Showing posts with label UFC 135. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
UFC 135 Jones vs. Rampage
UFC 135
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| UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage | ||||
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| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | September 24, 2011 | |||
| Venue | Pepsi Center | |||
| City |  Denver, Colorado, USA | |||
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Background
The Ultimate Fighting Championship had its first ever event [2] in Denver nearly 20 years prior to UFC 135, but the promotion has not operated a pay-per-view event in the Mile High City since The Ultimate Ultimate in 1995. Zuffa, the UFC’s parent company, was not the owner back then. UFC president Dana White, in an interview with MMAWeekly.com, says that the company has long been on a course to return to Denver, but they wanted to do it the right way. “We knew that we wanted to bring a big exciting card back to Denver, and we finally got it done.”[3]Jon Jones was expected to make his first title defense on August 6, 2011 at UFC 133 against Rashad Evans, but Jones was sidelined with a hand injury.[4] It was initially announced that the hand injury would require surgery, but Jones opted for rest and rehabilitation without surgery after further consultations with doctors.[5] Jones' injury was originally thought to keep him out of action until late 2011, but instead, he is set to make his first title defense against Quinton Jackson at this event.[6]
UFC 135 will feature two preliminary fights live on Spike TV.[7]
Manvel Gamburyan was scheduled to face Diego Nunes. However, on August 15, it was announced Gamburyan had to pull out of the bout due to a shoulder injury.[8] Then, on August 29, Nunes confirmed his own exit from the card, citing injury and a murder attempt on his father.[9]
A bout between Norifumi Yamamoto and Damacio Page was expected for this event.[10] However, the bout was scrapped on September 1 after both fighters sustained injuries while training for the bout.[11]
Diego Sanchez was expected to face Matt Hughes, but was forced out of the bout with a broken hand and replaced by Josh Koscheck.[12]
Official fight card
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
- Light Heavyweight bout:
James Te Huna vs. Ricardo Romero
- Te Huna defeated Romero via KO (punches) at 0:47 of round 1.
- Bantamweight bout:
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Cole Escovedo[1]
- Mizugaki defeated Escovedo via TKO (punches) at 4:30 of round 2.
- Featherweight bout:
Junior Assunção vs. Eddie Yagin[1]
- Assunção defeated Yagin via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-27).
Preliminary Card (televised)
- Middleweight bout:
Nick Ring vs. Tim Boetsch[1]
- Lightweight bout: Tony Ferguson vs. Aaron Riley[1]
Main Card
- Lightweight bout: Nate Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi[1]
- Heavyweight bout: Travis Browne vs.
Rob Broughton[1]
- Heavyweight bout: Ben Rothwell vs. Mark Hunt[1]
- Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. Josh Koscheck[1]
UFC 135 Jon Jones wins ?
By C Dundas
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Jones hasn't had many nice things to say about Quinton Jackson as of late.
For a couple of guys who are about to fight inside a cage, Quinton Jackson and Jon Jones have been spending a lot of time together in the weeks prior to UFC 135.
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If reports out of Denver on Friday suggest that the animosity between Jones and Jackson seems to be growing as their bout for the UFC light heavyweight title draws nearer, that perhaps it has even eclipsed the hostility each has expressed for mutual nemesis Rashad Evans in the past, maybe all this time together has something to do with it.
“I don’t like being around him at all,” Jackson told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani this week, about sharing the same space with Jones as they made the rounds to promote their fight. “You just feel the energy of people, you feel the fakeness coming off him. He tries to say little sly things on the side here and there. He tries to make me out like I’m the bad guy, like I’m the one picking on him. [It’s] the same thing Rashad basically did [before UFC 114] ... but honestly, Jon Jones is making me like Rashad more than him.”
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Ross Dettman for ESPN.comMost questions directed toward Quinton Jackson have been about his arch-nemesis, Jon Jones.
Jones confirmed the feeling was mutual, but -- in typical fashion for the young champion -- gave the impression he’s been able to find something useful out of doing joint appearances and interviews and even sharing the same couch with Jackson on an episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" this week.
“I’m actually liking it, I’m liking it a lot,” Jones told Helwani. “Rampage’s personality is a very unique personality and if you’re not familiar with it ... it can take a lot of people aback. Rampage has that in-your-face [attitude] like, ‘Oh, I’m going to knock you out, kid’ and the Mr. T talk. The more I’m around it, the more I’ve humanized him [and] the more I’ve realized that he’s just some heavy-handed Mr. T wannabe.”
Like I said, useful, if not exactly complimentary.
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Certainly, this can’t be easy for either guy. A professional mixed martial artist typically spends the weeks leading up to a big bout secluded inside an anonymous gym, surrounded only by a close-knit group of training partners. This is the part most say is a drag, but there’s probably also something necessary about the isolation and solitude of training. During this time, fighters usually see the guy they’re about to fight only on film, and to the extent most will even cop to being the slightest bit concerned about him, it’s with an arms-length kind of contempt.
Nobody wants to spend much time around his opponent, let alone be confronted by daily reminders of him as an actual, living human being. So long as you are able to stay cocooned in the fog of camp, the guy probably isn’t even real to you until you show up on fight week and, boom, there he is, breathing and walking around and, maybe, mean mugging you.
Jones and Jackson haven’t had that luxury of that separation and, at this point, the prefight theatrics have probably worn off for both guys. It appears that with familiarity has come a true dislike, as Jackson reportedly said he didn’t even want to be in the same room as a “fake-ass kid” like Jones during their Friday morning "SportsCenter" interviews.
Only a bit more than 24 hours left, guys. Then you never have to see each other again. Well, until the next time.
Archive
Jones hasn't had many nice things to say about Quinton Jackson as of late.
For a couple of guys who are about to fight inside a cage, Quinton Jackson and Jon Jones have been spending a lot of time together in the weeks prior to UFC 135.
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If reports out of Denver on Friday suggest that the animosity between Jones and Jackson seems to be growing as their bout for the UFC light heavyweight title draws nearer, that perhaps it has even eclipsed the hostility each has expressed for mutual nemesis Rashad Evans in the past, maybe all this time together has something to do with it.
“I don’t like being around him at all,” Jackson told MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani this week, about sharing the same space with Jones as they made the rounds to promote their fight. “You just feel the energy of people, you feel the fakeness coming off him. He tries to say little sly things on the side here and there. He tries to make me out like I’m the bad guy, like I’m the one picking on him. [It’s] the same thing Rashad basically did [before UFC 114] ... but honestly, Jon Jones is making me like Rashad more than him.”
[+] Enlarge
Ross Dettman for ESPN.comMost questions directed toward Quinton Jackson have been about his arch-nemesis, Jon Jones.
Jones confirmed the feeling was mutual, but -- in typical fashion for the young champion -- gave the impression he’s been able to find something useful out of doing joint appearances and interviews and even sharing the same couch with Jackson on an episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" this week.
“I’m actually liking it, I’m liking it a lot,” Jones told Helwani. “Rampage’s personality is a very unique personality and if you’re not familiar with it ... it can take a lot of people aback. Rampage has that in-your-face [attitude] like, ‘Oh, I’m going to knock you out, kid’ and the Mr. T talk. The more I’m around it, the more I’ve humanized him [and] the more I’ve realized that he’s just some heavy-handed Mr. T wannabe.”
Like I said, useful, if not exactly complimentary.
UFC 135
Get ESPN.com's full coverage of Saturday's UFC 135 event.
Topic page
Certainly, this can’t be easy for either guy. A professional mixed martial artist typically spends the weeks leading up to a big bout secluded inside an anonymous gym, surrounded only by a close-knit group of training partners. This is the part most say is a drag, but there’s probably also something necessary about the isolation and solitude of training. During this time, fighters usually see the guy they’re about to fight only on film, and to the extent most will even cop to being the slightest bit concerned about him, it’s with an arms-length kind of contempt.
Nobody wants to spend much time around his opponent, let alone be confronted by daily reminders of him as an actual, living human being. So long as you are able to stay cocooned in the fog of camp, the guy probably isn’t even real to you until you show up on fight week and, boom, there he is, breathing and walking around and, maybe, mean mugging you.
Jones and Jackson haven’t had that luxury of that separation and, at this point, the prefight theatrics have probably worn off for both guys. It appears that with familiarity has come a true dislike, as Jackson reportedly said he didn’t even want to be in the same room as a “fake-ass kid” like Jones during their Friday morning "SportsCenter" interviews.
Only a bit more than 24 hours left, guys. Then you never have to see each other again. Well, until the next time.
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