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Quick Hits: Carano-Cyborg Likely For August, DREAM Announces GP Pairings, and More
Apr 13, 2009 - 11:09 am ET | 16 Comments
Quick Hits: Carano-Cyborg Likely For August, DREAM Announces GP Pairings, and More

A women's superfight between Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg is likely to take place in Strikeforce in August, Scott Smith suffered a shattered hand in Saturday's loss, DREAM has announced their featherweight grand prix pairings, and more...

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Quick Hits: Fitch Inks Extension, Bellator Announces Cards, Additions to UFC 101, and More
Mar 25, 2009 - 2:08 pm ET | 20 Comments
Quick Hits: Fitch Inks Extension, Bellator Announces Cards, Additions to UFC 101, and More

Jon Fitch has signed a five-fight extension with the UFC, Bellator has announced the complete lineups for its first three events, Kendall Grove and Matt Riddle vs. Dan Cramer have been added to UFC 101, and more...

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Quick Hits: Koscheck To Return at UFC 98, Duffee vs. Al-Turk Added to UFC 99, and More
Feb 27, 2009 - 2:03 pm ET | 15 Comments
Quick Hits: Koscheck To Return at UFC 98, Duffee vs. Al-Turk Added to UFC 99, and More

Welterweight Nick Thompson has signed with Strikeforce.
After undergoing a knee surgery following his UFC 92 loss to CB Dollaway, UFC middleweight Mike Massenzio will soon undergo neck surgery to repair several bulging discs that are causing stingers. He’ll be sidelined for six months to recover from the surgeries.
A heavyweight boxing match featuring Tim Sylvia and [...]

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Quick Hits: Sadollah planning a drop to 170, Sanchez may come back up from 155, and more
Feb 12, 2009 - 4:00 pm ET | 13 Comments
Quick Hits: Sadollah planning a drop to 170, Sanchez may come back up from 155, and more

Amir Sadollah is recovering from arthroscopic surgery and recently told MMAJunkie that getting back to fighting is most important but a move to the 170 pound division is in his future.
Diego Sanchez makes his lightweight debut next weekend, and plans to compete in that division for some time, but does believe that he will be [...]

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Quick Hits: Diaz vs. Shamrock Announced, War Machine Arrested, and More
Feb 10, 2009 - 4:48 pm ET | 42 Comments

Strikeforce has announced that Nick Diaz and Frank Shamrock will meet at a catchweight of 179-pounds in the main event of the promotion’s April 11th event.
Just days after being released by Bellator Fighting Championships for controversial statements posted on his MySpace account, former UFC fighter War Machine (Jon Koppenhaver) has been arrested in Las Vegas [...]

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Quick Hits: Ibarra Fires Back, Cantwell Apologizes, “Dynamite” Takes Shape, and More
Dec 17, 2008 - 7:29 pm ET | 48 Comments
Quick Hits: Ibarra Fires Back, Cantwell Apologizes, “Dynamite” Takes Shape, and More

Trainer Juanito Ibarra has denied Wanderlei Silva’s claim that he offered to train the Brazilian for his upcoming bout with Ibarra’s former pupil, Quinton Jackson.
Despite ongoing speculation, Affliction says they have yet to reach any official agreement with free agent Tito Ortiz, though the promotion has announced that Ortiz will be in the broadcast booth [...]

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Quick Hits: Alves Next In Line For Welterweight Title Shot, Leites Expected To Fight Silva For Middleweight Title, and More
Dec 10, 2008 - 1:44 pm ET | 43 Comments
Quick Hits: Alves Next In Line For Welterweight Title Shot, Leites Expected To Fight Silva For Middleweight Title, and More

The remaining assets of ProElite are expected to be sold by the end of the month. Potential buyers reportedly include King of the Cage founder Terry Trebilcock and Marc Ecko.
Light heavyweight Mark Munoz will be making the jump to the UFC.
M-1 has announced the the finals of M-1 Challenge will be held on December 26th [...]

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Quick Hits: Liddell Training With ATT, Daley TKO’s Alessio, and More
Dec 7, 2008 - 9:17 am ET | 20 Comments
Quick Hits: Liddell Training With ATT, Daley TKO’s Alessio, and More

News and Notes:

James Thompson is slated to return to action for the first time since losing on primetime to Kimbo Slice at Sengoku 7 on January 4th in Japan.
Chuck Liddell has begun training at American Top Team.
Martin Kampmann will likely fight a local newcomer at UFC 93 on January 24th in Dublin, Ireland.
The California State [...]

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Quick Hits: Diego Sanchez Dropping To Lightweight, Liddell Doesn’t Think Silva or Couture Fights “Make Sense”, and More
Dec 5, 2008 - 11:32 am ET | 46 Comments
Quick Hits: Diego Sanchez Dropping To Lightweight, Liddell Doesn’t Think Silva or Couture Fights “Make Sense”, and More

News and Notes:

Following WEC 37, World Extreme Cagefighting awarded $7,500 bonuses to Cub Swanson and Hiroyuki Takaya for “Fight of the Night”, Bart Palaszewski for “Knockout of the Night”, and Brian Bowles for “Submission of the Night”.
Chael Sonnen says he’s ready to challenge Anderson Silva.
A bout between former WEC lightweight champion Rob McCullough and Marcus [...]

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Quick Hits for December 3, 2008
Dec 3, 2008 - 4:32 pm ET | 28 Comments
Quick Hits for December 3, 2008

News and Notes

Former WEC lightweight champion Rob McCullough will take on Marcus Hicks at WEC 38.
Rich Clementi and Gleison Tibau will square off in February.
The Ultimate Fighter 8 cast member Karn Grigoryan, who was forced off the show early in the season due to an injury, was victorious on Saturday, defeating previously-undefeated Daniel Rial via [...]

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Quick Hits: Fabricio Werdum, Antonio Silva, Kimbo Slice, Gegard Mousasi, Cain Velasquez
Nov 30, 2008 - 1:37 pm ET | 37 Comments
Quick Hits: Fabricio Werdum, Antonio Silva, Kimbo Slice, Gegard Mousasi, Cain Velasquez

Recently on MMAFrenzy.com:

WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko has canceled a scheduled US press tour to begin training for his bout against Andrei Arlovski on January 24th at Affliction: Day of Reckoning.
The UFC has released light heavyweight knockout artist Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou.
A rumored rematch between Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and Alistair Overeem has been scrapped from [...]

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Quick Hits: Dan Hardy, Rory Markham, Danillo Villefort, Jeremy Horn, Rousimar Palhares, Jorge Gurgel
Nov 27, 2008 - 10:58 am ET | 29 Comments
Quick Hits: Dan Hardy, Rory Markham, Danillo Villefort, Jeremy Horn, Rousimar Palhares, Jorge Gurgel

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Affliction will likely book heavyweight prospect Brett Rogers (8-0) to face Josh Barnett (25-5) at Affliction: Day of Reckoning on January 24th in Anaheim, California.
Lightweights Joe Lauzon and Hermes Franca are likely to meet at UFC Fight Night 17 on February 7th in Las Vegas.

News and Notes

A former sparring partner and kickboxing protege [...]

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Quick Hits: Eddie Alvarez, CSAC, Mike Brown, Leonard Garcia, Jake Shields
Nov 26, 2008 - 10:05 am ET | 27 Comments

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After a bout against Jose Aldo fell through, former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber will instead rematch Jens Pulver at WEC 38 on January 25th in San Diego.
Former heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum has finally acknowledged his release from the UFC and has his sights set on fighting for Affliction.

News and Notes

Ranked lightweight Eddie [...]

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Quick Hits: Carano-Cyborg Possible in WEC, Lashley Debut Set, and More
Nov 15, 2008 - 5:30 pm ET | 3 Comments

UFC 91 is mere moments away, but we wanted to make sure that everyone is up to speed on all of the news in the MMA universe before the big night kicks off. Also, don’t forget to check out the live coverage starting at 8 pm ET.

Base salary figures have already been released for [...]

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Quick Hits: EliteXC News and Notes, UFC Fights for the Troops Moved, and More
Oct 7, 2008 - 2:35 pm ET | 33 Comments

Light heavyweight free agent Tito Ortiz revealed during Saturday night’s broadcast of EliteXC “Heat” that he is close to signing with the promotion. Ortiz, however, will be unable to compete for at least six months due to a spinal fusion surgery .
EliteXC Vice President Jared Shaw has apologized for his highly animated antics during Kimbo’s [...]

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