Guest Edwin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Jessice Penne is moving up to 115 lbs. to try out for TUF 20. I think it's a lock she gets on the show. Now all we need is Waterson. This is definitely turning out into the best season of TUF ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glfpunk Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 On Tuesday, the UFC announced that starting immediately, they will no longer offer $50,000 Knockout of the Night or Submission of the Night bonuses following events. Instead, they will add two $50,000 Performance Of The Night bonuses, awarded to those fighters who put on "the two best individual performances on the card". Fight Of The Night remains intact. This does help in those cases where there is not a knockout or submission on a card, and gives the company more leeway in giving out bonus money in cases where a fighter loses (Josh Thomson, perhaps?) in a very controversial way. It also allows the UFC to not award bonus money on one of those nights where nothing is clicking. On a side note, our Mike Coughlin wrote a column on this very subject a few weeks ago. - JN Credit: f4wonline.com I would have kept them, tradition! What a bunch of dumb shit all those words are. "Gives the company more leeway in giving out bonus money." How about you just give out additional bonuses as you see necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LethalStriker Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 When they would have events with 3-4 impressive KO wins but could only give out the bonus to one of them and had to give the other bonus for a fairly standard RNC win because it was the only submission on the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 According to Greg Savage, the name change has more to do with the Cleveland Clinic studies and getting away from the concussion encouragement aspect than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani now “@MaffRogers: @arielhelwani there's gonna be 2 performance if the night bonuses right?” 4 bonuses total: 2 Fight, 2 performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Kevin Iole @KevinI 2m Breaking news: @SugaRashadEvans has leg injury and is out of @UFC 170. So late, @DC_MMA off the card. Story soon on @YahooSports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_h Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 And now Sonnen is on twitter trying to get for the Cormier fight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Lorenzo said once Rashad rehabs, the fight will be rebooked for UFC 172 or 173. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epwar Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Guess we're going to really see whether Ronda sells now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epwar Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 According to Dana White, Overeem has turned down two different offers to fight Junior dos Santos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Jessice Penne is moving up to 115 lbs. to try out for TUF 20. I think it's a lock she gets on the show. Now all we need is Waterson. This is definitely turning out into the best season of TUF ever. Agreed, big fan of Penne. This season has a lot of favorites, really looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Contract talks aren't going well for Gilbert Melendez. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/2/12/5406650/dana-white-tells-melendez-to-hit-the-bricks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I don't think Sonnen would have a snowball's chance in hell of beating Cormier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epwar Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I don't think Sonnen would have a snowball's chance in hell of beating Cormier. It is just Sonnen's tired old shtick. Sadly, Dana White and MMA fans fall for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I wasn't primeraly looking forward to Rashad/DC, but it sucks for the UFC. As much as I like Chael, they shouldn't give him the fight and much less after what Rashad did to him in their fight. Chael should just stick to the Wanderlei fight which is bigger and winnable fight for him. Reem has no chance against JDS at this point so there's no surprise he turned the fight down. I'm guessing he tries to get a couple of more winnable fights before he steps up and fights JDS so he can at least he doesn't get cut from the UFC. Hope the contract negotiations with Gil get cleared up and he can stay with the UFC. He has a good chance at being the UFC LW champ so it's a shame if they can't get that resolved. Aside from Khabib and Bendo possibiy again, I don't think there's another fighter in the division who can beat Gil, not even Pettis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glfpunk Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 When they would have events with 3-4 impressive KO wins but could only give out the bonus to one of them and had to give the other bonus for a fairly standard RNC win because it was the only submission on the card. No dude, it's their money. They can give out extra bonuses if they feel someone deserved it. The difference is that now that they did away with the sub and ko bonuses and have gone to "performance" bonuses they can give them to whoever they want to without holding themselves to anything. If there was only one sub on a card that was like a guaranteed paycheck for the person that got it regardless of their standing or popularity in the organization. You still had a legit solid chance even if you were a lesser known. That's gone now and they can just give money based on their popularity contest heirarchy and don't have to hold themselves to giving money to the sub or ko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Khabilov wants to fight Bendo in May. Big winnable fight for Khabilov. Hope it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 John Howard vs. Ryan LaFlare at the UFC April event in Abu Dhabi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Daniel Cormier vs. Patrick Cummins at UFC 170... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 EDIT, NM. Apparently the two wrestled in college. Not sure what the result was if anyone knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 ESPN is saying Sonnen-Silva has been moved May 31 Brazil from May 24 Vegas, any reason why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epwar Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 In news that will shock no one, Ian McCall is out of his fight with Brad Pickett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubtingELDANDY Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Looking at Cummins record, his opponents have a combined record of 10 wins and 20 loses. Putting this guy in the co-main is an absolute joke. I find it hard to believe no other UFC light heavyweights would have stepped up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 There are no other top LHWs training for a fight that would already would in camp besides the main eventers of the London card. That is unless you really want to see OSP or Nikita Krylov vs. Cormier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Phil Davis said he was training to fight Glover Teixeira because he said Jon Jones was going to pull out with an injury, I wonder if they asked him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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