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However, after a stretch of three losses to notables Urijah Faber, Jens Pulver and Antonio Banuelos in 2006, Escovedo suffered a serious staph infection ...
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Aug 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm ET Four months have passed since Matt Hughes most recently entered the octagon, and it'll be at least ... UFC News: Matt Hughes Update, White Happy With UFC 102 Ticket Sales411mania.com Matt Hughes to return in early 2010, face Dennis HallmanIn...
In just his seventh professional fight, Rosholt believes he's prepared for what will happen when the cage door closes. "When I first signed with the WEC, ... BENT: UFC 102 Previews and Predictions - Chris Leben vs. Jake RosholtMMATorch
Chuck Liddell, Frank Mir, Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver will all be in attendance and interacting with WEC fans. The bonus activities kickoff on Tuesday, ... MMA Fallout: Torres, Penn, Silva—What's Next?Bleacher Report WEC wins the weekend in the battle of exciting fightsYahoo! Sports
OH 29 at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore., and as previously announced, Randy Couture meets Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the main event, and Keith Jardine takes on Thiago Silva in the co-headliner. Rounding out the televised pay-per-view main card are ...
MMA Unlimited OH Maybe in the now defunct IFL he could have been a top 10 but based on the past 2 years he's not much more than a fitness freak who likes to fight. He should just go back to doing Sambo and forget about striking. He may have good foot work and looks ...
OH Cyborg" takes place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., and airs on Showtime. The Carano vs. Santos bout had long been teased in the fighters' previous home, EliteXC. However, while the two fighters were on a collision course, the organization ...
OH When Cub Swanson (13-2 MMA, 3-1 WEC) learned he would face Jose Aldo (14-1 MMA, 4-0 WEC) at Sunday's "WEC 41: Faber vs. Brown," he said it was "an honor to fight an opponent who thinks of himself so highly." While that little jab could have fueled a ...
I dont think Babalu would ever be allowed back into the UFC, I still have very little respect for him after what he pulled back against David Heath. Sobral I dont think is nearing the end of his carrer I mean he's only 33 but he is getting up there. ...
OH Sean Salmon (16-7) is an MMAjunkie.com columnist who occasionally pens his Fulltime Fighter column for the site. The column is designed to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at a professional fighter's career and the ups and downs of the profession. ...
Despite the three-round fight, Foupa-Pokam agreed to fight again for the UFC just five weeks later at UFC 98. On just three weeks' notice, he replaced an injured James Irvin and suffered a 37-second TKO loss to Drew McFedries. ... UFC Cuts Middleweight Xavier “Professor X” Foupa-Pokam MMAFre...
by Dann Stupp on Jun 01, 2009 at 12:15 pm ET As expected following recent comments by the heavyweight fighter, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (24-6-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) will return to the UFC and fight Mostapha Al-Turk (6-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at next weekend's UFC 99 ...
Despite UFC 60's main event featuring two UFC legends, Matt Hughes and Royce Gracie, the event's attendance included 4318 comp tickets. While the attendance was a relative disappointment compared to other UFC events with just 10347 paid attendees, ...
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on May 24, 2009 at 1:35 am ET LAS VEGAS – Matt Hughes, Matt Serra, Lyoto Machida and Brock Larson each earned $60000 "fight night" bonuses for their performances at "UFC 98: Evans vs. Machida." UFC 98 took place Saturday at the ...
The UFC event, Germany's first, takes place at Lanxess Arena and airs on pay per view. Featured bouts for the show include Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva (at a catch-weight of 195 pounds) and heavyweights Heath Herring vs. Cain Velasquez. ...
OH The two (ideally) 140-pounders were on a collision course to headline a major EliteXC event in 2008. Both had emerged as the organization's top female fighters, but plans for the bout were scrapped when EliteXC collapsed in late 2008. ...
OH The former middleweight champ, who recently told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) he's moving back to light heavyweight after the fight, headlines an event for the first time since he lost a rematch to Anderson Silva at UFC 77 in October 2007.
ESPN OH It was his 14th win in the past 15 fights for Whitehead, a cast member on "The Ultimate Fighter 2" who suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Keith Jardine in his only UFC appearance. Whitehead posted 13 consecutive wins (seven via submission) after ...
OH - Dann Stupp, George Garcia WEC 41 takes place June 7 at Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif. The Versus-televised event features the highly anticipated rematch between WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown and former title-holder Urijah Faber. The Aldo-Swanson fight could turn out to ...
OH - John Morgan, Dann Stupp Round 5, the company best known for its popular line of mixed-martial-arts figurines, today announced it will produce and release a figurine of veteran UFC middleweight Jason MacDonald later this year. No exact date has been determined for the release, ...
Coker has repeatedly stated a Strikeforce pay-per-view is a future possibility, perhaps in a year or so. Ortiz already has a plan for the event. "I see (Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Renato) 'Babalu' (Sobral) out here running around slapping ... - Impact Wrestling News
Diaz" post-event press conference, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said he hopes to arrange a bout between former EliteXC stars Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos (7-1) and Gina Carano (7-0) by that date. And when the two finally step into the cage, it will be for ...
OH - Kevin Iole, Kevin Iole ProElite, though, put her on two of its EliteXC cards, and she suddenly skyrocketed to stardom. "You just have to watch her first for a couple of minutes, and you know why," Coker said. "She's like a Tasmanian Devil. From the first second, ...
The same city hosts the June 13 Adrenaline MMA event, which features a headline six-round boxing match between Sylvia, a former longtime UFC champ, and Mercer, an Olympic gold medalist and WBO heavyweight boxing champion. The night's undercard will ...
The former "The Ultimate Fighter 3" champion's losses came in the first round to both Jorge Rivera and Patrick Cote and had many questioning whether "Da Spyda" would remain in the UFC's middleweight division. Grove's wins over Jason Day in March and ...
UFC 97: Redemption" takes place April 17 at the Bell Center (Le Centre Bell) in Montreal, Canada. Middleweight Anderson Silva will look to secure his ninth-straight win in the UFC as he defends his middleweight title against Thales Leites. ... UFC 97 Conference Call Notes Bloody Elbow
OH Peter Dropick, who's the VP (of the WEC), said something to me about that. Of course I'd be on the [fight card]." The WEC was nearly ready to pull the trigger with June's "WEC 41: Faber vs. Brown II," which will feature a featherweight title rematch ...
OH by John Morgan on Mar 31, 2009 at 8:20 pm ET After the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board refused to sanction a boxing match between former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (24-5 MMA) and 47-year-old former boxing champion Ray Mercer (36-7-1 ...
OH Todd Duffee (4-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) were officially announced on the UFC's UK website. UFC 99 is slated for June 13 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, and features a main event of Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva at 195 pounds. ...
by mmajunkie.com Staff on Mar 23, 2009 at 10:15 pm ET A much discussed rematch between current WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown (17-4 MMA, 3-0 WEC) and the man from whom he took the belt, Urijah Faber (22-2 MMA, 7-1 WEC), has been signed according ...
OH Featuring a main event of middleweight champion Anderson Silva versus challenger Thales Leites, UFC 97 will also feature 11 other matchups. UFC 97 is scheduled for April 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The main card will air live on pay-per-view. ...
I think we start talking about how dominant Lyoto MAchida is once he fights someone who seriously gets his hands on Machida. The only fighter to do that so far is Tito Ortiz, and he is not nearly the fighter some of these guys are. ... The Verbal Submission 03.10.09: Rampage Rolls, Shamrock is Old ... 411...
Roach, one of boxing's most prolific trainers, recently prepared Andrei Arlovski for his "Affliction: Day of Reckoning" bout with Fedor Emelianenko. Nogueira is currently one of MMA's better strikers in the heavyweight division and trained boxing ...
UFC 97 is headlined by a UFC middleweight championship bout between title-holder Anderson Silva and challenger Thales Leites. Former 205-pound champ Chuck Liddell meets Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the co-main event. UFC 97 takes place at the Bell Centre ...
MMATorch OH - Jan 24, 2009 UFC 97 takes place April 18 at the Bell Centre and airs live on pay per view. MacDonald, who suffered a first-round submission loss to Wilson Gouveia in his ... UFC NEWS: Jason MacDonald returning at UFC 97 in April MMATorch all 2 news articles
UFC welterweight Mike Swick (13-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) has made it clear on several occasions that he wants a shot at the division's No. 1 contender, Thiago Alves (16-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC). But despite recent comments by Marcus Davis that led many to believe a Swick vs. Alves bout was on tap for ... After decisio...
Hard-hitting UFC brawlers James Irvin (14-5 MMA, 4-4 UFC) and Drew McFedries (7-5 MMA, 3-4 UFC) have signed on to face each other in a middleweight contest at UFC 98. The bout was first reported by AroundTheOctagon.com, ... Irvin will be looking to recover from a disastrous loss to UFC middlewe...
Wilson Gouveia (11-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC) will look for his second straight victory since dropping to middleweight when he meets Jason MacDonald (21-10 MMA, 5-3 UFC) at the The Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale. ... MacDonald most recently defeated Jason Lambert at UFC 88. (The loss actually forced the UFC t...
Up-and-coming heavyweight Dave “Pee Wee” Herman (9-0) will make his EliteXC debut against veteran fighter and “The Ultimate Fighter 2” cast member Seth Petruzelli (9-4) at next month’s EliteXC event. Petruzelli is 2-2 since his time on the show, going 0-2 in the UFC (with losses to Matt H...
UFC Fight Night 13 will likely take place in Denver, Colo. (the home of the UFC’s first-ever event). The show will air live on Spike TV and serve as a lead-in for “The Ultimate Fighter 7,” which features Forrest Griffin and UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson as coaches.