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Jake Ellenberger Feels Like He Can Beat Jake Shields

Jake Ellenberger has been making waves in the UFC ever since he first stepped foot inside the Octagon.In his first match, he was paired with former WEC champion Carlos Condit and dazzled with powerful right-hand punches, pushing the former champion to …

Jake Ellenberger has been making waves in the UFC ever since he first stepped foot inside the Octagon.

In his first match, he was paired with former WEC champion Carlos Condit and dazzled with powerful right-hand punches, pushing the former champion to the brink and narrowly losing a split decision.

Ellenberger has been very vocal about wanting to have a fight with Jake Shields. Shields fought Georges St-Pierre in the main event of the recent UFC 129. That night, Jake lost his first fight in over six years, and the match-up featured a vicious first round knockout of Sean Pierson by none other than Jake Ellenberger. The win was the fourth in a row from Jake. He shattered his hand in the bout, but immediately had surgery and now looks to fight top competition in the UFC.

Now, Ellenberger wants to fight Jake Shields next.  He stated, “If they do make that match and me and Jake get to fight, he’s not a hard guy to figure out. I feel like I can beat him right now. There’s a lot of things in the past that I wasn’t doing correctly. It was kind of a learning process for me. This sport still being so new, earlier in my career I loved to compete and I was making a little bit of money, but I don’t think I was as focused and disciplined as I am now. I’ve surrounded myself with such good people. Good coaching and training partners, guys that really believe in me.”

This could be a good match-up, but is Shields interested?  We will have to wait and see at this point.

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UFC News: After 10 Percent Vision, Georges St-Pierre Returns to Training

Georges “Rush” St-Pierre retained his UFC welterweight championship for the sixth consecutive time on April 30, defeating top ranked contender Jake Shields with relative ease.  What makes the feat all the more extraordinary is that St-Pierre did i…

Georges “Rush” St-Pierre retained his UFC welterweight championship for the sixth consecutive time on April 30, defeating top ranked contender Jake Shields with relative ease.  What makes the feat all the more extraordinary is that St-Pierre did it with vision in just one eye. 

Despite fighting nearly blind for most of the fight, the champion was able to keep Shields from taking him down the entire five round affair.

St-Pierre suffered from hyphema, a bleeding in the eye.  He was required to wear an eye patch and use medicated drops until it healed.  He has since improved and has been cleared to resume training.

One of St-Pierre’s trainers, Bruno Fernandes, is also an eye specialist.  He said that in severe cases of hyphema the person can suffer permanent damage to their vision.  Although Georges had only 10 percent of his vision at one point, his case was not severe and he has made a full recovery.

Fernandes stated that after the champ suffered the injury he still knew he could fight.  He stated, “By using instruments, if I had an idea how bad it was, if I knew there was no retina detachment, no open wound, and if it’s not 100 percent but he can see fingers, using the tools available at that moment it would be OK to let fight continue.”

Its good to know that St-Pierre will be able to fight again soon.  With a possible future bout with Nick Diaz looming on the horizon, the champion’s health becomes all the more important. 

The link to the source article is below.

 

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/05/16/after-10-percent-visibility-st-pierres-eye-healed-as-champ-r/

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After ’10 Percent’ Visibility, St-Pierre’s Eye Healed as Champ Resumes Training

Filed under: UFC, NewsUFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has returned to training after recovering from an eye injury suffered at UFC 129. The Canadian, who defeated Jake Shields via unanimous decision in Toronto, was poked in the left eye and…

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UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has returned to training after recovering from an eye injury suffered at UFC 129. The Canadian, who defeated Jake Shields via unanimous decision in Toronto, was poked in the left eye and suffered hyphema — bleeding in the eye — that required prescription drops, a temporary eye patch and rest to make a full recovery.

Bruno Fernandes, who is one of St-Pierre’s jiu-jitsu coaches as well as a doctor of ophthalmology in Montreal, told MMA Fighting that St-Pierre’s vision was drastically compromised by the injury, which reduced his capability of seeing out of his left eye to about 10 percent.

“We don’t really measure vision in terms of percentage but he lost field of vision, clarity and depth perception,” Fernandes said. “When you have hyphema, it is like looking through a really dirty window. Your vision is significantly impaired, and it is amazing he was even able to fight with such a degree of impairment.”

MMA’s Elite 10: The Pound-for-Pound Best

With UFC 129 in the rear-view mirror and no major MMA event for the next two weeks, I thought now would be a good time to look at the MMA pound-for-pound best fighters.Both GSP and Jose Aldo fought hard to make their cases for that No. 1 spot; however,…

With UFC 129 in the rear-view mirror and no major MMA event for the next two weeks, I thought now would be a good time to look at the MMA pound-for-pound best fighters.

Both GSP and Jose Aldo fought hard to make their cases for that No. 1 spot; however, the performances of Jake Shields and Mark Hominick proved tougher than some expected.

With that said, here is my take on the top 10 fighters in Mixed Martial Arts right now.

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Ryan Couture Talks Dad’s Teeth Coming Out, Strikeforce Challengers 16

Today we caught up with Ryan Couture during his training session with Neil Melanson at Xtreme Couture for his upcoming Strikeforce Challengers 16 tilt with Matt Ricehouse. Ryan discusses his thoughts on the infamous Lyoto Machida kick that retired Randy Couture from his MMA career and knocked a few fake teeth out. Ryan also gives […]

Today we caught up with Ryan Couture during his training session with Neil Melanson at Xtreme Couture for his upcoming Strikeforce Challengers 16 tilt with Matt Ricehouse. Ryan discusses his thoughts on the infamous Lyoto Machida kick that retired Randy Couture from his MMA career and knocked a few fake teeth out. Ryan also gives his input on Zuffa’s new health insurance offer for fighters and the social media incentives. Watch the full interview below.

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UFC 132: Champ Dominick Cruz Talk Feud with Urijah Faber

MMAweekly.com reported on the feud between Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz.  The two men met in the WEC years ago when Cruz was only 21 years old.  The fight was for Faber’s 145-pound world title, which he retained by defeating Cruz.  Thi…

MMAweekly.com reported on the feud between Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz.  The two men met in the WEC years ago when Cruz was only 21 years old.  The fight was for Faber’s 145-pound world title, which he retained by defeating Cruz.  This was the only loss in Dominic Cruz’s career, and since then he has won all of his fights at bantamweight (135 pounds). 

On July 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cruz and Faber rematch.  However, at UFC 132, Dominick Cruz is the champion, and Urijah Faber is the challenger.  Both men are very aware of the role reversal and the champion is ready to prove he can beat Faber.

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