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“My goal has always been to hold a legitimate world championship before I retire. I have a bunch of titles with some smaller organizations but I want to hold a title in one of the bigger organizations. I’d be happy if that was in the UFC or Strikeforce, it doesn’t matter to me. I love [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – One of mixed martial arts true superstars, former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson first made his name on the international fight scene with his stint in Japan’s PRIDE organization. In honor of Friday night’s premiere of “The Best of PRIDE Fighting Championships” at 10pm ET / PT on Spike [...]
Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Over the course of Spike TV’s “The Best of PRIDE Fighting Championships” series, which premieres Friday night at 10pm ET / PT, you can expect to see plenty of “Minotauro” Nogueira, the only man to hold the heavyweight title both in the UFC and PRIDE. Why is that, you may ask? [...]
The final lightweight champion of the now-defunct PRIDE organization is now UFC bound.
UFC president Dana White revealed on his newest vlog that Takanori Gomi (31-5) has agreed to a contract with the world’s largest MMA promotion.
News of the signing first leaked out on Friday night in an AOL FanHouse report.
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Lightweight Josh Neer (25-9-1 MMA, 4-6 UFC), a 10-time veteran of the UFC, has been released from the world’s biggest MMA promotion.
MMAjunkie.com learned of the move late Friday night.
Neer’s release comes after a hard-fought unanimous-decision loss to Gleison Tibau on the main card of this past week’s “UFC 104: Machida vs. Rua” event in Los [...]
You would think that between DirecTV, cable, Inner Mongolia Television, Mexico’s TDN and of course Sky TV, most of the UFC fan base would be covered for the July 11 broadcast of UFC 100. If you aren’t, you can still catch all the caged combat by ordering the event via live stream from UFC.com on [...]