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James Toney To Make His Debut in UFC

Whenever someone is in the position like Dana White, there will be many successes and sometimes there will be failures.

If this interview with James Toney is any sign of the future, Toney may prove to be the biggest mistake in the career of the UFC President.

James Toney will make his MMA debut against UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture on August 18 at UFC 118, in Boston.

Most don’t give Toney a chance against Couture, but those that do figure the only way to victory for “Lights Out” is a knock out.

However, the former boxer sees it playing out differently.

Brazil tops Group G, Kiwis snatch last-gasp draw in 2010 FIFA World Cup

New Zealand’s last-ditch equalizer against Slovakia ensured a four-way tie in Group F after one round, while Brazil moved to the top of Group G after opening their account against a determined North Korea with a wonder strike by Maicon.

In the first match in Group G, the so-called Group of Death, the Ivory Coast and Portugal played out a physical encounter that ended scoreless, despite the abundance of attacking talent in each squad.

New Zealand defied their underdog status to share points with Slovakia, thanks to Winston Reid’s injury-time header. The Oceania minnows are now unexpectedly tied in the group standings with defending champions Italy, after the Azzurri drew with Paraguay a day earlier.

Slovakia 1, New Zealand 1

A dramatic equalizer in time added on saw unheralded New Zealand come from behind to snatch a 1-1 draw with Slovakia in Group F action at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg on Tuesday.

Slovakia, making their maiden appearance at a World Cup finals, looked to be cruising to victory as the clock ticked down when Winston Reid popped up to nod home Shane Smeltz’s cross and cancel out Robert Vittek’s 50th-minute opener. Read more…

Is UFC’s Light Heavyweight Division ‘A Joke’?

The ever-outspoken, feather-ruffling politician/fighter from Oregon, Chael Sonnen, has unsurprisingly not decided to pull his verbal jabs.

In an interview given to Fight! Magazine at last weekend’s UFC Fan Expo, Sonnen not only took shots at former Light Heavyweight Champions Tito Ortiz and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, he called out the entire light heavyweight division.

“185 pounds is the toughest division in the business,” said the real estate agent. “If you’re going to go after the belt, go after the tough one. I’d love to get a night off and go beat up some of [the UFC's light heavyweights].

For god’s sake, 205 had a karate guy that was their champion. That weight class is a joke.”

Robbie Lawler Faces Off Against Babalu Sobral to Headline Strikeforce Live By Alexia Krause

With Strikeforce Live only weeks away, the heat is getting turned up for a showdown between two hard-hitting opponents. “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler will take on former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral for a fight that is bound to go beyond the cage and strike at the hearts of the two fighters. In fact, Sobral was quoted as saying that he has “hate in his heart” leading up to the fight and his trainer is making it clear that his hate will be taken out in the ring against Lawler. This type of bad blood will make the upcoming Strikeforce Live a MMA event to remember. The two will face each off in a 195-pound catch-weight bout on June 16 in Los Angeles.

This is an interesting turn of events, as Sobral wasn’t initially slated to fight against Lawler. The main card had originally been Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler, but after being rebuked by Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, Mayhem was later pulled from the card. Miller is under review for a possible suspension due to the brawl that had broken out following a post-fight interview with Jake Shields at Strikeforce Nashville.

The next Strikeforce event (Wednesday June 16^th in Los Angeles) will be the first ever to be scheduled during the middle of the week (in order to correspond with the video game expo, E3, and the subsequent release of EA Sports MMA). Most fans are going to the event to see the main fight between Sobral and Lawler. The main card is bound to set the tone for the evening and possibly the rest of Strikeforce MMA.

“Ruthless” Robbie Lawler is considered by most to be somewhat of a quiet figure outside of the ring, but once inside the cage he’s as merciless as his nickname. Lawler is known for completely annihilating his opponents by means of his all-or-nothing fighting style. This type of intensity will be a large part of his upcoming fight. This 5-foot-11 middleweight may be a reckless fighter inside the cage, but his fans love him for exactly that reason. Read more…

Lee Murray Gets Ten Years in a Moroccan Prison for UK Robbery

Cage-fighter Lee Murray has been jailed for 10 years in Morocco for his part in the £53m Securitas robbery in Kent in February 2006.

Last year his best friend Paul Allen was jailed in the UK for 18 years for his role in the crime, which was Britain’s biggest robbery, and five other men have been convicted and jailed.

Roger Coutts, later jailed for at least 15 years for his part in the robbery, told the Old Bailey: “Lee Murray has security firms, he runs doormen, he has flash cars and he is a well known drug dealer, everyone knows it. He’s a gangster.”

Pay Woos For MMA Professionals

It seems like the UFC, especially considering MMA is the hardest job in the world and it is a personal star driven sport is completely shafting it’s fighters.

Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson for that matter should not have made less than $1 million last night – is it just all my friends and I or does the UFC’s revenue distribution seem to award Dana White more then the people drawing in the money?”

Out of the tens of millions of dollars a UFC event makes only 5-10% go to fighters? That seems insanely low, in the NBA for example players are guaranteed to earn at least 57% of revenues and benefits.

And their contracts aren’t reduced due to their large endorsement contracts.