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After a close first-round, lightweight Joe Lauzon forced late-replacement Jeremy Stephens to submit to an armbar late in the second-round of their headlining matchup, which capped off UFC Fight Night 17 on Saturday at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida.
Heavyweight prospect Cain Velasquez, veteran Josh Neer, and knockout artist Anthony Johnson also picked up [...]
On a card dominated by uneventful decisions, UFC 94’s top two bouts delivered as Georges St-Pierre dominated BJ Penn on the ground en route to a fourth-round TKO victory while top light heavyweight contender Lyoto Machida used his awkward style to remain undefeated by scoring a first-round knockout of the previously unbeaten Thiago Silva.
A sell [...]
WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner retained his title on Sunday at WEC 38 in San Diego with a split decision victory over previously unbeaten challenger Donald Cerrone. The bout failed to go the distance as Varner was unable to continue following an unintentional-but-illegal knee to his head while still on the ground midway through the [...]
Read More »Top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko cemented his status as the sport’s best heavyweight on Saturday night in front of a capacity crowd of 13,228 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, rebounding from a sluggish start to score a first-round knockout of Andrei Arlovski in the main event of Affliction: Day of Reckoning.
Arlovski’s highly-touted boxing gave [...]
UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson took place today at The O2 in Dublin, Ireland. In the evening’s main event Dan Henderson topped Rich Franklin, earning a split decision victory to secure his spot as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter 9 and a future middleweight matchup against opposing coach Michael Bisping. One judge scored the [...]
Read More »Satoru Kitaoka upset highly regarded lightweight Takanori Gomi in the main event of Sengoku 7 on Sunday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, submitting Gomi with a heel hook at the 1:41 mark of the opening round to claim the first-ever Sengoku lightweight belt.
UFC veteran Jorge Santiago claimed the promotion’s middleweight title with [...]
Underdog Efrain Escudero topped highly touted Phillipe Nover via unanimous decision in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 8 “Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir” Finale to win the season’s lightweight tournament.
The event took place on Saturday, December 13th, at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas and aired live on Spike TV.
In the [...]
40-year-old veteran Pat Miletich successfully returned to action on Thursday night in the main event of Adrenaline MMA’s second event at the iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois, knocking out fellow-welterweight Thomas Denny early in the second round of the headliner.
With the win, the former UFC welterweight champion Miletich improves his career mark to 29-7-2 while [...]
In the UFC Fight Night 16: UFC Fight For The Troops main event, welterweight contender Josh Koscheck knocked out Yoshiyuki with a pair of straight rights, capping off the ten-bout card with a highlight reel knockout.
The Spike TV-broadcast event took place on Wednesday, December 10th, at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Mike “Quick” Swick [...]
WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres (35-1) successfully defended his title on Wednesday night at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, dispatching 135-pound challenger Manny Tapia (10-1-1) with strikes midway through the second round of their WEC 37 headliner.
Bantamweight contender Brian Bowles (7-0) remained undefeated in a featured undercard bout, [...]
Scott Smith needed just 26-seconds to knockout Terry Martin in the main event of Strikeforce: Destruction on Friday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
In other featured action, Renato “Babalu” Sobral claimed the light heavyweight title from former title-holder Bobby Southworth, cutting the champion with an elbow late in the first that prompted [...]
Brock Lesnar (3-1) became the new UFC heavyweight champion in the UFC 91 main event on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, knocking out heavyweight title-holder and UFC hall of famer Randy Couture (16-9) with strikes midway through the second round of their championship bout.
Couture, who had a noticeable smile [...]
Mike Brown upset WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber on Wednesday night, TKO’ing the 145-pound champ midway through the opening round of their headlining bout at WEC 36 “Faber vs. Brown” at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Faber appeared to have the upper hand early, connecting more frequently with strikes while Brown [...]
Takanori Gomi, a consensus top-10 lightweight, was upset at World Victory Road’s Sengoku 6 on Saturday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, suffering a split decision loss to relative-unknown Sergey Golyaev.
In other featured action, Jorge Santiago TKO’d Kazuhiro Nakamura in the third-round to win the promotion’s middleweight tournament and Satoru Kitaoka topped Kazunori [...]
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva remained undefeated in the UFC on Saturday night, October 25th, defeating challenger Patrick Cote, though it was a finish nobody hoped for and no one saw coming.
The matchup headlined UFC 90 “Silva vs. Cote” at the sold-out Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois just outside of Chicago.
After a close first round [...]


