what's up everyone and welcome back to the MMA Zone today let's get started with Dana White reveals UFC 311 card the UFC announced that the UFC 311 card will take place at the Inuit dome in Los Angeles Dana White broke the news last night that Islam makev versus Armen cukan will be headlining this card while morab deash versus Umar Nam magedov will serve as the co-main event and before we continue make sure to leave a like on the video to help support the channel here's Dana White's official announcement Saturday January 18th at the Intuit dome
in Los Angeles California it will be headlined by the pound-for-pound number one ranked fighter in the world and lightweight champion Islam makev taking on number one Contender Arman cukan makev has defeated every opponent he has faced for almost a decade and is on a 14 fight win streak his last four wins have all come intitle bouts over former world champions with seven of his last eight coming by finish suian has an impressive record of 22 and3 and is coming off a win over former Champion Charles aloa and a performance of the night win over benil
derush this is a rematch from 2019 and since that time both of these guys have a combined record of 18- one this is such a bad main event and just finalized last night the co-main event will now be a bantamweight title fight between the champion Mor Rob devil and undefeated needed number one Contender Umar nurga medov morab came into the office late last night told us that he is tired of listening to Umar disrespect him and wanted to make this fight happen as soon as possible we called Umar he was sleeping in dastan and he
said hell yes anywhere any time Moro is coming off a title win over sha o Ali at the sphere and is riding an 11 fight win streak Umar Nur medov is 18-0 and is coming off an impressive win over number three ranked Cory sandh in only six UFC fights Umar already has the alltime UFC bantamweight record for striking accuracy and is second in Striking differential only behind sha Ali this entire card is stacked UFC 311 Mev versus San is live from the Intuit dome in Los Angeles California January 18th tickets on sale Friday at ticketmaster.com
it's crazy to think that morab came into Dana White's office lately last night to make the fight happen because of umar's trash talk on social media with a little over a month of train for the fight how do you guys see this fight playing out Habib who will be cornering both Umar and Islam at UFC 311 reacted to the news by saying this on Instagram two title fights at once I think it's never happened before or hasn't happened until now what a night is waiting for me I hope I'll survive it's also important to note
that UFC 311 also has Yuri praska versus Jamal Hill UFC 311 is shaping up to be an exciting first pay-per-view of 201 25 what are your thoughts on the UFC 311 card let us know down in the comments section below Ian Gary admits to tapping out in sparring session during an interview with Ariel helwani this week shop cot rachmanov said that Ian Gary's wife has unreleased footage of him submitting the future during a sparring session while we've heard Fighters like Francis enanu and San go at it about previous training sessions before throwing down inside the
Octagon Ian Gary isn't disputing the fact that he was choked out by The Nomad in training on Wednesday he spoke during an interview with talk sports where he said that regardless of what happened in the gym he's going to put a hole in the nomad's head come Saturday night yes it's training dude if I told you about all the people that I've absolutely burned and choked in training you would sit here and say I'm the best fighter in the world already but the truth is we're all learning and practicing in training when you were playing
football you're not going out there 110% every single training session trying to go out there and that ball and smack it at your goal and do it as aggressive as you possibly can you don't do that you learn you try to kick the ball a different way you try to bend it a little bit different you add a little bit of finesse to it you mess up a couple of times you have success you go oh how do I do this better it's the same with fighting so for me if he wants to hold on
to anything from 2 or 3 years ago then hold on to it but I promise you now I'm a different Beast than what I was when at that point in time I'm going to go out here and I'm going to put a hole in his head on Saturday night Gary wasn't the only one who was dismissive of the sparring session in response to the clip of the future talking about being submitted by Rak manov Bal Muhammed shared a gift of Alan I 's Infamous we're talking about practice rant regardless of how things played out in
the gym all those years ago and how things play out at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night Gary doesn't think this is the last he and rock manov will see of each other in an interview with ESPN on Wednesday he explained regardless of this fight I believe we're going to see each other again he is that much better than everybody else and I'm that much better than everybody else if Gary winds up being right and the two Collide again in the future It could wind up being for the title Nick Diaz coach reveals reason behind
recent struggles Nick Diaz has been going through it and after the fan favorites girlfriend shed light on some of the Stockton Superstars struggle with addiction the MMA Community has been rallying around Diaz while Joe rigs had spoken a bit about some of Diaz's struggles on an episode of Tim Welch's podcast earlier this year fans have been wondering where things went wrong for the former Strikeforce Champion Diaz's longtime coach Caesar Gracie spoke about the situation during an appearance on the combo podcast and from the sounds of things Diaz's struggles go all the way back to when
the Diaz brothers became friends with Ron Rousey I think Ronda Rousey got him drinking cuz she would come up before she was famous and hang out it wasn't her fault but Diaz could not drink he can't do things like that and that set him on a different path and all of a sudden he's friends with Hollywood friends Las Vegas friends they're kind of weird so he went on a path but I can't go on that path that's not my path all I could do is stay on the outside and wait for him to come to
my path while it's not clear if Diaz will try to return to the Octagon after having his fight with viente Luca canceled for a second time it sounds like before the UFC tries to book him another fight he needs to be in a better place in his personal life based on the response to the footage of Diaz trying to start a fire in a parking lot it's pretty clear that the MMA Community is behind him and supporting him UFC updates kicking off today's UFC updates we got a change to the upcoming Fight Night tamper card
next weekend and the UFC Vegas won a one card at the Apex on January 11th Amanda heas and McKenzie D were originally supposed to fight on the Tampa card but now the UFC is pivoting and pushing the fight back to the main event of the Jan anuary 11th card Alex behunin is also reporting that the UFC is looking to book a headliner between heavy-handed 185 Pounders Jared caner and Gregory RoboCop Rodriguez for the UFC Vegas 102 card at the Apex on February 15th if the fight does get finalized caner will be looking to snap a
two-fight skid while RoboCop will be looking to make it four straight last but not least a fight between Jean Silva and melik basaran has been added to the UFC Seattle card on February 22nd with Silva looking to make it four in a row and basaran looking to make it two straight Ariel helwani reacts to Dana White shutting down Jones versus enanu even though Dana White and the UFC don't cross-promote fights turkey alad Sheik gave fight fans some hope that he could make a potential bout between Jon Jones and Francis enanu happened earlier this week even
though fans have wanted this fight to happen for years now Dana White replied to an Instagram comments saying that turkey hinted at trying to make the fight writing absolutely not true John versus Tom on Wednesday's episode of the aerial helwani show the 14 time MMA journalist of the Year reacted to White shutting down a Jones and ganu fight what's so interesting about this is what is not true again if you look at the clip if you look at what turkey said if you listen to what he said he's not actually saying it's Francis versus John
but it seems to be insinuated number one he's also not saying that it's a done deal he's just saying this is what he wants okay but what's fascinating about this is for the first time ever for the first time in the Dana White UFC era which now spans some 24 plus years there is someone out there who can talk about making fights and it's not Dana White and I can't imagine that is something that he loves and so here he is talking about a UFC fighter UFC property if you will I want to make this
fight no one's ever been able to say that no one's had that luxury no one's had that power and so that's why I think you see him rushing to say no no no no this ain't happening even though turkey and the Saudi public investment fund could throw a whole truckload of money at Dana White and the UFC to cross promote a Jones and ganu fight considering Dana had said before that if he was Jones he'd dropped to 185 before fighting in ganu the money might not be enough to convince him to risk a champ losing
and with the UFC's exclusive contracts turkey might have a hard time trying to make a fight between the two happen despite having plenty of money to offer the UFC moar evloev disrespects Alexander banovski and Max Holloway after ilot tapu's win over Max Holloway the Champions next fight is expected to be a rematch with Alexander volkanovski the way moves are ilf se's things though Holloway and volkanovski's time a top the sport has come and gone and there's now a new era of 145 Pounders during a fight we media scrum on Wednesday IV weighed in saying that
he isn't so sure that a rematch between topu and volkanovski is a good idea I don't think that's good idea to fight with wowski again wowski is a legend but he's done and uh and Max hway also they they are like being good fires like for a long time but time is gone gone you know and uh fresh blood is here so let me prove that I'm champion after his loss at UFC 308 hway announced that he's making the move up to lightweight fulltime while on the flip side there's really been no indication of what
a loss for volkanovski could mean at this stage of his career with new contenders like evloev aljamain Sterling and Diego Lopez all on the verge of title contention is vul winds up losing to elmatador again he could face an uphill battle while trying to get back into title contention Ian Gary goes off on Kobe Covington Ian Gary's been trying to get a fight with Kobe Covington finalized for a while now despite a pretty bitter Roar of words between the two sides and Gary reportedly being offered the fight a couple of times nothing ever came to
fruition once Gary agreed to step in and fight shaat rock manov at UFC 310 Covington agreed to fight walking Buckley on short notice during his fight week media scrum on Wednesday the future went off on the former interim champ saying that cumington is just trying to stay relevant and would never actually agree to fight him he's fighting just magically reappeared out of thin air just came out of nowhere didn't he oh yeah I'll do it it just shows he's a coward it proves that he never ever ever wanted to fight me in the first place
he's the perfect example of someone who is trying to stay relevant by talking about me sha he even mentioned Charles at one point because he was getting all the media attention and he's not willing to back it up he would never ever ever in a million years step into the octagon with me and face his fears because I am the man he fears the most Gary also said earlier in the week that in an Ideal World he'd beat The Nomad this weekend and then turn around and fight Covington in Tampa but given that the UFC
would have to take the fight away from walking Buckley that doesn't seem realistic Conor McGregor receives bad news after the judge in a Nikita hand case earlier this morning ordered McGregor to pay for James Lawrence's legal fees instead of Nikita James was found innocent in the trial which would make Nikita liable for the cost of his lawyers but since she won against Connor the judge felt that the money she earned in court shouldn't be spent on legal fees therefore ordering Connor to pay for it the MMA Community roasts Dana White for using an only fans
girl again and this time promoting it on the UFC in the video Dana can be see Wheeling around the of girl in a suitcase this is the same girl that was used to promote a power slap giveaway just the other day and it looks like Dana will be using her for some kind of promotion within the UFC now here's what the MMA Community had to say collating with a worker is a new low Dana to which Dana White replied saying put an shirt on to which another fan responded saying Unk you post your perky shirtless
all the time I don't want to hear it from you Dana responded saying not in literally every single post absolute disgrace you literally don't give an about the UFC fan base anymore you know is expensive when Dana White starts collabing with of girls I remember the good old days when we thought the nek boys were the cringiest way UFC could try to get views comments are like morning coffee super rare Dana White L why is Dana and the UFC posting vids with an of girl the new Nina promoting of girls cuz once you get into
Power slap you've hit rock bottom 55 years old Wheeling around 20-year-old only fans girls to try and get views Cloud chasing an ego has no age limit imagine being worth $500 million married with kids and posting these cringe videos using UFC accounts to get people to watch your slap party online I just lost a lot of respect ECT for Dana White shaking my head Dana claims power slap is so huge and gets more views than all the other sports combined yet here he is hanging out and shooting promos with only fans trying to promote power
slap this is how he's promoting power slap what happened to the boss I loved
