Event name: UFC 87: Seek and Destroy
Date: August 9, 2008
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Venue: Target Center
Broadcast: Pay-Per-View (10pm ET)
Main Card
Georges St-Pierre vs. Jon Fitch
UFC Welterweight Championship
Brock Lesnar vs. Heath Herring
Kenny Florian vs. Roger Huerta
Preliminary Bouts
Luke Cummo vs. Tamdan McCrory
Cheick Kongo vs. Dan Evensen
Tomasz Drwal vs. Andre Gusmao
Chris Wilson vs. Steve Bruno
Ben Saunders vs. Jared [...]
UFC President Dana White was questioned in a recent interview with ESPN The Magazine about the much-talked about “superfights” between the champions of two different weight classes, most notably BJ Penn, the UFC’s lightweight champion, versus Georges St-Pierre, the promotion’s welterweight champ, and St-Pierre versus Anderson Silva, the UFC’s dominant middleweight champion.
White openly discussed the [...]
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre will face top 170-pound contender Jon Fitch in the main event of UFC 87 “Seek and Destroy”. Additionally, heavyweight Brock Lesnar is now without an opponent for his UFC 87 bout after UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman was forced out of their scheduled heavyweight showdown due to a knee [...]
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 [...]
Georges St-Pierre def. Matt Serra via TKO - Round 2, 4:45
Rich Franklin def. Travis Lutter via TKO - Round 2, 3:01
Nate Quarry def. Kalib Starnes via unanimous decision
Michael Bisping def. Charles McCarthy via TKO - Round 1, 5:00
Mac Danzig def. Mark Bocek via submission - Round 3, 3:48
Jason MacDonald def. Joe Doerksen via TKO - [...]
Its that time again. UFC 83 is just around the corner so lets get to it with some quick predictions. The first two picks provide a little breakdown, but the rest are pretty short and sweet. Enjoy.
Matt Serra vs. George St. Pierre (welterweight championship)
GSP via TKO, round 3
As many MMA diehards well know, [...]
Matt Serra (169.5) vs. Georges St-Pierre (169.5)
UFC Welterweight Championship
Rich Franklin (185.5) vs. Travis Lutter (185)
Michael Bisping (185.5) vs. Charles McCarthy (186)
Mark Bocek (154.5) vs. Mac Danzig (154.5)
Nate Quarry (185.5) vs. Kalib Starnes (186)
Joe Doerksen (184.5) vs. Jason MacDonald (185)
Jason Day (183.5) vs. Alan Belcher (185)
Ed Herman (185.5) vs. Demian [...]
You may recall a couple of weeks ago when UFC middleweight Pete “Drago†Sell made some disparaging remarks about the mental toughness of one Georges St. Pierre:
“GSP is an awesome athlete. He has all the tools to dominate but he is a mental midget — his mentality is very weak. …I don’t like the way [...]
“I’ve been thinking about it. It’s going to depend on the scenario. I have a lot of training partners at 185 and my weight class is 170. I would never get into the way of one of my training partners. I would never fight somebody I train with. But if one day, I have the [...]
UFC President Dana White revealed during the post-UFC 82 press conference that Jon Fitch is next in line for a welterweight title shot:
“[Jon Fitch] will fight anybody, anywhere. Realistically, he is in line, right now, for a title shot once the whole Serra-St-Pierre thing is figured out. He still took the fight tonight. He [...]