UFC Roundup: Randy Couture Guest Appearance, Upcoming Drug Hearings, December WEC Event, and More
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Oct 29, 2007 at 11:59 am ET11 Comments
- The UFC’s sister organization, World Extreme Cagefighting, will return on December 12th for its first show in more than three months. The stacked card is rumored to include:
- WEC Featherweight Championship: Urijah Faber vs. Jeff Curran
- WEC Light Heavyweight Championship: Doug Marshall vs. Ariel Gandulla
- WEC Middleweight Championship: Paulo Filho vs. TBD (possibly Frank Trigg)
- WEC Lightweight Championship: Rob McCullough vs. Alex Karalexis
- Jens Pulver vs. Cub Swanson
- Popular MMA brand Tapout has signed a deal with the Creative Artists Agency to further extend their brand.
- Early reports suggest that M-1, the promotion that signed Fedor Emelianenko, is in talks to air on ESPN and could put on its first show in February in Chicago. UFC veteran Jeff Monson is rumored to be a possible opponent for Emelianenko’s debut.
- The UFC’s PPV bonus scale has gone public:
- 100,000 – 175,000 buys – $1 per buy
- 175,000 – 300,000 buys – $1.50 per buy
- 300,000 – 330,000 buys – $2 per buy
- 330,000 – plus buys – $3 per buy
- Randy Couture will make a guest appearance tomorrow night on “The Unit”. The show will air at 9pm on CBS.
- UFC veteran Sean Salmon is expected to face Jason “Mayhem” Miller on the next HDNet Fights card in December.
- Paulo Filho and Thiago Silva have both joined Team Link which includes top UFC heavyweight Gabriel Gonzaga.
- Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, Rich Franklin, and Matt Hughes are no longer associated with Xyience.
- UFC veteran Elvis Sinosic has been added to the Cage Rage 24 fight card.
- Sean Sherk, Kazuhiro Nakamura, and Phil Baroni will all have steroid hearings on Wednesday in front of the California State Athletic Commission. Sherk’s hearing is especially important as the result will determine who BJ Penn will face for the lightweight title in December at UFC 79.
- Top-ranked middleweight fighter Dennis Kang was defeated by Yoshihiro Akiyama in his HERO’S debut. Kang, a PRIDE veteran, was expected to jump to the UFC following Zuffa’s purchase of the promotion earlier this year but opted to sign with HERO’S instead. He remains a top middleweight fighter and could be signed by the UFC in the future to bolster their lagging middleweight division.
Tags: Alex Karalexis, Ariel Gandulla, Chuck Liddell, Cub Swanson, Dennis Kang, Doug Marshall, Elvis Sinosic, Fedor Emelianenko, Forrest Griffin, Frank Trigg, Jeff Curran, Jeff Monson, Jens Pulver, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Matt Hughes, Paulo Filho, Phil Baroni, Randy Couture, Rich Franklin, Rob McCullough, Sean Sherk, Thiago Silva, Urijah Faber
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In my opinion they will NOT overturn his suspension…Penn vs Stevenson for the title…The Wec card for december looks good
Wow, the WEC card looks great. I would love to see Trigg there, also. So, what did Xyience do? I heard they didn’t pay people ike they said they would, but nothing official. ANyone know the truths bout that?
I’m looking forward to seeing Cub vs. Jens, that could be s quick-paced great fight. Great for the WEC to get a name like Jens in there also.
I gotta agree with you gino on the December WEC Card; the card looks really good. I hope it is Trigg vs. Filho; that would be a very good fight. The Pulver vs. Swanson fight is very appealing, as well.
Why no mention of the Denis Kang loss? No direct effect on the UFC MW division, but still good info. He lost to Toshihiro Akiyama at K-1’s Hero event yesterday.
Thanks for the great updates Kris. Kris, I have a question; are you going to eventually change your website from mmafrenzy.com to mmadaily.com?
You always have great stuff on the UFC and other great info on things that aren’t related to the UFC, but relating to MMA. Thanks for filling in us UFCdaily fans with the bonus stucture of the PPV buys. I was always curious to how the UFC had that structured. Keep up the good work Kris.
holy_dave – I added a reference to Kang’s loss and did my best to apply it to the UFC. It’s not directly related to the UFC but it’s still important none the less.
Red – Thanks for the compliments. I have tried to purchase MMADaily.com but have received no response so if or when I expand to cover every promotion it will be on a different domain. I already have purchased some domains if/when that happens. There will be a new feature debuting by the weekend hopefully that will expand our news coverage significantly beyond just the UFC.
Thank you very much Kris for addressing my question. I am grateful for everything you do for us. Thanks again.
It is to bad Kand chose another org. The UFC needs more fighters like him, but oh well. Can’t wait to see Jens in the WEC. Have any of you seen “Rhino” fight? That guy is BAD. I think the Mayham Miller vs. Salmon should be interesting. Isn’t Mayham under contract with the UFC or WEC?
I’m not sure. I heard that Mayhem was coming to the UFC next year, so I’m not sure if he has to finish that contract or what. He’s very promotable that’s for sure.
They released Mayhem from his contract several weeks back making the fight with Salmon possible now.