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Video: Anthony Pettis KO’s Joe Lauzon at UFC 144 Former WEC Lightweight champion Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis takes on the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu artist from Massachusetts, Joe Lauzon. Catch the UFC lightweight champs upcoming fight against Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 185. Video: Anthony Pettis KO’s Joe La...
Video: Watch Benson Henderson vs Frankie Edgar from UFC 144 In the main event at UFC Fight Night 41, Benson Henderson take on Rustam Khabilov. Prior to that contest, relive one of the most epic matches of his career at UFC 144 in Saitama, Japan. After a dominating win over Clay Guida, Benson Hend...
Video: Jake Shields vs Yoshihiro Akiyama UFC 144 full fight UFC welterweight Jake Shields will take on Demian Maia in the main event at UFC Fight Night 29 this Wednesday evening. Prior to this match-up the UFC has released a video of one of Shields’ previous bouts. Top Japanese fighter Yoshihiro ...
Another week and another main card changed due to injuries. It just seems Dana White and the UFC brass just cannot catch a break (no pun intended). Other than being the most injury ridden year ever, there were numerous other reasons that caused fighters to pull out of fights. Last week, it was th...
Nobody knew how the UFC was going to be received in the land of the rising sun when UFC 144 went down at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Since the glory days and the eventual collapse of Pride FC, many have said the sport was dead and buried. Just over 20,000 hardcore Japanese […]
UFC 144 is now just a beautiful memory and Zuffa is as happy as can be at the results of their much-ballyhooed return to Japan. Dana White was so thrilled that he invited every winner on the card to attend the post-fight press conference. Now it’s time to decide what to do with the fighters […]
Frankie Edgar ran out of miracles. The New Jersey native’s trademark gutsy performance kept the fight interesting but in the end was unable to win over the judges who awarded the title to Henderson with a unanimous decision victory (49-46, 48-47, 49-46). The turning point appeared to come at the ...
Ryan Bader is back “in the mix”, as Dana White likes to say, when it comes to the UFC Light Heavyweight decision. Bader outlasted Quinton “Rampage” Jackson en route to a unanimous decision victory and taking the joy out of Jackson’s return to Japan. Bader was the more mobile fighter early, landin...
Mark Hunt didn’t waste any time in his return to japan, dropping French kickboxer Cheick Kongo twice and winning by knockout at just 2:11 into round number one. Kongo’s first trip to the mat came courtesy of a counter left hand from the “Super Samoan”, and it was Hunt’s right hand that spelled th...
Despite not being able to take down Yoshihiro Akiyama until the final minute of the fight, jake Shields made good work of his stand-up attack to frustrate Akiyama and walk away with a unanimous decision victory, winning 30-27 on all the judges’ scorecards. Akiyama, who insisted on being referred ...
Tim Boetsch walked away with an amazing comeback knockout over Yushin Okami after being dominated by his Japanese opponent for two rounds. Okami started the fight by keeping Boetsch on the end of his jab, cutting both of Boetsch’s cheeks. Okami battered Boetsch with punches and knees for much of ...
Hatsu Hioki made use of his superior ground game to outlast Bart Palaszewski en route to a unanimous decision victory off of scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28. Hioki knocked down Palaszweski seconds into the fight and was able to keep the fight there where he threatened the Plish-American with an ...
Anthony Pettis showed Japan why he earned the nickname “Showtime”, blasting Joe “J-Lau” Lauzon with a Cro Cop-style left high kick and ending their fight just 1:21 into the very first round. The finish was reminiscent of GSP-Matt Hughes 2 in that Lauzon clearly thought the kick was going low befo...
UFC 144 proudly returns to the Land of the Rising Sun with its event at former Pride stomping grounds Saitama Super Arena. The preliminary card is underway on Facebook, followed by the FX network (or Sportsnet in Canada). UFC 144 preliminary card report Tiequan Zhang vs. Issei Tamura The evening ...
UFC 144 (or Pride’s Revenge) takes place from the storied grounds of Tokyo’s Saitama Super Arena tomorrow night. In the last amount of build-up for this historic card, the fighters squared off for the official weigh-ins. Preliminary Card: (Facebook 7:30PM ET/4:30PM PT) Tiequan Zhang (146) vs. Iss...
Joe Lauzon (21-6) is going to Japan. He has a date with Anthony “Showtime” Pettis (14-2) at UFC 144. Joe is one of those guys in the sport that you love to cheer for. Back in October at UFC 136 many people wrote the Bridgewater, Massachusetts native off before he even stepped into the cage […]