In case you missed it

NP fellas.

PProphet, who's that in your avatar????

I'ma answer that joint for you, fam' :lol:

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DaCosta is fluent in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. Yaya attended Northfield Mount Hermon, a private boarding school in western Massachusetts. DaCosta graduated from Brown University where she studied International Relations and Africana Studies. She is 5'8, 118lbs and her measurements are 32-23-35."

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Props to MAKK' and http://www.mmajunkie.com for this K.J. Noons/Elite XC news piece -

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_y...t_criticizes_EliteXC&prov=mmajunkie&type=lgns

K.J. Noons issues statement, criticizes EliteXC and company executives

MMAjunkie.com Staff, MMAjunkie.com Aug 29, 2:42 pm EDT


EliteXC lightweight champion K.J. Noons, who’s currently embroiled in a public spat with EliteXC officials after his management team refused to return phone calls requesting an Oct. 4 rematch Nick Diaz, has issued a formal statement on the matter.

Noons emailed the statement to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), and we today confirmed its authenticity with Noons himself.

Noons alleges EliteXC officials of a variety of misdeeds, including poorly publicizing his career, breach of his confidentially agreement, poor pay, threats of a lawsuit, and instigating a now-infamous in-ring scuffle between Noons’ and Diaz’s camps during a June event in Hawaii.

In the statement, Noons claims the problem isn’t with Diaz and, instead, stems from two years of the sub-par treatment from the organization, specifically ProElite CEO Chuck Champion and Vice President Jared Shaw.

Noons also states that he’s now going to focus on his boxing career since it has the potential to be more lucrative than MMA. However, he predicts the fight with Diaz will happen but “probably not” on Oct. 4, when the organization returns to CBS airwaves for its third installment of the “Saturday Night Fights” series.

Noons’ full statement can be found below (unedited), and for more on the story (including Noons’ manager Mark Dion’s claims and Shaw’s comments on the matter), check out the K.J. Noons page here at MMAjunkie.com.



K.J. NOONS STATEMENT—AUG. 28 2008

It is not about being scared to fight Diaz, who I previously defeated, it is about the fight I am currently in with Elite XC regarding my career.

I would first like to address all the false allegations and insults from Jared Shaw, aka $kala, VP of Elite XC. You will see why I am so disgusted of how Elite XC treated me and how it applies to this proposed fight and my career.

$kala says:

Honor my contract. Elite XC wants to talk about honoring the contract. How about when Elite XC honored the contract and my pay to fight Edson Berto went down after I lost my first fight. That was not part of my contract. Or how about the contract Gary Shaw breached by not promoting my boxing career? Gary Shaw only gave me one out of four of the agreed upon fights. I have not boxed for over a year. When I signed with Elite XC, I was promised they would promote both my boxing and MMA careers. I could have signed with another MMA only company, but I wanted to box too.

Elite XC does me a favor after I lose, by putting me on the first ShoXC against Edson Berto? Berto’s father is good friends with Jared’s father, Gary Shaw who wants Berto’s brother on a boxing contract. Berto was the next guy Elite XC wanted to build. But I win that fight and now I am 1-1. Elite XC gives me an opportunity to fight Diaz. Elite XC puts me against Diaz because Elite XC’s roster was so light and there was nobody else to fight him.

Elite XC creates a new weight class for Diaz because he beat Gomi. Giving Diaz a belt and creating a weight division (160) he can make, will make your belt legit. Sorry to ruin Elite XC’s plans and beat him.

Elite XC never promoted or took care of me as their champion.

Examples:

In the Elite XC’s DVD where Diaz and I fought there are two (2) baseball cards of Diaz and Kimbo. Hello! I won the fight and Elite XC’s promoting Diaz after I beat him? Or how about the day Elite XC flew Diaz in to do a signing on the DVD where he lost. Wow, that must have been uncomfortable Nick? Signing a DVD, and it is a fight that you lost. Why wasn’t I flown in for the signing?

Elite XC has never promoted me on either of their websites, EliteXC or Pro-Elite.

Elite XC offered me a fight on the first CBS show, but only if I signed a new long-term contract. Instead of promoting their best fighters on CBS, you have to be on a long term contract for them to promote you. That was not our deal.

Consider when Elite XC gives a couple thousand tickets away at their CBS show in Stockton. Elite XC gives me a hard time about comping me one extra ticket for my cousin that helped me train for my fight. I only get four tickets per show. I am the main event in Honolulu, my home town! I did not ask for any tickets for my family and friends and they gave me a hard time about one extra ticket!

Or how about when Elite XC brought Diaz into the ring after my last victory in Hawaii to disrespect me and my family.

Chuck Champion (President Elite XC) threatens me, my family and my manager with lawsuits and how he’s going to sue me. HAHA. Pretty hard to sue a guy who does not make jack with your company. I’m glad $kala disclosed how much I make, which breached the confidentiality clause of the contract. I will break down the real numbers for you. I am the defending world champ, I have been the main event for Elite XC three out of four times on Showtime. In almost two years I have made approximately $83,000?

After paying my trainers and managers fee, I have $50,000 thousand. After taxes, probably 30 grand. Divide that by two years for $15,000 thousand a year. Divide by 52 weeks that amounts to approximately $300 a week. I do not know anybody that can survive on that amount of money. My buddies make more money than that in a couple days being a bus boy or bar back. And yes you can argue I should fight more. Elite XC doesn’t give me fights or promote me, they ice me. Gary Shaw Productions only gave me one of the agreed upon four fights per the boxing contract.

And I do not want to ramble on about all the little small stuff that I can keep going on about. But the straw that broke the camel’s back is they want me to fight Diaz for the second time. Diaz is not the number one contender and they are paying Diaz three times more money than me. Diaz complained after the Stockton fight, he was not paid enough. How do you think that made me feel? Yes you can argue that Diaz gets more for the draw, therefore I do not deserve as much compensation. If that is the case, it is a result of Elite XC terrible job promoting me. Instead of promoting me as their champ and upcoming athlete, Elite XC has resented me for ruining their plans to make Diaz their champ. That is just total disrespect. So it comes down to money and what is fair. I am tired of being bent over by Elite XC with no Vaseline.

I am right when I say Diaz is not the number one contender. Elite XC is trying to force this fight for their ratings. Eddie Alaverez is the number one contender and anybody with half a brain knows that a fight with Eddie is a way harder fight for me than Diaz. I will fight Diaz, but Elite has to be fair. I’m not ducking Diaz, why the hell would I be scared of someone I already beat.

With that being said, I am going to focus on my boxing career. I can make more money doing 6 and 8 rounders every other month and make more than I did being the Elite XC defending world champ. At least I will be able to sleep at night and be able to look myself in the mirror everyday. That right there is worth more than $300 bucks a week or fighting a guy I cannot stand for less money than him the second time around.

Will the Diaz fight happen, yes. Will the fight happen on Elite XC on October 4, 2008, probably not. The way things are being run by Chuck Champion, a guy whose history is newspapers, not fighting, and $kala, someone who talks a lot of game, but has never put on a pair of gloves, never stepped in a ring or cage. $kala has had everything handed to him with a silver spoon from daddy. Does anyone else but me think $kala just wants to be famous and stir up all this dirty laundry? I guess any publicity is good publicity. When I think about it, it has been good promotion for their October card since nobody is talking about it until you bring up the Noons vs. Diaz match up.

Before I end, I would like to thank my team, my trainers and workout partners for helping me prepare for my fights hours every day. I would like to also thank my manager Mark Dion for standing behind my decision making. I want to be a fighter who is not doing whatever I am being told like some kind of mindless puppet.

Thanks for hearing my side.

K.J. NOONS

Props to Noons for speaking up. He's a solid fighter and a legit champ. I'm glad alot of fighters are speaking up (across the organizations) as to unfair treatment and bullshit tactics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_James_Noons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqsMYo1IWQ


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RAMPAGE JACKSON goes into detail about his arrest earlier this summer

http://mmamania.com/2008/08/29/quin...o-on-arrest-and-everything-that-led-up-to-it/
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http://mmamania.com/
http://cbs2.com/

Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson revealing video on arrest and everything that led up to it - "Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson goes into tremendous detail in this CBS2.com interview regarding his actions and frame of mind in the days and hours leading up to his recent arrest. It’s lengthy, but very, very interesting. And far out. It’s a must watch."


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UFC 88

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Atlanta
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Thank you for the linkage, bro. The spot looks dope.

What did you think of UFC 88?

I was at work and downloaded the HD-quality version with the links @

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^ Dope, dope. Feelin' it. I've watched the 2 co-main events. Haven't seen the rest. My brother went to the pub with some of his homies and really enjoyed the PPV. He watched the Liddell-Evans bout with me tonight.
 
thanks as always to Johniz and H-Funk. The best one, two punch since John Stockton and Karl Malone.

Coolie - got much respect for you, bro. You always contribute in a positive way on the board. Good feedback for your peers. Appreciate that, brother. Pretty good card on the whole this past Saturday, huh?

My brother and I initially doubted how good a PPV event it would be. Glad it was SOLID :yes:
 
R.I.P. Ex-UFC champion, Evan Tanner

One of the coolest cats in the game. A working man's fighter. No bullshit. R.I.P. brother.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=search.results&ss=Evan+Tanner
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ys-mmaweektanner090808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mma/
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http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2008/6/17/553401/tuf-7-finale-preview-evan
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Really sorry to hear that. Dude always fought with a lot of heart.

R.I.P. and best thoughts to all of his loved ones.

This is sad. RIP to Tanner and his family.

Here is an article on his death

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=343c3fa3-a10b-4d60-86c0-c2315a6b0453

Yeah, Evan had a lot of demons dealing with alcoholism and depression.

He was the only White dude that looked cool with cornrows.

rest in peace

R.I.P

only MMA fighter to train himself how to fight....he watched tons of fights and bought instructional videos...and trained himself...

:(

his last fight against Kendall Grove was bad...i thought he was retiring thats what he said....

damn sad shit...GOD BLESS...

see you at the crossroads.....




READ THIS CRAZY ASS SHIT:smh: RIP

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Evan Tanner was found dead near Palo Verde, Calif. on Monday. He was 37.

Tanner had trekked into the desert on a journey to “cleanse” himself, according to Douglas Vincitorio of Tanner’s management team. “He went out to the desert to do a ‘cleansing’ as he called it. Kind of like ‘Survivorman.’” These short trips were not new to Tanner, said Vincitorio. It is something that he has done numerous times over the years.

“What we were told is that (Sheriff’s officials who found Tanner) believe his motorcycle had run out of gas, so he went to walk out in like 115- to 118-degree heat,” Vincitorio said. “He was miles away from his camp. That’s where the helicopter found him. Right now, they just think that he succumbed to the heat.”
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Tanner had apparently told friends before he left that if they hadn’t heard from him in a couple of days, they should contact officials, which is what happened. When he stopped responding to text messages, friends waited a couple of days and then notified officials at the Imperial County Sherrif’s Department on Friday.

A search ensued and Tanner’s body was found Monday.

On Aug. 10, Tanner wrote a blog on Spike TV’s website, proclaiming his desire to start an adventure in the desert east of his new home in Oceanside, Calif. An avid outdoorsman and wandering spirit, he wanted to escape civilization for a while.

“I’m not just going out into the desert, I’m going out into the desert to hunt for lost treasure,” he wrote. “I’m going on a pilgrimage of sorts, a journey to solitude, to do some thinking, and to pay my respects to the great mysteries.”

On Aug. 16, Tanner wrote about collecting supplies for his journey, and wrote about the dangers he might face.

“I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment, could cost me my life,” he said. “I’ve been doing a great deal of research and study. I want to know all I can about where I’m going, and I want to make sure I have the best equipment.”

Of course, this led followers of his blog to fear for his safety, as they often did when Tanner reported his frequent by-the-seat-of-his-pants adventures. In a blog dated Aug. 27, Tanner tried to calm his audience.

“This isn’t a version of ‘Into the Wild,’” he wrote. “I’m not going out into the desert with a pair of shorts and a bowie knife, to try to live off the land. I’m going fully geared up, and I’m planning on having some fun.”

But he also affirmed that things could go wrong if his equipment wasn’t up to snuff.

“I do plan on going back pretty far, so I did mention in one of my posts that I wanted to make sure to have good quality gear,” he said. “Any failure of gear out in the desert could cause a problem.”

On Sept. 2, Tanner wrote his final blog entry, documenting a training session at a facility in Oceanside.

The Amarillo, Texas native was a high school wrestling stand out who won the state championships his junior and senior years despite only getting into the sport as a sophomore. He entered mixed martial arts in 1997 encouraged by friends.

Tanner rose to the top of the mixed martial arts world by winning the UFC middleweight title over David Terrell at UFC 51: “Super Saturday” Feb. 5, 2005. He lost the title later in the year to Rich Franklin. Tanner, who had a career MMA record of 32-8 last competed in the UFC on June 21 losing to Kendall Grove by split decision.

“He will obviously be sorely missed,” said Vincitorio. Adding, “I think that Evan would want to be remembered as a very complex man with many layers, not just a fighter.”

Tanner was surely a unique personality. He’s eclectic spirit and competitive nature will be sorely missed in the MMA community.

# For all the latest MMA news, go to MMAWeekly.com


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Coolie - got much respect for you, bro. You always contribute in a positive way on the board. Good feedback for your peers. Appreciate that, brother. Pretty good card on the whole this past Saturday, huh?

My brother and I initially doubted how good a PPV event it would be. Glad it was SOLID :yes:

No doubt it was a waaaay better card than i thought it would be. I'm still fucked up over Evan Tanner man. Shit is sad as hell and it sounds like he just underestimated just how tought shit can get in the desert.
 
No doubt it was a waaaay better card than i thought it would be. I'm still fucked up over Evan Tanner man. Shit is sad as hell and it sounds like he just underestimated just how tought shit can get in the desert.

I was just reading that Evans / MacDonald / Pellegrino and Tavares landed the $60 bonuses purse-wise for the card.

Yes - the whole Evan Tanner situation is eery. Like a few articles have said ... it's almost like his August blogging was a bit of foreshadowing. Pointing out he wasn't taking it to the extreme as with the back story behind Into The Wild ... that he would be ok, but on the same token he'd push it to the limits and if his equipment failed him he might die.

What I'm wondering is ... supposedly he notified a friend saying his water supply was nearly out and he needed help. Other article content has said his motorcyle ran out of gas. HOW FAR INTO THE DAMN DESERT did he go? He must have gone way, way out. Was he not checking his gas gauge? Did he not have a plan going in distance-wise? How do you take it THAT FAR and run out of gas completely? Almost seems like a bit of a 'death wish', for real. No reserve supply of gasoline?
 
Uppage for the MMA heads who might not have caught the news in the past few days.

And on a side note ... SPIKE TV is airing a UFC - THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER SEASON ONE marathon this Saturday, September 13th all day.

Wednesday, September 17th = Ultimate Fight Night Live, followed by the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter - TEAM NOGUEIRA vs. TEAM MIR.
 
Uppage for the MMA heads who might not have caught the news in the past few days.

And on a side note ... SPIKE TV is airing a UFC - THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER SEASON ONE marathon this Saturday, September 13th all day.

Wednesday, September 17th = Ultimate Fight Night Live, followed by the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter - TEAM NOGUEIRA vs. TEAM MIR.

Any word on what weight class they are going to do this time around?
 
Uppage for the MMA heads who might not have caught the news in the past few days.

And on a side note ... SPIKE TV is airing a UFC - THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER SEASON ONE marathon this Saturday, September 13th all day.

Wednesday, September 17th = Ultimate Fight Night Live, followed by the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter - TEAM NOGUEIRA vs. TEAM MIR.

Thanx 4 the update!:dance:

coolio569

it's the heavyweight class, I believe
 
^^^

I predict Mir will lose a close one to Nog.

Joel Casamayor vs Juan Manuel Marquez

props to circleinsideabox
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J' - it should be an interesting upcoming season. And mad props to the UFC/SPIKE/ETC. on making such a great run thus far with THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER. Solid series. Excellent cast selection. They're picking the RIGHT people. I mean seriously ... when you've got Griffin (season 1) as your champ' and Evans (season 2) as you're number one contender in a solid division (the 205's) you're doing something right, for real.

I look forward to seeing how solid a season they get at some point in the future when they get around to the LIGHTWEIGHTS.

Thank you for the boxing too, Johniz!!
 
thanks guys, I should have figured that out from the coaches duh

Mir looked really good his last fight but I agree Nog will probably take it.

Coolie,

My complete bad, bro. It's actually a SPLIT SEASON (just like the 1st season years back wherein Diego took the welterweight crown, and Forrest Griffin the light heavyweight). It's going to be LIGHTWEIGHTS AND HEAVYWEIGHTS this season. And just like in season 7 - you have to "win" your way onto the show. They're starting off with 32 fighters and immediately dwindling it down to their legitimate 16. Should be good. * Here's the FIRST TEN MINUTES OF EPISODE #1 airing Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 on Spike.

THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER - SEASON 8 - EPISODE 1 - FIRST TEN MINUTES

http://www.spike.com/episode/28938/st/3031714
http://www.spike.com/channel/ufc
http://www.spike.com/
 
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