Still no word on that mega blockbuster superfight with Anderson Silva, but don’t worry! Here’s something even more interesting! Jon Jones talks about a theoretical fight with Floyd Mayweather:

To be honest with you, if it was all hands, it would probably be a pretty competitive match. But that’s not fighting, either. You can’t be at the bar and be like, alright, no kicking, no taking me down, don’t stretch my shirt out. It’s not like that. What I do, I consider it to be the true art of fighting. To do everything. Fighting Floyd Mayweather wouldn’t even be right. Nobody would want to see that.

There’s also that small fact that Jon Jones is a giant light heavyweight and Floyd Mayweather’s most recent fights were at 147 pounds. So even beyond the intersport aspect it’s all pretty damn silly and pointless talk. But behind all the totally not happeningness of it all, there’s still that point of hubris where Jon Jones thinks his hands match up with the best boxer in the world’s.

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Everyone’s favorite mohawked wolf heart fighter was on Joe Rogan’s podcast a few days ago, and he spent two hours waxing philosophical (or as philosophical as it gets on the JRE) on his career’s past and future. And of course, DMT and aliens too. Check it out!

Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig is transitioning out of his fighting career quite well as the new striking coach of Team Alpha Male. Urijah Faber’s camp is best known for its Energizer Bunny wrasslin’ style, but since Bang arrived their striking has become something you really gotta watch out for too. He hasn’t just taught these guys better technique – he gameplans their striking, and he does it in a pretty interesting way:

When I watch film, I watch film normal how I am now. Then I watch film when I’m high on marijuana. I also watch the film again when I have Alpha Brain in my system. I watch film from three different states of consciousness just to get different looks at things. Just to see if maybe I missed a step or a nice little detail just to get different looks on things. I take this serious as hell.”

Ah, the MMA world. Where taking things seriously means smoking a bunch of weed.

(pic via MMA Weekly)

Mark Hunt’s story over the past two years has been pretty awesome, one part Cinderella Man, another part Rocky. Things get extra Rocky at UFC 160 when he faces off against Junior Dos Santos, but now that fight may be in jeopardy as Hunt is having difficulties getting into the US over a recent arrest. Here’s his frustrated tweets from an airport in New Zealand:

    @derekschock @geuben well thanks to a idiot freind if mine I did get arrested
— mark richard hunt (@markhunt1974) May 6, 2013

Getting real tired of this shit
— mark richard hunt (@markhunt1974) May 9, 2013

This is wat happens wen u have friends that are dikheads the last fukn time I help these mother fkn trouble makers
— mark richard hunt (@markhunt1974) May 9, 2013

Denied again at airport I’m never helping anymore dikhead mates
— mark richard hunt (@markhunt1974) May 9, 2013

No word on how serious all this is, but you don’t just get refused entry to a country one day over an arrest and then let in the next without something getting sorted out. Let’s hope Dana White pulls some strings like he did with Jeremy Stephens to try and get this thing sorted out. Mark Hunt is one of the main reasons I’m excited about UFC 160, and it would be stanky nutsacks to the extreme if he doesn’t get to fight.

(pic by Jeff Cain for MMA Weekly)

In less than three weeks the UFC is hoping fans will dish out fifty bucks for a rematch between Cain Velasquez and Bigfoot Silva.  I don’t like it.  To me, this fight is a dirty diaper stuffed inside a rotting cadaver—it reeks of shit.  I would have loved to watch Cain and Alistair duke it out, but since Overeem decided to stand in front of Bigfoot like a stupid asshole, I have to watch a rematch that should go exactly the same as the first.  Nonetheless, Joe Silva is a master of building cards and I’m intrigued enough by the implications of Grant/Maynard and the punching power of Mark Hunt to tune in.  Damn you, UFC.  Damn!  You!

It has finally happened! After years of surviving off the mysterious power of his hilariously inaccurate yet judge-hypnotizing haymakers, Leonard Garcia has been let go by the UFC. This, after a five fight losing streak that would have actually been a TEN fight losing streak if judges in California and Nevada weren’t so in love with his donnybrooking style. Also let go in this round of cuts:

• Antonio Carvalho
• Reuben Duran
• Pablo Garza
• Kurt Holobaugh
• Justin Lawrence
• Bart Palaszewski
• Sam Sicilia
• Issei Tamura

Fare thee well, warriors! May the ‘UFC Veteran’ tag earn you an extra zero on your B-league paydays. In memory, let’s enjoy a few more Leonard Garcia gifs: