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link This past Saturday, April 21st, many fight fans across the world watched the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on either pay per view (in England) or basic cable (in the US). Roberto Cepeda, however, chose to spend his night taking in some local action in Chicago, IL at the International Mixed Martial Arts Competition’s (IMMAC) second ever show in the UIC Pavilion and he seemed to like what he saw. -Editor IMMAC put on a good show this past Saturday, at the University of Illinois Chicago, Pavilion. This MMA show had eleven matches of high quality fighters. Some of the Midwest’s best fight schools were represented. Carlson Gracie Jr., Gilbert Grappling, Hackney. The fighters seemed well- rounded, many with grappling and striking skills well above the local MMA circuit level.

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link Drew Fickett posted the following at MMA.tv early this morning: "I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE MISUNDERSTANDING, BUT i GOT DRUNK AND STARTED THINKING ABOUT RECONCILING WITH ALL MY INDIFFERENCES ON THE UNDERGROUNG. UNFORTUNATELY MY INTOXIMATED SENSES DID NOT ALLOW ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT XYIENCE WAS STILL ON THE HATE CHANNEL. I ACCIDENTLY DELETED MY POLITICALLY CORRECT, SARCASTIC THREAD ABOUT XYIENCE. LET ME REPHRASE THAT IN A DRUNK, VINO DE VERDAD FASHION...**** YOU CORPORATE COMMIE XYIENCE BASTARD...I LEFT MY BLOOD OUT THERE WITH A FELLOW FIGHTER AND YOU ****** ME...I GOT NOTHING BUT RESPECT FOR MY FELLOW FIGHTERS, THE FANS, AND THE SPORT, AND EVERYBODY IN BETWEEN...YOU ****** ME...YOU DISGUST ME...**** YOU AND BURN IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT WHORES...HOPE THE MONEY WAS WORTH IT, CAUSE I GIVE MINE AWAY FOR FREE, NO SOUL ATTACHED...DREW THE ******* MASTER OF HIMSELF...HATEHATEHATEH8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8H8!M O FO HARNESS THAT SHIT MOTHER ******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Fickett's last fight was a decision win over Keita Nakamura at Fight Night 9.

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link From Renzo Gracie's MySpace blog: Our very own Professor, Rolles Gracie, held a seminar for the NY Jets football team . He was aided by instructor Alan Teo. The seminar dealt with Jiu Jitsu applications in regards to the positional strategies of football

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link To: Zuffa, LLC To: Zuffa, LLC and whoever else it may concern, This petition is in support of Joe Rogan being a commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, when it arrives on HBO. His knowledge of Mixed Martial Arts techniques, and his entertaining commentating skills would be sorely missed if absent from all subsequent HBO UFC broadcasts. We plead with Mr. Dana White, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta to please make this happen. Sincerely, The Undersigned go to the link and sign the petition

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link Former Green Bay Packers running back, Herbert “Whisper” Goodman is making a name for himself in his new sport of choice, mixed martial arts. Goodman, who has only been training in MMA for approximately six months, already has a perfect 4-0 record. Goodman’s very first fight ended in 26 seconds by knockout. 30 seconds into the second round, Goodman ended his second fight victoriously, as well. His third fight ended in one minute. Whisper Goodman isn’t messing around. On April 21, at Win River Casino in Redding, CA, Ken Shamrock presented MMA Extreme Cage Fighting featuring Goodman and Eric Manley of Stars and Strikes American Mixed Martial Arts (Redding, CA), in his MMA debut, as the main event. And what a main event it was!

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link Second chances are rare in life, rare for every day people and even rarer so for fighters. So when a fighter gets one of those unique opportunities to rebuild their career, you know they’re going to do everything in their power to make sure things go right the second time around. Such is the case of Dennis “The Piranha” Davis. At one time Dennis was one of Team Quest’s premier young athletes. A lightweight possessing speed, agility and one of the best ground games in the Northwest, Davis seemed a lock to eventually make his way to the biggest stages in MMA, but it didn’t happen.

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link Spirit MC is a Seoul-based promotion that has Pride-style rules, although the matches are all 3 rounds for 5 minutes each. This is where American Top Team’s Denis Kang racked up a lot of wins in Spirit MC before he went on to show the world he meant business. Since the promotion has Kang as heavyweight champion and has sent two veteran fighters to train in Florida, it makes sense that the Americans would come to Seoul and give us some good fights. The theme was “Invasion” and the card was Korean vs. non-Korean all the way through. American Top Team (ATT) brought three fighters to the show and there was also a fighter each from Purebred Omiya and Spike 22. The fights were all exciting and showcased the emerging Korean talent versus some well-trained fighters.

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link DECATUR, ILL. – Jason Reinhardt was a busy man on Saturday night. He hosted and co-promoted the Courage Fighting Championships 8, plus he coached fighters and served as cornerman too. Reinhardt even fought in the main event, defeating Theodore Reynol and winning the Courage Fighting Championships’ 155-pound belt in the process.

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link Randy Harris of Talking Sports Radio has put together an auction for Ryan Bennett's family. In his ongoing efforts to help out Ryan’s family, Randy has been obtaining more items to put up for auction on eBay. CURRENT ITEMS BEING AUCTIONED RYAN BENNETT MEMORIAL FUND ON eBay HURRY THESE ITEMS ARE ENDING SOON! -UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture’s fight shorts, autographed, from his comeback fight with Tim Sylvia at UFC 68 have been re-listed. Hurry, the bidding is over at 12:30 PST on Sunday night! -Autographed, worn fight gloves from Heath Herring at UFC 69. Bidding ends on Thursday night. UPCOMING ITEMS TO BE AUCTIONED INCLUDE: -Items from Chuck Liddell -Items from Randy Couture Items from Jeff Blatnick -Items from Pete Spratt -Items from Matt Serra ANY FIGHTER WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DONATING TO THE MEMORIAL AUCTION PLEASE CONTACT RANDY HARRIS AT tampabayradio@aol.com If you have a favorite fighter or player, let Randy know and he will get something from them to auction off. You can check out the www.myspace.com/ryan_bennett_memorial site that Randy has set up to check out all sorts of tributes to Ryan. ALL PROCEEDS from the auctioned items goes directly to the Bennett Family Fund.

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link Torres has been competing in MMA events for the last seven years and is placed as one of the top MMA featherweights in the world, especially in the Shooto World and Americas rankings. So as a featherweight... where can he go from here? "Bodog and the W.E.C. both offered me contracts. Bodog made a higher bid, so I am going with them. Since they are offering me more money than any other featherweight fighter in the world, I am going to invest all my time and energy into training. For the last three years, I've been doing a lot of teaching. I am really going to focus on fight training," Torres said.

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link The Featherweight King of Pancrase and Cage Warriors featherweight champion are set to clash in a non-title bout on April 27 at the Korakuen Hall in Toyko, Japan. The battle of champions will see the inaugural featherweight K.O.P. Yoshiro Maeda taking on English featherweight Danny Batten, who has held the Cage Warriors 145-pound title since 2005. The Fabio Negao Nascimento-Yuji Hisamatsu bout was scrapped by Pancrase Tuesday when they found out Nascimento was knocked out last Saturday at No Limits: Proving Ground in Irvine, CA. Furthermore, Pancrase is claiming Nascimento breached his contract by taking the fight one week prior to his scheduled bout against Hisamatsu. Complete Fight Card: 1. LW: Kenji Takeshige vs. Shoji 2. WW: Takuya Wada vs. Sotaro Yamada 3. FW: Miki Shida vs. Manabu Inoue 4. WW: Yukio Sakaguchi vs. Choi Hyungsuk 5. MW: Izuru Takeuchi vs. Daisuke Watanabe 6. MW: Hikaru Sato vs. Brayane Fafiq 7. FW: Yoshiro Maeda vs. Danny Batten

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link According to Loretta Hunt and TheFightNetwork.com, these are the bonus pay outs awarded to fighters for fight of the night, knockout of the night and submission of the night at UFC 70 "Nations Collide". Fight of the Night: Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic Knockout of the Night: Gabriel Gonzaga high kick of Mirko CroCop Submission of the Night: Terry Etim's guillotine choke over Matt Grice The amount of the pay outs given for these bonus categories change. Sometimes it's $5,000 per, $10,000 per and $15,000 per. Your guess is as good as mine here, but I would assume it's one of the larger amounts.

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link Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia wasn’t fibbing when he revealed during the in-ring interview immediately after his loss to Randy Couture at UFC 68 that he injured his back. In fact, “The Maine-iac” is considering surgery, according to a blog post earlier this month on his official Web site. Here’s the snip from April 13: “Matt [Hughes] and I are in St. Louis, MO today and tomorrow for the NRA show. I got my 3rd cortisone shot for my back and if this doesn’t work out, I’ll have surgery in 2 weeks. Heading up to Oregon on Wednesday for some turkey hunting, I’ll be hanging out with my buddies from BowTech Archery while I’m up there.”

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link “I know there are a lot differences [in UFC rules] and I’ll have to adapt my game. But I always looked for the submissions, and I believe that my adaptation will be good. Maybe because of the fact the fight is in the Octagon my opponent will be able to avoid my takedowns. But I can handle it, and we will see how things are going to work. About the rules, here in UFC elbows are allowed, but when the opponent uses it, he opens more spaces and this will make things easier for me. My expectations about making my first fight in the Octagon are big. I’m anxious to show the same submission game I showed in Japan. I want to prove that I’ll be successful in the UFC and my first step will be my debut fight. Now I have to train and wait for the great day.” – Former PRIDE FC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira talks about his eagerness to make his UFC debut, as well as how the rule changes might affect his fight game, with Sherdog.com. No opponent or date has been announced for the Brazilian’s first appearance inside the Octagon

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link UFC fighter and UFCjunkie.com columnist Sean Salmon (9-2 MMA, 0-1) was a guest on the latest installment of Full Contact Fighter Radio. You can listen to the episode at fcfighter.com. Salmon’s segment begins at 5:53 of the broadcast. On the show, Salmon goes in-depth about his upcoming fight with Schafer, and he also discusses how they almost first fought at a smaller MMA show before they were both signed by the UFC. Additionally, he talks about his UFC Fight Night 8 fight, his decorated wrestling background, getting signed by the UFC, and how he landed the fight with Evans

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link UFC.com listed the battle of undefeated fighters as part of the televised main card. Spike TV’s Countdown show featured it as, well. The TV commercials, print advertisements, and official press releases all listed its televised status. However, when Spike TV’s broadcast of UFC 70 finally rolled around this past weekend, the light-heavyweight bout featuring Ryoto Machida and David Heath was nowhere to be found. Instead, an undercard fight featuring England’s Terry Etim and Oklahoma wrestler Matt Grice aired in its place. The reason the fight went untelevised was fairly obvious: the unanimous-decision victory for Machida lacked any real action, and the decision-makers probably felt that the broadcast time could be better spent on a more exciting fight. The Etim-Grice lightweight fight, which included brutal ground and pound from Grice before an eventual submission by Etim, fit the bill.

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link Former UFC champion Tito Ortiz will face The Ultimate Fighter 2 heavyweight winner Rashad Evans at a UFC 73 event on July 7. Although a recent skirmish between the two fighters at UFC 69 heated up the rivalry, Ortiz just throw a bucket of fuel on the fire with a recent forum posting about his opponent. In a thread titled “UFC first woman fighter!!!!!!!!!!!” at The Underground Forum, Ortiz stated: Rashad Evans!!! He will be my Nappy Headed Ho. On 7-7-07…Let The Punishment Begin!!! Tito Ortiz www.Punishment.com

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link Dustin Hazelett (8-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC), a 20-year-old MMA standout who trains at Jorge Gurgel’s academy in Ohio, has been added to Ireland’s UFC 72 card, according to a reliable UFCjunkie.com source.

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link WHAT: NAAFS Columbus Night of Pain WHEN: Friday, May 18th, 2007 WHERE: The Hoops Complex 4185 East Fifth Avenue Columbus, OH 43219 DOORS OPEN: 5:30pm FIRST BELL: 7pm Featured NAAFS Pro Series Bouts Main Event: 185 lbs – Mitch Whitesel 8-5 (Wreckroom) vs Jason Jones 7-2 9Infinity Fight Team) 170 lbs – Travis Burnett 5-4 (Hammer House) vs Chad Truckovich 2-3 (Wreckroom) 195 lbs - Michael Revercomb 2-1 (Independent - Columbus, OH) vs Chris Canale 2-1 (Team Fightfest) 155 lbs – Jonathan “Jekyll & Hyde” Bailey 0-0 (Baileys Full Contact Fight Club) vs Tommy “Gun” Ridenbaugh 2-5 (Hammer House) 170 lbs - Jason Nickoson 2-2 (Buckeye MMA) vs TBA 155 lbs – Joey Enright 4-1 (Peak Submission Shootbox Academy) vs TBA

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link Dana White had the following to say about the loss of a potential blockbuster main event in Randy Couture vs. Mirko Cro Cop: "You can't [book fights] like you do in boxing. You can't build a guy up to 39-0 with 39 knockouts. Anything can happen." He went on to tell Todd Martin of the LA Times: "You're always at risk in this sport. I don't even think like that any more. I didn't think it was guaranteed we were going to get to Cro Cop-Couture. There are no guarantees." White was also sure to throw Cro Cop under the bus for making us wait for the Croatian superstar getting a possible UFC HW Title shot. "Cro Cop's guys wanted to have a couple fights before they fought Randy Couture. And to be honest with you I think they wanted the fights to milk the contract."

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