Tuesday, May 19
OH WAMMA crowned former PRIDE champion Fedor Emelianenko as its inaugural belt-holder after he defeated Tim Sylvia in July 2008 under the Affliction banner. The sanctioning body then awarded Shinya Aoki its first lightweight title, and second belt overall ...
Wednesday, May 6
OH While several outlets have speculated that Buentello will face former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia at Affliction's as-yet-unannounced third show, the Texan said nothing has been signed. "I heard this matchup a long time ago, after my fight with ...
Sunday, Apr 12
Big deal pal. I hate heavyweight mma (80%) of the time. but i still watch Tim Sylvia vs Jeff Monson cause its part of the main card. Some people dont like watching the lighter weight classes. Dont try and oppress womens mma it hear to stay. ... UFC counter-programs Strikeforce with UFC 94 MMAFighting....
Friday, Apr 10
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 ...
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Tuesday, Mar 31
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 ...
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Thursday, Mar 26
OH Many observers have pointed to the 11 months of inactivity between Vera's November 2006 win over Frank Mir and a UFC 77 loss to Tim Sylvia as a turning point for the worse in the California resident's career. "I'm not sure if that had a big [effect] on ...
OH But back to my original point look at Tim Sylvia guy was making 100k a fight in the UFC so he left went to Affliction made 800k and now even if Affliction goes under he made what he would have in eight fights with the UFC. So yeah if a guy like Urijah ...
Tuesday, Mar 10
Tim Sylvia corners fellow ex-UFC fighter Sherman Pendergarst (11-10) in a fight with longtime XFO fighter Mike Marrello (7-2-1). (Be sure to catch Sylvia's post-fight comments.) We also get a match-up between two of the best last names in MMA when Ryan ...
Monday, Mar 9
OH Maybe Don King is not the best choice to start a promotion to challenge UFC's monopoly, but if the amateurs running Affliction can afford to pay Tim Sylvia $800 000 for 39 seconds of fighting, while veterans in the UFC are going to war for 3 - 5 rounds ...
Saturday, Mar 7
OH Ohio hosted the UFC's first move to the Midwest in 2007 with UFC 68 in Columbus. In that event, Randy Couture upset Tim Sylvia for the UFC heavyweight title. The event drew 19049 in attendance and tallied a $3 million gate. Last year, UFC returned to ...
Thursday, Feb 26
OH Last year's pre-UFC 82 party at Club Mynt featured Franklin, Buffer, UFC welterweight Marcus Davis, former champ Tim Sylvia and other special guests. The American Fighter VIP party, sponsored by Ringstar, benefits the Keep it in the Ring Foundation, ...
Wednesday, Feb 11
OH The first Columbus event, UFC 68 in March 2007, featured the now-legendary UFC heavyweight title fight between then-champ Tim Sylvia and UFC hall-of-famer Randy Couture, who came out of retirement to win the belt. The event set a (since-broken) North ...
Sunday, Mar 2
Despite a battle in the courts and a less-than-amicable split in October, Dana White isn’t giving up on Randy Couture and said he recently offered the estranged UFC heavyweight champion a fight with interim champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
Monday, Feb 25
Additionally, for more on the Couture-UFC situation, check out the Randy Couture archives here on MMAjunkie.com. Estranged UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture says that cross-promotion fights that match up MMA’s best fighters are needed to assure trust from the sport’s fans. Coutu...
Wednesday, Feb 20
Prior to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s victory over Tim Sylvia earlier this month, UFC President Dana White said that Fabricio Werdum would likely get the next shot at the title. However, it now appears he’ll first have to get by Brandon Vera (8-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC).
Monday, Feb 18
The likely promoter of a potential Randy Couture vs. Fedor Emelianenko match was revealed last week when Mark Cuban’s HDNet Fights filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Dallas against Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
UFC 81 took place Feb. 2 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Although the main event featured Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s victory over Tim Sylvia for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title, Lesnar, a former World Wrestling Entertainment performer who took on Frank Mir, was expect...
Wednesday, Feb 13
UFC 81 took place Feb. 2 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The pay-per-view event featured Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s third-round submission of Tim Sylvia to win the UFC’s interim heavyweight title, and Frank Mir spoiled Brock Lesnar’s UFC debut with a first-round submissi...
Monday, Feb 11
As most fans probably remember, last year’s UFC 68 event (which features a Randy Couture vs. Tim Sylvia main event) took place at the same venue and set a UFC attendance record — and a North-American MMA attendance record — with 19,049 spectators.
Saturday, Feb 9
When Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira forced Tim Sylvia to tap out in the third round at Saturday night’s UFC 81 main event, becoming the first man to hold both the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the now-defunct PRIDE Fighting Championship heavyweight titles, it once again fueled endless...
Tuesday, Feb 5
However, while those figures are below average for the venue, UFC 81 likely registered higher-than-normal pay-per-view buys. The event featured a headline bout between Tim Sylvia and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title, but the main attraction was the de...
Monday, Feb 4
Six fighters were issued medical suspensions in the wake of UFC 81, according to Nevada State Athletic Commission paperwork today acquired by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). The event took place this past Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and aired live on pay-pe...
Despite suffering a first-round submission loss to Frank Mir on Saturday, Brock Lesnar collected a cool quarter-of-a-million dollars in his UFC debut. Mir earned a base salary of $80,00 for the fight — which was the fourth-highest behind Lesnar and main-event fighters Antonio Rodrigo...
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Sunday, Feb 3
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira lived up to everything he was while he was in the PRIDE Fighting Championship. He took a battering from Sylvia for the better part of two rounds, but took advantage of the first opening Sylvia gave him and slapped on a guillotine choke that forced a submission at 1:2...
Saturday, Feb 2
Main-event fighters Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Tim Sylvia won Fight of the Night awards, the only bonuses that are awarded to the fight’s winner and loser. Rodrigo survived two rounds of abuse to eventually secure a third-round victory submission via guillotine choke. With the win, Ro...
In the night’s main event, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (31-4-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) made mixed-martial-arts history and became the first MMA fighter ever to win titles in both the UFC and PRIDE by defeating Tim Sylvia (24-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC). “If Randy Couture — in the future — if he can come back to the UFC...
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). Enjoy the fights, everyone…
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...
Friday, Feb 1
One other heavyweight bout has received a lot of attention during the lead-up to UFC 81, thanks largely to the UFC debut of WWE-performer turned NFL-player turned MMA-fighter Brock Lesnar. Lesnar today weighed 265 lbs., and his opponent — former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir — was a s...
Brock Lesnar is 30 and holds a 1-0 professional MMA record after defeating Min Soo Kim at K-1 Dynamite!! in mid-2007. Despite his pro wrestling background, Lesnar is actually an accomplished wrestler; he was a four-time All-American wrestler at the University of Minnesota, was a two-ti...
Thursday, Jan 31
Mir will face former WWE champion Brock Lesnar on Saturday at UFC 81 in a bout pivotal to his career. A win would put him back into contention for the heavyweight title. And if Tim Sylvia claims the interim belt in Saturday’s main event by defeating Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mir with a win woul...
Monday, Jan 28
For the full UFC 81 fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com. Brock Lesnar, who makes his UFC debut this Saturday against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, will be the subject of a new edition of “UFC All Access.“ The show debuts Wednesday at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Spike TV....
Sunday, Jan 27
The following day’s UFC 81 event takes place Saturday and features a main event of Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. The winner will be awarded the UFC’s interim heavyweight title. Additionally, former NCAA wrestling champion and WWE performer Brock Lesnar makes his UFC debut agai...
In a little less than a week, former champions Tim Sylvia and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will meet in the main event of UFC 81 for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title. And the current title holder’s predicting a victory for the UFC vet. Couture likes Nogueira’s chances on the ground; he gives S...
Saturday, Jan 26
Tim Sylvia may be the world’s largest Rodney Dangerfield. The 6-foot-8, two-time former UFC heavyweight champion simply can’t get respect. “That’s always my strategy, to avoid going to the ground,” he said. “I think Nogueira is the best submission heavyweight in the world.“
Tuesday, Jan 22
UFC 81 takes place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Tim Sylvia battles Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the UFC’s interim heavyweight title, and former WWE performer and amateur-wrestling standout Brock Lesnar makes his UFC debut against former UFC heavyweight champ Frank M...
In the spring of 2000, Brock Lesnar was a University of Minnesota senior, just two weeks and a handful of workouts away from the NCAA Division I wrestling tournament. Today, the 30-year-old Lesnar finds himself in a similar situation as he trains for his match against Ultimate Fighting Ch...
Sunday, Jan 20
Other than Werdum, there are two other options: the winner of a UFC 81 fight between Frank Mir and UFC newcomer Brock Lesnar (who are both at least a couple fights away from a title shot), or the winner of a UFC 82 fight between Cheick Kongo and Heath Herring (who are legitimate, if not optimal...
Thursday, Jan 10
UFC 81 takes place Feb. 2 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The event, which features Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (for the UFC interim heavyweight title) and Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar, airs live on pay-per-view.
Tuesday, Jan 8
Thales Leites (12-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC), who was set to face fellow UFC middleweight contender Nate Marquardt (25-7-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) at next month’s UFC 81 event, has been forced off the card due to a broken hand. UFC 81 features heavyweight battles of Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (for th...
Monday, Jan 7
UFC 81, which features heavyweight battles of Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (for the interim heavyweight title) and Frank Mir vs. UFC newcomer Brock Lesnar, takes place Feb. 2 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The event airs live on pay-per-view.
Saturday, Jan 5
Kongo had been a rumored opponent for former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. Sylvia himself even campaigned for the fight in a post-UFC 77 press conference. However, the former champ was instead tapped to fight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 81 next month for the UFC’s interim heavy...
Sunday, Dec 30
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 at UFC 81 — for a five-round championship fight that earns the winner the UFC’s interim (not “vacant”) heavyweight title.
Thursday, Dec 27
The UFC’s CEO made the comments in a recent interview with the L.A. Times, citing the organization’s ongoing problems with estranged UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture as a reason for the policy change. (The piece, which attempts to prove a rift between the UFC and fighters over pay iss...
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