Fuel TV will be the home for ?The Ultimate Fighter Brazil?

Following his fight next week at UFC 142, Vitor Belfort will join Wanderlei Silva to begin taping for "The Ultimate Fighter Brazil." Dana White confirmed that American fans can watch Belfort, Silva and the show on Fuel TV.

"Nobody knows this yet and it's the first time it's being told. And to be honest with you the deal isn't 100 percent done yet, but I'm so confident it's going to happen, I'll give it to you guys ... The Ultimate Fighter Brazil' will air on Fuel TV," White told ESPN1100/98.9 FM in Las Vegas. "All this unique content that we're doing in these other parts of the world, Fuel TV is going to take."

White explained why the promotion needed a channel that could take more of its programming.

"The UFC has so much content. Even Spike, if you look at what a huge percentage of their programming that we used to be, we still needed more," White said. "We need more, more, more. We have all these things we're working on."

The UFC president realizes that Fuel TV isn't available everywhere (36 millions homes vs. 100+ with Spike and FX) so fans will have to make a decision.

"If you're a UFC fan, you really love your UFC, it's impossible not to have Fuel," White said. "What happens is, UFC fans have to make hard decisions, and they want it in HD and cable doesn't have it in HD you're gonna have to switch to DirecTV, or Comcast is going to have to carry it."

White lobbed a shot the way of cable networks that don't carry Fuel TV.

"If you don't have it [UFC fans will] go to where it is," White said. "Really the only option for people who don't have it on Comcast or Time Warner, they can switch and go to DirecTV tomorrow and have it."

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/fuel-tv-home-ultimate-fighter-brazil-173558845.html

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Thailand sport climbing: can you help?

Since an old friend told me about his climbing trips to Thailand it’s been one of my boxes-to-tick. Climbing by the beach and then relaxing in the blue seas sounds too good to be true. I’m about to find out - I’ve decided to do it later this year… Photo kindly shared by HalonaCoast on Flickr I’m [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rock-climbing-blog/~3/38U5UCpl448/philsheard

John Alessio  Houston Alexander Ricardo Almeida  Eddie Alvarez Thiago Alves 

How to Watch UFC 142

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The UFC's first pay-per-view offering of 2012 goes down this Saturday night, and it also kicks off a brand new television era for the organization.

FX will air a large portion of the UFC 142 prelims leading up to the pay-per-view, which kicks off at 10 pm ET. Facebook will also air a fight from the card on Saturday night.

Plus, when the entire event is over, a one-hour post-fight show will air live on FUEL TV.




UFC 142 will mark the organization's second trip to Brazil in less than five months. The event will be held, once again, at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.

Below is a breakdown of where all the fights will air:

Pay-Per-View card:
Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title)
Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva
Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim

FX card:
Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle

Facebook fight:
Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2012/01/11/how-to-watch-ufc-142/

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BLVD, Etnies, Hernandez, Indy, DC, and Paradise Videos

BLVD has a team session at the syndrome park. Etnies has a quick video of Kyle Leeper in the park. Joe Krolick has some Classic Clips with Evan Hernandez. Independent Bearings has a sick team montage. Strange Notes has a Six Pack with Steve Alba. DC has video from the NVRBRKN pop-up shop opening. paradise has a best of montage from 2011.

Source: http://theskateboardmag.com/blogs/templeton-elliott/2011/12/15/blvd-etnies-hernandez-indy-dc-and-paradise-videos/

Alex Andrade  Jermaine Andrè  Yoji Anjo  Tank Abbott Hiroyuki Abe

After rough night for Nevada officials, ?King Mo? offers to give Kim Winslow reffing lessons

Landing 15 unanswered shots, Muhammed Lawal nearly beat Lorenz Larkin into oblivion to pick up his ninth career win. "King Mo" was far from jubilant. In fact, he was angry following the victory. Lawal lashed out at the referee Kim Winslow for not protecting his opponent.

In the ring, Lawal screamed out a suggestion that Winslow shouldn't be reffing fights. In the postfight press conference, he brought it even stronger.

"The commission, they need to like to do something with her ... let her take a fight or something and give her a bad ref. Let her fight [Cristiane] "Cyborg" Santos and let's do a late stoppage with her," said Lawal."The tables need to be turned. Put me in there as a ref and I'll do a terrible job like her."

Winslow's decision to allow a limp Larkin to absorb 6-8 extra punches was shaky, but her explanation to Lawal was even worse.

"She said 'well, I wanted to give him every opportunity to bounce back. If it takes for him to be asleep, that's what it is,'" said Lawal. "She's never taken a punch before, so it's easy for her to say that."

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker suggested that it been rough night overall for the Nevada State Athletic Commission appointed referees and judges.

In an earlier fight, Winslow also allowed Gian Villante to finish off Trevor Smith with two illegal shots to the back of the head. Smith spoke to Aaron Tru about the end of the fight and said Winslow "has no business in the sport." Smith said Winslow tried to make up for a poor early stoppage in his fight by allowing Larkin to take an extra beating.

The scoring in two other fights confused cageside observers. Most onlookers thought Tyron Woodley rolled to a 30-27 decision over Jordan Mein, but one judge gave it 29-28 to Mein, who spent most of the fight on his back. The same goes for James Terry's loss to Nah-Shon Burrell got the nod 29-28 on two scorecards and looked completely shocked when he was announced as the winner.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/rough-night-nevada-officials-king-mo-offers-kim-221006705.html

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Greatest promotion ever: Wearing ?Minowaman trunks? gets you tickets for the rest of 2011

There's no such thing at too embarrassed when it comes to stunts for free MMA tickets. At least not in Hawaii.

Promoter T. Jay Thompson found a way to bring in Japanese cult hero Ikuhisa "Minowa" for his fight card next weekend in Honolulu. Minowaman is revered in Japan for his lack of fear in facing fighters who often outweigh him by 60-plus pounds and he's a real character. Leading the Minowaman fan club is HDNet's Michael Schiavello, who freaks out over Minowaman's red trunks.

Thompson is tapping into that craze by offering free tickets to anyone who shows up at Blaisdell Arena on Jan. 21, for the card featuring Minowaman against Kendall Grove, wearing those famous trunks. If someone does it there's an additional bonus.

"I did something similar with Mayhem years ago in Hawaii," Thompson told Sherdog.com. "You know, dye your hair, dress up as Mayhem, and I was gonna give away three sets of free tickets for a year to all my shows. I figured if I'm gonna get someone to put on a set of tights, they need more than a year."

It would be unfair to give all the red trunk credit to Minowaman. Clearly, wrestling's Nikolai Volkoff should get a hat tip as well. If you're heading to Honolulu in two weekends just hope you're not sitting to one of these dude wearing the Speedos.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/greatest-promotion-ever-wearing-minowaman-trunks-gets-tickets-025533096.html

Alex Andrade  Jermaine Andrè  Yoji Anjo  Tank Abbott Hiroyuki Abe

Strikeforce gallery from Rockhold?s win, Lawler?s KO and more

Check out images from Strikeforce's first event of the year by Tracy Lee, with three knockouts at the end of the card, Tarec Saffiedine's exciting decision over up-and-comer Tyler Stinson, and all of the undercard action.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/strikeforce-gallery-rockhold-win-lawler-ko-more-185011290.html

Houston Alexander Ricardo Almeida  Eddie Alvarez Thiago Alves  Andre Amade 

Jon Jones Itching to Fight, So Dan Henderson May Be Next

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Jon JonesDan Henderson may have leapfrogged Rashad Evans as the No. 1 contender in the UFC light heavyweight division.

With champion Jon Jones now saying that he wants to fight as soon as he can -- changing his mind after previously saying he needed some time off following a very busy 2011 -- it appears likely that Henderson will get the next crack at the champion, and Evans' quest for the belt will have to wait.

UFC President Dana White said on ESPN 1100 in Las Vegas that Jones had called him and said he's hoping to get back into the Octagon as soon as possible. Evans is already booked for a January 28 fight on Fox against Phil Davis, so Henderson may get the next title fight.

"He had said he wanted to take some time off (but) he called about four days ago and said, 'OK, let's go. ... Let's get back to work. I'm ready to get productive again,'" White said of Jones. "He wants to fight as soon as possible."

Based on the UFC's calendar, as soon as possible would likely be UFC 145, on March 24 in Montreal. That fight still needs a main event, and Jones vs. Henderson would be a big one.

"We've got to see how this thing plays out but what could end up happening is Dan Henderson fights Jon Jones first," White said.

But some would say it would be unfair to Evans: A former light heavyweight champion, Evans has been waiting for a title shot and wants to fight Jones, his former friend and teammate. The UFC has promoted Evans vs. Davis as the opportunity for Evans to earn his shot at Jones, but if the UFC wants to book Jones in the first quarter of 2012, then Evans is going to have to wait.

One way or another, White said, the light heavyweight division has plenty of challengers who can contend for Jones's belt. If Henderson gets the next shot, that just means the winner of the Evans vs. Davis fight would be first in line to face the winner of Jones vs. Henderson.

"I think we have a ton of guys," White said. "It's not like everything depends on one guy or two guys. The great thing about us is we've got 10 of 15 guys so it's never like we have to depend on one person."

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2012/01/08/jon-jones-itching-to-fight-so-dan-henderson-may-be-next/

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