“We are going with the most prestigious championship in all of sports, the heavyweight title. So on November 12 at the Anaheim Honda Center, the UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez will take on the No. 1 contender Junior Dos Santos on the number one network in America, Fox.”
In an impromptu media conference call on Friday, Dana White announced the main event of the first even UFC on Fox card. The announcement came at approximately 10:05am/1:05pm and the main event is... Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos
Miami, Fla. - Rising MMA stars Ben “Smooth” Henderson and “The Natural Born Killer” Carlos Condit have agreed to new multi-fight contracts with the UFC, First Round Management President and CEO Malki Kawa announced. Terms of the agreements were not disclosed.
It did not take long for the first UFC Special to be on the Fox Network.
After agreeing to a deal earlier this month, it was announced today by Fox Sports that UFC Primetime will air on Sunday, October 30th right after NFL Football. The Primetime special is one hour behind the scenes show that features the main event fighters who will be fighting on November 12th in Anaheim, California.
Anderson Silva on Saturday further established his claim as pound for pound the best fighter in the world today quite arguably the best ever with his win over Yushin Okami at UFC 134. It was Silva's 15th overall and 14th in the UFC. When a guy is that dominant in his weight class and disposing of all challengers in his path, the next path would be for a guy to move up in weight and fight guys at that weight class to further cement his legacy in the sport.
Antonio Minotauro Nogueira admitted that he did not even pay attention to the fans on the way out to the octagon at UFC 134. The minute he realized that there was that much cheering was the minute after he shocked the fans by way of KO against Brendan Schaub.
Earlier this week news broke via Yahoo that "Rampage" Jackson believed that the Jon Jones camp was spying on him in preparation for their fight at UFC 135.
Last Saturday night at UFC 134 we saw our fair share of blood and bruises. Ross Pearson had a hematoma the size of a small country on his forehead, there were plenty of KO's/TKO's including Nedkov's impressive debut TKO of Cane, Big Nog obliterating Schaub and Shogun's impressive TKO victory of Forrest Griffin.
More than likely BJ Penn vs Carlos Condit will be penned in as the co-main event of UFC 137. Speaking of penning in, BJ Penn signed the contract to fight Carlos Condit in his latest video blog.
