
Just a few quick news and notes items from the past weekend…
- MMA-Europe.net is reporting that the “Vale Tudo News” notes former PrideFC star Ricardo Arona has signed a new four fight deal with M-1 and will make his M-1 debut in December. While no official opponent was named, it is assumed he will be fighting Fedor Emalianenko
- According to George Garcia, co-host of TAGG Radio, Frank Trigg is currently in talks about joining the WEC. The WEC is in need of a challenger to current WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho and Trigg seems like a big enough name and worthy enough opponent.
- The UFC 78 fight card scheduled for November in New Jersey continues to be shaken up. Hector Lombard was unable to obtain a working visa to enter the USA from Cuba. His scheduled opponent, Karo Parisyan will now face Ryo Chonan instead. Chonan’s original opponent Thiago Alves will now face Chris Lytle instead.
- Look for a big announcement from MMA HQ in the next few days. The MMA HQ Top Ten Rankings site is nearing completion and I will be opening the site up to some of the readers here to help me do some initial testing.




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some big news from MMAHQ maybe the shirts are in?
I like Arona and hope he does well if he faces Fedor. Both have been out of action of quite a while so it’s a fair matchup. It will be good to see these guys back fighting again. Is M-1 going to be available on PPV or what tv outlet will they be using? Karo vs Chonan seems like it will be entertaining. I think Karo will win by decision because it will be Chonan’s first octagon debut and he may still be getting used to the cage and rules. The flying scissor kick takedown to heel hook he pulled off on Anderson Silva was sweet. Hope he does well he’s a pretty entertaining fighter. Trigg vs Filho could be good also. I think if it happens Filho will win by submission but you never know Trigg can catch him on the feet ans get the TKO.
YEA DOC… WHATS GOING ON W U DUDE LOL… IT TAKES U FOREVER TO GET STUFF DONE..??
hey, I take full responsibility for the shirt issue. I have the design, just have never gotten around to getting them printed.
The Top Ten site took a while to develop. its not an easy thing to do and I wanted to make sure it will work well when there are thousands of users signed up.
I think that at least by Wednesday or Thursday I’ll be able to let you guys who are regulars here onto the site and start getting some rankings in. You can see if you find any issues or problems with the site, and if everything is good we’ll open it to the public.
Its working well and pretty interesting. I’ve already just taken four of five websites rankings and entered them and its interesting to see the average rankings that come back. I think we really are going to see some good legitimate rankings. The more people who sign up and vote, the better and truer the rankings will be.
I know I’ve been promising this site for a while, so thanks for holding in there guys. hopefully you wont be disappointed.
some nice news here, Great to see Arona back in action. Im a big Arona fan, mostly for his grappling skills, though i wouldnt put him on the same level as big Nog. Facing off against Fedor.. err, good luck with that one Ricardo, i hope he manages to pull off the upset, but Fedor is a huge favorite here.
Trigg.. yawn..
Im glad that guy couldnt get his visa, much more interesting fight against Chonan the barbarian hehe.. This should be an awesome fight! will definately help make 78 worth watching.. Alves vs Lytle should be interesting too, makes me wonder how hard Chris has been training with his recent misfortune in the cage, and he was clearly a last minute entry to the card. Its great for Alves tho!
Buddy of mine that made http://www.letsbeef.com and rocbattle.com is now working for google, hes a close friend and ive seen whats involved in coding a site from scratch with no templates and junk to work with. Take your time Doc, ill be happy to help test and work out the bugs for the rankings site. Great idea by the way.
DOC U KNOW IM PRETTY GOOD AT PICKING UP UR ERRORS..
arona vs fedor doesnt really intrest me ,it does but anything with fedor would ,now i think the dream match of the century is FEDOR VS COUTURE will it ever happen?
ah skeet skeet
@Richard
Personally bro I think Couture is gonna pull some shite and fight Fedor whether under contract or not… and Dana is gonna make a scene about it, he is gonna threaten, then he is gonna sue for a large sum and make an example of Couture, but in the end I do believe that Couture is gonna fight Fedor, probably in an M-1 fight in Russia, but Couture is out to prove something there and he has his aim dead on Fedor for sure…
kansas
i was kinda thinking that way i was actually thinking that if i wanted to fight a guy bad enough do it underground style
I am sure Richard that Couture will at least TRY to make it happen now… he would in my mind just take his earnings and use them to pay for the contractual default suit that I am sure Dana would throw at him.. but hey I guess it’d be worth it in the end.. you know it takes two to make it happen, I wonder if Fedor even gives a crap about fighting Randy at this point.. seems all one sided to me…
Even though I’ve never been a huge Randy Couture fan to begin with, if we see a Randy vs. Fedor fight pop up on PPV in Russian, he will without doubt be the absolute man!!! Dana would be furious and I think Randy’s popularity especially if he wins, will skyrocket…I mean this would be the real Rocky vs. Drago. I would love to hear Fedor’s side on all this…hey Doc…is there a way you can search any recent comments from Fedor the last few days about this whole situation?
fedor has to be at least a little pumped to fight couture take away the age issue and theres nothing wrong wright now with randy couture except his broken arm
I THINK THAT RANDY WILL SIGN A ONE FIGHT CONTRACT W M-1
I got a news tip. For the first time ever, Jason Gatties will not order a UFC Pay Per View.
It came down to this…
UFC 77 PPV- Don’t care much for the card
vs
2007 Rugby World Cup Finals between England & South Africa (should be an awesome match)
Since I’m having to choose, I’m going to spend my PPV dollars on the Rugby World Cup finals rather than the UFC.
I’m one of the few looking forward to UFC 78. I’m a Bisping supporter.
UMMM YEA… UFC 77 TOTALLY BLOWS…
what are u guys talking about gatties ur gonna sit there and say this card u wont buy but u bought the belfast ireland card?
what are u guys talking about, gatties ur gonna sit there and say this card u wont buy but u bought the belfast ireland card?
sorry for saying that twice
ya Richard, i agree, this card is much better than 78, but everyone has their own opinion…
So where is Kansas. I know he wants to say who cares about this crap…..LOL
I thought 77 is a pretty good card, not as bad as 78.
I vowed to never again buy a card with Rich Franklin or Tim Sylvia on it ever again, but we all know damn well that once Sat. night comes around…were all going to order this thing. Now it’s mainly to see Franklin and Sylvia get their asses kicked. Go Vera!!!
Um…yeah thats pretty much what I’m saying.
[quote comment="10240"]So where is Kansas. I know he wants to say who cares about this crap…..LOL
I thought 77 is a pretty good card, not as bad as 78.[/quote]
BISPING BLOWS… not getting the PPV with BISPING… qwerty faggottt
I would rather watch Tim “the ogre” Sylvia than watch Michael “the beotch who lost to Hamil” Bisping…
That guy is more arrogant than a faggoooott on Broadway …. I cannot stand him now… used to be a fan… not now, not after the way he acted after he “won” the fight and his attitude, he will have to redeem himself with Rashad, but my thoughts are he will get his arse handed to him and I cannot wait to see it happen… a second loss, only this one will be official.. I will indeed be watching UFC 77 though…. UFC 78 blows too much, I might watch it at a local restaurant for free though, if I am bored enough…
@RJ,
Something funny I came across tonight. Go to Google Image search and do a search for “Matt Lindland profile”
Your picture is the second image that comes up. Nice…
And I’m saying Kansas I would rather watch a sport that only a few Americans watch on a regular basis (rugby) and PAY $25 to watch it rather than pay $40 to see Rich lose and Tim put me to sleep again.
I shouldn’t get upset at you, most of your comments are borderline retarded anyways.
[...] he mentions that Filho’s next fight will be against Frank Trigg on December 12 in Las Vegas. I did mention this fight possibility last week, and although we still haven’t received confirmation from the WEC, it appears the fight might [...]
[quote comment="10248"]@RJ,
Something funny I came across tonight. Go to Google Image search and do a search for “Matt Lindland profile”
Your picture is the second image that comes up. Nice…[/quote]
lol that weird a few months back i did the same thing with Koscheck and it was the same deal my pic showed up. just weird lol.