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[The G.O.D II]

UFC on FOX 15: Machida vs Rockhold card is complete

Main Card: (FOX – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m PT)
Lyoto Machida (22-5) vs. Luke Rockhold (13-2)
Jacare Souza (21-3, 1NC) vs. Yoel Romero (9-1)
Cub Swanson (21-6) vs. Max Holloway (12-3)
Felice Herrig (10-5) vs. Paige VanZant (4-1)

Preliminary Card: (FOX – 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT)
Jim Miller (24-5, 1NC) vs. Paul Felder (9-0)
Ovince St. Preux (17-6) vs. Patrick Cummins (7-1)
Corey Anderson (4-0) vs. Gian Villante (12-5)
Kenny Robertson (15-3) vs. George Sullivan (16-3, 1NC)

Preliminary Card: (Fight Pass – 4:15 p.m. ET/1:15 p.m. PT)
Aljamain Sterling (10-0) vs. Takeya Mizugaki (20-8-2)
Jimy Hettes (11-2) vs. Diego Brandao (18-10)
Nick Catone (10-4) vs. Vitor Miranda (10-4)
Eddie Gordon (7-2) vs. Chris Dempsey (10-2)​

Can't wait.

This could legit be a PPV card

 

[The G.O.D II]

Dong Hyun Kim vs Josh Burkman added to 187. This card keeps getting better and better

Jon Jones vs. Anthony Johnson
Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort
Donald Cerrone vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
Andrei Arlovski vs. Travis Browne
Josh Burkman vs. Dong Hyun Kim

Joseph Benavidez vs. John Moraga
John Dodson vs. Zach Makovsky
Nina Ansaroff vs. Rose Namajunas

That stun gun/Burkman is great match making. Stun can not be tentative with his striking since Burkman doesn't have a lot of power. And he won't be outgrappled at all. I thought Costas was going to fight Hall? Hes going to get wrecked by Moose(if he makes it to the fight)

 

[The Infamous]

This could legit be a PPV card

And you got Miller/Felder, Sterling/Mizugaki & Brandao/Hettes on the prelims.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Burt Watson left/quit/got fired from the UFC

 

[The Infamous]

^ I heard dude is in his 70s

 

[8====D]

I feel you, but this card has exciting match-ups and fighters. Cerrone, Rumble, Vitor, Jones, Browne, Berserker DHK, Weidman, Moraga, Joey B, Dodson, and AA are all generally exciting fighters.

yeah understandable. . .as long as noone gets injured and all my picks win, then i wont complain about lack of finishes.

 

[The G.O.D II]

^ I heard dude is in his 70s

Hes been in the fight business for a while. Use to manage Joe Frazier in the 70s. This whole thing seems strange. A guy like Burt wouldn't just leave out the blue without notice. Something happened over the weekend. Rumors say he got into it with the brass over Mark Munoz weight. They probably just asked him to leave instead of publicly firing him because hes extremely popular with the fighters

 

[The G.O.D II]

Chopping block time for Zuffa. Fighters getting released now

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/3/3/8140323/brian-bowles-among-eight-fighters-released-from-the-ufc

Former WEC bantamweight champion Brian Bowles highlights the list of recent UFC cuts.

Sources close to the situation told MMAFighting.com that the UFC has released Bowles, Stanislav Nedkov, Andy Ogle, Akira Corassani, Humberto Brown, Rodolfo Rubio, Juan Puig and Tim Gorman from their contracts.

No surprises with anyone here

 

[The G.O.D II]

Brian Hasley vs Kendall Grove( ) will fight for the bellator MW championship in May. Damn Bellator roster is so thin. I would much rather see Tamdam Mccrory get that shot since hes coming off two quick decisive wins while Grove got KTFO before his win over Christain M'pumbo

 

[The G.O.D II]

This bytch has no intention of ever making 135

 

[The Infamous]

 

[OfTheCross]

Who's this Ann Maria lady?

 

[The Infamous]

Who's this Ann Maria lady?

Ronda's mom.

 

[puppetmaster]

im not even african american and i was at this

This makes me cringe every time I come across it. And not because it's emasculating and buffoonish but it's just not funny. .. And I'm amused pretty easily. I like DC but there is about 25 gif worthy trolling moments in that vid

 

[The Infamous]

Pay-per-view estimates for Saturday's UFC 184 aren't in yet, but thus far all signs for the show being a success have continued to come in.

The prelims on FOX Sports 1 from 8-10 p.m. ET drew 1,205,000 viewers, the third-largest for FOX Sports 1. This trailed only the UFC 168 (Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva and Rousey vs. Miesha Tate) at 1,554,000 and the UFC 183 (Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz) prelims at 1,546,000.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/3/3/8144671/ufc-184-prelims-pull-third-biggest-rating-of-fs-1-era

I wonder what the PPV buys will be. I thought this card would do in the 200-250k range, but it looks like it's going to be in the 350k range (possibly more). 350k for that card would be a very good #.