Tyson Griffin’s last seven fights have gone to a decision, most recently with a win over Rafael dos Anjos. At UFC 103 in Dallas, he will be seeking to take control away from the judges with a stoppage victory over veteran Hermes Franca.
TriStateFighter.com spoke with Griffin earlier this summer at the Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas about Franca … the need to ‘fight exciting’ … and the one rule in MMA he would have changed or altered.
New Jersey’s Frankie Edgar will need all his tools Saturday night Vs. Hermes Franca in Las Vegas. We know Edgar’s wrestling is world class - but it is his stand-up game that is catching up very quickly. In a ferocious workout with his training partner, Chris Liguori - Edgar shows how dangerous he can be wherever the fight may go. In Liguori’s words, Edgar was a “beast” in the final weeks leading up to this fight. Check out this behind the scenes training video of Frankie Edgar and Chris Liguori. Click through to watch the video.
Boxing is doomed. How can one pay 50$ for the Pac-Man/Clottey fight and get 12 rounds of nothing. Yes, the promoters are sketchy and the structure of the sport is nuts - but the product of boxing, the in ring action could save the sport yet almost never delivers and regardless of all the rest, the actual fights must deliver and they rarely do. MMA almost always delivers. Every fight is always one strike away from ending. The entire card usually has value in MMA. Does anybody know or care about the undercard of Pac-Man/Clottey? I could rant on... but I am amazed boxing is even alive to the extent it is. Boxing is about on par with the WNBA for excitement value. The sport is in a major bear market with MMA stealing market share every month.