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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about UFC 88. They also give you all the major MMA news.
UFC 87 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Kenny "KenFlo" Florian for his impressive win over Roger "El Matador" Huerta.
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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about WEC 35, EliteXC: Saturday Night Fights, and preview UFC 87. They also give you all the major MMA news.
WEC 35 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Steve Cantwell for becoming the new WEC Light Heavyweight Champion.
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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about Affliction Banned, UFC Fight Night 14, and Dream 5. They also give you all the major MMA news.
Affliction Banned Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Andrei Arlovski for his destruction of Ben Rothwell.
UFC Fight Night 14 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Rory Markham for his sick head kick KO.
Drean 5 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Eddie Alvarez for his amazing fight against Tatsuya Kawajiri.
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Dream 5 Hits
Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri: Wow, what an amazing fight. These guys just went out and banged, and put on one hell of a fight. Each Fighter landed big shots that droped the other, but Alvarez was able to land the more powerful and cleaner shots that eventually stopped Kawajiri.
Shinya Aoki vs. Caol Uno: This fight just shows how good Aoki truly is on the ground. Aoki dominated Uno for the better part of fifteen minutes on the ground, almost ending the fight with a tight triangle choke. Uno proved himself game by managing to escape the submissions of Aoki, but when it came time to decide the winer Aoki had left no doubt for the judges.
Alistair Overeem: Overeem only need 1:11 to submit Mark Hunt. Overeem called out Mirko “Cro Cop” after his victory over Tae Hyun Lee at Dream 4, so I really hope this fight gets made.
Dream 5 Misses
Eddie Alvarez not being able to continue: When Eddie came out to tell the crowd that he would not be able to compete in the final match due to his eye injury I just felt incredibly bad for him. He busted his ass and banged it out in two of the best fights in the tournament only not to be able to fight for the title due to the nature of the tournament finals rules. Speaking of the rules it is incredibly stupid in the modern MMA world to still have fighters fighting more than one fight a night. It does nothing but set up the possibility of a fight not being able to continue and missing out on the opportunity that is rightful his. How many more times will something like this have to happen before we let the ideal of a one day tournament die.
Katsuyori Shibata: Dream why do you feel the need to continue putting this man in huge mismatch fights on your shows. I have no desire to see this man get completely destroyed, and made to look like a fool like his fight with Jason "Mayhem" Miller.
Hideo Tokoro vs. Takeshi Yamazaki: What can I really say other than wow this fight really sucked. Its never good when Yamazaki getting kicked in the junk a few times was some of the more exciting action.
On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane preview Affliction: Banned,
UFC Fight Night 14, and DREAM 5. They also give you all the major MMA news.
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The Man Up Podcast returns this week after its lengthy hiatus. On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about UFC 86. They also give you all the major MMA news.
UFC 86 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Forrest Griffin for capturing the UFC Light Heavyweight Title
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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about EliteXC: Return of the King, Dream 4 and preview Ultimate Fighter Finale. They also give you all the major MMA news.
EliteXC: Return of the King Man Up Moment of the Night goes to KJ Noons for his destruction of Eves Edwards.
Dream 4 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Melvin Manhoef for his brutal beatdown of Sakuraba.
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On the second edition of the live podcast Afton and Shane talk about UFC 85. They also give you all the major MMA news.
UFC 85 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Matt Wiman for his Impressive win over Thiago Tavares
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Don't forget there will be a live MMA Man Up podcast today at 5:00 PM Eastern time. On the show Afton and I will do a full recap of UFC 85 Bedlam. As always we will be taking your live calls to the show. You can find out all the information about the live podcast by going to http://live.mmamanup.com.
Thiago Alves (17-4) couldn’t make weight for the biggest fight of his mixed marital arts career. The big news coming out of today UFC 85 weigh-ins was that the main event will now be contested at the catch weight of 174 pounds due to Alves showing up 4 pounds heavy. His opponent former 2 time UFC welterweight champion, and possibly the greatest welterweight of all time, Matt Hughes (42-6) came in right at the 170 pound mark.
As you know I verbally destroyed Elite XC female mixed martial artist Gina Carano for showing up 4 pounds heavy for her fight with Kaitlin Young. I can only echo that same venom for Thiago Alves. Showing up overweight for a fight is despicable, disrespectful, and downright insulting to the sport of mixed martial arts. I hope Thiago has enjoyed his time in the UFC, because I can very well see him being blacklisted in the same manner as Travis Lutter. Unlike Carano, Alves is just another fighter in the UFC and won’t be giving any special treatment by UFC President Dana White.
Below is a link to the official weigh-in results from the UFC.
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=12637
On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about WEC 34, and preview UFC 85. They also give you all the major MMA news, as well as respond to a listener email.
WEC 34 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Miguel Torres for his epic war with Yoshiro Maeda.
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On the first edition of the live podcast Afton and Shane talk about EliteXC: PrimeTime, and preview WEC 34. They also give you all the major MMA news, as well as respond to listener emails.
EliteXC: PrimeTime Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Giana Carano for her destruction of Kaitlin Young.
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This Sunday, June 1st will be the debut of the very first live edition of the MMA Man Up Podcast. On the show we will be talking about the EliteXC's debut show on CBS as well as preview the WEC Featherweight Title fight between Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver. Check out the offical Blog Talk Radio page of MMA Man Up at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mmamanup.
On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about UFC 84, and preview EliteXC: Primetime. They also give you all the major MMA news, as well as respond to a listener email.
UFC 84 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Wanderlei Silva for his destruction of Keith Jardine.
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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about the IFL, give their predictions on UFC 84, and as always they give you all the major MMA news.
IFL Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Dan Miller for his impressive kneebar submission of Ryan McGivern to become to new IFL middleweight champion.
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On this edition of the podcast Afton and Shane talk about Dream 3, the latest episode of the Ultimate Fighter, and as always they give you all the major MMA news.
Dream 3 Man Up Moment of the Night goes to Eddie Alvarez and Joachim Hansen for their 15 minute war.
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Each week I will be showing you a classic match up in the ultra exciting Pride Freaks division. This weeks freak show comes to us from Pride 34 Butterbean vs Zuluzinho.
This is the first in what will be a weekly spot on the blog called KOOTW, or Knock out of the Week. Our First KOOTW comes from Cage Rage, and all I have to say is thank god he didnt throw that last punch.