They say people deserve a second chance and Jon Koppenhaver says he will make the most of this new found life.
Sources have told us, the fighter formely known as War Machine (11-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has verbally agreed to face former UFC veteran Gideon Ray (17-13 MMA, 0-3 UFC) at the Chicago Cagefighting Championship on October 15th at The Odeum Sports Complex in Villa Park, IL right outside of Chicago.
Georges St-Pierre was in attendance for todays special press conference in Los Angeles. He spoke with MMAWeekly.com about the press conference itself and what the broadcast deal between Fox Sports and the UFC means.
Novemeber 12, 1993 in Denver, Colorado was the birthmark of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event live on pay per view and the event was a one night tournament with Royce Gracie emerging victorious. On November 12, 2011 in Anaheim, California another historic moment for the UFC will be taking place.
Yesterday on Brock Lesnar's twitter account they sent out a tweet stating,
An update on Brock is about to drop ... pay attention & be a follower of this account tomorrow morning for the news! RT RT RT #brocklesnar
All i can say is "Wow". The television show that brought the sport to where it is today will now go LIVE! It launched the careers of Forrest Griffin, Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Rashad Evans and many many more.
Los Angeles – Today, Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC), the world’s leading mixed martial arts organization and No. 1 Pay-Per-View event provider in the world, finds its perfect media match in FOX, the No. 1 television network in the country. FOX Sports Media Group, the umbrella entity representing FOX Networks Group’s wide array of sports platforms, has reached a multi-year, multi-media rights agreement with Zuffa, LLC, owner of the UFC brand.
Earlier this week there were reports that the UFC has signed a deal with Fox Sports and this morning in mear minutes there will be a press conference to announce that deal. It seems as if Spike TV has stepped ahead of the UFC and made this statement.
Who would like to see a unification bout between the Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, Dan Henderson and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Jon Jones (Well that's if Jones beats Rampage)? Dan Henderson would and he spoke about that with MMAWeekly Radio this past Wednesday.
Many believe that this press conference will unveil the deal which was rumored earlier this between the UFC and Fox Sports. The press conference will be held Thursday in Los Angeles.
Some say that, “good things come to those who wait…” and great things are just the beginning of things to come for Felipe "Sertanejo" Arantes, the newest featherweight in the UFC who will be making his debut on August 27 at UFC 134 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
‘Sertanejo,’ as he is affectionately referred to by his friends and teammates, is a purple belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu and was recently awarded his black belt in muay thai kickboxing by his longtime Chute Boxe master, Diego Lima.
