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Maine, current and former home to fighters like Tim Sylvia, Marcus Davis and Mike Thomas Brown, recently became the latest state to sanction the sport of mixed martial arts, according toThe Bangor Daily News. A measure passed by the House and Senate will establish the ‘Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine’ to regulate and promote mixed [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] PHILADELPHIA – Despite his success in the 205-pound division, including a first-round shellacking of former champ Forrest Griffin at Saturday’s UFC 101 event, Anderson Silva’s next challenge will likely come in the middleweight division. Sticking with a recently revealed game plan, UFC president Dana White said Silva’s next fight will “probably” be against Dan Henderson, whom [...] The UFC’s first venture into the “City of Brotherly Love” was a successful one, with Philly fight fans coming together at the Wachovia Center to watch the highlights of UFC 101: “Declaration” — namely the lightweight title fight between champion B.J. Penn and number one contender Kenny Florian, and the light heavyweight pairing of Forrest [...] 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 [...] PHILADELPHIA – The UFC’s first trip to Philadelphia offered a range of attractions and odd happenings on the evening’s preliminary card, including two split-decisions, a TKO that turned out to be caused by an accidental head butt, and a rematch of a controversial contest being shifted to swing-bout status. Despite the odd occurrences, a raucous crowd [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Written off by many after his failed quest for the welterweight title against Georges St-Pierre in January, BJ Penn returned to the lightweight division Saturday night and showed why he is still the best 155-pounder in the world as he submitted number one contender Kenny Florian in the fourth round of [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva heard the boos, and he knows what the fans thought of his previous two bouts against Patrick Cote and Thales Leites. So what did the best fighter in the world, pound for pound, do in the UFC 101 co-feature at the Wachovia Center Saturday night? He [...] Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – In a closely contested battle of welterweight prospects Saturday night, John Howard scored a three round split decision win over Tamdan McCrory in UFC 101 preliminary action at the Wachovia Center.UFC News Credit: UFC.com 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 [...] |
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