Athletic apparel and equipment manufacturer (and official UFC sponsor) RYU (Respect Your Universe) will be sponsoring fighter Josh Thomson for his Strikeforce Lightweight Title fight versus Gilbert Melendez at this Saturday's Strikeforce: Barnett vs Cormier event. And to celebrate this partnership, RYU would like to outfit a lucky MMA Manifesto reader in the RYU gear that Thomson's corner men will be wearing on Saturday night.
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Chan Sung Jung was the winning fighter in a Fight of the Year worthy scrap at Tuesday's UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier, so it is fitting that Mr. Zombie also walked away with the biggest paycheck. And congratulations to birthday boy Tom Lawlor, who was so broke heading into Tuesday that he was living off the donations of family and friends and hasn't deposited a check into his bank account in a year-and-a-half. It's a glamorous life, that of a fighter.
Here is UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier's fighter purse info, released by the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation.
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Congratulations to Hugo V for winning our UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier Pick 'Em Contest (via a tiebreaker). Next Pick 'Em action will be UFC 146 on May 26th. Thanks for playing!
Consensus Picks:
Dustin Poirier - 65%
Amir Sadollah - 82%
Donald Cerrone - 96%
Yves Jabouin - 65%
Igor Pokrajac - 53%
Consensus Overall Record in 2012: 38-29 (57%)
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The Rankings are just that - The MMA Manifesto's rankings of the best fighters in mixed martial arts today. Check back every Monday and Friday for our rankings of a different weight class. Next up: The Middleweights.
Voting Panel: Jeff Fox - The MMA Manifesto, speeds - Sports Two MMA Forum, Dave Hunter - 2010 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Dave Kelsey - 2011 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Barry Oh - Fedor apologist and rock star, and MMA journalist (FIGHT!, UFC.com, Keyboard Kimura) E. Spencer Kyte.
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The Rankings are just that - The MMA Manifesto's rankings of the best fighters in mixed martial arts today. Check back every Monday and Friday for our rankings of a different weight class. Next up: The Light Heavyweights.
Voting Panel: Jeff Fox - The MMA Manifesto, speeds - Sports Two MMA Forum, Dave Hunter - 2010 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Dave Kelsey - 2011 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Sanford & Son - old school MMA head and Slavoj Žižek zealot, MMA journalist (FIGHT!, UFC.com, Keyboard Kimura) E. Spencer Kyte, and Barry Oh - Fedor apologist and rock star.
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Ever wonder what it would look like for three guys to fight each other at the same time in a mixed martial arts match? No? Well, we're going to show you anyways:
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Chael Sonnen better count his blessings. Why? Because he doesn't have to fight Anderson Silva in Brazil, after all. The farther away from psychos like this guy, the better for Mr. Sonnen.
(turn on the closed captions options to see what is being said in English - and beware - colourful language is in abundance)
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The Rankings are just that - The MMA Manifesto's rankings of the best fighters in mixed martial arts today. Check back every Monday and Friday for our rankings of a different weight class. Next up: The Heavyweights.
Voting Panel: Jeff Fox - The MMA Manifesto, speeds - Sports Two MMA Forum, Dave Hunter - 2010 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Dave Kelsey - 2011 MMA Manifesto Pick 'Em Contest Champion, Sanford & Son - old school MMA head and Slavoj Žižek zealot, Barry Oh - Fedor apologist and rock star, and MMA journalist (FIGHT!, UFC.com, Keyboard Kimura) E. Spencer Kyte.
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By all accounts last night's third instalment of the UFC on Fox was a smashing success. Dana White called it a "perfect night". Leading up to the event, the UFC's head honcho predicted that sharing the evening with the Floyd Mayweather-Miguel Cotto boxing match would lead to more people staying home, and subsequently draw more fight fans to the Fox broadcast of the UFC fights. In the end, the numbers don't lie - Dana White does. The overnight numbers for last night's broadcast are the lowest for the organization on Fox, with only an average of 2.25 million viewers turning in to UFC on Fox: Diaz vs Miller. This rating is less than half that the UFC got for its first two Fox broadcasts - the UFC's first foray on Fox (Junior dos Santos vs Cain Velasquez) drew 5.7 million sets of eyeballs; the second incarnation (Rashad Evans vs Phil Davis) got 4.7 million viewers.
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