The UFC’s long-rumored UFC Fight Night 21 event, which takes place on March 31 at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, is finally official.

As previously reported, the event, which airs live on Spike as the lead-in for the debut of The Ultimate Fighter 11, is headlined by lightweight contender Kenny Florian vs. former PRIDE champ Takanori Gomi and also features The Ultimate Fighter 10 winner Roy Nelson vs. Stefan Struve.

A rumored matchup between lightweight contenders Kenny Florian and Takanori Gomi, first reported earlier this month, will headline UFC Fight Night 21 on March 31 in North Carolina, according to ESPN’s MMA Live. Florian is expected to announce the bout and details on his new UFC contract today on MMA Live.

A matchup between lightweight contender Kenny Florian and former PRIDE champion Takanori Gomi, first reported earlier this month, could take place on March 31 at UFC Fight Night 22 in North Carolina. A location and venue have yet to be determined for the Spike-televised event, which will serve at the lead-in for the debut of The Ultimate Fighter 11.

Former PRIDE lightweight champion Takanori Gomi, who recently signed a multi-fight deal with the UFC, is likely to make his Octagon debut against Kenny Florian, according to ESPN’s MMA Live.

UFC President Dana White was asked about the possible matchup at Saturday’s post-UFC 108 press conference, and said Florian “could be” Gomi’s first opponent, without revealing a date for the likely bout.

Main card fighters Diego Sanchez, Paul Buentello and Clay Guida were among eighteen fighters issued medical suspensions on Tuesday by he Tennessee Athletic Commission on Tuesday, stemming from bouts at UFC 107 which took place at the Fedex Forum in Memphis on December 12.

Sanchez lost a title bout to BJ Penn in the events headlining bout will have to sit out 60 days with no contact unlessed cleared by a doctor. While Clay Guida is suspended 180, which can be shortened by a clearance from an ophthalmologist for a possible eye injury suffered in his loss to Kenny Florian, and Buentello is suspended indefinitely pending rib X-rays following his majority decision loss to Stefan Struve.

UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn dominated challenger Diego Sanchez from start to finish on Saturday in the main event of UFC 107 in Memphis, Tennessee, dropping Sanchez in the opening seconds of the fight and bludgeoning him with superior boxing throughout the bout before ultimately opening up a fight-ending gash in the fifth round to retain the 155-pound title.

Frank Mir, Kenny Florian, Jon Fitch, and Stefan Struve also picked up wins on the UFC 107 main card.

UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn and challenger Diego Sanchez successfully make weight on Friday for their UFC 107 matchup, which headlines Saturday’s pay-per-view event in Memphis, Tennessee.

Co-headlining heavyweights Frank Mir and Cheick Kongo and featured lightweights Kenny Florian and Clay Guida also made weight, as did the rest of the 11-bout card, though Edgar Garcia required additional time to shed an extra 2 pounds, while a number of fighters had to strip down and take advantage of the one-pound allowance to make weight.

Round 5 today announced that its first series of UFC figurines, which go on sale early next year, will include Chuck Liddell, Georges St-Pierre, Rashad Evans, Kenny Florian, Clay Guida, and Lyoto Machida.

UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva will undergo elbow surgery after all to remove bone spurs and will be sidelined briefly, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic is not retiring following his latest loss and intends to fight at least once more, at a November 7 Strikforce event headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers will take place at the Sears Centre near Chicago.

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The lightweight bout between Kenny Florian and Clay Guida that was originally scheduled for UFC 106 in November has been moved to UFC 107 on December 12 in Memphis, TN. This news comes on the heels of the announcement that the BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez bout was moved to this event, as well as the postponement of the scheduled Rashad Evans vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson bout to a later event.

A lightweight matchup between top 155-pounders Kenny Florian and Clay Guida is likely for UFC 106 on November 21 in Las Vegas, according to Fanhouse’s Michael David Smith.

Florian had won six-straight before being submitted by lightweight champ BJ Penn earlier this month, while Guida dropped a split decision to Diego Sanchez in his last fight in June after winning his previous three bouts.

Anderson Silva says he wants to fight at heavyweight and has his sights set of former-champion Frank Mir, Georges St-Pierre continues to recover from a groin injury and is likely to return to action in January, and Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller and Drew McFedries vs. Tomasz Drwal are set for the Spike TV broadcast of the UFC 103 undercard.

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Kenny Florian, Forrest Griffin, and Tamdan McCrory were among the six UFC 101 fighters who were issued medical suspensions by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission following Saturday’s event, which took place at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.

UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn retained his title on Saturday in the main event of UFC 101, submitting Kenny Florian in the fourth-round of their championship headliner to cap off the pay-per-view event, which took place at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.

In the UFC 101 co-headliner, UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva returned to the light heavyweight division and silenced his critics, following up back-to-back lackluster wins with a first-round knckout of former 205-pound champ Forrest Griffin.

All 22 UFC 101 fighters hit the scales on Friday at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia to weigh in for their Saturday bouts, and the entire card, including headliners BJ Penn, Kenny Florian, Anderson Silva, and Forrest Griffin, successfully made weight.

The UFC lightweight champion Penn and challenger Florian both tipped the scales exactly at 155 pounds, while UFC middleweight title-holder Anderson Silva and Forrest Griffin both weighed in at 205 for their light heavyweight matchup.