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Wednesday, April 1 MMA fans at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and those at home watching Spike TV, will bare witness to the 18th installment of UFC Fight Night. The 12-bout fight card for Fight Night 18 will include a main event featuring veteran UFC fighter Martin Kampmann versus the last of the WEC [...]
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Much exciting stuff took place last week at UFC 89, which was held in Birmingham, England. With a victory by unanimous decision, native-son 185-pound Michael Bisping took down Chris Leben to notch up a thurd consecutive win. Bisping has been announced as one of the coaches for “The Ultimate Fighter” season 9. One of the [...]
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August 9 2008 is UFC 87: Seek and Destroy, happening at Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Target Center and broadcast live on Pay-Per-View. Replacing UFC Hall of Famer and former PRIDE heavyweight star Mark “The Hammer” Coleman is Heath Herring (2-0 UFC: 28-13 MMA) as the man out to pummel Brock Lesnar (0-1 UFC: 1-1 MMA). License for [...]
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In 1997, New York state K.O.’d Ultimate Fighting, aka Mixed Martial Arts, officially outlawing cage fighting in the state. Currently, the UFC is trying to get NY to reverse that decision. Pointing out that ultimate fighting is now a regulated sport and, as such, safe for the participants and legally sanctioned in 32 states, the [...]
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Former heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia has officially left the UFC to begin fighting for Adrenaline MMA instead. One of the reason Sylvia cites for the move is that Adrenaline MMA, previously known as M-1 Global, permits its fighters to battle for other organizations. On March 28, he told HDNet’s “Inside MMA” that he would like [...]
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As we eagerly await UFC 84: Ill Will in May, the fight card for UFC 86 is already filling up. The July 5 event, slated for the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas,will feature American Top Team fighters and UFC newcomers both. Headlining the event will be two “The Ultimate Fighter 7” coaches battling [...]
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23-year-old lightweight Joe Lauzon (15-3) attributes much of his success to his “Ultimate Fighter 5” coach, MMA legend and current UFC lightweight champ, B.J. Penn. Though Lauzon lost TUF 5 in the semi-finals, under Penn’s tutelage at his Hilo, Hawaii camp, Lauzon managed to beat out Jason Reinhardt in November, 2007’s UFC 78 with a [...]
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UFC 84: Ill Will, coming up on May 24th, will see three more light-heavyweight bouts on the fight card, namely: undefeated Thiago Silva vs. UFC newcomer Antonio Mendes in a totally Brazilian bout Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura (both coming off brutal defeats in their respective UFC debut bouts by the same fighter, Brazil’s [...]
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Killer MMA light-heavyweight champ and now best-selling author for a second week straight (with his autobiography “Iceman: My Fighting Life”, Chuck Liddell is ready to implement what he calls his “three-stage plan” for world domination – the world of the UFC, that is. Stage one, which the Iceman is currently touring England promoting, is to [...]
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Billionaire renaissance man/entrepreneur Mark Cuban – who already owns the Dallas Mavericks and HDNet Cable – is suing the UFC over the broadcasting and promotional contract of fighter Randy “The Natural” Couture. Cuban hopes the suit will make way for an eagerly anticipated bout between heavyweight champ Couture and Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko, whichCuban [...]
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