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    Default UFC on FX 2; 03 maart 2012 Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann

    Thiago Alves, Martin Kampmann Agree to Face Off at UFC on FX 2

    Fresh off respective wins within the last month, Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann have agreed to face each other at the second installment of UFC on FX, in March 2012.

    The UFC confirmed the fight booking on Tuesday, though they did not offer a precise date or location for it.

    Kampmann competed just over one week ago, snapping a hard-luck two-fight losing streak by earning a decision over Rick Story at UFC 139. That improved Kampmann's career record to 18-5.

    Alves, meanwhile, notched his first finish since a June 2008 TKO over Matt Hughes when he choked out Papy Abedi with a rear naked choke at UFC 138, upping his overall record to 19-8.

    The two have been longtime members of the UFC's welterweight division, with Alves making his octagon debut in October 2005 and Kampmann following in August 2006.

    Through the years, Alves has gone 11-5 under the UFC banner while Kampmann has gone 9-4. The two do share a recent common opponent, as Kampmann beat Story while Alves lost to him by decision in May.

    While a date and location for UFC on FX 2 is pending, several reports have indicated March 3 is the target date for the show.
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    War Kampmann !!
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    Ian McCall Welcomes Challenge Against Demetrious Johnson at UFC on FX 2

    Ian McCall will make his UFC debut in March at UFC on FX 2 in Australia against recent UFC bantamweight title challenger Demetrious Johnson. And as a representative of UFC's new flyweight division, McCall (11-2) wants to introduce himself to fans in a dramatic way.

    "I became No. 1 for a reason," McCall said Monday on The MMA Hour. "I rededicated myself, I think that [135-pounders] don't finish people enough. I'm a finisher. I can make it exciting. I can make it what people want to see. That's one thing I can promise that people will be always be happy after I fight."

    McCall admits his first experience under the Zuffa banner was underwhelming. Fighting for the Zuffa-era WEC in 2007 and 2009, McCall compiled a 1-2 record with the promotion.

    "I kinda blew it in the WEC," the 27-year-old said. "I took it for granted. I didn't work very hard."

    Since his last WEC fight, McCall has won four straight, including a win over Jussier da Silva to earn his No. 1 standing at flyweight.

    Now, McCall will take on Johnson in the semifinals of an unofficial tournament to crown the first-ever UFC flyweight champion. Top contender Joseph Benavidez will take on 123-pound Shooto champ Yasuhiro Urushitani on the other side of the bracket.

    McCall thinks Johnson is the ideal opponent to show what he's all about.

    "i really, really wanted this fight because he's so talented," McCall said. "And also because he's riding so high and everyone is so stoked on him. I think it's a good fight for me. I think I match up well -- not only to win but to make it exciting. I like challenging myself. I don't want to go in there and fight some random guy who sucks. I want to fight the best."
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    Default UFC Officially Announces Return to Australia

    For the third straight year, the UFC will be going Down Under.

    The organization officially announced its return to Sydney, Australia, Wednesday night. UFC Sydney, as it's being called, will take place on Saturday, March 3, at the Allphones Arena, formerly Acer Arena, in Sydney.

    The event, headlined by Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann, will air on FX in the United States on Friday, March 2, due to the time difference in Australia.

    Also scheduled for the event is the semi-finals of a four-man tournament to crown the first-ever flyweight champion. One side of the bracket will see Demetrious Johnson facing off against former Tachi Palace Fights flyweight champion Ian McCall. The other side of the bracket will feature Joseph Benavidez vs. former Shooto champion Yasuhiro Urushitani.

    Tickets for the event go on sale next week. The first two UFC events in Sydney, UFC 110 and UFC 127, both drew over 17,000 fans in previous years.
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    Is het een fight night of een grote ufc event, want Kampmann vs Alves lijkt me niet geschikt als het een groot ufc event wordt.
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    Het word volgens mij een UFC on FX event.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Company View Post
    Het word volgens mij een UFC on FX event.
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    UFC on FX 2 Fight Card: Alves vs. Kampmann

    The UFC on FX 2 fight card will be headlined by Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann and takes place March 3 (March 2 in the U.S.) at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia.

    The semifinals of the UFC's flyweight tournament will also kick off with Ian McCall facing Demetrious Johnson and Joseph Benavidez squaring off against Yasuhiro Urushitani.

    UFC on FX airs live in the U.S. on Friday, March 2 at 10 p.m. ET. FUEL will carry the undercard.

    The current lineup is below.

    Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann
    Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson
    Joseph Benavidez vs. Yasuhiro Urushitani
    Court McGee vs. Constantinos Philippou
    James Te Huna vs. Aaron Rosa
    Jake Hecht vs. T.J. Waldburger
    Cole Miller vs. Steven Siler
    Jared Hamman vs. Kyle Noke
    Oli Thompson vs. Shawn Jordan
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    Official fight card

    Main card
    Welterweight bout: Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann
    Flyweight bout: Joseph Benavidez vs. Yasuhiro Urushitani
    Flyweight bout: Demetrious Johnson vs. Ian McCall
    Middleweight bout: Court McGee vs. Constantinos Philippou

    Preliminary card (Fuel TV)
    Light Heavyweight bout: James Te Huna vs. Aaron Rosa
    Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Perosh vs. Nick Penner
    Featherweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Steven Siler
    Middleweight bout: Kyle Noke vs. Andrew Craig
    Welterweight bout: TJ Waldburger vs. Jake Hecht
    Featherweight bout: Mackens Semerzier vs. Daniel Pineda
    Heavyweight bout: Oli Thompson vs. Shawn Jordan
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    Hoop toch niet dat ze die sudden death ronde vaker gaan gebruiken na het flyweight toernooi.

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    Ik kijk uit naar de low-kicks van Alves! :P

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    The Resurrection of Ian McCall

    It's a funny thing, second chances. Some of us get them, some of us don't. Ian McCall got do-overs in both his personal and professional lives. The second one wouldn't have been possible without the first. For a while, all of his talent was in danger of going wasted, another kid who couldn't resist the temptations of drugs.

    For a time, even a burgeoning career did nothing to slow down his descent. If anything, it sped it up. McCall told MMA Fighting that he was deep into drugs even as he progressed into the WEC, and would stop using for one week prior to an event to make sure he could pass a drug test. Aside from that, life was a constant party.

    "Honestly, that’s when it got worse, was when I was in WEC," he said. "I thought I was a rock star. I was just completely abusing myself. I would clean up for the fight and then go right back to it."
    So how did he get from WEC bantamweight flameout to UFC flyweight contender? Do second chances have any rhyme or reason? One day McCall simply woke up more mature, more focused. Part of it had to do with the threat of losing not his life, but his freedom. After an arrest, he faced 3-5 years in jail, but was fortunate enough to receive a deal that allowed him to go to drug rehabilitation instead.
    Part of it had to do with his family. When he found out his then-girlfriend, now-wife Shay was pregnant, everything seemed to change.

    "I've got so many reasons not to screw up now," he said. "My family, my wife, my daughter, my career. They're things I'm not going to squander again."

    And make no mistake about it, he came dangerously close to squandering everything.

    One time, McCall ended a period of sobriety with a binge of oxycontin and xanax and GHB and pot, overdosed and woke up two days later in a hospital. At the time, he was already a professional fighter, and not a smalltime one, either. By then, he'd already fought three times in the WEC, once losing a decision to future bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz.

    His descent started with his own steps towards some dark sides of life. He says that he didn't come from a bad home, that it was nothing more complicated than a misjudgment of the situation before him.

    "I just walked my way up to them," he said of how he got caught up in the drug lifestyle. "It looked like fun. It seemed like something I would be into. I guess I was hanging out with the wrong people. It's no one else’s fault but my own. I just tried it and liked it, and it went from there."

    The dark days were standard for the story: jail, rehab and hospitals, as his life spun away from him and his potential faded away. Nothing could stop him, not even a promising career. If MMA is indeed a lifestyle as many claim, at least for a while, it couldn't compare to the drug lifestyle.

    Yet part of him wanted out, and in quitting to avoid a possible prison term, he effectively traded one addiction for another, channeling his energy into his fight career.

    His first big step back came in February 2011 when he faced Jussier da Silva, who was then considered by many to be the world's top flyweight. The fight marked McCall's debut in the weight class, and many who had heard about his recent troubles expected it would not go well.

    Even now, the 27-year-old McCall believes that the fight organization that promoted the event -- Tachi Palace Fights (TPF) -- brought him in to lose.

    "I was a guy who fought in WEC, and they thought he could walk all over me," he said. "But in the gym, I was a different person, so I knew I had a chance to beat him, a fighter with a lot of recognition. I wasn't going to pass that up. That was the most important fight of my career so far, as far my comeback."

    The victory put McCall on the UFC's radar as a flyweight to watch as they prepared to launch their division. Following two more wins in TPF, McCall got a tweet from UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby asking for a phone number, the start of a dialogue that led to McCall signing with the promotion.

    In his UFC on FX 2 bout on Friday, McCall will face Demetrious Johnson, a former top contender at 135 who decided to move down a weight class. That will be one semifinal as part of a four-man tournament field to crown a 125-pound champ (the other pits Joseph Benavidez against Yasuhiro Urushitani). That essentially means that the former WEC washout can become a UFC champion within two fights, a shocking turn of events that somehow perfectly coincides with the rest of his life.

    McCall voiced respect for Johnson's talents, noting in particular his great stamina and effective wrestling and striking games. But in the end, he says, he's going to prove that he's better at everything, and that if worse comes to worse, he'll outmuscle him. He'll outwork him. Just like he did in life, he'll find some way to overcome.

    "I always wanted a way out," he said of his old life. "A piece of me was always trying, trying, trying, and finally I was able to do it. If you have the right motivation and mind set, you can do anything. Everything's fallen into place. My wife and my daughter are motivation. I'm not going to fall back into a hole. I can't let them down. They're my world."
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    Thiago Alves Admits MMA Once Broke Him, But Now He's Striking Back

    A few years ago, Thiago Alves was a wrecking ball, a thickly muscled welterweight bone crusher who smashed everything in his path. His run included five straight knockouts, including the one that seemed to announce the end of Matt Hughes' stretch near the top of the division. But then something changed. Alves was suddenly going to decision after decision, even against fighters like John Howard and Rick Story who while tough, had never reached the division's elite level. To make matters worse, he went 1-3 from July 2009 to May 2011.

    His dark days finally ended last November, when he choked out Papy Abedi, his first finish since June 2008.

    It would be easy for him to say now that those days were just a rough patch that he had to work through, but that wouldn't tell the entire story. To hear him tell it, it was a period of time that damaged his confidence and forced him to make changes. "It definitely shook me a little bit," he told MMA Fighting. "But it's like when you're trying to build muscle, you have to break down muscle to rebuild it stronger. That's what happens in life and the MMA game. The sport just broke me so I can come back stronger. That's where I am right now. It definitely wasn't a situation I was expecting but it happened, and then you've just got to be positive and make the best of it. If you have the talent and the work ethic and the right mind set, you can accomplish anything in this world. That's what I'm driving for."

    And make no mistake about it, Alves is still focused on smashing his way back to the top. He says he's hungrier now than he's ever been, focused on proving that his previous run up to the No. 1 contender slot -- he lost to Georges St- Pierre by unanimous decision -- was no fluke.

    Still just 28 years old, age is no concern, as he's about the same age as other divisional contenders. His Friday night UFC on FX 2 opponent Martin Kampmann is 29. Interim champ Carlos Condit will be 28 in April, Jake Ellenberger turns 27 later this month and Johny Hendricks is 28.

    Ask Alves what went wrong and there's no easy answer.

    While he's still with American Top Team, changes in the coaching and athlete rosters altered the training environment for a time. He made lifestyle changes, shedding some friends along the way. He also finally addressed the long-standing weight issue that saw him tip the scales heavy twice during his UFC career, bringing in renowned strength and conditioning coach Mike Dolce to help.

    But the biggest change came internally. Alves suddenly realized that he'd been fighting so long that the training had become routine, with little thought to what he was accomplishing on a daily basis. Now, everything he does has a reason behind it.

    "The goal is to be the world champion," he says. "I'm much more aware of the consequences. I'm much more aware of what it takes to get there."

    But Alves isn't going to pound his chest to remind the rest of the division that he still matters. He's been around long enough to know that the best thing he can do is make a statement with his performance.

    "I dont want to say anything," he said. "They know what’s coming. But when you try to say something like, 'me, me, me,' it doesn’t work like that. I’m just going to go out there and show everyone, listen, I never went anywhere. I was just making myself stronger. Now is my time, so watch out."

    The way he sees it, the fight with Abedi was a test, a matchup against a dangerous yet unknown opponent that could trap him into complacency. If it was a test, he passed with flying colors, rocking his opponent with a right hook before earning the finish.

    As Alves snaked his arm under Abedi's chin to sink in the fight-ending choke, the drought was finally over, the dominance he once showed reappearing. Like the Alves of old, it's not nearly enough. The Kampmann fight excites him because the Dane is a complete fighter with sharp skills both standing and on the ground. But the Pitbull is ready to bare his fangs. He promises that the fight won't go to the judges and says he knows he can do to Kampmann what the sport did to him.

    MMA once broke him but the rebuilding phase sculpted a new model, one looking for a new streak of stoppage wins, because one wasn't nearly enough.

    "I'm very, very hungry," he said. "I'm still starving, but I know I have the right skills to break the man and finish this fight, and that's what I'm going to do."
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