Side by side on a couch were Dana White and Mike Tyson, a pair of lifelong boxing fans, explaining why they rarely get excited to watch boxing anymore. That’s how times change.
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Cain Velasquez retained the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 160 at the MGM Grand on Saturday night with a quick knockout of Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva.
UFC 160 ANALYSIS
When the Ultimate Fighting Championship purchased Pride in 2007, the Japan-based organization had several marketable fighters targeted by the UFC.
Longtime Las Vegan Gray Maynard was looking for a new place to train after realizing his progress as a fighter had reached a plateau. His girlfriend of 13 years just wanted to be closer to the ocean.
Former World Extreme Cagefighting champion Brian Bowles has been defeated only by current Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and one of the division’s all-time greats in Urijah Faber. At 32, Bowles has competed in just 12 professional fights, so he should have plenty left in the tank.
It would be easy for Cain Velasquez to be overconfident heading into his rematch against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva in the main event of UFC 160 Saturday night at the MGM Grand.
For the second straight time, Vitor Belfort knocked out a fellow middleweight contender with a head kick, this time in the main event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship card in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, on Saturday night.
Luke Rockhold spent much of his tenure as Strikeforce middleweight champion insisting that he would fare just fine against the top 185-pounders in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Middleweight challenger Chris Weidman’s preparation for his title shot against longtime UFC champion Anderson Silva started before he even knew he would fight in a cage for a living.
Lorenzo Fertitta, Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive and chairman, is leading a contingent of UFC staffers and fighters Tuesday on a one-day tour of three upstate New York cities to extol the economic virtues of hosting a UFC event.
Reuben Rios moved to Las Vegas in 2000 to take a chance on a booming city. That chance gave him a booming professional career.
Complete chaos at the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s light heavyweight division was less than 30 seconds away Saturday night at UFC 159 in Newark, N.J.
NEWARK, N.J. — It took the most physically gifted champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship dominating an obviously overmatched opponent to restore some order to one of the most bizarre UFC events in recent memory.
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