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Slated to take on Canadian light heavyweight Roger Hollett on May 18th at UFC on Combate 2, in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Full Fighter athlete Fabio Maldonado will look for the 19th victory and second in a row on Brazilian territory.After putting on one of the best performances of UFC Rio 3, in October 2012, versus Glover Teixeira and receiving compliments from...

Anderson Silva has picked up numerous sponsors in his career, but the Wizard language school may in the long term turn out to be one of the most lucrative.Wizard - a Brazilian company - has a deal with the UFC middleweight champion under which he promotes their products while at the same time aiming for fluency.The value of the deal is dwarfed by the ones Anderson...

Leonard Garcia’s departure from the UFC roster is official.He joins several other fighters, including Bart Palazewski, in exiting the organization after a run of recent losses. In Garcia’s case he managed to lose five in a row before getting his pink slip, a feat managed by few other fighters. Only Dan Hardy and Keith Jardine - coincidentally also a Greg Jackson...

The highly anticipated 4th instalment of the Dubai Fighting Championship is set. DFC 4 will take place on Friday 10th May 2013 at the Madinat Arena - Mina A' Salam in Dubai. Headlined by the KO specialist Paul "Semtex" Daley this promises to be the biggest show ever held in Dubai. A stacked fight card featuring some of the World's top MMA athletes and the very best...

Long-running Liverpool organization OMMAC (Olympia MMA Championships) has landed a UK television deal.LOADED TV, which can be found at Sky channel 200, will commence airing OMMAC events from Friday June 7. The first broadcast will be at 21:00 GMT and will consist of a 2.5-hour show. Promoter and matchmaker Chris Zorba revealed to Fighters Only that the deal will...

Mark Hunt’s travel troubles will hopefully be solved by the end of the week.The UFC is helping Hunt address problems with entry into the USA after he was this week twice denied boarding on a flight to American from New Zealand.At the root of the problem is a 2002 arrest which Hunt says was due to him “helping d--khead mates” who he categorizes as...

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“It will be available to everyone who wants it,” was the message from BT Sports executives at today’s press conference in London, England.More than 200 press representatives attended the event, testifying both to the importance of sport in British life and to the level of interest that there is in the BT Sports enterprise, central to which is its acquisition of...

Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua is using his past glories as inspiration for his current training, which he hopes will lead to another UFC title run.In June, he will rematch Rogerio Nogueira at UFC 161 in Winnipeg, Canada. Their first fight, under the Pride FC banner, is generally regarded as one of the best MMA fights ever. The 2005 Fight of the Year ended in a decision...

Bruce Lee's younger brother Robert says that the legendary martial arts icon would have “1,000 per cent” been involved with MMA if he were still alive today.Speaking at the recent ONE FC-produced ‘Asia MMA Summit’ in Singapore, Lee and his sister Phoebe talked about their brother’s influence on the modern sport. “Spirit-wise, he would support it 1,000 per...