Report: Silva-Vera Unlikely For July 19th Event; Event May Be Formally Announced Today
A rumored main event bout between Wanderlei Silva and Brandon Vera is unlikely to take place at the recently-rumored July 19th UFC event, according to a report by Dave Meltzer at F4wonline.com. All is not lost, however, as the UFC is reportedly hard at work securing a main event bout for the Spike TV event and an official announcement may be made later today.
Here’s a snip from the report:
“Here is the basics on the story going around regarding a UFC show on 7/19, head-to-head with the Affliction show. The sherdog.com story is correct in that fighters have been called, including Wanderlei Silva and Brandon Vera, but that match is likely not happening even on the chance there is such a show on that date. It was an idea talked about in preliminary stages but Spike officials have said the next live special after Saturday will be on 9/17 and Dana White had also not green-lighted the idea as of earlier today and it was considered a no-go this morning. Fighters have been contacted and based on updated stuff, I expect it is happening and most likely the final decision and an announcement will be made tomorrow. The fact they are still working hard on getting a quality main event says something.”
Stay tuned…
Tags: Brandon Vera, Wanderlei Silva
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I heard Dana White saw this picture and was too scared to setup a fight:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15895460@N07/2585784539/
I heard the bear actually had to call Dana so he would believe it happened.
this is pointless if the ufc is this worried about the Affliction show then they should have signed Fedor and then there would have been no worries.
At this point, how good of an event can they put on with only 1 month left. This really doesn’t give the fighters that much time to train. They’ve got matches already set up for TUF Finale, UFC 86, UFC 87, September FN, and already working on UFC 88, so who does that leave for this July 19th show. I mean most of the guys with NAME value are already schedule to fight in the events I mentioned above.
who cares, it’s gonna be free anyway isn’t it? so whatever fights you do get to see are a bonus cause you don’t have to pay. just because there’s no big names doesn’t we can’t see big ko’s. UFC 85 fight card sucked, but the fights themselves were really good.
LIKE JAI SAID THEY ONLY HAVE A MONTH TO TRAIN. THIS CARD ISN’T GONNA HAPPEN
I hope the card does come together. I would love to see Wand or Vera on the card even if they don’t fight each other. Anyway, that would make free UFC fights 3 out of 4 months. I’ll take it
Is this really necessary ????????
I don’t think it is……… Is the UFC gonna put on something for free on SPIKE everytime another promotion is putting on a decent event ??????
UFC has nothing to prove or worry about right now in my opinion. They’ve got their PPV’s everymonth,Fight nights, reality show, TUF finale, specials, best fighters …etc etc etc. They should just stay focused on moving forward and not this kind of crap WWE vs WCW….. lowering themselves to compete with these second rate promotions.
WELL SAID DIRTY. I HONESTLY DON’T THINK ITS NECESSARY. WHY TAKE A RISK TO INJURY THERE FIGHTERS.
Make the fight happen….Its better than the PPV
All of you seem to forgetting this is a busissness. There are all these competitors trying to get a piece of the pie and now Affliction is throwing their first event with an impressive card after building popularity through other promotions. The UFC and Dana are unhappy with Affliction for going about business the way they did. Affliction got big selling and advertising overpriced merchandise at UFC and Elite XC shows. That is why both promotions told Affliction to F off when Affliction went and started up it’s own promotion. Afflcition wanted to play with fire and now they are getting burned. The UFC has a the premiere roster in MMA and plenty of time to put on a great show. Professional fighters do not wait to be contacted by the UFC to start training. I don’t even know why the training issue is coming up. Maybe the fighters have not been doing extensive fight training but any professional has still been training enough to be ready. It’s not about having anything to prove either. This is about delivering a b!tch slap to Affliction for their sneaky business nature. Revenge. The UFC wanted Fedor but Fedor wanted a lot of money and the freedom to fight else where. Obviously that does not work with the UFC’s billion dollar business model/plan at this time. In my opinion, Afflictio is getting exactly what it deserves. There is no argument or doubt that if this UFC July 19 event takes place, Affliction PPV buys will be destroyed. I understand many of you still want to watch both but like I said before, “those of us here chatting up MMA, we’re amongst the hard core fans.” The majority of average fans were not going to buy Affliction in the first place. Affliction was trying to get a big start with a fight card full of ranked HWs and big names. Unfortunately for Affliction, the UFC doesn’t play games and at the end of July 19, the UFC will have stolen a massive number of viewers and PPV buys from Affliction.
I personally think the Affliction card is stacked! I can’t wait to see Arlovski, Silvia and Babalu fight their butts off to show UFC what they are missing out on. Not to mention Fedor among others.
Competition for the UFC is only going to better the sport if you ask me. Dana needs to pull his head out of his ass and realize that the UFC isn’t the do all and end all of MMA.
MMA has been around for 75+ years. Yes Zuffa and the UFC were the ones who got it to go mainstream, but one promotion isn’t enough to showcase all the great fighters there are in this world. White would rather pay rookie Brock Lesnar more money than basically everyone who helped him make the UFC what it is today, so be it. You reap what you sew.
Bottom line the competition is not about to slow down. And if UFC wants to counter every big televised or PPV event from other promotions, they have a long road ahead of them….. and are not doing what is best for the sport in general.
I’ve said this once and will say it again…. reality show stars from TUF are not the only fighters in the freakin’ world! How many times can you bear to see Kendell Grove get his head knocked off?
UFC should focus on doing what they have done in the past. Not rushing trying to put together last minute fight cards to stop MMA fans from watching other fighters in other promotions. Is it just mean or does Dana seem scared?
Can’t wait till Couture is in Affliction. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Silvia stops Fedor at all.
Cheers!
You know what it’s not our problem to worry about how these guys train or if they get injured. Our job is to just watch them. I’ll be tivoing the UFC if it happens and watching Affliction. Enjoy some extra fights, I will be.
OFF THE SUBJECT. I WANNA GET YOUR OPINIONS: I JUST SNAPED THAT ANDERSON VS OKAMI…IS A RUMOR BOUT. OKAMI DESERVES THE SHOT AND I THINK HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PULL IT OUT. AND BISPING VS LEBEN… I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT FIGHT… BISPING IS GONNA TAKE THAT ONE AS… WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS
Well I hope UFC still puts somethin together for the 19th.. not that I wouldnt want to see the other fights but Im freakin broke and free sounds better!
I can see Bisping VS Leben happening July 19th.. although Bisping fought in last month,but He crushed Jason Day .. so I could see this happening July 19
still want this fight. Am I the only person who thinks Leben has slow hands?
cool