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It’s now official, Georges St. Pierre has pulled out of his rematch vs UFC Welterweight champion Matt Hughes at UFC 63 on September 23. In St. Pierre’s place, B.J. Penn will have his own rematch against Matt Hughes, whom he defeated for the belt in 2004.
Reports were circulating earlier this month that Penn [...]

It appears that yet another fighter has dropped off this Saturday’s UFC 62 card. Thiago Alves, who fights with the American Top Team, has dropped out of his fight against Josh Neer due to an illness.
Sherdog.com editor, Josh Gross is reporting that the UFC initially offered the fight to Jake Shields, but Shields didn’t [...]

Dream Stage Entertainment held a press conference at the FOX Sports Grill in California to announce the first two matchups on their October 21st “Real Deal” event in Nevada.
Both Mark Coleman and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua both will be fighting, but not in a rematch against each other as many had assumed. Mark Coleman will [...]

Reports are surfacing that the Middleweight Title fight between Matt Hughes and Georges St. Pierre scheduled for UFC 63 may be postponed.
BettorMMA.com initially reported that:
An Oddessa employee out of Calgary has reported that Georges St. Pierre suffered a serious elbow injury in training and is more than likely out of his UFC [...]

Dream Stage Entertainment has announced ten of the fighters who will appear in the first Pride FC show on US soil. Pride’s “The Real Deal” card is scheduled to take place on October 21 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Josh Barnett, who last fought in America at UFC 36 when he defeated Randy Couture, will be [...]

Damon Martin over at MMAWeekly.com is reporting that Mike Swick will fight David Loiseau at UFC 63. This will be Loiseau’s first fight back since his brutal five-round loss to Rick Franklin at UFC 58 in March. Mike Swick looks to take one more step in the Middleweight division as he takes on [...]

The UFC will hold their sixth Ultimate Fight Night Live show this Thursday on Spike TV. I normally break down the full fight card for UFC events, but this time I’m only going to cover the televised matchups.

Diego Sanchez vs. Karo Parisyan - Diego Sanchez brings his TUF 1 title, 15-0 record, and huge [...]