UFC 140: Jones vs Machida

[The HOFF]

Date: Dec 10, 2011
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Air Canada Centre
Broadcast: Pay-per-view

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)

• Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida (light-heavyweight title)
• Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Tito Ortiz
• Brian Ebersole vs. Claude Patrick
• Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Igor Pokrajac vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
• Dennis Hallman vs. John Makdessi
• Rich Attonito vs. TBD
• Mark Bocek vs. Nik Lentz
• Jared Hamman vs. Constantinos Philippou
• John Cholish vs. Mitch Clarke
• Yves Jabouin vs. Walel Watson

[The HOFF]

Welterweight Rory MacDonald has been forced off the UFC's second event in Toronto with an injury. The nature of the injury was not disclosed.

The UFC today announced that Claude Patrick will now face Brian Ebersole at UFC 140, which takes place Dec. 10 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

[The HOFF]

This is the second time MacDonald has been injured before a fight in which I was comfortable laying my max bet of 10u on. First one was the Matt Brown fight.

[proposition joe]

This is the second time MacDonald has been injured before a fight in which I was comfortable laying my max bet of 10u on. First one was the Matt Brown fight.

**** me. I was planning on putting half my bankroll on MacDonald...

[omalley21]

Same here.

[Vitooch]

Still liking Claude Patrick here!

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

[FindTheLock]

out of all the fighters that jones has faced, I like machida's chances the best... Although I was impressed with Rampages head movement when he fought Jones.

[TheCalculator]

out of all the fighters that jones has faced, I like machida's chances the best... Although I was impressed with Rampages head movement when he fought Jones.

I agree -- I think Jones will win. However Machida has the best skill set yet to beat him.

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

Looks like 4 fights on ION and 3 on FaceBook

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)

• Champ Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida (for light-heavyweight title)
• Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Tito Ortiz
• Brian Ebersole vs. Claude Patrick
• Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung

PRELIMINARY CARD (ION TV)

• Igor Pokrajac vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
• Jared Hamman vs. Constantinos Philippou
• Dennis Hallman vs. John Makdessi
• Yves Jabouin vs. Walel Watson

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)*

• Mark Bocek vs. Nik Lentz
• Rich Attonito vs. Jake Hecht
• John Cholish vs. Mitch Clarke

[TheCalculator]

Looks like 4 fights on ION and 3 on FaceBook
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Jesus Crisis -- how many channels do I need to subscribe to? To watch the UFC?

[The HOFF]

Looks like 4 fights on ION and 3 on FaceBook

Hopefully all of the prelims move to FUEL or FX next year.

[sideloaded]

ion is a free channel or it's on your satellite or cable somewhere

[brooks85]

ion and fuel tv are not standard package channels, you have get the package that goes with it and same goes for FUEL TV which now has its first card slated. And sadly both channels are in different packages for time warner and they want 5/mo each or can i upgrade my bill and get a whole slew of channels ill never watch. Im not liking all these events on different channels very much now, just going to stick to streaming.

[The HOFF]

Im not liking all these events on different channels very much now, just going to stick to streaming.

The names are getting a little ridiculous too. UFC on Fox, UFC on Fuel, UFC on FX, and all with numbers... Why didn't they just stick with UFC Fight Night and UFC Live?

[brooks85]

ya i suppose its branding, like each station wants their name attached to the event which makes sense for them but for UFC, UFC on FOX and UFC on FX just seem odd to me . And Id like to support some new channels especially if they want to show mma but unfortunately the system isn't that friendly. The idea of being able to purchase channel by channel just doesn't seem like it will ever be a reality.

[SATERSTYLE]

Awesome that the fights are on ion... My cable plan doesn't hold spike but it does have ion. I was hoping they would switch to it after they tried it out with ufc 125 in january. Cannot stand Facebook

[Educ8d Degener8]

Hopefully all of the prelims move to FUEL or FX next year.

You slept on that news Hoff! Merry Christmas...

http://mmajunkie.com/news/26016/fuel-tv-to-become-ufc-programming-hub-2012-prelims-moving-off-facebook.mma

[gabe]

Those of you who were gonna bet on MacDonald against Ebersole saved yourselves a lot of money.

[MMAbetMASTA]

Those of you who were gonna bet on MacDonald against Ebersole saved yourselves a lot of money.

lol yea right, rory was a stylisitic nightmare for brian imo. Brian had size, that's it...everywhere else mcdonald had the advantage and would outclass him - feet, hands, jitz, wrestling, athleticism > ebersole.

[MMAbetMASTA]

ion and fuel tv are not standard package channels, you have get the package that goes with it and same goes for FUEL TV which now has its first card slated. And sadly both channels are in different packages for time warner and they want 5/mo each or can i upgrade my bill and get a whole slew of channels ill never watch. Im not liking all these events on different channels very much now, just going to stick to streaming.

I feel you brother.

sorry if I am out of the loop, but will the fights that are on fuel and ion ALSO be on facebook / streaming on a legit and authorized website???

Or will they strictly be shown on fuel and ion only?

And the other two channels are now FX and Fox, right? (I have these channels, but I don't think I have ion or fuel...).

THanks

[urge2kill]

ION is over the air also.

[urge2kill]

Not all markets though.

[Thor4140]

I was all set to take a shot at Machida over Jones until i saw the two stand next to one another. The size advantage is huge for Jones.

[gabe]

lol yea right, rory was a stylisitic nightmare for brian imo. Brian had size, that's it...everywhere else mcdonald had the advantage and would outclass him - feet, hands, jitz, wrestling, athleticism > ebersole.

i think you're really under-estimating ebersole. guy is a beast. i loved him as a dog against rory.

[Winner211]

Ebersole was my roommate for over a year and a half and he is a beast! It was going to be a tough fight for him but getting the odds would make him a smart bet...too bad Rory got injured

[TheCalculator]

Ebersole is surprisingly good. He's kind of a wildman and it works for him.

[PunisherIND]

damn, would have loved claude patrick +180. ill still take him at +125 though.

edit: -105 now.

[PunisherIND]

I feel you brother.

sorry if I am out of the loop, but will the fights that are on fuel and ion ALSO be on facebook / streaming on a legit and authorized website???

Or will they strictly be shown on fuel and ion only?

And the other two channels are now FX and Fox, right? (I have these channels, but I don't think I have ion or fuel...).

THanks

i remember reading that it will not stream on facebook anymore.

[PunisherIND]

ion and fuel tv are not standard package channels, you have get the package that goes with it and same goes for FUEL TV which now has its first card slated. And sadly both channels are in different packages for time warner and they want 5/mo each or can i upgrade my bill and get a whole slew of channels ill never watch. Im not liking all these events on different channels very much now, just going to stick to streaming.

man, time warner sucks.

HDNet (for Inside MMA and random smaller events) - not available. they used to have it, but it was part of a "sports package" with a bunch of useless channels. then they suddenly stopped carrying hdnet, but kept charging me for useless package.

EPIX (for Bellator in HD) - not available.

Fuel TV - only if you pay extra.

ION - i actually get ION as part of the standard package. Brooks, if you live in the NYC area you should have ION.

im so happy FIOS just became available in my area and i scheduled to have it installed next week. yea boy! all of these "mma channels" are free and part of the ultimate hd package. not to mention free nfl redzone channel!

[TheCalculator]

Just talked to my buddy who's Claude Patrick and Mark Bocek's trainer.

Just a couple of factoids:

- They're injury free.

- Bocek had his camp with GSP and the crew in Montreal.

- Patrick was training with Jake Shields for a good bit, Anthony Johnson, Michael Johnson, Rashad Evans… Really good camp.

[brooks85]

man, time warner sucks.

HDNet (for Inside MMA and random smaller events) - not available. they used to have it, but it was part of a "sports package" with a bunch of useless channels. then they suddenly stopped carrying hdnet, but kept charging me for useless package.

EPIX (for Bellator in HD) - not available.

Fuel TV - only if you pay extra.

ION - i actually get ION as part of the standard package. Brooks, if you live in the NYC area you should have ION.

im so happy FIOS just became available in my area and i scheduled to have it installed next week. yea boy! all of these "mma channels" are free and part of the ultimate hd package. not to mention free nfl redzone channel!

ya im just not in the best location for service. I found out time warner doesnt even carry ION in my area and to make it worse since I live on the outskirts of town they are the only cable provider.

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

4 prelims are on Sportsnet in Canada at 7:00 EST

[MMAbetMASTA]

Just talked to my buddy who's Claude Patrick and Mark Bocek's trainer.

Just a couple of factoids:

- They're injury free.

- Bocek had his camp with GSP and the crew in Montreal.

- Patrick was training with Jake Shields for a good bit, Anthony Johnson, Michael Johnson, Rashad Evans… Really good camp.

Good to know!!! Thanks man, always appreciate inside info.

[v1y]

I'm actually really surprised patrick isn't more of a dog against Ebersole.