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Mike Bisping or Dan Henderson will “probably” be the next opponent for UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, according to Dana White.The UFC president revealed the news when wesponding to a query at the pre-UFC 100 press conference as to whether a match between Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva could take place this year. “There are a lot of...

Affliction: Trilogy may be playing host to Gegard Mousasi’s US light-heavyweight debut, but the Dutch-Armenian already has bigger things on his mind - the heavyweight division.Since blitzing the DREAM middleweight grand prix - culminating in same-night victories over three opponents, including Jacare Souza and Melvin Manhoef - Mousasi has made no secret of his...

Former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture is not convinced that Frank Mir’s professed gameplan of wanting to stand with Brock Lesnar is the right one.“He is a great big guy. I just don't know if that's the right gameplan. To try and stay outside of a guy that long and big and pick at him, because it doesn't take too many of [Lesnar‘s punches] to...

Junior Dos Santos has told a Brazilian MMA website he expects to face Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic in the UFC in September.Dos Santos was due to face Justin McCully at UFC 102 in August but has been pulled from that fight recently.“I think I’ll fight September 19. They took me off the August 29 show. My opponent’s changed. I’ll...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is on its way back to Oklahoma for the first time in fifteen years, it was announced today.The last time the UFC staged a show in Oklahoma, Royce Gracie fought Dan Severn in the organisation’s fourth-ever event. Since then the UFC and the sport of mixed martial arts has evolved into a world-famous attraction that boasts some...

UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has suggested that referee Steve Mazagatti displayed bias towards Frank Mir when Lesnar fought him at UFC 81.Mazagatti stopped Lesnar’s round one ground ‘n’ pound assault to dock him one point for hitting the back of the head.In last night’s UFC 100 Countdown show, Lesnar revealed his displeasure....

The Fighters Only World Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Awards will take place in an Oscars-style ceremony on December 30th 2009 at the Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas. This historical event in the sport of MMA is organized by Fighters Only magazine, the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle publication, and is the first of its kind within the sport. A press...

UFC fans who buy an online pay-per-view of UFC 100 can watch the prelim fights for free, it has been announced.According to a trailer on the Ultimate Fighting Championship website  (www.ufc.com) anyone who buys the live stream will be able to access the prelim fights for free via the video vault feature from Sunday onwards.It is the first time the UFC has made...

The UFC has today released the following press release regarding arrangements for the broadcasting of UFC 100 to UK fans:------------------ UFC 100, the biggest mixed martial arts event in history, will be televised live on multiple platforms in the United Kingdom this coming Saturday, July 11, the Ultimate Fighting Championship organisation has confirmed.British UFC...

Enforced downtime due to sleep is holding the UFC’s global expansion back, according to company president Dana White."The only thing that's holding this business back right now, the reason we're not growing faster than we already are, is because there's not enough time in the day, and other people have to sleep. That's really our biggest enemy right now is...