TUF 12.7 Recap: Swing and a Miss

(If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t trying…)
The problem with GSP picking favorable matchups all season is that he’s eventually going to be stuck with one that isn’t so favorable. For the last match in the round-of-14, his #7 draft Dane Sayers will a…

Sako Chivitchian Dane Sayers fence grabbing
(If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t trying…)

The problem with GSP picking favorable matchups all season is that he’s eventually going to be stuck with one that isn’t so favorable. For the last match in the round-of-14, his #7 draft Dane Sayers will automatically be fed to Sako "Psycho" Chivitchian, a crazy Armenian with world-class judo skills. St. Pierre says he wanted Dane to fight last so they’d have more time to work with him. A few weeks might not be enough; Sayers snuck through the elimination round thanks to his heart, but didn’t show a whole lot of skills.

Two lucky losers will soon be getting picked for the wild card fight, and everybody’s jockeying for it, except for Spencer Paige, who’s out of action for three months with a broken hand. Bummer, brah. Aaron Wilkinson is all banged up from his war with Michael Johnson, but he still wants it, and he’s clearly the most deserving. Wilkinson doesn’t think Jeff "Waster" Lentz should get a second chance, since he’s just been sitting around drinking and chewing tobacco. Jeff vows to piss on Aaron’s bed.

Our hero J.C. Skarbowsky returns to advise Dane, "Good is not enough, you have to be perfect." Everybody is calling Dane "Red Horse" this episode. Red Horse is his Indian name; he’s part Blackfoot and Chippewa. (On his mother’s side, we would assume.) Says Skarbowsky: "Koscheck’s not from the States, [Dane’s] from the States. Koscheck needs your permission to come here."

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Jake Shields on Beating Kampmann, UFC Title Shot, Facing GSP and More

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, interviewAfter over a decade winning titles around the world, Jake Shields finally made a trip down the aisle to the octagon at last Saturday night’s UFC 121. Squaring off against the underrated Martin Kampmann, Sh…

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After over a decade winning titles around the world, Jake Shields finally made a trip down the aisle to the octagon at last Saturday night’s UFC 121. Squaring off against the underrated Martin Kampmann, Shields held off a major scare before prevailing via split decision in the night’s co-main event.

With the win, Shields is likely to finally get a crack at UFC gold when he faces the winner of December’s Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck welterweight title match in 2011.

Shields spoke to MMA Fighting about the victory, weight issues and back problems, the possibility of bringing his Cesar Gracie teammates to UFC , and the prospect of facing St. Pierre on enemy territory.

Lorenzo Fertitta Says the UFC Might Do St-Pierre-Silva Next Summer

("We have ways to make the infidels…er…fighters agree to our demands.")
It looks like a GSP vs. Anderson Silva match-up might be closer than anticipated.
Dana White brushed off the potential blockbuster bout this summer as being something…


("We have ways to make the infidels…er…fighters agree to our demands.")

It looks like a GSP vs. Anderson Silva match-up might be closer than anticipated.

Dana White brushed off the potential blockbuster bout this summer as being something that likely won’t happen for a while, but according to his partner, UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, the fight may happen as early as next summer if both fighters continue to dominate in their respective divisions.

"I want to see that fight," Fertitta said during a Q&A session in London ahead of UFC 120. "That’s probably the one fight I really want to see the most."

For that to happen, Silva will have to get by former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort in February and St-Pierre faces fellow TUF 12 coach and MMA superheel Josh Koscheck in December. White has also held steadfast to his assertion that Jake Shields will face the winner of that bout, so it may still be a while off if he gets his way.

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TUF 12.6 Recap: Boom, It’s Gonna Be a Disaster

(The Stevens vs. McKenzie "fight," if you can call it that. Props: TheMMAResource)
Still giddy from his squad’s first victory, Josh Koscheck starts picking on Team GSP’s Michael Johnson, telling him he looks heavy, he gassed out in his fight …

(The Stevens vs. McKenzie "fight," if you can call it that. Props: TheMMAResource)

Still giddy from his squad’s first victory, Josh Koscheck starts picking on Team GSP’s Michael Johnson, telling him he looks heavy, he gassed out in his fight against Aaron Wilkinson, and he would have lost if not for that beast-like surge at the end. Kos’s entire team is equally assholish, continuing their celebration into the night, screaming in the house like complete jackasses. Koscheck shows up with burgers and Johnson asks him why he has to be such a dick. Josh denies he’s a dick; he just loves yellow. You can’t really fault a man for that.

Koscheck also loves being in the power-position for the first time in the season. He finally has control of the matchups, and during a team discussion, the idea of Marc Stevens (his #1 pick) vs. Cody McKenzie (GSP’s #6 pick) is floated. They figure that as long as they stay away from Cody’s famous guillotine choke, it’s a good matchup for them. Since this is one of those two-fight episodes, we know that whatever happens, it’s not gonna last long.

Kos announces Stevens vs. McKenzie as his match selection, and the two lightweights face off for the first time. "You don’t have to puff your chest out like that," Stevens says to McKenzie. "Exhale…it’s not very friendly." Cody mean-mugs Stevens, but then grins and chin-checks Koscheck again before walking off, just like he did last episode. Koscheck has to be reminded that this should piss him off. "Cut his fingers off the next time he does that to you," Sako says. "We can’t even understand you," Cody deadpans to the Armenian. It’s personal now. Yellow doesn’t like Cody McKenzie, no sir.

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Carlos Condit Serves Up Revenge, Says He’d Fight Teammate Georges St. Pierre

Filed under: UFCFor weeks, Carlos Condit heard the talk from Dan Hardy. It’s not something he went seeking out himself, but in this digital age of 24/7 news and social media, it came to him. Some days, Condit would log on to his Facebook page and see t…

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For weeks, Carlos Condit heard the talk from Dan Hardy. It’s not something he went seeking out himself, but in this digital age of 24/7 news and social media, it came to him. Some days, Condit would log on to his Facebook page and see that his friends had posted Hardy’s most recent words. While he was never lacking for motivation, something else always seemed to pop up and provide a little extra fuel.

Always the quiet type, Condit never fired back verbally. But he did get the last and loudest word, scoring one of the great poetic revenge knockouts in recent MMA memory at UFC 120.

If you appreciate irony, you have to appreciate that the beginning of the end was authored by a crashing left hook, the punch that has come to be the calling card of Hardy.

Koscheck Thinks He Can Beat GSP But Not 22,000 Fans

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UFC Welterweight Champion contender, Josh Koscheck was in Montreal, Canada yesterday alongside Titleholder, Georges St. Pierre for a press conference hyping up their December 11th UFC 124 Main Event bout. The outspoken Koscheck brokedown his trash-talking as most fighters usually do, explaining its purpose is to “put butts in the seats out there, […]

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UFC Welterweight Champion contender, Josh Koscheck was in Montreal, Canada yesterday alongside Titleholder, Georges St. Pierre for a press conference hyping up their December 11th UFC 124 Main Event bout. The outspoken Koscheck brokedown his trash-talking as most fighters usually do, explaining its purpose is to “put butts in the seats out there, and that’s what this is about.”

Koscheck toys with the notion that he maybe isn’t such a bad boy and that it could be all an “illusion.” Either way he plans to “piss 22,000 people off and come out of here with a nice, shiny new belt and hop on the plane and get home as quickly as I can.” But that may be a tad difficult if one of his limbs is broken as that is the intention of GSP who says, “I will finish the fight. Either he taps, or if he doesn’t tap, his limb will break.”

It’s only October and the trash-talking is pretty decent, can’t wait to see this fight go down and if Kos can make it out of Montreal in one piece.