Stephan Bonnar and Mark Coleman will try and revive their UFC careers July 11th on the UFC 100 fight card. Both fighters are coming off of losses and desperately need a win to advance in the UFC’s loaded Light Heavyweight division. Read on …
June 29, 2009
June 23, 2009
Welterweights Jon Fitch and Paulo Thiago will face off on 7/11/09 on the UFC 100 fight card. The popularity of Fitch, and Thiago’s impressive debut put this one on the televised portion of the ppv event. Fitch defeated Akihiro Gono is his last bout a 3 round unanimous decision at UFC94. Fitch is well-rounded, with good wrestling and Jujitsu, his standup is always improving and he has a long reach for the division.
Paulo Thiago was impressive in his debut, stopping Fitch’s teammate Josh Koscheck via TKO in round one. Thiago was getting peppered with punches when he countered with a big uppercut that floored Kos prompting the Ref to stop the bout. Thiago is an accomplished Jujitsu competitor, and he may look to get the fight to the mat where most of his wins have come by submission. Another great matchup on a stacked UFC100 fight card.
Freestyle MMA will have the live results from UFC100 on 7/11/09.
June 15, 2009
Three time UFC Champion Randy “The Natural” Couture
will face former interin champ Antonio Minotaro Noguiera on 8/29/09 on the UFC102 fight card. The fight will be the first ever in Portland, OR. Couture trained for many years at Team Quest in Gresham,OR and will definately be fired up for this bout. After the fight with Noguiera, Couture will have one fight remaining on a 3 fight contract he signed before his TKO loss to Brock Lesnar at UFC91. With a win over Noguiera, Couture could get the winner of the remach between Frank Mir and Lesnar, giving him the opportunity to fight for the title in his last bout. He will have to get past one of MMA’s best submission artists in Noguiera who also has decent standup.
June 13, 2009
Main Event
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June 12, 2009
All fighters made weight for the 6/13/09 event UFC99
Main Event
Rich Franklin (194) vs Wanderlei Silva (194)
Cain Velasquez (239) vs Cheick Kongo (230)
Ben Saunders (169) vs Mike Swick (169)
Dan Hardy (170) vs Marcus Davis (171)
Caol Uno (155) vs Spencer Fisher (154)
Mostapha Al-Turk (236) vs Mirko Cro Cop (233)
Justin Buchholz (155) vs Terry Etim (156)
Dale Hartt (156) vs Dennis Siver (156)
Paul Taylor (169) vs Peter Sobotta (169)
Roli Delgado (155) vs Paul Kelly (156)
Stefan Struve (248) vs Denis Stojnic (241)
Rick Story (169) vs John Hathaway (170)
June 8, 2009
Two of the UFC’s best will clash in Germany on 6/13/09 as Heavyweights Cain Velasquez and Cheick Kongo fight on the UFC 99 fight card.
Kongo is on a 3 fight winning streak and was impressive in his last bout scoring a TKO win over Antoni Hardonk at UFC97. Kongo took Hardonk to the mat and Ground n pounded him to get the win,
June 7, 2009
Main Event – WEC Featherweight Title
Mike Brown (143.5) vs Urijah Faber (143.5)
Champion Mike Brown retained his title with a grinding five round victory, the challenger Faber had some nice moments early landing nice rights, kicks and knees to the powerful but slower Brown. The Champion Brown countered with strong right hands and nice takedowns as he controlled action throughout the bout and retained his title. Faber appeared to suffer a hand injury in the first round and could have possibly broken both hands.
Cub Swanson (144) vs Jose Aldo (144.5)
Aldo landed a flying knee at the bell and pounded out Swanson for the first round KO.
James Krause (155) vs Donald Cerrone (155)
Ceronne had too much skill for the game Krause as he countered Krause’s every move and eventually worked for a rear naked choke in the first round
Josh Grispi (145.5) vs Jens Pulver (144)
Grispi landed some punches early, then caught Pulver’s first takedown in a guillotine and choked out the veteran in the first round.
John Franchi (145.5) vs Manny Gamburyan (144)
A grappling match between these two Featherweights, with Gamburyan getting the majority of the takedowns and controlling action.
Kyle Dietz (134) vs Rafael Rebello (134.5)
Rebello scored a first round submission win via choke
Anthony Pettis (156) vs Mike Campbell (155)
Pettis showed great Jijitsu in this one switching from submission to submission, finally catching Campbell in a nice triangle choke to finish in the first
Antonio Banuelos (135.5) vs Scott Jorgensen (134)
A slugfest from start to finish, Banuelos outlasted Jorgensen to win the decision.
Noah Thomas (134.5) vs Frank Gomez (136)
Gomez secured a fight ending Anaconda Choke to win by submission in round two
Seth Dikun (136) vs Rolando Perez (135.5)
Dikun submitted Perez with a nice triangle choke in the first round.
Main Event – WEC Featherweight Title
Mike Brown (143.5) vs Urijah Faber (143.5)
Cub Swanson (144) vs Jose Aldo (144.5)
James Krause (155) vs Donald Cerrone (155)
Josh Grispi (145.5) vs Jens Pulver (144)
John Franchi (145.5) vs Manny Gamburyan (144)
Kyle Dietz (134) vs Rafael Rebello (134.5)
Anthony Pettis (156) vs Mike Campbell (155)
Antonio Banuelos (135.5) vs Scott Jorgensen (134)
Noah Thomas (134.5) vs Frank Gomez (136)
Seth Dikun (136) vs Rolando Perez (135.5)
June 6, 2009
In the televised portion of the event shown on Showtime, Mike Whitehead scored a unanimous decision over Kevin Randalman. Joe “Diesel” Riggs won a unanimous decision win over Phil Baroni, and Nick Diaz roughed up Scott Smith, then choked him out in the third. Heavyweight Brett “The Grim” Rogers shocked Andrei Arlovski with a combo which dropped him, prompting the ref to stop the bout. And Jake Shields pulled Robby Lawler into a Guillotine choke early in round one of their 182lb bout.
June 5, 2009
Mirco “Cro Cop” will make his UFC return on the UFC99 fight card. Cro Cop was successful in the PRIDE organization before making his UFC debut at UFC67, he TKO’d Eddie Gonzales that night, but went on to drop his next 2 UFC bouts. He is back, fighting in Germany against an English foe Mostapha Al Turk. Al Turk lost his UFC debut via TKO at UFC92 to Cheick Kongo. Look for Cro Cop to try and land a big left head kick as well as a straight left punch, while Al Turk will look to get in close and rough up Cro Cop, and work him to the ground where he is weakest. A good matchup on the UFC 99 fight card. Check back in on 6/13/09 for live results from UFC99