Posts Tagged ‘UFC’

He’s one of the premier boxers of the last 25 years, a future Hall of Famer who has won world titles in three weight classes while taking on a Who’s Who of the sport, including fellow champions Evander Holyfield, John Ruiz, Hasim Rahman, Vassiliy Jirov, Roy Jones Jr., Mike McCallum, Iran Barkley, and Michael Nunn. But there is one more mountain left to climb for James “Lights Out” Toney, and that’s to show if he can defeat the mixed martial arts warriors of the UFC®. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite losing a decision January 2 to Sam Stout, popular lightweight Joe “J-Lau” Lauzon (18-5, 5 [T]KOs, 13 submissions) hopes that his next fight will be this August in UFC’s debut in Boston.

Lauzon, a native of E. Bridgewater (MA), would certainly be a hometown favorite fighting at the Boston Garden. “We’ll see how it goes but I certainly want to fight at home in Boston,” Lauzon said. “I’d like to fight before that, where my fight against Stout was my first in 10 months, but not if it risks fighting in Boston this August.” Read the rest of this entry »

VERSUS will air its first live Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) event on Sunday, March 21, featuring a light heavyweight showdown between Muay Thai sensation Brandon Vera and 22-year-old phenom Jon Jones. The fight will originate from the Odeum Colorado in Broomfield, Colo. and air on VERSUS at 9 p.m. ET.

VERSUS has been the national cable television home of World Extreme Cagefighting® (WEC®) since 2007 and in December 2009, the network announced a multi-year extension with Zuffa LLC., the owners of both the WEC and UFC®, to air two live UFC events in 2010 in addition to seven live WEC fights. Read the rest of this entry »

Massachusetts has become the 42nd state in the country to bring regulated mixed martial arts (MMA) competitions, including Ultimate Fighting® Championship® (UFC®) events, to thousands of Bay State fans. The Massachusetts Legislature recently passed a bill that would allow the Department of Public Safety to oversee regulation of the popular sport in the state.

Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC®, does not conduct events in any state that does not properly regulate MMA. This legislation will now enable the company to hold events in Massachusetts. Specifically, the legislation mandates safety and medical requirements for every MMA fighter and event held in the state. The events will also bring an economic boost to local communities across Massachusetts that hosts them. Read the rest of this entry »

By Mark D. Pasquale – Tito is back in the UFC, where he belongs. You either hate him or love him. He is like the Dallas Cowboys or Notre Dame, you’re not on the fence with your opinion. I for one can’t wait to see him in the Octagon doing what he does best. No offense Tito but your commentating duties on Affliction were not something to write home about. It would not have looked right seeing him in the boxing ring with Affliction or the round cage of Elite XC. Kind of how it looked the night Cro Cop was kicked in the head by Gonzaga at UFC 70 – the Croatian did not look right in the Octagon. He had lost his power by not being in the Pride ring – well you get the point.

Tito and Dana are a soap opera just waiting to happen – I know they have buried the hatchet but how long do you think the truce will last? 1 fight? 1 month? 1 week? I’m not sure there is a bigger ego or personality in the UFC than these two. Read the rest of this entry »

For the first time in 15 years, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) is on its way back to Oklahoma. Not since UFC 4 saw the legendary Royce Gracie defeat fellow Hall of Famer Dan Severn in 1994 has the world’s greatest mixed martial arts organization put on a show in the Sooner State, and now the premier athletes in the sport will be featured in a nationally televised UFC® Fight Night� event live on Spike TV Wednesday, September 16 at 8:00p.m. CT from the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City. Read the rest of this entry »

rightfully considered to be hallowed ground for the warriors of the Ultimate Fighting Championship®. Today, UFC® is pleased to announce a television deal with Inner Mongolia Television that will mark the first time in history UFC will be seen on TV in China, continuing the global expansion of the premier brand in mixed martial arts. “Obviously China is a huge market and the Chinese understand the martial arts probably better than anyone else in the world. It’s a no brainer that UFC programming will be appreciated in China, and will become a big hit for the NMTV network,” said Dana White, UFC President. Read the rest of this entry »

FightZone Media, consisting of FightZone TV, Magazine, Radio and Internet, has joined UFC Fan Expo as an Official Sponsor. In support of the event. FightZone TV will air over 100 TV commercials nationwide on over 30 of their airings from now until the day of the event. The first-ever UFC Fan Expo being held in Las Vegas in celebration of UFC 100 is a two-day fan exposition of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) activities starting Friday, July 10th and leading right up to the start of the historic fights on Saturday, July 11th. Read the rest of this entry »

In celebration of UFC 100, Spike TV will present a 5-part special, “UFC’s Ultimate 100: Greatest Fights” highlighting the best 100 bouts in UFC history, as voted on by the fans. Voting will begin on May 1 on Spike.com (Ultimate100.spike.com) where fans can choose their top 100 fights from an extensive list of bouts selected by the UFC and Spike TV. Read the rest of this entry »

Music City has never seen hard-hitting action like this as many of the rising stars in the sport of mixed martial arts will be featured in a nationally televised event live on Spike TV Wednesday, April 1 at 9:00pm ET/PT. The first-ever UFC event in Nashville, TN will be headlined by welterweight contenders Carlos Condit and Martin Kampmann and will emanate from the Sommet Center. Spike TV’s “UFC Fight Night” will also include “The Ultimate Fighter 8″ champs Ryan Bader and Efrain Escudero, “The Ultimate Fighter 5″ standout Cole Miller, and the controversial “The Ultimate Fighter 8″ contestant Junie Browning. Read the rest of this entry »

The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) organization is proud to confirm the remaining bouts on the historic final card of the year – UFC 92: THE ULTIMATE 2008, live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, December 27, 2008. The already stacked fight card is rounded out with a brilliant batch of exciting mixed martial artists.

It’s a matchup between two highly-touted middleweight newcomers as New Jersey’s Mike Massenzio (6’2”/185 lbs., fighting out of Paterson, N.J.) meets The Ultimate Fighter® Season 7 finalist CB Dollaway (6’2”/185 lbs., fighting out of Tempe, Ariz.). This will not be the first time these two have met in competition. Dollaway, a former NCAA Division I wrestler and Ohio-born fighter, defeated the Teaneck native at the Junior college wrestling nationals. Read the rest of this entry »

Spike TV and Ultimate Fighting Championship today announced that its “UFC Fight for the Troops” event last week in Fayetteville, NC in front of 15,000 Ft. Bragg troops raised over $4 million for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund’s new medical center to be built in Bethesda. Read the rest of this entry »

E. BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (November 26, 2008) – UFC lightweight contender Joe “J-Lau” Lauzon’s recent 12-day goodwill trip visiting U.S. military troops in Iraq and Kuwait was a knockout for everybody.

Lauzon (17-4, 4 KOs, 13 submissions), star of The Ultimate Fighter 5 television reality show, was on the trip with fellow mixed-martial arts fighters Jorge Rivera and Heath Herring, as well as some models and ring card girls. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the news of his release from the UFC, Jon Fitch mentioned in an interview on Sports Rage with Gabriel Morency on Hardcore Sports Radio (SIRIUS 98) that the UFC status of both Josh Koscheck and Cain Velasquez were also in question. Since the news broke, Zinkin Entertainment has been able to renegotiate with the UFC and the contract of Jon Fitch has reportedly been reinstated. Read the rest of this entry »

On Wednesday evening, MMAMania.com reported that former top contender in the Welterweight division Jon Fitch was released suddenly from his UFC contract due to being unable to reach an agreement with the UFC on a lifetime contract for his video game likeness rights. Read the rest of this entry »