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UFC 89 free on Spike TV … not a PPV
Published 7/3/2008 by MMAmania at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
... UFC 89: “Leben vs. Bisping” at The NIA in Birmingham, England, on October 18 will be televised for free on Spike TV, according to Dave Meltzer at WrestlingObserver.com. ...

Report: UFC 89 “Bisping vs. Leben” To Be Televised On Spike TV
Published 7/3/2008 by Kris Karkoski at MMAFrenzy.com
... UFC 89 “Bisping vs. Leben”, which takes place on October 18th at The NIA in Birmingham, England, will be televised on Spike TV according to Dave Meltzer at F4WOnline.com. ...

New MMA weight classes proposed..
Published 7/5/2008 by Jim Murphy at MMA Blog - TheSavageScience.com
Via The Wrestling Observer …we’ve talked about the meeting of the Association of Boxing Commissions elsewhere, but TWO reports some interesting stuff about the group’s proposed new weight classes for MMA. Here’s the weight classes proposed followed by some comments from TWO: MALE Flyweight (Up to 105 pounds) Super Flyweight (Over 105.1 to 115 lbs) Bantamweight (Over 115.1 to 125 lbs) Super Bantamweight (Over 125.1 to 135 lbs) Featherweight (Over 135.1 to 145 lbs) Lightweight (Over 145.1 to 155 lbs) Super Lightweight (Over 155.1 to 165 lbs) Welterweight (Over 165.1 to 175 ...

Jackson/Griffin Scorecards; Main Event Wins “Fight of the Night”
Published 7/6/2008 by ben at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
The official judges’ tallies, from Dave Meltzer via Fightlinker: Adalaide Byrd Round 1: 10-9 Griffin Round 2: 10-8 Griffin Round 3: 10-9 Griffin Round 4: 10-9 Jackson Round 5: 10-9 Jackson Nelson Hamilton Round 1: 10-9 Jackson Round 2: 10-8 Griffin Round 3: 10-9 Griffin Round 4: 10-9 Jackson Round 5: 10-9 Griffin Roy Silbert Round 1: 10-9 Griffin Round 2: 10-9 Griffin Round 3: 10-9 Griffin Round 4: 10-9 Jackson Round 5: 10-9 ...

Wild finish to Samoa Joe/Booker T highlight TNA Victory Road results
Published 7/14/2008 by Josh Nason (noreply@blogger.com) at Ropes, Ring and Cage
... Live from Reliant Arena in Houston, TX, it's TNA's Victory Road. I watched the ppv sporadically, so I'm posting most of Dave Meltzer's report from www.f4wonline.com, slightly remixed. ...

More Questionable Numbers From Affliction?
Published 7/24/2008 by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
... The big question we’ve been waiting to hear an answer to this week is, what of Affliction’s pay-per-view numbers? VP Tom Atencio claimed they did “well over” 100,000 buys. He also said, in the post-fight press conference, that he’d be releasing the numbers on Thursday or Friday of this week. And yet, so far nothing official. Subscribers to Dave Meltzer’s “Wrestling Observer” relayed the following tidbit from the latest issue via the ...

UFC vs Affliction PPV Buys
Published 7/25/2008 by InfiniteX at MMA Chump - MMA News, Fight Cards, Rankings, Forums and more!
... Tom Atencio said earlier this week that while he won’t announce the final numbers, that the numbers are over 100,000 PPV Buys. Most people have claimed this to be a HUGE success, but I am not sure why. Dave Meltzer reported that UFC 86 did 520,000 buys and GSP vs. Matt Serra did 525,000 With the “Greatest Lineup of Fighters on One Card”, I am not sure how they will get more buys later if they weren’t able to get them now. Was there not enough hype? Last 3 posts by InfiniteX Similar Posts ...

Bloody Elbow July MMA Meta-Rankings: Heavyweight
Published 7/26/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... were compiled from the following sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), and Total MMA. Figure 4 Online hadn't updated their rankings for July. The normalization scheme as explained ...

Bloody Elbow July MMA Meta-Rankings: Welterweight
Published 7/26/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... were compiled from the following sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), and Total MMA. Figure 4 Online hadn't updated their rankings for July. The normalization scheme as explained ...

Bloody Elbow July MMA Meta-Rankings: Light Heavyweight
Published 7/30/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... from the following sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FightMatrix, MMMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), and Total MMA. Figure 4 Online hadn't updated their rankings for July. The normalization scheme as ...

Bloody Elbow July MMA Meta-Rankings: Middleweight
Published 7/31/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FFightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), and Total MMA. Figure 4 Online hadn't updated their rankings when I did the math on these, I'll include them when I ...

Jesse Taylor Released By The UFC
Published 7/31/2008 by Kris Karkoski at MMAFrenzy.com
... Jesse Taylor has been released by the UFC following his debut loss to CB Dollaway at UFC Fight Night 14. Yesterday, The Wrestling Observer reported that Taylor had been released by the promotion. ...

Affliction To Ask Fighters To Fight For Less Money
Published 8/1/2008 by Stephen Rhodes at Octagon Buzz
... Maybe there’s more to Affliction than is being let on.  First it was the inflated numbers - both live gate and pay-per-view buy rates.  Perhaps there is a reason for that; according to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, Affliction vice president Tom Atencio would supposedly ask fighters to take a 50% cut in pay to participate in the Las Vegas show in October.  Josh Barnett would have none of that as he told Zach Arnold of ...

Bloody Elbow July MMA Meta-Rankings: Lightweight
Published 8/1/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... from the following sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FFightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), Total MMA and Figure 4 Online. The normalization scheme as explained by JCS of FightMatrix  is ...

Aleks Emelianenko Barred From Fighting in US?
Published 8/6/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... However in a recent interview on Wrestling Observer’s Figure Four Daily radio show, California State Athletic Commission representative Bill Douglas ...

CSAC: Emelianenko was not and will not be cleared to fight
Published 8/7/2008 by Jesse Holland at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
... It seems his simple explanation of missed deadlines and poor timing isn’t sitting well with Bill Douglas and the rest of the suits over at the CSAC, who fired back recently on the Figure Four Daily Radio Show. ...

Roger Huerta and UFC “Far Apart” On Contract Renewal
Published 8/7/2008 by Kris Karkoski at MMAFrenzy.com
... Following his UFC 87 bout against Kenny Florian on Saturday, UFC lightweight contender Roger Huerta will have just one fight remaining on his current contract with the UFC. While a win over Florian would essentially guarantee Huerta a shot at the 155-pound title, he’s unlikely to challenge for the belt unless he agrees to terms with the UFC on a new deal. According to Dave Meltzer at The Wrestling Observer , Huerta and the UFC remain “far apart” in negotiations with Huerta seeking a deal better than current lightweight champion BJ Penn:“Huerta, who has one fight left on his ...

WEC Ratings Go Back to Normal
Published 8/16/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... Dave Meltzer reported the numbers in the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer and ...

Affliction’s Pay-Per-View Numbers Maybe Not So Bad After All
Published 8/18/2008 by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
... had pegged the number at 50,000-85,000 pay-per-view buys — far from the “well over 100,000″ that VP Tom Atencio was claiming. In a recent issue of his Wrestling Observer newsletter (via ...

EliteXC Heavyweight Champion Antonio Silva Tests Positive for Steroids
Published 8/21/2008 by themmapost.com (noreply@blogger.com) at MMA News and UFC News: The MMA Post
Juicing Alert, www.f4wonline.com has the scoop. Antonio Silva Jr., the current EliteXC Heavyweight Champion, tested positive for Boldenone. He has been suspended for one year and fined $2,500. Here's what wikipedia has to say about this particular steroid. Boldenone (1,4-androstadiene-3-one-17β-ol, available as the undecylenate ester), also known under the trade names Equipoise, Ganabol, Equigan and Ultragan, is an anabolic steroid developed for veterinary use, mostly for treatment of horses. It is not indicated for use in ...

Bloody Elbow August MMA Meta-Rankings: Middleweight
Published 8/27/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... were compiled from the following sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, MMA Madness, FightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), Figure 4 Online, Fighters.com, and Total MMA.  The normalization ...

ShoXC Scores Highest Rating Ever
Published 8/28/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... The August 15 edition of ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series, which saw Jared Hamman dramatically avenge his prior loss to Poai Suganuma by stopping him in the first round, scored it’s highest rating to date according to the print edition of Dave Meltzer‘s Wrestling Observer: ...

Randy Couture vs Brock Lesnar Close to Being Reality
Published 8/30/2008 by themmapost.com (noreply@blogger.com) at MMA News and UFC News: The MMA Post
... opponent is Brock Lesnar. They can't get Fedor, too many issues to work out on short notice, and he has a US-only non compete with Affliction. This will be a new contract, not a return to the old one. It will likely pay him more and give him more benefits, but it will lock him into the UFC for the long term. In exchange for signing it Zuffa would drop all breach of contract charges. Its just Rome either, Dave Meltzer has started confirming things on f4wonline.com A source close to Randy Couture has confirmed today that ...

Bloody Elbow August MMA Meta-Rankings: Lightweight
Published 8/31/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... sites: TAGG Radio, MMA News, Sherdog, Cage Potato, MMA On Tap, Five Ounces of Pain, Houston Chronicle's Brawl Sports, WAMMA, MMA Fighting, MMA-ELO, FCFighter, 411 Mania, FightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/Inside MMA, MMAVT (Japan), Total MMA, Fighters.com, MMA Weekly, and Figure 4 Online. The normalization scheme as explained by JCS of FightMatrix  ...

Report: Alexander Signs Extension With UFC
Published 9/4/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... Upstart light heavyweight contender Houston Alexander has reportedly signed a five-fight contract extension with the Ultimate Fighting Championship according to the latest print edition of Dave Meltzer‘s Wrestling Observer. ...

Houston Alexander Signs UFC Extension
Published 9/5/2008 by Kris Karkoski at MMAFrenzy.com
Houston Alexander Light heavyweight Houston Alexander has signed a five-fight contract extension with the UFC, according to Dave Meltzer . Alexander made his UFC debut at UFC 71 in May 2007 with a 48-second knockout of light heavyweight contender Keith Jardine. “The Assassin” followed up the debut victory with a one-minute one-second knockout of Alessio Sakara at UFC 75. Following the back-to-back wins Alexander was matched up against Thiago Silva at UFC 78 and was defeated via first-round TKO. He was dealt a second-straight loss at UFC Fight Night 13 in April when he was defeated by James Irvin via ...

UFC 92: CB Dolloway vs Jorge Rivera
Published 24 days ago by Jesse Holland at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
... The Ultimate Fighter 7 runner-up CB Dollaway (7-1) will make his third straight Octagon appearance when he takes on UFC veteran Jorge Rivera (15-7) at UFC 92 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on New Year’s Eve weekend according to WrestlingObserver.com. ...

Affliction Woes: Fedor-Barnett Downgraded to Unlikely, Arlovski Comes at a Heavy Cost
Published 10 days ago by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
... They’ve got to figure out some way to make it pay, because according to Dave Meltzer Arlovski is poised to haul in seven figures if he beats Nelson this weekend, and Affliction is footing the bill. It’s great for Affliction to get their stuff on CBS, but Arlovski better be wearing several layers of Affliction t-shirts to make this little venture seem worthwhile. ...

Dan Cramer To Make MMA Debut Against Matt Arroyo at UFC 94
Published 6 days ago by Kris Karkoski at MMAFrenzy.com
... Dan Cramer (0-0) will make his MMA debut on January 31st in a welterweight bout against Matt Arroyo (3-2) at UFC 94 in Las Vegas, according to The Wrestling Observer. ...

Report: Ken Shamrock was going to be “paid to stand with him as well”
Published 5 days ago by Zach Arnold at FightOpinion.com
... This report is in the latest edition of Figure Four Weekly , published by Bryan Alvarez: Seth Petruzelli said that he was paid to stand with Kimbo. Well, he said that and then he claimed he never said it. For what it’s worth, we heard in the days leading up to the fight that Ken Shamrock was being paid to stand with him as well. It’s a pretty shady way of doing business, and while it’s not outright working the fight it is attempting to give one man an advantage — or a perceived advantage, as did didn’t help Kimbo one goddamn bit — over another. You can subscribe to Bryan’s ...

Quote of the Day: Dave Meltzer on Seth Petruzelli's Comments
Published 5 days ago by The Bronzeville Bully at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... --Dave Meltzer comments in the latest Wrestling Observer Radio about Seth Petruzelli comments and if you are involved with Mixed Martial Arts,  then you have deal with boxing, kickboxing, BJJ, wrestling, etc. And, he also ...

StandGate this morning
Published 5 days ago by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com
... agreement before Seth opened his stupid mouth and talked about it on the radio. He also says he thinks the situation is as sketchy as it sounds and there should be an investigation. Bryan Alvarez hears that Seth Petruzelli was just getting the same deal as Ken Shamrock … that’s right: Ken was getting paid more to stand and trade with Kimbo Slice as well. ...

Couture-Lesnar at UFC 91 Not Such an Easy Sell-Out After All?
Published 3 days ago by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
... he never would have come back.) UFC president Dana White claimed with confidence that the Randy Couture-Brock Lesnar headlined UFC 91 would break UFC records this November. He predicted over a million pay-per-view buys and a sure sell-out at the box office. Turns out the tickets, or at least the high-priced ones, aren’t exactly flying off the shelves…or wherever they keep tickets while they’re waiting to sell them. The Wrestling Observer (via MMA Payout) says only $500 and up tickets remain, ...

The 11/15 Las Vegas show with Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar, which should have been a first...
Published 3 days ago by Nick Thomas at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... of the high prices and economy is at 8,000 sold for $3 million, and also moving slowly since only the $500 and up seats are left. There are casinos who have purchased tickets that don’t figure into that number, which is the ticket outlet numbers. But it was scaled to break the all-time UFC gate record of $5.4 million and right now it looks like they are going to have to cut deals or paper to sellout the 14,000 plus seats at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. -- Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer ...