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For those of you MMA fans who were die-hard PrideFC followers, the New Years Eve Yarennoka fight card almost feels like one last gasp of breath. This event is a sort of co-promotion between former Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE) employees, K-1, and the new M-1 promotion. The show will take place in Japan’s [...]

The UFC has saved one of their best fight cards for last, as they will close out 2007 with a bang at UFC 79. Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva, Lyoto Machida and Rameau Sokoudjou are all fighting on what should be a great way to cap off a great year [...]

First and foremost, I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you all will spend the day with friends and family enjoying yourselves.
It’s been a long, strange, exciting year for mixed martial arts and in the spirit of giving, I’d like to give out a few MMA-related gifts for Christmas. This is [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the official fighter payout numbers from WEC 31: Faber vs Curran that was held on December 12 in Las Vegas.

Jens Pulver: $60,000
Paulo Filho: $56,000
Urijah Faber: $40,000
John Alessio: $26,000
Chael Sonnen: $25,000
Charles Valencia: $12,000
Jeff Curran: $10,000
Doug Marshall: $10,000
Bryan Baker: $8,000
Alex Karalexis: [...]

Greg Savage at Sherdog.com is reporting that Michael Bisping’s first opponent in the middleweight division will be Charles McCarthy.

Sources close to American Top Team confirmed to Sherdog.com that the fight will take place in London, England on March 8.

Not quite sure which UFC event this will be, considering UFC 82 is already scheduled for March [...]

Get ready UFC fans, it appears that Tim “the Maine-iac” Sylvia will once again be fighting for the UFC Heavyweight title. Sylvia will fight for the belt for the ninth time; this time against Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueria.
According to Sylvia’s manager Monte Cox,

Tim signed the contract, and we haven’t heard anything else about it — [...]

Former UFC referee Jon McCarthy was a guest on TSN’s “Off the Record” show recently where he fielded some questions about the UFC.
[Source: MMAMania.com]