Dies und Das aus der Welt der UFC

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Die Rating Agentur Standard & Poor`s hat fuer 2014 ihre Prognosse fuer die UFC erneuert und geschaetzt das Zuffa einen Rueckgang des Gewinns um 40% hat. Grund dafuer sollen die Verletzung im letzten Quartal von Chris Weidman, Cain Velasquez und Jon Jones sein, die gleich drei Mega Fights verschoben haben auf 2015. Fuer 2015 rechnet die Agentur wieder damit das die UFC auf die Zahlen von 2013 kommt: “Our preliminary expectation is that negative trends in 2014 will reverse in 2015 as injured fighters return and PPV buys and ticket prices increase to levels comparable with fiscal 2013.”

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Luke Rockhold hat einen neuen 8 Fight Vertrag bei der UFC unterschrieben. Ausserdem versprach die UFC ihm einen grossen Fight als naechstes, was wahrscheinlich ein #1 Contender Fight sein wird. Es wird spekuliert das die UFC ein Luke Rockhold vs Ronaldo Jacare Refight ansetzt.

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Die Labor Party hat die Wahlen in Victoria, Australia gewonnen. Zuvor hat die Partei angekuendigt das sie das Octagon legalisieren wird. Bisher ist zwar MMA erlaubt, aber nur in einem Ring, nicht im Octagon. Die UFC hat bereits fuer 2015 das Ethiad Stadium in Melbourne gebookt, in Erwartung das das Octagon legalisiert wird. Die UFC hat damit fuer 2015 schon zwei Stadium Shows gebookt (Sweden und Australia), und angekuendigt das man evtl in UK oder Brazil noch Stadium Shows bookt. Was die Live Zuschauerzahlen betrifft duerfte man 2015 neue Rekorde aufstellen.

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Frank Edgar hat nun gesagt das er als naechstes auf Jose Aldo treffen will, und zwar bei der UFC on FOX 15 Show am 18 April in Newark, New Jersey.“It should be me, based on my performance, based on what I’ve done in my career; it should be me. I’m here to stay. I’m coming. I’m not going to be an easy fight for anybody, I guarantee that.”

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Cung Le hat nun die UFC um seine Entlassung gebeten. Als Grund nannte Le das er nichts mehr mit der UFC zu tun haben will. Hintergrund dazu: Le wurde nach einem positiven Test von der UFC suspendiert, Le hat jedoch die Testmethoden angezweifelt und es kamen dabei Fehler bei dem test zum Vorschein, weshalb seine Suspendierung wieder aufgehoben wurde.

“I got a bad taste in my mouth with the UFC, and I worked extremely hard and I sacrificed a lot for them. There’s also a lot of perks to being a part of the UFC, but it’s not worth what they did. I’d just prefer not to be part of the UFC anymore.

Just because I asked to be released doesn’t mean I’m going to run over to Bellator. Scott’s been my friend for 20 years, and he would have never done anything like that. He would have given me the benefit of the doubt, and he would have gone out and done his research that all the facts were straight before they would have released it, because that’s the kind of person he is.”

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Die UFC gab nun bekannt das UFC 193 am 15 November im Etihad Stadium in Melbourne stattfinden wird. Das Stadium hat eine Kapazitaet von 60,000 Zuschauern und koennte damit den bisherigen Zuschauerrekord der UFC von 2011 (UFC 129 - Sky Dome, Toronto - 55,000 Zuschauer) einstellen.

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UFC Kommentator Joe Rogan hat seinem Freund und UFC Fighter Brendan Schaub vor Hirnschaeden gewarnt wenn er weiter kaempft. Zuletzt wurde der 31 jaehrige Schaub erneut ausgeknockt bei UFC 181 gegen Travis Browne. Rogan sagte direkt das Schaub nicht die Qualitaet haette auf dem Niveau:

“As I’m watching that fight, there are a lot of things that concern me. You were lunging with your punches instead of getting there with your footwork. You were really reaching and loading up. You looked very stiff, you didn’t look fluid, and you just didn’t look good. You didn’t look like you were well-prepared. Your movement just didn’t look like an elite fighter’s movement. What you were doing was very stiff. It was very stiff and there was a lot of apprehension in your movement.

There’s a bridge between you and the very best guys in the world, and I don’t know if you can cross that bridge. That’s the reality of life. If you look at your performances inside the octagon – not what you think you’re capable of or you know you’re capable of at your best – if you have to judge it by just your performances inside the octagon. … You’ve had good fights, you’re a very good fighter. That’s not what the issue is.

The issue is: Can you become a champion? If you can’t become a champion, are you comfortable with getting knocked out three or four more times over the next five or six years? That is a possibility. It might not happen. You might be OK, but it also might happen. It might happen two fights in a row.

You’re a sharp dude, and I know you know if you keep going, (brain damage) is coming, there’s no way around that. The reality of your skillset and where you’re at now, I don’t see you beating the elite guys. I don’t see you beating Cain Velasquez, I don’t see you beating Junior Dos Santos, I don’t see you beating Fabricio Werdum. You came into fighting fairly late in life, you’re a good athlete, you’re a strong guy, you’re a big guy and you can do lots of things because of that.

You’re very dedicated and disciplined, but there’s a reality to fluidity of movement, of mechanical efficiency of movement that happens when you get a guy who’s trained his whole life at a certain aspect of MMA. There’s fluidity to their movement that you don’t really have. It’s not that you don’t try hard, it’s not that you’re not dedicated, it’s not that you’re not disciplined or intelligent, but there’s just s–t people can do that you can’t do.”


Schaub antwortete daraufhin:
“Joe, I think it’s easy for you to sit there with whatever, $12 million in the bank and say, ‘Oh, you need to stop doing this`. It’s easier to say that. When you’re set and you don’t come from that background and go home to your wife and kids and $6 million mansion and say, ‘Stop doing this and do podcasts for the next 40 years.'

I’m 100 percent going to fight again. Two years, four more fights and maybe a cut down to 205. I walk around at 250 with like planning 250. Metamoris I went down to 225. I won’t make any decisions until January.”


Und Rogan fuegte an:
“This is hard for me to say, because I love you as a friend. This is just a reality. This sucks for you. It’s hard to hear. It sucks to say it. I don’t like it coming out of my mouth and the reason is because I love you as a human being.

If 20 years from now you can’t fight, when can you stop? Can you stop in 10 years, five years, two years – it’s coming. The end is coming. It’s the reality of being a demolition derby car, and that’s what you are when you’re an MMA fighter.”


Selten das ein Kommentator so offen mit einem Fighter spricht, aber Rogan hat Recht.

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Nach einem 1-2-0 Record als Flyweight Fighter wird Brad Pickett zurueck ins Bantamweight wechseln.

“I’m going to go back up a weight class to bantamweight. The weight cut was tough for me to make, but also the match-ups in that weight class are just not that interesting to me. It’s not fun chasing a guy for 15 minutes in the hope he’ll fight you. I’m too old for that now. I want to be involved in good fights.

A fight I’d like to have at bantamweight is someone like Mizugaki. He’s an old veteran, I’m an old veteran, and we’d both slug it out and put on a great fight for the fans. That’s what it’s all about for me now.”

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Einige Fighter haben nun die UFC in einer Sammelklage verklagt. Grund ist, das die UFC gegenueber den Fightern ihre Macht ausnutzt. Welche Fighter hinter der Klage stehen, ist noch nicht bekannt.
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-UFC President Dana White bestaetigte das Rafael Dos Anjos als naechstes auf Anthony Pettis treffen wird. Grund ist das Khabib Nurmagomedov sich am Knie verletzte. Der Fight soll schon Anfang 2015 stattfinden.

-Ausserdem wird Joanna Jedrzejczyk als naechstes einen UFC Strawweight Titlefight gegen Carla Esparza bekommen. Joanna Jedrzejczyk gewann bei UFC on FOX 13 gegen Claudia Gadelha.