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He also says what happened backstage at UFC 146 on Saturday night

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Matt Serra Not Retired, but Already Focusing on the Future in Al Iaquinta

  • By Luke Thomas
  • May 28, 2012 10:03 pm
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    Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra fought one time every year in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He competed twice in 2010, but has not not entered the UFC Octagon since September of that year. If there's a direction to his career as a professional fighter, it's towards an exit.

    But that doesn't mean he's throwing in the towel on his own days as a prize fighter. Not yet, anyway.

    "I'm going to say if I have to lean one way I'm definitely going to say you're going to see me again," Serra told Ariel Helwani Monday on The MMA Hour when asked if he plans to fight again or retire.

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Falling Action: Best and Worst of UFC 146

  • By Ben Fowlkes
  • May 28, 2012 01:42 pm
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    Photo by Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    The heavyweights delivered at UFC 146, and fans got their money’s worth on a quick, but memorable night. Now that the dust has cleared and the blood has been mopped up, time to take a closer look at the biggest winners, losers, and everything in between.

    Biggest Winner: Junior dos Santos
    The heavyweight champ went all Babe Ruth on us and called his shot, then knocked it out of the park exactly like he said he would. After picking Frank Mir apart with clean, precise punches, he put him away with relative ease early on in the second round. After the fight, even Mir talked about JDS with a sense of awe in his voice. He expected the fast hands, he explained, but the champ’s footwork left him swinging at air after he had the wits punched out of him. Dos Santos’s first title defense is now in the books, and it sure looked like an easy one. Granted, Mir was the UFC’s backup plan, but he’s still a former champion who looked lost in the cage with JDS. You could argue that a better wrestler (like Velasquez or Daniel Cormier) or a better striker (like Alistair Overeem) would give him a tougher test, and you might be right. Then again, you might be terribly, embarrassingly wrong. We won’t know until we see it in the cage. Until then, dos Santos is alone at the top.

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The MMA Hour With Mayhem, Serra, Ellenberger, Kampmann, McCall and Johnson

  • By Ariel Helwani
  • May 28, 2012 08:01 am
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    Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    The MMA Hour is back in your life on Monday. Here's a rundown of who will be stopping by and when:

    1 p.m. ET -- Ben Fowlkes will look back at a wild weekend in MMA.

    1:20 -- Matt Serra will update us on his career and discuss TUF Live finalist Al Iaquinta.

    1:40 -- Your calls and tweets. Use the hash tag #mioenergystrikes to send in a question.

    2 -- Martin Kampmann will discuss Friday night's fight against Jake Ellenberger.

    2:20 -- Demetrious Johnson will preview his rematch against Ian McCall on June 8.

    2:40 -- Ian McCall will also weigh-in on the "Mighty Mouse" rematch.

    3 -- Jake Ellenberger will discuss Friday night's showdown against Kampmann.

    3:20 -- Jason "Mayhem" Miller will explain what happened on Saturday night and where he goes from here.

    Got a question or comment? Give us a call at 1-888-418-4074.

    Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. GMT. Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here. Download previous episodes here. Listen to the show via Stitcher here or via TuneIn here.

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Morning Report: Dos Santos Leads Heavyweight Charge, Big Nog on 'Dancing With the Stars'

  • By Shaun Al-Shatti
  • May 28, 2012 08:00 am
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    Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    Let's be honest with each other for a second. Consider this a circle of trust. Now, we all love the technique and speed of the little guys. We can all appreciate the intricacies behind the whirlwind of movement, and how 25 minutes of battle can pass without either man seemingly breaking a sweat.

    But seriously, after watching two surreal bloodbaths, one savage champion, and 21 minutes and 50 seconds of pure, unadulterated pay-per-view violence, let's just agree -- there's nothing like the heavyweights.

    UFC 146 was everything is should've been, and even days later, it's hard to forget the spectacle we just witnessed. Yes the card would have been better with Alistair Overeem, and yes Vitor Belfort's broken hand and Arianny Celeste's early morning adventure may have stolen a bit of the thunder, but in a time when everything seems to be going wrong, Saturday night was the perfect pick-me-up to remind us just how much fun this sport can be.

    In fact, why stop now? Let's just make this an annual event. After all, UFC 146 left the train station at half-strength. Can you imagine a 2013 heavyweight extravaganza featuring the likes of JDS, Mir and Cain, plus Overeem, Shane Carwin, Daniel Cormier, and Josh Barnett? Would anyone seriously object to that? Aren't Lorenzo and Dana absolutely crazy if they don't ride this semi-accidental cash cow all the way to the bank? I'm excited already.

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Mirko Cro Cop Earns KO Win at K-1 Rising 2012; Semmy Schilt Victorious at Glory World Series

  • By Shaun Al-Shatti
  • May 27, 2012 07:15 pm
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    Mixed martial arts legend Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic continued his kickboxing resurgence on Sunday afternoon, flattening Loren Javier Jorge with a left uppercut midway through the pair's heavyweight superfight at K-1 Rising 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

    Filipovic, 37, competing in kickboxing for the second time since retiring from MMA following a UFC 137 loss to Roy Nelson, appeared loose and comfortable opening the action early on his feet, even tossing out a few of his trademark left high kicks to the crowd's delight. The veteran picked up his pressure in the second-round, diversifying his striking from tight inside the pocket and finding a home for his hard left uppercut, before flooring Jorge with the same strike.

    Jorge staggered back to his feet, but with thirty seconds to go Cro Cop charged forward unloading a furious salvo, dropping Jorge for good with a left straight, right straight, and one final left uppercut. For old-school fight fans, it was a semi-vintage performance from Filipovic, who earned his first knockout victory -- kickboxing or MMA -- since 2010.

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Day After: UFC 146 Caps MMA's Memorable May

  • By Dave Doyle
  • May 27, 2012 02:59 pm
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    LAS VEGAS -- It seemed like the bad news never stopped coming in May: Dominick Cruz out with a knee injury. Nick Diaz suspended for a year. Jon Jones arrested for DUI. Terrible television ratings for UFC on FOX 3.

    Even on Saturday, before what turned out to be a home run of a UFC event, the ill tidings flowed, with Octagon girl Arianny Celeste arrested for domestic violence and Vitor Belfort dropping out of his UFC 147 main event with Wanderlei Silva.

    And yet, just when even the most optimistic among us were starting to question whether the MMA bubble was finally showing signs it was about to burst, another trend, with much less fanfare, emerged: Every time the arena doors opened in May, the action was fantastic.

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Does UFC 146's Success Signal a New Era for MMA's Heavyweights?

  • By Ben Fowlkes
  • May 27, 2012 01:29 pm
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    Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    If you’d told me five or six years ago that the UFC was planning an event where the main card was nothing but heavyweight fights, I’d have told you it was probably a mafia movie-style plan to get all the heavies in one place for a decisive hit that would eradicate the division altogether.

    Back then, leaning so heavily on the big men would have been unthinkable. The UFC didn’t have enough of them, and the ones it did have were mostly on the mediocre end of the scale. Remember 2006, when Tim Sylvia was the heavyweight champ? He got to the top by beating Assuerio Silva, Andrei Arlovski (twice), and Jeff Monson. That run was so impressive it prompted Randy Couture to come out of retirement as a 220-pound heavyweight just to fight him.

    And yet now, in 2012, the UFC felt so confident in its big men that it asked them to carry the load for the entire UFC 146 main card. More amazingly, it actually worked. It worked better than anyone had any right to hope for, providing all the fireworks we’ve come to expect from heavyweights with none of the plodding wheeze-fests we’ve come to dread. UFC president Dana White thinks "bad s--t" happens to him every day? Outside the cage, maybe. On the police blotters? Definitely, at least recently.

    But in the cage, White and the UFC caught a major break on Saturday night. The heavyweights on the UFC 146 card delivered in a big way, making me wonder if maybe White is on to something when he says that we’ve reached a new age for MMA’s biggest competitors.

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Drug Testing, Alistair Overeem And UFC 146's Potential Legacy

  • By Mike Chiappetta
  • May 27, 2012 11:11 am
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    UFC

    A few years from now, when memories of UFC 146 must be spurred by a quick Wikipedia scan, it will be remembered as a strong event filled with decisive finishes. It may be recalled as the night when Junior dos Santos first solidified himself as MMA's undisputed heavyweight king, or perhaps as the moment the heavyweights seized attention as combat sports' most exciting division.

    If we're lucky though, the event will have a very different legacy, and a far more important one. It will be the turning point for drug testing in MMA.

    Think about this: as good as the card turned out, how much better might it have been if Alistair Overeem hadn't visited a quack doctor and injected himself with testosterone before being busted by the Nevada state athletic commission? Because of that burning question, for me, it will be remembered for what might have been as much as for what actually transpired.

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Cain Velasquez Won't Be Happy Until The Belt Is Around His Waist

Roy Nelson Gives Beard Tips to TUF's Mike Chiesa

UFC 146 Post-Fight Press Conference Highlights: JDS, Mir Discuss Title Fight

Dan Hardy Felt Like He Was Fighting on Borrowed Time

Dana White Talks Arianny Celeste, Vitor Belfort's Injury, and Strikeforce

Dana White Says Cain Velasquez 'Deserves' the Next Shot at Junior dos Santos After UFC 146 Win

  • By Ben Fowlkes
  • May 27, 2012 04:04 am
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    Photo by Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

    LAS VEGAS -- If you want to get a heavy sigh and a weary look out of UFC president Dana White, ask him to engage in some press conference matchmaking right after the evening’s fights have concluded. At the same time, when White says he likes the idea of giving Cain Velasquez the next shot at Junior dos Santos’s heavyweight title after both men were victorious at UFC 146, that’s about as solid a commitment as you can hope for on fight night.

    "I like that fight," White said, when a JDS-Velasquez rematch was suggested early on in the post-fight press conference. "Cain deserves the next fight."

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