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UFC lightweight contender Frankie Edgar doesn’t think he’s better than any of the fighters who’ve gone up against champion B.J. Penn; he’s just different. And with the opportunity of a lifetime awaiting the title challenger at UFC 112, Edgar understandably is tight-lipped about his strategy for defeating a seemingly un-beatable opponent. But Edgar recently spoke to MMAjunkie.com’s [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Sacrifice. If you’re not willing to do it, you won’t make it too long in the sport of mixed martial arts. Lightweight contender Joe Stevenson knows all about the idea and practice of sacrifice. UFC News Credit and Full Story: UFC.com … and git with da “Flo.” “I think he will find out very quickly that [knocking me out is] going to be a very difficult thing to do. I didn’t get to where I am by getting beat in the first round and I’m looking forward to seeing if that’s going to come true. Gomi is [...] UFC makes Nate Quarry vs Jorge Rivera and Yushin Okami vs Lucio Linhares official for Fight Night 21Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently bolstered the already-stacked fight card for its Fight Night 21 event going down on March 31 from the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, March 31. Completing the main card line up will be former TUF veteran and surgically repaired middleweight Nate Quarry (12-3), who looks to get back [...] Although it’s a fight he’s coveted for a long time, top UFC lightweight contender Kenny Florian (12-4 MMA, 10-3 UFC) said he has not been offered a fight with Takanori Gomi (31-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC). Florian, who recently began training again in his home state of Massachusetts, said it was news to him if he was [...] For the very first time ever, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tour bus stopped in northern Virginia, staging a Spike TV-produced show from the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax. UFC Fight Night 20: “Maynard vs. Diaz” from the Patriot Center featured a rematch from The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 between surging lightweight contender, Gray [...] “You’ll never hear me talking trash or saying, ‘God, this guys sucks.’ I’m the type of guy that’s always putting the guy I’m fighting up real high, saying, ‘Oh, I don’t know man, he’s pretty good. I better be prepared.’ That’s how I keep it realistic.” Undefeated UFC lightweight contender Gray Maynard talks to the Las [...] Fighter-turned-actor-turned fighter and current free agent Roger Huerta (20-3-1) has been in talks with the San Jose-based Strikeforce promotion after satisfying his UFC contract in a split decision loss to undefeated lightweight contender Gray Maynard at the Sept. 16 UFC Fight Night 19 event in Oklahoma. “El Matador” — who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated [...] The official weigh-in event for UFC Fight Night 20: “Maynard vs. Diaz” is set to take place at the Patriot Center on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. It is currently scheduled to air LIVE right here on MMAmania.com, as well as on several other online destinations, via [...] LAS VEGAS – After confirming on Saturday that former PRIDE lightweight champion Takanori Gomi (31-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) had signed with the UFC, company boss Dana White was mum on details about his first opponent. However, when told that ESPN’s “MMA Live” program posted a Twitter message saying co-host and top lightweight contender Kenny Florian (12-4 [...] Despite a gutsy but bloody effort against lightweight champion B.J. The lightweight contender was tagged with a loss at UFC 107 after suffering a busted lip, facial cuts and a deep forehead gash that prompted a fifth-round TKO stoppage in the pay-per-view-televised main event. Sanchez [...] LAS VEGAS – In the build-up to his WEC 45 main-event bout with Ed Ratcliff, WEC lightweight contender Donald Cerrone made it perfectly clear that he was hoping to break recent form and start his fight quickly. Cerrone did exactly that on Saturday night at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, but [...] |
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