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Bellator has really stepped up their game in the first year of their MMA promotion. We have seen nothing but great KO’s and Submissions coming from the promotion during their first season. Today we bring you Nick Pace’s Flying Knee Knockout of Collin Tebo. Couture needs surgery, Nogueira fight on hold (2)Shaw questions if Noons wants [...]
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Mike Swick faced a dangerous, but inexperienced opponent at UFC 99 in former Ultimate Fighter contestant Ben Saunders. Many people felt that Saunders would give Swick problems because of his size and dangerous clinch. Swick was impressive again and defeated Saunders by TKO in the second round extending his win streak to 4 straight fights. Now [...]
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Following the UFC 99 event from Cologne, Germany this past weekend reports have been swirling around that Mirko Cro Cop has jumped ship from the UFC to go back to Japan by signing a new three fight deal with DREAM. However, upon his return to his home country of Croatia the former PRIDE open-weight grand [...]
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In a recent video blog from M-1 Global on 6/6/09 Red Devil teammates Fedor Emelianenko and Gegard Mousasi joke around while the WAMMA Heavyweight champion tries to shoot promotional commercials for Affliction “Trilogy”. I know this is about a week late, but there was nothing to post it was pretty bone dry last night. Joe Rogan [...]
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The upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter will mark it’s tenth season and will opposing coaches Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and ‘Sugar’ Rashad Evans who are former UFC Light Heavyweight champions and also bitter rivals who will settle the score at the last UFC event of the year in late December. But, for right now our friends [ […]
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We all know that UFC 100 is supposed to be the biggest fight card in the promotion’s history. The card has three of the biggest fights of 2009 and will have two titles on the line July 11. UFC 100 official event trailer Nelo and I wanted to do something special for this event because it is going [...]
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We know that the UFC has tried to sign Fedor Emelianenko since PRIDE collapsed and Zuffa purchased their assets so we could finally see him make a run at the Heavyweight title. But, there is a former UFC Heavyweight champion that Dana White has never gone after, Josh Barnett. Barnett showed up for UFC 74 [...]
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This is a picture of Marcus Davis’ eye after his bout with Dan Hardy at UFC 99. Davis claims that Hardy walked into his dressing room after their fight and actually told him he felt he won. I hope we get to see a rematch this fight was close and a definitive finish would have [...]
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Fan Jab: We all know that since PRIDE collapsed that the UFC has wanted to sign Fedor Emelianenko, but due to strict demands from both sides the deal has never been hammered out. I saw a post that really stuck out by URDirt.com reader Chiggs in the comment section of post where we reported that [...]
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At UFC 99 last night it marked the return and exit of Mirko Cro Cop as he took on Mostapha Al-Turk and in the closing seconds of the fight Cro Cop was shown poking the eye of Al-Turk as referee Dan Miragliotta did not see the incident as Mostapha turned away with his hands covering his face [...]
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