Quick Hits: Anderson Silva to Undergo Surgery, “Cro Cop” Not Retiring, Fedor-Rogers in Chicago, and More
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Sep 25, 2009 at 10:39 am ET36 Comments
Ratings for the second episode of The Ultimate Fighter 10 dropped 29 percent to 2.9 million from the series record 4.1 million who tuned in for the TUF 10 debut. [Spike TV]- Strikeforce recently announced the signing of notable lightweight Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro (20-3), who is 1-1 in 2009 including a loss to Shinya Aoki in his most-recent bout. [Strikeforce]
- The lineup for WEC 43 on October 18 in San Antonio has undergone a number of changes over the last week as Rafael Rebello, Mark Hominick, and Akitoshi Tamura have all been forced to withdraw from the card due to injuries. Noah Thomas vs. Scott Jorgensen, Javier Vasquez vs. Deividas Taurosevicius, and Will Campuzano vs. Damacio Page are now set for the Versus-televised event. [WEC]
- A November 7 Strikeforce event headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers will take place at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois just outside Chicago. Tickets for the CBS-televised event go on sale today at Ticketmaster.com using the presale passcode “Explode,” while tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday. [Strikeforce]
- Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson recently re-broke his leg while training and will be sidelined until December, when he hopes to fight at a December 19 Showtime-televised Strikeforce event in a rematch with interim title-holder Gilbert Melendez. [MMA Weekly]
- Despite reports earlier this week that Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic was retiring, the heavyweight veteran will apparently fight at least one more time, according to reports out of Croatia.
- Looking to capitalize off the UFC’s promotional push behind the UFC 105 main event between Randy Couture and Brandon Vera, Strikeforce has booked its own Couture-Vera matchup, as Kim Couture and Kerry Vera will square off at a likely November 20 event. [Strikeforce]
- A broken hand suffered in his recent win over Jason Riley will prevent Tim Sylvia from making his DREAM debut on October 25 as scheduled, with the former UFC heavyweight now expected to fight at DREAM’s New Year’s Eve event. [Sherdog]
- Satoshi Ishii vs. Hidehiko Yoshida will headline a New Year’s Eve Sengoku event directly opposite rival DREAM’s New Year’s Eve show. The promotion also confirmed participants for its November 7 Sengoku 11 event, including Hatsu Hioki vs. Michihiro Omigawa, Jorge Santiago, Kevin Randleman, and Akihiro Gono. [Sengoku]
- MMA returns to the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, California on October 8, as Chad Mendes, War Machine, and Joe Soto highlight the debut on Tachi Palace Fights. [TPF]
- UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva will be sidelined briefly to recover from a surgery to have bone spurs removed from his elbow. [UFC]
- Bantamweight Cole Escovedo, a former WEC featherweight champ, has signed with Strikeforce and will debut at the promotion’s November 6 “Strikeforce Challengers” event in Frenso, California. [Strikeforce]
- UFC lightweight Kenny Florian has amicably split with Sityodtong and longtime trainer Mark Dellagrotte and will instead train with Firas Zahabi, the trainer of welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, for his December matchup against Clay Guida. Dellagrote will still have his hands full as Frank Mir and Miguel Torres are now training at Sityodtong alongside the likes of Marcus Davis and Patrick Cote. [Fighters Only]
- UFC star, and former Pride champion Wanderlei Silva is working on a reality show that will follow him as he scouts fighters for his Wand Fight Team. The show will be televised on a yet to be announced network. [FanHouse]
- Spike’s broadcast of part of the UFC 103 undercard drew in 1.4 million viewers, including a 1.5 rating in the 18-34 year old male demographic, making it the number two rated show in the segment. [Spike TV]
- A WEC event will replace the annual UFC event held in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio next year. [MMAJunkie]
- Frank Shamrock will be a part of the upcoming “EA Sports MMA” video game, joining Randy Couture, Fedor Emelianenko, Jay Hieron, Gegard Mousasi, and Renato “Babalu” Sobral. [EA Games]
Pictured: Anderson Silva
Tags: Akihiro Gono, Akitoshi Tamura, Anderson Silva, Brett Rogers, Chad Mendes, Cole Escovedo, Damacio Page, Deividas Taurosevicius, Fedor Emelianenko, Frank Mir, gilbert melendez, Hatsu Hioki, Hidehiko Yoshida, Javier Vasquez, Joe Soto, jon koppenhaver, Jorge Santiago, Josh Thomson, Kenny Florian, Kerry Vera, Kevin Randleman, Kim Couture, Mark Hominick, Michihiro Omigawa, miguel torres, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, Noah Thomas, Rafael Rebello, Satoshi Ishii, Scott Jorgensen, Tim Sylvia, Vitor Ribeiro, Will Campuzano
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was mir training with delogrotte for his noguira fight?
kinda surprised that Kenny Florian will not be training with his long time boy Delogrotte……
KenFlo is taking a page out of GSP’s training manual, and trying out new things, with new people and in new places.
When you consider all the time he’s put in at Sityodtong, and STILL couldn’t hang with BJ Penn, maybe he thought it was time to try something else, because what he’s got working with Sityodtong and Dellagrotte, quite frankly, isn’t working in terms of the 155 title…
Could say the same for most guys stuck under a dominant champion. I don’t see this being a permanent move unless something personal comes to light. I think he tries a new approach for awhile and it’s success or failure will dictate what Kenny does.
Doesnt matter when a silva get back in action he needs to jump to 205 so the dean of mean can crush him and he will warrrrr jardinee
hahahahahahahahaha, thats the funniest thing ive heard all day…..the dean of mean couldnt crush a can of soda let alone anderson silva…nice try troll
Nice little troll job yourself there, GrayMaynardFan4Lyfe.
jaardine 4 champ,
what’s with all these guys posting “waaarrrr” , am i missing something?
Come on dude it helps u relax waaaarrrr. Come try it waaarrrr. Yeah waaarrrr. See don’t u feel better now.
“warrrr Jardine”
Really?
You do know you’re at the frenZy, which is a big boy site, and not a fan boy site, right?
usually your pretty funny dbiz not so much this time though…nice try though
When you have trained some where for so long and still can’t beat the champ in your weight class, its time to move on {Florian}.
Shaolin has never fought Gomi, his recent loss was to Aoki (decision) and his 3 losses are Aoki, JZ, and Kawajiri… Just a heads up on that, I’m away from my computer or I would have changed it
Yeah, I meant Aoki. Fixed. Thanks.
shaolin fought gomi
by the way, did you lose a bet gunslinger?
Cool stuff Kris thx
Gun,
Did I mis something, Gomi v Shaolin happened in MMA?
jazz, yes i lost a bet to natural over franklin vs belfort
fr, i was just kidding
Is it me or does every MMA blog have this type of section and call it “Quick Hits”?? Not that I mind… I love the quick updates, I just don’t get the lack of originality.
Thanks for your comment Paralyzed. We did our first “Quick Hits,” then called a “UFC Roundup” back when we only covered the UFC as UFCDaily.com, but it’s unlikely we were the first to use the Quick Hits idea and title but we certainly didn’t just jump on the bandwagon either.
I’m glad you like the quick updates as we’ll be taking them to a whole new level in a couple weeks (MMANewswire.com).
The EA sports game is going to be great. They’re sports games are the best. Too bad they didn’t do UDISPUTED.
they had the chance to do undisputed and turned it down saying a MMA game would never be profitable… guess they changed their minds…
Bet the TUF ratings are way up next!
next week, that is.
Maybe its just me, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop on the 7 November Fedor-Rogers fight.
Hopefully I’m wrong, and that this thing goes off as scheduled, but after the Josh Barnett thing, I’m not going to be 100% confident until the cage door closes with both fighters inside and ready to go…
Wow Frank Shamrock is going to be in the EA Sports Game, oh wow now you know i’m getting that game…hahaha
I have undiputed. I will get the ea game I like mma and really don’t care whose on it. Just to check out the playabilty
I’m not going to get that EA Sports Game, even if it has Couture and Fedor and GSP Highlight reel victim Jay Heiron, maybe i would get it if they had Jake Shields,Nick Diaz,Robbie Lawlor and Mayhem Miller, other than that i’m cool off of that game, Undisputed is enough for me.
shields,diaz, lawler, mayhem and king mo will all be in it as well…..
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Mayhem_Miller_and_King_Mo_visit_EA_MMA_Studios?vid=10006580&tid=102
cool, thanks for the link Gun,
Liddell should move up to Heavyweight and fight Cro-cop for both guys’s last fight, that would be interesting.
No it wouldn’t
love4thedead,
if you don’t think this fight would be cool for both guys to go out on than what would you prefer?, because i guarantee that this would be a huge draw and could even end up being a very good fight.
jcohl, thanks for the compliment dude
Not that far fetched an idea, actually.
I’ve heard thru the MMA rumor mill that Liddell’s walkaround weight is 225ish, and his semi-retirement weight ballooned to 250 before he started ballroom dancing on ABC.
I’ve read previously that Mirko’s walkaround weight is almost always within 5-10 pounds of his fighting weight, say 225-230 on average, so with the right trainer a solid and rested Chuck could easily step into the cage against Mirko giving up only 5 or 10 pounds, max.
And THATS a fight people would pay to see, 2 throwback kickboxer striker PRIDE-types whaling away at each other and seeing who catches who first.
Would Mirko left leg kick Liddell into permanent retirement?
Would Chuck send Mirko back to Croatia by catching him against the cage and “Tito’ing” him with a barrage of super-speed punches?
You could have your questions answered for a mere $55 sometime in summer 2010.
Good fight call, sithknight4…
Yeah that’s actually a great match dude.
But is it just me or has mirko been wayyyy to gun shy his past couple of fights? i mean i was hella yelling @ my screen “leg kick…left kick now!!”
I think chuck would land first and put him to sleep
MK4
Sorry I didn’t finish my statement. It wouldn’t be interesting fight. I am a fun of both fighters but I however don’t want to watch Liddell beat up on a guy who is thinking about fishing instead of fighting. Not saying it has potential to a great fight, just saying why have a fight when one doesn’t have the heart anymore imo. If I came rude in that earlier post (which after I read it seemed like) I apologize.