Source: MMAJunkie
With his career winding down, Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Stephan Bonnar (14-7 MMA, 8-6 UFC) has been begging for a big fight. Now he’s got it.
USA TODAY Sports has confirmed with company officials that UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (32-4, 15-0) is moving up to 205 pounds to meet Bonnar in the main event of UFC 153 event, which takes place Oct. 13 at Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC Arena.
Additionally, Brazilian slugger Glover Teixeira (18-2, 1-0) meets fellow countryman Fabio Maldonado (18-5, 1-2) in the evening’s co-main event. And in a bout first reported by Brazilian outlet Tatame, former interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (33-7-1, 4-3) faces Dave Herman (21-4, 1-2).
The new additions to the card were necessitated when original headliner, featherweight champ Jose Aldo, and original co-main-event fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on Tuesday were forced to withdraw with injuries. Aldo’s opponent, former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, now will be rescheduled for a later date, while Teixeira, who was expected to face Jackson, now draws Maldonado.
“UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar” now features a six-fight main card that airs on pay-per-view. Preliminary-card bouts are expected to air on FX and stream on Facebook.
“We’re back on track,” UFC President Dana White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “Anderson Silva wasn’t scheduled to fight at all. I called him today, and he’s shooting a commercial in Brazil. Anderson Silva steps up, and Stephan Bonnar wants to fight him. The Teixeira vs. Maldonado fight comes together, and then Nogueira was standing right there with Anderson shooting the commercial with him, and he said he wanted to fight, too.
“This is old-school UFC. A card is in jeopardy, but guys that are world champions and superstars stepped up and jumped in and saved the card. This is why the fans love this sport and why we went on a 12-year run without canceling an event.”
That streak recently ended, of course, when UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones declined a late-notice fight with two-time middleweight title challenger Chael Sonnen at UFC 151, and the promotion ultimately elected to scrap the entire event.
Bonnar’s place in UFC history is secure as one-half of an epic 2005 fight with Forrest Griffin in the live finale of the first season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” That bout is widely considered the starting point for the sport’s current popularity growth. Bonnar later tangled with future champions Rashad Evans and Jones, among others, during a disappointing 2-5 stretch. However, he’s since put together a three-fight win streak and has openly lobbied for fights with some of the sport’s biggest names.
He certainly found that in Silva, who is widely considered the top pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. The Brazilian phenom is undefeated since 2006 and has won an incredible 15 straight fights in the UFC. The 185-pound kingpin has fought twice before in the UFC’s light heavyweight division, earning first-round knockout wins of former 205-pound champ Griffin and James Irvin.
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You just copied and pasted from MMA Junkie and stuck a link in at the very end. Im pretty sure that is illegal. You should really state at the very start of the piece that it is directly from MMA Junkie/USA today and clearly show that it is not your own writing. If you just copy and paste from another website, why would I come here when I can just go there…..
I posted part of the MMAJunkie article and with a link so you can read the rest on their site, it’s common practice, loads of sites do it.
Loads of site transcribe a website. What you do is copy the bulk part of a story and throw in a shitty little link at the end….. I don’t think I have found any of your ‘news’ that is actually written by you/your staff, just copy and pasted! This isint journalism!
Most (all) sites when they do that, state clearly at the start and link throughout that the piece is from MMA Junkie, or wherever their source is) and also include their thoughts aswell.
What talent does it take to copy n paste???
“Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards”- well we know that is bullshit…… copy n paste= adherence to rigorous standards??
I have added a credit at the top, as well as the link at the bottom, to the recent articles from other sites
We are not claiming to have written the articles, that we didn’t write, it is clear to everyone, where the article is from, the source link is in a different colour to the rest of the article, and underlined.
The idea is to keep people updated with the world of MMA and help grow Irish MMA with fighter videos, photos, interviews etc
Not to be rude, but If you don’t like what we are doing then simply don’t come to the website
Well why can’t you write your own stories instead of copy and pasting?
And don’t worry I will not be coming here, cuz I have the MMA Junkie app on my phone. So why would I need to come to a website when I have to original source on my phone…. this is a question you as a website should be asking yourself, no? “Why would people come here than go there?”.
“Help grow Irish MMA”……really??? Well the only Irish shows you have on your calender is CC, CG, Clan Wars and BZ…. there are at least 4 other Irish shows happening in that time? Do you give them coverage? No…. so you are not helping Irish MMA grow.
And the video’s and interviews are (as far as I can see) from the same group of fighters in the one gym….
Stop piggie backing off MMA JUNKIE and SBG and start doing some real journalism and writing your own stories and cover more of Irish MMA to actually “help it grow”.
We have interviewed people outside of SBGi, like Ian Butlin, Bret Freeman, Ian Cleary, Rob Wynne, John Ferguson and others.
We are a pretty new website, and are looking to improve,
So thank you for your feedback, we will keep it in mind.