Whether or not Mike Thomas Brown retires following last night’s UFC 146. The former WEC Champion, who has had a hard time stringing together wins since coming back to the UFC, showed he can still be dangerous as he earned another victory, his 26th overall, taking out Daniel Pineda via unanimous decision.
Every season of the Ultimate Fighter offers up a mixture of talent. You got the young talent looking to make a big splash, the fighters that have worked their way up the MMA ladder and then you there are the ones who’ve had a taste of the limelight and are looking to get back. The latter is where Kansas City, Missouri’s James Krause falls into.
Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis is arguably more famous for his Jackie Chan, Matrix style kick to the head of Benson Henderson, than he is for winning the WEC belt from ‘Bendo’ at the final WEC event before the UFC fully integrated the organization. When Pettis made his UFC debut, talks of him being the number one guy, alongside Jim Miller, were the dominant discussions in regards to the UFC lightweight division.
Following in the footsteps of fellow UFC Octagon girls Rachelle Leah and Arianny Celeste, Brittney Palmer will grace the March cover of Playboy which hits newsstands this Friday, February 17th. The 24-year-old Las Vegas native and former WEC ring girl will also have an 8-page nude pictorial in the magazine, as well as on Playboy.com.
If the UFC isn’t careful fans might start to think Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber is a yearly occurrence that comes around every July. Following their Bantamweight title fight last July at UFC 132 the two will likely feel a bit of déjà vu when they step back into the Octagon on July 7th at UFC 148 for their third meeting. The rivals will square off in the same exact arena, one year and five days after Cruz evened the score with a unanimous decision victory.
Tomorrow night the Knoxville Civic Auditorium-Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee will play host to XFC 16: High Stakes. In the night’s main event lightweights Drew Fickett and Jamie Varner face off in a bout with “High Stakes” as each fighter has lost to prove.
The New Year is coming and this is the time where we often reflect on the events and happenings of the current year. I remember ringing in 2011, and thinking back to November of 2010, where I saw L.C. Davis lose a unanimous decision to Raphael Assuncao at WEC 52. The loss was L.C.’s second in a row, which resulted in his subsequent release from Zuffa, Inc., which had recently announced that World Extreme Cagefighting would merge with the UFC.
There were some who said the WEC Lightweights couldn’t hang with their counterparts in the UFC prior to the merger of of the two Zuffa organizations. Donald Cerrone looks to continue to erase that thought from people’s minds as he looks to make his 2011 perfect. Since coming up to the UFC this year at UFC 126, The Cowboy has remained unbeaten in his four fights inside The Octagon, and will look to keep that trend going as he takes on Nate Diaz at UFC 141.
