Both Rich Franklin and George St. Pierre need only time to recover from their UFC 83 bouts before facing their next challenge, according to Dave Meltzer’s latest article from Yahoo! Sports:
“New welterweight champion St. Pierre was offered a title defense with Jon Fitch, but felt his hands were damaged in his win over Matt Serra [...]

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell has suffered a torn hamstring and has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled UFC 85 main event bout against Rashad Evans, the Ultimate Fighting Championship today announced.
Here’s an excerpt from the official announcement:
“Unfortunately, Chuck Liddell tore his right hamstring during training last week, and being the warrior [...]

Apparently, former UFC light-heavyweight champion Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell doesn’t care much for MMA newcomer Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson. Here is an excerpt from Liddell’s recent interview with English publication The Sun.
On Kimbo’s last fight:
“When Kimbo fought Cantrell, that was the third time he’s been knocked out in under 30 seconds…the THIRD [...]

Official Fight Card

Main Card

Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans
Fabricio Werdum vs. Brandon Vera

Preliminary Bouts

Matt Wiman vs. Thiago Tavares

Rumored Bouts

Marcus Davis vs. Mike Swick
Nate Marquardt vs. Thales Leites
Martin Kampmann vs. Jorge Rivera
Roan Carneiro vs. Ryo Chonan
Jess Liaudin vs. Paul Taylor
Luis Arthur Cain vs. Jason Lambert
Neil Wain vs. Antoni Hardonk

For more on UFC 85 “Liddell vs. Evans” check [...]

Rashad Evans will replace the injured Mauricio “Shogun” Rua to face Chuck Liddell at UFC 85, according to a report from MMAWeekly:
“‘Ultimate Fighter’ season 2 winner, Rashad Evans, has signed on to face Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell as the main event of the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship show in London on June 7th as confirmed [...]

UFC.com’s Thomas Gerbasi on Tuesday announced that Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, the long-rumored main event opponent for Chuck Liddell at UFC 85 in London, has been forced to withdraw from the bout after suffering a ruptured ACL.
Here’s an excerpt from the UFC.com announcement:
Scheduled to make his return to the Octagon this June against Chuck Liddell at [...]

UFC veteran Melvin Guillard will venture outside of the octagon following back-to-back losses to Joe Stevenson and Rich Clementi to take on Eric Regan in the main event of Rage in the Cage 105 on March 7th.
Eric Schafer, a UFC veteran who remains under contract with the promotion, defeated Ryan Antle via submission in the [...]

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has signed to fight on former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell in June at UFC 85 in London, England. Rua recently confirmed the rumored bout with Sherdog.
Rua (16-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) entered the UFC in 2007 with high expectations after winning 4-straight fights in PRIDE but was upset in his UFC [...]

Check out the links below for post-UFC 79 videos featuring Georges St. Pierre, Matt Hughes, and Chuck Liddell:

Georges St. Pierre
Matt Hughes
Chuck Liddell

The end of the year extravaganza of events brought about a historic matchup that had been fantasized about by many mixed martial arts fans. Chuck Liddell fought Wanderlei Silva on Saturday evening to finally determine which of the two dominating strikers was better skilled in fight that was supposed to never go to a [...]

Georges St. Pierre (defeated Matt Hughes)

$160,000 total salary

$80,000 to show
$80,000 win bonus

Matt Hughes (defeated by Georges St. Pierre)

$100,000 total salary

$100,000 to show
Win bonus would have been $100,000

Chuck Liddell (defeated Wanderlei Silva)

$500,000 total salary

$500,000 to show
No win bonus

Wanderlei Silva (defeated by Chuck Liddell)

$150,000 total salary

$150,000 to show
No win bonus

Matt Hughes (defeated by Georges St. Pierre – submission)

No injury specified (defeated via armbar)
Suspended until January 29th
No contact until January 20th.

Wanderlei Silva (defeated by Chuck Liddell – unanimous decision)

Right eye laceration
Suspended until February 13th
No contact until January 29th

Chuck Liddell (defeated Wanderlei Silva – unanimous decision)

Left eye laceration
Suspended until January 29th
No contact until January 20th

Soa Palelei [...]

Nate Mohr reportedly suffered a torn ACL in his loss to Manny Gamburyan while Wanderlei Silva and James Irvin were both hospitalized and given MRIs as a precautionary measure according to The Wrestling Observer. Official injury reports from the Nevada State Athletic Comission are expected to be released very soon.
The UFC has announced that Antonio [...]

During a post-fight interview following his UFC 79 unanimous decision win over rival Wanderlei Silva “The Iceman” Chuck Liddell revealed some news regarding the UFC’s plans for 2008. According to Liddell, the announced light heavyweight title match between Forrest Griffin and title-holder Quinton Jackson will take place in August following the conclusion of The Ultimate [...]

- Georges St. Pierre def. Matt Hughes via submission – Round 2, 4:54
- Chuck Liddell def. Wanderlei Silva via unanimous decision
- Eddie Sanchez def. Soa Palalei via TKO – Round 3, 3:24
- Lyoto Machida def. Rameau Sokoudjou via submission – Round 2, 4:20
- Rich Clementi def. Melvin Guillard via submission – Round 1, 4:40
- James [...]