It didn’t take long for Nate Diaz to get the phone call.
The Stockton, Calif.-based Diaz (11-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) is expected to make
his welterweight debut at UFC 111, where he could meet Rory Markham (16-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) at the March 27 show, a source close to the event told MMAjunkie.com.
Although a few options are [...]
As time moves along, we find out more and more of why the legendary Dan Henderson left the world’s biggest MMA promotion, the UFC, to roll the dice with Strikeforce. There was the lure of potential fights against Jake Shields, Gegard Mousasi and possibly even Fedor Emelianenko. But the biggest reason was to concentrate on [...]
“I had a very unpleasant 45-minute phone call with Rampage before the TUF finale (on Dec. 5). We started fighting on texts that day. He sent me a really bad text so I sent him a really bad text back. He wrote back, ‘Call me, I can’t spell good enough to fight on texts (laughs).’”
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LAS VEGAS – First came the phone call from training partner and friend Jorge Gurgel. Then the reporters started calling about the same rumor. And after a quick call to UFC Vice President of Talent Relations Joe Silva, Dustin Hazelett got the official word.
Opponent Karo Parisyan had pulled out of their UFC 106 main card [...]