Before the UFC 167 weigh-ins take place, the UFC is going to hold a special Q&A featuring UFC Hall of Famers Dan Severn, Mark Coleman, Royce Gracie and UFC 1 fighter Art Jimmerson. The guys were brought in to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UFC.
You can the Q&A on the video stream above starting at 5 p.m. ET.
Before UFC 167 takes place tomorrow night, the fighters weigh-in today to make the fights official. The weigh-ins take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The first fighter is on the scale at 7 p.m. ET and that will include UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Johny Hendricks.
You can watch the weigh-ins live here on BetweenTheRopes.com in the video stream.
UFC 167 pre-event press conference takes place today from the Hollywood Theatre at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. Every fighter on the main card and UFC President Dana White will be the presser. The fighters that will be there are: Georges St-Pierre, Johny Hendricks, Rashad Evans, Chael Sonnen, Rory MacDonald, Robbie Lawler, Josh Koscheck, Tyron Woodley, Tim Elliott and Ali Bagautinov.
One of the greatest comebacks in the UFC took place at UFC 117 as Anderson Silva defeated Chael Sonnen by fifth round submission to retain the UFC middleweight title. Sonnen had dominated the entire fight and won the first four rounds until getting caught by Silva.
The UFC has released the full fight video from the fight to help celebrate 20 years of the organization with the celebration culminating this Saturday at UFC 167.
The new WWE Director of Operations Kane replaced Triple H this week in talking to Michael Cole for the weekly chat Cole conducts with the WWE COO.
Cole asked Kane where did the monster go and is the suit and tie a façade. Kane at first yelled and was stern at Cole. Then the former WWE and World heavyweight composed himself and gave a dignified answer.
“There’s a monster that’s deep inside all of us,” Kane stated. The difference is for 17 years, I chose to allow mine to run amuck, to promote chaos. But make no mistake, I was always in control unlike you (Michael Cole) and everyone else. I accept the beastial side of my nature, indeed I relish in it. It is simply one facet of my personality, a tool if you will, but no the only tool at my disposal. So when the opportunity arises, the monster will be utilized.”
AJ Styles left TNA after his defeated Bully Ray in a rematch to retain the TNA world heavyweight title on the October 24 edition of Impact Wrestling. Styles then quit the company in an angle with TNA President Dixie Carter over his refusal to sign a new contract. Ever since then Styles hasn’t been seen on the show and commercials have aired on television that have been paid for by Styles.
To further the angle, TNA released a video of Carter meeting with Spike TV voicing her displeasure with the Styles commercials airing on Impact.
Do you like what TNA has done so far with the angle?
UFC 167 is on Saturday night and is the 20th anniversary show of the company. Throughout the week the UFC will be releasing videos of the greatest fights and other moments in the history of the organization. This video above will show the 20 greatest submissions in the history of the UFC. Here are the top five.
5. B.J. Penn vs. Matt Hughes I at UFC 46
4. Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar I at UFC 81
3. Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock at UFC 1
2. Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg at UFC 52
1. Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen at UFC 117
Do you agree with the top five?
Before every UFC event, Dana White releases at least one video blog to promote the event of that week and goes back to behind the scenes of footage of previous shows. This video blog is no different as UFC 167 takes place on Saturday night in Las Vegas with UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre defending his title against Johny Hendricks.
In the video blog we will see behind the scenes footage of UFC Fight Night 31: Fight For The Troops 3 that took place last Wednesday and UFC Fight night 32, which took place on Saturday. Some of the footage includes the horrific incident of Rony Jason following his loss to Jeremy Stephens punching a backstage wall and slicing open his arm. We also see White and Lorenzo Fertitta scare UFC executives on an airplane.
UFC 167 take place on Saturday night from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The main event will feature UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre facing off with number one contender Johny Hendricks. “UFC Primetime” is a three part series the UFC rolls out to hype big fights. The last episode of the show aired last night.
The episode shows each fighters final preparation for their fight on Saturday, Hendricks’ return to Oklahoma State University and St-Pierre’s world-class instructors, including Muay Thai experts.
You can watch the complete episode of the show above.
It is fight week as UFC 167 takes place on Saturday night from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main features long time reigning UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre defending against number one contender Johny Hendricks. The co-feature will pit former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans against two-time UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen.
Watch the video above as it gives an extended preview of the evening’s top two fights.
The WWE is on a European tour and it hit Munich, Germany on Saturday. The event had ended and World Heavyweight Champion John Cena was in the ring cutting a promo. Cena had Antonio Cesaro come out to the ring and speak German to the fans. While Cesaro was talking, Cena then interrupted him saying that Cesaro has the making of a future world champion.
Watch the video above and see what else Cena says to Cesaro and much more.
We had reported on Wednesday that NFL star, Adam “Pacman” Jones was the surprise former world champion that would be appearing on TNA Impact Wrestling. We didn’t know the role that Jones was going to have on the show. The Cincinnati Bengal star opened up the show walking arm in arm into the arena with TNA Owner Dixie Carter and shook the hand of Ken Anderson.
Then after the opening segment of the show, Bad Influence, which consists of Christopher Daniels and Kazarian approached Jones and his teammate Dequin Evans who were sitting at ringside. After some talking back and forth, Bad Influence pushed Jones and Evans.
The NFL stars then hopped the guardrail and got into the ring and they ended bodyslamming Daniels and Kazarian.
You can watch the video of what happened above.
Brian, Michael and Steve look back at Raw from Monday night including the feud between Triple H and The Big Show and a mini dressed as a bull trying to hump a woman on live TV(!), Rey Mysterio’s return,WWE reverting back to big guys on the top, TNA Wrestling’s latest ruse to fans, if the company is for sale or not and much more.
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UFC Fight Night 31 took place last night at the base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The main event featured Tim Kennedy defeating Rafael Natal in the co-main event and in the co-feature, Alexis Davis defeated Liz Carmouche.
In the videos above are highlights of Kennedy and Natal, Davis and Carmouche, Rustam Khabilov and Jorge Masvidal and Yoel Romero and Ronny Markes.
