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RANDY “THE NATURAL” COUTURE vs. BROCK LESNAR UFC WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 2008 LIVE FROM MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA Las Vegas, NV (USA) – On November 15th, the champ is back. Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White today announced that after a year away from the game, UFC heavyweight champion Randy “The Natural” Couture will make his long-awaited [...]

UFC President Dana White officially announced during today’s media conference call that UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture has agreed to return to the UFC and will take on heavyweight contender Brock Lesnar at UFC 91. The five-round championship matchup will headline a November 15th pay-per-view event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Couture [...]

UFC President Dana White today announced during a media conference call that UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture will fight Brock Lesnar in a five-round championship bout on November 15th at UFC 91 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Continue reading for MMAFrenzy.com’s notes from the call… Dana White announced that UFC heavyweight champion [...]

Affliction on Sunday confirmed to MMA News the finalized official fight card for Affliction “Day or Reckoning”, which takes place on October 11th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Five preliminary “Day of Reckoning” bouts will air live on HDNet while six main card fights, including the heavyweight main event featuring former [...]

UFC President Dana White will make a “major UFC announcement” later today, September 2nd, during a 3pm ET media conference call. White is expected to announce the return of UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture for a November 15th matchup against Brock Lesnar at UFC 91. Yahoo! Sports’ Steve Cofield this morning broke news of the announcement, which [...]

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Denis Kang successfully defended the Spirit MC middleweight title with a first-round knockout of Jae Young Kim in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday. Kim stunned Kang early in the first round of the main event bout but Kang recovered and dropped Kim to the canvas with a series of hooks. Kang followed up with ground and [...]

Gleison Tibau has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled bout against Hermes Franca at UFC 90 due to a shoulder injury. Marcus Aurelio has now been booked to take on Franca at the October 25th event in Chicago. Sherdog today reported the injury and replacement. Aurelio (16-6) was defeated in his most-recent bout by Tyson Griffin via [...]

Amir Sadollah (1-0), the winner of “The Ultimate Fighter 7: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest”, will return to the octagon at UFC 91 on November 15th in Portland, Oregon. An opponent for the fight has not yet been determined. Sadollah announced the bout at Combat Sports Challenge 26 on Saturday in Virginia, according to The Fight Network. Following [...]

The camp of EliteXC lightweight contender Nick Diaz on Saturday issued a public response through GracieFighter.com, the official website for the Cesar Gracie camp with whom Diaz trains, on the statement EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons issued on Friday about issues with EliteXC and declining a proposed title defense against Diaz. “Elite XC creates a new [...]

UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture may be on the verge of resolving his contract dispute with the UFC and could return in November to take on heavyweight contender Brock Lesnar in the main event of UFC 91. Additionally, if he gets past the former collegiate and professional wrestler Couture’s hopes of fighting Fedor Emelianenko could become [...]

Light heavyweight free agent Tito Ortiz confirmed on the latest edition of HDNet’s “Inside MMA” that he is currently in negotiations with Affliction, EliteXC, and the UFC. The winner of the September 10th WEC 36 bout between former WEC lightweight champion Rob McCullough and Donald Cerrone has been guaranteed a 155-pound title shot title shot. [MMA [...]

World Extreme Cagefighting will soon fold its light heavyweight and middleweight divisions into the UFC and will now feature just bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight classes. The news was reported on Thursday by Yahoo! Sports. Additionally, the WEC is considering pay-per-view events for 2009, possibly as early as May, and is also planning to hold more events [...]

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WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber and 145-pound contender Leonard Garcia may square off for the title in a future headlining bout in Mexico according to MMA Junkie. “They’re flying me out six days after the (Pulver) fight to Mexico City to do a press conference and to make a huge announcement,” said Garcia. “As I understand [...]

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EliteXC vice president Jared Shaw on Thursday announced, through MMA Junkie, that the promotion will hold events on October 10th, less than one week after EliteXC’s next nationally-televised event on CBS on October 4th, and November 8th. “We have a large schedule of mixed martial arts fights coming up,” Shaw told MMA Junkie. “We have Sept. [...]

UFC heavyweight contender Brock Lesnar will likely return to the octagon in November, according to a report from the Pioneer Press. Lesnar has reportedly been asked by the UFC to participate on an unspecified November fight card against an unknown opponent. The event is likely to be UFC 91 on November 15th in Portland, Oregon and [...]

EliteXC welterweight champion Jake Shields will defend his title against Paul Daley on October 4th at the next rendition of EliteXC-CBS Saturday Night Fights. MMAFrenzy.com (www.mmafrenzy.com) has confirmed with Daley’s manager that both fighters have verbally agreed to the match up. Jake Shields, one of the better welterweights in mixed martial arts who does not compete under [...]

Unfortunately for our neighbors to the north, the UFC will be unable to make it back to the city of Montreal before 2009, according to Yahoo! Sports, who spoke with UFC president Dana White. Additionally, the much-anticipated rematch between Georges St. Pierre and BJ Penn will take place during Super Bowl weekend on January 31st in [...]