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Marcus Davis cannot take a joke and should learn to appreciate UK humour, according to British welterweight Dan ‘The Outlaw’ Hardy.Hardy (21-6) has been winding Davis up relentlessly ahead of their UFC 99 match, but says he is surprised at how personally the Irish-American has taken some of his jibes.His antics have included disparaging remarks about his...

UFC heavyweight target Satoshi Ishii says that light-heavyweight contender Lyoto Machida has helped him conquer his fear of stand-up - by dislocating his jaw.The Japanese judo champion has just finished a two and a half month stay in Brazil, where he trained karate with the Machida family."Through training in Brazil, I conquered my fear of getting punches. I can...

UFC heavyweight target Satoshi Ishii says that light-heavyweight contender Lyoto Machida has helped him conquer his fear of stand-up - by dislocating his jaw.The Japanese judo champion has just finished a two and a half month stay in Brazil, where he trained karate with the Machida family."Through training in Brazil, I conquered my fear of getting punches. I can...

Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filopovic has revealed he will be returning to the UFC in a shock announcement on his official website this evening.The Croatian heavyweight will fight former Cage Rage heavyweight champion Mostafa Al-Turk at UFC 99 on June 13th and says he wants to prove himself after three dire performances in the organisation when he first joined...

UFC president Dana White has hinted that Chuck Liddell is very likely to be one of the two Hall of Fame inductees to be announced in July.He dropped the hint in a recent interview with Fighters Only which took place following UFC 97, where Liddell lost by KO to Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua and was declared to be retired by White shortly afterwards."Yeah, maybe,"...

Fighters Only: You’ve repeatedly said Liddell’s fight with Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua was his last ever. Do you think it was a fitting finale to his career?When he started fighting, those guys were swinging, toe to toe, banging out, the crowd's going crazy I just looked at him and smiled… that’s my boy, he's going in and doing it the...

Lyoto Machida may have confounded the rest of his weight division with his elusive karate-based style, but Rashad Evans is far from overwhelmed.The psychology major and UFC light-heavyweight champion says that Machida employs "simple principles" in his fighting style, which he has been able to recreate in training."There’s just certain aspects...

Any number of successful sitcoms are based on the interaction between two polar opposite characters who don’t get on at all. No surprise then that Matt Serra thinks he and Matt Hughes would be ideal characters for a comedy show of their own.“I think that could be a sitcom. I think we should look to a reality show for this,” he said when asked on a...

Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort appeared on a prime-time soap in his native brazil this week to draw attention to MMA.Caminho das Índias ('Way to the Indies') is one of the most-watched programs on Brazilian TV. It is set in Brazil, India and Dubai and focuses on the different attitudes and daily lives that prevail in these...

Wanderlei Silva has told Anderson Silva to put his money where is mouth is ahead of his UFC 99 fight with Rich Franklin.The two Silvas have had a war of words outside the Octagon since Anderson stated his thoughts about Wanderlei dropping to the 185lbs category on Sensei SporTV, calling the move "pretentious". Since then both have created a tough...