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The UFC’s second event of 2010, “UFC 109: Relentless,” drew 10,753 attendees for a $2,273,000 paid gate at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Of the total attendance, 3,321 tickets were issued complimentary. An additional 84 tickets went unsold. Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today emailed the official numbers to MMAjunkie.com. UFC News [...] All 13 fighters who underwent drug testing at this past weekend’s UFC 109 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse. Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today e-mailed the drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com. UFC 109 took place Feb. 6 at the Mandalay Bay Events in Las Vegas. Despite headlining the organization’s most recent card, UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman has been cut from the UFC’s roster of light heavyweights. Fiveouncesofpain.com first reported the termination, which MMAjunkie.com has since confirmed with a source close to the UFC. Coleman, a former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and the first-ever UFC heavyweight title-holder, went 1-2 [...] Spike TV’s one-hour “UFC Prelim” broadcast for this past weekend’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event scored a series-high 1.7 million viewers, which The one-hour broadcast, which featured two preliminary-card bouts and aired before the night’s pay-per-view telecast, scored a 1.2 household rating overall, as well as [...] Michael DiSanto, UFC – Late last week, I was talking about UFC 109 to a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and he said, “I wish Randy Couture would just go away; I’m so over that guy.” Interesting. When pressed why, he responded, “Because he beats all of my favorite fighters, and the guy is older than [...] As this past Saturday’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event kicked off with a trio of un-aired preliminary bouts, UFC newcomer Joey Beltran entered the octagon for the first time. His legs were sluggish, his feet like concrete blocks. Punches were hitting him, and he soon became oddly aware of his own breathing. None of it made any [...] Props: Examiner.com Quoteworthy: “I was ecstatic to have my first win under Coach Jackson. Like I told everybody tonight, I started out 0-0, now I’m 1-0 under Team Jackson and right now my goal is to just work hard and try to move myself into title contention. Working with Joe Stevenson full-time, we’re like brothers now. My [...] UFC 109: “Relentless”Chael Sonnen defeats Nate Marquardt via unanimous decision.Fight time: Standing (1:48); Ground (13:12) Total Strikes = Total Arm Strikes + Total Leg Strikes + Ground StrikesTotal Arm Strikes Landed = Power Strikes Landed + Clinch Strikes LandedTotal Leg Strikes Landed = Kicks Landed + Knees Landed For a round-by-round breakdown of all the UFC 109 [...] “I don’t know what’s next. We’ll see. Dana will probably call me tomorrow and say ‘Hey, do you want to fight next week?’…. I was very happy. We couldn’t have mapped it out better. The last few camps have been fantastic and this camp went great too. Everybody talked about Mark and expected the fight [...] Randy Couture is back in the thick of the light-heavyweight title picture. After coming out of retirement for a title run in the heavyweight division, Couture has now posted back-to-back wins at light heavyweight with his submission victory over Mark Coleman in the main event of Saturday’s “UFC 109: Relentless” event. Now, UFC president Dana White said [...] |
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