 Last night's first UFC PPV in Boston proved to be a decent night of fights. The night was capped off with lightweight champion Frankie Edgar taking on challenger BJ Penn. This fight was very reminiscent of their first bout, with BJ Penn only looking for a KO and not doing much else.
Edgar kept jumping in and out of the pocket, winning nearly every exchange and leaving Penn dumbfounded over the d...
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 A few days ago, it was reported that Antonio "Minotauro" Nogueira pulled out of his re-match against Frank Mir in September due to sustained injuries in training. Reports are now saying that he needs knee surgery and hip surgery. It's unfortunate, as both Mir and Nogueira were looking forward to this re-match, to settle it once and for all. It might still happen down the road, but we'll just have ...
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 The son of MMA hall of famer, former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion, Randy Couture, made his pro MMA debut last night on Strikeforce Challengers. He took on Lucas Stark who is also a new comer to Strikeforce.
The fight was pretty exciting. They had a few exchanges and then some grappling which lead to Ryan Couture winning. Lucas Stark hit Couture with an awesome fireman's carry, b...
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 Chael Sonnen was just a little over a minute from making UFC history on Saturday night. He had put an absolute beating on the reigning champion for four rounds and some change. He managed to drop Anderson with his striking at one point, but mostly his offense consisted of ground and pound. He hit him with elbows, fists to the face, fists to the body, shoulder punches, and just absolutely put a cli...
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 The event has already started, but Chael Sonnen still has roughly 3 hours until he has to go out there and back up all of the smack he's talked. In the past months, Anderson Silva has acted like it hasn't affected him, but it quickly became apparent that Sonnen DID get under Anderson's skin at the pre-fight press conference. At the stare down, when the fighters were supposed to face the press for ...
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 Perhaps I got caught up in the hype, but the main event last night did not go the way I expected it at all. Of course, I was one of the very few who didn't see the match playing out the way it did, and with good reason I was in the small percentile.
The first thing I noticed when watching the fight, was that Jon Jones came out with an Anderson Silva-esque stance. The second most noticeable thing ...
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