Courtesy of mmaweekly.com Following his UFC 109 win over Mark Coleman, UFC president Dana White said Randy Couture was a contender in the UFC light heavyweight division, but the former two-time UFC light heavyweight titleholder and three-time heavyweight champion wouldn’t rule out fighting in the heavyweight division again. At the UFC 109 post-fight press conference, [...]
Continue reading …Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Following a hard-fought three round win over Dan Miller at UFC 109 that showed him to be more than just a submission expert, Demian Maia will jump right back into training camp for the biggest fight of his career – an April 10th meeting with UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva [...]
Continue reading …Las Vegas, NV (USA) – It was so good, the UFC® decided to do it again. At UFC 104 last October, UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida and challenger Mauricio “Shogun” Rua engaged in a five round war that divided the mixed martial arts world when the unanimous decision verdict was rendered in Machida’s [...]
Continue reading …UFC® PRESIDENT DANA WHITE REACHES ONE MILLION FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER Las Vegas, NV (USA) – As if the battle of Hall of Famers at UFC 109, legalization of the sport in Wisconsin and the first-ever show in Australia at UFC 110 weren’t milestones enough for the Ultimate Fighting Championship®, February also set records on Twitter. [...]
Continue reading …The project turned me on to this story, but I stole the photos and the print from Cage Potato Courtesy of cagepotato.comWho knows what will happen when Josh Koscheck and Paul Daley mix it up at UFC 113 (May 8th, Montreal), but Semtex has scored a first-round KO in the battle of insulting pre-fight Photoshops. Peeved at Koscheck’s [...]
Continue reading …Courtesy of cagepotato.com The poor bastard you see in the picture above is UFC welterweight contenderMartin Kampmann, who had to pull out of his UFC 111 fight against Ben Saunderson Tuesday due to a stomach-turning gash over his right eye, which he suffered in training. (Damn, those Xtreme Couture guys need to take it easy with the broken-glass [...]
Continue reading …Courtsey of cagepotato.com It’s a tough time to be licking your wounds in the UFC. In a move that likely has every fighter to post an ‘L’ on his record at UFC 109 sweating bullets, theorganization has reportedly released the “next Anderson Silva,” the “Godfather of ground-and-pound,” and the guy who was on the wrong [...]
Continue reading …Courtesy of cagepotato.com Being a Gracie in MMA is a little like being a Kennedy in American politics – for better or worse, there are certain expectations. We realize Rolles Gracie had only his fourth professional fight at UFC 109 on Saturday night, so we didn’t expect him to burst on the scene like the second coming [...]
Continue reading …Courtesy of mmaweekly.com LAS VEGAS – The Ultimate Fighting Championship handed out $60,000 bonus checks for UFC 109 performances at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Saturday. Earning the bonuses were: Matt Serra, Paulo Thiago, Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt. Fight of the Night honors went to the middleweight top contender’s bout between Nate Marquardt [...]
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