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Comment of the Week Award

August 31st, 2006

I’m going to be rolling out some new features to MMAHQ.com in the next few months to try and one of the first will be the “Comment of the Week Award.” I know its the middle of the week now, but I’m going to give the award out already. This weeks award goes to Shamrock [...]

BloodyKnux.com has an excellent interview with Karo Parisyan after his recent loss to Diego Sanchez. Karo talks about the fight and how he feels he was “robbed” in the decision. Also, it looks like that “tooth” he lost from Diego’s knee was only a veneer that was loose already. Too bad, because it sure looked [...]

Well, I can pretty much guarantee that a fight between UFC Champion Chuck Liddell and PrideFC Champion Wanderlei Silva will not happen this November as was promised by UFC President Dana White at UFC 59. I’ve already mentioned a few times that there was a strong chance this fight wasn’t going to take place. After [...]

UFC 62 Medical Suspensions

August 29th, 2006

The Nevada State Athletics Commission has released their list of medical suspensions from Saturday nights UFC 62: Liddell vs Sobral event. You can download the PDF here.

UFC 62 Post Event Thoughts

August 27th, 2006

Just a few thoughts after the UFC 62: Liddell vs. Sobral event last night. I have no idea what Babalu’s mindset was going into that fight. In fact, I don’t understand how any fighter could go into a fight with Chuck Liddell and even for a second assume that it would be a good idea [...]

Well, its that time once again. Another UFC event is coming this Saturday and its time for me to do some analysis and predictions for UFC 62: Liddell vs. Sobral. Chuck Liddell vs. Renato Sobral We all know who Chuck Liddell is by now; the face of the UFC as an organization. Liddell: the excellent [...]

I’ve held off on the Mike Tyson – Pride story for a while, but now it looks like it’s official. Mike Tyson has signed some sort of contract with Dream Stage Entertainment and Pride FC. Pride has signed a contract with Tyson to fight, but will this fight be an MMA fight? Probably not. According [...]

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 would [...]

Nick Diaz at UFC 62

August 22nd, 2006

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 [...]

Pride FC: The Real Deal fights

August 19th, 2006

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 63 [...]

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 a former [...]

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 [...]

Liddell vs Silva Off?

August 11th, 2006

The big news today is that the Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva fight that was tentatively scheduled for UFC 65 in November, may not happen. The Calgary Sun online is reporting that: It appears the much-anticipated mixed martial arts bout between rival champions Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, scheduled for November, might be off. “I [...]

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