UFC Fight Night on FS1
The show tonight scheduled for Fox Sports 1 started out as UFC 196 with current heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum against Cain Valezquez in a PPV. A rematch from a first fight that saw Cain handily beaten by Werdum with a guillotine choke in the 3rd round. They changed to Werdum against Stipe Miocic and then quickly scratched that out completely when Werdum also claimed an injury. After a few days the whole show was switched from a PPV to UFC Fight Night to air on Fox Sports 1.
Which brings us to the current and final main event of Stephen Thompson vs Johny Hendricks. Leading into this fight Hendricks fought current welterweight champ twice, beating him in the first and losing the second, both 5 round decisions. Hendricks then bested Matt Brown in a 3 round decision which was almost a year ago. Thompson is on a 5 fight win streak since losing a decision to Matt Brown. He last fought last July against Jake Ellenburger knocking him out with a spinning hook kick! This should be a good one.
Also, on the card is Roy Nelson vs Jared Rosholt and Ovince Saint Preux vs Rafael Cavalcante. This is also the show that has Mickey Gall, who is the potentional opponent for CM Punk for this June or July. If Gall beats Mike Jackson he will most likely face CM Punk. This is a near PPV level event and features a lot more talent than most Fox Sports 1 UFC Fight Nights. It is definitely worth a look.
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UFC TONIGHT ON FS 1 FROM THE MGM GARDEN ARENA IN LAS VEGAS
Fight Pass at 7 p.m. Eastern
Arten Lobov vs. Alex White
Mike Jackson vs. Mickey Gall – winner to face C.M. Punk in June
FS 1 at 8 p.m.
Noad Lahat vs. Diego Rivas
Ray Borg vs. Justin Scoggins
Damian Grabowski vs. Derrick Lewis
K.J. Noons vs. Josh Burkman
Mike Pyle vs. Sean Spencer
Misha Cirkunov vs. Alex Nicholson
Joseph Benavidez vs. Zach Makovsky
Rafael Feijao Cavalcante vs. Ovince Saint Preux
Jared Rosholt vs. Roy Nelson
Johny Hendricks vs. Stephen Thompson
WWE has only one show on Sunday, from Abbotsford, BC (Roman Reigns vs. Rusev).
Raw will be Monday in Seattle. Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman are scheduled on the show.
Smackdown and Main Event will be taped on Tuesday in Portland, OR. Chris Jericho vs. A.J. Styles is on the show.
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SATURDAY UPDATE
In case you missed it, former UFC star and the once-retired Chris Leben (22-11) has signed with Bellator, joining fellow TUF 1 cast member Josh Koscheck. No fight or weight class was announced, however. Leben holds the UFC record for most fights in the middleweight division (22) and retired after being KO’d by Uriah Hall in 2013. Fights with Koscheck or even Stephan Bonnar are possibilities. While Leben is now under contract, Bellator reportedly has no interest in free agent and highly ranked UFC bantamweight Aljamain Sterling.
WWE/Pro Wrestling
Mattel, WWE’s action figure licensee, is reportedly in merger talks with Hasbro, who held the license in the first half of the ‘90s. This would be a pretty huge development in the toy world.
AJ Styles confirmed on Chris Jericho’s podcast what was pretty obvious from watching Smackdown, that being that the calf killer will be renamed the calf crusher in WWE, which actually would be the legitimate name for the hold. He also said Vince McMahon’s idea for his character is The Pitbull, a smaller guy who has to fight for everything he gets.
Tough Enough alumnus Patrick Clark made his NXT debut last night in Lakeland.
UFC/MMA
CM Punk talks to the UFC website about Mickey Gall.
In another ICYMI, UFC light heavyweight Alex Nicholson proposed to his girlfriend before making weight Friday. (She said yes). The downside: he has to fight against a top 205 prospect in Misha Cirkunov Saturday on FS1.
The UFC has extended their relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.
At Legacy FC 51 Friday in Hinckley, MN, Manny Vasquez submitted Ricardo Ramos to win their 135-pound title while Brock Larson KO’d Travis Coyle in the first round in the 42-year-old Larson’s final pro fight. Also of note, Cody East scored a 1st round KO over Kevin Asplund. East is now 12-1 as a Heavyweight and someone to keep an eye on.
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell has offered to train Ronda Rousey “anytime, anywhere”
ONE Championship returns to Jakarta, Indonesia two weeks from today with a main event of Luis Santos vs. Rafael Silva
MISC
It looks like ROH has a new lighting grid that they will start using at tonight’s TV taping at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, which is probably the biggest and nicest arena they’ve shot at to date.
A happy go lucky Jim Cornette is back for the latest episode of 6:05 Superpodcast with David Bixenspan and Brian Last talking about a ton of different old-school topics including Randy Savage’s early years, knowing Eddie Gilbert from their teens and then being the last promoter to book him in the continental United States, Stan Lane’s wig, bad audition videos, and much more. As a preview, you can check out Jim doing commentary on one memorably bad audition video on YouTube.
At Fightland, Jack Slack goes over some of pro wrestling’s most legitimate techniques.
Raymond Rougeau talks about his dealings with the Ultimate Warrior in this video.
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