Archive for February 2010

Michael DiSanto, UFC – Cain Velasquez is ready for a title shot—now. No heavyweight, not even current champion Brock Lesnar, has ever entered the UFC with more hype than Velasquez. He was proclaimed by his trainers as the heir apparent to the crown before he ever stepped foot in the division. News Source: UFC.com. Read [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – The next generation has arrived. If there were any doubts that Cain Velasquez was the real deal, the unbeaten phenom answered them emphatically Sunday afternoon as he scored a spectacular first round knockout of future Hall of Famer Antonio Rodrigo ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira in the UFC 110 main event at the sold [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – With losses in three of his last four fights, PRIDE legend Wanderlei Silva felt the pressure heading into his UFC 110 co-main event against Michael Bisping Sunday afternoon, but with flashes of his ferocious brilliance late in rounds two and three, he was able to eke out a close, but unanimous, [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Known for his striking prowess, welterweight vet Chris ‘Lights Out’ Lytle went to Plan B Sunday afternoon at the Acer Arena, submitting Brian Foster with a first round kneebar in UFC 110 preliminary action. News Source: UFC.com. Read full story HERE .

It’s been nearly three decades since Hector Camacho won his first world title, and almost two decades since he won his last. For those 10 years in between, he was among the most exciting and controversial figures in boxing. He was a brawler who reinvented himself as a defensive fighter, whose rivalry with Julio Cesar [...]

Edel Ruiz stopped former WBA super-bantamweight champion Clarence “Bones” Adams in the fourth round Friday night in a featherweight fight. Ruiz, from Mexico, stunned Adams with a straight right to the head in the closing seconds of the third round, with Adams immediately clinching to avoid followup shots. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story [...]

Boxing could be finally returning to Yankee Stadium, more than three decades after Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton at the old ballpark in the Bronx. The Yankees said Friday they’ve agreed to accommodate a family that scheduled a bar mitzvah for June 5, the date that Top Rank promoter Bob Arum wants to stage Yuri [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Put Antonio Rodrigo ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira in the same room with Wanderlei Silva, and they’re just not two fighters anymore; they’re two countrymen, two friends, laughing and joking with an ease that contradicts the actuality that they will soon step into the UFC Octagon with the task of proving once again why [...]

Below are the official weigh-in results for this weekend’s UFC 110 event. UFC 110, which is headlined by the heavyweight bout between Minotauro Nogueira and Cain Velasquez and the middleweight clash between Wanderlei Silva and Michael Bisping, airs live on Pay-Per-View from the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia beginning at 10pm ET / 7pm PT [...]

Kelly Pavlik is headed back to the Boardwalk. The middleweight champion will defend his WBO and WBC belts against junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on April 17. Pavlik’s promoter Top Rank made the announcement Saturday. Pavlik (36-1, 32 KOs) has fought several times in Atlantic City, including his stunning victory [...]

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Fight fans can be a fickle group. If an athlete wins all the time, all is well. But if he loses one fight, and all of a sudden the sky is falling. Never was this phenomenon more evident than on the morning after Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira’s second round TKO loss [...]

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Elliot Worsell, UFC – The date was November 14, 2009 and the opponent was Denis Kang. For Britain’s Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping, nine minutes with Kang was enough to transfer negative thoughts to positive ones and, crucially, restore every ounce of his crumbled confidence. News Source: UFC.com. Read full story HERE .

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – If you go by the numbers, Cain Velasquez should be overwhelmed. But he’s not. If you look at the man who will be facing him in the Octagon this weekend, the legendary “Minotauro” Nogueira, you may think Velasquez will be looking for the first plane out of Sydney, Australia before the [...]

SYDNEY, February 18 – Twenty-four hours ago Anthony Perosh was training at his gym in Sydney, with half an eye on a stopwatch and the other on the scales. Scaling a trim and fit 215-pounds at the time, Perosh was preparing friends and halfway through the process of cutting down to light heavyweight, the division [...]