Ufc 151 officially cancelled

[Rob_Floyd]

Wow. Hendo injured his knee, so they are scrapping the whole event.

Apparently, Chael was willing to take the fight, but Jones turned that down.


Jones vs. Machida now slated for for UFC 152 on Sept 22.

[Stoo]

Jones is ducking Chael...

[Vic-JofreBRASIL]

Damn....

[Rob_Floyd]

Guess Jones wasn't lying when he said that he wouldn't give Chael a shot without earning it.

[HeGlassedMe]

[Peter__1987]

This is the saddest i've ever been at a fight cancellation in my entire life

[EL BULLY]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

[will4009]

fuck. how many people have been pulling out of fights recently. also im not too excited about seeing machida take another loss to jones.

[Rob_Floyd]

Hopefully the UFC will learn from this and never again put on such a weak PPV without a strong co-main. Dana is acting like Jones personally cancelled the card, but they could have easily gone through with the card if they had a good co-main.

[Stoo]

They'll have to cut the number of events first Rob, that aint going to happen

[Lefthooktommy]

Dana called Greg Jackson a sport killer

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by Lefthooktommy

Dana called Greg Jackson a sport killer

I wonder why...

[Rob_Floyd]

It's so easy for the UFC to put all the blame on Jones and Jackson to deflect it from themselves. They are already hated by a fair few people, so it doesn't hurt to villainies them further. UFC couldn't possibly take the blame for putting on a very weak card without a fallback main event.

[HeGlassedMe]

Originally Posted by Lefthooktommy

Dana called Greg Jackson a sport killer

Pot calling the kettle black.

[Stoo]

Fucking hell

Jon Jones was given the options and told the consequences. He knows what happened. Machida was in the air when we were trying to make the fight. I can accept why Machida didn't take the fight. I understand that. Greg Jackson told Jones there's no way you take the Chael Sonnen fight on eight days notice. Said it would be the biggest mistake of his career. Greg Jackson is a f***ing sport killer. I've never heard anything like this in my entire life. The first fight cancelled in UFC history and the first champion to ever turn down a match. That's how Jones will be viewed

Jon didn't take the fight because of the advice from Greg Jackson. I always laugh when fighters say ''I'm a businessman''...no you aren't. You're a fighter. We're 7 days out from the fight and we don't have time to find a new main event. Jon Jones acting like this? Just can't do it.

I was never crazy about UFC sponsorships. I'm the wrong guy to ask. I hate it.

We'll figure out what's going on with the other fights. I have no idea what the fallout will be for the undercard but we'll figure it out. This really changes the relationship with Jon Jones.

We're losing a ton of money on this. PPV, marketing. Everything. I learned we're not doing the fight an hour ago. It was a refusal to fight anyone on that day. This card had to get cancelled. Where we're at right now it had to be cancelled. We've never had a champion refuse to fight a guy. I say it all the time that there's always crazy stuff I have to deal with. We built this industry. We know exactly what we're doing. There's going to be things that pop up like injuries. And apparently now, guys that don't want to fight anybody. It's got nothing to do with how we do things.

Me and Lorenzo are both disgusted. Jon hasn't been a popular fighter and I doubt this helps his popularity. We had no problem doing Chael. Did it make sense? No. But these guys have been talking smack and Chael was the guy who accepted it. Chael was pumped. Chael was excited for this fight. He told me to tell Jon Jones there wouldn't be any spinning back fists.

We spent a lot of money. Billboards in Times Square. The media. Everything. It's a massive massive hit.

Being a fight promoter, you can't make someone fight. I can't say ''you have to fight this Saturday.'' You're either a fighter or you're not. This is what we all do for a living. I have a building where 250 people have been busting their ass to promote this card. Good for you Jon Jones that you don't need this fight. There's a bunch of guys on the undercard who need this fight to feed their families. I can't make him take the fight but he should.

I can tell you this right now that he's not turning down the Machida fight. If I get a call today saying he's not taking the Machida fight we'll have another conference call. We should have the bout agreement. He didn't ask for money to fight Chael Sonnen. Who else would I bring in to fight Chael Sonnen? People wanted to see the light heavyweight title fight. There would be people who would like it and people who wouldn't. What I do know is that Chael Sonnen would have fought his ass off to try and be the world champion. Those are the guys I like. Those are the guys I respect. And those are the guys that built this sport.

This is one of the selfish disgusting decisions. It doesn't just affect Jon Jones. I don't think this is going to be a decision that makes people like Jon Jones. I don't care what Greg Jackson thinks. Saying that turning down a fight with Chael Sonnen is the biggest mistake of his career? Greg should only be interviewed by a psychiatrist.