing. It wasn’t something he had trained to do. I think what happened was inevitable. I’m pretty sure I would have won [if I hadn’t been injured].”

“When I saw that my leg was broken, I was terrified. I couldn’t tell if the fracture was exposed or not. Then, I spoke to the judge who was there with me so they could put my leg in place as quickly as possible, and the pain was absurd,” Silva said. “I only thought one thing: Is it over? Will I ever walk again? Am I alright? But, I am confident that I will succeed. I will return.”

“My children are waking up every day to my screams of pain, and it’s a very bad thing for them. These days, I’ve been crying in the car so I don’t wake them,” Silva lamented, discussing the toughest aspect of his injury. “I never before had to come home bruised. Not a cut, nothing. It was the saddest thing to get home and look at my wife, my children, and be hurt. It’s the one thing that saddened me greatly and it’s something that greatly moved me. It was the worst moment of my life and my career.”