The UFC held the UFC 74 event media conference call earlier today. According to Sam Caplan, Tim Sylvia will most likely be Brandon Vera’s opponent when he returns to the octagon:
Dana stated on the record that Brandon Vera has a new deal with the UFC. During a followup question he was asked about a [...]
Dave Meltzer from WrestlingObserver.com is reporting that Thales Leites will replace Travis Lutter at UFC 74 on August 25 and fight Ryan Jenson.
Earlier today we reported that Lutter withdrew from his fight at UFC 74 because of an injury.
Leites is currently 2-1 in the UFC with victories over Pete Sell and Floyd Sword after dropping [...]
Travis Lutter announced today on his MySpace blog that he has pulled out of his fight at UFC 74 due to an injury.
Saturday July 28th I was training and reagrivated a old injury. After giving my neck a chance to heal I decided I was not going to be healed in time for the [...]
Well, less than 24 hours after Sherdog.com “anonymously” reported that both BJ Penn and Diego Sanchez had agreed to fight each other at UFC 74 in Auguest they are retracting their story. Today, Josh Gross at Sherdog.com is reporting that BJ Penn’s camp denies that he will be fighting Sanchez in August and even [...]
We all speculated how long BJ Penn would stay at Lightweight after defeating Jens Pulver at the TUF 5 Finale. Dana White announced that Penn would fight the winner of this Saturday’s Lightweight title fight between Sean Sherk and Hermes Franca at UFC 73, and I questioned that bout due to statements Penn had [...]
KRQE News 13 in Albequerque, New Mexico is reporting that Albequerque native Diego Sanchez will be fighting Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at UFC 74 in August.
Diego Sanchez, of course, last fought at UFC 69 where he received his first loss at the hands of Josh Koscheck by decision. A lot of news circulated around Sanchez [...]