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Dana White: Luke Rockhold Will Probably Fight Lyoto Machida, Not Michael Bisping
While a grudge match between UFC middleweights Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping seems ripe for the picking, it looks like the promotion has other plans for the former Strikeforce champion.
UFC President Dana White told Matt Parrino of UFC.com that Rockhold is poised for a fight with recent middleweight title challenger Lyoto Machida, despite the bad blood brewing between him and Bisping.
"Anything is possible. Michael Bisping is ranked No. 8 in the world. Rockhold is No. 5,” he said. “They’ll meet each other anyway eventually, but Rockhold has got Machida first.
"We’re looking at Rockhold-Machida in Brazil. That’s what we’re looking at."
Most recently, The Count called out Rockhold after a decisive TKO win over Cung Le at UFC Fight Night 48 on August 23.
Rockhold has been adamant about settling their grudge inside the Octagon as well, going as far as to say he would donate his entire fight purse to Bisping if he was unable to finish the Brit in the first round, per MMA Fighting.
The American Kickboxing Academy product has looking impressive in his past two matchups, scoring first-round finishes over Costas Philippou and Tim Boetsch.
While Bisping has alternated wins and losses since January 2012 (posting a 3-3 record), he remains a Top 10 middleweight on the UFC roster.
As for Machida, the former UFC light heavyweight titleholder is 2-1 since cutting down to 185 pounds. He lost a five-round classic to champ Chris Weidman at UFC 175 last month.
According to the UFC's official rankings, Machida is still the No. 2 middleweight in the world.
Given the current list of middleweight contenders on the UFC roster, does Rockhold vs. Bisping or Rockhold vs. Machida make more sense in the near future?
John Heinis is a featured columnist for Bleacher Report. He is also the MMA editor for eDraft.com.
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"There were two pounds left to make 135 and it was still early here in Sacramento, around 1p.m., and he just had to go down to the arena around 3p.m.. We started the first rounds at the tub and, after approximately 20 minutes, when Barao was leaving the tub, he completely fainted. When he was going down, I held him, but he had so much cream on him, (he slipped) and his head touched the wall. We laid him on the ground but, from that moment on, he stayed out for a long time. That made us really scared. At the same time, we called UFC’s doctor and they called an ambulance.
When the paramedics came to our room, they checked Barao’s vital signs and decided to take him to the hospital to analyze the situation better. So they had no other option but to give him serum. When he had to go to the hospital, the UFC had to cancel the fight immediately. It was UFC’s option, and based on Barao’s situation, I saw no way how he could fight. We didn’t want this to happen because Barao trained really hard for three months for this fight. He was really well prepared for this rematch, but we saw this chance slip through our fingers in a situation we can’t control.
Barao cut weight 10 or 12 times in the UFC and never had any trouble. The process was always done the same way not only with him, but with every other fighter in the gym. We prepare a daily chart and the fighter has to end the night with the same weight he starts the next day. We control everything this way without wearing out the fighter, so we can get to the weigh-in without any trouble.
After everything that happened, Barao is completely fine right now, at least physically. He didn’t have anything serious, but he’s really sad because he was well trained for this fight. It’s hard to say how well he was because he never fought, right? So it sounds like I’m saying this because he didn’t fight, but no, Renan was really well prepared for this rematch, and we will be for the next fights.
I told Barao when we left the hospital that we have to give his body a time to rest. He’s young, he’s 27, but he would be fighting his third fight in six months. It’s too much training for his body, the physical and mental preparation. You need some time before starting another training preparation for a fight.
When we get to Brazil, we will do more exams to evaluate everything and see how he is in every aspect. Then we will sit and talk. People say he should fight at featherweight. I know he’s big for 135, but we have the support of doctors and nutritionists, so I don’t see why changing divisions. What I see is that he needs more time between fights so he doesn’t have to do training camps for five-round fights one after another. His body really needs some rest.
It’s the first time that it happens with me in 18 years. I’ve been following athletes for a long time and I’ve never had any athlete fainting and being removed from a fight because of it."
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And the belt could be defended in Sweden, assuming "The Mauler" can rally the troops and prove to "the big boss" that Swedish fans will show up, starting with UFC Fight Night 53 on Oct. 4 in Stockholm (more on that card here).
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) light heavyweight number one contender, Alexander Gustafsson, is getting the winner of Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier, who throw down in the UFC 182 main event on Jan. 3, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Does that mean Anthony Johnson gets the shaft?
Not exactly.
Gustafsson also mentioned in today's Facebook update that he's willing to fight another top opponent in the interim, since a potential title fight is at least eight months away, depending on how things unfold between Jones and Cormier in "Sin City."
His words:
"Me and my team had a great call with the big boss Mr. Lorenzo Fertitta. I got a guarantee that I will face the winner of Jones or Cormier for a title shot and that it could happen in here in Sweden. So I would like to ask my fans here in Sweden to come and show your support in Globen 4th of October for my team-mates, Ilir Latifi, Niklas Bäckström, Magnus Cedenblad, Tor Troéng and the remaining fighters and show to the UFC that we can make some proper noise. We need to show UFC that we really can fill up an arena for 60,000 people for the title fight and what kind of atmosphere they can expect when we break the record of the biggest audience ever for any sports event in Sweden. That is what I want, I want Jones or DC, the winner to come here and fight me, I deserve that! With that said, meanwhile, if the UFC wants, I am ready to fight any other opponent they put in front of me."
Gustafsson vs. Johnson in the co-main event of UFC 182?
I would be down for that. So too, would the majority of mixed martial arts (MMA) fans, judging by how evenly split the support has been for both "The Mauler" and "Rumble." And if Gustafsson can put Johnson on ice, we could see the next 205-pound title defense in Sweden.
Lots of moving parts here Maniacs ... stay tuned.
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"I called Woodley and said, 'Here's what your teammate just said, and he wants this fight bad.' And he said, 'He can say whatever he wants, he's about him and he's always been about him. This fight doesn't work for me and my brand.' He started telling me all the reasons why he doesn't want this fight and I just said, 'Whatever kid, whatever.' He wants nothing to do with Hector. Hector wants this fight, Woodley does not."
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“You [Barao] have enough money to get a nutritionist and do it right,” White told reporters.
“Barao was cutting weight, and I only heard from the doctor that he fainted and his team called an ambulance. They came and got him and took him to the hospital,” White said. “From what I heard he is doing good. He was too dehydrated; I think the lowest he got was 138 and couldn’t make it. As you continue getting older, maybe it’s time for him to go up to 145. He probably can’t make the weight anymore, I don’t know.”
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Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier was postponed from September to January after the UFC light heavyweight champion suffered a torn meniscus in his knee and an ankle injury in training, and Dana White thinks Greg Jackson could be the cause for that.
Jackson, who is Jones’ head coach in Albuquerque, admitted that UFC heavyweight Alistair Overeem caused Jones’ injuries, forcing the title bout to be moved to Jan. 3. White doesn’t understand why the light heavyweight champion was training with Overeem for a fight with Cormier in the first place.
"It drives me crazy," White told The Jim Rome Show. "First of all he’s fighting a 5’ 10" unbelievable wrestler – that’s who he is facing in Daniel Cormier. (But) he’s training with 6’ 10" no-wrestling, all-standup kickboxer Alistair Overeem. And Alistair Overeem lands on his leg and busts his knee up and gives him a high ankle sprain.
"I mean I just don’t know why he would be training with Alistair Overeem for a fight when he’s going to fight a 5’ 10" wrestler. I don’t know, it’s frustrating."
White thought about contacting the coach when he heard about Jones training with Overeem for UFC 178, but never made the call.
"Greg Jackson and I had many issues in the past," he said. "I wanted to pick the phone up about twenty times and call him and say ‘What are you doing? Why’s he training with Alistair Overeem to fight Daniel Cormier? Please tell me how that makes sense?' But I didn’t. I bit my tongue, until right this second."
White expects both Jones and Cormier to continue their war of words until January, and he guarantees we haven’t seen the worst things they said to each other.
"I think that both Jones and Cormier have done a good job at the mental warfare," he said. "Cormier was telling ‘I’m going to do this to you, I’m going to do that to you.' And every time they do these media tours, someone stayed on and leaked it out to the press and said ‘oh my God, listen to what they are saying to each other, this is horrible.'"
"I heard more of that, and I’ve heard they say worse," he added. "So the mental war game with these has been going for a long time, and they are both doing pretty well at it."
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The most unreliable fighter in mixed martial arts has done it again, folks. UFC.com confirms that former Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo has withdrawn from his scheduled UFC 177 match against Scott Jorgensen “due to medical reasons.”
This is the same guy who no-showed the weigh-ins for Legacy FC 25 last November due to a reported stomach flu, blew weight by 3.5 pounds before his win over Elias Garcia in January, pulled out of a Legacy FC title fight against Damacio Page this past May due to “personal reasons,” then withdrew from the main event of Legacy FC 34 last month for undisclosed reasons, just before signing with the UFC. In retrospect, it’s kind of baffling that the UFC signed this flake in the first place — although the promotion hedged its bets by burying Cejudo vs. Jorgensen on the UFC 177 prelims.
That turned out to be a wise move, because at least the UFC doesn’t have to scramble to replace yet another main card bout for Saturday’s event. On the other hand, UFC 177 now features just nine fights, and is made up of 38.9% non-wiki fighters, which is friggin’ awful. (UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Le still holds the modern non-wiki record, at 65%, but at least that card didn’t come with a $55 price tag.)
We can’t tell whether Cejudo’s struggles are purely physical — as in, he should really be competing at bantamweight, and his body is rebelling against him — or psychological, as past critiques of his motivation and commitment have suggested. Maybe he saw this GIF and got nervous. At any rate, it’s possible that this MMA thing just isn’t for Henry Cejudo, at least not at the highest level.
Update: MMAJunkie reports that a bad weight cut was indeed the reason for Cejudo’s withdrawal:
Cejudo’s second attempt to shed pounds resulted in nausea and cramping that prompted a checkup from UFC officials, who elected to pull the fighter from the card rather than risk further complications with additional weight cutting, [Cejudo's manager] William McFarlane told MMAjunkie.
“He’s OK,” McFarlane said. “It just goes back to all the issues related to when these guys cut weight. They dehydrate themselves to the point where there’s adverse effects. There’s nothing permanent, but it’s just a safety issue”…
Cejudo weighed in at 137 pounds on Tuesday, according to McFarlane, and then dropped to 130 pounds on Thursday night. The UFC believed the fighter was on track to make the flyweight limit, the manager added.
This morning, however, Cejudo began experiencing complications. McFarlane said he called UFC site coordinator Burt Watson, who evaluated the fighter and determined he shouldn’t cut any more weight.
The UFC then notified the California State Athletic Commission, which will oversee the pay-per-view card. CSAC Executive Director Andy Foster said he was informed that Cejudo, who had met the medical requirements to receive a fight license, had suffered a medical issue and couldn’t fight.
McFarlane said he planned to meet with the UFC later today to discuss Cejudo’s future. He didn’t rule out the fighter competing in the bantamweight division and added that a planned appearance at UFC on FOX 13, which takes place Dec. 13 in his hometown of Phoenix, was now in question.
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