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A bantamweight matchup between “The Ultimate Fighter 14″ finalist T.J.
Dillahsaw and two-time UFC vet Walel Watson is the fifth and final main-card bout of next week’s UFC on
FUEL TV 1 event.
The bout was announced in January, but its position on the evening’s fight card was only recently revealed.
UFC on FUEL TV 1 takes place Feb. 15 at the 10,000-seat Omaha Civic
Auditorium in Nebraska. Diego Sanchez and Jake Ellenberger clash in the
welterweight headliner.
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The lineup, including the preliminary and main cards, is set for next month’s “Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey” event.
The show takes place March 3 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The main card, including a title fight between female bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey, airs on Showtime. Prelims air on Showtime Extreme.
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An intriguing lightweight matchup between Nate Diaz and Jim Miller will serve as the main event of UFC on FOX 3.
The matchup, which was announced in January, will now be contested as a five-round affair.
Additionally, a heavyweightbout featuring sluggers Pat Barry and
Lavar Johnson has also been added to the evening’s main card.
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If the participants in the Sherdog.com MMA Pick’Em fantasy game are to be believed, then Rashad Evans will most definitely have his day against Jon Jones. A solid 76 percent of players have sided with Evans against Phil Davis in the UFC on Fox 2 main event on Saturday at the United Center in Chicago.
Evans beat Forrest Griffin for the light heavyweight championship in 2008 but lost the belt in his first defense to Lyoto Machida at UFC 98. Since then, “Suga” has picked up wins over Thiago Silva, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Tito Ortiz. Twice tabbed as the division’s No. 1 contender, injuries have halted the Imperial Athletics representative’s title hopes until now, as a victory over Davis would give Evans his long-awaited showdown with Jones, the current 205-pound king.
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The main card is set for the debut UFC on FUEL TV event.
UFC on FUEL TV 1 takes place Feb. 15 at Omaha Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Neb. The main card airs on FUEL TV, and prelims stream on Facebook.
Headlining the event is a welterweight bout between Jake Ellenberger and Diego Sanchez.
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The main card is set for Cage Warriors Fight Night 3, which features UFC vets such as Kyle Watson and Tommy Speer.
The show, which kicks off the organization’s 2012 schedule, also features two opening-round matchups from the organization’s eight-man middleweight tournament.
The event takes place Feb. 11 in Beirut, Lebanon, and streams for free on MMAjunkie.com.
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KSW 18 “Unfinished Sympathy” has an official headliner, as decorated kickboxer Jerome Le Banner will take on Poland’s Marcin Rozalski in a heavyweight bout on Feb. 25.
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You can almost hear the boos now.
MMAjunkie.com today obtained from the Nevada State Athletic Commission
the referee and judges’ assignments for UFC 143, which takes place Feb. 4
at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Oft-criticized referee Steve Mazzagatti has been assigned to oversee the
event’s interim welterweight title fight between Nick Diaz and Carlos
Condit.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – When undefeated featherweight contender Chad Mendes meets current champ Jose Aldo in
the main event of Saturday’s UFC 142 event in Rio de Janeiro, it will
mark not only the first 145-pound headliner in UFC history, it will also
serve as the first-ever main event of the challenger’s MMA career.
So is Mendes perhaps a little nervous ahead of his first time in the pay-per-view spotlight?
Hardly.
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LAS VEGAS – With Strikeforce’s first 2012 show in the books, the promotion now looks ahead to its next event, and the promotion on Saturday confirmed four bouts for a previously rumored March 3 event.
As expected Strikeforce female bantamweight champion Miesha Tate meets undefeated challenger Ronda Rousey in one of the night’s featured contests, but Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said it’s not necessarily the evening’s featured bout.
K.J. Noons vs. Josh Thomson, Paul Daley vs. Kazuo Misaki and Alexis Davis vs. Sarah Kaufman were also made official for the card, which takes place at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
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