Dethroned Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk begins his comeback against top contender Tyson Griffin at UFC 90. Sherk lost his title to BJ Penn via TKO at UFC 84, he never looked comfortable in that fight, and resorted to boxing with Penn where he was seriously outclassed. Read on …
Top Korean fighter Dong Hyun Kim will face American Matt Brown in a Welterweight fight at UFC 88. Kim had a successful UFC debut, stopping Jason Tan with elbows in the third round, he has a 10-0-1 record as a professional and looks to make a name for himself in the US. Matt Brown fought at Middleweight on the latest Ultimate Fighter series, he lost via submission to eventual winner Amir Sadollah. Brown dropped to Welterweight for his UFC debut, and looked good in stopping another former contestant Matt Arroyo in the second round. UFC88 will be held on 9/6/08 10pm est at the Phillips arena in Atlanta Georgia.
Bjj black belts Kurt Pellegrino and Thiago Tavares will square off on 9/6/08 at UFC88. Both fighters are coming off of losses and need a win to stay in the Lightweight picture. Read on …
Grapplers Dan Henderson and Rousimar Palhares will meet at UFC88 on 9/6/08. Henderson is coming off of a crushing loss to Anderson Silva, and is looking to get back into the title picture. Read on …
Diego “Nightmare” Sanchez will face off against Thiago “Pitbull” Alves at UFC 90 on 10/25/08. The winner could emerge as the next Welterweight challenger for GSP’s title. Read on …
Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett, both impressive winners in the first Affliction event will face each other in the main event of Affliction 2. Read on …
Rich Franklin will move back up to the 205lb Light Heavyweight division to take on tough wrestler Matt Hamill at UFC 88. Read on …
Freestyle MMA will have live coverage of UFC87 Seek and Destroy starting at 8:30pm est. Read on …
Weigh in results for UFC87 are official
UFC87 fight card
Main Event – UFC Welterweight Championship
Jon Fitch (170) VS Georges St-Pierre (170)
Heath Herring (250) VS Brock Lesnar (265)
Roger Huerta (155) vs Kenny Florian (155)
Demian Maia (185) VS Jason MacDonald (185)
Robert Emerson (155) VS Manvel Gamburyan (155)
Tamdan McCrory (170) VS Luke Cummo (167)
Dan Evensen (244) VS Cheick Kongo (235)
Andre Gusmao (205) VS Jon Jones (205)
Steve Bruno (170) VS Chris Wilson (170)
Ryan Thomas (170) VS Ben Saunders (170)
Former TUF castmates Rob Emerson and Manny Gamburyan, to meet at UFC87 on 8/9/08. Both fighters were defeated by eventual winner Nathan Diaz, Read on …
An interesting undercard fight is scheduled for UFC 87. Luke Cummo will face Tamdan McCrory, both fighters are coming off of losses, Read on …
Demian Maia brings his 8-0 Mixed Martial Arts record into the Octagon on 8/9/08, to face Jason MacDonald at UFC 87, Read on …
Lightweight champ Jamie Varner only needed 2 minutes to stop the tough Marcus Hicks, and retain his WEC Lightweight belt. Hicks scored a couple of nice takedowns early, but couldn’t keep the wrestler Varner on the mat, Varner then unleashed a barrage of punches and knees that had Hicks out on his feet, Hicks would not fall, and Varner continued to pound away until he finally fell.Steve Cantwell avenged an earlier loss to Brian Stann, with a nice display of striking, outpunching the less mobile Stann before stopping him in the second round, capturing the WEC Light Heavyweight title. Hiromitsu Miura showed the heart of a warrior, pushing Carlos Condit to the limit before being stopped in the 4th round of their WEC Welterweight Title bout. Miura showed beautiful Judo throws to counter the Muay Thai clinch of Condit, and scored from Condit’s guard as well, But the Champion was too much for him showing great positioning on the ground as well as nice kicks and punches, this fight was a good one.
3 WEC belts will be on the line tonight at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. Lightweight Jamie Varner will make his first title defense against Marcus Hicks, Varner defeated Rob McCullough by TKO in the third round to win the title. Hicks has won all 3 of his WEC bouts by submission. Also making his first title defense is Brian Stann, who won the Light Heavyweight Title with a first round KO over Doug Marshall, Stann also holds a victory over tonights opponent Steve Cantwell, who has rebounded from the loss to Stann with two straight victories. Carlos Condit brings his slick submissions, and Muay Thai style striking to face Hiromitsu Miura in a Welterweight Title fight. Condit has fought 4 tough opponents in his WEC career, and won them all by way of submission, he is ranked in the top ten by most MMA publications, he is facing a strong striker in Miura, who dropped down fron the 185lb division in his last fight, a TKO over Blas Avena. Also on the main card Brian Bowles vs Damacio Page, and Micah Miller vs Josh Grispi. A Welterweight fight between Carlo Prater and Brock Larson is not scheduled for the main card, but should be.