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The UFC’s year-end event, UFC 79: Nemesis, took place Saturday evening at The Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 10-bout fight card featured many key fights including the long-awaited meeting between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion “The Iceman” Chuck Liddell and former PRIDE Champion “The Axe Murderer” Wanderlei Silva. The event also [...]
Read More »The end of the year cards are here for the sport of mixed martial arts, and nearly all of them look to deliver fantastic action on paper. The UFC’s Nemesis card, however, is the clear cut winner as far as providing the most anticipation for many fans. On Saturday night from Mandalay Bay Casino in [...]
Read More »The UFC 79: Nemesis weigh-ins went as expected as all 20 fighters for tomorrow’s year-end UFC event made weight in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
The normally low-key event featured a near-brawl between rivals Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva. After both made weight Liddell took several moments to re-dress – a move [...]
Today the UFC officially announced the full lineup for UFC 79: Nemesis. The December 29th card features 10 bouts, 5 of which are guaranteed to be shown on the PPV broadcast.
Main Card
Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre (Interim Welterweight Championship Bout)
Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva
Lyoto Machida vs Rameau Sokoudjou
Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
Soa Palalei vs. [...]
The UFC’s sister organization, World Extreme Cagefighting, will return on December 12th for its first show in more than three months. The stacked card is rumored to include:
WEC Featherweight Championship: Urijah Faber vs. Jeff Curran
WEC Light Heavyweight Championship: Doug Marshall vs. Ariel Gandulla
WEC Middleweight Championship: Paulo Filho vs. TBD (possibly Frank Trigg)
WEC Lightweight Championship: [...]
In a taped message aired during the Scream 2007 awards on Spike TV UFC President Dana White delivered confirmation that the long-anticipated fight between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva will finally take place on December 29th at UFC 79 in Las Vegas. The bout joins a welterweight title fight between The Ultimate Fighter 6 coaches [...]
Read More »According to a page on the DirecTV website Chuck Liddell will indeed face Wanderlei Silva in December at the recently announced UFC 79: Nemesis:
UFC 79: Nemesis
A BATTLE YEARS IN THE MAKING
This is it — the biggest fight of the year. Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell takes on Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva. Plus, Hughes vs. Serra. [...]
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic recently underwent surgery for a deviated septum. In his last fight with Cheick Kongo he made comments to referee Big John McCarthy that he was getting too old for this after being kneed twice in the groin. His future with the company remains up in the air. For more on the [...]
Read More »In a new article by Brazilian periodical website, Gazeta Do Povo, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua discusses his recent loss to Forrest Griffin at UFC 76. Rua, previously ranked as the number one Light Heavyweight fighter in the world, was expected to easily run over Forrest Griffin. Instead, the TUF alumni dominated Mauricio for most [...]
Read More »“He’s already said he’ll be back in the gym next Monday. He’s going to fight again, hopefully as soon as possible, maybe in December. We’re looking at ‘Shogun.’ Chuck will face anyone they put in front of him.
You’re dealing with a guy that just lost a fight, is totally depressed right after a humongous loss. [...]
At an event where there were doubts any fight might make it to the judges scorecards a surprising six bouts went to decision. A very strong crowd was on hand for a fight card filled with technical duels and bouts that had major implications in their respective divisions.
In the nights main event Chuck Liddell was [...]
Keith Jardine def. Chuck Liddell via split decision
Forrest Griffin def. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua via submission – Round 3, 4:45
Jon Fitch def. Diego Sanchez via split decision
Lyoto Machida def. Kazuhiro Nakamura via unanimous decision
Tyson Griffin def. Thiago Tavares via unanimous decision
Rich Clementi def. Anthony Johnson via submission – Round 2, 3:05
Jeremy Stephens def. Diego [...]
“UFC 76: Knockout” is now in the past and MMAFrenzy.com was the place to be for live quick results, round-by-round coverage, and discussion with other fight fans.
The event was headlined by a light heavyweight main event between contenders Keith Jardine and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell. Top welterweights Jon Fitch and Diego Sanchez [...]
Seventeen of the eighteen fighters participating in bouts at UFC 76 tomorrow night made weight in their first trip to the scales at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The lone exception was Jon Fitch who weighed-in one pound over the 171 pound welterweight limit but was able to drop the additional pound within a [...]
Read More »According to the official Xtreme Couture blog Wanderlei Silva, who has recently moved to America to train with Xtreme Couture, will make his long awaited return to the UFC on December 29th at UFC 79 in Las Vegas. The card is headlined by a main event welterweight title bout between Matt Serra and Matt Hughes.
Although [...]


