Randy Couture and Dan Hardy each moved one step closer to title shots in their respective divisions on Saturday with unanimous decision wins at UFC 105 in Manchester, England. Couture edged Brandon Vera in the UFC 105 main event, while Hardy topped Mike Swick in the evening’s co-headliner.

Michael Bisping, Matt Brown, and Ross Pearson were also victorious on the UFC 105 main card.

Today’s UFC 105 event at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, headlined by Randy Couture vs. Brandon Vera, airs for free on tape-delay on Spike TV beginning at 8pm ET.

MMAFrenzy.com will be taking a break from our traditional live coverage for UFC 105, but stop back after the fights tonight beginning at 11pm for our UFC 105 recap, results, and complete post-fight coverage. We will resume our live MMA coverage next Saturday for UFC 106

All 22 UFC 105 fighters, including headliners Randy Couture and Brandon Vera, successfully made weight on Friday for Saturday’s event at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England.

Both Couture and Vera tipped the scale at 204 pounds, while welterweight contenders Mike Swick (170) and Dan Hardy (171) and middleweight notables Michael Bisping (186) and Denis Kang (185) also made weight without issue.

A welterweight matchup between Renzo Gracie and former champ Matt Hughes remains likely to take place in 2010, though it won’t happen in February at UFC 109 as originally reported, according to Gracie Mag: “Renzo is not going to fight in February, when he will be completely focused on cousin Rolles’s UFC debut.”

Former lightweight champion Sean Sherk will return to the Octagon against Rafaello Oliveira at UFC 108 on January 2 in Las Vegas.

UFC 108 is headlined by a matchup between heavyweight contenders Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Cain Velasquez and also includes Rashad Evans vs. Thiago Silva, Junior dos Santos vs. Gabriel Gonzaga, and Carlos Condit vs. Paul Daley.

All 22 fighters scheduled to be in action tomorrow at UFC 105 at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England will hit the scale today at 11am ET to weigh-in for their bouts.

Watch the weigh-ins live on MMAFrenzy.com by clicking here or visiting MMAFrenzy.com/ufc-video/ and stop back to MMAFrenzy.com later today for the official UFC 105 weigh-in results.

World Victory Road, the promotion behind the “Sengoku” titled fight events has reportedly canceled it’s scheduled New Years Event. The event would have featured the replacement of the name “Sengoku” with “Sengoku Raiden Championships” for the MMA events, and gone head to head with FEG’s “Dynamite!!2009″ New Years Eve event. Instead it appears that WVR will be teaming up with FEG to promote Dynamite!!2009,

The UFC 105 pre fight press conference was held today at 8am in Manchester, England. Headliners Randy Couture and Brandon Vera were present, as well as hometown fighter Michael Bisping and his opponent Dennis Kang.