UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St.-Pierre GSP Defends His Title vs. Nick Diaz

UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St.-Pierre has won with boxing, head kicks, knee and elbow strikes, submissions, but mostly by decision. GSP promises the new weapons he's added to his arsenal will really shock Nick Diaz.
 

 

Countdown to UFC 158: St.-Pierre vs. Diaz

 

Catch an all-new Countdown to UFC 158. The top welterweights in the world converge on the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday, March 16th!

In the main event, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre faces his fiercest rival, Nick Diaz, in an anticipated showdown. Plus, another rivalry is born when "The Natural Born Killer" Carlos Condit faces 170-pound knockout artist Johny "Big Rigg" Hendricks. Then Jake "The Juggernaut" Ellenberger goes toe-to-toe against Nate "The Great" Marquardt.

 

Wins by submission over Matt Hughes!

 

 

Georges St. Pierre broke Josh Koscheck's orbital bone with a nicely timed left jab at UFC 124.

Funny Caption Contest: GSP whispering "Diaz you need passive income you uneducated fool!"

 

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UFC 129 St-Pierre vs Shields, Couture vs Machida, Aldo vs Hominick & more!

All New Start Time Tomorrow Night For UFC 129 - LIVE at 9pm ET / 6pm PT

Featuring Georges St-Pierre (GSP) defending the UFC welterweight title against Jake Shields, Jose Aldo and Mark Hominick in the UFC's first-ever featherweight championship bout, and Hall of Famer Randy Couture taking on former 205-lb.champ Lyoto Machida - 9pm ET / 6pm PT LIVE on Pay-Per-View and UFC.TV

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MMA In L.A.: Long Beach Fight Night (Willie Gates' TKO of Skylar Reider)

MMA: Long Beach Fight Night Intro Willie Gates & Skylar Reider
Long Beach Fight Night, Jan 2, 2010. Willie Gates (Black trunks from Aguirre Fighting Systems) uses some nice knee strikes to set up a TKO of Skylar Reider (Kings Martial Arts) in Round 1 (see videos). Contact us to show our fans MMA, combat sports, and/or martial arts in your area.

Deaf MMA Fighter Matt Hamill Inspires Many To Overcome Obstacles

Movie About Deaf UFC Fighter and Wrestler Matt Hamill Overcoming Obstacles Is A Hit Which We Will Watch Today! Imagine not being able to hear your corner yell instructions at you during a fight.  Imagine not being able to hear music and sound clearly to communicate, learn from and enjoy.

Matt Hamill recently winning UFC 121 against his former coach Tito Ortiz on "The Ultimate Fighter"  Copyright 2010 MMA Maxim.com  All Rights Reserved. 

MMA's Matt Hamill a hit in the cage and on the big screen

 Story By Beau Dure, Special for USA TODAY

When Matt Hamill appeared on the reality show The Ultimate Fighter, two people saw potential:

•Tito Ortiz, the veteran UFC fighter coaching one of the teams on the show, made Hamill his first draft pick.

•Eben Kostbar, a filmmaker, thought Hamill's story of dealing with deafness and becoming a three-time Division III college wrestling champion would make a great film.  Four years later, Hamill is so well-established in mixed martial arts that he's a slight favorite against his former coach Saturday at UFC 121.

Next month, Hamill will premiere at the AFI Film Festival. The film took several years because Kostbar and writing-producing partner Joseph McKelheer went through roughly 75 rewrites to make sure Hamill was happy with it and that they weren't making, in Kostbar's words, "a cheesy wrestling or MMA movie."

"Our film is kind of like The Blind Side, where football is the backdrop," Kostbar says. "It's more Matt's journey, growing up in a small town where deaf education was sparse, learning to come to grips with who he is."

They also found they wanted to keep the deaf community happy. That meant replacing Kostbar, who had been cast to play Hamill in the film, with a deaf actor, Russell Harvard.  "There will always be controversy about a hearing actor playing a deaf person," Hamill says. "The deaf community has a lot of talented deaf actors, and they don't think it's fair that they aren't given a chance to portray that in films, TV and plays. I can understand that from their point of view. (The producers) made amends by casting a deaf actor who is extremely talented and did a great job portraying me."

Other actors in the film are deaf, including former Weeds and Jericho cast member Shoshannah Stern. She plays Kristi, Hamill's girlfriend who helps him adapt to life at Rochester Institute of Technology after an unhappy stint at Purdue. RIT, which keeps a list of its deaf athletes on its athletic department site, inducted Hamill (99-3 record, 47 pins) into its Hall of Fame in 2007.

Also in the cast is one of Hamill's former opponents, Rich Franklin, who helped Hamill get started in the sport. Franklin sought a wrestler to help him round out his skills and found Hamill through mutual friends. The former UFC middleweight champion then encouraged Hamill to pursue MMA and seek a spot on The Ultimate Fighter.

Franklin was reluctant to fight Hamill two years ago but dutifully followed through and handed his friend the second loss of his career. Hamill has won four in a row since then, though one was on a disqualification in a fight opponent Jon Jones was clearly winning. The fighters remained friends, and Franklin was later offered a part in Hamill. Though Franklin's character appears at a discouraging time — he's a Purdue wrestling coach who cuts Hamill as he struggles academically and athletically — he didn't hesitate to add to his growing list of film credits. "It's not the role itself that was interesting to me," Franklin says. "But it was interesting it's Matt Hamill's life that we're working with."

Hamill and Ortiz have maintained contact since TUF, but Hamill isn't sentimental about facing his former coach. "I always knew it was a strong possibility since we are in the same sport in the same weight class," Hamill says. The journey to put Hamill's life on screen was longer than his successful college career. Hamill doesn't mind. "The delay will be worth it," he says.

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Ask the Fight Doc: Any truth to Ortiz's belief that deaf fighters are easier to KO?

By Dr. Johnny Benjamin on Oct 21, 2010 at 12:30 pm ET

In a featured bout at Saturday's UFC 121 event, student meets coach when Matt Hamill takes on fellow light heavyweight and his head coach on "The Ultimate Fighter 3," Tito Ortiz.

But Ortiz's August appearance on HDNet's "Inside MMA" program has been a recent hot topic.

And in our latest "Ask the Fight Doc" installment, MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin debunks Ortiz's ridiculous assertion that deaf fighters physically are more susceptible to knockouts.

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On an episode of "Inside MMA" on HDNet, Tito Ortiz stated that Matt Hamill was going to be easier to knock out because he's deaf and he has a "soft head" (in reference to some deaf people having equilibrium problems). Does this make any sense whatsoever? Or is this another case of Tito being Tito? Thanks. – Scott

This is a difficult question to answer – not because it has any basis in fact but because it is difficult to stay professional and not attack the character of a person who makes such ignorant statements.

So in fairness, I viewed the "Inside MMA" show in question (it debuted on Aug. 6) to appreciate and evaluate Mr. Ortiz's comments for myself.

"He's been babied his whole life coming from being deaf, of course, and he's going to be babied after I knock him out," Ortiz said. "He's slow. He's like a big slow ox. I'm going to pick him apart, and I know his corner really can't tell him what to do and show him the mistakes he does. ... He's deaf, so he has a soft head."

That prompted someone, apparently host Kenny Rice, to react in astonishment. But Ortiz continued.

"You people don't know this," he said. "Watch how (Rich) Franklin knocked him out quick. You hit them (deaf fighters) with soft shots because (with) their equilibrium, they don't have no equilibrium."

Wow. One of the problems with the First Amendment's right to "free speech" is that it also protects the statements of fools.

Deafness, equilibrium and concussions (knockouts) have little, if any, significant relationship. Deafness is a loss of hearing, not balance. The inner ear has some function in both hearing and equilibrium, but they are very separate issues.

Furthermore, what any of this has to do with an athlete's ability to withstand a blow to the head is difficult to understand. Concussions are an issue involving brain function and not the inner ear and/or vestibular apparatus.

There is not a shred of reputable medical literature that even suggests that deaf athletes are more susceptible to concussions than any other athlete.

I will not waste a great deal of your time discussing this non-issue, and I was pleased to hear that Ortiz realized the stupidity of his comments and later apologized via Twitter.

"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." – Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain

Japanese MMA and Martial Arts Inspired Halloween! Happy Halloween from the Samurai Deli!

Happy Halloween!  Who is dressing up with a martial arts theme?  We will be wearing our Samurai Shirt and using our Kendo Sword to carve pumkins and to chop bad pumpkins mid-air like John Belushi
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UFC President Dana White Finally Announces WEC Merging into UFC

UFC President Dana White has finally announced that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) will finally merge early on in 2011.  White stated "the last fight for the WEC will be be in December [2010]."  The UFC President then elaborated that every fight in the 155 lb division will roll into the UFC and the UFC will add all those lower weight classes.


We at MMAMaxim.com think it did not make sense to have a confusion of brands (UFC vs WEC) unless the WEC fighters were amateurs (which they are not) and Zuffa was trying to distinguish the level of proficiency of the fighters by the WEC.

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UFC ALSO ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH VERSUS TO AIR FOUR FIGHTS IN 2011

Las Vegas, NV (USA) – In a media conference call today, Ultimate Fighting Championship® President Dana White announced the UFC is adding two new championship divisions at bantamweight (135lbs.) and featherweight (145lbs.), while also announcing a new television deal with the VERSUS Network to air four UFC fights in 2011.

“As the UFC continues to evolve and grow globally, we want to be able to give fans title fights in every weight division,” said White. “This is a big day for the sport and the athletes who will have the opportunity to fight on the biggest stage in the world.”

The two new divisions feature WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo who will now be recognized as the reigning UFC featherweight champion, and WEC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz. White confirmed that the winner of the Dec. 16 lightweight title fight between WEC champion Ben Henderson and top contender Anthony Pettis live on VERSUS will take on the winner of the UFC 125 main event title bout between champion Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard. This upcoming fight will serve as a UFC lightweight title unification bout to be held next year.
White also stated the UFC is expanding its presence on the VERSUS Network in 2011, and will increase its number of UFC events from two to four per year. Versus is scheduled to air the two remaining live WEC events in 2010 on Nov. 11 and Dec. 16. The Nov. 11 event in Las Vegas will feature “The California Kid” Urijah Faber’s debut at bantamweight as he takes on Takeya Mizugaki, while the Dec. 16 event in Glendale, Ariz. will feature Henderson-Pettis and a bantamweight title clash between Dominick Cruz and challenger Scott Jorgensen with the winner becoming the new UFC bantamweight champion.

“We have a great relationship with the VERSUS network, and we look forward to working with them to give UFC fans even more free fights in 2011,” said White.

Shane Carwin On Cain Velasquez's win over Brock Lesnar at UFC 121

 Shane Carwin stated on his blog one day after UFC 121 the following and the pictures were added by us to illustrate his points: "I have received hundreds of texts, emails, DM's @shanecarwin by the thousands and I have seen and read your blog post here on shane-carwin.com. I get it and believe it was hard to watch someone use your game plan with better results, especially when the result is winning the biggest prize in the sport.

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What Cain did is what great fighters do, they learn from what they can study. How would have my fight turned out if I had let Brock stand and knock him down again and again? It really doesn't matter about what happened last night or in July the only thing that matters is what is to be.

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Those of you writing Brock off should consider this. The man walked into the UFC at the top level (who does that?) and won and defended the UFC HWT Belt. 

He took a beating from me and came back and found a way to win, he nearly lost his life and he came back and found a way to win, he is 4-2 in MMA [5-2-0 in all MMA and 4-2 in the UFC] and
some of the wins are UFC title DEFENSES. He is a real champion, a real warrior and as long as he keeps training and learning MMA he will continue to be a force. Every great champion will lose the great ones rise again and it would not surprise me to see Brock defending a title again one day. Win or lose he should be respected for being the warrior he is.

Cain had a great game plan for the fight and he executed it. If you did not think Cain would be a contender then you must have missed his previous fights and missed every website claiming him to be the future of the heavyweight division. Cain is a great fighter and he showed everyone that last night.

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The UFC HWT division has an amazing crop of fighters right now with four worthy title holders (Cain, Brock, JDS and myself) and a lot of amazing talent knocking on door to get their name on the list for a title shot. I am honored to be where I am and I know what I need to do to climb back on top of that mountain. I am motivated by the opponents in front of me and pushed by those hot on our heals.

This is going to be the era of the UFC HWTS and I am here to make a impact....I hope to begin that climb on 1-1-11 against a very formidable opponent in Roy Nelson. I am giving him and that fight 100% of my attention. JDS is next up for a shot at the UFC belt, which should be another great fight."

2010 United Glory Show with Dutch Strikeforce Champ Marloes Coenen, Gokhan Saki, Erroll Zimmerman, Murthel Groenhart, Siyar Bahadurzada, and Mourad Bouzidi

2010 United Glory Show with Dutch Strikeforce Champ Marloes Coenen who recently submitted Sarah Kaufman for the Women's 135 lb Division Belt.  This will take place on Sat., Oct. 16.  Gokhan Saki, Erroll Zimmerman, Murthel Groenhart, Siyar Bahadurzada, and Mourad Bouzidi will also fight.
Round ONE of the tournament will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  The fighters in the
tournament will compete for U.S. $150,000 (a sign the U.S. Currency is still valuable in the global perception).














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