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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 [...] A battle of heavyweight strikers has been assembled for the upcoming UFC debut on the Versus network as Cheick Kongo (14-6-1) faces Paul Buentello (27-11) at the The Odeum Colorado in Broomfield on Sunday, March 21. The UFC confirmed the heavyweight tilt earlier today. Kongo is undoubtedly hoping to erase the memories of his last performance after [...] A heavyweight battle between the division’s tallest fighter on the UFC roster, Stephan “Skyscraper” Struve (19-3,) and perhaps its most rotund, Roy “Big Country” Nelson (14-4,) is in the works for UFC Fight Night 21 in North Carolina on March 31. The event, which will mark the second of three scheduled events for the promotion in [...] Props: MMAWeekly(via Watch Kalib Run) Quoteworthy: “I never said he wasn’t fighting in April. What I said was there will be a fight by the end of March or April in K-1, and actually, he did very well in K-1 and he’s got an extremely good contract. Commercial-wise, it’s better for him, and we agreed to this [...] Fans of mixed martial arts were once again treated to an action-packed weekend chock full of fights thanks to The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) putting forth a bevy of top stars in the heat of battle for its final event of the 2009 fight campaign. UFC 107: “Penn vs. Sanchez” went down last Saturday night (Dec. [...] Props: UFC.com Quoteworthy: “I feel like I did enough, I could have done a little bit more, but the fans watched the fight. I was in the fight so it’s hard to judge it until I watch it on TV. I just needed that one extra [burst] of aggression. I should have put more pressure on him, [...] For aspiring mixed martial artists, making it to the UFC is the ultimate goal. But for four-time UFC veteran Paul Buentello (27-10 MMA, 3-1 UFC), the goal was to make it back. “It’s funny, some of the fans, even high-school buddies that I went to school with, they find out that I’m in the UFC, and they [...] Props:M-1 Global Quoteworthy: “[Fedor] is certainly the best heavyweight in the world. But he does have weaknesses. We all do – isn’t that what makes champions great — they win even with weaknesses? They win even though they can be beat? He is not a machine…. I want to fight soon, and I want to fight Alistair. [...] |
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