Random Fight Forum News and Comments 2013

[Guest Frank Botch]

Mark Hunt maybe?.

 

The only answer I think:

 

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18gh6bro8r0zhpng/original.png

 

#Hunt4TheGold!!!!Etc!!!

 

(They will probably just pospone JDS/Overeem)

[Guest John Hancock]

Dana White: Alistair Overeem, not Mark Hunt, will fight Junior dos Santos next

 

~ Ariel Helwani

 

Looks like the fight's just getting postponed. Booooooooriiiiiiiiiiiiing.

 

Hunt vs. Velasquez.

[Guest John Hancock]

I take that back, Hunt vs. Dos Santos confirmed for UFC 160.

[Guest The Beltster]

Hunt stands literally no chance. He gets tired after 2 minutes and can barely move.

[Guest John Hancock]

The winner of Tate/ThatOtherBroad will coach the next season of The Ultimate Fighter with Ronda Rousey. The cast will be made up of both male and female bantamweights living in the house together.

[Chris2K 176]

--UFC has inked a new TV deal with BT Sports in the U.K. when the ESPN U.K. contract ends in August. We don't have anymore details and nobody in UFC is talking about it yet.

 

Looks like I'm going to have to spend even more to watch it, but at least it should mean no PPVs.

[Guest John Hancock]

What the hell is BT Sport!?

[Chris2K 176]

It's a new sport channel launching when BT launch their satellite service in the summer. It's almost literally going to have all the programming ESPN has as Disney have basically pulled ESPN out of the UK after they lost their Premiership rights. Football, Rugby, UFC and anything else that's on offer will be there soon.

[Guest John Hancock]

Is it going to be an extra add-on thing like ESPN was?

[Chris2K 176]

I'm not entirely sure. As BT are going to be running their own competition to Sky they could quite easily make their sports package exclusive to their own subscribers and freeze Sky customers out in the future, but for the time being they have secured two slots (one HD and one SD) on Sky's programming schedule in preparation for their launch in the summer.

 

Whilst I was researching all this I also saw that they may be getting a third channel for on-demand and PPV shows so the chance of having to pay to watch individual UFC shows at 2am is still a possibility.

[Guest John Hancock]

Shameless circle-jerking/name-dropping, but a member of the kickboxing team I train with in London won her first professional fight at Invicta tonight via submission, so I'm hugely happy for her.

[DC 536]

I love how you name-dropped without actually mentioning any names. :lol

[Guest John Hancock]

That would have been too obvious!

[Chris2K 176]

You're gonna have to tell us who it is, there were six submissions last night including a TWELVE SECOND FLYING ARMBAR. Me need video of that.

 

The internet is easy. Rose Namajunas ladies and gentlemen:

 

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Edited April 6, 2013 by Chris2K

[Guest John Hancock]

Simona Soukopova, she was in the main prelim.

[Guest John Hancock]

[video=youtube;3aIAD6o8Ko4]

 

Aww.

 

EDIT: Also, Overeem's decided to return his camp to the Netherlands for his next fight, to train with all his old Dutch K-1 kickboxing buddies.

Edited April 9, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest Jack]

[video=youtube_share;yT3qmC9PKWQ]http://youtu.be/yT3qmC9PKWQ

 

Them crazy Russkies...

[Guest John Hancock]

That looks like either the most fun ever, or the scariest idea ever put into practise.

[DC 536]

After reading his interviews to hype up his next fight, I really hope Tyson Fury gets humiliated when he takes on Steve Cunningham tomorrow.

 

All his previous interviews have been the same and I've wanted him to lose before, but this time it's almost an overwhelming obsession to see him lose and lose badly.

[Guest Magic]

Tyson Fury's fight against Cunnigham there was top drawer entertainment. Vince should sign him up.