MEMPHIS -- FanHouse caught up with Dana White immediately following Thursday's UFC 107 pre-fight press conference to talk about some of the story lines heading into to Saturday night's pay-per-view. White touched on BJ Penn's maturation as an MMA fighter, Diego Sanchez's off-beat personality, and Frank Mir's latest mind games.White also talked about last weekend's TUF finale, the recent string of injuries the organization has had to deal with and confirmed Matt Hughes vs. Renzo Gracie for 2010. Check out the video interview, which contains mature language, below.
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I hate to hear that houston will no longer be fighting in the ufc. whats with the jab at kaleb starns
Kalib Starnes was in one of the most lopsided fights in UFC history against Nate Quarry. He ran from him the whole fight, and one judge even scored the fight 30-24, the lowest score ever recorded at the time.
It's to bad Houston is gone....It's not like Kimbo was engaging him in battle the whole time either.
Houston is a great puncher but he has zero ground game and a weak chin.
Bye Bye
Kaleb Starns was the one that just ran around the cage for like three rounds.
Don't be hard on Kaleb he was doing his chicken with its head cut off imitation.
all of those guys still put on exciting fights man...maybe watch a couple highlights and get the significance of these fights into your head and it'll become apparent to you. i was pumped for tito vs forrest, and it delivered, and matt hughes vs serra was an awesome back and forth fight. Chuck, even when he gets knocked out, is still an exciting fighter. see the recent Rua fight. randy beat big nog, which was incredible. he stopped him too. frank trigg might have had a little ring rust in his UFC return. give him one more fight to wow you before you write him off.
Randy did not beat Big Nog, he lost by decision and it was his last fight at heavyweight. Its not so much that the UFC is pushing older talent, its just that some of their biggest draws (Silva, Lesnar, GSP, Rampage) have been unable/unwilling to compete.
Chilly has a point though, time. The UFC is starting to rely on fighters who essentially have little or no significance anymore, but have a large fan base that helps sell the fights. To be exciting is one thing, but to look awful is another. Chuck Liddel, who's 1-4 in his last five fights and KO'D in three of them including the fight against Rua, looked exciting for getting KO'D!? Couture being dominated by Nogueira and then put on imo the worst performance against Brandon Vera. A fight in which Randy seemed more concerned about losing than winning. And I'm a huge fan of Randy Couture. Tito Ortiz and Frank Trigg may have had ring rust in their fights, but don't expect them to get a title shot anytime soon. Liddel, Couture, Matt Hughes etc. are the point where they will either remain stagnant or will continue to decline. And this is the best the UFC has to offer?? The UFC, the premiere MMA organization in the world, should be doing much better than this I think. That's just me though.
HEY WHERE IS M13 AND HIS OPINIONS ON THIS MATTER...I SUGGEST THAT YOU DONT PANIC UNTIL HE COMMENTS ABOUT THIS ISSUE...
This sport is making violence more acceptable in general. Won't be long before they are fighting to the death.
Cool, let's hope its soon
i'm really looking forward to this... that was a good interview too very informative.
Finally someone that gets it.
Is Couture, Ortiz and Liddell going to be on the card for UFC 200?
New Blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The old war horses still get fights because they generate revenue.
But the fights are slow and boring and don't have that fever pitch.
BJ against Deigo, great match up
Florian vs Guida, awesome
Coleman vs Couture, bore me to death
Trigg vs Sierra, shot me know
Great interview!!!! Fanhouse is a great source for MMA.
Kimbo sucks. all its going to take is for someone to blow his knee out. The guy is old he has chicken legs. Who ever fights him next and doesn't just take him out by destroying his legs. Then the whole kimbo thing is a fix. So he can get some kind of book deal. He looks like a big guy but he weighed in at 212 for tuf10. Which makes him barley a heavyweight. No way he can take on the 260 280 guys.
He usually fights at 235-240, but he had to drop weight to make the 215 catch weight that was the only way houston would agree to the fight, i was actually quite impressed with kimbo, and i was one of the biggest kimbo haters of all
if that slice fight wasnt fixed for kimbos benefit,what happened with the ref telling them to fight?
there is no new good young blood out there the older guys always kick there ass everytime!!!!kimbo sucks!!!!