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UFC Fight Night 18 Preview

sagescott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:26:36 +0000

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 welterweight champs and fresh newcomer to the UFC Carlos Condit.

Also on the main card (and Spike TV's docket) are:

Carmelo Marrero versus Ryan Bader
Tyson Griffin versus Rafael dos Anjos
Cole Miller versus Junie Browning

The other 8 fights of the night will not be televised. This event will also serve as the lead-in to SpikeTV's upcoming The Ultimate Fighter 9: U.S. vs. U.K.

This is the first UFC event ever to be held in the state of Tennessee, and rumor has it, with the stadium's 20,000 seating capacity, this could draw the largest crowd yet to a live UFC event.

UFC 93 Kicks Off New Year

sagescott — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:47:14 +0000

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 the O2 Arena in his native Dublin, Ireland. But oddsmakers have once Olympic wrestler Henderson as the clear favorite.

UFC 93 will also see Mark Coleman step back into the Octagon--after a 2 year hiatus, following a loss against Fedor Emelianenko--for a long-awaited rematch against Mauricio Rua (aka "Shogun"). This'll also be a long-awaited return for Shogun too, as he was sidelined early in '08 after an ACL injury.

Odds favor Coleman's strength and stand-up skills against Rua's Brazilian Muay Thai.

UFC 89 Rundown

sagescott — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:08:37 +0000

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 highlights, earning both fighters an extra $40k for giving fans the “Fight of the Night”, was between Paul Taylor and Chris Lytle, with Lytle winning in a contentious split decision.

Lytle and Taylor weren’t the only ones to win $40,000 bonuses, though. Brazlilian Luis Arthur Cane took home “Knockout of the Night” for his obliteration of Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou of Team Quest by second-round strikes. This is the 3rd such bounty for Taylor, who won the same honor in UFC 80 and UFC 75. That’s a lot of bonus money for a fighter who just joined the UFC in April of 2007.

Also that night, Brandon Vera delivered Keith Jardine his very first loss

UFC 93 Rings in the New Year in Dublin w/Franklin-Henderson & Coleman-Rua Bouts

sagescott — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:41:46 +0000

The New Year in Mixed Martial Arts is set to get off to a killer start with the first UFC event of 2009, UFC 93, coming up on January 17 taking place in Dublin, Ireland's new O2-Dublin arena, which opens just a few weeks earlier, in December of this year.

The light-heavyweight main event that evening looks like it will be former UFC middleweight champ Rich Franklin (11-2 UFC, 24-3 MMA) might be facing down former PRIDE 2-division world champ Dan Henderson (3-2 UFC, 23-7 MMA) for 3 intense rounds of raw MMA action.

Fans can also look forward to a surprising rumored rematch between 2005 PRIDE Grand Prix Champ Mauricio Rua (0-1 UFC, 16-3 MMA) and Mark Coleman (6-3 UFC, 15-8 MMA), the UFC Hall of Famer who broken "Shogun" Rua's arm when the two last met in Japan in 2006.

See all the bone-crushing action right from home via pay-per-view on Jan, 17, 2009, 7 pm PT/11 pm ET.