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Monday, 16 May 2011
UFC 131 card shaken up as Jon Olav Einemo now meets Dave "PeeWee" Herman, Joey Beltran gets debuting Aaron Rosa
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
With Brock Lesnar being forced out of UFC 131 with the reemergence of his diverticulitis, and Shane Carwin stepping in to face Junior Dos Santos, the card has received some more changes.
The UFC announced Friday afternoon that Carwin's originally scheduled opponent, Jon Olav Einemo, will now meet fellow UFC newcomer Dave "PeeWee" Herman. As Herman was also scheduled to fight on the card, his original opponent Joey Beltran will now meet newcomer Aaron Rosa at the June 11 event.
Einemo brings a 7-1 record into his UFC debut, but he's fought just once since 2006. His lone loss came against Fabricio Werdum in Pride, but all of his wins have come by stoppage.
Herman brings a 20-2 record with him into his UFC debut, and is on a two fight winning streak into this debut. Of his 20 career wins, all but one have come by submission or T(KO).
Rosa makes his UFC debut off a four fight win streak and wins in six of his last seven fights. Most recently, Rosa defeated TUF 10 veteran Abe Wagner in a Titan Fighting Championships event on HDNet in March.
UFC 131 is now headlined by the bout between Carwin and Dos Santos, and airs live on pay-per-view from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Penick's Analysis: These are two good fights after the Carwin stepped out of the Einemo fight for the Dos Santos main event. Herman-Einemo should be a really good matchup, and it's fight more suited to a debuting fighter like Einemo than facing a former title challenger. Beltran-Rosa should be another competitive one as well, and gives Rosa a chance to show just what he's got against a guy with a few UFC fights under his belt. Beltran desperately needs a win, though, and that should make for a good fight on this preliminary card.
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The UFC announced Friday afternoon that Carwin's originally scheduled opponent, Jon Olav Einemo, will now meet fellow UFC newcomer Dave "PeeWee" Herman. As Herman was also scheduled to fight on the card, his original opponent Joey Beltran will now meet newcomer Aaron Rosa at the June 11 event.
Einemo brings a 7-1 record into his UFC debut, but he's fought just once since 2006. His lone loss came against Fabricio Werdum in Pride, but all of his wins have come by stoppage.
Herman brings a 20-2 record with him into his UFC debut, and is on a two fight winning streak into this debut. Of his 20 career wins, all but one have come by submission or T(KO).
Rosa makes his UFC debut off a four fight win streak and wins in six of his last seven fights. Most recently, Rosa defeated TUF 10 veteran Abe Wagner in a Titan Fighting Championships event on HDNet in March.
UFC 131 is now headlined by the bout between Carwin and Dos Santos, and airs live on pay-per-view from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Penick's Analysis: These are two good fights after the Carwin stepped out of the Einemo fight for the Dos Santos main event. Herman-Einemo should be a really good matchup, and it's fight more suited to a debuting fighter like Einemo than facing a former title challenger. Beltran-Rosa should be another competitive one as well, and gives Rosa a chance to show just what he's got against a guy with a few UFC fights under his belt. Beltran desperately needs a win, though, and that should make for a good fight on this preliminary card.
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_9322.shtml
Bellator Season 4 155-pound final set as Chandler and Freire both make weight
Bellator Fighting Championships is poised to crown a second Season 4 Tournament champion tomorrow night in Atlantic City when lightweights Patricky Freire and Michael Chandler duke it out for a six-figure paycheck and the right to face 155-pound title-holder Eddie Alvarez later this year. Both finalists, in addition to the fourteen other athletes scheduled to [...]
Source: http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2011/05/13/bellator-44-live-weigh-in-results/
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Never Back Down 2 Trailer
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Though the first Never Back Down movie could be chalked up to a fast and furious sequel with more fight scenes, part two has been widely...
Though the first Never Back Down movie could be chalked up to a fast and furious sequel with more fight scenes, part two has been widely...
Source: http://www.mmaforum.com/general-mma-discussion/91072-never-back-down-2-trailer.html
Nick Diaz - Post Fight - Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley - SHOWTIME Sports - Nick Diaz
Following his 10th consecutive win, Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz briefly shares his thoughts following his title defense against a tough contender Paul Daley.
Georges St. Pierre says left eye will be fine, but still can't see after UFC 129 victory over Jake Shields (UPDATED)
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Saturday night's bizarre main event between Georges St. Pierre and Jake Shields saw both fighters look perhaps the worst they have in any major fight either of them have had in recent memory.
Shields employed a confounding gameplan that didn't see him attempt to utilize his strengths at any point, while St. Pierre battled through an eye injury that had his game severely affected through the last three rounds of the fight. There was a definite worry that perhaps St. Pierre severely damaged the eye, and that it could be a potentially threatening injury, but those fears were allayed by the champ himself.
On Twitter early Sunday morning, St. Pierre said that after seeing the doctors his eye will be fine. However, he revealed he's still having vision problems.
"Hey everybody, leaving the hospital soon, just finished all my eye tests, I still don't see anything from my left eye but I'll be [fine]," St. Pierre tweeted, before thanking fans for their support.
Though there's been no further update than that, it's likely that he avoided any retina damage from whatever blow caused the problems for him during and after the fight.
Link to GSP's Twitter
Penick's Analysis: However it exactly happened, it was clear that the eye was a major issue for him on Saturday, and it allowed Shields to have more success on the feet than it otherwise would have. Still, Shields never seriously attempted to take St. Pierre down after failing on a single leg in the first round, and his decision to stand and kick box with St. Pierre for the entirety of the fight made no sense at all. It was a bad performance on both ends, but the good news here is that hopefully St. Pierre has avoided a serious injury with the eye, and hopefully he'll regain his full vision soon.
UPDATE: St. Pierre has added a couple of tweets with a little more information on the situation.
"Hey guys just want to say that I am ok," he wrote. "I'll need to see a doctor in the next days! Yesterday I was told it was not a retina problem. I am so lucky my BJJ instructor Bruno Fernandes is an [ophthalmologist]!!! I'll be in good hands!!!"
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Shields employed a confounding gameplan that didn't see him attempt to utilize his strengths at any point, while St. Pierre battled through an eye injury that had his game severely affected through the last three rounds of the fight. There was a definite worry that perhaps St. Pierre severely damaged the eye, and that it could be a potentially threatening injury, but those fears were allayed by the champ himself.
On Twitter early Sunday morning, St. Pierre said that after seeing the doctors his eye will be fine. However, he revealed he's still having vision problems.
"Hey everybody, leaving the hospital soon, just finished all my eye tests, I still don't see anything from my left eye but I'll be [fine]," St. Pierre tweeted, before thanking fans for their support.
Though there's been no further update than that, it's likely that he avoided any retina damage from whatever blow caused the problems for him during and after the fight.
Link to GSP's Twitter
Penick's Analysis: However it exactly happened, it was clear that the eye was a major issue for him on Saturday, and it allowed Shields to have more success on the feet than it otherwise would have. Still, Shields never seriously attempted to take St. Pierre down after failing on a single leg in the first round, and his decision to stand and kick box with St. Pierre for the entirety of the fight made no sense at all. It was a bad performance on both ends, but the good news here is that hopefully St. Pierre has avoided a serious injury with the eye, and hopefully he'll regain his full vision soon.
UPDATE: St. Pierre has added a couple of tweets with a little more information on the situation.
"Hey guys just want to say that I am ok," he wrote. "I'll need to see a doctor in the next days! Yesterday I was told it was not a retina problem. I am so lucky my BJJ instructor Bruno Fernandes is an [ophthalmologist]!!! I'll be in good hands!!!"
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_9210.shtml
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