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UFC 87: Seek and Destroy Preview & Picks
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Posted 8/2/08 by Admin UFC 87: Seek and Destroy Preview & Picks By Matthew Brothers The UFC is back with their August offering, UFC 87: Seek and Destroy, and we’re back with an info-filled preview to help you make up your mind on who to pick for your high-dollar fantasy wagers. This time around we’ve got a welterweight championship bout between the champ Georges St.Pierre, and ... Continue» Season 4 incoming! Posted 7/15/08 by Admin A freshly baked season of play begins here on the Playground this Saturday with the "anti-Affliction" UFC fight night card. For Season 4 we have overhauled the fight camp ranking system. Among other changes, roster moves are no longer applied retroactively. Some new data view screens will also be available to help the camp vs camp competition be a little more tangible. Other ... Continue» UFC 86 - Preview & Picks Posted 7/1/08 by Admin UFC 86 Preview & Picks By Matthew Brothers Now that we’ve crowned our 7 th “Ultimate Fighter” in Amir Sadollah, it’s time for the coaches to lace up the gloves and go to battle. The UFC light-heavyweight championship of the world will be on the line when the champ, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson meets the original ... Continue»
Arum Flogs the UFC (mmamemories.com)
As he was finishing up his promotion of the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito fight, which by all accounts was a nice success for his company (Top Rank Inc.), boxing promoter Bob Arum was heard to say, “It’s tough selling tickets in this economy. The UFC guys say they sell out but that’s bullshit. What they do is give away the tickets and pay the 4% tax so they can say it’s sold out. Trust me, it’s ...
Henderson on Comeback Trail (5thround.com)
Just a year ago, Dan Henderson was sitting on top of the MMA world. He was the only fighter to ever simultaneously hold two title belts, the PrideFC 185-pound and 205-pound crowns. In a short 12-month span, Henderson has since lost his last two bouts, as well as both of his titles in the process. Henderson now looks to get his career back on the winning track at the tender age of 38.
After the ... 2 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:24AM
Evans Ready for Battle with Iceman (mmauniverse.com)
Rashad Evans is spoiling for a fight. The unbeaten light-heavyweight has not seen action since November, with injuries to possible opponents playing havoc with his schedule.
Evans' wait will be over Sept. 6 in Atlanta, when the mixed martial arts fighter, winner of Season 2 ofThe Ultimate Fighterreality TV show, faces off against MMA icon and former champion Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell at UFC ... 0 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:22AM
Joachim Hansen Living The DREAM (fightersonlymagazine.co.uk)
Fresh from winning the won the DREAM lightweight grand prix in Japan last month, Joachim ‘Hellboy’ Hansen was in a good mood when Fighters Only caught up with him earlier today.
The Norwegian first shot to fame when he beat Japanese standout Takanori Gomi at a Shooto fight in 2003, becoming both the first man to beat Gomi and the first Scandinavian fighter to hold a world title (the Shooto ... 0 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:19AM
Hardy: ''I'll stop Gono In two Rounds (fightersonlymagazine.co.uk)
Dan Hardy expects to stop PRIDE FC veteran Akihiro Gono inside two rounds when they meet at UFC 89 in October.
Hardy will be making his UFC debut at the event, which will take place in Birmingham, around an hour’s drive from his home city of Nottingham.
Addressing Gono via his blog, Hardy wrote: “Birmingham is a long way to travel to from Japan just to get your backside kicked in two ... 3 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:17AM
Duarte vs. Rios signed for Affliction 2 (mmafighting.com)
Mexican up-and-comer Antonio Duarte will fight for his first time in the States when he tangles with California teacher Albert Rios at the Oct. 11 Affliction "Day of Reckoning" event in Las Vegas.
MMAFighting.com has confirmed the featherweight bout with a source close to Duarte.
Duarte, a Brown Belt under UFC veteran Dean Lister, holds a 10-1 record and is riding a 7-fight win streak, ... 0 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:15AM
WEC To PPV in 2009 (sports.yahoo.com)
An article on Yahoo! Sports MMA discusses the Zuffa’s plans to cut some of the divisions in the WEC and in the discussion this little bit of info was dropped:
That’s particularly true given White’s plan to add pay-per-view shows to the WEC’s offerings, perhaps as early as May.
The ability for the WEC to draw on PPV will be more dependent on the company’s ability to sell the 135 and 145 ... 4 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:11AM
Donald Cerrone reveals that a win at WEC 36 over Rob McCullough gets him a LW title shot (fiveouncesofpain.com)
Hundreds of thousands of democrats have migrated West to Denver, Colorado this week for the Democratic National Convention. And relatively close by, 12 fighters from Greg Jackson’s MMA have flocked from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Vail, Colorado, in search of high altitude training to give them an additional edge for upcoming fights.
One of those fighters is none other than 8-0 WEC lightweight ...
WEC’s Brian Bowles says he could be one win away from a shot at Miguel Torres (fiveouncesofpain.com)
For many years now bantamweight fighters have performed under the shroud of almost total anonymity. Unless you were a hardcore fan who followed smaller Japanese promotions such as DEEP and Shooto, chances are that you didn’t really care about the 135 lbs. division in MMA.
But times care changing, thanks in large part to World Extreme Cagefighting, which has helped expose many U.S. fans to the ... 4 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:07AM
With guaranteed title shot on line, Rob McCullough finalizing game plan (mmajunkie.com)
Eight months after losing his WEC lightweight title to Jamie Varner, "Razor" Rob McCullough (16-4) is finalizing preparations for his bout with undefeated up-and-comer Donald Cerrone (8-0).
And according to McCullough's recent comments to TAGG Radio (www.taggradio.com), the official radio partner of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), the winner of the bout will be next in line for a title ... 0 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:06AM
"ShoXC: Hamman vs. Suganuma II" official fighters salaries (mmajunkie.com)
Main-card winners and EliteXC prospects Jared Hamman, Fabricio Camoes and Ray Lizama were the top earners at this month's ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series event.
The event, which aired on Showtime, took place at the Table Mountain Casino in Friant, Calif.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today received the list of salaries directly from the California State Athletic Commission.
ShoXC ... 0 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:05AM
Original "TUF" cast member Alex Schoenauer expects return to UFC (mmajunkie.com)
Xtreme Couture light heavyweight Alex Schoenauer (14-9 MMA, 0-1 UFC), a cast member on the original season of "The Ultimate Fighter," may soon be stepping back into the octagon.
The IFL veteran recently signed with the WEC as a late replacement for Mark Munoz in a Sept. 10 WEC 36 bout against Steve Steinbeiss.
Schoenauer today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that it is the first of ... 3 comments - Posted by MMAcca - 8/30/08 12:03AM
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