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It’s a done deal. After much speculation over the weekend about the signing of Roger Huerta on the part of the upstart promotion in the MMA groundswell, Bellator FC formally announced the exclusive signing of Huerta during a press conference from Chicago, Illinois this afternoon. “El Matador” will compete in Bellator’s season two lightweight tournament, with the [...] More good news for Canadian fight fans. Warrior One MMA (W-1) has signed an open contract with Fox Sports Fightzone TV, giving the up-and-coming fight promotion the ability to air up to sixteen 90-minute episodes highlighting W-1 events. In addition, news, highlights, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from the world of Warrior One will be covered by Fox [...] WEC General Manager Reed Harris recently confirmed the good news for Canadian fight fans that the UFC sister-promotion will be bringing its unique brand of cagefighting across the border in the next few months. June 20, to be exact. The WEC has already requested and received the date from the Calgary Combative Sports Commission, according to our [...] Props: MMAWeekly Quoteworthy: “We’re going to go up to Canada, and we’re hoping to do that in the next few months. We’re looking at a few different cities and it’s really going to depend on dates and venues, and things like that. Again, we have television concerns and so there’s a lot of elements that go into [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Fight fans can be a fickle group. If an athlete wins all the time, all is well. But if he loses one fight, and all of a sudden the sky is falling. Never was this phenomenon more evident than on the morning after Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira’s second round TKO loss [...] Injuries tore apart the UFC’s star-studded roster over the last eight weeks. It left the promotion with pay-per-view shows built more on depth over star power. After UFC 109, when asked about the fans complaining about PPV prices and value, White flipped his lid: “UFC fans are spoiled,” White explained that every UFC PPV can’t be [...] In case any of you fight fans were wondering where “Buluc” was, he’s apparently set to return on March 6 to the International Unlimited Fighting (IUF) organization on the same card that will feature Ken Shamrock taking on Seth Petruzelli in Cancun, Mexico. Shamrock (27-13-2) hasn’t been heard from since failing the world’s most dangerous drug [...] (December 28, 2009) — HDNet will feature exclusive coverage of “HDNet Fights Presents: FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009,” from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on Thursday, December 31 at 3:00 a.m. ET. Replays of the event will air on Thursday, December 31 at 8:00 p.m. ET and Friday, January 1, 2010 at 10:00 pm ET. The combat [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – For a relatively small venue, The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas generated an ear-splitting level of noise from fight fans as Diego Sanchez and Clay Guida went to war for 15 torrid minutes this past June. But above all the cheers, one voice was just a bit louder than [...] |
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