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Slugger Melvin Guillard’s (23-8-2 MMA, 6-4 UFC) tour of the UFC lightweight division’s best submission fighters isn’t over just yet. MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to the organization that Guillard and Brazilian Thiago Tavares (14-3-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) have verbally agreed to meet at UFC 114. While not yet officially announced by the organization, UFC 114 [...]
You know you’re at an MMA fight when a woman in the crowd is catcalling a fighter who is writhing in pain on the ground. Nik Lentz was on the Martins Denis, UFC – As we all know, mixed martial arts is a high impact sport, one in which fighters have to deal with the pain sustained in training and in fighting all the time . So when a fighter needs to push the pace in preparation for a match, he can sometimes pay with [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Lightweight prospects Steve Lopez and Nik Lentz will step into the Octagon for the first time on September 19th, as they replace the injured Thiago Tavares and Dan Lauzon, respectively, on the UFC 103 card at Dallas’ American Airlines Center.UFC News Credit: UFC.com Brazilian lightweight Thiago Tavares (14-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) has suffered a knee injury in training and has been forced to withdraw from “UFC 103: Franklin vs. Belfort.” MMAjunkie.com learned of the injury from sources close to the contest, Tavares [...] UFC submission aces Rousimar Palhares (9-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and Thiago Tavares (14-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) will eye fall returns to action after being forced to withdraw from summer bouts due to injury. An elbow injury forced Tavares out of his The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale bout with Melvin Guillard, while Palhares had been scheduled to [...] A lightweight contest between Melvin Guillard and Thiago Tavares has been added to The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale fight card. While the bout was originally reported as a possibility for UFC 101 in August, sources close to Guillard today told MMAjunkie.com the fight will actually take place at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale in June. The finale, [...] |
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