Spike and the UFC will not try to stay friends after break-up

Spike and the UFC will not try to stay friends after break-upSpike and the UFC are getting close to the end of their six-year relationship. They’re dividing up their stuff and haggling over the small things, like their shared DVD collection. Like any break-up after a long relationship, it’s getting hideous. Spike wants to go in with its new girlfriend, Bellator, but it can’t do it with videos from the ancient girlfriend hanging around:

While Spike TV no longer will air live UFC events after this year, its existing contract allows it to air the UFC library (including past events, former “TUF” seasons, “UFC Unleashed” episodes and specialty programming) in 2012. But, as long as Spike TV has the rights to the content, it can’t air programming ? including live events ? from other organizations, such as Bellator, until 2013.

The UFC could make try to buy back the library, but it’s unlikely that they will make an offer. The last thing they want to do is hand over the audience they have spent six years building over to Bellator. The tournament-based promotion has been small more than a thorn in the UFC’s side, but it could pick up many fans with a Spike deal that would trump Bellator’s current deal with MTV2.

But Spike has its own way of dealing with the break-up. Say, counter-programming every UFC card that airs on Fox, starting with the Nov. 12 bout:

On Nov. 12, Spike TV will air a “UFC Unleashed” marathon ? dubbed “Dos Santos vs. Velasquez: Unleashed for the Heavyweight Title” ? featuring past fights with UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.

This is likely a tactic that won’t work out well for Spike in the ratings department, as fans would always prefer live MMA over taped, but it will help them work out their feelings about the break-up. It’s OK, Spike. It takes time to heal. Just remember the excellent times, like the first “Ultimate Fighter” and the first time you had to bleep out a Dana White cuss word.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Spike-and-the-UFC-will-not-try-to-stay-friends-a?urn=mma-wp7420

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Watercolors from Hawaii by Ron Croci

We’re proud to announce an exclusive illustrated tale by one of our favourite surf artists; Ron Croci… We were alarmed to hear that Ron nearly ‘met his end’, due to a serious (and sudden) illness on his recent vacation to Hawaii! But we’re pleased to say he came through it and has shared his tale with us in a series of annotated watercolor paintings documenting his near death experience, the unusual effects of morphine and the gorgeous Hawaiian islands he loved and surfed up until falling ill…

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Kaisers parking lot by Ron Croci

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Send me your questions about F1 2011

Hello all,

I am filming the next entries for this video blog on Monday and that means I need your help.

As you know, we answer a selection of your questions as well as reviewing the last few races and looking forward to the next stage of the year.

So if you have any questions about F1 2011, please do post them below. We will pick a selection of the best and I will answer them here next week.

Thanks,

Murray

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Jones shares his big moment with his flooded hometown

Jones shares his huge moment with his flooded hometown

Jon Jones experienced the most triumphant moment of his career on Saturday night, defending the light heavyweight championship with a fourth-round submission of former champ Quinton Jackson. He could have savored the moment and made it all about him, but instead he talked about his beleaguered hometown.

Saying, “Endicott, New York, my heart goes out to you,” Jones mentioned the flooding that has hit New York state hard. Endicott, which is near Binghamton in the southern part of the state, is rebuilding now after floods in the wake of Hurricane Irene forced evacuations. Water covered the town in a scene that was described as surreal.

While in the Octagon, Jones questioned for fans to make donations to help with the clean-up. Through a representative, he recommended the Broome County Council of Churches, who is working to clean up the area. Make a donation here.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Jones-shares-his-huge-moment-with-his-flooded-hom?urn=mma-wp7382

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Divetech Grand Cayman Rates as PADI TecRec Center

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welding truck

i built this truck as a replica of my 1:1 that i drive for work.  the cab and chassis are from a snap kit that i had from when i was a kid.  the bed and everything in the back are scratch built using sheet plastic and the bottles are made from a sharpie marker cut in half.  delight in

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UFC allows questionable music choices at UFN 25

UFC allows questionable music choices at UFN 25One of the fun parts of a live UFC event is the way fighters use music to pump up as they walk out to the Octagon, but two fighters made questionable choices in their walkout songs at Ultimate Fight Night 25. Those terrible decisions were then repeated by UFC president Dana White, who approves every song that is used by fighters.

Ken Stone, who won via submission, walked out to the Prodigy song, “Smack My Bitch Up.” The song repeats two lines, “Smack my bitch up, change my pitch up.” When it was released in 1997, it was protested by women’s groups as condoning violence towards women. MTV only allowed the song to be played late at night, and Wal-Mart and K-Mart pulled the CD from its stores. Prodigy released a statement that the song was not about violence, but that’s not apparent from its lyrics.

The next terrible choice was when Matt Riddle walked out to the Scorpions song, “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” In most cities, it’s the perfect song to walk out to, but these fights took place in New Orleans. That’s a city that was literally rocked by a hurricane in 2005. Hurricane Katrina’s effects are still being felt in New Orleans, as they struggle to restore their population and status as a tourist destination to pre-Katrina levels.

The UFC generally controls their brand very tightly, and UFC officials confirmed to Cagewriter that White approves every walkout song. He has vetoed songs in the past. It’s surprising that the UFC would let these two songs slip through.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/UFC-allows-questionable-music-choices-at-UFN-25?urn=mma-wp6987

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Strikeforce Weigh Ins Overeem Werdum Barnett Rogers Griggs Noons Masvidal – Strikeforce

SHOWTIME Sports presents the official weigh-in for the Strikeforce World Grand Prix Heavyweight Tournment. Check out all ten fiighters on the super-sized June 18th fight card: Chad Griggs, Valentijn Overeem, Daniel Cormier, Jeff Monson, KJ Noons, and Jorge Masvidal. Plus headliners Brett Rogers, Josh Barnett, Alistair Overeem, and Fabricio Werdum.

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Pride of Maui?s Google Places Page

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Great conditions at Lake Neusiedl

While the last weeks the conditions had a lot of variety on my homespot, the lake Neusiedl. We got some days with strong wind from south eastern direction and I could get some excellent speed on my GPS. So I am in the 2010 ranking on top. Check out the following link! It´s really hard [...]

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Ryan Ford Post Nick Hinchliffe Interview – Ryan Ford

Ryan Ford Post Nick Hinchliffe Interview Video by Ryan Ford

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UFC 131 Weigh in Highlight: Florian v. Nunes – UFC 131

Tomorrow night, Kenny Florian will make his featherweight debut as he takes on Diego Nunes at UFC 131

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The little guys are taking over! Warren knocked stiff by Vila and Kawajiri dominates in featherweight debut

The small guys are taking over! Warren knocked stiff by Vila and Kawajiri dominates in featherweight debut

Can anyone deny that the bantamweight and featherweight divisions have a chance to lead the way for MMA in the very near future?

The best bantamweight in the world is fighting this weekend on free television when Dominick Cruz defends his UFC title against Demetrious Johnson at UFC on Versus 6. Plus “The Ultimate Fighter” debuted last week featuring the smaller fighters for the first time. It looks like Season 14 may produce more legitimate UFC fighters than any previous season.

But it’s not just the UFC that’s loaded with intriguing guys at 135 and 145 pounds. This weekend produced several exciting results, including one of the nastiest knockouts of the year.

Bellator’s 145-pound champion, Joe Warren is a natural bantamweight and was plotting on crushing the field in Bellator’s latest 135-pound tournament. Nothing went to plot, as that journey to a second title hit a stone wall in just 64 seconds. Make that some stone fists. Amazingly, the guy who did it is 40 years ancient.

Alexis Vila, a 1996 Olympic wrestling bronze medalist for Cuba, rocked Warren with a right and then finished him with a left hook that had the American in snooze-mode on his way down. Check out Warren (7-2) as his body is completely locked up on the ground.

Because of his age, who knows what Vila’s future holds, but it’ll be an fascinating tale to track. He’s made a better life for himself since defecting from Cuba, now living in the Miami area.

At Bellator 51, Vila (10-0) advanced to the Bellator 135-pound semifinals along with Vila, Marcus Galvao, Eduardo Dantas and Ed West. The winner of the tourney gets a shot at Bellator champ Zach Makovsky.

Meanwhile across the Pacific, DREAM kicked off its own bantamweight tourney. Rodolfo Marques, Antonio Banuelos, Bibiano Fernandes and Masakazu Imanari all won in the first round.

The stars of the show were the dominant Japanese lightweights Tatsuya Kawajiri and Shinya Aoki. Both have been just about unbeatable in their home country, but struggled when they came over to the U.S. to take on Gilbert Melendez.

After his loss to Melendez, Aoki’s bounced back with six straight wins, but Kawajiri chose it was time to drop a weight class.

The thickly muscled 33-year-ancient shed some bulk to face Joachim Hansen. There were no negative signs of the weight cut and “The Crusher” looked incredibly strong at featherweight rolling to a third round submission win via arm-triangle choke. Hansen’s a smallish 145 pounder, so we won’t go crazy over the victory, but the potential is there for Kawajiri to be a real player at featherweight.

Aoki took on former WEC champion Rob McCullough. The outcome was predictable with the submission master catching the American in a neck crank at the end of the first round (11:15 mark).

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/The-small-guys-are-taking-over-Warren-knocked-?urn=mma-wp7402

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Great October sessions

Since I am back from the PWA Slalom final on Sylt I tried to get as much time as possible on the water. The excellent performance on Sylt, I could end the season with the best result of the 2010 season with a 35th, gave me a lot of motivation. Most of the sessions on [...]

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Why Do Climbers Always Die In Hollywood Movies? A Lonely Place To Die Trailer

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UFC fighters make the late night rounds

When the UFC announced their deal to air fights on Fox, Dana White was questioned if this means that MMA is now mainstream. He answered that they weren’t yet, but that they were getting the opportunity to become mainstream.

White may not reckon that the UFC is there yet, but an indicator that the UFC is becoming a household name is that three fighters are showing their faces on network late-night shows. First, Jason “Mayhem” Miller appeared on Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night to talk about the upcoming season of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

Next, both main eventers from UFC 135 will appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday night. Light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and former champ Quinton Jackson are scheduled to sit with Kimmel together.

In the build-up to their fight, they’ve already had several, public squabbles which reached a head when Jackson accused Jones of planting a spy in Jackson’s camp. Jones denied the allegations, but their animosity should make for fascinating television.

For years, the UFC and their fighters would make advertisers run, so late night talk show hosts were loathe to book fighters. Now, in the course of a week, three are on network television.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/UFC-fighters-make-the-late-night-rounds?urn=mma-wp6937

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The MMA Wrap-Up: Post-UFC 135 Edition

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After a dominant victory by UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones in Denver at UFC 135, the MMA Wrap-Up returns to look at whether we’ve learned anything from the rise and fall of his would-be superstar predecessors. And yeah, we also pause to wonder how Steven Seagal keeps getting backstage to make smug remarks about fighters who wisely refuse him entry to their locker rooms. Just excellent clean fun, really.

 

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The Downtown Throwdown Set for Seattle and San Francisco in October

The Downtown Throwdown is back for another year, this time with a bonus stop in San Francisco. Straight from the Snowboy’s mouth:

“Lib Tech and Snowboy Productions are stoked to bring back the Downtown Throwdown to Seattle on October 8, as well as adding our new stop in San Francisco on October 29…it’s gonna be BANANAS!

In the past 5 years this event has grown from a fantastic local event to the largest and most respected urban snowboarding event in the world, with a focus on the up and coming snowboarders who are shaping the industry.

 ”I’m humbled at how huge this event has grown, and certainly excited about its future,” says Snowboy Productions President Krush Kulesza. “With Seattle and our new SF stop, plus our AM qualifier series (The Feeders!) in Portland, Spokane and Sacramento, we’ve got the whole west coast covered from the Bay to the Border.”

The invite list is STACKED with the likes of… Scott Stevens, Forest Bailey, Johnny Lazz, Ted Borland, Jake Kuzyk, Dylan Thompson, Austen Sweetin, Jess Kimura, Chris Larson and a lot more. Each stop will feature 25 of the most progressive jibbers on the scene today. We can’t wait to see who will join past winners Dan Brisse, Jed Anderson (twice), Nick Visconti and Ryan Paul as the next Downtown Throwdown champ.

Lib Tech rider and Reckon Thank owner Jesse Burnter will hold down the emcee duties along with Preston Strout from High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Crab Grab fame. Dinosaurs Will Die’s Sean Genovese will head up the judgeMENTAL crew with the likes of Zac Marben, LNP and Chris Grenier to determine what riders will take home a share of the $20K in prize money.

 In addition to the non-stop shred action, there will also be music, food vendors, live art, autograph signings, a raffle of prizes that benefit fantastic local charities, as well as info and prizes from all our fantastic sponsors.

Best of all? It’s still REALLY FREE!! So get your butt down to Pioneer Square in Seattle or the Civic Center in San Francisco and check out the action!”

We’ll see you there.

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UFC 135 Morning After: An MMA Overdose Weekend

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Jon Jones retains his belt at UFC 135.You probably have more of a life than I do, which means you probably haven’t watched as much mixed martial arts on TV as I have in the last couple days. But if you wanted to, you could have.

On Friday night I had two TVs going in one room, one on HDNet and one on Showtime, as I watched both the Titan Fighting Championships and Strikeforce cards. After a few hours of sleep I got up very early Saturday morning and watched the Dream card on HDNet. On Saturday evening I kept an eye on Bellator on MTV2 while watching the UFC fights on Facebook, on Spike and on pay-per-view.

I watched about three dozen live MMA fights in a span of just over 24 hours from Friday night through Saturday night. As an MMA fan, I was in heaven.



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The tale everyone is talking about coming out of UFC 135 is Jon Jones‘ impressive title defense over Rampage Jackson, but what this weekend really solidified to me was just how far this sport has come, and how much excellent MMA there is for the fans to watch. It wasn’t that long ago, before the UFC got on basic cable with The Ultimate Fighter, that getting a chance to watch live MMA was a special occasion for fans. In 2004 — the last year before The Ultimate Fighter — the UFC place on only five fight cards, for the entire year, and all of them were on pay-per-view. Other MMA promotions existed, but few fans ever got to see them live. Now there’s so much MMA on TV that even the toughest of hard-core fans miss some fights. It’s impossible to see it all.

And it’s only getting better. With a UFC heavyweight title fight coming to Fox in November, MMA will really be everywhere. This sport has accomplished so much in so small time that those of us who like it don’t often stop to consider how lucky we are to have so many MMA options available to us. Probably because we’re too busy watching fights.

UFC 135 notes
– The UFC 135 main event was a excellent demonstration of how much this sport has changed: Rampage is one of the fantastic fighters of the last decade, but he’s a fundamentally one-dimensional fighter. Jones is on a completely different level, with far more ways to win a fight. The incredible thing about the way this sport continues to evolve is that some day someone will come along whose fighting style makes Jones look ancient-fashioned.

James Te-Huna had never fought outside Australia before Saturday night, as the UFC mostly had him on the roster as a local guy to throw on the undercard in their trips Down Under. But Te-Huna got his first chance to fight in the Octagon on U.S. soil at UFC 135, and he delivered in a huge way with a terrific first-round knockout of Ricardo Romero. When Romero went for a low takedown attempt, Te-Huna made him pay for it with a huge low punch that knocked him cold. The whole fight lasted just 47 seconds.

— We haven’t seen a lot of top-notch talent come out of The Ultimate Fighter in the last couple years, but Tony Ferguson, who won Season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter, might just be a future star. Ferguson knocked out everyone he faced on The Ultimate Fighter, and he showed off the same lethal striking against Aaron Riley on Saturday night. Ferguson is a force to be reckoned with.

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UFC 135 quotes
— “I just want to say thanks to Matt Hughes for taking this fight late in his career. He’s a legend and I’m really proud that I had the opportunity to fight a legend like Matt Hughes.”–Josh Koscheck, after beating Matt Hughes in what may have been the final fight of Hughes’ career. Although Koscheck plays up the role of villain in the UFC, Koscheck’s post-fight comments toward Hughes were pure class.

— “I don’t reckon I’ve ever seen a guy this tired in the Octagon before.”–UFC announcer Joe Rogan on Ben Rothwell in the third round of his loss to Mark Hunt. The Denver altitude didn’t help, of course, but Rothwell really looked like he needs to work on his conditioning.

Excellent call
– Greg Jackson, in the corner of Aaron Riley, did exactly the right thing to protect his fighter after the first round, when Tony Ferguson broke Riley’s jaw with an upper cut. Riley went to his corner and said he had a broken jaw, and Jackson immediately told the referee, “It’s over.” That’s what the corner man is supposed to do.

Terrible call
— Two of the three judges gave Junior Assuncao a 10-8 third round in his victory over Eddie Yagin, as they should have, but I want to know what the judge who only scored it a 10-9 was thinking. Assuncao spent the better part of the round on top of Yagin, pounding away, and provided a textbook example of what should earn a fighter a 10-8 round. Some judges are too hesitant to award 10-8 rounds, and the one who only scored the third 10-9 for Assuncao is one of them.

Stock up
– Tim Boetsch is looking fantastic at middleweight. If you look at the fights Boetsch has lost in his career, they were all against huge, strong light heavyweights who could overpower him: Boetsch’s four career losses are to Vladimir Matyushenko, Matt Hamill, Jason Brilz and Phil Davis. Now that Boetsch is at middleweight, he’s overpowering people and earning his “Barbarian” nickname. Boetsch easily beat Nick Ring and is now 2-0 as a middleweight. “I’m loving middleweight so far,” Boetsch said afterward.

Stock down
— I didn’t like the antics between Assuncao and Yagin at the weigh-ins, when the two of them acted like they wanted to brawl right then and there. And I really didn’t like how tentative both of them looked once they really got into the Octagon: If you’re going to act like you’re keen for a knock-down, drag-out battle, don’t step into the cage and act like it’s a staring contest. Assuncao won easily, but he did far too much showboating: He raised his hands up, shuffled his feet, danced around and even waved his finger at the crowd while Yagin was attempting a guillotine choke. Assuncao was respectful afterward and said he was just trying to get in his opponent’s head, but the crowd booed Assuncao’s antics, and as far as I’m concerned, the stock of both Assuncao and Yagin is down after that fight.

Fight I want to see next
It looks like we’re finally getting close to seeing Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans, the grudge match between the two training partners that’s been talked about for months. Seeing Jones and Evans in the Octagon together after Jones won the UFC 135 main event was a fantastic reminder that for as dominant as Jones has looked, he’s not without legitimate challengers.

 

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How to?build a home gym

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Watercolors from Hawaii by Ron Croci

We’re proud to announce an exclusive illustrated tale by one of our favourite surf artists; Ron Croci… We were alarmed to hear that Ron nearly ‘met his end’, due to a serious (and sudden) illness on his recent vacation to Hawaii! But we’re pleased to say he came through it and has shared his tale with us in a series of annotated watercolor paintings documenting his near death experience, the unusual effects of morphine and the gorgeous Hawaiian islands he loved and surfed up until falling ill…

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Another Strikeforce defection: Henderson vs. Rua at UFC 139

Another Strikeforce defection: Henderson vs. Rua at UFC 139Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Dan Henderson will reportedly meet up with former UFC light heavyweight champ Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 139 on Nov. 19. This bout should make longtime MMA fans pleased, but raises even more questions about the future of Strikeforce.

Both fighters made their names while in the Pride Fighting Championships in Japan. Rua was Pride’s Grand Prix middleweight winner, while Henderson held multiple titles with the now-defunct promotion. Even with that shared history, this will be the first time they meet in a fight. Ten years ago, Henderson did defeat Shogun’s brother, Murilo.

Henderson’s last bout was a knockout of Fedor Emelianenko in what turned out to be the last Strikeforce fight for both men. Just weeks ago at UFC 134 in Brazil, Rua KOed Forrest Griffin.

This will be Henderson’s third stint with the UFC. He fought at UFC 17 before Pride, then came back after Zuffa, the promotion that owns the UFC, bought Pride. When Strikeforce offered him a better contract, Henderson defected, but Zuffa bought Strikeforce in March.

That buy has allowed the UFC to pick off some of the Strikeforce’s champs, like Nick Diaz, who will fight B.J. Penn at UFC 137, and Alistair Overeem, who will take on Brock Lesnar at UFC 141. Three men’s championship belts — heavyweight, light heavyweight and welterweight — now stand vacant. After his win over Roger Gracie, former Strikeforce light heavyweight champ Mo Lawal said that he was not interested in fighting for a vacant belt, so that division’s future is in flux.

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Henderson won’t be the only former Strikeforcer to fight at UFC 139, as former middleweight champ, Cung Le, will take on Vitor Belfort at 139. The fights are expected to take place in San Jose, the one-time home of Strikeforce’s offices.

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Mark Munoz Still Sees Major Holes in Demian Maia’s Striking – UFC 131

Mark Munoz Still Sees Major Holes in Demian Maia’s Striking Video by UFC 131

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UFC 135 Bonuses: Jones, Jackson, Koscheck, and Diaz Each Earn $75,000

UFC President Dana White announced UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Josh Koschek, and Nate Diaz have all earned $75,000 for their respective performances tonight at UFC 135.

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Toro Rosso STR6 Launch pictures ( 1st of February)

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