Georges St Pierre - Image: Zuma Press

During an interview with Yahoo’s Kevin Iole, BJ said “It’s just my opinion that he uses steroids. That’s it. My opinion. I do believe it. I can’t hand you any proof, but that’s my opinion.”

Another quote from Penn: “In my opinion, he doesn’t play by the rules when it comes to steroids and growth hormones and that stuff. Look at him. He’s the worst. He looks like that every day. That’s cheating. There is a reason why there are rules against using steroids. The rest of us, we get fat, then we train and get skinny and the cycle goes over and over again. He looks the same way all the time. Come on.”

While it is true that Georges St Pierre does look ripped all the time, that has to do with his work ethic and training regiment. Even when not preparing for an upcoming fight, GSP is in the gym training with a zeal that borders on obsessive compulsive. Even his vacations usually involve training – he spends a good amount of downtime in Brazil sharpening his skills with jiu jitsu experts and working out with them on the beach.

In short, all signs point towards BJ being completely off the mark. Throwing around steroid allegations without even a shred of evidence like this – especially at one of the most respected martial artists in the sport – is pretty insane and is likely going to cost BJ a lot of fans. But it might get him what he seems to really desire: a third shot at beating Georges. I don’t really see a point but if he wants to get his butt kicked again, I’ll tune in.

First though, he’ll have to make it through Kenny Florian this Saturday at UFC 101. You can read my breakdown of that fight here, and make sure to check out the EveryJoe MMA / UFC section regularly for more random drama and fight insanity!

Post from: EveryJoe

BJ Penn Accuses St Pierre of Using Steroids

Image: Inside Fitness

In this edition, which is the August/September issue, there is a definite UFC theme. St-Pierre, who is from Canada, gives the fitness magazine an in-depth look at his training program that has allowed him to become a UFC star. There is also a lengthy interview with Greg Jackson, one of the most famous and successful UFC trainers.

Other information in this Inside Fitness issue is information about changing the Fat Map of your body and how that can tone and tighten your physique. A number of top selling nutrition bars are analyzed, as is CLA — the much talked about supplement that burns fat fast.

You can purchase Inside Fitness magazines all across Canada in stores such as Chapters, Safeway, 7-11, Shoppers Drug Mart and Walmart. You can also learn more about Inside Fitness at IFMMedia.com.

Post from: EveryJoe

UFC Star on Inside Fitness Cover

Prior to the July 11th event at Mandalay Bay in Nevada, UFC will premiere UFC Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights starting on July 5th. Fans can vote on which fights they think deserve to be in the 100 Greatest Fights. That starts on May 1st at http://ultimate100.spike.com/. That show will start airing on July 5th at 9pm EST and will continue every evening that week, with the exception of Friday July 10th.

UFC Logo

Here is the current fight card as published on UFC.com.

Main Card

• Brock Lesnar Vs. Frank Mir (for the Hw Title)
• Georges St. Pierre Vs. Thiago Alves
• Dan Henderson Vs. Michale Bisping
• Yoshihiro Akiyama Vs. Alan Belcher

Preliminary Card

• Jon Jones Vs. Jake O’Brien
• Dong Hyun Kim Vs. Jonathan Goulet
• CB Dollaway Vs. Tom Lawlor
• Matt Grice Vs. Shannon Gugerty

Post from: EveryJoe

UFC 100 Building With 5 New Fights Carded

MMAFighting.com

Alves is 9-2 in the UFC coming in to this Main Event with a 7 fight winning streak with his last loss to Jon Fitch at UFC Fight Night 5 in 2006 and his most recent win over Josh Koscheck at UFC 60.

Image: Newscom

Post from: EveryJoe

Georges St. Pierre Vs. Thiago Alves At UFC 100

Georges St. Pierre’s side already said he would fight Penn again and Penn has verbally accepted it. Here is a part of a blog posting at bjpenn.com by BJ Penn:

Being able to apply your submissions and sweeps or just being able to hold on to your opponent to defend yourself from being hit is absolutely critical! There is a reason why you are not allowed to put grease anywhere on your body except for the area around your eyes. Because of the grease applied to St.Pierre’s Body the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s executive director, Keith Kizer has stated that the Penn-St. Pierre fight “definitely wasn’t fair”. I hereby accept George St. Pierre and Greg Jackson’s challenge for a fight in the summer 2009. Lets call Dana now and set it up.

I, along with many people feel that he has an obligation in the lightweight division first. People, Kenny Florian to be specific, are waiting on their shot at that belt. There are also others waiting for a chance at the Welter Weight belt. I think it’s only fair to give those people that chance before signing any GSP Vs. Penn III fight. Hopefully Dana White will make a decision with contenders in mind and not dollar signs.

Image: Newscom

Post from: EveryJoe

GSP Vs. BJ Penn…A Third Time?

Here are the purses for UFC 94. A much more realistic pay scale, even for an established promotion. Rumors are floating around that the Affliction MMA promotion may be having financial difficulties after their fighters purses for Affliction: Day Of Reckoning was more than what they grossed in ticket sales. No word yet on how much they made in PPV earnings.

WB= Win Bonus

• Georges St. Pierre – $200k w/$200k= $400k Total WB (Fedor Emelianenko was paid $300k with no win bonus)
• BJ Penn – $125k  (Andrei Arlovski was paid $1.5 million and lost)
• Lyoto Machida – $60k w/$60 WB and $65k Knock Out Of The Night bonus= $185k total. This is a well deserving bonus!
• Thiago Silva – $29k
• Jon Jones – $7k w/$7k WB
• Stephan Bonnar – $22k
• Karo Parisyan – $40K w/$40k WB
• Dong Hyun Kim – $26 k
• Clay Guida – $20 w/$20 WB and $65k Fight Of The Night bonus= $105k total.
• Nate Diaz – $20k and $65k Fight Of The Night Bonus= $105k total.

Gate for UFC 94 was announced at $4.3 Million.

Image: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

Post from: EveryJoe

UFC 94 Pay Days

UFC 94 was an amazing event. Normally I don’t buy very many UFC Pay-Per-Views, but after watching the weigh-ins I couldn’t resist. It was worth every cent.

Clay Guida worked over Nate Diaz pretty good for 2 rounds and in the third he took a few really good jabs but still kept coming at Diaz with everything he had and won by a split decision.

Karo Parisyan somehow got the judges to score in his favor after 3 rounds with Dong Hyun Kim. Karo kept losing his mouthpiece and didn’t get very many takedowns while Kim worked him over pretty good. I think a lot of people expected Kim to win, but alas Parisyan won by split decision after 3 rounds.

Stephan Bonnar had his work cut out for him against a UFC rookie.  With only two fights under his belt, Jon Jones is establishing himself as a young fighter to be reckoned with. There was two times during this fight that Jones could have been called for illegal contact. Once he threw a knew to Bonnar head while Bonnar was not quite up off of the ground yet and another time he threw a spinning elbow that kind of caught Bonnar in the back of the head and sent him face-first to the mat. Jones worked Bonnar in all three rounds although he was looking a bit tired in the third as Bonnar looked as if he was catching his second wind. Jones won by unanimous decision.

Lyoto Machida lured Thiago Silva with his every move. Machida would let Silva stalk him and would stick and move, stick and move. The fight went to the ground briefly a couple of times and right before the end of the first round, Machida pushes Silva off of him and on to the floor. He follows in with a big, driving right (That knocked Silva out cold) and followed with a quick left right at the buzzer. The ref sees that Silva was knocked out and calls the fight at 4:59.

GSP started working B.J. Penn in the first round. Penn looked fresh in the first but by the second round GSP was clearly controlling the fight. The fight stayed on the ground a lot and GSP passed Penn’s guard to take side on so many counts. At the end of round 4, Penn’s corner is shown and he’s leaning up against the cage facing the outside of the ring. He’s being questioned about “Do you know where you are?” and someone says something about the doctor taking a look at Penn. Shortly after the Doc turns away out of the camera and you here someone say something about “stopping it” and Herb Dean stops the fight. Georges St. Pierre wins by TKO.

This was a great fight night. The next two Saturdays there are two great events as well. UFC Fight Night 17 and UFC 95 the following Saturday.

Post from: EveryJoe

UFC 94: GSP Dominates And Machida KO’s Thiago Silva

Post from: EveryJoe

BJ Penn Talks Fight Strategy For UFC 94

Post from: EveryJoe

Georges St. Pierre Training for UFC 94

Post from: EveryJoe

UFC Prime Time Episode 1 And 2