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Here we go! British brawler Paul Daley will get his shot at the big time when he collides with perennial welterweight contender, Josh Koscheck, at the upcoming UFC 113 event from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 1, 2010. “Kos” today confirmed the good news via Twitter.com, saying the electric 170-pound showdown will serve [...] Top welterweight contender Josh Koscheck will be unable to exact revenge on the man who temporarily derailed his title aspirations, Paulo Thiago, at UFC 109: “Relentless” on Feb. 6, 2010, because he suffered an undisclosed injury in training. He broke the bad news today via Twitter.com, saying “I will be good to go back to training [...] 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 [...] After spoiling fans with a free look at select preliminary bouts from some of its previous pay-per-view offerings, the UFC will not air any of the undercard action from the upcoming Dec. 12 “Penn vs. Sanchez” event because the 2009 Video Game Awards (VGA) already lay claim to the 8pm-10pm time slot on Spike TV. Fans [...] Props: Cagewriter Quoteworthy: “When you watch a fight like [Ortiz vs. Griffin 2] and you hear a 30-27 score, I don’t even know, I’m so exhausted by this whole thing. It’s tiring. It’s terrible. These athletic commissions need to start looking at this and figure out what they’re going to do. It has nothing to do with [...] “I didn’t hit him in the head, I hit him in the arm. I don’t know why he would act like [that], I guess he was gassing. That’s the only thing I can think of, [him] trying to find some kind of excuse to complain. I know I didn’t hit him in the head. I [...] LAS VEGAS – It was no Machida vs. “Shogun,” but judging once again became the center of attention following a UFC main event. Immediately after Forrest Griffin was awarded a split-decision victory in the main event of Saturday night’s “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II,” the third-straight UFC feature bout to receive at least one questionable [...] The lights have finally been dimmed on UFC 106: “Ortiz vs. Griffin 2″ from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin hooked ‘em up in the main event, which was a rematch from their controversial first encounter back in 2006. And tonight was eerily similar to the first chapter, [...] LAS VEGAS – Co-headliners Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson and main-card fighter Antonio Rogerio Nogueira eached earned $70,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances at Saturday’s “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II” event. Koscheck earned the “Submission of the Night” bonus, Nogueira earned the “Knockout of the Night” award, and Koscheck and Johnson both earned “Fight of [...] LAS VEGAS – Just moments after submitting Anthony Johnson in a performance that would earn him $140,000 in fight-night bonuses, Josh Koscehck called out fellow welterweight contender Dan Hardy and said he deserved a title shot with champion Georges St-Pierre more than the British fighter. The bravado sparked a mixed reaction from the crowd at Saturday’s [...] |
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