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Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort says he is putting in at Xtreme Couture the same amount of time the average worker does in a day job.“I am in the final stage of preparation, training eight hours a day with all the necessary structure,” the Brazilian middleweight and former UFC champion says. “Las Vegas is the world capital of MMA. This is a...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has now confirmed four bouts for UFC 103, which will take place on September 19th at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.A welterweight contender eliminator between Martin Kampmann and Mike Swick is the most interesting of the four.Kampmann (15-2) is coming of a win over former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit and...

Tickets for the next UFC show in the UK  - UFC 105 in Manchester on Novermber 14th - go on sale next week, Fighters Only has been told.A source at a leading ticket sales agency says tickets for the show will become available to buy from next week.The date for UFC 105 - and indeed the event itself - has not yet been officially confirmed by the UFC but multiple...

Kimbo Slice appears to have described himself as “a gatekeeper” when discussing his participation in season ten of The Ultimate Fighter reality series.TUF10 features an all-heavyweight cast and Slice - real name Kevin Ferguson - is one of the sixteen competitors. A recent unconfirmed rumour suggested Slice loses early in the season, which makes comments...

Yoshihiro Akiyama thought he had just five seconds to recover from the groin shot he received in his UFC 100 fight with Alan Belcher.The Japanese welterweight - who was making his UFC debut - was on the receiving end of a misplaced inside low kick and needed time to recover.“The damage of the low blow in the beginning of the fight was quite strong. I thought...

Lorenzo Fertitta has opened the way for Fedor Emelianenko to continue competing in Sambo tournaments should he sign a UFC contract.“We can figure something out with the Sambo thing,” Fertitta told UFC fans at a weekend Q & A session. “I think we need to have a situation where at least 90 or 120 days before he’s signed a contract to fight,...

In echoes of Japanese lightweight legend Kazushi Sakuraba, UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre has joked about dying in the ring.“Man, I am going to die in the Octagon,” he says on part two of Dana White’s UFC 100 video blog. “Afterwards [people] will be like, does that really make sense, dying for a sport? But when you are in it, you...

Brock Lesnar and Georges St. Pierre were the two biggest earners at UFC 100 on Saturday night, each earning $400,000 purses for their efforts in retaining the heavyweight and welterweight belts respectively.But Lesnar came out on top in base salary terms as his $400k did not include a win bonus, whereas St. Pierre’s purse consisted of a $200k base and a $200k...

Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic has signed a three-fight deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, it was confirmed today.UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta suggested on Saturday that a deal had been reached and today UFC president Dana White confirmed that to Yahoo! Sports.The signing follows recent contract talks that saw Fertitta fly to Croatia just over a...

Igor Vovchanchyn is returning to mixed martial arts competition after nearly four years of retirement, it has been announced.Korean MMA promotion Fighting Mixed Combative says Vovchanchyn (47-9-1) has agreed to fight at their second show, which takes place in September.According to Japanese MMA blog Nightmare of Battle, Vovchanchyn is popular with South Korean MMA...