UFC 125 Prelims to Air on ION

By FCF Staff

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has announced that three preliminary bouts from the promotion’s upcoming, January 1st, “Resolution” card will be broadcast live on ION Television. According to a statement on the official UFC website, the three bouts that will be shown include middleweight Brad Tavares vs. Phil Baroni, Marcus Davis (pictured) vs. lightweight Jeremy Stephens and featherweight Josh Grispi vs. Dustin Poirier.

The prelim broadcast will begin at 8:55PM ET/ 5:55PT, approximately one hour before the card’s pay-per-view, which will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard.

Spike TV had been broadcasting an hour of lead in, preliminary action for many of the previous UFC pay-per-views. Today’s announcement did not state as to whether the ION network, which is reportedly in 100 million U.S. households, will now serve as a regular broadcaster for UFC preliminary bouts.

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Video: M-1 Global Best of 2010: #4 Vasilevski vs. Narkun

By FCF Staff, photo courtesy M-1 Global

M-1 Global has announced that the December 10th, light-heavyweight championship bout between  Vyacheslav Vasilevski (pictured) and Tomasz Narkun, is the fourth best bout to take place under the promotion's banner in 2010. The fight took place in Moscow, Russia.

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MFC Signs Undefeated Tyrone Glover

 

By FCF Staff, photo courtesy Maximum Fighting Championship

The Maximum Fighting Championship has announced that it has signed undefeated lightweight Tyrone Glover to a four fight contract. The 31 year-old-fighter could make his promotional debut at MFC 28 in February; however, no date has been set.

“From a performance standpoint, this is the perfect time for me,” Glover (5-0) was quoted saying in a press release from the promotion. “I wanted to get involved with a good promotion and I’ve done that by coming to the MFC.”

“And I have the resources now for my training and my support system. Having those two things means I can come into the MFC and establish myself in the lightweight division and be a force to be reckoned with.”

Glover recently returned to fighting,  after taking a five year hiatus from the sport to pursue his law degree, and submitted Nick Buschman at a Fight to Win event in November. Glover’s last bout prior had taken place in September, 2005, when he worked his way to a majority decision win over UFC vet Din Thomas at Deep 20.

“I think my talents lie in my well-rounded game plan,” added Glover, who began his own legal practice.

“I think I’ve got the tools to put a guy down and I’ve got the tools to stand with him. It may not be my pedigree like wrestling is, but I’m confident I can use my stand up. My real strength is being able to put together a cohesive MMA game plan that I can use to beat anybody.”

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Video: M-1 Global Best of 2010: #5 Byrd vs. Vizcaya

By FCF Staff, photo courtesy M-1 Global

M-1 Global has announced that a light-heavyweight showdown between Byron Byrd and Daniel Vizcaya, is number five on the promotion's list of top ten bouts for 2010. The tilt took place on September 18th in Atlantic City, and was part of the M-1 Selection Americas Tournament.

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Hornbuckle Out, Okuno to Face Chonan at “Soul of Fight”

By FCF Staff

Just days removed from World Victory Road’s December 30th “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” card in Tokyo, Japan, the promotion has announced that Taisuke Okuno, and not Dan Hornbuckle, will face Ryo Chonan at the day long martial arts festival. According to a post on Chonan’s Twitter account, Hornbuckle was forced to withdraw from the bout due to influenza. (Pictured: Hornbuckle (left))

Okuno (10-5-2) last competed at Sengoku 15 in October and lost by unanimous decision to Yasubey Enomoto. The loss ended Okuno’s four fight undefeated streak, which included wins over Nick Thompson and Hidehiko Hasegawa.

Chonan (18-11) is coming off a stoppage win over Jun Hee Mon at Deep 50 in October, after being knocked out by Jung Hwan Cha at Astra’s “Yoshida’s Farewell” card in April. The UFC vet is 3-2 in his last five fights.

Some of the other bouts scheduled for “Soul of Fight” included a featherweight title fight between champion Marlon Sandro and challenger Hatsu Hioki, Kazuo Miskai vs Mike Seal, Masanori Kanehara vs. Yoshiro Maeda, Akitoshi Tamura vs. Taiyo Nakahara, Mamed Khalidov vs. Yuki Sasaki, Dave Herman vs. Yoshiro Nakao and Yasubey Enomoto vs. Kitaro Nakamura.

The card will be broadcast throughout North America later in January on HDNet.

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Video: M-1 Global Best of 2010: #6 Vasilevski vs. Guzev

By FCF Staff, photo courtesy M-1 Global

M-1 Global continues to announce the promotion's best bouts for 2010; coming in at number six is a light-heavyweight tilt between Vyacheslav Vasilevski amd Sergey Guzev, which went down April 10th, in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Video: M-1 Global Best of 2010: #7 Fioravanti vs. Guseinov

 By FCF Staff, photo courtesy M-1 Global

Fight number seven on M-1 Global's best of 2010 countdown is a middleweight bout between UFC vet Luigi Fioravanti and Arthur Guseinov, which took place December 10th, in Moscow, Russia.

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Video: M-1 Global Best of 2010: #8 Sultanakhmedov vs. Kusch

By FCF Staff, photo courtesy M-1 Global

Check out video below of a middleweight tilt between Magomed Sultanakhmedov and Pavel Kusch, which took place February 26th in St. Petersburg, Russia. M-1 Global has announced that the fight was the eighth best to take place under the promotion's banner in 2010.

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