UFC on FOX 5 Henderson vs. Diaz: The Fight Card
Next Saturday, UFC on FOX 5 will take place at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, headlined by the UFC Lightweight title bout between Ben Henderson and Nate…
Next Saturday, UFC on FOX 5 will take place at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, headlined by the UFC Lightweight title bout between Ben Henderson and Nate…
What’s the best way to follow an event featuring a thrilling five round UFC Welterweight Championship fight? How about an event on free television featuring a UFC Lightweight Championship battle between reigning 155 kingpin Benson Henderson and current top contender Nate Diaz?
(Seriously? Not even *one* vote for Jason Guida?) The 16th season of The Ultimate Fighter kicks off tonight on FX, and…
(Mike Swick and DaMarques Johnson combine their efforts to create not only the greatest punchface of 2012, but perhaps the…
UFC on FX 4 took place at Revel Atlantic City, New Jersey. UFC reports a sell-out crowd with 4,652 spectators. No totals for gate receipts have been reported as of this writing. The Main Event turned out to be a disappointment for most fans, including UFC President Dana White who tweeted a string of complaints about the fight as it was unfolding:
I thought it was impossible for this fight to suck. I WAS WRONG!!!!!!
— Dana White (@danawhite) June 23, 2012
First time I have ever seen Guida get boo’d
UFC on FX is over from Atlantic City, New Jersey and the main event found Gray Maynard delivering an important win at Lightweight. The fights featured a lot of technical fighting, with decisions comprising 3 out of 4 main card bouts.
Lightweight contenders Clay Guida and Gray Maynard stayed on the feet for the first round, with Guida using his trademark movement to bloody Maynard’s nose. The Carpenter appeared to be just out of range of all Maynard’s strikes in the opening stanza. The second round started
The weigh-in results are official for tomorrow nights UFC on FX 4 card, and all but one fighter came in on-point. Gray Maynard will look to regain a high spot in the stacked Lightweight division against Clay Guida in the main event. Here are the full results:
Main Card (FX, 9:00 PM ET)-Gray Maynard (155.0) vs. Clay Guida (155.5)-Sam Stout (155.5) vs. Spencer Fisher (156.0)-Brian Ebersole (170.0) vs. T.J. Waldburger (170.5)-Ross Pearson (146.0) vs. Cub Swanson (145.5)
Preliminary Card (Fuel TV, 6:00 PM
The UFC announced today that Brock Jardine (9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will replace Papy Abedi (8-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) in a welterweight match against Rick Story (13-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) on next month’s UFC on FX 4. The irony is that Abedi was a replacement for Rich Attonito (10-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC), who was previously dropped from the card due to injury.
Jardine is making his UFC debut on the strength of a three-fight win streak. Jardine, whose sole career loss came at the hands of “The Ultimate Fighter 14” champion Tony
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