Former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia wore down veteran Paul Buentello before scoring a second-round knockout to win the first-ever PWP heavyweight title in the main event of Saturday’s “War on the Mainland” pay-per-view in Irvine, California.

In his first fight since being released by the WEC, Jens Pulver suffered his sixth-straight loss to Diego Garijo.

Kimbo Slice is in talks to begin his post-UFC career against five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski at Moosin’s second event on October 9 in Chicago, while former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia will likely face 7-foot-2 Hong Man Choi on the card.

Former UFC lightweight champion and WEC veteran Jens Pulver and former UFC heavyweight title-holder Tim Sylvia will return to action on August 14 in featured bouts at “War on the Mainland” in Irvine, California.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia forced five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski to tap to punches in the second-round of their main event at Friday’s “Moosin: God of Martial Arts” event in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Fighters tipped the scales Thursday in Worcester, Massachusetts for tonight’s Moosin “God of Martial Arts” pay-per-view event, which will broadcast live from the DPU Center in Worcester including headliners Tim Sylvia and Mariusz Pudzianowski.

A heavyweight matchup between former UFC champ Tim Sylvia and five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski, first reported in Feburary, headlines Friday’s “Moosin: God of Martial Arts” event at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The pay-per-view event is co-headlined by Mu Bae Choi vs. Travis Wiuff, and also includes UFC veteran Travis Lutter vs. Rafael Natal and Tara LaRosa vs. Roxy Modafferi.

A recently-reported event expected to be headlined by former UFC champion Tim Sylvia vs. five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski, originally scheduled for April 23, has been postponed until May 21 to resolve a television conflict. The card will still take place at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts near Boston and will likely feature Houston Alexander vs. Seth Petruzelli, Yves Edwards, and Rich Clementi.

Five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski, recently rumored to headline an April 23 event against Tim Sylvia, will instead return to action on May 7 in his native Poland at KSW XIII against an opponent to-be-announced.

A matchup between former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia and five-time “World’s Strongest Man” Mariusz Pudzianowski is scheduled to headline an April 23 event in Worcester, Massachusetts near Boston. The card is also slated to include UFC veterans Rich Clementi, Yves Edwards, and Houston Alexander.

Ben Rothwell is targeting a fight with Mirko “Cro Cop,” originally scheduled for last Saturday’s UFC 110, for June’s UFC 115 in Vancouver, while Rothwell’s replacement, Anthony Perosh, has signed a four-fight deal with the UFC despite losing to “Cro Cop”.

ProElite, whose EliteXC brand featured Kimbo Slice in nationally televised events on CBS, is being resurrected and will soon resume promoting MMA events. Read about all the latest MMA news in MMAFrenzy.com’s Quick Hits.

A previously-reported matchup between heavyweight veterans and former UFC fighters Tim Sylvia and Wes Sims, slated to headline Adrenaline MMA 5 on March 20 in Youngstown, Ohio, will not take place as scheduled, as the Ohio Athletic Commission recently ruled the bout “non-competitive.”

Both fighters are still expected to compete at Adrenaline 5, with Sylvia expected to fight Branden Lee Hinkle while Sims is slotted to face Kerry Schall.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvaa will return to action against The Ultimate Fighter 10 cast member Wes Sims on March 20 in Ohio, Sylvia announced on Thursday. The promotion and location hosting the matchup were not disclosed.

The officials over at FEG and DREAM officially made an expected announcement today that they will be holding their annual New Years Eve show again this year, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. K-1 executive Sadaharu Tanikawa said that the event would follow last year’s hybrid format, including both K-1 bouts and Dream MMA bouts, to fill out an eighteen fight card.

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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Two former UFC stars were in action last night at Adrenaline MMA IV in Council Bluffs, Iowa, among others. Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia and UFC light heavyweight fighter Houston Alexander were both looking to pick up much needed wins when they stepped inside the cage last night, and both did just that.