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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will stay home for its Fourth of July weekend event, and the show now has a likely venue: the MGM Grand Garden Arena. MMAjunkie.com first reported earlier this month that UFC officials plan to host a July 3 show, likely to be UFC 116, in Las Vegas and that UFC heavyweight champion [...] The UFC’s second event of 2010, “UFC 109: Relentless,” drew 10,753 attendees for a $2,273,000 paid gate at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Of the total attendance, 3,321 tickets were issued complimentary. An additional 84 tickets went unsold. Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today emailed the official numbers to MMAjunkie.com. UFC News [...] Here we go again. The injury bug that bit the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) through early winter has reared its ugly fangs once again. Kevin Iole at Yahoo!Sports.com delivers the sad news. Vitor Belfort is injured (shoulder) and off UFC 112 title fight with Anderson Silva. Confirmed by Dana White. More details to come. “The Phenom” and “The Spider” were initially [...] All 13 fighters who underwent drug testing at this past weekend’s UFC 109 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse. Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today e-mailed the drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com. UFC 109 took place Feb. 6 at the Mandalay Bay Events in Las Vegas. LAS VEGAS – Competing in the second bout of a new seven-fight deal with the UFC, five-time champion Randy Couture picked up the biggest check at Saturday’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event for his winning effort against Mark Coleman. Couture made an event-high $250,000 in disclosed pay (with no win bonus) to lead UFC 109’s official fighter [...] Recent reports have stated that Strikeforce may be eyeing the UFC’s The only problem? Strikeforce has yet to apply for a promoter’s license in the state of Nevada. Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer While the UFC has mostly gone away from naming their pay-per-views with awe-inducing adjectives or testosterone-inducing titles, the promotion’s next major show is a departure from that new rule. UFC 109, which takes place Feb. 6 in Las Vegas, is titled “Relentless” rather than “Couture vs. Coleman.” That adjective may have been picked to describe the four [...] The news of Abu Dhabi andits UFC purchasehas come fast and furious. The UAE government now owns 10 percent of the fight promotion and an Apr. 10 event has been rumored for months. It makes sense and there seems to be plenty of money in Abu Dhabi to draw a nice crowd. One problem, where [...] When UFC light heavyweight Steve Cantwell was forced to withdraw from a UFC 108 bout in Las Vegas with Vladimir Matyushenko, most MMA observers simply chalked up the loss as another victim of the “curse” that plagued the card. But when UFC president Dana White said Cantwell was in danger of never fighting again, the [...] Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) today issued its list of medical suspensions for UFC 108: “Evans vs. Silva,” which took place on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. With several of the bouts ending early (and viciously), there were a handful of fighters who were flagged follow up visits [...] He’s been a one-man wrecking crew the last four cards. Well not really, but Dana White has been “wrecking” referee Steve Mazzagatti. Each of the last four cards, White has flipped out on Twitter sending out requests for fans to email complaint to Keith Kizer, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. His [...] |
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