Machida Takes Title in UFC 98 and Remains Undefeated

Posted on May 25th, 2009 by sagescott

Saturday night, May 23, at 3 minutes 57 seconds before the end of round 2 of the light heavyweight title match at UFC 98, Lyota Machida (aka “The Dragon”) took the title away from reigning champ Rashad Evans. The fight ended when Machida just laid into Evans, backing him up against the cage with a [...]

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Injury Changes UFC 101 Fight Card: Palhares Out, Leites In

Posted on May 12th, 2009 by sagescott

Replacing Rousimar Palhares after an injury knocked him off the UFC 101 fight card battling Alessio Sakara will be Thales Leites, challenger for the middleweight title. Before his April loss by unanimous decision to middleweight title-holder Anderson Silva, Leites had only lost one other UFC bout (to Martin Kampmann in Leites 2006 UFC debut) won [...]

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