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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) once again countered live programming from a competing mixed martial arts promotion when it aired selected fights from UFC 100 on Spike TV last Saturday (Aug. 15 at 10 p.m. ET) — directly opposite the Strikeforce: “Carano vs Cyborg” event that aired live on Showtime. The replay, headlined by the UFC heavyweight [...] Despite initial in-cage reports by Georges St. Pierre himself that he had torn a muscle in his groin – an injury that could have shelved the UFC’s welterweight champion for a significant period – more official evaluations of the injury suffered earlier this month at UFC 100 have revealed a less severe conclusion. According to a [...] The controversy surrounding Dan Henderson’s heavily debated final knockout shot of Michael Bisping at this past weekend’s UFC 100 event was just a simple case of a joke gone wrong. That’s according to Henderson, who discussed the fight on Tuesday’s edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio. Henderson said that not only were his post-fight comments about knowingly hitting an [...] “Alan was a very tough fighter. The damage of the low blow in the beginning of the fight was quite strong. I thought that if he hit me there again I wouldn’t be able to continue the fight. I wanted to take a large break but there was confusion during the fight. I misunderstood the [...] At UFC 100 on July 11, Brock Lesnar soundly defeated Frank Mir in front of a hostile crowd and millions of viewers at home to unify the UFC heavyweight championship. The former WWE superstar spent eighteen months preparing for that moment. In fact, since his debut at UFC 81 in February of 2007, Lesnar has done [...] “I honestly don’t know what happened to me out there. I will just have to accept what the organizers say in their rules about when I fight next and take it on the chin. But I do know that I have the ability to bounce right back and succeed in my aim of lifting the [...] Las Vegas Review-Journal Quoteworthy: “I basically was (within) a half-an-inch of catching him. I knew he was hurt, but he had good leverage, with my shoulder against the cage. I made a stupid mistake. When I stood up, and he’s screaming, it took me a few seconds to realize (what Lesnar was doing). ESPN showed him spitting [...] Recap of UFC 100 from ESPN’s MMA Live team… UFC 100 from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 11, has come to a close. The promotion’s historic event went into Saturday night without a subtitle, but after witnessing the brutality of Dan Henderson and Brock Lesnar, the event could have been aptly titled “No Remorse.” Heading into the main event rematch [...] |
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