UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk and challenger Hermes Franca have both filed appeals with the California State Athletic Commission. The appeals are challenging their positive drug tests following their Lightweight Championship bout at UFC 73 on July 7th and the subsequent year suspensions both received.
Sherk is seeking to overturn his positive anabolic steroid test for [...]
UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk, who successfully defended his belt on July 7th at UFC 73, has tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone according to published reports. Sherk has been fined $2,500, the maximum amount allowed in California. He has also been suspended from competition in California until July 6, 2008.
Nandrolone levels in the [...]
Champion Sean Sherk defeats Hermes Franca via unanimous decision to retain the UFC Lightweight ChampionshipRound 1: Franca lands a knee to open the fight and follows up with a guillotine choke but Sherk escapes. Sherk controls the fight from the ground for the majority of the round but Franca defends well. MMAFrenzy.com scores the round [...]
June is packed for the UFC with 3 events while July is “Stacked” with the biggest UFC event of the summer, UFC 73. Bookmaker.com has released their early odds for the main events of UFC 72, The Ultimate Fight 5 Finale, and UFC 73.
As expected Rich Franklin is a -210 favorite over Yushin Okami at [...]
Today the UFC has started to sell tickets for its recently announced UFC 73: Stacked event featuring Sean Sherk vs. Hermes Franca, Anderson Silva vs. Nate Marquardt, and Tito Ortiz faces Rashad Evans. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will also be fighting and Mirko “Cro Cop” is also rumored to be on the card. The PPV event [...]
Today the UFC officially announced yet another event, the long rumored UFC 73. The event will be officially known as ‘UFC 73: Stacked’ and nothing could more accurately describe the event that will go down on July 7th. It is hard to pick the”main event” as there are two title bouts on the card along [...]
The UFC has “reached a deal” with HBO to show fights on the network this summer, albeit with a different broadcasting crew than the UFC traditionally uses. UFC 72 in June has already been announced for Spike TV so we are probably looking UFC 73 and beyond before we see an event on HBO.
Dana White [...]
Lots of UFC card rumors popping up over the weekend. Here’s some updates on the fight cards for UFC 71, 73, and 74:
Jeremy Stephens will make his UFC debut against Din Thomas at UFC 71.
Jorge Gurgel will face Jamie Varner at UFC 73 on July 7th.
Sean Sherk will no longer defend his title against [...]
Well one of the final pieces of the logistical puzzle for UFC 72 has fallen into place with The Fight Network confirming through various sources that UFC 72 will be held at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Ireland. Here’s an excerpt from the story:
“Back in January, The Fight Network explored rumours of UFC events spreading [...]
According to Sam Caplan, Dana White informally offered boxer Floyd Mayweather big money to take on UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk, likely under MMA rules. Here’s a clip from the post on the offer which was announced on the radio program “Bubba the Love Sponge”:
