UFC 97 Results

April 19th, 2009 by JP


Anderson Silva (champion) defeated Thales Leites via unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 50-46)      UFC Middleweight Championship.    This was a boring fight, they’re going to come up with somebody to give Silva a challenge. Lietes had nothing to concern Silva Sam Stout defeated Matt Wiman via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) Mauricio “Shogun” Rua defeated Chuck [...]

UFC 97: Official Fight Card

March 15th, 2009 by JP


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 – untelevised – Mike Ciesnolevicz vs. Eliot Marshall – Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Denis Kang – Jason [...]

UFC 97 updates

February 23rd, 2009 by JP


UFC 97 in Canada still on! After meeting with Quebec sports officals, Lorenzo Fertitta and Marc Ratner of Zuffa reached a deal that will allow UFC 97 to go ahead as scheduled. Courtesy of Corus Sports and translated by Bloody Elbow, – Lorenzo Fertita & Marc Ratner met with Richard Renault (RACJ head of combat [...]

Brock Lesnar -vs- Fedor Emelianenko discussion

February 21st, 2009 by JP


After Brock Lesnar defeated Randy Couture at UFC 91, many controversies came about. The largest of the controversies was the topic of who would win an MMA bout – Fedor Emelianenko or Brock Lesnar? As much hype as this topic had been receiving, the actual chances of a bout coming together was slim to none. [...]