Leben Sentenced To Jail, UFC 85 Bout Against Bisping Cancelled
A recently-announced UFC 85 bout featuring middleweight contenders Chris Leben and Michael Bisping has been scratched after Leben, who turned himself in 8 days ago on a probation violation, was sentenced to 35 days in jail today over the incident, according to Clackamas County, Oregon officials.
The Wrestling Observer is reporting that backup plans were in place should Leben be unable to fight, though the details of those plans have not yet been announced by the promotion. The UFC may opt to find a replacement for Leben or re-book the bout for a future event.
Leben will be credited for the time he has already served but will not be released until May 27th, less than 2 weeks before he was scheduled to face Bisping in London.
“When [Chris] got the call to fight Bisping on June 7th in London he knew what he had to do,” said ICON Sport’s T. Jay Thompson last week regarding the situation. “He immediately flew to Oregon and turned himself in on the probation violation. The warrant was a “no bail†warrant so he will have to sit in jail for 8-10 days before he gets a hearing. The moment he appeared before the judge after turning himself in the warrant was revoked and he is able to get his VISA for London.”
Regardless of his visa status, Leben’s lack of time to properly train for the bout caused him to be removed from the card.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for further updates as they become available.
Tags: Chris Leben, Michael Bisping
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Why do you still come to this website if its all B/S mike? Jeez…..anyway, this kinda sucks. I want to see Bisping get his head smashed in.
This sucks. That fight was going to be an awesome slugfest. They’ll probably be bringing in Nate Quarry to replace Leben.
I hope for Leben’s sake, he didn’t spend too much time using his mattress as a punching bag like he said he would when they first locked him up. By now he’s probably ruined it, and now he has to sleep on it for a month and he’s not even fighting.
mike – Please inform me what BS we published in this report or elsewhere on the site.
i knew this fool was for real
Mike,
Why don’t you start a BS blog that makes money?
That sucks. Leben has obviously become more mature lately and then gets kicked in the ass by his past……reminds me of me quite a bit. Really sucks but hopefully we see him soon. There is still plenty of time for him to come back and fight Bisping unless he gets cut in the mean time.
Thanks FrenzySupporter, we appreciate your support.
I live in uk just thought id say frenzy is on my homepage and its the first place i come for all my mma goss, good job Kris keep up the good work, top man ! Bisping would have done Leben anyway lol
I agree with you Mikey!
Yeah, I am struggling to see where the B/S is mate.
The only B/S I see is in one of the comments. Now, not wanting to insight a riot and understanding that I cannot provoke people; I am sick of the Americans dissing Bisping.
I don’t care who you are or who you fight, in MMA having an unbeaten record is impressive, mainly because there are so many ways you can loose. MMA is not as big over here in the UK, so Bispings list of opponents are not the likes of Chuck or Vitor or any other big names because we do not have that kind of pool of talent. Now he won TUF fair and square, putting everyone away, and until the Mat ‘The Hammer’ fight, he put everyone away. I was at that fight, and even as a brit and a Bisping fan I have to question it. However, he has shown time and time again that he is good, then he dropped his first fight against Rashard, but only just. And then after that he went on to destroy McCarthy, yet all anyone ever says is that he is sh*t. When has he shown that? Is it really that you think he is sh*t or just that he is not American? Because I can bet you money that if he was from Iowa or Cali, you guys would be lapping him up and would be backing him all the way. It kind of grates me that people have such a low opinion of him when there is no evidence to suggest that he is as bad as the U.S thinks he is. None of this is meant to be confrontational, after all everyone is entitled to their opinion, I am just voicing mine….
The Leben fight would have been a war, I am gutted that its not going to happen as I am going to that event. However, Nate would be a good replacement, and I think he would get the war he was looking for with Kalib ‘I really don’t belong here’ Starnes. Either way, I hope Bisping still gets to fight.
Oh well, you can hardly blame the guy for dodging Bisping but i’d have more respect for him if he didn’t go to such extreme lenghts. He should just be honest with himself…..at the end of the day all this hardly matter……anyone with a shred of intelligence alrady knew that Bisping would have beaten on him down like he was his daddy.
whoa!!! mike you sound so stupid if you cant tell these interviews and things you find on this site are legit its not like kris is sitting around pulling things from his …… you get the point. and most of us were looking forward to the bisping leban fight. nate quarry will be a awesome fight for bisping. so maybe that will happen.
i want to see hendo vs bisping…that would be a good fight…hendo i think would rock bisping so that might be why they would bring in another guy who could be a good fight with bisping..in nate quarry
lol wow i really got people talking, but anyway this site is on my favs along with outher mma news sites. and this one puts out the most b/s of all. ex: Andrei Arlovski to fight for Affliction… hmm kinda of funny i just saw a video where he said ufc is the only place he wants to fight and thay are working out his contract but yet this site still has ther rumor posted. anyway talk **** ask why i even come to this site. i check alot of mma news sites and some have real news and some lol this one puts out **** just to try to get us to look. heres a real site. http://ballhype.com/combat/mma/ and http://mmajunkie.com/
Hendo Vs Bisping would be great. Hendo has already fought 2 of the biggest bad asses in the UFC, so cut him a little slack and let him fight a decent but easy opponet for him. Then let him fight Rich F.
Christian,
Are you suggesting as Americans we are being racist towards Bisping? Let’s not forget the past. Hundreds of years ago people left England to come to America to escape religious persecution. Europeans from the UK to Spain had the stage set for ethnocentrism and the attitude towards the rest of the world was that of Christian or some form of Catholic superiority. I have trouble letting go of the past so as far as history goes, F-*K the UK/England….all Europe for that matter. Bisping is a good fighter in my opinion but does need to beat a bigger name fighter who provides a bigger challenge. I hope Bisping can change people’s minds but that depends on how he beats his opponents.
I want to see Bisping win the title just to see how everyone reacts.
Christian,
I have to confess I find myself agreeing with what you say. I truly believe that if Bisping was from over the pond then he would almost be heralded as the next mesiah.
Kouch
I seriously don’t think there the slightest insinuation of racism but you must admit Bisping gets pelters from most of the US perspective on this site. And what the f*ck does ethnocentrism mean? That’s possibly the most impressive word i’ve ever seen on this site ever.
christ, I cannot believe this, I was gutted to hell when Chuck was pule dout. Then, I heard Leben vs Bisping and got well excited, I love both these guys. Now, he’s had to cancell aswell !!! Damn, I don’t know who will actually BE there on the night to fight, but I hope it’s a good replacement for Leben. I agree Nate will be brilliant, and Bisping will have a fight on his hands. He destroyed McCarty like the bum he is, sorry, I don’t like him especially with the childish taunts that earned him an ass kicking !!
I would like to see Nate in against Bisping as the back up. If Bisping does NOT fight the O2 arena this time, I will be well pi**ed off as there has now been TWO major cancelled fights.
With this sort of activity I am getting a little nervous that someone else may have to cancel, I can’t help it.
I was soooooooo looking forward to Leben / Bisping.
For the record, Bisping is an EXCELLENT fighter, He gave us a great show against Elvis Sinosic, he hammered him good and proper, and Josh Haines finale fight in TUF was just amazing. Well done Bisping, rock on the brits! there aren’t many in the UFC.
Pity Brock Lesnar isn’t in the card as originally said, he would have been ace. Sadly that was cancelled aswell, almost making three fights changed.
I hope Leben will be able to fight Bisping soon tho, he is amazing aswell.
I am well disappointed with the result of this fight at the moment, I was so looking forward to them two.
HOPEFULLY, there will not be ANY more bloody cancellations.
The one UFC I am going to, and two of my Favourite guys are out !
Thats MMA.
Cheers
Posting a rumor and calling it such is not BS. MMAJunkie posted that Arlovski was attached to the card too and we were not the first to share that either. A rumor is a rumor so passing along as an unconfirmed rumor and posting so-called BS which we know is false are entirely different.
To address the sites you listed, Ballhype is simply a voting site with no original reporting while Junkie does a lot of original reporting of their own. I, for the majoirty of my posts, link out to news reported from around the web which makes it nearly impossible for us to publish BS.
If you read the posts and follow the links in them it’s obvious what we publish is not BS but if you feel we do that’s your opinion. I, along with the rest of the MMAFrenzy.com community, know that our stories have merit.
That “BS” rumored Affliction card we posted isn’t looking like BS now:
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intersting, bit still to ME this site is more in the business of starting rumors than posting em and….. your rumor is still looking like b/s to me.
lol i missed the link befor posting!
Jason Day has stepped in as the replacement.
How much does this suck!!!!!
This is the worst PPV UFC have put on in a long time. They intice us with Liddell and Lesnar.
Then move Lesnar…. thanks Dana
Then make really bad matches to make up (Evans V Irvin…i’ll bring a pillow)..thanks Joe Silva
And now try and fod us off with this!
Pisses me off sooo much. I hate how Dana says we are getting 2 top 10 contenders in Hughes and Alves..that is exactly the point. We are getitng contenders as the main event.
UFC 85 should be scrapped and we should get our ticket money back.
Christian,
personally i have nothing against the UK except when people like you point the finger at us “Ameicans” claiming unsubstantiated theories like we don’t like other countries. I’ve said time and time again that Paul Taylor would be a much better representative for UK MMA cuz that guy’s a warrior that never fails to put on a good show… win or lose. Bisping has been spoon fed opponents and the thing that turned me off about him was how he acted after the hammil decision. It’s not his fault it went his way, but he didn’t have to act like god’s gift to the sport when it was so clearly a controversial and in my opinion, bad call. I used to like the guy but that was enough to change my mind. I don’t even recall the guy giving hammil any respect after the fight which is quite honestly pathetic. even when i see fighters finish an opponent, they still typically give the other guy a compliment cuz it’s the classy thing to do. bisping is a talented fighter, but i can’t honestly say his record would be as good were he to fight better opponents.
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia
Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao
Renato Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead
Aleksander Emelianenko vs. Paul Buentello (not yet official)
Ben Rothwell vs. TBA
Mark Hominick vs. Savant Young
Justin Levens vs. Ray Lazama
Mike Pyle vs. Brett Cooper
J.J. Ambrose vs. Patrick Speight
theres your card rumor dead!
Well now, it looks as though I have opened up a whole can o’ worms. Guys, I said that none of what I was saying was meant to be confrontational, yet I understand that I may have been a bit severe in my finger pointing.
The point I was trying to make is that nobody outside of the UK seems to give Bisping any respect for what he has achieved. I truly believe that if he was from the US, the US fans would not have as much of a problem with him as they so obviously do now. At the same time, if that were the case it would be the UK fans doing exactly what the US fans are doing right now, its a loose loose situation as the fans of any sport are the most fickle people in the world
I was not just talking about this site, but most MMA sites I read have the same thing over and over…
Kouch: Dude, those are some big words. Well done fella. But I have to bite back on that: what the f*ck in what I said has anything to do with what happened 100s of years ago? Thats like saying f*ck Germany and all of its fighters for what they did in the War. How can you justify that? You cannot hold people accountable for the crimes of their forefathers. If you want to get in to finger pointing of such an academic level then I suggest you look at the current crimes being committed by your country, join a University forum, and stop reading so much in to an argument which is essentially about people being punched in the face.
And just for the record, I love the US, I have lots of family there. Just stop dissing our fighters
Christian,
Fair enough. Most people aren’t big enough to admit any type of fault so I can respect that. If it makes you feel any better, I could care less where fighters come from as long as they’re fun to watch and not total douche bags. I hate Koscheck for the same reason i hate bisping, cuz he eeked out a win over diego and acted like a prick afterwards. I love st pierre, cro cop, paul taylor and a bunch of other foreign fighters. In fact, Dana White mentioned in an interview how MMA is the first sport where he’s seen fans cheering against the fighter from their country in support of the other guy (he was referring to people from the US cheering for St Pierre over Serra). From my limited amount of exposure to MMA fans, I’d have to agree with that statement. Either way, glad you cleared things up. and i still hate bisping
FrenzySupporter, what a dumbass thing 2 say
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