UFC 142 Prelims: Tavares Moves Into Title Contention With Win Against Stout
Courtesy of Fight Bulletin With the winner moving from a prospect to a contender in the Lightweight division Brazilian Thiago Tavares recorded his 21st win against Sam ‘Hands of Stone’ Stout who was fighting for the first time since the death of his longtime trainer and friend-Shawn Tompkins in the final preliminary bout. Tavares scored [...]
Rockhold Retains Strikeforce Title With Knockout Over Jardine
By Josh Mercer/Fight Bulletin Strikeforce Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold showed why he is the future of MMA when he defended his title against UFC veteran and Chuck Liddell conqueror Keith Jardine. In what was a match of contrasting styles, Jardine was using his awkward brawling style to good effect in the opening minutes landing some [...]
Strikeforce: Rockhold vs Jardine Preliminary Card Report
Burrell Edges Out Terry In Split Decision In the final Sho Extreme preliminary bout at Welterweight Nah-Shon Burrell scored a controversial 3 round split decision win over James Terry who is after a Lightweight title shot (29-28, 29-28, 28-29). Fast rising prospect, Burrell now 8-1 spent much of the first 2 rounds on his back [...]
Soto Submits Pollard For Welterweight Title At CFFC 12
Cage Fury Fighting Championships returned December 10 to Atlantic City, New Jersey as it presented CFFC 12 – Pollard vs Soto at the Resorts Hotel and Casino. The exciting card was loaded with the top fighters on the East Coast and was headlined by a fight for the CFFC Welterweight title. Greg Soto submitted Cage [...]
UFC 135 Weights
MAIN EVENT – UFC LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP Quinton Jackson (204) VS Jon Jones (204.5) PPV Josh Koscheck (170.5) VS Matt Hughes (170) Mark Hunt (261) VS Ben Rothwell (263) Rob Broughton (261) VS Travis Browne (255) Takanori Gomi (155) VS Nate Diaz (156) SPIKE TV PRELIMS Tim Boetsch (186) VS Nick Ring (185) Aaron Riley (155) VS Tony Ferguson (155) FACEBOOK FIGHTS [...]
Bamma 7 Weigh-In Results
Jim Wallhead weigh’s in at 185lbs. His opponent Frank Trigg weigh’s in at 185 1/2 lbs. Paul Daley weigh’s in at 176lbs -didn’t make weight. Jordan Radev weigh’s in at 170lbs (Being fought at catchweight). Jack Marshman & Carl Noon both weigh in at 185.5 lbs. Jason Ball weigh’s in at 155 1/2 lbs. His [...]
Overeem to Face Lesnar
Former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem has signed with the UFC. After signing a deal with the promotion company today in Las Vegas, he’s going to get put to work immediately, as it was also announced that he will make his Octagon debut on December 30th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena against former UFC [...]
Heavyweight Title To Headline First UFC On Fox
The UFC Heavyweight title fight between Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos was today announced as the headliner for the first UFC on Fox event taking place November 12. UFC president, Dana White today said: “What better way to kick things off with the heavyweight championship, you know this is going to be a great [...]
ProElite Recap: “Grove Wins By Submission”
Pro Elite held their latest MMA event at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The card was headlined by former UFC Heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski and former professional boxer Ray Lopez and The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Kendall Grove took on fellow UFC veteran Joe Riggs in the main event. On the Main Card: Kendall Grove vs Joe Riggs In [...]
