(Almost) Every UFC Belt is Up for Grabs June-October FYI

Between now and October, virtually every belt in the UFC will have been contested (minus that annoying Barao-Interim/Cruz-Undisputed(?) belt).


Not bad for a span of 4 months.
On that note, get ready to get your hopes up impossibly high and be let down in devastating fashion as I'd rank it as statistically nearly impossible all of these bouts will come to pass.
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The Bantamweight belt is up for grabs at the end of the month when Demetrious Johnson faces John Moraga (who?) at the end of July.

The Middleweight belt is up for grabs next weekend when the Chris Weidman hype train rolls into Anderson Silva territory in less than 2 weeks.

Jose Aldo faces the Korean Zombie due to Pettis injury, IN BRAZIL, on August 3rd for the featherweight belt.

August 3rd Machida faces Phil Davis who's coming off a terribly lackluster win over Vinny Magalhaes in a fight that unless Machida gets a dazzling KO, will likely not get him a title shot after the ho-hum blasé win over Dan Henderson.

TJ Grant is fighting Ben Henderson for the UFC LW belt on August 31st (with Josh Barnett making a return to the UFC I would have bet my right arm would never happen).

Two weeks before the 31st of August, Travis Browne faces Alistair Overeem who seems less "Reem"ish after passing his drug tests as of late.

Jacare is back September 4th in the UFC bringing high level Jiu-Jitsu back to MMA (yes, I know in the meantime Roger Gracie fight Tim Kennedy on the undercard of Silva vs Weidman).

Gustaffson faces Jon Jones in September.

Dos Santos fights Velasquez in October.

St. Pierre fights Hendricks in November.
 

Bernardo Faria Double Underhook Pass

If you read this blog, and particularly my posts regarding my most recent tournaments and what I've been working on, this one mentioning Bernardo Faria should come as no surprise.

I've modeled the beginnings of my deep half guard game on him, and appropriately enough, this video shows a pass from a position he ends up in not only from the guard pull, but often after his favorite deep half sweep.

I find myself here for the same reason he does, it comes naturally as a follow-up to the type of deep half sweep for which he is known and to which many high level guys still find themselves unable to prevent (or it sets up Faria's modified double leg/dental floss grip I believe it's called takedown).

At any rate, here it is:

ADCC Anticipation Builds

The list is far from finalized (at least from what I can gleam from the internetz), but so far the likes of Lucas Lepri, Otavio Sousa, Augusto Tanquinho Mendes, and Rodolfo Vieira will all compete in China at the ADCC this coming September.

 

Do Fans Actually Buy These?

 

I say this not as an umbrage to Chris Weidman, or any fighter, but simply as an honest question.

I don't know that any of the guys I train with own any walk out t-shirts, well, maybe I've seen one person wear one to the gym one time.

Thoughts?
Btw, I'll take any lack of commenting/silence to mean that no, in fact, no one buys walkout t-shirts. 

 

 

 

Brian Carraway MMA Drug Czar Alert: Meet Carina Damm, Josh Barnett's Soulmate

Getting popped for multiple drug test fails (Barnett) and using fake urine (Thiago Silva) is not just for the male athletes. No, MMA is the land of equality in several regards.

Read on over at Cagepotato.

This is Why I Watch Bellator

Babalu has retired.

Rather than remember him by this:


I shall remember him as he was: