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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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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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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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UFC 96 kicked-off with former contestant from TV reality show The Ultimate Fighter Gray Maynard dominating his opponent, Jim Miller, in London’s O2 octagon. With his wrestling expertise and his stunning display of boxing prowess, Miller clearly didn’t even have a chance. Admirably, Miller made it to the third round, even coming out of his [...]
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Last Saturday, February 21, 2009, UFC 95 took place in London’s famed O2 Arena, and here’s how the headlining competitor’s fared: In a unanimous decision, the main event was decided in favor of Diego Sanchez, who beat up and beat out Joe Stevenson for his first win in his first ever lightweight bout. In the [...]
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With more pound-for-pound trouble than at any other UFC event before, at UFC 94 on January 31st, Las Vegas and PPV audiences saw not one but two controversies go down. The first was in the B.J. Penn vs. Georges St. Pierre bout. Between rounds, Penn alleges that one of GSP’s corner men, Phil Nurse, purposely [...]
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Before all the bone-crushing excitement begins at this Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIII, MMA fans get to enjoy all the bone-crushing excitement of UFC 94. Taking place this Saturday, January 31 at the Las Vegas MGM Grand and being broadcast on PPV, UFC 94 sees a headlining match between two champions–welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre and [...]
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Saturday January 13 another new UFC year kicks off with its first big event of 2009, UFC 93. The light heavyweights head the night with former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin battling it out with former PRIDE welterweight and middleweight world champ Dan Henderson. Franklin has home-field advantage, with the 3-round bout taking place at [...]
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As UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008 rapidly approaches (Saturday, December 27, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada), everyone’s placing their odds and making their predictions of what’s going to go down there. Two title bouts headline the event: Defending heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin and the undefeated Rashad Evans – Though fresh off [...]
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Tomorrow – Wednesday, December 10, 2008 – the UFC will take a break from its usual reckless abandon to funnel their energies towards a greater cause. Tune in to Spike TV at 9 pm ET and you’ll see what we mean. It’s called “UFC Fight for the Troops”, and to many it will come as [...]
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