Third time’s the charm, right? Strikeforce certainly hopes so. A long-rumored lightweight title unification bout between current champion Josh Thomson and interim champion Gilbert Melendez has been scheduled for Dec. 19 when Strikeforce returns home to the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The main card will air live on Showtime. The bout was first [...]

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Co-headliners Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson and main-card fighter Antonio Rogerio Nogueira each earned $70,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances at Saturday’s “UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin II” event. Koscheck earned the “Submission of the Night” bonus, Nogueira earned the “Knockout of the Night” award, and Koscheck and Johnson both earned “Fight of the Night” [...]

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In 2006, these two Superstars engaged in a memorable battle for the ages.  This Saturday, November 21st, they finally meet again in the main event of UFC 106, with Ortiz looking to make an immediate impact in his return to the Octagon and Griffin trying to settle the score with the “Huntington Bean Bad Boy”. [...]

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Dana White was supposed to spend this week promoting his Ultimate Fighting Championship 106 card at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. It was to star his biggest box office draw, heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. Instead White flew Tuesday to Bismarck, N.D., showed up at the local hospital and found Lesnar, in heavy [...]

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It’s no longer speculation, and he’s no longer a secret: Jose Aldo is clearly one of the world’s best pound-for-pound mixed martial artists. It will be hard for anyone to argue otherwise after the explosive Brazilian notched his ninth straight win by destroying WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown. The outcome, which had been hotly debated [...]

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