UFC President Dana White discussed how Zuffa, LLC plans to have 30-31 UFC (including the newly merged WEC) fights in 2011 and plans to expand into over a billion homes worldwide from the current 500 million homes in 175 countries.
UFC 123's big winners spoke to the media after the fights. Dana White awarded $80,000 bonuses to George Sotiropoulos and Joe Lauzon for Fight of the Night; BJ Penn scored Knockout of the Night bonus; and Phil Davis received the Submission of the Night for his modified kimura dubbed the "Mr. Wonderful" by Joe Rogan. Our jiu-jitsu instructor back in the day called it the "chicken wing."
Rampage's coach Lance Gibson advised Rampage during the fight to "knee his wheels" and "stomp his wheels" referring to Machida's legs. Rampage used foot stomps while in the clinch with Machida but this did not slow down Machida.
Not quite the same Rampage as in the Pride Fighting Championship but hopefully a full-time return to MMA for fans instead of movies and/or WWE. Rampage had an nice attempted slam of Machida who had Rampage in an arm bar attempt. However, Machida just let go when Rampage started to raise him for the slam unlike Ricardo Arona in 2004 at Pride FC's Critical Countdown (see far right picture).
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