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For those at home, the Berlin prelims are starting any minute now, and the Brazil TUF Finale is later tonight.

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Touching gloves is for chumps.



BTW peep all those sponsors on that mat. Dana tweeted they accidentally sent the mat for it to Brazil and had to use the back up.

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I didn't know Luke Barnatt was fighting. I love that big goofy bastard, he's pretty funny and also entertaining to watch fight.

edit: Great debut for Backstrom.

Dollaway vs Carmont is surprisingly entertaining, normally I don't like watching either of them.

Dollaway has made a conscious effort to be more exciting. He said about his last contract negotiation

"In my last contract negotiation, Joe . (asked), 'Who have you beat?,'" he said. "But, it's reality. He goes, 'I need people to fight my champions. I need contenders. You're not a contender yet. Become a contender. Become exciting.'"

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UFN 41 co-headliner C.B. Dollaway: | MMAjunkie

I was actually pulling for him based largely on that article. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders. It's unfortunate that head is attached to that face, but you can't blame him for having such a horrible face.

Mousasi looked great. Really dominant. But then you never know with Munoz, he could have been totally unmotivated.

as the ufc turns......

Proposed Chael Sonnen vs. Vitor Belfort would be at middleweight; Wanderlei Silva not released by UFC

If Chael Sonnen fights Vitor Belfort on July 5, it will be a middleweight fight after all.

UFC president Dana White confirmed to MMAFighting.com on Friday that the proposed fight would be contested at 185 pounds, not 205, which is what Sonnen originally stated on Wednesday's episode of "UFC Tonight." Sonnen also said that a win over Belfort would make him the No. 1 contender in the middleweight division, however, when White was asked whether that title was on the line for both men, White wrote back via test message, "for Vitor it is."

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When asked about it, Chael said his contract is for 205, and is currently at 236lbs, and he would have to cut 51 pounds in little over a month
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Wanderlei said it was all just a mess. Someone showed up at his gym with papers in English for him to sign. he needed his lawyer to look at them, but had to travel and planed to submit to testing a full month before the fight as he normal would.

That's a LHW being overmatched against a HW.

Alexander Gustafsson from Facebook today
"Jon "Bones" Jones, be a man, be a champ and sign that bout agreement and stop running. Keep in mind that after I beat you and become the champ I might be doing the same to you when you chase me for a rematch, as a revenge for not accepting my challenge.
Sooner or later you will have to face me, just make it sooner!
The fans wants this fight, UFC wants this fight and I want this fight, and I damn deserve it."

UFC 175 poster, first one i liked in a while
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Ameraves_sl said:

Dana White on Jon Jones not signing Gustafsson rematch agreement: - Bloody Elbow

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This is mostly the usual Zuffa posturing bullshit. They're trying to make Jones look bad publicly because he's on his last contracted fight, meaning it's time to negotiate a new contract. Dana and co are in full on devalue mode with him right now. And JJ is in a pretty strong position to sign a game-changing deal, between being essentially an undefeated champion in their marquee division who has sort of cleaned it out and the way Melendez managed to back down Zuffa for a big contract he feels like he can really get something big out of them. So in part I think he's really just stalling to put Zuffa in a bad position.

Now, obviously, Zuffa brass do not want him setting any kind of precedent. And despite the fact he's crazy entertaining he hasn't been the PPV draw that guys like GSP or Anderson Silva were. So it's a weird situation. He is sort of actively ducking Gus and Cormier, but it doesn't really have anything to do with in-ring things. It sucks for them, but for him it's the smart move. Beating either of them pretty much leaves him exactly where he is right now. He's already beaten everyone and there will always be someone new they can point at. And if he loses he damages his negotiating position significantly.

Think about what he's done. Before him no one defended the LHW belt more than once in like 6 years or some shit. He has defended it 7 times against everyone they could throw at him. And right now they have a full on campaign to make him look like a coward and a chump. With 2 contenders chiming in(probably with some prodding from Dana and Co.) to add legitimacy to the claims.

Anyways, that's my take on what's actually happening. A bunch of posturing. I think we'll see an announcement of the Gus fight the same day a new contract is announced.

Ameraves_sl said:

In that article (or maybe a different one) Dana states that Jones has 5 fights left on his contract. So not all of that theory really adds up about the UFC attempting to make making Jones look bad

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Like I said, it's weird. 6 days ago Dana supposedly said JJ needs to sign a new contract before he can even agree to fight Gus. Yesterday Dana says there's 5 fights left on his contract

"Just to clear up a couple things, people think we're in contract negotiations with Jon Jones - we're not," White told UFC.com. "Jon Jones still has five fights left on his contract. So what we're doing right now is trying to get him to sign the bout agreement for Gustafsson. He doesn't want to fight Gustafsson. "

I think Dana is pulling some numbers out of his ass there and talking about the Champion's Clause they have. Except that is 3 fights/1 year after last contracted fight so even that would only get to 4. Though even if there are fights still on the contract JJ and his agent(Ari Emmanuel) are trying to renegotiate for a better deal.

Jon Jones Blasts Haters Criticizing Him for "Ducking"

I remember the days, where I actually liked Jon Jones.

Fuck that cunt. Hope he tears both his ACLs. 4 times in a row.

I think Ben Fowlkes saw my post and based his article today on it=p

The strange saga of Jon Jones, UFC and contract negotiation that isnt (or is it?) | MMAjunkie

edit: Also apparently Belfort's top secret drug test we all know he failed will go public at his hearing on the 17th. Joe Rogan doesn't think we should wait I guess.

Joe Rogan says NSAC abolished TRT exemptions because Vitor Belfort failed drug test - Bloody Elbow