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What’s going on up there, Canada? Courtesy of The MMeh? Show we have discovered one David “The Can” Correa, who may be the most awful fighter in the world: “I don’t always sprawl, but when I do I tap out.” Of course, what can you say about the winner, a guy who can’t finish an opponent who gets gassed after sprawling three times? Methinks he looks a bit too smug about this victory.
Things were looking pretty grim for Mark Hunt a few days ago – his visa into the United States to fight Junior Dos Santos at UFC 160 was denied because of an arrest from 10 years ago. Why does that come up now? Because of increased security since the Boston Marathon Bombing. Thank you government for making us safer. Things were to the point where Hunt was getting ready to give up and just eat cake, which is apparently what he’s all about when not about to fight in the cage. But now:
That’s right, the fight is on! And while Hunt is thanking The Father aka God, I’m going to thank The Baldfather aka Dana White, hallowed be his name. Have faith in Him and he will always come through with good fights.
Curses! The issue of what to do with the bantamweight title just a little more clusterfuckery. Brazilian news source Tatame reported this weekend that interim title holder Renan Barao injured his right foot and would likely be forced out of the main even bout against Eddie Wineland at UFC 161.
Dana confirmed that Barao would “probably” be off the card pending tests on his foot, but it opens up a some problems for 161 and the stalled bantamweight division. It’s unlikely that someone would step in on short notice to fight Wineland for a meaningless interim interim championship belt, so the expected option is moving the Rua / Nogueira or Henderson / Evans fight up to the main even for the sold out show.
But what to do about a division that’s been going nowhere for almost two years now? Just last month Dana reassured titleholder Dominick Cruz that he wouldn’t be stripped of his belt, and stated he was confident that Cruz would return to the cage by the end of 2013. In hindsight, recovery time would have been much faster if Cruz had replaced his bum knee with a bionic counterpart. Time’s ticking! There are a lot of hungry 135s lining up at the gate and it’s getting harder to shuffle them around without someone defending the title.
(Pic by Lee Whitehead via MMAWeekly.com)
Vitor Belfort looking every bit his age against Luke Rockhold
Jacare Souza puts Chris Camozzi to sleep as part of a popular Brazilian sex ritual
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FX Card (9pm EST)
FUEL prelims (6pm EST)
Facebook prelims (4:30pm EST)
