Source: http://mmasportsreport.com/3186/ufc-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-2013
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Monday, 15 July 2013
This wasn’t the first time Anderson Silva dropped his hands and clowned in the cage (Photos)
What set up Anderson Silva's stunning loss to Chris Weidman at UFC 162 was a game that Silva had dangerously played many times in previous fights. Silva put his hands down and clowned around in the cage. That's when Weidman continued to charge forward and landed the knockout punch when Silva.
This isn't the first time he's dropped his hands in a fight, but it's never come back to haunt him like it did here.
He did it against Stephan Bonnar, and won with a first-round knockout.
Silva has clowned around in the cage and dropped his hands many times, and it never ended in a UFC loss. Perhaps it was a way to get in his opponents' heads, or it was Silva's way of having fun in the cage. Weidman is the first fighter who could get his hands on Silva as he clowned. It's why he's the champ, and Silva is without the belt for the first time since 2006.
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Welterweight, lightweight titles on line at Saturday's BAMMA 11 card in England
BAMMA returns this week with a card featuring a pair of title fights as well as a struggling UFC vet in the main event. Tom Breese meets Warren Kee for the promotion's British welterweight title while Dale Hardiman takes on Steve Ray for the British lightweight belt. Headlining the card is a middleweight bout between UFC vet Xavier Foupa-Pokam and BAMMA regular Jack Marshman.
BAMMA 11 takes place Saturday and airs on AXS TV at 4 p.m. ET.
From TUF to the HOF: The Journey of Griffin and Bonnar
Eight years ago in Las Vegas, Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar went to battle inside the Octagon to determine who would become the original Ultimate Fighter. Over the course of the gritty, three round affair, both men put it all on the line, and the outcome became an instant classic that launched a new era in mixed martial arts.The bout created an eternal link between Griffin and Bonnar, and last Saturday morning at the UFC Fan Expo, they took another step into the record books as they were officially inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.The induction comes as a fitting bookend to the recently ... Read the Full Article Here
Source: http://www.ufc.com/news/The-Journey-of-Griffin-and-Bonnar
Before UFC 162, Anderson Silva joked the perfect ending to Saturday’s bout was Chris Weidman winning
Anderson Silva's stunning loss opened the door for many MMA fans to yell, "FIX!" There were plenty of tweets to the Cagewriter Twitter suggesting the end of the fight was planned. This interview of Anderson Silva by SportsNet in Canada may add fuel to the proverbial fix fire.
Skip to the five-minute mark to see what Silva had to say three days before his loss. For those who can't watch the video, Silva talked about how the perfect ending to his fight would be Chris Weidman being the new UFC champion. He did smile and laugh throughout the interview, and he is known to be downright silly when dealing with the media.
And if you're still absolutely convinced that the ending to the fight was staged, UFC president Dana White has a few choice words for you.
"It happened so fast – and some of you said it, and I was thinking the same thing – 'What just happened? Was he goofing around? Is he still goofing around when he's down and he's getting ready to pull guard?' Then they show that replay, and you just see him get clipped, and his eyes just roll back in his head," White said in the post-fight press conference. "Yeah, the fix is in, you [expletive] idiots."
As was noted here on Cagewriter, Silva has put his hands down in fights and clowned around in several of his bouts. Weidman was the first fighter who took advantage of this tendency. That's not a sign of a fix. That's smart fighting.
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