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Jon Jones (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Brandon Vera (11-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) could be headed up a division around the same time. The light heavyweight headliners of UFC on Versus 1 spoke Tuesday to media about their March 21 fight, and both said a trip to the heavyweight division is not out of the question [...] The Ohio Athletic Commission medically suspended seven fighters from this past weekend’s World Extreme Cagefighting event, “WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz.” The event took place March 6 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, and aired on Versus. Among those suspended were two fighters from the night’s co-main-events, including headliner Brian Bowles and Miguel Torres, who were slowed [...] “Dana White is a straight up ho! He makes me a 5-fight offer for chump change and said I can’t box anymore if I accept it. He must have lost his damn mind. I’m the best of both worlds. Anyone in either sport that wants to come see me, we can do this.” 41-year-old NABO [...] LAS VEGAS – The winner of Saturday’s UFC 109 co-main-event fight between Nate Marquardt (29-8-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) and Chael Sonnen (24-10-1 MMA, 3-3 UFC) will earn a middleweight title shot. At today’s UFC 109 pre-event press conference, UFC president Dana White confirmed the recent speculation and guaranteed the winner a shot at the belt. White, who [...] “Dana White’s first offer was a joke and that lets me know he really don’t want to do this … his offer was laughable. That’s the reason I wanted the camera guy in the room with us when I sat down with Dana, so the fans would know that I was serious and if it [...] LAS VEGAS – Co-headliners Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson and main-card fighter Antonio Rogerio Nogueira eached earned $70,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances at Saturday’s “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II” event. Koscheck earned the “Submission of the Night” bonus, Nogueira earned the “Knockout of the Night” award, and Koscheck and Johnson both earned “Fight of [...] A total of 16 competitors, including headliners Roan Carneiro and Jorge Patino, weighed in on Thursday for today’s “Shine Fight 2: American Top Carneiro, Patino, and the remaining competitors on the card all made weight without incident. Tonight’s event, which features member of the famed American Top Team camp taking on competitors from [...] A total of 24 competitors, including headliners Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and Mark Kerr, weighed in on Thursday for today’s “M-1: Breakthrough” show, which is the first of what M-1 officials call a “premium event series.” Lawal weighed 219 pounds and opponent Kerr tipped the scale at 263 pounds at the weigh-ins, which took place in [...] |
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