The Heyman Hustle is reporting that former UFC fighter Kimbo Slice will fight his next match in a boxing ring. The Hustle notes, “The 36 year old charismatic brawler was interviewed by ESPN…
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Kimbo Slice’s Next Fight To Be Held In a Boxing Ring
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On this week’s live edition of The MMA Hour, we will first be joined in studio by Daniel Gracie. The former PRIDE FC and IFL fighter will talk about his MMA comeback and what he has been up to since he last competed in 2006.
We will then be joined by Nate Marquardt, who faces Rousimar Palhares at UFN 22 on Sept. 15.
Matt Mitrione, who is scheduled to face Joey Beltran, will also stop by to talk about that fight and his progression as an MMA fighter.
Kimbo Slice will also stop by to talk about his decision to enter the world of boxing and his MMA future.
Finally, we will recap UFC 118 and, of course, take your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.
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The MMA Hour Live Featuring Nate Marquardt, Kimbo Slice, Matt Mitrione
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BOSTON — Randy Couture met with the press following his dominant win over James Toney Saturday night at UFC 118.
Couture talked about why the fight played out exactly like he thought, why he has no interest in boxing Toney and whether he believes the MMA vs. boxing debate is over.
Check out the highlight video of the press conference below.
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UFC 118 Video: Toney Fight Played Out Exactly How Couture Thought
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The UFC is in Massachusetts for the first time Saturday night, bringing to town a great battle for the lightweight title between Frankie Edgar and B.J. Penn, and one of the strangest fights the promotion has ever booked with Hall of Famer Randy Couture facing past-his-prime boxing champion James Toney. We’ve got predictions below.
What: UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn 2
When: The non-televised undercard starts at 7 PM ET Saturday, the Spike TV card starts at 9 and the pay-per-view broadcast starts at 10.
Where: TD Garden, Boston
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UFC 118 Predictions
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HOUSTON — MMA Fighting spoke to KJ Noons following his victory over Jorge Gurgel Saturday night at Strikeforce: Houston.
The former EliteXC lightweight champion talked about whether he meant to hit Gurgel after the bell at the conclusion of the first round, his apparent illegal knee at the end of the fight, his take on the way the fight played out and whether his next fight will take place in an MMA cage or boxing ring.
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KJ Noons Defends Controversial Actions in Win Over Jorge Gurgel
Back in 2007, around the time that the UFC started doing gangbusters business in the competitive pay-per-view world, the big names in the boxing universe started hearing questions about the upstart promotion. Aside from the financial threat it offered as a combat sports alternative, the queries usually centered on how a fighter in one world would do in the other’s realm.
As a general rule, boxers were highly dismissive of their counterparts in MMA. Back then, Marvin Hagler referred to it as “street fighting,” Bernard Hopkins dismissed it, saying, “I don’t want to watch two grown men wrestling with panties on,” and Floyd Mayweather offered, “Just imagine what happens if a heavyweight contender lays hands on an MMA fighter. We both know what the aftermath will look like.”
Well, times have changed, and apparently so has the boxing world’s view on MMA, because James Toney‘s promoter, Dan Goossen, is already angling for a rematch after UFC 118. A boxing rematch.
Acknowledging that Toney is at a “severe disadvantage” in his upcoming fight with Randy Couture, Goossen released a statement to the media offering Couture the same payday he will receive at UFC 118 to face Toney in a 12-round boxing match.
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Boxing World’s Confidence in James Toney Fading as UFC Debut Nears
Just two weeks away from his UFC debut, James Toney continues to send mixed signals about his mixed martial arts training and respect for the sport as he prepares to fight MMA legend Randy Couture.
Toney, who took part in a Thursday conference call to hype the UFC 118 co-main event, used some of his Q&A time to discount Couture’s chances and skills, dismiss various parts of the MMA game and simply recite his boxing resume to explain why he’d win.
The multi-time, multi-divisional boxing champion offered little in the way of specifics in regards to the work he’s been putting in for his first foray into his new sport, instead offering on multiple occasions that he was “born to win” and that “James don’t lose.”
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James Toney Claims He’s Ready for Randy Couture, But Offers Few Specifics
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OAKLAND – On a clear Saturday afternoon in August Randy Couture slipped on an Oakland A’s jersey, a UFC baseball cap, and a comfortable pair of jeans and headed out to the ballpark to partake in that most easily embarrassing of all public sports outings: the ceremonial first pitch.
Not that Couture was worried. He’d done this only a few weeks before in Chicago, and after fighting in a cage for most of his professional life, playing an abbreviated game of catch in front of a crowd that’s still mostly trickling into the stadium is a relatively low-stress activity.
It was just another appearance. Another thing he had to do to satisfy the PR gods.
But with his big fight against boxing legend James Toney at UFC 118 just a few weeks away, and with the summer action movie “The Expendables” to promote along with these occasional UFC-related obligations, it begs the question: when does Couture even find time to hit the gym these days? Is it possible he’s not completely convinced that Toney is a challenge worth getting too worked up over?
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Randy Couture Isn’t Buying James Toney’s Tales of Gym Submissions
Sakura Nomura took out promotional poster girl Saori Ishioka in a one-sided grappling clinic to advance in the Jewels Lightweight GP at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo on Saturday.
Also moving to the second round of the tournament, Korean kickboxing starlet Seo Hee Ham and newcomer Ayuka Hamazaki turned in dominating performances taking out Mai Ichii and Han Sol Lee respectively, and Mika Nagano avenged her shock loss to Celine Haga with a first-round armbar after a shaky start.
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Nomura, Ham, Nagano, Hamazaki Advance in Jewels Lightweight GP
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As James Toney talks up his UFC 118 fight with Randy Couture, he makes so many outlandish, over-the-top comments that you’re never sure how much of it he actually believes and can back up in the Octagon, how much is a delusional overestimation of his own boxing skill and underestimation of Couture’s MMA skill, and how much is pure hype that he doesn’t believe for a minute.
But whatever the case, it’s always entertaining.
In a live chat with MMAFighting.com, Toney belittled the punching prowess of MMA fighters in general and Couture’s striking in particular, and he said that while he admires Couture for having the, um, guts to fight him, he doesn’t think anyone in MMA can touch him standing up.
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James Toney: I’ll Hit Randy Couture So Hard His Grandparents Will Feel It
