Just days after declaring his desire to replace Alistair Overeem against Junior dos Santos, UFC President Dana White has announced that Frank Mir’s currently scheduled fight against Cain Velasquez will still be taking place. That fight, which is scheduled for UFC 146, is the co-main event at the May 26th event, and will be a number one contender’s bout to determine who faces the champion later this year.
Hours after the news broke that Overeem tested positive for elevated testosterone, Mir sent out a release mentioning that he “would be excited if given the opportunity to compete for the UFC’s heavyweight title at UFC 146″. However, early this morning Dana White posted on his twitter account that “Mir vs Cain will happen”.
The UFC has yet to make an official statement regarding Overeem’s test or the status of the main event at UFC 146. Along with Mir, Dan Henderson has stated his case for the opportunity, stating that he would accept the fight if offered.
Overeem has a meeting scheduled for April 24th with the Nevada Athletic Commission to discuss his test. The UFC very well may not make a decision regarding dos Santos’ opponent until that meeting.
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Not much to use as an excuse for a 14:1 T:E Level. I am pretty aggravated, as I have always been a supporter of AO. I have always said, prove it. Well, fourteen to one, kinda proves something, so unless a doctor comes forward and admits to dumping a load of testosterone in AO’s a$$ (yes it is an intended jab), then the title fight is probably just off the card. Which is extremely disappointing, I would think that JDS vs AO would have been an awesome striking match between two good fighters. Mir is the only true logical choice, whether we think he “deserves” it or not. So sounds like there will not be a title fight.
I could not have put it better myself…
Hendo will get it.
This is worse then Fedor vs Barnett falling through.
That caused the cancellation of a card and hastened the end of the Affliction promotion. I think rearranging the heavyweight title order is just a little below that on the crisis list.
Mir vs Cain new main Event. JDS will sit.
Yeah I agree, seems they are canning the title fight, which is so effin bizarre cuz I thought the whole reason they stacked this card with hws was for this very circumstance. I love Fedor and think he would have as good a shot against junior as anyone, but it’d just be too much a long shot and too odd to stick him in there for instant title fight. Plus it would crush Dana’s self esteem. But I wouldn’t complain if they did it ;)
fedor’s name would never even come up in terms of a title shot. He’s nowhere near that at this point. Personally I love to watch him too, but hes not a title contender any more.
i’m happy and upset. I wanted to see Mir vs Velazquez more than overeem vs jds. but i’m upset to see Mir’s title shot get taken away because i think he deserved it.
Can’t take away something that he never had.
Stop with the Fedor talks..he hasn’t beaten anybody in years he would get imbarrassed in the UFC…
“imbarrassing” spelling?
stupid keyboard warrior who cares about spelling this is mma not english class jackass
Well, to be pedantic, this is an internet forum dedicated to MMA, not actual MMA. So it’s closer to an English class than a cage fight.
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Anieto you are prob a new fan, so I won’t condemn you for such a ridiculous comment. Fedor lost to 3 studs who instantly came over to ufc. He is a legend for a reason. While he is far past his prime it would be irresponsible, if not ignorant, to.claim Fedor has anything but a great shot against the top hws in the world. Enough of the Dana white kool aid.
Who are you to peg people as new fans and to say that their opinions don’t matter? You parade around here and try to judge people with clever and witty quips, but fail all the time. Enough of your own kool aid.
Fedor hasn’t been great for a long time. I know you sit back and listen to Kenny Rice about how great Fedor is and blah blah blah, but he’s done. He got beat by a guy who was destroyed by JDS and cut from the UFC; he was beat by a pretty one dimentional fighter in Bigfoot (2 submissions doesn’t make you a highly multifaceted fighter) who just pounded him out on the ground; and then he was beat by a 40 year old middleweight. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Hendo, but should Hendo really be someone that should beat the “great and wonderful” Fedor at heavyweight? C’mon… he wouldn’t make it in the UFC, except against lower level guys. I dont even think he beats Mir these days.
It’s not as ridiculous of a comment as you think. He lost his last 3 Strikeforce fights (yes, to great fighters but still…) yet won his last 2 fights. None of those fights were wins in the UFC, which is ridiculous to think he should get an automatic title shot. I don’t disagree that he’s a legend and an amazing fighter, but you can’t keep bringing guys in and giving them immediate title shots. If that’s the case, fighters would drop out of the UFC, dominate (for argument sake) Strikeforce and then expect a UFC title shot.
This is probably why i hate the HW division. Dana says “oh man look at this guy, he looks mean, let’s give him a title shot for his 2nd UFC fight”. I guess this why i have a lot of hate towards Lesnar. The only person that seems to have been as good as they thought was Silva who won and has retained the title since his 2nd UFC fight.
@Devin Not a newb been watching mma for 15+ years..what has fedor done in the last few years I’m not at all saying hes not a legend I think he’s 1-3 or 1-4 in the last few years just because your legend dosent mean you should be mentioned in a UFC title fight..fedor vs any top HW in the UFC he losses..IMO
Fair enough. I think he has as good a shot of losing to or beating any top hw in ufc. He hasn’t beaten any top 10 guys in a few years, but I don’t think anyone can definitively say he sucks or even that he doesn’t stand a good chance in the ufc. But I agree he doesn’t deserve immediate title shot, no way. But I’d love to see him in the ufc, past his prime or not.
Ok…ok…. I got the perfect solution. Bring back Randy Couture. He did it against Tim Sylvia he can do it to JDS. Nah. I know it won’t happen. Randy is the man but I don’t think he could handle someone like JDS at this point. Now 7 years ago….that might be another story.
Dan Henderson?????????
I have to pipe in on the Fedor talk… I am not a super hype Fedor fan, nor do I dislike the man. I don’t call people out for spelling, but have some pride in yourself for crying out loud. LOL. Anyway, 4 cents: Yes, Fedor is one of the best fighters that has graced our screens and sold us tickets. In my own opinion, I do think that his right hand and submission skills are as good as any in the game, still. It is the man himself that has unfortunately come to an age(or mental state) that does not forgive all these years of training and fighting. It is the one definite in this harsh sport that we love. No matter how great the fighter, there will always be a downhill turn. That being said, if that man were to land that right hand flush on any active HW fighter out there, we would see knees buckle and a short night for said HW. The question is, can he land it? Same with the sub game, Fedor has always had some pretty fast subs, the only question now is, can he get into the right position? Werdum subbing Fedor was incredible to me, only because I had seen Fedor in the same position so many times, Hendo knocking Fedor out was incredible, because I’ve seen Fedor get hit so many times. It is the same as Chuck, Randy, Mark Coleman, so many greats who have just trained too much, and gotten hit too many times.
Switching stances here, I do think the HW title fight is scrapped, and that is so unfortunate for this card, and anyone who’d purchased tickets already. I am happy to see Cain/Frank, I think that this will be a better test to see where Frank is, than Big Nog was. I also hope to see Nelson beat Werdum. Not that i am a Nelson fan, I am just anti-Werdum.
That basically sums up Fedor. He’s not completely immortal anymore, but he’s still got some skills that some of the best only wish they had. Um nelson already lost to werdum…nelson is fighting big foot…who I think he will ko. Werdum isn’t even on this card.
But I hate werdum too. And love nelson.
Man Dana is such a flip flopper. Now he says junior makes title shot at 146 with or without reem… http://m.espn.go.com/extra/mma/story?storyId=7780664
So if its not Cain or Mir then who?? No one but them makes sense. Even in a stretch I think carwin is still not close to returning. I suppose it could actually be werdum, but I think Cain and Mir both deserve it over him. No one else makes sense. If were just gonna throw any old body in there then I pick Fedor, it would be so sick.
I don’t think there was any flip flopping. all he said was mir vs cain would happen, aka neither of those guys are fighting jds. he never said jds wasn’t going to be fighting.
hendo’s got some serious balls, if he really wants to step up, i’ll watch that. who wouldn’t?
Well he might not have flip flopped on this one, but he is a flip flopper ;) I suppose that hendo coming in would be the only fresh opinion that would be acceptable at all to the common fan. I’d still love to see Fedor in The ufc at all, but Dana is such a b#tch about it that it man never happen.
I say they do Mir VS JDS and replace Mir vs Velasquez with Werdum VS Velasquez, Same fight eh lol.
Advent I have no idea who kenny rice is, and I don’t really judge anyone. I know I’m not clever or funny, I think you’re the only one on here I easily crush with your comments when needed. But sometimes you say stuff I agree with ;) actually its true I call people out on here, but I dont care, I think we’re all nerds for even having accounts and addressing each other on here in the first place. So I will state my opinion when I want and call people out when I think they’re saying bogus stuff but who cares, its all still opinion at the end. Although I always win. Always. But that’s just because I have such a high iq and such high knowledge of the sport. And I read Sonnen’s book. But in all seriousness, people who come on here and say Fedor sucks, flat out, are making what I consider bogus comments, and I think they are lying, don’t know, or have an agenda when they say it. So maybe I’m being a d#ck when I say stuff, but that person could be sounding like one himself when he throws around demeaning comments about fighters. So I guess were all nerdy d#cks on a comment board, whoopty sh#t, I’m def leaving this out of my life story anyhow…
Ya he def would need to win a couple fights in the ufc first, but ppv wise it would be epic. Regardless, Dana won’t do it because he is a penis when it comes to Fedor. Dana’s bosses will basically make him have to sign Fedor for it ever to happen.