Gray Maynard is a pretty grounded and patient dude. That’s why it was shocking to see him lose his cool and throw his gameplan out the window at Ultimate Fight Night 20 against Nate Diaz. With an impressive win, Maynard was in line to get the next shot at B.J. Penn’s UFC lightweight title. It [...]
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The UFC really hits the road this year with an aggressive international expansion that include shows in Sydney, Australia and Abu Dhabi. The Aussies are ready. Boy, are they ever. The Acer Arena, configured for 17,300, is already sold out. The UFC’s U.K. president told Cagewriter the show will be adding a closed circuit seating [...] The news of Abu Dhabi andits UFC purchasehas come fast and furious. The UAE government now owns 10 percent of the fight promotion and an Apr. 10 event has been rumored for months. It makes sense and there seems to be plenty of money in Abu Dhabi to draw a nice crowd. One problem, where [...] For the very first time ever, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tour bus stopped in northern Virginia, staging a Spike TV-produced show from the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax. UFC Fight Night 20: “Maynard vs. Diaz” from the Patriot Center featured a rematch from The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 between surging lightweight contender, Gray [...] Because of so many injuries to big stars around MMA, it was a lackluster close to the year in terms of marquee title fights and superfights. Now everyone is getting healthy. Look out 2010. Strikeforce’s Jan. 30 card is just about complete. Robbie Lawler against Melvin Manhoef was recently confirmed along with Nick Diaz-Marius Zaromskis, [...] Being around boxing and mixed martial arts Dana White has seen some pretty nasty stuff. The UFC president heard aboutShinya Aoki’s outburstat Dynamite! 2009 but it didn’t surprise him. He brushed it off saying these things happen in the fight game. One wonders though what would’ve happened had Aoki been fighting in the U.S. and [...] Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the “Garden State” for the first time in more than two years when it storms the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on March 27, 2010. Several reports pegged the rumored pay-per-view (PPV) event to take place much earlier in the month; however, The Daily Telegraph has been able to [...] H.I.T. Squad product Matt Veach will fill-in for the injured Kurt Pellegrino and take on Frank Edgar at The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 10 Finale from the “The Pearl” at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Dec. 5. MMAmania.comlearned about the replacement earlier this afternoon shortly after news broke that “Batman” suffered a back injury during [...] There’s a fantastic lightweight match-up brewing between Frank Edgar (10-1) and Kurt Pellegrino (14-4) targeted for The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 10 Finale scheduled for the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada on Dec. 5. The news was first reported by ESPN’s “MMA Live” host Jon Anik and MMAmania.com has since confirmed that bout agreements were [...] Roger Huerta is reportedly in talks with Zuffa about a possible return to the UFC against Gray Maynard at Fight Night 19, which will serve as the lead-in for the upcoming tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 10 at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Sept. 16, according toSherdog.com. After an impressive [...] UFC lightweights Hermes Franca (19-7) and Tyson Griffin (13-2) are in talks to compete in a 155-pound match up at UFC 103 in Dallas, Texas, on September 26, according toMMAWeekly. Franca has been on a roller coaster ride during the past 18 months. The former number one contender returned from a 12-month steroids suspension in 2008, [...] |
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