There’s an intriguing welterweight match-up brewing between 170-pound standouts Martin Kampmann and Paulo Thiago as the Las Vegas Sun reports the two have verbally agreed to a showdown at UFC 115 on June 12 from Vancouver.
Kampmann appears to be on the mend after withdrawing from his UFC 111 fight against Ben Saunders to heal [...]
The six weeks of taping is complete. We get to see the drama begin to unfold at the end of the month. You don’t want to see Chuck Liddell face Tito Ortiz for a third time? Before you make a decision, wait until you see season 11 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” I haven’t seen or [...]
“I’ve beaten everyone the UFC has put in front of me; I’ve never turned down a fight and I am not about to now. I would have been happy having a couple more fights before getting my shot, but I was offered a spot as a late replacement against Mike Swick in a final eliminator [...]
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“I’ve made huge improvements in my last year of training. I think I’m at the point where I can technically matchup with [Georges St. Pierre] and I think I can beat him. I think right now I’m a better fighter than him. I’m just waiting for the opportunity to prove it. [Thiago Alves] is [...]
Our partners in crime over atBloodyElbow.comhave once again published their divisional rankings for mixed martial arts in the nation’s largest daily newspaper, USA Today, for the month of February 2010.
For those of you unfamiliar with the process, here’s how it works:
“The rankings, which will offer a definitive perspective of top MMA fighters across all weight-classes, [...]
Tickets for UFC 113: “Machida vs. Shogun 2,” which is slated for The Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 8, 2010, will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010.
UFC Fight Club members and UFC Newsletter subscribers, naturally, will be able to scoop up tickets prior to them being [...]
It’s official.
Tickets for UFC 113: “Machida vs. Shogun 2,” which is slated for The Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on May 8, 2010, will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010.
UFC Fight Club members and UFC Newsletter subscribers, naturally, will be able to scoop up tickets prior to them [...]
“Paul Daley is talking a lot. Paul is going to get his mouth shut. I’ve been in this game for a long time and yeah I talk a lot of trash but guess what, I back it up at the end of the day. If Paul Daley’s going to talk, is he going to come [...]
If fans weren’t wowed by UFC 108 and UFC 109 because of a lack of heat between the fighters, get ready for the spring and summer. MTV’s “Yo Momma” is going to look weak compared to some of the smack talk before upcoming UFC events. Brock Lesnar’s next fight against Shane Carwin or Frank Mir, [...]
Paulo Thiago keeps dogging American Kickboxing Academy fighters. He screwed up Josh Koscheck’s 2009 welterweight title hopes with an upset at UFC 95, and now he’s done it to Koscheck’s AKA teammate Mike Swick.
Thiago’s standing defense looked terrible in his UFC debut against Koscheck, but he still knocked him out with a huge uppercut. His [...]