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T.J. Ball - MMA News
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UFC welterweight Matt Serra hosts Fight Club Q&A at UFC 111 in New Jersey
Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra has been tapped for duty at this month's UFC 111 - sort of.
Serra has been confirmed as the UFC's guest at the UFC 111 Fight Club Q&A session, a fan-driven interview opportunity that accompanies every UFC event.
Serra will take the stage prior to the weigh-ins on Friday, March 26 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
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UFC 114's Aaron Simpson takes time out for Arizona food drive
UFC middleweight contender Aaron Simpson has slugger Chris
Leben on his plate at UFC 114 in May, but for now, "A-Train" will be
focused on a few plates in Arizona: namely, those with nothing on them.
Simpson will be available for pictures and autographs for fans willing to donate items to the United Food Bank's Gustavo Dantas Jiu-Jitsu Food Drive.
Simpson will be available on Saturday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to noon MT local time at Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz., as part of the two-day Fifth Annual Arizona International Open of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. -
Coker "honored" by Walker's fight, plans meeting to discuss second Strikeforce scrap
The opinions on 47-year-old former pro footballer Herschel Walker's recent MMA debut range from "amazing" to "disgraceful."
Count Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker among those who believe the Heisman Trophy winner was a good thing for the California-based promotion - even if he was admittedly unsure at first.
"I think the networks, at first, were apprehensive about Herschel, and so was I, honestly," Coker recently told MMAjunkie.com. "I was very apprehensive, but getting to know Herschel, and seeing his commitment to training at AKA and just who he is as a person and a martial artist, it was an honor to...
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UFC 111's Dan Hardy says "visual stimulus" to blame for poster's tattoo removal
Take a look at a recent UFC 111 event poster. See anything missing?
Dan Hardy, one half of the pay-per-view event's main draw, is missing the tattoos sprawled across his stomach. His trademark red Mohawk is gone. By contrast, his opponent, welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, retains a lone Chinese character tattoo on his chest.
Did "The Outlaw" get censored?
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Soszynski unsurprised at UFC 110 appeal result, confident rematch would go in his favor
As far as wins go, Krzysztof Soszynski's UFC 110 victory over Stephan
Bonnar certainly won't go down as one of "The Polish Experiment's" most
memorable.
A third-round clash of heads that went unseen by the match referee left Soszynski a TKO winner, and an appeal to the overseeing commission by Bonnar went unheeded.
Today, Soszynski told MMAjunkie.com that the unfortunate finish shouldn't take away from the performance he turned in that February night in Australia, and he doesn't expect a rematch would go any differently should the two tangle again.
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- Dana White: UFC 111 in New Jersey a sellout
This month's UFC 111 event in Newark, N.J., is already a sellout.
That's the word from UFC president Dana White, who posted the news on his Twitter account this afternoon.
UFC 111 takes place March 27 at the Prudential Center with two two pay-per-view title fights: UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre vs. top contender Dan Hardy and Shane Carwin vs. Frank Mir for an interim heavyweight title.
- Newark's Prudential Center hosts UFC 111 weigh-ins on March 26
The Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., plays host to the official UFC 111 fighter weigh-ins on Friday, March 26.
The weigh-ins take place on the eve of UFC 111, which is also hosted by the Prudential Center.
Doors to the weigh-ins, which feature UFC UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Dan Hardy, open to the public at 3 p.m. ET (noon ET PT), and the first fighter hits the scale at 4 p.m. ET.
- WEC 47 ratings dip to 373,000 viewers, second-smallest audience in two years
This past weekend's WEC 47 event on Versus scored a 0.46 household rating and 373,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com today confirmed.
The ratings were down sharply - 42 percent in all - compared to World Extreme Cagefighting's prior show, WEC 46 (640,000 viewers), which took place in January and benefited from proven draw Urijah Faber and a main-event title-unification bout between Benson Henderson and Jamie Varner.
WEC 45, which took place this past December, drew 330,000 viewers.
- MMAjunkie.com Radio: UFC 111 headliner Dan Hardy, UFC on Versus 1's Paul Buentello
MMAjunkie.com Radio today returns to its normal timeslot and welcomes to the show Dan Hardy, who headlines the March 27 UFC 111 event against UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.
Also joining the show is heavyweight Paul Buentello, who meets Cheick Kongo in a March 31 televised main-card bout at UFC on Versus 1.
MMAjunkie.com Radio begins at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's Race & Sports Book. Listen to and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.
- "The Ultimate Fighter 12" open tryouts held April 1 for lightweights, light heavyweights
Although "The Ultimate Fighter 11" doesn't debut for another three weeks, producers are already on the hunt for cast members for the upcoming 12th season.
Spike TV officials today announced they'll host an open tryout on April 1 for lightweight (155-pound) and light-heavyweight (205-pound) fighters.
The tryouts are being held in conjunction with UFC Fight Night 21 and take place at the Omni Charlotte Hotel's grand ballroom in Charlotte, N.C.
- HDNet Fights Video Vault: Alistair Overeem vs. Kazuyuki Fujita at Dynamite!! 2009
After two-and-a-half years of waiting, Strikeforce heavyweight champion
Alistair Overeem finally makes his return to U.S. soil. As
MMAjunkie.com recently reported, the champ is likely to meet Brett
Rogers at a May 15 event in St. Louis.
Since winning his belt with a submission victory over Paul Buentello, Overeem extended his win streak to six and then took on PRIDE veteran Kazuyuki Fujita at the co-promoted DREAM/World Victory Road "Dynamite!! 2009" event on Dec. 31.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, we present a video of the full heavyweight clash to see if Fujita could pull off the upset.- Listen to MMAjunkie.com's Dann Stupp on WatchKalibRun.com's Cage Cast
MMAjunkie.com editor-in-chief Dann Stupp recently joined WatchKalibRun.com's Cage Cast podcast, and the episode is now available for download.
Stupp joins WKR editor and Cage Cast host Zak Woods to discuss this past weekend's WEC 47 event, why the Arnold Sports Festival provides such a great sports partnership, and what's in store for Zuffa LLC and Ohio.
To download and subscribe to the podcast, and to check out one of the Web's top MMA blogs, go to www.watchkalibrun.com.
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- Nate Marquardt, not Frankie Edgar, hosts Fight Club Q&A at UFC on Versus 1 (Updated)
UFC middleweight contender Nate Marquardt will take the stage prior to
the March 20 weigh-in for "UFC on Versus 1: Vera vs. Jones" at 1STBANK
Center in Broomfield, Colo.
Marquardt will be the UFC's guest at the UFC on Versus 1 Fight Club Q&A session, a fan-driven interview opportunity that accompanies every UFC event.
UFC 112 title contender Frankie Edgar was initially announced as the Q&A host (and is still incorrectly listed in some online schedules), but Colorado resident Marquardt has since been officially announced for the role.
- "UFC Primetime" returns to Spike TV tonight, UFC 111's St-Pierre and Hardy featured
In anticipation of their UFC 111 main-event fight, UFC welterweight
champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy will be featured in
"UFC Primetime," a three-part special that airs on Spike TV.
The first episode debuts on Spike TV tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, while parts two and three will air in the same timeslot on March 17 and March 24, respectively.
UFC 111 takes place March 27 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and airs on pay-per-view.
- Stephan Bonnar loses UFC 110 appeal, welcomes rematch with Krzysztof Soszynski
Stephan Bonnar lost an appeal to change the result of his UFC 110 loss to Krzystztof Soszynski.
The Combat Sports Authority of New South Wales ruled this past Tuesday that the official result ruling the fight a TKO win in favor of Soszynski stands.
"A review was held ... and the Combat Sports Authority of NSW did not seek to interfere with the referee's decision," wrote Craig Waller, Executive Director of the Combat Sports Authority of New South Wales, in an email sent to MMAjunkie.com late Tuesday night.
- Dana White: UFC 111 in New Jersey a sellout
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