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Light heavyweight-turned-middleweight fighter Goran Reljic has been forced to pull out of UFC 90 in Chicago on Oct. 25 due to a lower back injury.
Reljic’s management revealed the news to various Internet outlets over the weekend.
The Croat had been slated to fight fellow middleweight Thales Leites in a bout slated to air during the pay-per-view [...]
UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre has been awarded his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt by Bruno Fernandes.
The Franchise Radio is reporting that St. Pierre received his black belt on Saturday at TriStar Gym which was the end of a monthly seminar being held by BJJ world champion Bruno Fernandes.
In an interview with GracieMag.com, St. Pierre [...]
Estranged adoptive brothers Ken Shamrock and Frank Shamrock have both signed contracts in principle to fight each other in 2009, according to a new article by Michael Woods of ESPN.com.
The two have expressed a public interest in fighting each other for the past several years and plans appeared to be in motion earlier this year [...]
While major national promotions took Saturday off, several regional promotions held fight cards throughout the continental United States. Several veterans affiliated with major promotions won their respective bouts, as well as several prospects who are on the cusp of joining them in the “Big Leagues.”
One of those prospects is former NCAA wrestling champion Phil Davis. [...]
EliteXC completed its third show in three weeks last night from the Horseshoe Casino just outside of Chicago in Hammond, Indiana.
While it was a quality show, it was not anywhere near as strong as the promotion’s ShoXC event from two weeks ago in Santa Ynez, Calif., which many pundits believe was EliteXC’s strongest ShoXC event [...]
