With all the misfortunes UFC owners, Zuffa, had with the line up for the previous UFC, it appears that business is back to normal again. The upcoming UFC card looks stacked and as promising as any MMA card could be. Even if you engross yourself into all the unpleasantries that led to UFC 50 being constantly re-shaped, it actually turned out to be a solid show with the exception of there being only seven fights compared to the usual eight, and the main event falling short after an action packed undercard…
Author: Joe Reilly
Joe Riggs out of UFC 51
Joe ‘Diesel’ Riggs has now confirmed that he is out of UFC 52. He was slated to take on David ‘The Crow’ Loiseau. Riggs established a nasty cut after colliding heads with a training partner according to Riggs, who revealed this on MMA Weekly Radio today. No news on a replacement yet. Speculation suggests that […]
Shortly after UFC 51 this coming weekend, wrestling 101 will be introducing a ranking system for each MMA division that is ultimately decided by you the readers. Wrestling 101 will take part in the nomination process, but it will come down mainly to all the readers of this site. Go to the forums to participate.
UFC 51 airing on Bravo
A good friend of the MMA community in Ireland and the UK, Beth Rosenberg, who works for Zuffa LLC has confirmed that Bravo on SKY Digitial and other cable operators in the UK area will be airing UFC 51 on the 6th of February 2005 (A day after the event). It has not been confirmed […]
UFC 49 Results 21/08/04
UFC 49: Unfinished Business Yves Edwards def. Josh Thomson by TKO via punches in Rnd 1 Karo Parisyan def. Nick Diaz by Split Decision Chris Lytle def. Ron Jhun by Submission via Guillotine choke in Rnd 2 Justin Eilers def. Mike Kyle by KO via punch in Rnd 1 David Terrell def. Matt Lindland by TKO […]
PRIDE FC: Final Conflict 2004 (Heavyweight Grand Prix Finals) Grand Prix Semi Finals Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Sergei Kharitonov Fedor Emelianenko vs. Naoya Ogawa Middleweight Bouts Wanderlei Silva vs. Yuki Kondo (Non Title) Murilo Bustamante vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Heavyweight Bouts Kevin Randleman vs. Ron Waterman (Grand Prix Aleternate Bout) Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic vs. Aleksander […]
Robbie Lawler is already out of the proposed fight with Ronald Jhun at UFC 49 in August, but it is still unclear on who will replace him. MMA Weekly claims that Phil Baroni has verbally agreed to fight Ronald Jhun and all that’s left for him to do is to sign the contract. More on […]
This past weekend, one of the most anticipated MMA cards ever to happen on English soil took place in the Wembley Conference Centre in London. In fact, the only other MMA line-up to ever happen in Europe that could have possibly appeared better on paper was UFC 38: Brawl At The Hall back in July of 2002. However, a bout on paper or whole cards on paper isn’t always the accurate indication of how a show necessarily turns out. So the question is, did this tremendous line-up live up to the billing? Well, read on and find out…
Dave Roche out of Cage Rage 7
In a very unfortunate turn of events, lightweight fighter Dave Roche has had to pull out of his fight with Dave Elliot. Yesterday, Roche was involved in a car accident. Roche came out of the car accident with pieces of broken glass in his eyes, which then required surgery that took place yesterday evening. Roche is […]
Cage Rage 7 card
Cage Rage 7 (Saturday July 10th in Wembley Conference Centre) Main Event Mark Weir (ENGLAND) VS Jorge Rivera (USA) Middleweight Undercard Bouts Micheal Bisping (ENGLAND) VS Renato (Babalu) Sobral (BRAZIL) Light-heavyweight Jean Sliva (BRAZIL) Champion VS Ollie Ellis (ENGLAND) Lightweight Robbie Oliver (ENGLAND) VS Sammy Schiavo (FRANCE) Lightweight Leigh Remedios (ENGLAND) VS Emmanuel Fernandez (France) Featherweight […]