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Posts Tagged ‘tapped’

Kenny Florian has officially been tapped the color commentator for the UFC’s second broadcast team.

MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the new position with UFC officials.

Florian, a current UFC fighter and three-time title challenger, debuts with play-by-plan man and fellow recent hire Jon Anik at Friday’s UFC on FX 1 event.



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WEC and IFL veteran Wagnney Fabiano will take part
in Bellator Fighting Championships’ upcoming season-six featherweight
tournament.

MMAjunkie.com today confirmed with sources close to
the fighter that the Brazilian submission ace had been tapped for a
tourney role.

Bellator CEO recently announced Fabiano’s signing via Twitter.



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Lightweight standouts Donald Cerrone and Nate Diaz have verbally agreed to square off at UFC 141, promotion officials announced Monday.

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Bobby Lashley’s opponent merry-go-round has finally come to rest.

Manager Leland LaBarre today told MMAjunkie.com that
Lashley has agreed to fight Dave Huckaba at Shark Fights
21 for the promotion’s heavyweight title. Contracts are expected to be
finalized shortly. Champ Darrill Schoonover, who recently withdrew from
the event, is expected to relinquish his belt.

Shark Fights 21 takes place Nov. 11 at Fair Park Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas. The event airs via delay on FUEL TV on Dec. 23.



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Fans soon will be able to watch a handful of UFC events in 3D at select movie theaters.

UFC officials today announced the promotion has partnered with digital theatrical distribution company Cinedigm Digital Cinema to bring the 3D UFC events to 120 theaters across the U.S.

The UFC’s next Super Bowl weekend show, which takes place Feb. 4, is the first of four annual events that is part of the agreement.



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Akira Corassani has been waiting for this moment since the day he left
the house as a cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter 14.” The Twitter
messages, the traffic to his website, the message board postings – all
of it.

As he predicted, his fight with Dustin Neace in the quarterfinals of the
reality show competition has caused a stir. Fans say he tapped to
Neace’s heel hook in the first round. The tape tells the tale.

“Did I think of tapping? Hell yeah, I thought of tapping,” Corassani
today told MMAjunkie.com. “If you look at it -
hundreds and hundreds of times I looked at it – when he’s going to crank
it (and) take it, my heel pops out, and he misses.”



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All eight fighters competing in the opening round of Bellator’s season-five heavyweight tournament today successfully made weight.

Today’s Bellator 52 weigh-ins took place at Jack Daniel’s Bar & Grill in Lake Charles, La.

However, the festivities did provide a surprise: Thiago Santos was forced out of the tournament, and “The Ultimate Fighter 10″ cast member Zak Jensen has taken his spot.



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All eight fighters competing in the opening round of Bellator’s season-five heavyweight tournament today successfully made weight.

Today’s Bellator 52 weigh-ins took place at Jack Daniel’s Bar & Grill in Lake Charles, La.

However, the festivities did provide a surprise: Thiago Santos was forced out of the tournament, and “The Ultimate Fighter 10″ cast member Zak Jensen has taken his spot.



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With Virgil Zwicker (10-2 MMA, 1-1 SF) scratched due to injury, promotional newcomer Nick Rossborough (18-13…

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With Virgil Zwicker scratched due to injury, promotional newcomer Nick Rossborough has stepped in as a replacement for next week’s Strikeforce Challengers 19 headliner.

Rossborough, who briefly competed on “The Ultimate Fighter 7,” now meets light-heavyweight prospect Lorenz Larkin in the Showtime-televised main event.

Officials today announced the change.



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