Rashad Evans is next in line to compete Mauricio Rua’s light-heavyweight title, a fight expected to take place next March at UFC 128 in the United Arab Emirates once Shogun is fully recovered from a serious knee injury. This Saturday’s UFC 123 main event between former champions Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Lyoto Machida could determine [...]

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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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Nate Marquardt is one win from validation. Validation that he’s a championship-caliber UFC middleweight. If he defeats Yushin Okami at UFC 122 Saturday in Oberhausen, Germany, he’ll be the No. 1 contender and face the winner of champion Anderson Silva’s defense against Vitor Belfort February 5 in Las Vegas. Validation that Nate the Great is [...]

UFC 122

File this one under the department of either “strange” or “why?” Jon Fitch’s next fight will reportedly be against Jake Ellenberger at UFC 126 in February. This is not a knock on Ellenberger, 23-5, off a three-round pummeling of John Howard in August and a razor-thin split-decision loss to Carlos Condit from being a winner [...]

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Note: Dana White will make a “major” announcement during a conference call with reporters Thursday at 1 p.m. EST. A network-TV deal in 2011? Picking Cain Velasquez to dethrone Brock Lesnar and become the new UFC heavyweight champion wasn’t stupid. Velasquez came in undefeated in eight MMA fights. He possessed the size and strength to [...]

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First it was Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin at UFC 116 that was billed as the “biggest heavyweight title fight of all time” on “the biggest show in UFC history.” Now the Zuffa hype machine is billing UFC 121 as the greatest assembly of MMA talent to appear on one card. In a year of [...]

UFC 121

It’s T-minus 10 days until another “Biggest show of the year” from the UFC, UFC 121 headlined by Brock Lesnar’s heavyweight title defense against Cain Velasquez. This Saturday is UFC 120 in London with a lineup that sold out the O2 Arena that must not be overlooked. The show spotlights eight British fighters, three in [...]

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