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Today (Thursday October 27) the UFC will hold their Pre-Fight Press Conference for UFC 137. The press conference is expected to begin at 1pm PT/4pm ET. Expected to be in attendance are main card fighters BJ Penn, (Maybe) Nick Diaz, Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo.
This Saturday the UFC returns to Las Vegas for UFC 137 and in preparation the fighters took part in Wednesdays Open Workouts. Following each fighters open workout the media had an opportunity to catch up with them and see how their last minute game plans are going. Thanks as always go out to Arie...
Dana White previously said it was only a matter of time before he would have to make the fan anticipated “Super Fight” between Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva. Today however, on Sherdog radio Georges’ trainer Firas Zahabi was asked about his thoughts on him moving up to 185lbs to fight Ander...
How many times has the UFC had to change up this countdown show? They must have edited it down like crazy. First it was Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz, then it was Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit and now it’s BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz. None the less tonight is the premiere of The Countdown to UF...
Kenny Florian will quite frankly be known as a fighter who came very close to greatness, but was never quite great. He had three different title opportunities and came up shy all three times. His first lightweight title shot was against Sean Sherk for the vacant title at the time and he lost by d...
Yesterday MMASucka reported that Frank Mir predicts that Brock Lesnar will easily beat Alistair Overeem. It looks as if Overeem feels differently, he spoke with FightStar TV and stated that he believes he will finish Lesnar within the first round. The fight with Lesnar which is Overeem’s debut in...
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir spoke with ESPN.com earlier this week and made his prediction for the upcoming Heavyweight clash between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem. His prediction may surprise some; he not only believes his former foe Lesnar will beat Overeem, he believes he will...
First Junior Dos Santos splits with his long time manager Ed Soares, now Anderson Silva is not too pleased with him. I don’t know what this says about Soares as a manager, but Silva does not like the way he is speaking about his future and who he will be fighting next. Soares spoke about Anderson...
This isn’t extremely news worthy, but it is damn funny. When Pat Barry took on Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic at UFC 115 he had too much respect for him and was ultimately submitted because of this. Cro Cop brought in Barry as part of his camp for his upcoming fight against Roy Nelson at UFC 137.
MMASucka’s resident TUF 14 video blogger, Marcus Brimage discusses the ongoing mishaps that happen during this season. This was probably the most exciting episode of the season with Diego telling people he is going to cut their heads off to the cowboy hat incident at the house. Marcus discusses a...
UFC announced today that they have partnered with Cinedigm Digital Cinema to bring UFC Pay-Per-Views in 3D to theaters beginning in 2012. The partnership will consist of 4 shows per year, beginning with the Feb. 4, 2012 fight card from Las Vegas, Nevada.
The UFC held their standard media conference call for an event today for UFC 137 which will take place on August 29 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scheduled to take part were UFC Director of Communications Dave Sholler, Main Event fighters Nick Diaz and BJ Penn. Also on the line were co-main eventers Chei...
On Tuesday, October 18 it was announced that UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre will be unable to participate in his UFC 137 title bout against top contender Carlos Condit due to an injury.
Nick Diaz still gets to be in the main event but not in the fight he originally wanted to be in. With UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St.Pierre out due to a knee injury, the Nick Diaz (25-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) vs BJ Penn (16-7-2 MMA, 12-6-2 UFC) has now been upgraded to the main event of UFC 137.
This was not the news that the UFC was expecting nor looking for. UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St.Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) is out of next weekend’s UFC 137 main event against Carlos Condit (27-5 MMA, 4-1 UFC).
Chael Sonnen began a pro wrestlingesque tirade towards Anderson Silva following his recent victory against Brian Stann at UFC 136. He took the microphone away from Joe Rogan during his post fight interview and said, “Anderson Silva you absolutely suck!”