In a stacked card with plenty of UFC vets, BAMMA 7 is sure to deliver today. The main card is headlined by Frank Trigg and Jim Wallhead, also on the card is Paul Daley vs Jordan Radev and Andre Winner vs Jason Ball. The event takes place at the NIA Arena in Birmingham, England.
Las Vegas, Nevada – The Ultimate Fighting Championship® announced that tickets to UFC® 137 at Mandalay Bay Events Center on Oct. 29 sold out within a few hours of being made available to the public today. Headlined by a welterweight title fight between champion Georges St-Pierre and the surging Carlos Condit, UFC 137 will also feature an outstanding co-main event between former two-division champion BJ Penn and the fiery, and definitely unpredictable Nick Diaz in 170-pound action.
The fighters made their way to the scale today at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio. Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov will feature the semi finals of the heavyweight grand prix tournament, with the main event being Josh Barnett vs. Sergei Kharitonov and the co-main event between Daniel Cormier vs. Antonio Silva in semifinal match-ups.
Vitor Belfort has been fighting in MMA professionally since 1996. During the years he has had his fair share of rivalries, but recently Chael Sonnen has opened up a can of worms and Vitor is not too happy about it.
This week we have changed the name of this piece from 'Fatlip' to 'Sucka' as Fatlip is on a tad bit of a hiatus. This week has been a week of craziness.
The main event fight at BAMMA 7 between Frank Trigg and Jim Wallhead was put on the back burner as Paul Daley once again has missed weight. The British bad boy weighed in six pounds over the limit today at the weigh in event for BAMMA 7.
(Cincinnati, Ohio) - Former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich "Ace" Franklin today announced that he incurred a torn labrum (shoulder injury) in training 10 days ago, and after consulting with specialists, will undergo minor surgery next Tuesday, September 13.
Yesterday in Cincinnati, Ohio the competitors from Saturday's Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Kharitonov's main card came together for the pre-fight press conference. This card is stacked from the prelims to the main card. The main event is a heavyweight semi finals match between Josh Barnett and Sergei Kharitonov, preceded by the co-main event between Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva and Daniel Cormier.
For 24 hours Nick Diaz was out of UFC 137.
Now, he is back on the card, but not with his original opponent.
UFC President Dana White announced via Twitter that Diaz (25-7, 1 NC) will be facing former UFC Lightweight and Welterweight Champion BJ Penn (16-7-2) at UFC 137 in Las Vegas.
When people talk about the Bellator tournament, everybody thinks of the welterweight division as it their deepest division and most talked about. When Ben Saunders signed with Bellator he was leery because he had previously fought in the UFC and they run a well oiled machine. After defeating Matt Lee at Bellator 39, Saunders' fears were erased.
