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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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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 [...]
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At last weekend’s UFC 91 the big media-blitz kicked off for a highly-anticipated match coming up soon between UFC Lightweight Champ B.J. Penn and UFC Welterweight Champ Georges St. Pierre.
It will happen at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay on January 31, 2009, which also just so happens to be Super Bowl weekend.
Penn and St. Pierre are [...]
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On Saturday November 15 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in front of a nearly sold-out crowd of 14,000+, UFC 91 saw 31-year-old former WWE champ Brock Lesnar rise to the top as the new UFC Champion, taking it in a round 2 TKO from 45-year-old Randy Couture.
This is only Lesnar’s fourth MMA fight, coincidentally [...]
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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 highlights, [...]
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UFC 90 is coming up soon, taking place on October 25 at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago, Illinois area.
Undefeated 24-year-old Croatian middleweight MMA fighter Goran Reljic 1-0 UFC, 8-0 overall) has suffered a back injury that’s forced him to back out of his scheduled bout with UFC veteran fighter Thales Leites (4-1 UFC, 13-1 [...]
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Randy Couture battling Brock Lesnar wont be the only big bout to look out for this November. UFC 91 has a new entry on its “Couture vs. Lesnar” fight card, that being Alvin Robinson against Mark Bocek. After losing by submission at the start of this to first Mac Danzig and then Nate Diaz, Brazilian [...]
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November 15 is a day MMA fans have marked down on their calendar as a day that will surely make UFC history. That is the day UFC 91 will take place, the event that brings relative newcomer Brock Lesnar (with his 2-1 fledgling MMA record) and current and 3-time heavyweight champion and 2-time heavyweight king [...]
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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).
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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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