Boxing fan Dana White hammers the ref in Floyd-Ortiz debacle

Boxing fan Dana White hammers the ref in Floyd-Ortiz debacle

If I heard "that's boxing at its best" one more time on Sunday, I was going to scream.

What was shaping up as a good fight, was destroyed by a chain of events that left fight fans shaking their heads or completely enraged at the ending of the Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight.

After a headbutt by Ortiz, the fight was stopped and eventually re-started by one of the fighters. Floyd Mayweather took advantage of Ortiz's naivety and knocked him silly when his hands were down. Many are blaming referee Joe Cortez for losing control of the fight, including UFC president Dana White. White tweeted:

"Ref never sent a fighter to a neutral corner to take a point. Especially after a intentional head butt! That's why u have a ref!!!!"

White didn't choose sides between Mayweather and Ortiz, he blasted Cortez.

"You can't blame the fighters. The ref is in there to stop that [expletive] from happening! That is the worst ref'n I have ever seen in boxing EVER."

In his own sport, White has never been shy about going after judges or referees.

Frankly, everyone in the ring had a part in this mess, but clearly Cortez failed to do his job. The shocked look on his face says it all.

Boxing fan Dana White hammers the ref in Floyd-Ortiz debacle

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Possessing unreal physical tools, Jones may also be the smartest fighter in MMA

Possessing unreal physical tools, Jones may also be the smartest fighter in MMA

Whether you were watching mixed martial arts for the first time or you're a long time fan, seeing Jon Jones last night must've had many shaking their heads in disbelief. The 24-year-old is an absolute phenom. Jones dominated and stopped a guy, in Quinton Jackson, who hadn't been submitted in a fight since 2001.

Youth was on his side as he was simply too long and athletic for the veteran Quinton Jackson. As ridiculous as Jones' physical tools are, listening to him analyze the fight during the postfight press conference, has me thinking that his mental grasp of the game might be the scariest thing for future opponents.

Jones and his coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn came up with a great game plan and the young fighter executed it almost perfectly.

"Our strategy was to fight long and make each shot count ... use a lot of the low kicks to set up higher kicks and shoot straight," Jones. "You know, Rampage has knocked out some of the best in the sport, but he tends to knock them out while they're swinging hooks. That's why I did a lot of upkicks and straight punches, because he does the best when he's rolling off hooks."

Even at the most intense moments of the fight, Jones is thinking about each move he makes.

"Each round things were starting to slow down for both of us. We were starting to reach fatigue. We were starting to weigh on each other. I just felt after the takedown, his explosiveness didn't feel very strong."

Jones explained why it was time to turn it up a notch.

"I just felt like he was saying 'darnit, I'm against the cage and I'm down.' I knew it was going to be hard to fight out of that position. I knew that position would've took a lot of energy for him to try get out of that. I felt that moment was coming where anything devastating would've been a major blow to the effort to comeback. I just took it."

Taking it included crushing Jackson with a well-placed knee to the chest. Rampage, clearly hurt, said he wanted to protect a cut over his right eye so he rolled to the side. Jones jumped on top and finished with a rear-naked choke.

It was a brilliant performance, but Jones was still in self-critical mode following the easy win.

"It teaches me a lot about my skillset and things I need to work on. There were a lot of times Rampage swung at me and instead of defending technically, I kind of ran like a little girl and turned my back. I need to work on my slipping and evading, and my comfort in the pocket," said Jones.

Does that sound like any other fighters in the UFC? That's same attitude you hear from UFC heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez and the welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre. They never get too high or low before, during and after a fight. Dominant champions have that it factor. It appears Jones and Velasquez have the potential to dominate for a long time just like GSP and Anderson Silva have in an era that's more competitve than ever.

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Te Huna and Mizugaki open UFC 135 with vicious knockouts

Te Huna and Mizugaki open UFC 135 with vicious knockoutsRicardo Romero wanted no part of James Te Huna on the feet. In just 47 seconds of UFC 135 openers, we saw exactly why.

Romero, caught in a bad position on his hands and knees, got whacked by several big rights and was knocked silly. Te Huna got a KO win at the 0:47 mark of the first round in Denver, Co.

Romero's plan was fine, but his execution was awful.

Seven seconds into the fight, he shot for a takedown in sloppy fashion. Romero tried a few more times from long distance. He was telegraphing the attempts, so Te Huna simply stepped back, used Romero's head as target practice landing uppercuts and short rights.

An uppercut rocked Romero and a little right hook dropped him. The American scrambled and pushed forward, but Te Huna simply backed up. With his opponent on his hands and knees, two more Te Huna rights landed and Romero went limp.

The referee Tim Mills probably jumped in to save Romero one shot too late. When he rolled Romero over, the fighter starting babbling and moaning. He had no clue what had happened.

"Just relax brother," Mills said several times. "Everything's going to be okay. Calm down."

Te Huna (15-5) was thrilled to get the victory so quickly. He explained that he'd dislocated a finger on his left hand a few weeks back, so he was facing using the right hand the majority of the night.

Te Huna and Mizugaki open UFC 135 with vicious knockouts

Mizugaki swarms Escovedo to get bounce back win

This was a different Takeya Mizugaki tonight in Denver. The Japanese striking specialist lacked aggression with his attack in his last fight against Brian Bowles. Cole Escovedo was the recipient of Mizugaki's pent up frustration. Mizugaki battered the American on the feet before scoring a TKO finish at 4:30 of the second round.

Mizugaki (15-6, 2-1 UFC, ) once challeged Miguel Torres for the WEC 135-pound title, but he's been less aggressive in recent fights.

He changed that tonight by closing space early. Escovedo (17-8, 0-2 UFC) had a height and reach advantage, but was never allowed to get comfortable. In close quarters, Mizugaki consistently found a home for his left hook. Escovedo tried to slow things down by grabbing Mizugaki around the neck with a Thai clinch. Mizugaki adjusted and crushed Escovedo with uppercuts and short elbows.

Mizugaki also broke down Escovedo with some excellent lefts to the body. With 2:30 minutes left in the second, he landed a bomb to Escovedo's side and that started the slide. Escovedo eventually got trapped along the cage and dropped two times by left hooks. The second time he was on his back, he was through and Mizugaki sealed things with a nasty right cross that left Escovedo dazed.

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Assuncao wins slow-paced fight with strong third round

During yesterday's weigh-in, it was evident that Junior Assuncao was fired up to return to the Octagon for the first time since 2007, but it took a while on fight night for him to get going. Once he did, Assuncao crushed Eddie Yagin on the ground in the final round to take a unanimous decision, 30-26, 30-26 and 30-27, in the final Facebook fight on the UFC 135 undercard.

Assuncao said he wasn't nervous, but something didn't click until the middle of the fight. He did admit he was trying to wear down Yagin and eliminate the possibility of getting caught on the feet.

The Brazilian was extremely dominant in the final round. His experience showed during a guillotine predicament. Assuncao warded off the danger and dumped Yagin on his back with 3:35 left in the fight. Yagin never got back to his feet.

Assuncao mixed up elbows, hammer fists and punches to Yagin's head and body. Two judges gave him a 10-8 round.

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B.J. Penn doesn?t want to make it personal against Nick Diaz

In last week's UFC 137 switcheroo, B.J. Penn ended up facing Nick Diaz instead of Carlos Condit. Because of that, the producers of "Countdown," the show that airs to hype up UFC cards, had to work with Penn again to make the show suitable for the new line-up.

Penn says that the UFC asked him to say Diaz's name and "I'm going to beat Nick Diaz," something Penn found a problem with.

A few things to mention here:

1. Countdown's role is to hype up fights. Of course they want Penn to say something about his opponent. That will help sell pay-per-views, which is a good goal for everyone, right?

2. Penn has threatened to lick blood off his opponents. He has trash-talked before every fight, except for when he fought his friend Matt Hughes. Now he's worried about saying, "I'm going to beat Nick Diaz?" C'mon, son.

3. He says that he is worried that Diaz will be edited to look like a bad guy. Really, B.J.? This video was not edited, and Diaz still didn't come out looking that hot.

If Penn doesn't want to talk trash, that's fine. But that's not what he was asked to do. He was asked to say he was going to win the fight. Is that really all that bad?

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?Rampage?-Jones prefight trash talk off to blazing start

Jon Jones is still learning on the job. Being a big star fighter and genuinely dumping on your opponent isn't easy. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson may not be the fighter he was in his twenties, but he's better than ever when it comes to delivering awesome lines to denigrate his opponent.

In a piece of marketing genius, the fighters appeared together on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show." Jackson stole the moment. That's not a rip on Jones, he's simply not seasoned enough and frankly, it's just not in his nature to trash talk in brash fashion.

Jones defends his UFC light heavyweight title belt against Jackson, a former 205-pound UFC champ, in Saturday's main event at UFC 135.

Jackson dropped some classic lines about Jones being cocky (1:04 mark). He also countered Jones talk about being a criminal justice major by saying he understands now why the young man would've been a great detective (2:40 mark). That was a thinly-veiled shot about the fighter's spygate scandal a few weeks back. Jackson's funniest material was about his mother not being welcomed at fights (3:12 mark).

SB Nation doesn't give Jones an out on this one. That site says Jones loses in these exchanges because he's a phony.

At today's final prefight presser, there were more contentious exchanges between champ and challenger.

"I'm glad Jon Jones is underestimating me. He'll be very surprised on Saturday. I think this is the best camp of my career because I was very motivated," Jackson said. "Muscle Farm had a great facility. It was state of the art. I haven't been this motivated in a long time."

Jones doesn't understand where the "underestimating" stuff is coming from.

" I'm positive that I've never stated that Rampage doesn't have the tools to beat me. Never did I say that in any interviews. He's a unified Champion and has knocked out some of the best in the world. I'm not underestimating Rampage at all. That would be a very, very ignorant thing for me to do, to underestimate somebody with such a great status," said Jones.

But he does believe older fighters are easier to beat because of accumulated damage.

"I think a big part of getting knocked out, it comes more and more with the older guys in the sport. Your ability to take punches goes away. I have a fresh chin. I have a fresh passion and a fresh heart and I think that's gonna get me out of a lot of things. I have a passion to not wanna get hit and because of how serious I take this sport, that's why my chin hasn't been tested. I put a lot of time in evading and movements," said Jones.

You can watch UFC 135 here on Yahoo! Sports

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White vlog: MMA shows off its sportsmanship

The UFC's schedule is intense right now. UFC 135 comes later this week. With Ultimate Fight Night 25 and UFC 134 in the rear mirror, it gave Dana White a chance to catch the fans up on what happened in his first UFC 135 vlog.

The UFC president's personal videographer Eliot shot a lot of behind-the-scenes footage of fighters shortly after their fights at UFN 25. There's awesome exchanges between winner Matt Riddle and loser Lance Benoist as well as Shamar Bailey and Evan Dunham (4:35).

Any chance White thought this was a good time to put MMA sportsmanship on display because of what just happened with Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz? He says, no. Either way, it's a good showcase for MMA.

Also check out the beginning of the hype for UFC 135's title fight between Jon Jones and Quinton Jackson. Someone from MMA Meltdown radio show in Denver asked the timeless prefight question about when the UFC would be coming back to the city? For some reason, that sent "Rampage" rolling off the stage in laughter.

You can watch UFC 135 here on Yahoo! Sports

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Strikeforce?s Three Stars: Cormier, Lawal and Mein

Strikeforce?s Three Stars: Cormier, Lawal and Mein

Who stood out from the thrilling card delivered by Strikeforce on Saturday night in Cincinnati? Read Cagewriter's picks, then tell us your stars in the comments or on Facebook.

No. 1 star -- Daniel Cormier: When Strikeforce announced the heavyweight Grand Prix, did you ever expect that one of the finalists would be Cormier? The two-time Olympian was given a golden opportunity when Alistair Overeem left the tournament. Cormier seized the moment, knocking out the much larger Antonio Silva in the first round. Unfortunately, he injured his hand in the process. The timing of his finals bout against Josh Barnett will depend on the severity of the injury.

No. 2 star -- "King Mo" Lawal: After a layoff of more than a year, Lawal showed no signs of injury or ring rust, knocking out Roger Gracie in the first round. After the win, he said he is interested in going after the Strikeforce light heavyweight belt again, but not if it's a bout to win a vacant belt. Lawal and Cormier's wins were part of the 4-0 night by American Kickboxing Academy.

No. 3 star -- Jordan Mein: One of the best performances of the evening was on the preliminary card, as Bas Rutten-trained Mein took out Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos. With his father in his corner, the 21-year-old Mein handled Santos' leg and body kicks before unloading a flurry of strikes on Santos' face in the third round and then finishing with five right elbows.

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Diaz destroys Gomi in UFC 135 PPV opener

Diaz destroys Gomi in UFC 135 PPV opener

Nate Diaz has always been considered a step behind his brother Nick. But tonight, he did his big bro one better by tearing through Japanese star Takanori Gomi in just over four minutes. Diaz pummeled Gomi on the feet to set up an armbar stoppage at 4:27 of the first round in Denver, Co.

Gomi was arguably the best 155-pound fighter in the world from 1998-2005 as rolled up a 24-2 record. He got a wake up call against Nick in 2007 at PRIDE 33. The older Diaz won that fight, but he also took some damage. Nate had no such problems. He was never threatened in four-plus minutes by the dangerous power puncher.

The 5-foot-7 Gomi simply couldn't solve the length riddle presented by the 6-foot Diaz. The taller fighter used his reach brilliantly. According to Compustrike, he made good on 52 percent of his punches and outlanded Gomi 44-8.

Diaz (14-7, 9-5 UFC) flicked the jab early as a range finder. It made Gomi incredibly tentative. When Diaz finally threw with bad intentions it was a blowout.

Gomi (33-8, 1-3 UFC) ate a right hook with 3:30 left in the round,  Diaz began to taunt him and dropped his hands. Diaz started to land 1-2's whenever he wanted. A stunned Gomi tried to shoot and found himself under Diaz, who pounded away. Gomi got back to his feet, but he was close to finished as he put his back on the cage.

Diaz let his hands go and battered Gomi. Gomi actually recovered for a split second by pushing Diaz to the ground, but made the silly move of going into the Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert's guard. Diaz's legs are a mile long. Gomi got twisted up and caught in a triangle. Diaz eventually transitioned it to an arm bar forcing Gomi to tap.

Diaz is back where he belongs at 155 pounds. He made the strange move up to welterweight where he went 2-2, with losses against Dong Hyun Kim and Rory MacDonald. If he stays focused, he can certainly get right back into the mix for a run at the lightweight title. Keep in mind, he lost a narrow decision to Gray Maynard just 20 months ago. Maynard fought to a draw at UFC 125 against champion Frank Edgar. The rematch goes down in two weeks at UFC 136 in Houston.

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WSBK: Late-Race Resurgance in Race 2 at Imola Extends the Championship Fight

Starting on pole for the sixth weekend of the 2011 World Superbike season, Carlos Checa sat the front row for the second race at Imola alongside Jonathan Rea, Noriyuki Haga, and Tom Sykes. Checa set a new lap record (1:47.196) during the Superpole sessions on Saturday to take that pole, despite leading only S3 and the two free practices all weekend. Rea was the first to take provisional pole on Friday, with Sykes having the ...

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