Five Ounces of Pain » UFC Fight Night 13 http://fiveouncesofpain.com Your Destination for Insider MMA News and Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Nate Diaz on Tyson Griffin: “That guy doesn’t want to fight me” http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/06/nate-diaz-on-tyson-griffin-that-guy-doesnt-want-to-fight-me/ http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/06/nate-diaz-on-tyson-griffin-that-guy-doesnt-want-to-fight-me/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:53:39 +0000 Sam Cupitt http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/06/nate-diaz-on-tyson-griffin-that-guy-doesnt-want-to-fight-me/ Nathan Diaz, fresh off of a very impressive second round submission victory over Kurt Pellegrino at last Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night 13 has shared his thoughts on another UFC lightweight in Tyson Griffin.

From GracieFighter.com:

“That guy (Tyson Griffin) doesn’t want to fight me because he thinks he’s somewhere higher up than me? I just beat a guy that’s better than him. When was the last time he finished a fight anyways against any 155 pounder that was half decent on the ground..oh yeah never.”

These is an extensive back story involved between Griffin and both the Diaz brothers. To briefly summarize, Griffin used to train with the Diaz brothers but he left them to train with Xtreme Couture and both Nate and Nick Diaz saw that as an act of betrayal and have been dirty on him ever since.

I think that a fight between Griffin and Diaz would make a lot of sense now, considering Griffin has worked his way back up into the title picture and Diaz has just leapt up the rankings with his win over Pellegrino. Add into that the bad blood between the two and you have a very intriguing, exciting and meaningful bout.

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]]> http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/06/nate-diaz-on-tyson-griffin-that-guy-doesnt-want-to-fight-me/feed/ 20 Fight Night 13 Weigh-in Results http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/01/fight-night-13-weigh-in-results/ http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/01/fight-night-13-weigh-in-results/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:30:06 +0000 Michael Huckaby http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/01/fight-night-13-weigh-in-results/ All fighters make weight for tomorrow night’s event:

Preliminary Card

Tommy Speer (170) vs Anthony Johnson (169.5)
Roman Mitichyan (170.5) vs George Sotiropoulos (169.5)
Marcus Aurelio (154.5) vs Ryan Roberts (155.5)
Josh Neer (156) vs Din Thomas (155)
Clay Guida (156) vs Samy Schiavo (155)
Manvel Gamburyan (155.5) vs Jeff Cox (155)

Main Card

James Irvin (205) vs Houston Alexander (205)
Gray Maynard (155) vs Frankie Edgar (155.5)
Tim Boetsch (206) vs Matt Hamill (204)
Nate Diaz (156) vs Kurt Pellegrino (155)
Karo Parisyan (171) vs Thiago Alves (171)
Kenny Florian (155.5) vs Joe Lauzon (156)

Main card action will air live tomorrow night on Spike from 7pm-10pm, immediately followed by the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter 7: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest.

]]> http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/04/01/fight-night-13-weigh-in-results/feed/ 24 Silverbacks’ McGivern out of IFL semifinals http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/07/16/silverbacks-mcgivern-out-of-ifl-semifinals/ http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/07/16/silverbacks-mcgivern-out-of-ifl-semifinals/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:50:11 +0000 Sam Caplan http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=353 The IFL’s official web site is reporting that middleweight fighter Ryan McGivern will not be able to compete for Pat Miletich’s Iowa Silverbacks in the IFL semifinals scheduled for August 2 in East Rutherford, NJ.

McGivern’s replacement is former collegiate wrestler Gerald Harris, who previously competed in the IFL for Matt Lindland’s Portland Wolfpack.

The move is interesting because Harris trains full-time with Team Quest. In the past when there’s been an injury to the Silverbacks, Miletich has brought in his own fighters such as Josh Neer and Sam Hoeger.

The site does not make it clear whether McGivern will be out due to injury.

Middleweight Kaz Hamanaka has also been ruled out of the semifinals for the Tokyo Sabers. Dave Phillips has been chosen to fight in place of Hamanaka by head coach Ken Yasuda. I’m not too familiar with Phillips, but in watching Hamanaka compete this past season I can say that he was a weak area on the team.

It had been previously announced that lightweight fighter Chris Horodecki would be unable to compete for the LA Anacondas.

The semifinal matchups include the Anacondas vs. the Silverbacks and the Sabers vs. Renzo Gracie’s New York Dragons.

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