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A replay of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first event of 2010, “UFC 108: Evans vs. Silva,” re-airs tonight on Spike TV at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT. The event initially aired on pay-per-view and took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Featured bouts from the event, which had been decimated by injuries in the months [...] It’s a daunting proposition to fight UFC lightweight Clay Guida at sea level, but to fight him at a mile high? You’ve got to have guts. Shannon Gugerty was depressed after a second-round submission loss to Terry Etim this past November at UFC 105 and needed a new challenge, quickly. “I just wanted to get back into [...] Olympic gold medalist and former world champion boxer Ray Mercer will put on the four-ounce gloves once again on April 16 and face The matchup was announced on the most recent edition of HDNet’s “Inside MMA,” and the [...] After splitting a pair of bouts with UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, former title holder Frank Mir has made little effort to hide his current motivation. As such, some have labeled Mir a “stalker” because of his singular focus on a rubber match with the champ. Nevertheless, Mir carries on in search of facing Lesnar once again. [...] UFC welterweight title challenger Dan Hardy won’t bring too many surprises to the cage when he faces champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC The British slugger’s striking attack has earned him a perfect mark in the UFC, so why change things now? In fact, Hardy said the only surprise will be finding out what round [...] Heading into his UFC 107 contest with Stefan Struve, much of the talk surrounding Paul Buentello’s training camp – or rather, his lack of one. Forced out of his normal routine at California’s American Kickboxing Academy, Buentello scrambled to find a suitable training home. But as his UFC on Versus 1 bout with Cheick Kongo approaches, little [...] Former Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight Roger Huerta (20-3-1 MMA, 0-0 Bellator) is set to test his mettle in Bellator Fighting Championships’ season two eight-man lightweight tournament. Sources close to the situation confirmed to MMAjunkie.com that the popular lightweight received his formal release from the UFC this week, which opened the door to finalize a deal with [...] In the early years of the new millennium, with the UFC struggling for U.S. acceptance and PRIDE in its Japanese heyday, the companies toyed around with the idea of co-promotion through fighter sharing. The UFC has since changed courses on that thought, and you’re unlikely to see a fighter under Zuffa contract ever appearing in another [...] Light heavyweights Rich Franklin and Chuck Liddell are penciled in for a June showdown. MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to the promotion that the two have verbally agreed to face each other in June at UFC 115, though contracts have yet to be finalized. The new matchup replaces a planned third meeting between Liddell and |
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