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A light heavyweight contest between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Tito Ortiz is in the works for UFC 140, the promotion announced Friday night.
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This month’s UFC 130 event has lost its championship headliner.
Due to injuries sustained by both fighters, a lightweight title fight and third bout between champion Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard has been scratched.
UFC officials today announced the change, which results in a new UFC 130 main event of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Matt Hamill.
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A welterweight bout between Diego Sanchez and Matt Hughes has been tapped for a to-be-announced UFC event in the fall, officials today announced.
No date or location were announced for the fight.
The booking, though, all but assures that UFC Hall of Famer Royce Gracie won’t get his desired rematch with Hughes at August’s UFC 134 event in Brazil.
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After much hullabaloo over Jon Jones and Rashad Evans’ impending showdown, it appears the former Jackson’s MMA teammates won’t square off inside the Octagon anytime soon after all.
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A title fight and long-awaited rematch between UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz (17-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and…
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Four months after their ill-fated original meeting was to take place, Erik Koch and Cub Swanson will finally get to square off.
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A title fight and long-awaited rematch between UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and ex-WEC champ Urijah Faber has been tapped the headliner of July’s UFC 132 event.
UFC executives recently made the event and headliner official.
UFC 132 takes place July 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and the night’s main card airs on pay-per-view.
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UFC officials announced Thursday that a welterweight rematch between Fitch and the former two-division champion Penn will take place at UFC 132 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The card will also feature a bout between lightweight contenders Evan Dunham and George Sotiropoulos
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The UFC has yet to formally announce UFC 132, but the promotion nonetheless added the first matchup to the card on Monday. According to a post on UFC.com, lightweights Melvin Guillard and Shane Roller have verbally agreed to meet at the event, which is expected to take place July 2 in Las Vegas.
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It did not take long for event organizers to find a new semi-main event for Shark Fights 14.
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