Miesha Tate has signed a multi-fight contract with the UFC, manager Malki Kawa announced today. Tate will compete in the UFC’s newly-formed Women’s Bantamweight division. Her first opponent is expected to be announced soon.
On April 13 two heavyweights will clash inside the Octagon, as Gabriel Gonzaga will go toe-to-toe with Travis Brown.
UFC President Dana White announced the match-up early Monday morning.
All Dustin Poirier had to do was defeat “The Korean Zombie”, Chan Sung Jung, and he would have guaranteed himself an opportunity to fight UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Also. Unfortunately, Jung lived up to the “Zombie” part of his nickname, refusing to die against the favored Poirier.
Just days ago, Manny Gamburyan announced that he was forced to withdraw from his UFC 157 main card fight with Chad Mendes due to numerous injuries. Unfortunately, it looks like Mendes has also been scratched from the card.
Season 5 Ultimate Fighter finalist Manny Gamburyan was expected to take on Chad Mendes on the UFC 157 main card. Unfortunately it was announced that Gamburyan had sustained numerous injuries and was forced to withdraw from the fight.
UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson has one of the coolest sponsorships in all of sports and that is Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Johnson is a huge video game enthusiast and it must be cool to be sponsored by something that he is so passionate about.
At UFC 156 Joseph Benavidez and Ian McCall went to war in the first bout of the PPV main card.
The two are friends outside of the cage and Benavidez decided to send some poetry to raise the spirits of McCall who is going through some tough personal times.
