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James Toney’s UFC career is over after suffering a first-round submission to Randy Couture at Saturday’s UFC 118, and according to UFC President Dana White, the lopsided, yet unsurprising loss also ended the UFC’s experiment with bringing boxers into the Octagon.
“He’s a boxer and that’s what he does. He wanted a fight in the UFC, he picked a fight with our guys, and he fought tonight,” White said. “He’s a tough guy. I have a lot of respect for him, but you can’t expect a guy to come in with one discipline and do well. He stepped up, he came in and did it. He picked a fight and he got one.”
MORE: UFC 118 Recap: Frankie Edgar Dominates BJ Penn, Randy Couture Submits James Toney
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As expected, Bellator lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez will face UFC veteran Roger Huerta in an non-title superfight which headlines Bellator 33 on October 21 at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center.
Alvarez (20-2) was crowned Bellator’s first-ever lightweight champ with a win over Toby Imada last June and most-recently earned a non-title win over UFC veteran Josh Neer in May.
“I’ve never even lost a fight here in the United States, so I’m definitely not going to start in my hometown of Philadelphia with all of my people there,” said Alvarez. “I’m not going to be happy unless I completely control and dominate Roger in this fight. It’s important for me to dominate this fight and prove that I’m one of the best lightweights in the world.”
Huerta (21-4-1) stopped Chad Hinton in his Bellator debut earlier this year to rebound from back-to-back UFC losses, but dropped a unanimous decision to eventual tourney winner Pat Curran in the semifinals in May.
“This is a fight that I’ve always wanted,” Huerta said. “It’s going to be a grueling fight for the both of us. It’s going to be a potential fight of the year. I’m going in there expecting a war, and I’m going in there trying to finish Eddie.”
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Pictured: Eddie Alvarez
Here are the UFC 118 walkout shirts which UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar, BJ Penn, Randy Couture, and other notables wore to the Octagon on Saturday at UFC 118, and stay tuned to FightTrends.com for the latest MMA clothing, MMA gear, and MMA shirts.
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I remember working for a collections company that had this weird policy. At the end of the month, regardless of what day of the week it fell on, we worked a 9am to 9pm shift. Honestly it wasn’t productive and the company wasted a lot of money on overtime. The first EOM I had to work was a Sunday. How crazy is that?!
I worked there for about a year and the company grew by leaps and bounds. At the peak of the company’s growth, there seemed to be almost a 1,000 collectors in this call center. I saw collectors I hired and fired throughout my 20 years in the collections industry at this one location. Many I recognized by face but not by name. Luckily, I didn’t run into any crazy ones that wanted revenge.
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UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar answered his controversial April win over BJ Penn with a dominant victory that left no doubts, as he again topped the former champ Penn to retain the title on Saturday in the main event of UFC 118 at Boston’s TD Garden.
Edgar’s strategy was nearly unchanged, but the result was much clearer, as he took Penn down throughout the five-round headliner and picked him apart on the feet while avoiding any serious trouble to earn a 50-45 shutout on the judge’s cards.
Edgar has now won five-straight since losing to Gray Maynard, who he’ll face in his next title defense, while Penn falls to 15-7-1 after suffering back-to-back losses for just the second time in his career.
UFC hall of famer Randy Couture made easy work of boxing champ James Toney in the UFC 118 co-headliner, as he forced the MMA newcomer to tap to an arm triangle in the opening round.
The 47-year-old former champ Couture didn’t let Toney use his hands once before taking him down with ease and thrashing him on the ground, softening him with punches before earning the tap midway through the frame.
In other UFC 118 main card action, middleweight contender Demian Maia rebounded with a dominant unanimous decision over Mario Miranda, Gray Maynard earned the next shot at the lightweight title with a unanimous decision over Kenny Florian, and Nate Diaz bloodied Marcus Davis before submitting him in the third.
On the UFC 118 preliminary card, Joe Lauzon impressed in a first-round submission of Gabe Ruediger, while Dan Miller snapped his losing streak with a win over John Salter.
The official UFC 118 results were:
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The above clip probably will give you yet another reason why Randy Couture will take out James Toney Saturday night at UFC 118.
This is another good opinion piece by Congressman Ron Paul. It is in regards to our withdrawal in Iraq where he offers more insight than the average American is allowed to see.
Amid much fanfare last week the last supposed combat troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq war and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of those administration operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq war is at last ending.
However, military officials confirm that we are committed to intervention in that country for years to come, and our operations have in fact changed minimally, if really at all. After eight long draining years I have to wonder if our government even understands what it is to end a war anymore. The end of a war to most people means all the troops come home, out of harm’s way. It means we stop killing people and getting killed. It means we stop sending troops and armed personnel over and draining our treasury for military operations in that foreign land. But much like the infamous “mission accomplished” moment of the last administration, this end of the war also means none of those things.
50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, and they’re still receiving combat pay. One soldier was killed in Basra just last Sunday, after the supposed end of combat operations, and the same day 5,000 men and women of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Division at Fort Hood were deployed to Iraq. Their mission will be anything but desk duty. Among other things they will accompany the Iraqi military on dangerous patrols, continue to be involved in the hunt for terrorists, and provide air support for the Iraqi military. They should be receiving combat pay because they will be serving a combat role. Of course the number of private contractors who perform many of the same roles as troops, but for a lot more money, is expected to double. So this is a funny way of ending combat operations in Iraq. We are still meddling in their affairs and we are still putting our men and women in danger and we are still spending money we don’t have. This looks more like an escalation than a draw-down to me.
The ongoing war in Iraq takes place against a backdrop of economic crises at home, as fresh numbers indicate that our economic situation is as bad as ever and getting worse. Our foreign policy is based on the illusion that we are actually paying for it. What we’re doing is borrowing and printing the money to maintain our presence overseas. Americans are seeing the cost of this irresponsible approach as our economic decline continues.
Unemployed Americans have been questioning a policy that shifts hundreds of billions of dollars overseas while their own communities crumble and their frustration is growing. An end to this type of a foreign policy is way overdue. A return to the traditional American foreign policy of active private engagement and non-interventionism is the only alternative that can restore our moral and fiscal health.
As expected, Bellator lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez will face UFC veteran Roger Huerta in an non-title superfight which headlines Bellator 33 on October 21 at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center.
Alvarez (20-2) was crowned Bellator’s first-ever lightweight champ with a win over Toby Imada last June and most-recently earned a non-title win over UFC veteran Josh Neer in May.
“I’ve never even lost a fight here in the United States, so I’m definitely not going to start in my hometown of Philadelphia with all of my people there,” said Alvarez. “I’m not going to be happy unless I completely control and dominate Roger in this fight. It’s important for me to dominate this fight and prove that I’m one of the best lightweights in the world.”
Huerta (21-4-1) stopped Chad Hinton in his Bellator debut earlier this year to rebound from back-to-back UFC losses, but dropped a unanimous decision to eventual tourney winner Pat Curran in the semifinals in May.
“This is a fight that I’ve always wanted,” Huerta said. “It’s going to be a grueling fight for the both of us. It’s going to be a potential fight of the year. I’m going in there expecting a war, and I’m going in there trying to finish Eddie.”
For the latest Bellator news, Bellator fight cards, and Bellator results stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
Pictured: Eddie Alvarez
The video talks about Bernanke and his failure to perform. The Federal Reserve is simply lost. None of this academic economic theories are working in the real world. He has brought interest rates down as low as he can and that failed. Unemployment is at 10% and foreclosures are still breaking record numbers.
My wife and I stepped out and had our first vegan meal at a restaurant. We had a few choices to choose from but narrowed the list by finding recommend restaurants nominated and most voted as the best. The experience was great. We go to the restaurant super early to avoid the crowds.
We ordered lunch. She had a vegan chicken wrap and I had a vegan bacon cheeseburger with sweet potato fries and shared each other’s meals. The wrap was good. The bacon cheeseburger was great. The meals were so good, we went ahead and ordered 2 more meals to sample and take home for dinner. Again, another great idea. The best meal was a portobella mushroom burger. Absolutely one of the best meals we had.
Menu description: thinly sliced original seitan, melted cheddar, caramelized onions, crispy tempeh bacon on a bun slathered with BBQ sauce and ranch dressing, lettuce, carrots, onions, and tomato and topped with crunch battered dill pickle chips.
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