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Former UFC middleweight champion and veteran fighter Rich Franklin underwent successful hernia surgery last week and still expects to return to the octagon this spring. J.T. Stewart, Franklin’s business manager, shared the news with theDayton Daily News, a content partner site of MMAjunkie.com. Franklin slotted the Jan. 12 surgery after a busy 2009 fight schedule continually [...] Despite launching the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s expansion into the Midwest, and despite hosting three consecutive successful shows since 2007, Columbus, Ohio, will not get a fourth UFC show in 2010. As MMAjunkie.com’s Dann Stupp reports for theDayton Daily News, UFC president Dana White on Thursday confirmed Columbus won’t get a visit from the UFC next year. Back [...] Lisa Marie Varon is heading to the world of mixed martial arts. Varon, perhaps better known as a World Wrestling Entertainment “diva” Her manager, J.T. Stewart, who also manages former UFC champion Rich MMA News [...] Rich Franklin is currently in Las Vegas to discuss a new contract with the UFC, and the first fight of the deal could be for a main-event bout at UFC 103. The news comes from MMAjunkie.com’s Dann Stupp, who posted the update in theDayton Daily NewsMMA blog. According to the report, Franklin, who has one fight remaining [...] Win or lose, whether he’s with the UFC or not, 44-year-old Mark Coleman isn’t calling it quits on his fighting career anytime soon. The former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and 1992 Olympian (and UFC 10 and UFC 11 tournament winner, first-ever UFC heavyweight champion, 2000 PRIDE Openweight Grand Prix champ and UFC Hall of [...] September’s UFC 103 card is in need of a main event, but the Dallas event won’t feature a rumored (and heavily speculated) bout between Rich Franklin and recently retired former UFC light heavyweight Chuck Liddell. That’s the word from MMAjunkie.com’s Dann Stupp, who gives an update on Franklin in today’s “MMA Insider” column in theDayton Daily [...] |
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