Location: Anaheim, Calif.
Venue: Honda Center
Broadcast: Pay-per-view (main card) and HDNet (preliminary card)
Date: 8/1/2009

MAIN CARD

Champ Fedor Emelianenko vs. Josh Barnett (for WAMMA heavyweight title)
Gegard Mousasi vs. Renato “Babalu” Sobral
Vitor Belfort vs. Jorge Santiago
Paul Buentello vs. TBA
Paul Daley vs. Jay Hieron

PRELIMINARY CARD

Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon
Ben Rothwell vs. Chase Gormley
Deividas Taurosevicius vs. TBA
Akbarh Arreola vs. Brett Cooper
Mark Hominick vs. TBA
Lucio Linhares vs. Mikhail Zayats
Rob Broughton vs. Jessie Gibbs

Location: Las Vegas, Nev.
Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center
Broadcast: Pay per view on July 11, 2009

MAIN CARD

• Champ Brock Lesnar vs. interim champ Frank Mir (heavyweight title unification)
• Champ Georges St. Pierre vs. Thiago Alves (for welterweight title)
• Jon Fitch vs. Paulo Thiago
• Michael Bisping vs. Dan Henderson
• Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Stephan Bonnar vs. Mark Coleman
• Mac Danzig vs. Jim Miller
• Jon Jones vs. Jake O’Brien
• C.B. Dollaway vs. Tom Lawlor
• Matt Grice vs. Shannon Gugerty
• T.J. Grant vs. Dong Hyun Kim

MAIN CARD:
Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva
Heath Herring vs. Cain Velasquez
Ben Saunders vs. Mike Swick
Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy
Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno

PRELIMINARY CARD:
Justin Buchholz vs. Terry Etim
Dale Hartt vs. Denis Siver
Peter Sobotta vs. Paul Taylor
Roli Delgado vs. Paul Kelly
Denis Stojnic vs. Stefan Struve
Mustapha al Turk vs. Todd Duffee
John Hathaway vs. Rick Story

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The UFC officially announced yesterday that seven more bouts have been added to UFC 101 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on August 8th. These additional fights look to add some sizzle to a fight card that features Anderson Silva taking on Forrest Griffin at 205lbs and Kenny Florian challenging UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn. Here are the additional matchups that were announced:

Ricardo Almeida vs Kendall Grove
Kurt Pellegrino vs Josh Neer
Amir Sadollah vs Johny Hendricks
Tamdan McCrory vs John Howard
Matt Riddle vs Dan Cramer
George Sotiropoulos vs Rob Emerson
Jesse Lennox vs Danillo Villefort

This video previews the UFC 98 Co-Main Event matchups of Matt Serra vs Matt Hughes and Lyoto Machida vs Rashad Evans for the UFC light heavyweight championship on May 23rd. Here is all the matchups for UFC 98:

MAIN CARD

• Champ Rashad Evans vs. Lyoto Machida (for light-heavyweight title)
• Matt Hughes vs. Matt Serra
• Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Drew McFedries
• Dan Miller vs. Chael Sonnen
• Frank Edgar vs. Sean Sherk

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Brock Larson vs. Chris Wilson
• Pat Barry vs. Tim Hague
• Kyle Bradley vs. Phillipe Nover
• Andre Gusmao vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
• Brandon Wolff vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida
• David Kaplan vs. George Roop

PRESS RELEASE: BILOXI, Miss. (May 4, 2009) – The cage may have to be reinforced for the “Ultimate Chaos” headliner as former WWE star Bobby Lashley and mixed-martial-arts legend Bob “The Beast” Sapp battle June 27 on a special pay-per-view event live from the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi.

“There is a huge MMA fan base down here on the coast and this card speaks for itself,” co-promoter Ricky Derouen (Chairman of the Board, Fight Force International) said. “I’m very proud to have this event in my hometown. That really means a lot to me. Just to give an idea of the hype surrounding this event, the tickets go on sale May 8th. We have 1,300 floor seats available and 1,100 of those are already gone. The tickets aren’t even for sale, yet, so that’s a good thing.”

In the co-feature, controversial Dutch heavyweight Gilbert “The Hurricane” Yvel faces Brazilian striker, Pedro “The Rock” Rizzo (16-8-0), former UFC heavyweight title challenger.

In the co-feature, controversial Dutch heavyweight Gilbert “The Hurricane” Yvel faces Brazilian striker, Pedro “The Rock” Rizzo (16-8-0), former UFC heavyweight title challenger.

Lightweight Din “Dinyero” Thomas (24-8-0), star of The Ultimate Fighter 4, meets former KOTC and Gladiator Challenge champion Javier “Showtime” Vasquez, while hot Canadian lightweight prospect Chris “The Polish Hammer” Horodecki (12-1-0) tangles with dangerous William “The Bull” Sriyapai (12-4-0).

Also fighting on the card, welterweights Brett Cooper (8-4-0) and Waachiim “Native Warrior” Spirit Wolf (5-4) throw-down against each other, Affliction vice president Tom Atencio (1-0) moves from the office to the cage against Randy Hedderick’

“I want to thank Prize Fight as well as Fight Force for putting on this card. I’ve been seen in front of the cameras before as far as the business side, but it’s time to fight, said Atencio. I’m doing something Dana White won’t do and that’s fight. He talks like a fighter, so why doesn’t he fight? I’m stepping up to the plate and win, lose or draw I attempted it. I don’t ever think he would fight.”

Middleweights James Oros (3-2-0)and Colby McMahan (1-0-0) also square-off.

Press Release: Los Angeles, Calif. – Apr. 9, 2009 – Bellator Fighting Championships announced today a lineup of highly anticipated fights taking place at Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on May 1, 2009. This marks Bellator’s fifth event of the 12-week tournament series airing on ESPN Deportes on Saturdays. Dayton will host the first round of Bellator’s Semi-Final match-ups, with a $50,000 prize for each winner, which will send two Lightweights to the Bellator world championship final bout in June.

“Dayton fans will get a chance to witness some of the best Lightweight fighters from across the globe in these world championship bouts,” remarked Bjorn Rebney, Bellator Fighting Championships CEO. “At Bellator, each tournament fighter has their own destiny in their hands and at the Hara Arena two fighters will get the chance to advance to the Bellator Fighting Championships finals.”

Returning from his victory at Bellator I, Eddie Alvarez, top ranked Lightweight in the world, faces up-and-comer Eric Reynolds in the world championship semi-finals. A veteran of over 30 fights, Toby Imada will look for his eighth straight win as he takes on Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal. Jorge knocked out Nick Agallar at Bellator I in less than two minutes in the first round. The winner of each bout will advance to the Lightweight finals and a step closer to the $100,000 grand prize. This fight card will also feature Sherman Pendergarst, Joey Beltran and Dave Herman in feature fights from their divisions.

Tickets are on sale now at Hara Arena box office and through Ticketmaster for $19, $49 and $99. The match-ups on the event’s fight card are detailed below:

Tournament Bouts:

155 lbs. – Toby Imada (21-11) vs. Jorge Masvidal (17-3)

155 lbs. – Eric Reynolds (11-1) vs. Eddie Alvarez (16-2)

Non-Tournament Bouts:

155 lbs. – Frank Carabello (3-0) vs. Waylon Lowe (3-2)

170 lbs. – Justin Edwards (1-0) vs. John Troyer (8-2)

117 lbs. – Tammy Schneider (3-6) vs. Jessica Pene (5-0)

145 lbs. – Pete Dominguez (9-3) vs. Matt Jaggers (11-4)

Heavyweight – Dan Evensen (10-4) vs. Raoul Romero (3-1)

Heavyweight – Sherman Pendergarst (11-12) vs. Joey Beltran (5-3)

Heavyweight – Josh Barnes (5-1) vs. Dave Herman (14-1)

UFC 98 will be on May 23rd, live on Pay per view from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here is the scheduled matchups:

MAIN CARD:
Champ Rashad Evans vs. Lyoto Machida (for light-heavyweight title)
Matt Hughes vs. Matt Serra
James Irvin vs. Drew McFedries
Dan Miller vs. Yushin Okami
Frank Edgar vs. Sean Sherk

PRELIMINARY CARD:
Brock Larson vs. Chris Wilson
Pat Barry vs. Tim Hague
Kyle Bradley vs. Phillipe Nover
Houston Alexander vs. Andre Gusmao
Brandon Wolff vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida
David Kaplan vs. George Roop

MAIN CARD (televised)
Middleweight champ Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites
Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann
Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk
Luis Cane vs. Steve Cantwell

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-televised)
Vinicius Magalhaes vs. Eliot Marshall
Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Denis Kang
Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry
Ed Herman vs. David Loiseau
David Bielkheden vs. Mark Bocek
Ryo Chonan vs. T.J. Grant
Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman

The Ultimate Fighting Championships return this Saturday night with UFC 97: “Redemption” from Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. This will be the UFC’s first show in Canada since last year’s UFC 83: “Serra vs. St-Pierre 2”. This event will be live on Pay per view featuring a co-main event of former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell taking on former Pride superstar Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. Then UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva looks to defend his belt against Jiu Jitsu ace Thales Leites.

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