Light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier has been forced to withdraw from his Dec. 10 title fight against Anthony Johnson due to an injury, MMA Fighting has confirmed with multiple sources. The promotion is currently working on a new headliner, however, nothing is finalized just yet. The hope, as of right now, is to keep Johnson on the card.
Geez, the LHW division is kind of lacking these days. The Cormier match was barely interesting to me; I can't imagine Rumble headlining against anyone that will sell.
Its probably a lot easier to get injured when your grapling than in a sparring session. Id bet that a lot of the MMA training injuries happening in ground game training or the transition from standup to ground game. Although its training, its still intense so #### can happen.
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Why are there so many injuries while training in MMA v. say, boxing? Just the intensity?
I still find it bizarre and questionable. I base that on training for rugby for years and seeing very few training injuries, as well as looking at other sports like boxing (brought up by Corporate Jay above) and even hockey and football. There are so many injuries to fighters in MMA, and it costs these operations millions of dollars. The gyms can't be thrilled about it either, but there must be something to how they train or how they treat the fighters that is causing this?
Some camps and fighters just train too hard and end up hurting each other.
Sometimes extreme "alphas" don't know how to take it easy.
Yeah, and that makes sense. I just know that if my livelihood was dependent on these guys fighting (or making weight for a bit of a tangent) and someone screwed that up because they couldn't control themselves in training or whatever, they wouldn't last long. It's bad for business, and in a business where these fighters have a limited time to make money.
Conor McGregor is no longer a two-division world champion. At least, according to the UFC. The Irishman, who also holds the UFC lightweight belt, has relinquished given up his featherweight title, the UFC announced Saturday night during the UFC Fight Night 101 broadcast.
Although the UFC says McGregor has given up the featherweight belt voluntarily, sources told MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani that McGregor never agreed to that decision. Regardless, the UFC has the right to strip the belt from McGregor. Jose Aldo, who won the interim title back at UFC 200 in July, defeating Frankie Edgar, will now take McGregor's belt and become the undisputed 145-pound champion.
Sounds like a group of high profile fighters including GSP and Cain Velasquez are forming some kind of fighters association. The details are still coming out. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/11/3...y-mma-ufc-news
Sounds like a group of high profile fighters including GSP and Cain Velasquez are forming some kind of fighters association. The details are still coming out. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/11/3...y-mma-ufc-news
That's probably why the UFC has no interest in welcoming him back.
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