June 29th, 2011

Matt Mitrione Not Satisfied With Win, but Would Love Shot at Tito Ortiz

Matt Mitrione may be a little conflicted about the type of opponent he’d like to fight next. But he’s not at all conflicted about wanting one particular dream grudge match, even if it’s not a highly realistic probability.

Mitrione, who improved to 5-0 in his 18-month MMA career with a knockout of Christian Morecraft on Sunday at UFC on Versus 4, told host Ariel Helwani on Tuesday’s edition of “The MMA Hour” that he would love a chance to fight Tito Ortiz, with whom he has a newly born beef.

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May 9th, 2010

Paul Daley and Kimbo Slice Cut From UFC Roster

As for Paul Daley, he clearly deserves to be banned. Dana White has said that Daley will never again fight in the UFC under any circumstances, even if he somehow becomes the #1 fighter in the world someday (which will never happen), Dana said he will still never allow Daley back in the UFC. I honestly don’t care if I ever see him fight again or not. I’ve never even bothered to give him his own category here on my blog.

Paul Daley showed absolutely nothing in the way of being a contender, as far as tonights fight goes. He lost every round to Josh Koscheck and was just easily dominated throughout the entire fight. Part of me wants to think Daley was just mad at himself for being so unprepared in this fight, and after being outclassed in every category and realizing he doesn’t have the skills to be a top contender, he felt he had to save face by sneaking up on Koscheck after the fight and SUCKER PUNCHING him from behind. LOL @ Paul Daley for not even being able to hurt Koscheck with a sucker punch from behind, especially after all the trash talking he did about being able to knock Koscheck out.

AS FOR KIMBO, I don’t think he deserves to be cut quite yet. Yes, he was dominated by Matt Mitrione, but Kimbo still has drawing power, and fans. Kimbo also has seemed to handle himself with class thus far into his pro MMA career. Kimbo could still sell tickets and draw good ratings for a non-PPV event.

May 9th, 2010

Mauricio Shogun Rua New UFC Light Heavyweight Champion

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua defeated Lyoto Machida by KO in round 1, ending the controversy surrounding their first matchup, in which Lyoto Machida was awarded a decision victory, despite many people who thought Shogun should’ve been the winner. This was Machida’s first loss.

Josh Koscheck TOTALLY dominated the trash-talking Paul Daley, and won an easy decision victory. I don’t think Paul Daley really showed any offense at all, until after the fight was over, when he snuck up behind Josh Koscheck and sucker-punched him with a left hook to the face. Unbelievable. There really isn’t any excuse Daley can give for his actions. I’m sure he’ll try to say he was full of adrenaline, or maybe even make up a lie about Koscheck saying something rude to him during the fight… but who cares. Daley seems like scum.

In other results from UFC 113:

  1. John Salter defeats Jason McDonald after McDonald suffers a broken ankle in round one.
  2. Mike “Joker” Guymon defeats Yoshiyuki Yoshida by decision
  3. Joey Beltran defeats Tim Hague by decision
  4. Johny Hendricks defeats TJ Grant by decision
  5. Marcus Davis defeats Jonathan Goulet by TKO
  6. Joe Doerkson defeats Tom Lawlor by submission (rear naked choke)
  7. Alan Belcher defeats Patrick Cote by rear naked choke, after a gnarly almost-piledriver.
  8. Matt Mitrione defeats Kimbo Slice by TKO in round 2.
  9. Jeremy Stephens defeats Sam Stout by decision.

December 3rd, 2009

Official Fight Card for Saturday Nights ULTIMATE FIGHTER Finale

Mark Bocek vs. Joe Brammer
John Howard vs. Dennis Hallman
**Brian Stann vs. Rodney Wallace
Jon Madsen vs. Justin Wrenn
**Darrill Schoonover vs. James McSweeney
Marcus Jones vs. Matt Mitrione
Frank Edgar vs. Matt Veach
**KIMBO SLICE vs. HOUSTON ALEXANDER
Matt Hamill vs. Jon Jones

** Rodney Wallace’s nickname is “Shonuff The Master” — so, I’m picking him to win.

** Darrill Schoonover has been called back to military duty (he was in the Army for 4 years already) and he’ll be leaving for duty again soon after his fight.

** WAR KIMBO, ALL DAY SON.

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