Posted on April 26, 2010 by oleg

After two weekends of sub-par MMA events, it was left up to the usually exciting WEC to wash out the bad taste left in the fans’ mouths after digesting UFC 112 and last week’s Strikeforce.   The ‘Aldo vs. Faber’ event took place in Sacramento, CA – Urijah Faber’s hometown.  The event was somewhat of an [...]

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Posted on April 19, 2010 by oleg

For their second event on broadcast live on CBS, Strikeforce went all out, stacking the fight card with three title bouts.  With the lightweight, middleweight, and light-heavyweight belts all on the line, and a worthy line-up of champions and challengers, this was promising to be an amazing night of MMA.  Unfortunately things don’t always go [...]

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Posted on April 12, 2010 by oleg

UFC 112 marked the entry of UFC into yet another foreign territory: this time the event took place in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).  Unlike some of the European cards, 112 was stacked with two title bouts:  BJ Penn defending the lightweight title against Frank Edgar, and the middleweight champion Anderson Silva taking on Demian [...]

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Posted on April 1, 2010 by oleg

Ultimate Fight Night 21 took place in Charlotte, NC and was headlined by the long-awaited UFC debut of the last Pride FC lightweight champion, Takanori Gomi, taking on one of UFC’s top lightweight contenders Ken Florian. Serving as a lead-in for the premiere of the eleventh season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ series, UFN 21 also [...]

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Posted on March 29, 2010 by oleg

UFC is having a very busy month – UFC 111 came less than a week after the inaugural ‘UFC on Versus’ event, and only a few days before Fight Night 21 and the debut of 11th season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’.  Sandwiched between the two smaller events, 111 held it’s own in the fight line-up, [...]

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