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Hang tight, West Coast fans. Bellator Fighting Championships hasn’t forgotten about you. The promotion, which kicks off its second season next month with live shows on FOX Sports Net, is skipping West Coast markets for its 12-week run due to its 8 p.m. ET start times. Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio that logistics forced [...] How big is the James Toney signing for the UFC? Ask boxing fans if they care. Cagewriter spoke with Maxboxing.com’s Steve Kim right after the news came out and he said the news didn’t matter much because Toney hasn’t been relevant in the square circle for years. “I’m not so sure this even causes a ripple,” [...] Despite a four-year career that includes stops in the International But with a main-card contest with fellow up-and-comer Deividas Taurosevicius scheduled for the main card of Saturday’s WEC 47 event in Columbus, Ohio, [...] It’s been a long road from obscurity to the edge of breaking through into the fighting elite for Dominick Cruz. Just over a year ago, he was on the non-televised portion of most WEC cards, now because of good timing and some impressive wins, the bantamweight has a chance to play spoiler and walk away [...] “We didn’t have a financial agreement. The purse was too low comparing from what I’m used to receiving and it’s bad for the fighter’s career. [The media] said I’m having problems with drugs and medicines … You can test me and you’ll see … I’m great. I’m not worried with fighting in Brazil anymore. I [...] The UFC’s first-ever lightweight champion, current WEC featherweight Jens Pulver has never felt better. While that might be difficult to believe when it relates to a 35-year-old prizefighter who has just one win in his past seven trips Since electing to end a brief retirement, [...] Chael Sonnen has talked a lot the last two weeks. He’s had more than a few fighters in his verbal crosshairs. Strangely enough, his opponent Nate Marquardt hasn’t been one of them. Maybe Sonnen felt like it would be an unfair verbal fight “Nate the Great” was unlikely to fire back. Marquardt is one of [...] Props: Fighters Only Quoteworthy: “Mark’s fighting style hasn’t changed in the thirteen years we’ve been doing this. He has got a great double leg, he is a big physical guy. He is going throw nice heavy, strong punches early on and try to set up that double leg, try to get you on your back. He has [...] Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – Not to cue the violins or anything, but Stephan Bonnar hasn’t won a fight in the Octagon since UFC 77 in October of 2007—or 33 cards, a change in Presidential administrations and 439 days ago (numbers based as of February 20, 2010, when he fights Krzysztof Soszynski at UFC 110 in [...] |
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