UFC 124 Results: Thiago Alves Dominates John Howard

by Michael David SmithThiago Alves had his most impressive performance in the Octagon in years on Saturday night, putting on a striking clinic in dominating the overmatched John Howard to win the first fight on the UFC 124 pay-per-view card.

Alves hadn't won a fight since October of 2008, when he beat Josh Koscheck at UFC 90, but he's back in a big way now, and he showed in beating Howard that he's one of the Top 5 welterweights in all of mixed martial arts. All three judges scored the fight 30-27 for Alves, and none of the rounds were close.

"I'm really, really happy," Alves said afterward. "I worked really, really hard to get here today."

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/11/ufc-124-results-thiago-alves-whips-john-howard/

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UFC 124 Results: Thiago Alves Dominates John Howard

by Michael David SmithThiago Alves had his most impressive performance in the Octagon in years on Saturday night, putting on a striking clinic in dominating the overmatched John Howard to win the first fight on the UFC 124 pay-per-view card.

Alves hadn't won a fight since October of 2008, when he beat Josh Koscheck at UFC 90, but he's back in a big way now, and he showed in beating Howard that he's one of the Top 5 welterweights in all of mixed martial arts. All three judges scored the fight 30-27 for Alves, and none of the rounds were close.

"I'm really, really happy," Alves said afterward. "I worked really, really hard to get here today."

 

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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/11/ufc-124-results-thiago-alves-whips-john-howard/

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Proposed Strikeforce heavyweight tournament is a waste of time?

Showtime did a damn good job of putting and then holding together its Super Six tournament for 168-pounders in boxing. Why can't the network and Scott Coker find the answers for a heavyweight tournament in MMA?

Kid Nate over at Bloody Elbow says a tournament with Alistair Overeem, Fedor Emelianenko, Fabricio Werdum, Josh Barnett, Andrei Arlovski, Antonio Silva, Sergei Kharitonov, and Brett Rogers would be "hot."

He leads us to FightOpinion where common sense reigns on this dream tourney:

Between (the news that Fedor won't fight in January) and the fact that Josh Barnett still isn't licensed to fight in California and Alistair Overeem has K-1 obligations and you're looking at a Heavyweight tournament consisting of guys like Brett Rogers and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. In other words, if Strikeforce tries to put together a Heavyweight tournament, it will fall apart before it even begins.

Zach Arnold says stop jerking around with unrealistic goals and simply make fights: 

At this point, all I want to see from Strikeforce is competency. Forget about booking a tournament. Forget about any elaborate plans for 2011. Produce the fights that people want to see and do so in a timely manner. This is a results-oriented business. The rematch between Fedor and Werdum, if there was going to be one, should have happened before the end of 2010. It didn't. The fact that Fedor's camp is even negotiating with Strikeforce and showing strength after the loss to Werdum is amazing. Nobody knows when Werdum or Overeem (or Barnett) is going to fight next. Who's left?

Coker's a smart guy, but are these bloggers correct? Should Strikeforce scrap the idea? If we put aside the UFC, can we actually say boxing is healthier now than MMA when it comes to matchmaking? Strikeforce has a really good collection of heavyweights yet most of them are fighting once a year. Where are the fights?

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Proposed-Strikeforce-heavyweight-tournament-is-a?urn=mma-299005

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UFC NEWS: Dana White rules out Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva as TUF 13 coaches

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

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Two more names that had been floated around as possible coaches for the upcoming thirteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter have been crossed off the list. ]

At a press conference in Brazil on Tuesday to announce the August 27, 2011 return to the country for the UFC, UFC President Dana White stated that Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva will not be opposing coaches on this upcoming season of the reality show.

Instead, White stated they should know by Friday who those coaches will be, so speculation will once again ramp up. The season begins filming in January, and will debut on Spike TV on March 30.

Penick's Analysis: Another talked about pairing between former UFC Heavyweight Champions Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir seemed to be shot down shortly after it came out when news broke that Mir will meet Brendan Schaub in March. So of the names that have been mentioned, Urijah Faber remains still available. If they're waiting until Friday, it's possible Faber could coach against the winner of the Bantamweight Championship bout between Dominick Cruz and Scott Jorgensen from Thursday's WEC 53 event. However, if Jorgensen pulls off the upset I'd doubt they would put him and Faber in coaching slots against one another. However, even in that case, they could take Miguel Torres off the February card and have him meet Faber in June. Of course, they could go an entirely different direction that hasn't been rumored at all yet, so hopefully we'll get some type of answer to that sometime soon.

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_7848.shtml

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