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The UFC, PRIDE, WEC and Shooto veteran was able to pinpoint exactly what went wrong in that bout in order to prepare for Friday's outing. "I got punched in the chin and I got knocked down," Edwards said. "I need to not let that happen ...
Tuesday, Nov 18
The only Putz is Dana who is so afraid of what Fedor will do to Brock and make the UFC look bad. Dana used to have his guys go to PRIDE but they got their asses kicked in PRIDE so he had to to put a stop to that lol ...
Monday, Nov 10
OH - Nov 10, 2008 The 2006 PRIDE welterweight grand prix runner-up had emerged as a highly ranked middleweight during a 23-fight undefeated streak from April 2003 to November ...
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Friday, Nov 7
OH - Nov 7, 2008 The PRIDE veteran is 1-1 since signing with WVR and submitted former UFC heavuweight champion Maurice Smith back in June.
Tuesday, Nov 4
Even if he does manage to catch Sonnen in a submission tommorow we are not going to see the Filho of PRIDE in his UFC debut. I am not going to pretend to know why .. pick an option 1. drug abuse 2. depression 3. fighter burnout . ...
OH - Nov 5, 2008 170- and 185-pound weight classes. Lombard, who turned pro in 2004, has fought for organizations such as PRIDE and DEEP, but he's competed exclusively ...
Friday, Oct 31
OH - Nov 1, 2008 Former PRIDE champion and current World Victory Road star Takanori Gomi led the way with 34.0% percent of the vote, but former EliteXC contender (and ...
Wednesday, Oct 29
OH - Oct 29, 2008 26 DREAM 6 event -- only to be saved by a no-contest after being struck with a fight-ending knee to the groin -- former PRIDE and UFC fighter Mirko "Cro ...
Tuesday, Oct 21
OH - There, the former PRIDE fighter easily defeated UFC veteran Edwin Dewees, who was a late replacement for Vernon White. Nogueira is now 9-2 in his past 11 ...
Wednesday, Oct 15
OH - Oct 15, 2008 by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Oct 15, 2008 at 9:57 am ET Highly ranked lightweight and former PRIDE champion Takanori Gomi (29-3) will return at World Victory ...
Tuesday, Oct 14
OH - White claimed Zuffa's inability to secure a TV deal, as well as the organization's financial disarray, contributed to the eventual demise of PRIDE. ...
Thursday, Oct 2
OH - Instead Frye, a veteran of the UFC, PRIDE, K-1, DEEP and King of the Cage, will focus on alternate paths to the MMA forefront as he plays out the remainder ...
Tuesday, Sep 23
OH - Of course, Ishida (17-4-1), a former PRIDE fighter and recent UFC signee, did win with a slick first-round arm-bar submission of Justin Wilcox. ...
Monday, Sep 22
OH - Also in action is PRIDE and UFC veteran Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, who meets Alistair Overeem in a heavyweight bout. Additionally, Shinya Aoki goes for his ...
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Saturday, Sep 20
OH - Sep 20, 2008 There, the former PRIDE fighter dropped his opponent and scored a TKO victory after Joe Riggs was forced to cover up from a series of answered blows. ... Japanese MMA stars shine at Playboy Mansion Dayton Daily News Official MMA Partner of MMAjunkie.com all 5 news articles
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Tuesday, Sep 9
OH - The 6-foot-5 skyscraper of a welterweight defeated Luke Cummo via unanimous decision. Despite a submission loss to PRIDE veteran Akihiro Gono back at UFC 78 ...
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Monday, Sep 8
OH - by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Sep 08, 2008 at 9:45 am ET PRIDE and DREAM veteran lightweight Mitsuhiro Ishida (16-4-1), the first fighter ever to defeat former ...
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Friday, Sep 5
For example, take Henderson losing to Kazuo Misaki at PRIDE Bushido 12 and struggling with Yuki Kondo at PRIDE Shockwave 2004. ... Chuck Liddell knocked out by Rashad Evans in Atlanta at UFC 88 The Canadian Press Evans shocks Liddell at UFC 88 Canada.com UFC Predictions Winnipeg Sun
Monday, Aug 18
OH - Co-host Bas Rutten agreed and said it reminded him of the PRIDE/PRIDE Bushido setup and could strengthen the concept of two "major" leagues under the Zuffa ...
Sunday, Mar 2
Everyone is talking about how Anderson Silva is definitely the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter after his UFC 82 main event submission over Dan Henderson. After the event in a press conference, Dana White said anyone who disagrees is basically an idiot. Of course, this was intended to be a crit...
Tuesday, Feb 26
The first was winning a Japanese open weight RINGS King of Kings tournament, where he won decisions over three much larger heavyweights – feared striker Gilbert Yvel and Brazilian submission specialists Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Renato Sobral – all on the same night in early 2000. Th...
The tournament will require fighters to compete in up to three bouts in one night. However, the fights will use modified rules. Preliminary and semifinal fights last just one round of five minutes, and the tournament finale lasts three rounds of three minutes each. Advancing fighters must...
Tickets for the event are now on sale. The upstart DREAM promotion, which will replace the former K-1 KERO’S organization with help from former staffers of the now-defunct PRIDE Fighting Championships, announced a number of additional participants and match-ups for its upcoming ligh...
Saturday, Feb 23
In my best Bruce Buffer impression: “It’s time to begin the main event of the evening. The fighter standing to my right is a two-time Olympic wrestler, former PRIDE welterweight grand-prix winner, former middleweight and welterweight PRIDE champion, he stands 6-foot-0, and he weighs i...
Friday, Feb 22
“I have already mentioned that I will take part in three fights for DREAM and that then I will return to the UFC,” Filipovic told the website javno.com. “And to all Internet know-it-alls, I say to put gloves on and to enter the ring or the cage themselves before insulting (any) fighter. I repeat...
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Thursday, Feb 21
Yahoo! Sports is a content partner of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Yahoo! Sports have signed a deal that will make Yahoo! the new online distributor of UFC pay-per-view events, the UFC today announced. The deal goes into effect for next weeken...
Wednesday, Feb 20
Coleman, though, lost his next three fights in the UFC and would join Japan’s successful PRIDE Fighting Championships. Coleman became one of the sport’s biggest stars and won the 2000 PRIDE Open-Weight Grand Prix Championship. He last competed in October 2006 at PRIDE 32, where he suffer...
Tuesday, Feb 19
While Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1 MMA, 1-3 UFC) confirms that he’s met with UFC officials about a potential fight with UFC light heavyweight Keith Jardine (13-3-1 MMA, 5-2 UFC), the former PRIDE champion is also considering a move to middleweight.
Thursday, Feb 14
Filho, one of the world’s top-ranked 185-lb. fighters, earned a WEC contract last year after a hugely successful career in PRIDE. He made his WEC debut in August 2007 and scored a first-round TKO of Joe Doerksen to claim the organization’s vacant middleweight title.
Wednesday, Feb 13
DREAM was created by former Dream Stage Entertainment staff members (who operated PRIDE Fighting Championships before it was bought out by the UFC’s owners last year) and FEG, the parent company of K-1 kickboxing and HERO’S MMA. DREAM will replace HERO’s as the organization’s MMA arm.
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Gomi, who reigned as PRIDE Fighting Championships’ lightweight title-holder until the organization’s eventual demise last year, hasn’t fought since a February 2007 loss to Nick Diaz. In a non-title bout at PRIDE 33, Gomi suffered a second-round submission loss via gogoplata, but the...
In addition to Filipovic, DREAM today announced other fighters taking part in its inaugural show. Shinya Aoki will meet Gesias “JZ” Calvancante in the opening round of a lightweight grand prix tournament that will be held at the March 15 show. The first round of a middleweight tournament b...
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Saturday, Feb 9
If you want to get technical, Dan Henderson fought in UFC in 1998, and Wanderlei Silva fought in UFC in 1999, before either ever fought with PRIDE. But few would argue that they weren’t PRIDE fighters, and Silva was one of the faces of the promotion.
Friday, Feb 8
Frye competed in some of the earliest UFC events, where tournament formats required winning fighters to compete more than once per night. He was the tournament winner of UFC 8, as well as the Ultimate Ultimate 96 (“UFC 11.5”) event that took place in 1996. The former Arizona State University...
Wednesday, Feb 6
PRIDE FC Worldwide Holdings, which was created after the UFC’s primary owners purchased the former Japanese-based PRIDE Fighting Championships, has filed suit against Dream Stage Entertainment, the organization’s previous ownership group.
Tuesday, Feb 5
Although the UFC reportedly considered Brock Lesnar for the main event, a UFC 85 event set for June 14 in London will instead feature a headline light-heavyweight bout between Chuck Liddell (21-5 MMA, 16-4 UFC) and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (16-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
Monday, Feb 4
World Victory Road launched in 2007 soon after Zuffa LLC (the UFC’s parent company) purchased — and disbanded — PRIDE. Last week the organization signed highly ranked lightweight fighter and former PRIDE lightweight champion Takanori Gomi, who will also be a part of the March 5 event.
Saturday, Feb 2
Tonight’s event is all about the heavyweights. In the main event, Tim Sylvia (24-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) attempts to win the UFC’s heavyweight title for a record third time when he battles former PRIDE champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (30-4-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC).
The Lesnar-Mir fight is the co-main-event of tonight’s pay-per-view show, which takes place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Tim Sylvia meets former PRIDE stand-out Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title in the night’s other marquee attractio...
Saturday, Jan 26
Dr. Cindy Bir wasn’t a fan of mixed martial arts before she started working on the new installment of “Fight Science.“ “Fight Science: Mixed Martial Arts” sets out to measuring the power and accuracy of MMA fighters’ punches and kicks, exploring the mechanics of grappling, and examining t...
Friday, Jan 25
The event features a headline bout between former UFC fighter Dan Lauzon (7-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and Team Renzo Gracie’s Andrew Calandrelli (4-2 UFC, 0-0 UFC). It takes place at the Aleppo Shrines Auditorium, a 2,700-capacity arena located just outside Boston in Wilmington, Mass. A total of 12...
Thursday, Jan 24
Still, Barnett remains one of the heavyweight’s division’s top-ranked fighters, though he hasn’t fought since PRIDE Shockwave 2006 — more than a year ago. Barnett fought exclusively in the organization from October 2004 until its eventual demise last year when Zuffa LLC (the UFC’s par...
Tuesday, Jan 22
UFC 82 features a main event of UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and former PRIDE standout Dan Henderson For the latest UFC 82 fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com. Bout agreements have been signed and the fight is now official: Cincinnati-area fighter Du...
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Saturday, Jan 19
Andrei Arlovski (11-5 MMA, 9-4 UFC) has been booked for March’s UFC 82 event, and when he returns from his nearly one-year layoff, his opponent could be undefeated wrestler Jake O’Brien (10-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC). For the latest UFC 82 fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
For all the latest fight cards, including UFC 84, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com. Former UFC middleweight champion Evan Tanner (32-6 MMA, 11-4 UFC) will make his long-awaited return to the UFC against top middleweight contender Yushin Okami (21-4 MMA, 5-1 UFC) at UFC 84...
Friday, Jan 18
Florian first came to prominence in 2005, battling his way to the finals of the premier season of Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter,” despite competing at 185 lbs. (two weight classes above his current fighting weight). After the show, Florian won three straight contests in the UFC, and in 2...
Thursday, Jan 17
Heavyweight Daniel Puder (6-0), a former World Wrestling Entertainment performer who’s since emerged as an undefeated heavyweight contender in Strikeforce, will next compete at the organization’s March 29 event. The news comes from our friends at MMA on Tap.
Monday, Jan 14
Former PRIDE heavyweight champion and current M-1 Global fighter Fedor Emelianenko will meet with estranged UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture on Thursday — likely to discuss the bout that the two fighters have long desired.
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Friday, Jan 11
Former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia and former PRIDE champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, who fight next month for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title, have been slotted for UFC 81’s main event, according to UFC.com. UFC 81 takes place Feb. 2 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and...
Thursday, Jan 10
As it stands, Rua has won 12 of his past 14 fights — nine of which came via knockout or technical knockout. PRIDE’s 2005 Grand Prix Tournament winner had fought for the Japanese-based fight organization since October 2003 and racked up victories over such notables as current UFC light heav...
Tuesday, Jan 8
A UFC Fight Night 13 event planned for April 2 will include a lightweight bout between Spencer Fisher (20-4 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Marcus Aurelio (15-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC). Sources closes to both fighters told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that the rumored bout has been accepted by both fighters. F...
Monday, Jan 7
The day needed a pick-me-up so I called UFC matchmaker Joe Silva to check the progress of my guys’ fights. He said he was still working on it but then informed me they would be releasing two of them, Jordan Radev and Richie Hightower. While I protested, he made good points. Jordan just lost to Dea...
PRIDE 185-pound champion Dan Henderson is less than two months away with his UFC 82 title fight with UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, and in a recent interview with our friend Steve Sievert at the Houston Chronicle, Henderson says he’s expecting nothing short of victory.
Saturday, Jan 5
Ortiz recently stated that he has one fight left on his current deal but that he’s negotiating directly with UFC co-owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta — not UFC President Dana White — for a new contract. Ortiz hasn’t competed in the UFC since a July UFC 73 draw with Rashad Evans.
UFC 82 is headlined by a title fight between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and former PRIDE standout Dan Henderson. For the latest UFC 82 fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com. Rising heavyweight contender Cheick Kongo (11-3-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) may meet vete...
Friday, Jan 4
Many other regional organizations jockeyed for the fight, but Slice instead signed a long-term deal with EliteXC. The 33-year-old fighter made his debut with the organization — and his official professional MMA debut — with a 19-second submission (via punches) of Bo Cantrell in Novemb...
Saturday, Dec 29
After Chuck Liddell (21-5 MMA, 16-4 UFC) returned from the first back-to-back losses of his career to post a unanimous-decision victory over recent UFC signee Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1 MMA, 1-3 UFC) at UFC 79, most fans were left hungry for an additional two rounds.
After weeks of heated speculation — followed by months of dead-end rumors — could the long-awaited announcement that former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (23-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) and former PRIDE heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (30-4-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) will meet for the U...
Friday, Dec 28
The weigh-in event was relatively uneventful until Silva and Liddell hit the stage. The two fighters had an intense staredown, culminating in a minor altercation. Silva began bobbing and weaving, making a movement towards Liddell. Liddell responded by flipping off his Brazilian oppone...
The full fight card includes: Mike Russow vs. Roman ZentsovLuiz Azeredo vs. Tatsuya KawajiriMurilo Bustamante vs. Makoto TakimotoMitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert MelendezYoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazuo MisakiHidehiko Hasegawa vs. Hayato “Mach” SakuraiShin’ya Aoki vs. Bu-Kyung JungFedor Eme...
Thursday, Dec 27
So, how much impact will the new policy of no “signing bonuses” have in the future. Arguably little. The UFC has already negotiated new deals with the majority of fighters who were part of PRIDE Fighting Championships, which Zuffa LLC (the UFC’s parent company) purchased and disbanded ear...
Wednesday, Dec 26
UFC 82 features a main event between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and former PRIDE standout Dan Henderson. The event is also expected to feature a bout between Jon Fitch and Akihiro Gono, and Josh Koscheck is slated to face Cincinnati-based fighter Dustin Hazelett (though b...
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Thursday, Dec 20
Couture told Sievert what he told us last weekend: that he and his lawyers are under the impression that he’s free to explore outside opportunities once his UFC contract expires in October — a point that UFC President Dana White claims isn’t true. UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture, w...
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Monday, Dec 17
While discussing an upcoming UFC 79 fight between Silva and former champ Chuck Liddell, Jackson was asked if Silva has the advantage in the fight — since Silva beat Jackson, who beat Liddell twice. Does the fact that Jackson beat Liddell twice and Silva beat Jackson twice mean that Silva be...
Sunday, Dec 16
Emelianenko’s only loss was in a 2000 RINGS event against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. The bout was stopped just 17 seconds in because of a cut caused by a glancing elbow from Kohsaka. Because of the event’s tournament format that required one fighter to continue on, the fight was ruled a loss for Emeli...
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Monday, Dec 10
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Forrest Griffin will officially coach the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show and will face off sometime in 2008 with the UFC’s light heavyweight championship title on the line, according to UFC president Dana White.
Saturday, Dec 8
We’ve been unable to confirm with the UFC or Spike TV that Jackson and Griffin are, indeed, the coaches, but numerous MMAjunkie.com readers have reported that UFC President Dana White made the announcement during Friday night’s taping of the 2007 Spike TV Video Game Awards in Las Vegas. (T...
Thursday, Nov 29
Touch of gloves: MMA on Tap) Former UFC and PRIDE fighter John Alessio (20-10 MMA) will look to get another shot at the WEC welterweight title when he takes on undefeated Todd Moore (9-0), who was originally slated to face Luis Sapo, at WEC 31. The event takes place Dec. 12 at the Hard Rock Hotel...
Wednesday, Nov 14
Former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen (19-8-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) will face WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho (15-0) at WEC 31, which takes place Dec. 12 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In the UFC, Sonnen beat Prangley but was submitted by both Renato “Babalu” Sobral (UFC 55) and Jer...
Wednesday, Oct 31
In the past two years, Emelianenko has a perfect 4-0 record. He needed just 26 seconds to beat 400-pound “Zuluzinho” (2-3) into submission at a PRIDE Shockwave 2005 event. Then, Emelianenko scored a second-round submission over 41-year-old Mark Coleman (15-8) at PRIDE 32, a first-round...
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