source: TMZ.com

UFC Light Heavyweight champ Jon “Bones” Jones was arrested early this morning for DUI after he totaled his Bentley in upstate New York … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Jones was involved in an accident at around 5:00 AM in Binghamton, NY. We’re told the car — which Jones crashed into a pole — was totaled and cops arrested Jones on the scene for DUI.

According to our sources, Jones was taken into custody by Broome County Sheriff and bailed out a few hours later … by his mom. Jones is from nearby Ithaca.

Jones last fought on April 21, defeating Rashad Evans by unanimous decision. His next scheduled fight is on September 1 in Las Vegas against Dan Henderson.

source: mmafighting.com

Estima believed that because it was considered a “friendly” competition, the weigh-ins were not a big deal, a sentiment clearly not shared by Diaz.

Angered by the chaotic setup, he left without a word to anyone.

“We didn’t know Nick had left,” Gracie said. “He does things on his own timing. He makes a decision and he doesn’t really talk to people about it. It’s something that needs to be fixed, but I didn’t know Nick wasn’t there. Nobody knew.

Estima is still very much interested in grappling with him on the mats, as long as there is a date, time, place and agreed-upon number set for the weigh-ins.

Gracie said he would still like to see the match happen as well, eventually.

“Right now, Nick is dealing with all this NSAC stuff, and it’s like they’re coming at him double-barreled, because he had the audacity to challenge them in court and everything, and say, ‘get a lawyer,” he said. “And they’re not used to doing that, so they’re coming at this guy crazy. We’ve got to deal with that stuff, make sure his head is right and everything. But I would love to see it. I’m sure he’d do it in the future, but it wouldn’t involve (event arketing director) Junior (Nalty).”

As for Estima’s Saturday night comment that he’d be willing to fight Diaz in MMA, well, he took that back.

“When I mentioned about the fight MMA with Nick Diaz, I was a little bit overheated,” he said. “I think It is kind of a little bit over the top for me to say that to him. My idea I wanted to come across was, if he was around, I would show up.”

source: mmajunkie.com

In an interview with MMAJunkie Radio, Gegard Mousasi revealed that in March he tore his ACL, and underwent surgery to rerpair it. Now he is in physical rehab. Why did no one know?

“No one asked,” Mousasi quipped. “But the operation was successful. The recovery is doing very well. I will be back 100 percent again, but it will just take time.”

“I had one fight left (on my Strikeforce contract). Then I was hoping maybe to go to the UFC after that, but then they offered me – they said we’re going to give you a new contract. So I signed for another six fights. Now I have a six-, seven-fight deal, I believe, in Strikeforce.”

“They said the Strikeforce fighters were going to stay with Strikeforce. And that’s the thing that it was, so we signed again.”

The new contract means a teenage dream of representing The Netherlands in the Olympics as a boxer will not come to pass.

“I think I would have had a chance,” Mousasi said. “I don’t think my chances would have been very high, but I believed in myself, and I train with Olympic trainers from Holland, and they said there’s definitely potential. Those things I experienced, I thought maybe it was possible, but no doubt it would have been very difficult.

“It would have been nice. But there’s nothing wrong with focused just on MMA.”

Mousasi has held the DREAM belt (successor to Pride, kind of), the Cage Warriors belt (biggest in Europe), and the Strikeforce belt. A shot is obviously not close, but Mousasi speculated about Jon Jones’ UFC Lightheavy belt.

“I’m not afraid of fighting anybody because I never got hurt in any fight – kickboxing, boxing, MMA. I may have lost a fight, but I’ve never been hurt in a fight. I’m always confident that whatever happens, I got my chance. And I know I have a good punch, so I never doubt myself that I can win a fight or not.

“I’d love to fight him.”

source: twitter.com

At UFC 137 in October, BJ Penn came up short against Nick Diaz, and said he was done.

“This is probably the last time you’re going to see me here,” Penn said. “I’ve got a daughter, another daughter on the way. I don’t want to go home looking like this. I’m done.”

Since then he has indicated he still wants to fight.

Now Koscheck is reporting via Twitter that he has been offered a fight vs. Penn, and is waiting on the Hawaiian’s response.

Josh Koscheck ‏@JoshKoscheck
#UFC just offered me to fight BJ Penn…I said YES!!!!! Just waiting on him!!!!!! Let’s scrap bra?

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source: The Underground

Fedor Emelianenko recently held a press conference in advance of his June 21 fight Pedro Rizzo at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. He announced that he will be retiring soon.

Fedor has decided to retire

Fedor Emelianenko announced that he plans to soon close his career as a fighter, reports the online edition of Sports.Ru. He did not say exactly when he will leave the sport.

In the future Emelianenko is going to coach young people, but will not open his own school.

Emelianenko will be rooting for Josh Barnett, who will meet with Daniel Cormier on May 19 in the Strikeforce Grand Prix tournament finals. He said it was unlikely he would fight against the winner, because of his own plans for retirement.

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source: The Underground

Main Event (Live on FUEL TV)
Chan Sung Jung defeated Dustin Poirier by Submission (D’Arce Choke, 4th Round, 1:07)

Main Card (Live on FUEL TV, 8:00 PM)
Amir Sadollah defeated Jorge Lopez by Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Donald Cerrone defeated Jeremy Stephens by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Yves Jabouin defeated Jeff Houghland by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Igor Pokrajac defeated Fabio Maldonado by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 28-28, 30-27)
Tom Lawlor defeated Jason MacDonald by KO (Punches, 1st Round, 0:50)

Preliminary  Card (Live on Facebook 5:30 ET)
Cody McKenzie defeated Marcus LeVesseur by Submission (Guillotine Choke, Round 1, 3:05)
Brad Tavares defeated Dongi Yang defeated by Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
T.J. Grant defeated Carlo Prater by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Rafael Dos Anjos defeated Kamal Shalorus by Submission (Rear-naked choke, Round 1, 1:40)
Johnny Eduardo defeated Jeff Curran by Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Francisco Rivera defeated Alex Soto by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)