UFC 109 Relentless went down with a bang tonight at the Mandaley Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and with a nice mix of old and new stars it had something for new and old MMA fans alike. With a headliner featuring two hall of famers, both serious competitors but only one able to walk away victorious and you knew it was going to be an interesting main card.
Randy Couture and Mark Coleman faced off, with Randy taking control early and dominating in typical Couture fashion. Round two saw more of the same with clinch and then a takedown setting up a nice rear naked choke that saw Randy getting another win int he octagon
UFC 109 hits our TV's this weekend on February the 6th promising a trio of exciting fights and some nice undercard fights too. Heading up the main card is two MMA legends with former heavyweight champs Randy Couture and Mark Coleman finally stepping into the cage injury free. We also have middleweight contender Nate Marquart taking on tough grinder Chael Sonnen presumably to decide the next fighter for Anderson Silva, or for Vitor Belfort depending on who wins that fight.
Mike Swick takes on Paulo Thiago, Demian Maia returns to the Octagon to take on Dan Miller on his road back and Frank Trigg and Matt Serra square up and have already started the trash talking so that should be an exciting fight to watch.
For the main event we saw Nick Diaz and Marius Zaromskis go toe to toe for the vacant Welterweight title, which Nick Diaz easily won with his boxing and reach bringing him the victory, with Zaromskis getting roughed up and TKO'd from the always game Nick Diaz.
MMA Live is back once again with all the latest MMA news, with a special indepth look and breakdown of the upcoming Strikeforce Miami card. With two belts on the line and some interesting match ups the MMA Live crew cast their bets and predictions for all the main fights on the card. Joining Jon Anik this week is regular Kenny Florian and Rashad Evans
With Strikeforce Miami looming on the horizon as the next big MMA show, one of the line up is getting quite a lot of press and that is 47 year old Herschel Walker. The former American Football star is making his MMA debut on the Strikeforce Miami card and so far his press has far overshadowed the other, more experienced fighters in the show.
The Fight Nerd posted this video of the press conference which you can watch below
MMA Live returns with all the lately MMA news, this week Brock Lesnar is the main topic with his healthy return to the UFC. Also on the show this week is Jay Heiron who has a chat with Molly Qerim about his current status in Strikeforce. Floyd Mayweather also gets a mention, and whether the UFC are going to go head to head in a PPV battle against boxing.
Brock Lesnar today is going to speak live on ESPN regarding his future in the MMA world, the current UFC Heavyweight champ has gone through a major illness which has forced the UFC to pitch number one contender Shane Carwin up against Frank Mir instead of the champ.
From all the talk so far it seems as though Brock is going to return to the Octagon sometime later this year but it should be confirmed later during the show on ESPN. With his return highly likely it still remains to be seen how the UFC are going to handle his return
Strikeforce Miami is the next MMA event from the San Jose based promotion, who are almost up to three years or promoting MMA events and Miami is their latest one.
With a main event featuring Nick Diaz Vs Marius Zaromskis which should have fireworks in store, and a co main event of Cristiane Santos Vs Marloes Coenen, we should be in for some interesting action, as Santos defends her title against the striker from Netherlands in Coenen
MMA Live is back once again, with all the latest MMA news and features with regular hosts Kenny Florian and Franklin McNeil joining Jon Anik and Molly Qerim. Also in the show today is recent Strikeforce signing, Herschal Walker who talks about his upcoming fight and also casts his view on last weekends MMA action. The hot topic this week is the confirmation of BJ Penn's new opponent, who has been named as Frankie Edgar and the panel get to chime in on how good a match up this one is.
This weekend and Monday night saw two Zuffa MMA events back to back with WEC 46 and UFC Fight Night 20. WEC saw the return of Uriah Faber who took a submission of the night win over Raphael Assuncao, who got dropped a couple of times before Faber sunk in a rear naked choke that put the former 145lb champ in line for a match against the current champion Jose Aldo.
Jamie Varner made his return also to defend his Lightweight belt against Ben Henderson's Interim Lightweight belt in a fight which saw Henderson finish with a wicked guillotine that Varner didn't want any part off, and sets up the rematch between Henderson and Donald Cerrone which was almost too close to call the first time around
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