Junior Dos Santos and Frank Mir will take to the cage to decide the UFC heavyweight championship Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden arena. How they got to this position though, is a bit of a head-scratcher.
With a replacement opponent for UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos yet to be announced, it now appears the consensus leading candidate, Frank Mir, has been excluded as a possibility.UFC President Dana White confirmed as much via Twitter, announcing that the UFC 146 co-main event, a number-one contender bout between Frank Mir and Cain Velasquez, will go ahead as planned on May 26th. “Mir vs. Cain will happen,” he tweeted.Originally set to challenge for the title was former Strikeforce and Dream
The injury hit parade keeps rolling along for the UFC. It was announced today that light heavyweight Fabio Maldonado was forced to withdraw from UFC 142 due to an injury. Maldonado was scheduled to meet Caio Magalhaes on the January 14, fight card. With less than a week to find an opponent for Magalhaes, the UFC decided to remove him from the fight card, leaving the card with 10 fights at this point.
The unbeaten Magalhaes was actually a replacement fighter himself, as he was moved onto the card to replace
When I was ten years old my uncle bought me a brand new Playstation game that has helped blossom my love and interest in combat sports. K-1 Revenge came out in 1999 and it introduced me to many kickboxing legends that I admire and still enjoy watching today. Names like Ernesto Hoost, Peter Aerts, the late Andy Hug, Mike Bernardo, and many more. One name in the game that really stood out to me at the time was Mirko Tiger. Not because of his style or the way he played, but it was his name itself that I
There is no doubt among hardcore fans and experts that Mirko Filipovic aka “Cro Cop” is a legend in the game and has left a huge imprint in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. He made his name as a fairly successful K-1 Kickboxer, but it wasn’t until he stepped into the PRIDE arena in MMA where he truly made his name. “Right leg hospital; left leg cemetery” was Cro Cop’s motto, with many men becoming victims of his vicious strikes.
Names like Kazushi Sakuraba, Heath
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Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir and rising prospect Brendan Schaub have reportedly agreed to a bout that is expected to take place as part of an unannounced March 2011 card. With UFC on Versus 3 and UFC 129 both slated for the month of March, either event could play host to what will likely be a main-card Heavyweight clash.
Cain Velasquez has a date with Junior Dos Santos, and Jake Shields — God help us — is still likely to face the…
The rankings system here on LowKick comes pretty close to perfect, in my eyes. Pulled from around 500 votes, the rankings are the culmination of every single users own personal rankings list. When each list is added, a fighters is awarded points for how highly rated they are. So if enough people consider Jose Aldo the P4P king, then he will earn his spot at the top, because you voted him there.Of course, everybody will have a different opinion, and a different P4P list.
A breakdown of six UFC fighters on the verge of superstardom
