Wagnney Fabiano scheduled to be part of the Bellator season six featherweight tournament
With their season six bantamweight tournament set, Bellator is now filling out their featherweight tournament and they’ve recently added Wagnney Fabiano, one of the top 145 lb competitors in the world, to the line up. Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney announced the signing on Twitter. A former IFL featherweight champ, Fabiano was thought to be the second best 145-pound fighter in the world (behind Urijah... [Read More...]
Wagnney Fabiano vs. Erik Koch set for WEC 43
A featherweight bout pitting decorated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Wagnney Fabiano up against WEC newcomer Erik Koch has been inked for WEC 43. The news of the match-up between the two comes via Fabiano himself who revealed that the contracts have recently been signed for the bout in an interview with Tatame.com. WEC 43 will take place on September 2 from the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio.... [Read More...]
Fabiano says next fight at WEC 40 could be against Faber
Former IFL featherweight champion and current WEC featherweight title contender Wagnney Fabiano has revealed that his next fight is scheduled for WEC 40 on Sunday, April 5. Fabiano made the revelation during a recent interview with the Brazilian MMA web site Tatame.com. According to Fabiano, his next opponent could be none other than the “California Kid” himself, former WEC featherweight... [Read More...]
Fabiano vs. Lierley: HDNet Fight of the Week (video)
In this week’s installment of HDNet Fights’ Fight of the Week we have former IFL featherweight champion and current WEC top ten featherweight Wagnney Fabiano (10-1) squaring off against the highly touted Shad Lierley (2-2) out of Ken Shamrock’s camp. This fight is a title defense for Fabiano who was the first ever IFL featherweight champion after a submission victory over L.C. Davis in the IFL... [Read More...]
Report: IFL champ Wagnney Fabiano signs with WEC
The Brazilian magazine Tatame is reporting that the IFL’s last remaining champion, Wagnney Fabiano, has signed a contract to fight in WEC’s featherweight division. Fabiano apparently is already thinking about the current WEC featherweight champion, Urijah Faber: “Faber is the best of the world now. To beat him, I think you have to be in a good shape. He’s an expert fighter and he has... [Read More...]
UFC News & Notes: Nakamura tests positive; surgery for Shogun; Jensen to replace Eastman
As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, Kazuhiro Nakamura tested positive for marijuana following his loss at UFC 76 to Lyoto Machida. He’s been fined and suspended three months by the California State Athletic Commission. Man, could this whole Pride thing get any worse? The marijuana positive still doesn’t explain the umbrella. I know that was his deal in Pride but it seemed even... [Read More...]
More UFC 76 video: Jardine, Griffin, and Fitch talk wins
Earlier this week MMAFighting.com made some post-UFC 76 video of Randy Couture available to us. Well, there’s even more video we can now post here legally, thanks to ESPN: Here’s post-fight video of Jon Fitch, who doesn’t agree that his win over Diego Sanchez being a split decision. Diego also is on at the end and he accepts the loss: Here’s video of Forrest Griffin talking... [Read More...]
UFC 76 fighter pay – 1/2 mil for Iceman
According to MMAnews.com following are the fighter pay outs for UFC 76: Keith Jardine ($14,000) def. Chuck Liddell ($500,000) Forrest Griffin ($44,000) def. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua ($150,000) Jon Fitch ($44,000) def. Diego Sanchez ($22,000) Ryoto Machida ($50,000) def. Kazuhiro Nakamura ($20,000) Tyson Griffin ($24,000) def. Thiago Tavares ($9,000) Rich Clementi ($24,000) def. Anthony Johnson... [Read More...]
5 Oz. Exclusive: Former PRIDE V.P. Millen speaks out about UFC’s handling of possible Liddell vs. Silva match
FiveOuncesOfPain.com contacted former PRIDE USA V.P. Jerry Millen to get his reaction on Chuck Liddell’s recent unanimous decision loss to Keith Jardine at UFC 76, which potentially spoiled another shot at a long-awaited dreamatch between Liddell and former PRIDE middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva. UFC president Dana White was critical of PRIDE management last year after a proposed match between... [Read More...]
UFC 76 (video): Randy Couture breaks down Griffin and Jardine upsets
The fine folks at at MMAFighting.com caught up with Randy Couture shortly after Forrest Griffin’s win over Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and conducted a video interview with him. Randy begins the interview talking about Keith Jardine’s gameplan vs. Chuck Liddell. With permission from MMAFighting.com, 5 Oz. can bring you that video right here. Special thanks to Ray for making this available: http://view.break.com/370993... [Read More...]
MMA Roundup: Liddell could fight in Dec.; Rampage could be done for ’07; Parisyan vs. Lombard; Riggs wants Shamrock; and more!
You know what I love so much about covering MMA? There’s never a shortage of news to cover. Here are some stories that are being reported around the ‘Net: - Loretta Hunt from The Fight Network spoke with John Hackleman, the trainer for Chuck Liddell, who says he’s unaware of any retirement talk. In fact, he not only claims Liddell told him he’ll be back in the gym next Monday,... [Read More...]
More on Chuck Liddell possible retirement talk
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports has followed up his comments that were initially made during a post-UFC 76 article from late Saturday in which he briefly made mention that former UFC heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell was contemplating retirement. Iole now has a full-length feature devoted to the topic and the article includes several telling quotes from UFC president Dana White: But White, Liddell’s... [Read More...]
Dana White: Silva vs. Liddell “just not meant to happen”
Dave Meltzer has a post-UFC 76 show article available on FoxSports.com and has an interesting quote from Dana White regarding the fate of the long-anticipated dream match between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva that is once again more fantasy than reality: For now, what appeared to be the three biggest money matches, Jackson against Rua, Jackson against Liddell, or Liddell against Silva, look to... [Read More...]
Mayhem Miller is the best
Check out Mayhem Miller clowning around behind Wanderlei every time the camera zoomed in on him. That dude is funny. Read More →
UFC 76 (audio): Caplan’s post-fight rant on ESPN 920
Yeah, I just referred to myself in the third person. But I was on Steve Cofield’s post-UFC 76 show last night on ESPN 920 in Vegas and went off on a rant. Steve has made the audio available to 5 Oz. listeners so you can hear my analysis by clicking here. Read More →
Diego Sanchez considering move to lightweight
In a post-UFC 76 article by Dave Doyle of Yahoo!, apparently Diego Sanchez is not ruling out dropping down to 155 lbs. following last night’s lost to Jon Fitch via unanimous decision: “I’m contemplating in my mind if I’m going to drop to (1)55 or not, because I’m a smaller welterweight. I could do more powerlifting and put some more weight on or I could lose some weight.” It... [Read More...]
The Dana White Show (a recap of Dana’s UFC 76-related comments)
The odds of me ever hosting a show with Dana White are slim and none and slim just got rear naked choked by Forrest Griffin late in the third round. But what’s to stop me from taking Dana’s pre-UFC 76 and post-UFC 76 comments from places like MMANews.com (which had a summary on some comments he made on Scott Ferrall’s show on Sirius) and Yahoo! (where Kevin Iole has some post-show... [Read More...]
UFC 76: Post-show thoughts on Jardine and Griffin upsets and more
I don’t know where to begin. But let’s begin with Liddell vs. Jardine: Remember when I said they should have canceled the match? A lot of you said I was crazy. Remember when I said this was a legit main event caliber match? A lot of you said I was full of it. Well, I have to eat crow when I make bold picks like Koscheck over GSP that don’t pan out and I have to own up to it but there... [Read More...]
UFC 76 preview and picks available at CBSSports.com
My UFC 76 preview and picks are now available on CBSSports.com by clicking here. Did I have the stones to pick a Forrest Griffin upset over Shogun? Check out the preview to find out. BTW, my editor, Denny Burkholder, has been hard at work making some changes to the MMA and boxing section and expanding the coverage so check it out. Rumor has it that a new writer is also being brought on board but I... [Read More...]
UFC 76/UFN 11 conference call notes
The UFC held a combined conference call for the media today in regard to both UFC Fight Night 11 next Wednesday on Spike TV and UFC 76 next Saturday on pay-per-view. Involved with the call were Chuck Liddell, Keith Jardine and Kenny Florian. Dana White and Din Thomas had been advertised for the call but did not attend. UFC PR rep Jennifer Wenk indicated that White was on another call. At one point... [Read More...]
