Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The way I feel, my mission was completed,”

Silva was clearly a far better fighter than Maia, whose only hope of winning was to somehow get the fight to the ground and catch Silva in a submission hold. Silva was faster and could nearly land his punches at will. to one person you may be the world
He had a far more varied attack and broke Maia’s nose with a flying knee in the second.
The highlights for Silva, though, lessened as the fight wore on and he spent more time mocking Maia and making a jackass of himself. who is falling in love with my smile
His actions will have deep repercussions. For one, the fight was aired live in the U.S. at 1 p.m. ET, but was still going to be replayed in its normal pay-per-view time slot beginning at 10 p.m. ET.Fans who may have purchased the fight in its normal slot likely didn’t buy it after catching word of Silva’s antics.Even more, Silva did the same thing at UFC 90 and then had a lackluster performance at UFC 97. Stray birds of summer come to my window
White glared at Silva as Silva answered questions from the media. Clearly, Silva’s words did not soothe his boss’ feelings. vagrant of the world
“I’m more unhappy than I was when I walked in the door,” White said after hearing Silva’s lame answers at the news conference. “That’s why I ended the news conference. I couldn’t stand to listen to that [expletive] any more.”
Silva cost himself a big chunk of his reputation as well as a lot of money. He lost the respect of the ownership of the UFC, who were embarrassed in front of their new partners, the investment group from Abu Dhabi who bought a reported 10 percent of the company.
He may have lost his status as the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
He lost his opportunity to drop to welterweight as he said he wanted to do before the fight and challenge 170-pound champion Georges St.
“He doesn’t deserve to fight GSP,” White fairly spat.Early in the news conference, White said Silva might become the first champion to fight on the preliminary card.Wherever he fights, Silva had better pray that White stacks the card with a lot of fights people want to see.
Because if Anderson Silva is the main attraction, don’t be shocked if the fans stay away in droves.
UFC terminates Lucio Linhares’ contract following back-to-back losses
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has terminated the contract of middleweight fighter and M-1 Challenge veteran Lucio Linhares.
today learned of the termination from a source close to the fighter.
Linhares, who entered the UFC with a five-fight win streak that included notable wins over Karl Amoussou and Sean Salmon, went 0-2 in the UFC.The Brazilian fighter made his promotional debut at UFC 107 in December and suffered a submission loss (via heel hook) to Rousimar Palhares. In his following fight, which came this past week at UFC Fight Night 21, a ringside physician cut short his night and awarded opponent Yushin Okami a second-round TKO victory due to Linhares' cuts and possible facial injuries.
The UFC picked up Linhares after the demise of Affliction Entertainment, where he had been scheduled to fight Mikhail Zayats in August. After the company closed its live-events division, the bout was moved to an August "M-1 Global: Breakthrough" a few weeks later. Linhares scored a 60-second submission win and earned a UFC contract shortly after.
With his UFC release Linhares will now look for work elsewhere. His career mark stands at 13-6, and eight of his past nine wins have come via stoppage.(Pictured: Lucio Linhares)Check out more UFC News at MMAjunkie.com. This story originally appeared on MMAjunkie.com and is syndicated on Yahoo! Sports as part of a content-partnership deal between the two sites.
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