UFC 134: Rio

[Crippler]

it's pretty scary seeing this man fuck everyone up the way he does

 

[PHX]

Lame how my stream went out right when the first was gonna start so didn't see but no doubt Silva was gonna win.

 

[Ben]

Poor Cane, only Brazilian on the main card that lost :

 

[Aaron Rodgers]

I didn't think for one second Okami would win, but Silva once again looks unstoppable. I would LOVE to see him move up to 205. After a Sonnen rematch, Anderson has pretty much done it all at 185.

at Forrest losing. He didn't look comfortable in there tho, and Shogun came out looking like a beast. Minotauro has still got it too, great KO of Schaub.

 

[Ben]

After Sonnen Silva should either retire or move up. Guy is just insane in the cage and he really looks unbeatable still. Only thing I would of liked to see Okami do is go for a takedown when Silva left him self open with his hands to his side. Everytime he does it I say it, and every time his opponent stands there and tries to throw still, prob would of made a difference, but your not going to beat Silva in the standup.

Besides Sonnen, a fight with Hendo would be welcomed, or obviously the GSP superfight, which is prob the least likely out of the 3.

 

[Aaron Rodgers]

Anderson Silva vs. Jon Jones. Plz.

 

[No More Sorrow]

I didn't think that show was all that bad, Shogun and Silva winning was good.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Anderson Silva vs. Jon Jones. Plz.

I love Jones, but Silva would fuck him up.

 

[No More Sorrow]

RIO DE JANEIRO – It took 13 years for the UFC's return to the spiritual home of MMA following the promotion's 1998 debut in Brazil, but after Saturday's well-received UFC 134 event, don't count on that type of delay happening again.

In fact, White confirmed the promotion is likely to return to Brazil in 2012 with a stadium show, and a Brazilian office is also in the works.

Following the UFC's sold-out event at Rio de Janeiro's HSBC Arena, White said the country's passion for the sport inside the arena – not to mention the apparent 30 million or so homes that watched on TV – ensured Brazil will be another featured target for the promotion moving forward.

"I've been doing events all over the world for the last 10 years," White said. "Brazil wins for the loudest crowd ever. The cool thing about this show, too, was the place was packed from the first fight of the night. The first fight of the night sounded like the title fight.

"We might be here every weekend."

While White was kidding about the frequency, he certainly wasn't overstating the success of the event. The city of Rio de Janeiro was abuzz all week, and while tickets were impossible to come by, White said those who couldn't be in the arena were glued to their televisions.

"We're getting early polling back from TV in Brazil that we did a 20 percent share tonight, which could be almost 30 million homes," White told MMAJunkie.com following the evening's post-event press conference. "Huge."

Unlike most U.S. shows, White was not aware of exactly how many seats were sold and how much revenue was generated at the gate. Instead, he only noted that the HSBC Arena was "sold-out."

While the 14,000 fans or so on hand did more than enough to provide an electric atmosphere for the event, White admits his team could have booked a much larger venue and been highly successful. However, White said he also wanted to iron out the kinks on a small scale before returning to the country in full force.

"This was a successful event before it even happened," White said. "The reality is that we came in, and a lot of people were looking for tickets for this event.

"We could have sold more tickets. We could have done some big, huge, major events out in the streets, including the weigh-ins and everything else. We wanted this one to go smooth, get it behind us and move on to the next one."

While the UFC cited strong demand for tickets as a reason many fans' demands for entry were denied, Brazilians all week quietly grumbled that many seats were never even available for public purchase.

White said he wasn't entirely sure to what to attribute the challenges but said the promotion will remedy that issue by returning for a stadium show sometime in 2012, likely in Manaus, as Lorenzo Fertitta first stated earlier this week.

"How the ticket situation works down here is completely different than anywhere else," White said. "It's something that's going to have to be worked out in the future.

"Trust me, people aren't going to have triuble getting tickets to the next one. I guarantee you that. We're jumping big next time. We're going big. We're not playing around next time."

Does that mean 100,000-seat stadium, as was first reported? When? Where?

White wasn't ready to share specifics, instead insisting everything was in the initial planning stages. However, the enthusiastic response for the UFC in Brazil means the country is likely to become the fourth country, along with Canada, China and Great Britain, to score a remote office of thew world's largest MMA promotion.

"We're probably real close to setting up an office down here," White said. "This is a huge market for us, and we're just getting started.

"I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but when you do business in other countries, there's a lot of things you've got figure out. But it absolutely, positively makes sense for us to have an office down here."

MMAJunkie.com

 

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JANEIRO – Antonio Rodrigo Noguera, Edson Barboza and Ross Pearson each earned $100,000 "Fight Night" bonuses for their performances at Saturday's UFC 134 event.

Nogueira earned the night's "Knockout of the Night" bonus, and Barboza and Pearson each took home "Fight of the Night" honors. With no submissions on the card, no "Submission of the Night" award was issued.

www.mmajunkie.com learned of the bonus winners and award amounts while at UFC 134's post-event press conference.

UFC 134 took place Saturday at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro and was the first UFC event in Brazil since 1998. The night's main card aired on pay-per-view, and the preliminary card aired on Spike TV and streamed on Facebook.

The bonuses were some of the most lucrative in UFC history. Only UFC 129 ($129,000) and UFC 100 ($100,000) awarded the winners as much as UFC 134 did.

Nogueira earned his award with an impressive and upset main-card win over heavyweight contender Brendan Schaub. Midway through the first round, "Big Nog" unloaded a left-right combination that dazed Schaub. Nogueira followed with additional punches until Schaub fell face first into the mat, which prompted a KO stoppage at the 3:09 mark of the opening round.

Barboza and Pearson, meanwhile, engaged in a close stand-up fight in a main-card attraction. The evenly matched lightweights delivered 15 minutes of action, though Barboza, who mixed in solid leg kicks with quick combinations, ultimately took the split decision via scores of 29-28, 28-29 and 29-28.

MMAJunkie.com

 

[No More Sorrow]

Zuffa LLC announced the following medical suspensions from the UFC 134 event. Zuffa LLC, the UFC's parent company, oversaw the suspensions and regulatory processes due to the lack of an official sanctioning body in Brazil.

* Yushin Okami: Suspended 45 days with no contact during training for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Forrest Griffin: Suspended 180 days due to possible right-foot and jaw injuries, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Ross Pearson: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Brendan Schaub: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Luiz Cane: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons

* Stanislav Nedkov: Suspended 180 days due to a possible nasal fracture, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Thiago Tavares: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons

* Rousimar Palhares: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Dan Miller: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Raphael Assuncao: Suspended 180 days due to a possible nasal fracture, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons

* Erick Silva: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons

* Luis Ramos: Suspended 40 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Yuri Alcantara: Suspended seven days for precautionary reasons

* Felipe Arantes: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days for precautionary reasons

* Yves Jabouin: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons

* Ian Loveland: Suspended 180 days due to a possible chest injury, though he can be cleared early by a physician; regardless, suspended 30
days with no contact for 21 days for precautionary reasons

MMAScoops.com

 

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All six fighters who underwent drug testing at this past month's UFC 134 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse.

UFC Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner, who coordinated the testing, today e-mailed the drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

UFC 134 took place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro and was the first UFC event in Brazil since 1998.

The night's main card, which saw UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva notch a record ninth straight title defense, aired on pay-per-view. The preliminary card aired on Spike TV and streamed on Facebook.

Silva, opponent Yushin Okami and four fighters who were chosen randomly were all tested.

All tested negative for drugs of abuse (such as marijuana and cocaine), as well as anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancers.

When no regulatory body is available, which was the case in Brazil, the UFC hires outside drug testers for events.

MMAJunkie.com