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While UFC welterweight title challenger Dan Hardy continues to remain in the headlines due to ongoing verbal conflicts with some of his past opponents, the British slugger’s date with Georges St-Pierre at UFC 111 later this month is fast approaching. St-Pierre, the popular French-Canadian champion, hasn’t yet found himself as much of a target for Hardy’s [...] With the Showtime-televised main card already set, Strikeforce also has finalized the preliminary card for next week’s “Challengers” card. Although heavy on amateurs bouts, the un-aired portion of the Feb. 26 show features a solid middleweight pro bout between Eric Lawson (9-2 MMA, 5-0 SF) and Wayne Phillips (3-3 MMA, 0-0 SF), Strikeforce officials confirmed with [...] While former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz is no stranger to making headlines with his often controversial brand of A quick snapshot taken of Ortiz during a media day for “The Ultimate Fighter 11″ showed the “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” sporting a [...] Props: Nocaute(written version) Quoteworthy: “It’s going to be a tough fight. Minotauro is one of the best. He is always hard and you can never underestimate him. Even while he is losing, always finds a way to invert the situation and finish the bout. I have too much respect for him. I watched The Ultimate Fighter in [...] The Ultimate Fighting Championship today officially announced five bouts for its Super Bowl weekend event in Las Vegas. “UFC 109: Relentless” features a headliner between former UFC champions and current UFC Hall of Famers Randy Couture and Mark Coleman, and takes place Feb. 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Other announced bouts include [...] A lightweight title-unification bout between Strikeforce champion Josh Thomson (16-2) and interim champion Gilbert Melendez (16-2) headlines the organization’s Dec. 19 event, MMAjunkie.com has confirmed. The five-round rematch from the duo’s original June 2008 meeting takes place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., and tops the Showtime-televised portion of the event. Thomson pulled off the [...] Brett Rogers, who headlines Saturday’s CBS-televised Strikeforce/M-1 event at the Sears Centre in Chicago, appears as a guest on tonight’s new edition of “Last Call with Carson Daly” on NBC. Rogers joins author Neil Strauss and the band Peaches on the show, which begins late Friday/early Saturday at 1:35 a.m. ET/PT. Rogers will discuss his upcoming CBS-televised [...] For all of his accomplishments as a mixed martial artist, top heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko (30-1) has yet to prove himself in one major aspect: as a financially viable draw. The Russian sambo ace made his name in the now-defunct PRIDE Emelianenko [...] With this afternoon’s shocking news that illness had forced UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar out of his UFC 106 headlining contest with top contender Shane Carwin, the UFC was announced that a rematch between light heavyweights Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz will now take top billing at the event. The promotion also announced it “hopes to [...] While the recently scheduled contest of Thiago Alves vs. Jon Fitch is garnering recent headlines for the upcoming “UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez” event in Memphis, Tenn., the organization today added several more bouts to the card. While most of the nine new contests had already been reported by MMAjunkie.com, a lightweight bout between Shane Nelson [...] |
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