Rhett Butler, UFC – At The Ultimate Fighter Season 9 Finale last June, where Chris Lytle the fireman extinguished Kevin “The Fire” Burns via unanimous decision, the world saw “Lights Out” get back on the winning track following a hard fought split decision loss to Marcus Davis at UFC 93 in Dublin, Ireland earlier in [...]
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UFC makes Nate Quarry vs Jorge Rivera and Yushin Okami vs Lucio Linhares official for Fight Night 21Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently bolstered the already-stacked fight card for its Fight Night 21 event going down on March 31 from the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, March 31. Completing the main card line up will be former TUF veteran and surgically repaired middleweight Nate Quarry (12-3), who looks to get back [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Finally, Mike Swick was going to take a vacation. After being in the American Kickboxing Academy Gym non-stop for most of 2009, the welterweight contender was just waiting on his visa to come in so he could go to Brazil, relax, do some training and basically unwind from a year that [...] Fresh off a technical knockout win over Houston Alexander little more than two weeks ago, Joey Beltran will get a shot in the big show, taking on decorated grappling champion and member of the famed Gracie clan, Rolles Gracie, at UFC 109: “Relentless” at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 6, [...] Props: Bleacher Report Quoteworthy: “Winning this fight (at UFC 109) is super important; I don’t like losing. I hate losing that’s why it still hurts so bad after my last fight, but I have an opportunity now to get back on the winning track. If I were to win this fight and get a choice between a [...] In MMA, everyone eventually loses. Anderson Silva has done it, Fedor Emelianenko has done it, Georges St. Pierre has done it. One loss does not make you a loser. Whining it about the loss does. Enter Jamie Varner and Nate Diaz. After their losses this week, the two have shown how not to lose. After losing his [...] “From what I understand, if I win this fight, I will get the shot. I think (Vitor Belfort’s) a great fighter. I don’t necessarily agree with him getting a shot or whatever, just because he really hasn’t fought at 185. His first fight in the UFC was at 195, but to be honest it doesn’t [...] Props:GracieFighter.com Quoteworthy: “I fought like garbage and I’m sorry to my fans for my performance. I was hesitant about throwing hard punches because I kept thinking he was going to go for a takedown. It looked like I was knocked down in the second but actually he stepped on my foot and when I tried to back [...] If there was any question as to who BJ Penn was likely to face on April 10 at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi, then Gray Maynard probably gave us “The Answer” during his main event against Nick Diaz at UFC Fight Night 20 in Fairfax. “The Bully” was one fight away from emerging as the clear-cut [...] Fighter-turned-actor-turned fighter and current free agent Roger Huerta (20-3-1) has been in talks with the San Jose-based Strikeforce promotion after satisfying his UFC contract in a split decision loss to undefeated lightweight contender Gray Maynard at the Sept. 16 UFC Fight Night 19 event in Oklahoma. “El Matador” — who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated [...] Former Elite XC lightweight champion KJ Noons is patiently waiting to make his return to Strikeforce — but it won’t be against Billy Evangelista on the main card of the upcoming “Miami” event slated for the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida, on Jan. 30. MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) confirmed with Noons earlier today that he’s been pulled from [...] |
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