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UFC on Fox 2: Is Sonnen vs. Munoz on Tap? Should There Be a Qualifier Fight Before They Get to Face Silva?

Two of the top mid­dleweights in the world posed for a photo dur­ing UFC 139. One looked like he was ready to scrap right there in the crowd. It wasn’t the case, there isn’t any angst that we know about between Mark Munoz and Chael Son­nen, but there may be soon. If Ander­son Silva is truly on the shelf until the UFC poten­tially hits Sao Paolo next sum­mer, the pro­mo­tion may book a Munoz-Sonnen fight. Between Sonnen’s chops and Munoz’s good guy image, it’d be home run pro­mo­tion with the old-guard sports media. Munoz is now 7–1 at 185 pounds and just posted a dom­i­nant... 

Miguel Torres Video: Can a Smarter Fighter Be a Player in the 135-Pound Title Hunt?

Miguel Tor­res was as excit­ing as they came. His go-for-broke style helped him roll up a 37–1 record and move as high as No. 4 on the pound-for-pound list back in early 2009. His bang­ing style even­tu­ally cost him and he ran into a cou­ple of knock­out punches. Now he’s re-worked his game to essen­tially become a points fighter. Do you like it? Tor­res does. “I fought my last fight against Demetri­u­ous John­son, he got the deco­sion and he ended get­ting the title shot. So a fight against me can make or break some­body,” Tor­res told Cagewriter. “and I under­stand.... 

Tales From Asia: Benson Henderson’s Tour Through Korea and Japan

UFC light­weight Ben­son Hen­der­son will fight Frankie Edgar for the title in Feb­ru­ary, but before that, he is tour­ing through Japan and Korea to visit with troops, meet media, and most impor­tantly, meet his fam­ily. Read his exclu­sive travel blog posts at Cagewriter. Last week, I was hon­ored to be asked by the UFC to rep­re­sent them in Korea and Japan. This is my first time over­seas, which these days seems to put me in a minor­ity. But I am look­ing for­ward to the great events and fes­tiv­i­ties that are lined up. The main pur­pose of this trip is to visit with... 

Cruz Is Good, but Far From Scary or Unbeatable

Dominick Cruz has beaten three guys in atten­dance at today’s UFC 139 pre­fight press con­fer­ence, but that doesn’t mean any of them would hes­i­tate for a sec­ond if offered another shot at the 135-pound title. All three respect Cruz, but don’t view him as a dan­ger­ous guy. “I wasn’t hav­ing too much trou­ble hit­ting him. I hit him plenty of times. I just wasn’t throw­ing as many punches,” Faber said. “But he’s not scary. I’ll fight him any day. Every day, all day.” Faber lost to Cruz back at UFC 132. The fight was razor thin although the judges gave the... 

TV Gold: ‘Angry’ Sonnen Walks Off Canadian Talk Show

Some­times it’s hard to tell if Chael Son­nen is seri­ous when he goes off cer­tain media mem­bers. Often times it’s part of the bit. Today, dur­ing an inter­view on Canada’s “Off the Record,” Sonnen’s seemed pretty real. Towards the end of a con­tentious inter­view, Son­nen took off his micro­phone and bailed on the conversation. OTR host Michael Lands­berg began the dis­cus­sion by ask­ing Son­nen why he backed down from his chal­lenge of “leav­ing the UFC” if lost to Ander­son Silva in their even­tual fight in 2012. “You might want to take the base out... 

UFC on Fox Draws 5.7 Million, Bob Arum Says MMA Got ‘buried’

Even with the quick knock­out at UFC on Fox 1, the event pulled in a very big audi­ence for the promotion’s debut on net­work television. Accord­ing to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the show beat col­lege foot­ball and pro­duced an audi­ence of near six million. […] pre­lim­i­nary rat­ings announced by Fox show the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship card on the net­work Sat­ur­day night was watched by 5.7 mil­lion peo­ple. A release issued by the net­work indi­cated the broad­cast, the first for the UFC on net­work tele­vi­sion, pulled a 4.3 rat­ing in the 18-to-34... 

After Getting Twitter Bonus, Forrest Griffin Tweets Rape Joke

The UFC recently rewarded For­rest Grif­fin $ 5,000 for his “cre­ativ­ity” on Twit­ter, but he went too far on a tweet yes­ter­day, say­ing, “Rape is the new missionary.” When a fan unfol­lowed him and called him out on what he con­sid­ered a joke, he responded, “Keep it to your­self.” Later, he deleted the tweet and said, “I’m sorry, I’m gonna go ahead and put myself on Twit­ter restric­tion until next week.” Yep, when “cre­ativ­ity” leads to jokes about sex­ual assault, that’s a good time to keep your mouth shut. Let’s just be... 

UFC 138-S Three Stars: Terry Etim, Renan Barao and Che Mills

UFC 138 was over­looked. Sand­wiched between Nick Diaz at UFC 137 and the UFC’s first foray into net­work tele­vi­sion, it’s no sur­prise that a tape-delayed card with­out a title fight would not get the same love as those events, but the fight­ers still deliv­ered with excit­ing per­for­mances. Here are Cagewriter’s Three Stars. Tell us your in the com­ments or on Facebook. No. 1 star — Terry Etim: The British fighter’s last trip to the Octa­gon was a loss at UFC 112. He must have spent the past 19 months think­ing about that loss, and how to get back on... 

Gallery: Check Out Pictures From UFC 138

Check out Tracy Lee’s pic­tures from UFC 138, includ­ing the nasty cut that stopped the fight between Mark Munoz and Chris Leben, Renan Barao’s dam­ag­ing strik­ing, Michi­hiro Omigawa’s first win in the UFC and more. Related: Exclu­sive pic­tures, Mark Munoz, Chris Leben, Renan Barao BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by Syn­di­cated Sports news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more UFC news see: Gallery: Check out pic­tures from UFC 138.  

Dana White Touts MMA and Boxing on Vlog for UFC on Fox

Dana White is a huge fight fan. Sure he wants the UFC to steal the night this Sat­ur­day with the promotion’s debut on net­work tele­vi­sion, but he opens his lat­est video blog by point­ing out that fight fans can watch the Cain Velasquez-Junior dos San­tos and then switch over to see Manny Pac­quiao bat­tle Juan Manuel Marquez. The UFC president’s vlog also fea­tures more cool behind-the-scenes action fol­low­ing UFC 137 and UFC 138, includ­ing a neat embrace between B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz. Related: Dana White, Nick Diaz, B.J. Penn, UFC 137, UFC 138 Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle...