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Brian Stann will welcome blue chip prospect Phil Davis to the big leagues when the pair collide in a 205-pound match up at UFC 109: “Relentless” from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 6, 2010. The promotion made the announcement earlier today, indicating that it does not intend to handle the [...] Two-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion and current welterweight prospect Ben Askren (3-0) was today announced as Bellator’s newest addition. A U.S. Olympian who competed in the 2008 Beijing Games, Askren has compiled three first-round stoppages since his professional MMA debut in February. While an exact date for the 25-year-old’s Bellator debut was not announced, Askren is [...] Jake Rosholt (6-2), four-time All American and three-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion out of Oklahoma State University (OSU), was released by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) yesterday following his Nov. 21 submission loss to Kendall Grove. Rosholt announced the news via his official Twitter account. He turned pro about two years ago and had gone undefeated [...] The WEC featherweight division will soon welcome yet another promising 145-pounder as Chad Mendes has come to terms with the promotion on a six-fight deal, according to Sherdog.com. Mendes (5-0) has garnered a perfect record over his young professional career, which began in Sept. 2008 with a debut victory over Giovanni Encarnacion via submission at Palace [...] The UFC’s welterweight division has been, arguably, the most stacked division in mixed martial arts since the Pharaoh first taught Moses to roll. No other division under any MMA promotion has consistently been home to so many top 10 fighters in the modern era of the sport. One of the fighters who has been in the [...] “Everybody wants to be bigger, faster, stronger. I’m no expert on the subject. I had taken something several months before the fight and I didn’t realize that it stayed in your system for up to eight months. I mean everybody has the desire to win and everybody’s going to do what they can to win. [...] Yet another high-profile amateur wrestler is heading to the world of mixed martial arts. Daniel Cormier, a two-time Olympian and the U.S. squad’s 2008 Olympic team captain, was a two-time JUCO national champion and NCAA Division I runner-up at Oklahoma State University in 2001. MMAjunkie.com learned of the move from Zinkin Entertainment & Sports Management, a high-profile [...] About the Actor Olympic Gold Medalist Kevin Jackson joins UFC Veteran Mike Van Arsdale to teach [...] |
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