Las Vegas, NV (USA) – A stacked card of Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) action has gotten even bigger with today’s announcement of the explosive undercard for UFC 101: DECLARATION, which takes place live on Saturday, August 8th at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Featuring a star-studded lineup of contenders and prospects, as well as [...]
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Thales Leites was stunned on Saturday when he heard that judges had come to a split decision in his fight with Alessio Sakara at UFC 101 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. He was even more stunned when he came out on the short end of the verdict. But the really shocking news came on Thursday, [...] UFC 101: “Declaration” from the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pa., has officially wrapped, which means that it’s time for those select fighters who went above and beyond in their respective fights to get a little extra grease for their efforts. To the tune of $60,000 each. The promotion dished out its standard post-fight monetary bonuses to four [...] After back-to-back disappointing middleweight title defenses, the world began to doubt the dominance of Anderson Silva (25-4 MMA, 10-0 UFC). After Saturday night’s performance at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, the criticism should stop. While lightweight champion B.J. Penn (14-5-1 MMA, 10-4-1 UFC) defended his title in the main event of “UFC 101: Declaration,” it was Silva that [...] After falling short in the two biggest fights of his career, UFC 101 headliner Kenny Florian has retooled his training approach and developed into one of the division’s more versatile fighters. However, his opponent, UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn, feels he’s not getting the respect he deserves and enters Saturday’s event in perhaps the best [...] “His intensity seemed forced, and he seemed a little small. I am ready to go five five-minute rounds, and we will see tomorrow night if he is ready too. I sacrificed a lot more than B.J. B.J. may have done a lot to get ready for this fight, but I doubt he did more than [...] Below are the official weigh-in results for Saturday’s UFC 101 event. UFC 101, which is headlined by the lightweight title bout between BJ Penn and Kenny Florian and the light heavyweight battle pitting Anderson Silva against Forrest Griffin, airs live on pay-per-view from the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia beginning at 10pm ET / 7pm PT.UFC [...] Props:Boston Herald Quoteworthy: “It was amazing … Dreams come true. I still can’t believe it. Every day I wake up and I thank God, because for that to happen — for someone to go to the UFC for the first time and get that [”Fight of the Night”] bonus — is unbelievable…. It was a blessing from [...] After falling short in the two biggest fights of his career, UFC 101 headliner Kenny Florian has retooled his training approach and developed into one of the division’s more versatile fighters. However, his opponent, UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn, feels he’s not getting the respect he deserves and enters Saturday’s event in perhaps the best [...] “I want to tell the fighters, this ain’t Las Vegas or New Jersey, this is Philly. You can have great fights in Las Vegas, no disrespect, and great fights in New Jersey, no disrespect. This is Philly. It’s a little different. People are going to expect it. You bring your A-game, they’ll bring their A-game. [...] |
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