The popular conspiracy theory is that the UFC knew about this a few days ago, quickly decided they had to cancel but they didn't want a public spat with a sovereign nation. So they asked BJ Penn if he could play along by giving them an injury they can point to as the official reason (maybe use a really minor training injury that he was going to fight through).
100% speculation, but it makes sense, because its awfully convenient that BJ Penn was "injured" at about the same time they had to figure out a reason to pull the plug. [Reply]
USADA has decided to just give Nate Diaz a public warning for vaping CBD after his fight. Diaz mistakenly thought the in-competition period ended after his post-fight test (it ends 6 hours after the fight), so he technically violated the drug policy but since his post-fight test came back clean showing he wasn't fighting while altered, they decided not to do anything more. [Reply]
I hadn't seriously looked at this weekend's full card until now. For some reason I assumed it was going to be weak since the UFC had to give Bisping his Euro card right before UFC 205, but now that I'm looking at it, this PPV is actually really sweet. Even if you dismiss the main event as Bisping's vanity victory lap (but Hendo can still knock him out so who knows), the rest of the card is really good. Its not UFC 205 (please stay healthy everyone), and if you are a super casual 2-3 times a year fan this card is maybe not interesting, but if you are a fight fan, then compared to the average PPV, the card this weekend is probably worth paying for.
Schedule (all times central):
Friday
EFN 53 (Day 1) (Fightpass) 11 AM - A 2 day event? Whatever, this is eurorussian fighting, its probably not going to be good, watch only if you have nothing better to do.
Also, WSOF and LFC both have fights, I don't have their channels on my cable, so my caring stopped there. If you do though, then its probably better than this EFN shit.
Saturday
EFN 53 (Day 2) (Fightpass) 11AM - See above, watch or don't watch. Might be amusing, probably not good.
UFC 204 (Fightpass/FS1/PPV) 5:30 pm, 7pm on FS1, PPV begins at 9pm
Sunday
There's a Shooto event in Japan, but its some kind of amateur competition and probably not streamed or televised, so lol. Nothing today, go watch football. The Chiefs are on a bye, so relax and watch other football teams for a change. [Reply]
The WSOF event is here in KC. I'm going and it should be good. Couple of hometown boys getting down. Jason High is under rated, David Branch is really good and Justin Gaethje should be in the UFC soon. [Reply]
Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
Ha...remember when Johnny Morton tried MMA?
That shit was funny as hell. Came out like the Tasmanian devil from Looney Tunes, then BOOM, goodnight Johnny Morton.
Haha I remember that. I watched that thinking 'man, Johnny looks jacked as fuck, he might kill this guy' then he proceeds to get ko'd in 15 seconds. [Reply]