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Fedor Signs with STRIKEFORCE! Official News!!
Fedor Emelianenko has officially signed with STRIKEFORCE! The blockbuster announcement has been released via M1Global and Fedor’s management. The entire announcement is available below:
World’s No. 1 MMA Heavyweight To Fight In STRIKEFORCE / M-1 Global Co-Promoted Events
First Fight To Air This Fall, Live on SHOWTIME®
NEW YORK (August 3, 2009)–After a week of intense negotiations and [...]
Dana White Conference Call: Tito, Vitor Signed; Fedor Not
Dana White talks about the Fedor deal not going through so far, the Affliction fighters UFC has now signed, the new UFC 103 main event – Vitor Belfort v/s Rich Franklin and of course, the re-signing of Tito Ortiz.
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UFC Absorbs 20 Affliction Contracts; Rothwell – Gormley at UFC 104
The UFC has taken control of close to twenty Affliction fighter contracts and the rumour is that this includes some really big names. The first of the new UFC fighters to fight will be Big Ben Rothwell who will take on Chase Gormley as scheduled for Affliction: Trilogy. The fight will take place on the [...]
Strikeforce in Talks with Fedor for Long Term Deal
Strikeforce is now in talks with Fedor’s management at M-1 Global for a long term contract with the Last Emperor. This news comes amidst talks of Dana White’s comments about ground breaking news to be announced on 31st July and all the rumours circulating around it.
Well, I guess its wait and watch again as far [...]
Affliction Eulogy? Trilogy Officially Cancelled.
Affliction has seemingly cancelled its Trilogy event officially. According to SI.com, Affliction has now officially cancelled its Trilogy event scheduled to happen on August 1st after the Josh Barnett failed drug test debacle.
“Finding an opponent for the number one ranked MMA heavyweight champion in such a short period of time was a huge endeavor and [...]
Rumour: Werdum to replace Barnett at Trilogy?
The Rumour Mill is working overtime! The latest rumour to hit the MMA scene is that Strikeforce Heavyweight Fabricio Werdum is all set to replace Josh Barnett at Affliction: Trilogy against Fedor.
Werdum, who is thought of by some as the best heavyweight Jiu Jitsu fighter outside of Minotauro Noguiera, is a dangerous fighter who has [...]
Vitor Belfort at Affliction 2
A broken hand after the Terry Martin fight at Affliction’s first card had kept Vitor Belfort out of the second card. Now, thanks to the new Affliction: Golden Boy tie-up and a postponement of the second Affliction card, Vitor is back on and raring to go.
“I didn’t care about the postponement because I couldn’t [...]
Analyzing the Return of Randy Couture.
The UFC finally announced what was already expected by the MMA community: Randy Couture is back in the UFC.
The only difference was, he was still the heavyweight champion AND the announcement that the fight between Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar, something that we have spoken about, will be for the heavyweight championship. This is a [...]
UFC: Announcing The Return Of Randy Couture.
Sources close to the UFC report that the UFC will be holding a press conference tomorrow to announce the return of “The Natural” Randy Couture. This will posisbly be the end of all legal disputes and will have stipulations which include a possible fight against Fedor Emelianenko in an event that will have the UFC [...]
Randy-Lesnar and Randy-Fedor Possible.
As a followup to the story posted a couple of days ago, Randy Couture is reportedly gearing up to fight Brock Lesnar in the UFC as opposed to Noguiera. Sources close to the xtreme couture camp say that this will be a brand new contract and will be signed as a way to drop the [...]