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Here is the fighter salary information for UFC 70: Nations Collide. Since this event wasn’t technically sanctioned by any governing body, I have no way of truly “verifying” this information, but I have no reason to believe it is inaccurate. These numbers have been listed both at MMANews.com and by Dave Meltzer from [...]

Dave Meltzer at WrestlingObserver.com is reporting that the UFC 70: Nations Collide event on SpikeTV this past Saturday drew a 1.8 rating.
Now I don’t know specifically what that translates too, but to put it into perspective the Ultimate Fighter reality show episodes generally gather anywhere between a 1.1 and 1.5 rating. The IFL Battleground [...]

Ok, this is really getting a bit too much to handle for MMA fans. I really don’t even know why I continue to try and feebly “predict” fights anymore. The big cliche has been that 2007 is the year of the upset. Well, I’m starting to buy into that theory and can’t [...]

Undercard:
Edilberto Crocota (169 lbs) vs. Paul Taylor (169 lbs)
Denis Siver (167) vs. Jess Liaudin (168)
Victor Valimaki (203) vs. Alessio Sakara (204)
Junior Assuncao (155) vs. David Lee (155)
Matt Grice (155) vs. Terry Etim (154)
Main card:
Cheick Kongo (229) vs. Assuerio Silva (241)
Andrei Arlovski (238) vs. Fabricio Werdum (233)
Michael Bisping (204) vs. Elvis Sinosic (205)
David Heath (205) vs. [...]

The UFC makes history this Saturday night as they hold their first event in England(correction: the UFC’s first show in England was UFC 38) and have their first event broadcast cable television. Most of the fight card features foreign fighters who will be relatively new to most of the UFC fan base but they [...]

UFC.com posted a quick news brief that Forrest Griffin has had to pull out of his scheduled fight with Lyoto Machida at UFC 70 because of a staph infection.

Light heavyweight contender Forrest Griffin has been sidelined by a severe staph infection in his knee and today was forced to withdraw from his UFC 70 bout [...]

According to Dave Meltzer over at WrestlingObserver.com the UFC is still having a hard time negotiating a deal with HBO to carry UFC events. There has been much speculation on how the UFC would broadcast UFC 70 in Manchester, England; would it be on a tape-delayed PPV, would HBO broadcast it?
Well it [...]

Forest Griffin confirmed on his myspace.com blog that he will be fighting Ryoto Machida at UFC 70 in Manchester, England this April. Griffin is, of course, coming off a loss to Keith Jardin at UFC 66 while Ryoto Machida is coming off a victory over Sam Hoger at UFC 67.
In the Heavyweight division, the [...]

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic’s next fight will be at UFC 70 in Manchester, England and we now know who his opponent will be – Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga.
Gonzaga is 3-0 in the UFC, and you may remember that after his last victory against Carmelo Marrero at UFC 66, Gonzaga was thought to be next [...]

It appears the UFC is looking to put on an impressive show in Manchester, England at UFC 70. Former UFC heavyweight champion Andre Arlovski has been added to the UFC 70 card. Arlovski last fought at UFC 66 where he defeated Marcio Cruz.
No official opponent has yet been named, but the MMA world [...]