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A previously-unreported lightweight matchup between Shane Nelson and Matt Wiman, as well as a middleweight bout between Lucio Linhares and Rousimar Palhares originally rumored for The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale, are among the latest additions to the official fight card for UFC 107 on December 19 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read More »Carolina Fight Promotions put on a great event at the Carolina Crown 2 in Raleigh, North Carolina Saturday night. The card featured seven amateur bouts and seven professional bouts, including two championship fights, and was headlined by former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Vinny Magalhaes defeating Kris Davis, who was a late replacement for Jason Guida, who pulled out of the fight due to a reported back injury.
Read More »Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem and Bellator lightweight title-holder Eddie Alvarez were among the winners on Sunday at DREAM 12 in Osaka, Japan.
Overeem submitted James Thompson with a guillotine choke in under a minute in the DREAM 12 main event, while Alvarez used an arm-triangle choke to defeat Katsunori Kikuno in the second-round of their featured matchup.
Read More »Patrick Barry scored an extra $120,000 on Saturday, earning two $60,000 “Fight Night” bonuses for his second-round knockout of Antoni Hardonk at “UFC 104: Machida vs. Shogun” at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Hardonk and Stefan Struve also picked up $60,000 bonuses for their showings at last night’s pay-per-view event.
Read More »UFC light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua have agreed to an immediate rematch following Machida’s controversial decision win over Rua on Saturday in the main event of UFC 104.
“I thought “Shogun” won the fight. I think there will be a rematch.” said UFC President Dana White at the post-fight press conference. “I talked to both of them and they both agreed to a rematch.”
Read More »The “Machida Era” was extended in controversial fashion on Saturday, as light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida was awarded a questionable unanimous decision win over Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in the main event of UFC 104 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Cain Velasquez dominated Ben Rothwell in the UFC 104 co-headliner, while Gleison Tibau, Joe Stevenson, and Anthony Johnson also earned main card wins.
Read More »Welterweight Anthony Johnson, who weighed in 6 pounds over the 170 pound division limit on Friday for tonight’s UFC 104 event, talks to Heavy.com about missing weight and a future move up to middleweight.
“I was in the sauna for an hour and I lost three or four pounds right off the bat. I knew it was coming off. That’s why I said that if I had another hour or two, I would have been able to make it. I got out of the sauna, and I think I was out too long because my sweating stopped, and when I got back in the sauna I couldn’t get anything else off. That’s what broke me.”
Read More »Welterweights Martin Kampmann and Rory Markham have reportedly agreed to square off at UFC 108 on January 2 in Las Vegas. Following his win over former WEC champ Carlos Condit, Kampmann was knocked out by Paul Daley in September, while Markham had his UFC record evened at 1-1 with a loss to Dan Hardy in February.
Read More »Newcomer Karen Darabedyan has been tapped to replace an injured Anthony Pettis and take on Rob McCullough at WEC 44, again completing the fight card for the November 18 Versus-televised event which takes place at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas.
Read More »All eighteen fighters scheduled to compete at tomorrow’s DREAM 12 event in Osaka, Japan hit the scales earlier today to weigh-in for their bouts. Lightweight Won Sik Park was the long fighter on the card who failed to make weight on their first attempt, with notables Alistair Overeem, James Thompson, Eddie Alvarez, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Chase Beebe all hitting their marks.
Read More »Fighters weighed in today for Carolina Fight Promotion’s Carolina Crown 2, to be held tomorrow at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC. All fighters on the pro card made weight, including headliners Vinny Magalhaes and late replacement Chris Davis.
Read More »All twenty-two fighters who will be in action at Saturday’s UFC 104 event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles hit the scales today to weigh in for their bouts. Light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida (202.5) and challenger Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (204.5) successfully made weight for the UFC 104 main event, as did co-headliners Cain Velasquez (238) and Ben Rothwell (265).
Anthony Johnson, Josh Neer, and Gleison Tibau were the only fighters who failed to make weight, but their fights will go on as scheduled.
Read More »Strikeforce announced the official preview show for the November 7 meeting between top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers this week, as “Fight Camp 360: Fedor vs. Rogers” premieres on Showtime on November 3 and chronicles the pair as they prepare for their CBS-televised showdown.
Meanwhile, the UFC will counter Strikeforce’s CBS debut on November 7 with “UFC Main Events” on Spike TV, a new special showcasing main events from the promotion’s recent cards.
Read More »A lightweight matchup between WEC newcomer Chris Horodecki and Anthony Njokuani and a bout between bantamweight contenders Damacio Page and Takeya Mizugaki have been added to WEC 45 on December 19 in Las Vegas, according to reports from MMAjunkie and Sherdog.
Read More »A planned lightweight bout between The Ultimate Fighter 8 winner Efrain Escudero and Nik Lentz has been scrapped from UFC Fight Night 20, with Escudero now likely to fight Evan Dunham while Lentz is expected to meet Jeremy Stephens on the January 20 card in Fairfax, Virginia.
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