“The game plan originally was to jump right on him, to give him no room at all, get in his face and smother everything and overwhelm him with speed on the inside. But I wasn’t able to do that … I’ve worked with guys that were 6-foot-3, 6-foot-4, but he just seemed much taller. I [...]
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With a TKO loss to Brian Foster at this past weekend’s UFC 106 event, UFC welterweight Brock Larson will now look for work outside the organization. The veteran fighter today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com he was cut from the UFC’s roster following the Nov. 21 defeat. Larson leaves the organization with a 26-4 record, which included a 3-3 [...] Spike TV’s two-fight preliminary card broadcast of this past weekend’s UFC 106 event drew a 1.0 household rating for 1.3 million viewers. The broadcast was the third pay-per-view teaser to air on Spike TV. The UFC 103 and UFC 104 broadcast specials both earned 1.4 million viewers. The Nov. 21 one-hour broadcast featured a welterweight matchup between [...] The Nevada State Athletic Commission issued medical suspensions to 10 competitors from this past weekend’s UFC 106 card, and Forrest Griffin, Luiz Cane, Marcus Davis and Jason Dent could all be out of action for up to six months for everything from broken noses to a foot injury. MMAjunkie.com recently requested and today received the full [...] I didn’t sleep well yet. The adrenaline was so high and I’m very happy. I trained hard and that debut was against a very tough guy. Cane is a warrior. Dana told me ‘Do you have the idea who you just defeated? The man we were about to match as the next contender for the [...] Despite topping the fellow ex-champ via split decision in the main event of Saturday’s UFC 106 event, Forrest Griffin earned $250,000, the same as his opponent, Tito Ortiz. Griffin earned $100,000 to show and $150,000 as an addition win bonus. Ortiz earned a flat rate of $250,000 and wasn’t eligible for a win bonus even if [...] Michael DiSanto, UFC – Forrest Griffin was understandably unhappy the night of April 15, 2006, when Bruce Buffer announced that the judges had chosen long-time former 205-lb champion Tito Ortiz as the victor of their hard-fought split decision affair. He had every right to be upset that night because the fight was ultra close, so [...] LAS VEGAS – It was no Machida vs. “Shogun,” but judging once again became the center of attention following a UFC main event. Immediately after Forrest Griffin was awarded a split-decision victory in the main event of Saturday night’s “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II,” the third-straight UFC feature bout to receive at least one questionable [...] The lights have finally been dimmed on UFC 106: “Ortiz vs. Griffin 2″ from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin hooked ‘em up in the main event, which was a rematch from their controversial first encounter back in 2006. And tonight was eerily similar to the first chapter, [...] |
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