The main event on tonight’s UFC 109 card at Mandalay Bay between Randy Couture and Mark Coleman could be greatly influenced by a man standing outside the cage.
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The success of the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been built largely on the brash, outspoken style of its president, Dana White. Now one of the organization’s top middleweight contenders is trying to build his career in much the same way. Chael Sonnen will meet Nate Marquardt in a featured bout on the UFC 109 card at Mandalay Bay on Saturday night, a fight that will determine the next challenger for the middleweight title that Anderson Silva will defend against Vitor Belfort in April.
At an age when most professional athletes have long been retired, 45-year-old Mark Coleman is just learning how to train properly.
A new investment will help the Ultimate Fighting Championship expand farther around the globe, but it won’t somehow be used to help bail out bankrupt Station Casinos, the league’s Las Vegas-based owners said.
The main event on Saturday night’s UFC 109 card at Mandalay Bay marks the first time two members of the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame will meet in the cage.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced a deal Wednesday with one of China’s largest Web portals to present pay-per-view matches online in the Asian country.
There is no shortage of pro athletes who have tried to compete at the highest levels long after their bodies were able.
Even as he was dominating Frank Mir in July to solidify himself as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Brock Lesnar was not at full strength.
Well, at least the time away didn’t ruin Brock Lesnar’s appetite for controversy. This can be a good thing for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. You can market a despised heavyweight champion as much as a beloved one.
Herschel Walker is far from the biggest star in mixed martial arts. He is, however, one of the most famous people to legitimately attempt to compete in the sport.
Owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship have sold a 10 percent stake to a Middle Eastern entertainment company to bolster the mixed-martial arts league’s ability to expand throughout that region and other areas of the world, UFC’s owners confirmed Monday.
The war of words between fighters typically ends about a day before the fight.
Gray Maynard’s official record doesn’t include his loss to Nate Diaz. That doesn’t make it sting any less.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship expects to learn the fate of heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar within the week.
The game plan designed for Rashad Evans was executed flawlessly for two rounds.
A brief lapse in the third, however, nearly cost him the fight in the main event of UFC 108 at the MGM Grand on Saturday night.
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