JackalFights: Dennis Siver vs Adrian Degorski
February 9, 2010 – 10:00 am by Reverend ClintA fight in England that’s mostly on the ground? What about No Jitsu?
Condit explains sheet metal snafu
February 8, 2010 – 8:22 pm by fightlinker
The last we heard from Carlos Condit, he had just been hit by the UFC gypsy curse in the form of a WTF-style sheet metal accident. Finally, someone got in touch with him and asked him exactly what the deal was with that:
“I was kind of moving some stuff around in my garage and I had some old junk. I had a broken dry erase board, like a bulletin board type thing, and I picked it up to kind of toss it over to my trash pile. I kind of Frisbee tossed it, and it had a sharp piece of metal, kind of the surface of the dry erase board, and it sliced me real good,” Condit told MMAWeekly.com in an exclusive interview.
“Initially what happened was I went down to urgent care, got some stitches, and they said that I should be cool in a couple days, so nothing really changed for me.
“I was back to training and everything, but the next day my hand started swelling up and hurting like a son of a bitch and that’s kind of when I decided I wasn’t going to be able to do the fight and then a couple days later I went to see a hand specialist and they admitted me to the hospital right away cause I had a real bad staph infection.”
The staph infection put Condit in the hospital for a six-night stay. When he was released, he was still not able to train full on due to an IV that had to be administered for six weeks for antibiotics to fully flush out the infection.
Goddamn super staph. We’re in a war with bacteria and this one isn’t going well. The more we use antibiotics, the more resistant the new strains become. Since evolution is a lie, the only explanation to this is that God is punishing us, probably because of all that ass sex and other licentious behavior.
Here’s Compustrike’s data for UFC 109 … three fights are featured: Couture / Coleman, Marquardt / Sonnen, and Serra / Trigg. I fucking hate stats like this (this is MMA not tag), but I figured some of you data pigs might get a kick out of it.
Serra got paid!
February 8, 2010 – 4:04 pm by fightlinker
Here’s the payouts for UFC 109, arranged from highest paid to least paid just because it’s more fun that way:
- Randy Couture: $250,000 (no win bonus)
- Matt Serra: $150,000 ($75k + $75k)
- Chael Sonnen: $64,000 ($32k + $32k win bonus)
- Demian Maia: $62,000 ($31k + $31k)
- Mark Coleman: $60,000
- Nate Marquardt: $45,000
- Mike Swick: $43,000
- Mac Danzig: $40,000 ($20k + $20k)
- Frank Trigg: $30,000
- Paulo Thiago: $30,000 ($15k + $15k)
- Melvin Guillard: $28,000 ($14k + $14k)
- Rob Emerson: $24,000 ($12k + $12k)
- Chris Tuchscherer: $20,000 ($10k + $10k)
- Brian Stann: $17,000
- Dan Miller: $15,000
- Rolles Gracie: $15,000
- Joey Beltran: $12,000 ($6k + $6k)
- Phillipe Nover: $10,000
- Phil Davis: $10,000 ($5k + $5k)
- Justin Buchholz: $8,000
- Tim Hague: $7000
- Ronys Torres: $4,000
Note that Randy Couture was making some pretty decent money off a cut of the PPV even before that last contract dispute he was in, so I’m sure he’s making even more now. Props to Matt Serra for making the big bucks – I guess that’s what happens when you’re a team player and agree to rematch Georges St Pierre right away.
Down on the lower end of things you have Phil Davis making a miserable 5k/5k, which seems pretty damn low considering his pimp wrestling credentials. Then again, his manager’s idea of a good sponsor was a trash removal company, so that might explain a few things. It’s interesting to see so many new guys coming in under the standard 7k/7k pay … here I was hoping that bottom rung pay would go up, not down.
(image via MMA Weekly’s UFC 109 post-even press conference pictures)
UFC Undisputed 2010 deets are out
February 8, 2010 – 2:38 pm by fightlinker
EA has been slowly leaking out roster info about their MMA video game over the past few weeks and it kinda looked like they were getting a leg up on game promotion over THQ thus far. But this weekend THQ finally lifted up Undisputed 2010’s skirt and showed us it’s improved genitalia … MMA Convert was nice enough to create a very long bullet list of the changes. While that list does include some improvements to the submission system, an interview with game developer Omar Kendall reveals that the dreaded knob polisher submission system will still be in place:
GS: There was some criticism of the submission system in UFC 2009–the button mashing/stick rolling wasn’t a particular favorite and there seemed to be a lack of flash submits. How has the submit system changed this time around? Is submission success still tied to your opponent’s stamina level?
OK: While we’ve done quite a bit of tinkering with the submission system, the stick rolling method of submission execution and escape (known semiofficially as The Shine) will return. It’s something that’s steadily become a signature element of the game, and we’re pretty fond of it. What we did want to change was the button mashing/brute force escape we utilized last year. This enabled fighters with high strength to be just as good at getting out of submissions as fighters with high submission defense.
Now all fighters will utilize The Shine, but the parameters that govern the success of getting out of a submission have changed. For UFC Undisputed 2010, the submission calculations will use either a fighter’s submission defense or his current energy level expressed as a percentage–whichever is higher. For example, let’s say a fighter has a submission defense skill of 50. If the fighter has 100 stamina and full (100 percent) energy, the game will look at this energy level, and the fighter will have a great chance of getting out of a submission. If the fighter has 100 stamina and has used the majority of his energy reserves, the game will look at the fighter’s submission defense skill; in this case, shine hard! We feel this system is fairer to players and more representative of how an actual submission struggle would go down.
As for flash submissions, all we can say is stay tuned! We’ve overhauled much more of the submission system, and we can’t wait to show it off.
Fingers crossed. I gave up on UFC 2009 based on the shallow ass sub system. And the Shine. The motherfucking Shine.
On another UFC 2010 note, I found it amusing that Paulo Thiago basically begged to be in the video game after beating Mike Swick. Did he not realize that he was already in the thing? In fact, a lot of the press pictures floating around featured him beating the tar out of Swick and submitting him (as seen above). I suppose you can’t blame him for not knowing … he probably thought he’d have to sign some kinda release papers or something. Little did he realize you can’t get into the UFC anymore without signing your video game rights away on arrival.
The great ice disaster of UFC 109.
Jose Aldo’s scar
February 8, 2010 – 1:32 pm by fightlinker
If you were checking out pictures from the itsy bitsy WEC presser of Jose Aldo and Urijah Faber (okay, you probably weren’t, but just play along, okay?), you might have noticed that giant scar on Jose Aldo’s face. What’s that from, you might ask? (Remember: you’re playing along!) Attempted fratricide!!!!!!
WEC: Forgive my forwardness, but the scar on the left side of your face, how did you acquire it?
Aldo: I don’t mind explaining where I got the scar. I was just a baby and my mom wasn’t paying attention for a moment when my sisters rolled me onto the barbecue pit being used for a 1986 World Cup party.
Not quite as crazy as Tina Fey’s face scar story, but in line with the kind of shit that seems to happen in some countries during big sporting events.
slurp slurp slurp
February 8, 2010 – 12:18 pm by fightlinkerWe learned this past week that Chael Sonnen is pretty epic at trolling, but let’s not forget that he’s also a pretty good lickspittle too. Remember his ode to Dana White right after Demian Maia insta-subbed him at UFC 95? And now he’s trying to score more points with the brass by shitting on Showtime:
“At the end of the day if you want to get to the top of the card in the UFC, you’ve got to fight tough guys. If you want to be a fighter and get in the cage and be a big deal at your local strip club, go to Showtime. If you want to fight real guys, this is the place to do it,” said Sonnen.
I wonder if Chael’s trainer Matt Lindland is still considered a big deal at the Jiggles club in Oregon after losing his last Strikeforce fight.
Chuck Liddell looking distinguished
February 8, 2010 – 10:42 am by fightlinkerHere’s Chuck Liddell at an ugly shoe promo event sans mohawk but plus a surprising amount of white beard hair. He talks about hating Tito’s guts, title contention and a bunch of other stuff I couldn’t make out over the endless sound of wind blowing. Nothing much there, I just wanted to point out the old man patches. Perhaps a Just For Men sponsorship is in his future.
*UPDATE* Looks like Chuck’s ugly shoe sponsorship will see him in a commercial with Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino from Jersey Shore.
JackalFights: Ernesto Hoost vs John Kleijn
February 8, 2010 – 10:00 am by Reverend ClintPretty awesome ending!
Ahhh this sucks!
February 8, 2010 – 9:45 am by fightlinker
“Ahhh this sucks!” indeed. I’m a little iffy on whether Nate couldn’t stuff those takedowns because he was going for the KO or because he couldn’t stuff those takedowns, period. Another year or so of training wrestling with GSP and the gang should fix that hole (if you can call it a ‘hole’ when you get outwrestled by an NCAA Division 1 and Olympic alternate wrestler).
(From NateMarquardt.com via Fighters Only. GSP / Nate wrasslin’ vid via jackal “G” Funk)
