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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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Saturday March 1 was UFC 82: Pride of a Champion, which took place at the Nationwide Arena in Ohio and was broadcast live on Pay-Per-View. Here are the results: Preliminary Card: Heavyweight: Andre Arlovski beat Jake O’Brien with a TKO (punches) at 4 minutes, 17 seconds into round 2. Welterweight: Luigi Fiovanti beat Luke Cummo [...]
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After Quinton Jackson handily unseated him from his throne with a brutal knockdown after just 2 minutes in the Octagon, followed by 3 humiliating rounds getting pummelled by Keith Jardine, light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell had MMA fans and fellow fighters alike believing his 7-fight winning streak was little more than a fluke. His royal [...]
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UFC veteran David “Tank” Abbott ran out of gas before the clock counted down the first minute in his Elite XC Showtime bout Saturday night, February 16, against relative newcomer Kimbo Slice. Until then, Slice had only seen 19 seconds of actual fight-time, a single match to his name, whereas Tank hadn’t seen a single [...]
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We won’t be seeing American Psycho Stephen Bonnar in the Octagon anytime soon. Bonnar was scheduled to fight Matt Hamill in UFC Fight Night 13, but now it appears he’ll still be in the thick of a grueling six-month recovery from an injury he suffered yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada during Jiu-Jitsu training. Tearing ligaments [...]
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The official fight card for UFC Fight Night 13 has finally been released, with the headlining bout set between Kenny Florian and Joe Lauzon. Preliminary Bouts Gray “The Bully” Maynard (5-0-1) vs. Frank “The Answer” Edgar (7-0-0) Marcus “Maximus” Aurelio (14-5-0) vs. Spencer “The King” Fisher (21-3-0) Josh “The Dentist” Neer (17-5-1) vs. Din “Dinyero” [...]
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The first big time UFC fight for former WWE star Brock Lesner ended quickly, but we all got a glimpse of the huge potential this fighter has in the future. Lesner took down former UFC champ Frank Mir with ease and was raining down heavy blows while in a dominate top position for much of [...]
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