TICKETS FOR UFC® 148: SILVA vs. SONNEN 2 ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, MAY 4! Las Vegas, Nevada – A heated middleweight title fight and a pair of long-awaited rubber matches highlight a loaded UFC® card slated for Saturday, July 7 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Ultimate Fighting Championship® announced today [...]
Submission specialist to meet veteran competitor on Collision Course main card A new bout featuring a pair of high-profile names has slid into position on the main card of the Maximum Fighting Championship’s MFC 33: Collision Course lineup. Meeting at a catchweight of 195 pounds, veteran Edwin “Bam Bam” Dewees (37-15) will clash [...]
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Source: mmaweekly.com In July 2011, just before his scheduled fight at UFC 133, Rich Franklin was of the mindset that his time at middleweight was over. “The UFC has basically told me that they’re not interested in having me fight at 185 anymore,” Franklin said in an interview with MMAWeekly.com. “Which is the only [...]
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By Thomas Gerbasi On April 14th, the UFC’s Octagon will travel overseas to Europe for the 15th time in its nearly 19 year history, setting down for an inaugural event in Stockholm, Sweden that is headlined by the light heavyweight battle between hometown hero Alexander Gustafsson and Brazil’s Thiago Silva. Gustafsson-Silva promises to be [...]
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LOS ANGELES (July 27, 2011) – Eric Eisner today announced that his Double E Pictures has optioned the life rights to mixed martial artist and former UFC Champion Rich Franklin, and hired David Hollander (The Cleaner; The Guardian) to write a script about Franklin’s career as a fighter. Eisner will produce the film with Motion [...]
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Courtesy of cagepotato.com When it comes to finding replacements for UFC 133‘s increasingly cursed lineup, UFC matchmaker Joe Silva has clearly reached the “eff this noise, I’ll be at the bar” stage of the process. The latest update is that Rich Franklin has been removed from the card entirely, after his original opponent Antonio Rogerio [...]
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WITH UFC® 126: SILVA vs. BELFORT NEARING SELL-OUT, MANDALAY BAY TO HOST CLOSED CIRCUIT VIEWING PARTY Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 – Live in the Mandalay Bay Islander Ballroom Tickets on Sale on Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. PT Las Vegas, Nev. (USA) – With a star-studded card featuring Ultimate Fighting Championship® middleweight champion Anderson [...]
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Courtesy of mmaweekly.com There’s no doubt that Chael Sonnen has his sights on the UFC middleweight title and his Aug. 7 fight with Anderson Silva. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t other targets in mind for the Oregonian if he walks out of Oakland with the title belt. Make no mistake, the goal for Sonnen [...]
Continue reading …Courtesy of cagepotato.com Regardless of how you think of Chuck Liddell on a personal level, it was hard not to feel bad for the guy last night. Liddell seemed just seconds away from heading back to his corner up 1-0 during his UFC 115 main event fight against Rich Franklin, after showing off a surprisingly diverse striking [...]
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Main Card (PPV): Rich Franklin def. Chuck Liddell by KO 4:55 R1 Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic def. Pat Barry by submission (rear naked choke) 4:30 R3 Martin Kampmann def. Paulo Thiago by unanimous decision (30-27 all) Ben Rothwell def. Gilbert Yvel by unanimous decision R3 Carlos Condit def. Rory MacDonald by TKO (strikes) 4:53 R3 [...]
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