Wednesday, April 22, 2009

East coast-based mixed martial arts leader the Ultimate Warrior Challenge formally announced today a light heavyweight bout between 2008 NCAA National Wrestling Champion Phil "Mr. Wonderful" Davis and UWC veteran Terry "T-Rex" Cohens.   The bout will take place at "UWC: Capital Punishment" on April 25th at the George Mason University Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Drew Fickett (36-11) will look to end a three-fight skid when he steps into the CageFest cage in Norfolk, Virginia this Saturday, April 25th. Fickett’s main event opponent will be Virginia native Kyle “Alley Cat” Baker (5-3), who is riding a four-fight winning streak, which includes a TKO victory over former UFC fighter Chad Reiner

Inside are the results from today’s Fields K-1 World Max 2009 – Final 16 which took place at the Marinemesse Fukuoka, in Fukuoka, Japan, in front of 7,130 spectators. The event featured Some of K-1's best fighting in tournament style combat under K-1 rules.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Mixed martial arts (MMA) upstart Kim “Sugar Free” Couture (1-1), wife of MMA legend Randy Couture, will take a major step up in competition when she squares off with fearsome submission expert Miesha Tate (5-1) in a 135 lb. limit in a live, SHOWTIME-televised contest at the inaugural SHO MMA:  Strikeforce Chal- lengers event at Fresno, California’s Save Mart Center on Friday, May 15.

Anderson Silva apparently is as smooth and calculated out of the Octagon as he is in it. While many speculate about what could be wrong with Silva, or why his last two title defenses have been lackluster at best, it seems to be that the real issue is, “What is Anderson Silva trying to say?” Silva’s actions at UFC 97 could lead one to believe that he is looking to send a very loud non-verbal message to the UFC

MMA superstar and world-renowned "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Tito Ortiz will host an exclusive “meet-and-greet” session for all Military, Firefighting and Police personnel outside the Patriot Center Ticket Office on Saturday, April 25 from 3:00pm-5:00pm. The former star of NBC’S “Celebrity Apprentice” is in town as a special guest at the Ultimate Warrior Challenge's UWC - Capital Punishment Show.

 Nick Diaz defeated Frank Sham- rock on April 11 in the Main Event at the Strikeforce: Shamrock vs Diaz event. As a part of fighting in any main event, all participants are subject to post fight drug tests. Diaz, an admitted marijuanna smo- ker, has stated in the past that he could beat the Accutest drug screens that are used by the California State Athletic Commission. According to Assistant Executive Officer Bill Douglas, Diaz came back clean and without traces of marijuana, any type of performance enhancing drug, or any cleansing agents.

It was announced at the post UFC 97 press conference that there were 21,451 people in attendance for the night's events. The 21,451 fans not only set a new UFC record, but also a new North American record. In addition to setting an attendance record, UFC 97 had the fourth highest MMA live gate revenue in North America with $4.9 million.

Not quite ready to change his nick- name from “Mayhem” to “Hollywood”—despite his newfound television success—Jason Miller (22-6) defeated Hawaii’s own Kala "Kolohe" Hose (7-3) to capture the Kingdom MMA middleweight title at the organi- zation’s debut event held at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii this past Saturday night. 

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Four “fight night” bonuses were issued for “UFC 97: Redemption.” The amount of each award was $70,000 - going to both Sam Stout and Matt Wiman for “Fight of the Night,” Krzysztof Soszynski for “Submission of the Night,” and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua for “Knockout of the Night” for his victory over Chuck Liddell.  The bonuses were announced by Dana White at the post-fight press conference.

Even though Liddell did not say it in the post fight interview, he is retired. According to Dana White, Liddell is going to retire. At the post fight news conference Liddell made an appearance and told the media "I'm not going to make any decisions until I go home to talk to everybody, talk to my people and my friends. ... But it's probably safe to say (I'm retired)."

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Tonight's UFC Pay-Per-View event from The Belle Centre in Montreal, Canada featuring Anderson Silva, Chuck Liddell, Thales Leites, and Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua will be right here at MMA Spot. Catch all the live blow by blow inside.