Goran Reljic will make his UFC debut against Wilson Gouveia at UFC 84 in May, MMAFrenzy.com has exclusively learned from Zoran Saric, Reljic’s manager.
UFC 84 takes place May 24th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Headlining the event will be a lightweight championship bout featuring current title-holder BJ Penn taking on former [...]

BJ Penn, Wilson Gouveia, Paul Taylor, and Paul Kelly were all awarded $35,000 post-event bonuses from the UFC.
Penn was awarded “Submission of the Night” by default, posting the only submission victory on the 9-fight card. In the UFC 80 main event “The Prodigy” submitted a bloodied Joe Stevenson with a rear naked choke in the [...]

BJ Penn def. Joe Stevenson via submission - Round 2, 4:02
Fabricio Werdum def. Gabriel Gonzaga via TKO - Round 2, 4:34
Marcus Davis def. Jess Liaudin via KO - Round 1, 1:04
Wilson Gouveia def. Jason Lambert via KO - Round 2, 0:37
Jorge Rivera def. Kendall Grove via TKO - Round 1, 1:20
Antoni Hardonk def. Colin Robinson [...]

The UFC’s first event of 2008, UFC 80: Rapid Fire, took place today in Newcastle, England and featured a 9-bout lineup that included a main event lightweight championship match pitting “The Prodigy” BJ Penn against Joe “Daddy” Stevenson.
Continue reading for full, round-by-round coverage of UFC 80: Rapid Fire.

All 18 fighters set to participate in tomorrow’s UFC 80 pay-per-view event successfully made weight at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England earlier today. Tomorrow the venue will host the UFC’s first event of 2008. The 9-fight card features a main event lightweight title bout pitting “The Prodigy” BJ Penn against Joe “Daddy” Stevenson.
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The UFC has announced that Wilson Gouveia will take on Jason Lambert at UFC 80 in Newcastle, England:
UFC 76’s loss was apparently UFC 80’s gain, as the previously scrapped light heavyweight battle between Wilson Gouveia and Jason “The Punisher” Lambert will now take place in Newcastle, England on January 19th, with the winner undoubtedly moving [...]

The UFC has accounced that Wilson Gouveia has suffered a broken nose forcing his bout against Jason Lambert to be removed from the UFC 76 card:
Due to a broken nose suffered in training, Wilson Gouveia has been scrapped from his UFC 76 bout with Jason Lambert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on [...]

The official salaries from UFC 71 have just been released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Despite what was earlier reported, Chuck Liddell and Quinton Jackson were only paid base salaries and no win bonuses. All other fighter were paid base salaries with winning fighters receiving double their fight purse as a win bonus.
The following [...]

Quinton Jackson def. Chuck Liddell via KO (Round 1, 1:53)
Karo Parisyan def. Josh Burkman via unanimous decision
Terry Martin def. Ivan Salaverry via TKO (Round 1, 2:04)
Houston Alexander def. Keith Jardine via TKO (Round 1, 0:48)
Kalib Starnes def. Chris Leben via unanimous decision
Thiago Silva def. James Irvin via referee stoppage (Round 1, 1:06)
Alan Belcher def. Sean [...]

Continuing the theme from our other event update of the day we have 3 more fighters who have been added to the fight card for UFC 71. These additions push the fight total to 9 (standard for the UFC except for tomorrow’s UFC 70). There is only one fighter missing and that is Thiago Silva’s [...]