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SI.com has a featured article on their site about Nate Marquardt who will be facing Anderson Silva for the middleweight title on July 7th at UFC 72.
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Houston Chronicle writer Steve Seivert has a blog post up about MMA fighters who have regular jobs as well as fighting [...]

Various MMA media outlets, most notably MMAWeekly.com, are confirming that Nate Marquardt will indeed face Anderson Silva for the middleweight title at UFC 73 on July 7th. They have signed the contract for the fight, which will be the night’s main event.
Also on the undercard for the event will be a match between Tito [...]

A UFCJunkie.com report indicates the match between Tito Ortiz (15-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) and Rashad Evans (10-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) will no longer be happening at UFC 71 and will instead be moved to UFC 73. This makes UFC 73 looked like an absolutely stacked card with two rumored title defenses as well as this [...]

Update: UFC 72 is now believed to be on June 16th in Belfast, Ireland.
In a recent Sherdog.com interview with Jorge Gurgel, The Ultimate Fighter 2 competitor talked about two upcoming UFC events. In the video Gurgel says he will either be making his return “on June 30th at UFC Ireland”. Gurgel continues saying “maybe that [...]

Tatame.com is confirming that at UFC 73 on July 7th Anderson “The Spider” Silva (18-4 MMA, 3-0 UFC) will be putting his middleweight belt on the line against Nate Marquardt (25-6-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC).
Silva entered his first fight in the UFC at Fight Night 5 as an underdog in the main event against Chris Leben [...]

But that is exactly what Hermes Franca (18-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC), a Brazilian native, did. From last March through this January Franca fought an impressive 8 times over the 10 month span winning all 8 fights. In his UFC fights over the span Franca first fought at UFC 61 topping Joe Jordan by submission then [...]

It has long been rumored and hinted that UFC President Dana White, along with even the most-casual MMA fan, wanted to see UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell do toe-to-toe with rival Wanderlei Silva. The rumors of their matchup now mean next-to-nothing as Silva was knocked out by Dan Henderson at Pride 33 over the [...]