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Ask and you shall receive. Colorful light heavyweight up-and-comer “King” Mo Lawal has done just about everything in his power in recent days, weeks and months to coordinate a fight against Strikeforce 205-pound champion, Gegard Mousasi. It apparently worked. Lawal will get his wish, according to MMAWeekly.com, taking on the stoic Armenian at the upcoming Strikeforce show on [...] Props: ProFightingFans.com Quoteworthy: “I’ve made huge improvements in my last year of training. I think I’m at the point where I can technically matchup with [Georges St. Pierre] and I think I can beat him. I think right now I’m a better fighter than him. I’m just waiting for the opportunity to prove it. [Thiago Alves] is [...] The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 7 alum Matt Riddle (3-1) has been rebooked for the preliminary card of the upcoming UFC 111 event opposite Greg Soto (7-0) for the promtion’s return trip to The Prudential Center on March 27 in Newark, NJ. Soto replaces Ricardo Funch, who was forced to withdraw from the event with a foot [...] Lubbock, Texas wasn’t the only city that played host to some exciting mixed martial arts action on the eve of UFC 109. Aggression MMA held their second show — Vengeance — in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Every single bout on the nine-fight card saw it’s conclusion come before the final bell sounded. Taylor (14-5), best known for [...] Props:MMA Weekly Quoteworthy: “I needed to give myself the best shot to win and I needed short, squatty guys who have good over hand rights and great jiu-jitsu. In Vegas, there’s no one better than Marc Laimon to know what Serra’s going to do, how he’s going to do it. [Serra] caught Karo (Parisyan), he caught (Chris) [...] Fresh off a technical knockout win over Houston Alexander little more than two weeks ago, Joey Beltran will get a shot in the big show, taking on decorated grappling champion and member of the famed Gracie clan, Rolles Gracie, at UFC 109: “Relentless” at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 6, [...] “If I stop [Thiago Alves], I don’t see how they could deny me a shot at GSP. At that point I would have stopped someone twice who GSP couldn’t finish in five rounds, so I think that’s a very strong argument for me to get a title shot. We’re both fighting for another crack at [...] Props: TheMMANews Quoteworthy: “If I fight (Anderson Silva) again I think I am going to do the same thing, I think I learned that if you’re not scared of him right away you have a good chance to win and that’s what I did. I was there in the first second of the fight, I took the [...] 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 [...] Late last night (Jan. 16, 2010), Midwest-based mixed martial arts promotion, 5150 Combat, held its turn-of-the-year event, “New Year’s Revolution.” at the Spirit Bank Event Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The promotion pulled out all the stops for the show, featuring numerous ex-UFC fighters on the card, including main event participant, Houston Alexander, who was fresh off [...] 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 [...] |
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