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The UFC is Airing Free Fights in November
0 Comments | Posted by fightlaunch in TUF (The Ultimate Fighter), UFC, Upcoming Fights, WEC
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – With November now underway, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) plans to kick off a UFC-filled month with a week full of fights absolutely free, leading up to UFC 122: MARQUARDT vs. OKAMI in Oberhausen, Germany, free on Spike this Saturday. UFC 122 boasts 22 fighters representing 14 different countries fighting [...]
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Everyone wins and winner takes all in UFC-WEC merge
0 Comments | Posted by Jon Lane in MMA News, MMA Rumors, UFC, WEC
The MMA world received a jolt of adrenaline when the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced plans to merge with World Extreme Cagefighting in January 2011. UFC president Dana White first informed MMAFighting.com before a formal announcement was made to reporters over a conference call, creating an explosion of feedback on Twitter and through cyberspace, much of [...]
World Extreme Cagefighting more often than not delivers a fight that merits Fight of the Year consideration. Whether it makes the cut or not, most WEC bouts leave fans breathless, the few who watch them on Versus, anyway. WEC 50, headlined by Dominick Cruz’s bantamweight title defense against Joseph Benavidez, drew 316,000 viewers, the promotion’s [...]
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The People Versus Cecil Peoples
0 Comments | Posted by Jon Lane in MMA News, UFC, Upcoming Fights, WEC
Absent from my local sports bar and tight on the requisite funds to order UFC 119 on pay-per-view, I was treated to the play-by-play from Heavy.com’s on-site reporters Ryan Loco and Nate Lawson. Though lacking a visual, the Loco & Lawson show painted an accurate enough portrait for me to draw my own conclusions on [...]
I’m not here to breakdown the fights, that’s not my thing. I’m here to share what I saw last night. Some things were subtle and others were quite obvious. Be sure to share your comments or thoughts at the bottom. Here’s a rundown of the things that I noticed. Stephan Bonnar looked like he spent [...]
A snapshot look at tonight’s WEC 50 show in Las Vegas live on Versus: The first time Joseph Benavidez faced Dominick Cruz was August 2009. He was on the short end of a unanimous decision, his only loss in 13 MMA fights and has torn through the bantamweight division to earn a rematch this time [...]
For once the MMA community has a chance to breathe. UFC 116 put an exclamation point on a loaded June that bled into the July 4 weekend. Come August MMA events ramp up again with five major shows: UFC on Versus 2, UFC 117, Strikeforce: Houston, WEC 50 and UFC 118, when Boston will host [...]