Pacquiao vs. Mosley Results: Live Updates of Undercard and Main Event

by Michael David SmithPacquiao vs. Mosley will be one of the biggest fights of the year for boxing.MMA Fighting will have live results of Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley fight card in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

When the main event begins, around 11:30PM ET, check out our Pacquaio vs. Mosley live blog for live round-by-round updates. Prior to the main event, we'll have live updates and results on all the undercard fights below.

UPDATE, 11:25 PM ET: The undercard fights are over. Click here for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley live blog.

 

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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/05/07/pacquiao-vs-mosley-results-live-updates-of-undercard-and-main/

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UFC 129: Jake Ellenberger Knocks Out Sean Pierson

by Michael David SmithJake Ellenberger knocked out Sean Pierson at UFC 129.At UFC 129, the Knockout of the Night bonus will be worth an all-time high $129,000. Jake Ellenberger may have just earned the biggest payday of his MMA career.

Ellenberger knocked out Sean Pierson with a brutal counter left hook in the first round of their fight in front of a record crowd estimated at 55,000 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

After that counter left hook knocked Pierson wobbly, Ellenberger landed another right hand on Pierson's way to the floor, and one more on the ground. Those two shots, however, were unnecessary: It was the left hook that finished Pierson.

 

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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/04/30/ufc-129-jake-ellenberger-knocks-out-sean-pierson/

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Super 7 Q & A: Jones explains how he’s not a “swagger-jacker” and thinks Evans fight will change the sport

During a Q & A with Joe Rogan and six fellow UFC champions, Jon Jones met the with the fans before the UFC 129 weigh-in. He detailed injury that forced him out of his fight against teammate Rashad Evans. He still wants that fight.

"It's definitely going to change the sport and you're gonna have teammates fighting each other left and right now. It's just business. Like if the Patriots had a teammate on the Jets. It's not like they can't play each other for the Super Bowl," Jones said. "You know you just have to get the job done."

Well, technically New England and New York can't meet in the Super Bowl, but we get his point.

Jones is still confused as to why Evans has been upset with him for the last few months saying Rashad gave him his blessing to fight Mauricio Rua at dinner the night before his fight against Ryan Bader.

"I guess the biggest thing that made him upset is that I didn't call him right away to let him know I had done the interview about fighting him," Jones said. "But what I said on the interview was something that I would've said to his face, but he didn't take it very well."

Evans has been talking trash on Twitter and during several Internet interviews since. He even cracked on Jones for a being a swagger-jacker. He explained to the Canadian fans and Rogan what that meant.

"[Before The Tonight Show appearance] I was sent to the same exact stylist and I ended wearing the same shirt, the same suit and the same tie [that] Rashad wore like a year earlier. I show up on Jay Leno, he sees the suit and he's like 'oh you're copying my style.' I have my own swag," joked Jones.

Jones says he has small tears between his thumb and forefinger. It's something that's happened once a year since his days in college. His management decided it was time to get it surgically repaired.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Super-7-Q-A-Jones-explains-how-he-s-not-a-sw?urn=mma-wp1723

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Randy Couture secure in his decision to retire after UFC 129 loss to Lyoto Machida

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

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UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture has come to the end of his career, sent into retirement by a fantastic jumping crane kick from Lyoto Machida at UFC 129 in Toronto.

"The Natural" said prior to the fight that win, lose or draw the bout with Machida would be his last. Now that the fight has come and gone, Couture is content with that decision, and Saturday's result left him feeling secure in leaving the sport as an active fighter.

"There wasn't a sentimentality about it. There was kind of a sense of relief," Couture said on Sunday in comments made to Loretta Hunt at SI.com. "I felt like it was the right decision long before this and I felt more secure walking out that this is the right time and the right thing for me to be doing. There was no doubt in my head."

Machida's fight-ending kick caught everyone by surprise, and Couture said it wasn't anything he'd seen before, in practice or otherwise.

"It looked like he started to throw a front kick with his left leg and kind of jumped into that crane kick thing, which comes purely from karate," said Couture. "It wasn't anything I'd seen in practice ever. I don't think anyone's seen someone do that in an MMA fight."

"I thought it was a punch. With his front kick, he'll follow up with a punch almost at the same time. We were prepared for that, so I thought I'd missed that [combination]."

Because Couture has retired before, it will be hard for some to believe that he's actually done. However, Couture was emphatic that this was his last fight, and made it clear that, while the UFC may attempt to get him back, it's not in the cards.

"Definitely, it's the last fight," he said. "I know they're going to try to throw me something and get me to come back, but it's not going to happen."

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Penick's Analysis: I fully believe Couture that he's done. He's got two movies lined up to begin filming later this year, and at 47-years-old it was clear on Saturday night that his time is over. Machida, 15 years his junior, was just on another level throughout, and hit him with a fantastic move not seen in the UFC before. Couture's mark on the sport has been made, and he'll have a place in the telling of UFC's history forever, but this 30th fight of his will be the last one, and I don't think the UFC will be able to convince him otherwise.

[Randy Couture art by Cory Gould (c) MMATorch.com]

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_9217.shtml

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MMA Top 10 Pound-for-Pound: GSP, Aldo Miss a Chance to Move Up

by Michael David Smith
Heading into UFC 129, I thought both welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre and featherweight champion Jose Aldo had a good chance of putting on the kind of performance that would move them up in the pound-for-pound rankings.

GSP did what he usually does and won a dominant unanimous decision over a good opponent in Jake Shields, but he didn't do anything that makes him leapfrog Anderson Silva at the top of the list. And Aldo won a classic battle with Mark Hominick, but it wasn't the kind of transcendent performance that could put him on top of the MMA world.

So as we review the Top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in mixed martial arts, there's no change at the top.

 

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Source: http://mmafighting.com/2011/05/04/mma-top-10-pound-for-pound-gsp-aldo-miss-a-chance-to-move-up/

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UFC 129 brings 55,724 fans, $12.1 million live gate; Garza, Machida, Aldo and Hominick earn $129,000 bonuses

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

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The UFC upped the ante for their "Fight Night" bonuses with a record gate and attendance at UFC 129, handing out $129,000 bonuses to four fighters for their performance on the card.

After announcing a North American record paying attendance of 55,724 fans and a live gate of $12.1 million, the UFC revealed the night's bonus winners, and Pablo Garza, Lyoto Machida, Mark Hominick and Jose Aldo each have an extra $129,000 for their efforts on Saturday.

Garza took the event's "Submission of the Night" on the very first fight on the card, pulling off a flying triangle submission over Yves Jabouin in the first round. Though Jabouin gave him some fits early, battering him with a few hard leg kicks and combinations, Garza utilized his height and reach advantage, landing a few hard knees in the Thai clinch before trapping Jabouin's left arm and jumping into the triangle. Though it took him a bit longer to get the hold cinched in, ultimately Jabouin was forced to tap.

It looked like John Makdessi would be a run away winner for "Knockout of the Night" after he connected with a vicious spinning back fist to crush Kyle Watson in the third round of their fight on the preliminary card, but Lyoto Machida had other plans. Pulling off a flying crane kick to the face of Randy Couture - a kick that knocked Couture's tooth out and sent him violently to the canvas - Machida took the bonus from Makdessi with a serious "Knockout of the Year" contender.

The "Fight of the Night" went to what wound up to be a thrilling fight between Jose Aldo and Mark Hominick for the UFC Featherweight Championship. The first round of the fight went about as expected, with Aldo being the more precise striker, landing combinations and vicious leg kicks to win the round. However, the second round saw Aldo visibly slowed and allowed Hominick to get back into things, though he was still behind in the fight.

Aldo saw a burst of energy in the third and fourth rounds, laying on more punishment against Hominick and knocking him down with strikes twice. In the fourth, after knocking him to the ground, Aldo landed an elbow to Hominick's forehead that caused a massive hematoma. Somehow the doctors allowed Hominick to continue, and in the fifth round he made an effort to steal the fight. After taking a clearly exhausted Aldo to the ground, Hominick battered the tired champion for the remainder of the round, ending the fight in top position and drawing the cheers of the crowd.

The fifth round effort was too little, too late for Hominick, and Aldo retained the title, but the thrilling five round affair brought an extra $129,000 to both fighters.

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_9208.shtml

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5 Oz. MMA Link Club

Welcome back to another ediition of ?MMA Link Club?, Five Ounces of Pain?s weekly smorgasbord of offerings from our brothers and sisters in the MMA community. Enjoy? The Top 5 and Bottom 5 Moments of Randy Couture’s Career (CagePotato.com) Behind the Scenes of the UFC’s “Super Seven” (NBCSports.com) An Interview with Daniel Gracie (LowKick.com) Fighters [...]

Source: http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2011/05/05/5-oz-mma-link-club-41/

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Now you can apply online to fight in the UFC

Like many companies, the UFC has turned to an online hiring system. Job applicants are asked to submit their resumes online for jobs in marketing, operations and fighting. Wait, really?

Yep. You can apply to be a fighter through its online system. Fill out its application with your details, your manager's details, your weight class and your online fighting profile -- through sites like Sherdog or Wikipedia -- and verify that you have at least five professional fights, and voila! You're in its system. Fighters will be evaluated and hired on a rolling basis.

If you don't want to be a fighter, you can still have fun commenting on the people who are putting their dreams on the line. Yes, every fighter-wannabe's profile is viewable, and even has a comment board.

Though this seems like a publicity stunt for the UFC -- and it may be -- it could still also find some talent that may have slipped through the cracks. They can also see if a fighter is popular enough to sell tickets before they ever offer a contract.

Would you apply? Tell us in the comments or on Facebook.

Thanks to Bloody Elbow

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Now-you-can-apply-online-to-fight-in-the-UFC?urn=mma-wp1491

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