Friday, March 25, 2011

This Saturday evening Bellator Fighting Championships will open their highly anticipated light heavyweight tournament from Harrah’s Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi. While the eight participants in the tournament might be unfamiliar names to most fans, chances are, by the end of this tournament at least one will be more widely known. The event will air live on MTV2.

As with past UFC events, MMA Spot will be bringing our readers coverage of press conferences, weigh-in events, exclusive video, and behind-the-scenes moments leading right up to "UFC Fight Night 24." The event takes place on March 26 from the Key Arena in Seatle, Wash., and will be broadcast on Spike TV at 10 p.m. ET/67p.m. PT. The main event of the evening features a light heavyweight battle between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Phil Davis and welterweight Anthony Johnson versus Dan Hardy. Keep it here at MMA Spot for all of your UFC video coverage.

The UFC is pleased to confirm the full card for its first-ever trip to Seattle on Saturday, March 26. UFC Fight Night Live, which will be held at KeyArena and broadcast live on Spike TV at 10 p.m. ET/PT, features a highly-anticipated light heavyweight main event battle between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and undefeated Phil Davis. An exciting co-main event fight pits welterweight striker Dan Hardy against Anthony Johnson, while fellow 170-pound competitors Amir Sadollah and DaMarques Johnson are also set to lock horns. Plus, featherweights Leonard Garcia and “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung collide in a rematch of their 2010 clash, which was nominated for Fight of the Year.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Yuma, Arizona will play host to the upcoming Bellator 41, the first event in the state for the Chicago, Ill., based organization. MTV2 will air the card live from the Cocopah Resort and Casino. Featherweight Champion Joe Warren faces Marcus Galvao in one of the headlining tilts, while Bantamweight Champion Zach Makovsky fights Chad Robichaux in the co-main event. Both bouts will be non-title contests. The featherweight semi-final matches will also be featured on the card.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Just as Bellator Fighting Championships’ season four comes to a close, the promotion will make its first foray into the Garden State. Bellator 44 is announced for May 14, 2011 from Caesars Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. The event, broadcast live on MTV2, will include one set of tournament finals and a headlining non-title bout between Middleweight Champion Hector Lombard and UFC veteran Falaniko "Niko" Vitale.

Scheduled for its world premiere on Thursday March 24th in Moscow, Russia, "The Salamander Key" is a motion picture staring Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen and mixed martial arts legend Fedor Emelianenko. The action-film marks Emelianenko’s debut on the big screen. Premised on a group of international scientists who disappear on a remote island in South-Eastern Asia while conducting advanced medical research, the Rescue Group commissioned to seek out the team locate remnants of a high-tech laboratory revealing evidence that experimental testing has been conducted on animals and humans; the last communication from the scientists prior to their disappearance cautions the world of immanent, grave global disaster.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The UFC returns to the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 4 with a stacked card headlined by a pivotal lightweight clash between Anthony “Showtime” Pettis and Clay “The Carpenter” Guida. The winner of this highly-anticipated bout is expected to emerge as a top contender to the UFC lightweight title. If that wasn’t enough, the June 4 event will crown the welterweight winner of season 13 of "The Ultimate Fighter." Another bout confirmed for this card includes a lightweight collision between "The Ultimate Fighter" season 12 winner Jonathan Brookins and tested veteran Jeremy Stephens.

Monday, March 21, 2011

What kind of media outlet would we be if we didn’t immediately mention Jon Jones in this piece? Although he already has his next bout lined up with Rashad Evans, it is still relevant to mention the youngest champion in UFC history. The co-main event at UFC 128 had title implications as well, and the UFC has already confirmed that Urijah Faber will take on Dominick Cruz for the bantamweight title. That fight could take a little while to happen, however, as those two are pegged as likely coaches for the first-ever season of bantamweights and/or featherweights on “The Ultimate Fighter.”

Sunday, March 20, 2011

“UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones” beamed out to the masses from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. last night and featured an all-star cast of MMA talent. One veteran looked to hold on to his title, one looked to hold on to his career, and others looked to hold on to their places in the pecking order for title contention. All the while, young upstarts hoped to begin their own eras of dominance. As always, once the Octagon door has closed on its latest event the only question worth asking is: What did we learn?

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Tonight's "UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones" event will be broadcast on pay-per-view from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.  The event features a light heavyweight title main event matchup between champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and the electric Jon "Bones" Jones. Also featured will be both of the Miller brothers, Dan and Jim in action. Catch all the live blow-by-blow action as we bring you live coverage of the main broadcast card round-by-round.

On the first of four trips Bellator Fighting Championships will make to Oklahoma during season four, Bellator 37 is set to take place live at the Lucky Star Casino in Oklahoma City tonight, March 19 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT, exclusively on MTV2. The event hosts four fights from the opening round of Bellator’s featherweight tournament and the winner will earn $100,000 and a title shot at current Bellator World Featherweight Champion Joe Warren. The evening will also feature four undercard bouts. The weigh-in results are below.

"The Ultimate Fighter" season eight competitor Vinny Magalhaes has been tasked with facing Jake Doerr at next week's M-1 Global event, "M-1 Challenge: Damkovsky vs. Figueroa," set to air on Showtime. The card will be the first of M-1's events to be featured on the network, the current home of Strikeforce and the former home of Elite XC. The broadcast begins at 11 p.m. on Friday March 25 live from Norfolk, Va. (delayed on the West Coast).