UFC 125

[Luke]

[Luke]

dana: "i go out & make this deal, & then fans are like, 'what's an ion?' 'they don't have hd...too f---ing bad. I got it done."

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Well what the fuck is an ion? I've got spike, vs, fx, mtv2, fsn. Ion? Nope.

[MMA_scientist]

I have Ion... but MTV2 > Ion ?

[Luke]

Well what the fuck is an ion? I've got spike, vs, fx, mtv2, fsn. Ion? Nope.

"Some people are saying, 'I don't have ION.' You can get ION with rabbit ears. It's a broadcast network. Everybody gets it. Everybody gets this channel. Get a pair of the old rabbit ears out, and you'll pick it up. You don't need cable TV to get this

I looked at ION today and the only thing I saw on it was reruns of Ghost Whisperer ,Criminal Minds and Without a Trace .......I've never watched the channel before but thats all I saw on it

[MMA_scientist]

I have watched it because Bodog used to be on it. That is the only reason I know it exists.

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What would you guys think of Leben vs Stann if Leben didn't have that little hot streak in those 2 weeks this year?

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Antonio McKee has his critics, and UFC 125 opponent Jacob Volkmann is one of them.

After watching some tape of McKee use wrestling and top control to outpoint opponents, Volkmann came away unimpressed.

“It was pretty boring,” Volkmann said during an October interview on the Sherdog Radio Network’s “Beatdown” show. “He just took the guy down, stayed in his guard and he did a little bit of ground-and-pound, and that’s it. He’s a very boring fighter.”

Volkmann meets McKee on Saturday in a preliminary lightweight bout. Although McKee’s style has proven dominant in the cage, Volkmann has the better wrestling resume. He was a three-time All-American at the University of Minnesota; McKee did not wrestle Division I but was a standout at a community college in California.

“He’s a wrestler and I don’t even know if he wrestled in college, did he? So he really doesn’t understand when it actually comes to wrestling that there’s a lot more than just what you learned from high school,” Volkmann said. “There’s finer points in wrestling, finer points on how to defend takedowns, and he doesn’t understand that. And how to shoot: He shoots with his head down. He reaches. It’s going to be actually pretty fun to sprawl on him and take his back.”

Volkmann was quick to state his belief that his wrestling is better than McKee’s. He doesn’t think that will keep McKee from shooting for takedowns, though.

“He shoots no matter what,” Volkmann said. “It doesn’t matter. He’s going to shoot even if he gets out of position. He’s still going for the legs. Even if he’s five feet away, he shoots. I’m assuming it’s going to get to the ground. It’s just a matter of who’s going to end up on top.”

Despite his confidence in his wrestling, Volkmann said he’s also prepared to be on the bottom. He’s been training with Paul Bradley, a two-time All-American wrestler at Iowa, and does not think McKee can hold him down.

“Paul Bradley’s one of those guys that will take you down and he’ll hold you,” Volkmann said. “So I’ve been working a lot with him, just moving your hips and pushing his head down to your hips and moving. It’s pretty easy to get out. Eventually you’re going to get out. I’m not too worried about his punches, so as long as I’m not worried about his punches, I can get out of there pretty easy.”

While Volkmann may have the more impressive wrestling pedigree, McKee is vastly more experienced in the cage. Volkmann debuted in 2007, roughly eight years after McKee had scored his first win.

Volkmann did get to the Octagon first, though. The fight Saturday will be his fifth in the UFC but just the first for McKee, who had called out the promotion for not signing him despite a strong record. Volkmann was largely unaware of the route McKee has taken to the UFC and questioned why fans would have wanted him to get a shot in the big show.

“First of all, I didn’t even know he had fans,” Volkmann said. “I thought he was a very boring fighter. Whoever watches him probably doesn’t watch anybody else fight.”

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[SPX]

Thats really stretching it X. Azevedo is 7-6 in the past 4 years against subpar competition not to mention the Aldo and Thomas fights were almost 5 years ago. Alot happens in 5 years

Point taken. I'm not saying McKee will win, but I do think that he will. But there are a lot of question marks here. I actually might throw something small on Volkmann.

[Luke]

Point taken. I'm not saying McKee will win, but I do think that he will. But there are a lot of question marks here. I actually might throw something small on Volkmann.

I expect Mckee to win .I've never once said I thought Volkmann will win ,I said I think the line is too high