Chuck Liddell vs. Shogun Rua September UFC fight possible (Video)

By: MMAmania

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Quoteworthy:

“I think this is a huge setback for this fight, and it’s a huge setback for the UFC and this England show. But in the grand scheme of things for Chuck Liddell’s future, I think it’s just a minor setback because I think his hammy is going to heal up 110 percent and he’s going to be back stronger than ever.”

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First off, Chuck Liddell is injured and won't be fighting Rashad Evans. How convenient! jk He really does appear to be hurt.

This picture is worth a thousands words for all the critics who incorrectly surmised that f
Word on the street is Bisping vs. Leben the same night to help make up for it, but that won't be a main event fight, they're looking into that still. Still, Leben, who always draws controversy and is usually on the winning or losing end of a KO, is a very exciting fighter and Bisping, who dishes it out on the feet, needs prove he's ready for a shot at Anderson Silva and this would be a good fight to showcase him and build up the cred required to take on the Spider.


Secondly, Din Thomas is dropping down to 145 to get out of the LW division which is so crowded with potential contenders that it just doesn't make sense to stick it out since a guy like him needs about four or five wins in a row just to climb back up (he's dropped two fights).

“The UFC’s lightweight division is the most complex division in the world. There’s like four different roads to a title shot going on right now and within any of the roads, no one can afford to lose. While I know I can win against any lightweight in the world on a given day, I fell twice in a row. Therefore, I’m going to bow out. Good luck to those guys. I’m going to drop down to 145 lbs and see if those guys down there will embrace me.”

Third, "big ups" to my bud Chris for letting me stop by to see the GSP fight and for going back and letting me watch the highlights of the card. UFC 83 was not the most spectacular card ever, but there was some very good fights and, most importantly, GSP is back on top and ready for Jon Fitch who is only the second fighter ever to go 8-0 in the UFC (he's won 15 in a row if you count his previous seven bouts before entering the UFC). Fitch poses a serious threat to GSP in all areas except striking which I think GSP has a clear advantage. Fitch has a strong wrestling background and has pulled off a few wins by submission in the UFC. He beat Diego Sanchez but not necessarily in a dominant fashion which leads me to believe GSP should be able to handle him. Fitch has been talking some $%&# lately about GSP because he wants to hype this up. His prediction about a fight with St. Pierre: "I'll take the strap [belt]."

The UFC 84 official website is up and Gmail - Compose Mail - djtodd@gmail.comrunning CHECK IT OUT HERE. This is a card I am not going to miss. I think it's solid, top to bottom. Check it out:

Main Card

• Lightweight Championship bout: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk^[1]
• Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida^[1]
• Light Heavyweight bout: Wanderlei Silva vs. Keith Jardine^[1]
• Light Heavyweight bout: Thiago Silva vs. Antonio Mendes^[1]
• Light Heavyweight bout: Wilson Gouveia vs. Goran Reljic^[1]

Preliminary Card

• Light Heavyweight bout: Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura^[1]
• Welterweight bout: Jon Koppenhaver vs Yoshiyuki Yoshida^[1]
• Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi vs Terry Etim^[1]
• Middleweight bout: Rousimar Palhares vs Ivan Salaverry^[1]
• Welterweight bout: Jason Tan vs Dong Hyun Kim^[1]
• Heavyweight bout: Christian Wellisch vs Shane Carwin^[1]

Finally, Hughes still wants a piece of Serra which isn't suprising. I think it'd be a fairly easy fight for Hughes and come on! He hasn't forgotten all the crap Serra was spewing!

“GSP had a good game plan to take Matt Serra down and wear him out. I found myself rooting for Serra at the end of the second round, I wanted him to make it to the third round. I thought if it would get to the third round GSP would decide to stand up with him and possibly knock him out. I just wanted Matt to get beat on for five rounds, not just two; but I knew the ref was about ready to stop it. The UFC said that if Serra loses I get him, but I don’t know when that will be. I’m going to guess six to eight months, so I’ve found myself watching my diet and exercising more.” -Matt Hughes

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A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.

Michael Bisping is Stirring Up the UFC's MW Division

UFC 83 Canadian MMAnia!

It's MMMeh! Check out the UFC 83 weigh-ins HERE.

A hostile crowd welcomed Matt Serra, the current WW champ, with a chorus of boos. Despite the fact that he TKO'd GSP in their last fight, he's definitely the underdog coming into this fight. I am planning on catching the tail end of the card tomorrow night at my buddy Chris' place in Redlands. When I first saw this card I wasn't overjoyed, but the more I look at it I think it's solid. GSP's my #1 favorite MMA fighter, I'm a big fan of Franklin and Lutter is definitely a threat to him, I'm anxious to see what Bisping's going to be able to do at MW and the whole drama between him and McCarthy is perplexing (instigated mostly by McCarthy), Mac Danzig is the winner of TUF5 and this is a tough fight for him (no pun intended), Starnes needs a win badly and Quarry's health issues are interesting, McDonald needs a win and so does Doerksen and, I might add, that's a rematch, Alan Belcher's a tough fighter, Sam Stout is a great striker and I hope he beats down Clementi, the better wrestler/grappler, and everyone's talking about this new HW named Cain Velasquez. All in all it looks to be pretty interesting. At the very least this card answers a lot of questions about middle weight and will finally put GSP back on top of what is arguably the deepest division in the UFC, the WW division (just ahead of LHW and LW both of which are now very deep as well).

170 lbs.: Matt Serra (169.5) vs. Georges St. Pierre (169.5)
185 lbs.: Rich Franklin (185.5) vs. Travis Lutter (185)
185 lbs.: Michael Bisping (185.5) vs. Charles McCarthy (186)
155 lbs.: Mac Danzig (154.5) vs. Mark Bocek (154.5)
185 lbs.: Kalib Starnes (186) vs. Nate Quarry (185.5) — swing bout
185 lbs.: Jason MacDonald (185) vs. Joe Doerksen (184.5)
185 lbs.: Alan Belcher (185) vs. Jason Day (183.5)
185 lbs.: Ed Herman (185.5) vs. Demian Maia (184.5)
155 lbs.: Sam Stout (155.5) vs. Rich Clementi (155)
265 lbs.: Cain Velasquez (235.5) vs. Brad Morris (225.5)
170 lbs.: Jonathan Goulet (169.5) vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (170)

Bisping on dropping to MW and the division as a whole

UFC Quick Quote: George St. Pierre ‘has a message’ for Jon FitchBy: MMAmania
“We’ll see what is he going to say after my next fight with Serra if I’m afraid to get knocked out. Maybe he’s going to change his mind. Tell him to wait one more fight before saying stuff like that and maybe after that he’s going to change his mind.”
– Interim welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre, shares his thoughts via MMAWeekly.com on what top 170-pound contender, Jon Fitch, said right here. St. Pierre will battle Matt Serra this weekend at UFC 83 for the undisputed welterweight crown. The winner of that bout will more than likely take on Fitch next because it is widely believe that he has earned the next title shot.


Jon Fitch: Georges St. Pierre is ‘afraid to get knocked out’ (Video)By: MMAmania

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How Dangerous is MMA?

Sarah, as a nurse, was very doubtful when I initially told her that MMA, although it appears to be very violent, is not that dangerous. She did a little sluething online and came to the same conclusion. Well, anyone who really follows the sport knows that this year someone did die in MMA due to head injury: Sammy Vasquez (read more HERE). That, unfortunately, was bound to happen as it does in every sport from car racing to boxing to soccer to skiing. Well, more conclusive evidence on the saftey of the sport was just released. Here's a post from mmamania:

MMA injuries report: A five-year review (2002-2007)By: MMAmania
Props: BJSM.BMJ.com
Quoteworthy:
“During the 635 professional MMA matches, 300 of the 1,270 athletes sustained documented injuries with an injury rate of 23.6 per 100 fight participations. Most common reported injuries were lacerations and upper extremity injuries. Severe concussion rate was 15.4 per 1,000 athlete exposures, or 3% of all matches. No deaths or critical sports-related injuries resulted from any of the regulated matches during the study period. Age, weight, and fight experience did not statistically increase the likelihood of injuries after controlling for other covariates.”
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine recently published a report of a five year study of injuries sustained during sanctioned mixed martial arts competition that took place in Nevada. The conclusion: the overall risk of critical sports-related injury appears low. Take that, haters.

Staph infections are a NASTY part of MMA!

Below is a post about staph infections with some photos. In case you don't know, staph infests wrestling and MMA mats due to the nature of the blood and sweat that accumulates on them.

Staph (pronounced "staff") is medical quick speak for staphylococcus aureus bacteria. This pesky little bacterium is very common (many people have some living on their skin all the time), but when it enters the human body, usually through an open cut or break in the skin, it can cause infection and trouble anywhere in the body. St

Pictures of Staph infection MMA-style

By: MMAmania

Not too long ago former UFC heavyweight champion, Kevin Randleman, was the clear-cut winner when it came to the most gruesome-looking staph infection.

Well, I’m nauseated to report that “The Monster” could have some competition thanks to grapefruit-sized lesion that recently grew in the hamstring area of Drew McFedries.

Check out the gore after the jump if you dare. Both fighters, for what it’s worth, made full recoveries.

I, however, have not.

Note that McFedries is on the left and Randleman is on the right (it was located just under his armpit.)

MMA Weekly World MMA Rankings

The latest MMAWeekly World MMA Rankings were released on Wednesday, April 2. This system ranks the Top 10 MMA fighters from all across the world in each of the six most widely accepted weight classes, as voted on by MMAWeekly.

We take into consideration a fighter's performance in addition to his win-loss record, head-to-head and common opponents, difficulty of opponents, and numerous other factors in what is the most comprehensive rankings system in the sport.

Fighters who are currently serving drug-related suspensions are not eligible for Top 10 consideration until they have fought one time after the completion of their suspension.

Fighters must also have competed within the past 12 months in order to be eligible for Top 10 consideration.

Below are the current MMAWeekly World MMA Rankings, which are up-to-date as of April 2.

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HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)

#1 Heavyweight Fighter in the World: Fedor Emelianenko

2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

3. Randy Couture

4. Josh Barnett

5. Tim Sylvia

6. Andrei Arlovski

7. Fabricio Werdum

8. Gabriel Gonzaga

9. Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic

10. Aleksander Emelianenko

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LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205-pound limit)

#1 Light Heavyweight Fighter in the World: Quinton Jackson

2. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

3. Chuck Liddell

4. Lyoto Machida

5. Keith Jardine

6. Forrest Griffin

7. Wanderlei Silva

8. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

9. Ricardo Arona

10. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

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MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)

#1 Middleweight Fighter in the World: Anderson Silva

2. Paulo Filho

3. Rich Franklin

4. Denis Kang

5. Robbie Lawler

6. Nathan Marquardt

7. Kazuo Misaki

8. Yushin Okami

9. Dan Henderson

10. Frank Trigg

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WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)

#1 Welterweight Fighter in the World: Georges St. Pierre

2. Matt Serra

3. Jon Fitch

4. Matt Hughes

5. Josh Koscheck

6. Karo Parisyan

7. Jake Shields

8. Diego Sanchez

9. Carlos Condit

10. Marcus Davis

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LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (160-pound limit)

#1 Lightweight Fighter in the World: Takanori Gomi

2. Tatsuya Kawajiri

3. Shinya Aoki

4. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante

5. Mitsuhiro Ishida

6. Gilbert Melendez

7. B.J. Penn

8. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro

9. Joe Stevenson

10. Joachim Hansen

Kimbo vs. Chuck...it's possible!

Dana White hints that Kimbo Slice-Chuck Liddell UFC fight could be possible

By: MMAmania

Props: DeadSpin.com

Quoteworthy:

“If he [Kimbo] fought anybody that mattered, I would book [Chuck Liddell] tomorrow…. The fact is, Kimbo’s not there yet. He would get destroyed. I heard he just got knocked out by Forrest Griffin last week in a sparring match after a kick to the head.”

UFC President Dana White admits that he’s open to the possibility of setting up a fight between former UFC light heavyweight champion, Chuck Liddell, and EliteXC star — and former Miami streetbrawler — Kimbo Slice. Two things have to happen first, however: Kimbo has to become a better fighter and he has to sign with promotion — White no longer cross promotes. That day might not be too far away. Sam Caplan reminds us that Slice inked a four-fight deal and his next bout against James Thompson in May will be the third under the existing contract. We know that Chuck will be down … Kimbo bothers him.

Great Article on GSP

Georges St-Pierre’s Final Exam
By Thomas Gerbasi

It’s easy to be jealous of Georges St-Pierre. In a land full of smashed noses, scar tissue, and missing teeth, he’s old Hollywood in style and demeanor. His effortless grace also translates to his day job, where he’s seemingly the one who always gets things right the first time, with his repeated drilling only to benefit muscle memory, not the search for a perfection in execution he’s apparently reached already.

That’s why your girlfriend or wife, who can’t recall any fighters not named Chuck Liddell, knows who St-Pierre is; it’s why your nephews, who haven’t been up to speed on fighting since Mike Tyson was wrecking the heavyweight division, will throw out a sidekick and blurt “GSP baby”; and why 22,000 people will be packing the Bell Centre in Montreal for St-Pierre’s challenge of UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra this Saturday.

He’s who you wanted to be when you were a kid and thought it would be cool to be a professional prizefighter. You didn’t want to be the one buried on the undercard, grinding out decisions; you wanted to be the guy with the fantastic finishes in the main event, the guy who got the girl when it was all over.

Funny, even St-Pierre wanted to be Georges St-Pierre when growing up in St. Isidore.

“I started karate when I was seven years old, and at the time I was inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport, Arnold Schwarzenegger and those kinds of actors,” St-Pierre told UFC.com. “I always wanted to be like the guy in Bloodsport, someone who was a champion in martial arts.”

And he was good, very good, at whatever he chose to do when it came to athletics.

“Even growing up when I was a kid, I always was the best,” he said in the most modest tone you can when making a statement like that. “I’m a very athletic guy and very competitive and I was the best runner, the best in the jumping competition, and the best in hockey and basketball.”

It was then that St-Pierre was cursed, destined to always be followed by the tag “natural”, as if he was able to roll out of bed and onto the ice, court, or mat and just win. To those who categorized him as simply a gifted athlete, there was no work involved in his exploits, no strategizing, no effort. They were wrong, and early on, St-Pierre found out just what it took to be the best on a consistent basis.

“There is something to have the skill, but I think you have to have more because skill is not enough,” he said. “You need to be ready to sacrifice. I think that’s what helped me – I was very skilled and athletic, but I’m also ready to make the sacrifices that it takes to reach the top.”

As he got older, those sacrifices entailed being left behind on Friday and Saturday nights by friends who thought that better company could be found at the clubs in Montreal than in a sweat-soaked gym.

“I’m in the prime of my life, and normally people my age go out a lot, they drink, and a lot of them take drugs, I’m not gonna lie,” he said. “I know that’s not something good for me. When I’m training for a fight and my friends are calling me to go out, I have to stay home. That’s one of the sacrifices I have to make and it’s pretty hard sometimes.”

It brought to mind the Muhammad Ali quote that has since been immortalized on motivational posters: “The fight is won or lost, far away from witnesses. It is won behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

There were no autograph signings or photo shoots in the gym in those days, no endless ringing of his cell phone for interview requests. In fact, by the time St-Pierre made his pro debut in 2002 at the age of 20, he wasn’t whisked into press conferences and given astronomical signing bonuses like other athletic prodigies. He was a gifted young athlete competing in what was then perceived as an outlaw sport, since the MMA scene in Canada was promising, but not yet showing the signs of mainstream acceptance that were cropping up in the United States.

“Especially where I come from, hockey is the number one sport, but I knew it was a question of time before fighting was going to be big here,” he said. “Montreal has always been a fight town. People love boxing and wrestling here and I think they’re going to like the UFC even more.”

But when you’re in an ‘outlaw’ sport, you’re perceived to be an outlaw yourself. That’s good when you’re looking to supplement your income with jobs as a bouncer at local clubs, but not when trying to convince people that you’re not only a serious athlete, but one who competes in a real sport, not a bloody spectacle.

“Back in the day, people thought I was crazy,” said St-Pierre. “Now, people know that it’s a real sport and that I’m training just as much as somebody who’s training for the Olympic Games or any other professional sport. I always knew that it was only a matter of time. And I don’t blame those people because I understand it. I can put myself in their position and try to see my sport from the outside. I know it’s violent, but when you don’t understand it, it makes it look even worse.”

Eventually though, mixed martial arts, and the UFC in particular, broke out - not only in the States, but in Canada, where the posterboy for the movement was St-Pierre: gifted, good-looking, and a gentleman. Not that he would take credit for that.

“I’m not going to say that I’m THE guy in Canada,” he says almost sheepishly. “There are a lot of very good fighters here in Canada, and one of the reasons why I think I’m so successful is because I have great training partners. Of course a lot of them are from the United States, but a lot of them are from Montreal and other parts of Canada. I feel that I’m lucky that I grew up in a fight town where boxing is very popular, and we have a lot of great boxers, great wrestlers, and great martial artists, and when you mix everything together, you have a good mixed martial arts fighter.”

‘Good’ wouldn’t be the adjective most would use for St-Pierre as he put together a 7-1 record in his first eight UFC fights. Included on his ledger were victories over BJ Penn, Karo Parisyan, Sean Sherk, Frank Trigg, and Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller. The only loss – in 2004 to Matt Hughes – was avenged in emphatic fashion at UFC 65 in November of 2006. Georges St-Pierre – ‘The Natural’ – was a world champion and everything was going according to the Hollywood script. Questions of his longevity as champion weren’t addressed in terms of title defenses, but in years. You don’t knock a future Hall of Famer like Hughes out if you’re average; you don’t survive a five minute onslaught from Penn and come back to win the next two rounds and the fight; and you don’t walk through guys like Sherk and Trigg if you’re just another fighter.

But the fall, like all great falls in hindsight, seemed to be inevitable. Matt Serra, a veteran fighter whose shining attribute may be his tenacity, never got the press St-Pierre got, never got the pats on the back, and never got the marketing push. He’s a New Yawker through and through whose infectious personality endears him to everyone, even his opponents. But when the bell rings, it’s all business for the 30-something Serra, a true believer in the adage that old age (well, relatively) and treachery will overcome youth and skill. Translated to MMA terms, Serra’s experience and gameplan on April 7, 2007 took apart a St-Pierre who found out in Texas, of all places, that he was human just like everyone else. Maybe he was even
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more human than most of us, as a maelstrom of personal issues leading up to the fight took his focus off what most believed to be a routine first title defense.

“After my loss with Serra I’ve been accused of not being mentally tough, but a lot of things happened to me, and it’s really personal stuff,” said St-Pierre, who gracefully addressed perhaps the most asked question of him these days. “People read some stuff, but they have no idea what happened to me. The reason why I don’t want to talk about it is because a lot of it concerns people in my family. I have a public life because I’m a professional fighter and I accept the fact that people talk about my personal life. But I don’t want people to talk about the personal lives of people in my family who don’t have a public life, who don’t ask to have their personal lives written about. I think if any person went through what I went through last time, it would affect them. But I will never let that happen again.”

Suddenly, no one was jealous of Georges St-Pierre any more.

“If I was more experienced in fighting and in life, I would not have made the same mistakes I made,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a mental weakness, it’s more a lack of experience in life. I’m 26 years old and I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made. I only have 17 fights and I’m almost always fighting guys who are over 30 years old and most of the time have over 30 fights. Of course those people have the edge in experience on me. So I have to be smart and use my athleticism and my skills to beat those people because in experience, I always come short because they have more fight and more life experience.”

What didn’t help St-Pierre’s cause were a series of post-fight interviews that changed his tone from congratulatory towards Serra to one where he was painted as a sore loser. Serra, who was cordial with his opponent before and immediately after the bout, fired back in the press, and it has subsequently gotten ugly at times between the two, and when it’s not, it’s frosty at best. St-Pierre has had enough of the talk.

“After the fight, no matter what happens, I’m gonna shake Matt Serra’s hand,” he said. “A lot of things have been said, some stuff crossed the line a little bit, but I think Matt Serra is a good person and I want to fight the best Matt Serra for my honor. I want to be the real champion, and I want to beat the champion when he’s at his best, and I’m sure it’s the same thing for him. After the fight, win, lose, no matter, I’m gonna shake his hand and maybe we can have a drink together.”

Following what will one day be deemed the ‘dark days’ of his fighting career, St-Pierre cleaned house in his personal and professional life, and having survived the slings and arrows of his detractors, from both in and out of the fight game, he has become a different, and maybe even better, fighter. A dominant decision win over Josh Koscheck last August and a submission win over Hughes in their December rubber match have served to again make St-Pierre a favorite over Serra leading into their Saturday rematch.

But St-Pierre is not the same man or fighter he was a year ago. He’s not invincible, and he knows that talent – natural or otherwise – won’t always get it done. The list of otherworldly talents who have failed in spectacular fashion in all sports is nearly endless; it’s the ones who rise from adversity that are truly special. St-Pierre believes he’s one of those special ones. On April 19th, he gets the chance to show the rest of us.

Half wits abound...

What right does Pete "Drago" Sell have calling GSP a "mental midget." Umm, I guess that makes

St. Pierre responds to Sell's "mental midget" comments

by MMAjunkie.com Staff [mmajunkie-staff] on Apr 14, 2008 at 1:03 pm in - News -

In a recent interview, Pete Sell, a training partner and friend of UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra, called Georges St. Pierre a "mental midget."

St. Piere has now issued a response to those and other accusations made by Sell.

Back in April 2007, St. Pierre lost his title to Serra in one of the sport's biggest upsets. After the loss, St. Pierre mentioned a few reasons for the loss, which didn't go over well with Serra and his camp.

"GSP is an awesome athlete," Sell originally told fightticker.com. "He has all the tools to dominate, but he is a mental midget. His mentality is very weak."

Sell specifically mentioned that St. Pierre "flip-flopped" after the fight. St. Pierre first had nothing in the way of an excuse for the loss, but in later interviews, he said he didn't train properly and had been dealing with an injury.

"I don't like how his story changed," Sell said.

In a recent interview with the Winnipeg Sun, St. Pierre was asked about Sell's comments, which included a him saying that St. Pierre was the type of guy who would back down from a bar-room fight.

St. Pierre agreed with the claim.

"Of course I'm not going to fight in a club," St. Pierre said. "It's just not my thing. If it doesn't involve me personally or my family, I will avoid it. I believe if you're a good person and treat people nicely, that incident wouldn't arise. I think those situations happen to people who are uncomfortable with themselves or try to look tough or act like fighters. You attract what you look like. I don't have anything to prove. When I fight, I do it for a living."

St. Pierre, who won the UFC's interim title with a victory over Matt Hughes in December, meets Serra in the main event of Saturday's UFC 83 event, which takes place at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

(Touch of gloves: TKO Xtreme)

Coming down the pipe

UPCOMING UFC EVENTS:

UFC 83: “Serra vs. St. Pierre II”

Saturday, April 19, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
The Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada

Main Event:
UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Serra vs. Interim UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre

Undercard:

185 lbs.	Rich Franklin (22-3) vs. Travis Lutter (9-4)
185 lbs.	Kalib Starnes (8-2-1) vs. Nate Quarry (9-2)
185 lbs.	Michael Bisping (15-1) vs. Charles McCarthy (10-4)
155 lbs.	Mac Danzig (17-4-1) vs. Mark Bocek (5-1)
185 lbs.	Alan Belcher (12-4) vs. Jason Day (15-5)
185 lbs.	Jason MacDonald (19-9) vs. Joe Doerksen (39-11)
155 lbs.	Sam Stout (13-3-1) vs. Rich Clementi (30-12-1)
185 lbs.	Ed Herman (14-5) vs. Demian Maia (6-0)
265 lbs.	Cain Velasquez (2-0) vs. Brad Morris (10-2)
170 lbs.	Jonathan Goulet (21-9) vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (11-4)

*Fight not yet officially confirmed by UFC.com.

UFC 84

Saturday, May 24, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada

Main Event:
UFC Lightweight Champion B.J. Penn (12-4-1) vs. Sean Sherk (32-2-1)*

Undercard:

205 lbs.	Tito Ortiz (15-5-1) vs. Lyoto Machida (12-0)
205 lbs.	Thiago Silva (12-0) vs. Antonio Mendes (14-2)
205 lbs.	Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1) vs. Keith Jardine (13-3-1)
205 lbs.	Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (4-2) vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura (11-7)
185 lbs.	Rousimar Palhares (7-1) vs. Ivan Salaverry (12-5)*
205 lbs.	Goran Reljic (7-0) vs. Wilson Gouveia (10-4)*
170 lbs.	Jon Koppenhaver (5-1) vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida (9-2)
170 lbs.	Dong Hyun Kim (9-1-1) vs. Jason Tan (5-2)
155 lbs.	Terry Etim (10-1) vs. Jeremy Stephens (13-2)*
265 lbs.	Shane Carwin (8-0) vs. Christian Wellisch (8-3)*

*Fight not yet officially confirmed by UFC.com.

UFC 85

Saturday, June 7, 2008, on pay-per-view (PPV)
The O2 Arena in London, England

Main Event:
Chuck Liddell (21-5) vs. Rashad Evans (11-0-1)

Undercard:

265 lbs.	Brandon Vera (8-1) vs. Fabricio Werdum (10-3-1)
170 lbs	Mike Swick (11-2) vs. Marcus Davis (14-3)
185 lbs.	Martin Kampmann (15-2) vs. Jorge Rivera (15-6)
185 lbs.	Nate Marquardt (26-7) vs. Thales Leites (12-1)
205 lbs.	Jason Lambert (23-7) vs. Luis Arthur Cane (7-1)
170 lbs.	Roan Carneiro (12-6) vs. Ryo Chonan (14-8)*
155 lbs	Thiago Tavares (13-1) vs. Matt Wiman (9-3)
170 lbs	Jess Liaudin (12-9) vs. Paul Taylor (8-3-1)*

*Fight not yet officially confirmed by UFC.com.

UFC 86

Saturday, July 5, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
Las Vegas, Nevada

Main Event:
UFC Light Heavyweight Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin

Undercard:

155 lbs	Joe Stevenson (28-8) vs. Gleison Tibau (15-5)*
170 lbs	Josh Koscheck (10-2) vs. Chris Lytle (25-15)*
155 lbs	Cole Miller (13-3) vs. TBA*
170 lbs	Ben Saunders (5-0-2) vs. TBA*
155 lbs	Steve Bruno (11-3) vs. TBA*