The highly touted Takanori Gomi made his UFC debut live on Spike TV from North Carolina against perennial title challenger Kenny Florian to headline the UFC Fight Night 21 card. The UFC sold him as an "all time great", "the last PRIDE champion" and his 30+ wins were mentioned. Former title challenger and TUF veteran Kenny Florian entered the cage as the home country fighter, well known and respected by the fans.   He then proceeded to utterly dominate and dismantle Takanori Gomi. Florian picked Gomi apart standing in the first round but waited until the third, when Gomi began to land punches on the feet to shoot in for the take down where ...

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 The fight began with an in arena blackout in Bojangles, North Carolina that necessitated the airing of a preliminary fight.  Roy Nelson, the winner of the highest rating season of The Ultimate Fighter, came into his fight with 6'11" Stefan Struve talking a big game and carrying big belly on his low slung 6 foot frame. He quickly demolished his much taller opponent. Dropping him with a huge right hook and following up with savage ground and pound to force the stoppage. Before the fight rumor had it that Nelson would be fighting top contender Junior Dos Santos if he won this fight.  Looks like that fight will happen. And it looks like people ...

If you've been paying any attention to the news about UFC 115 this week you know that things are very confusing. That is the event that has long been expected to feature The Ultimate Fighter season 11 coaches Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz in Vancouver. Rumors have buzzed around the event for more than a month, most of them having to do with the status of Tito Ortiz and whether or not he'll be able to fight. I documented the rumors here and speculated on the active role of Dana White and the UFC PR machine in deliberately putting out disinformation and spin to build heat for TUF 11. Now there's a whole new cloud of rumor ...

What kind of world do we live in nowadays where you can’t get into a punchup at a bar any more without being arrested and ’spit-bagged’ by the police? That’s what War Machine would like to know in what is his fourth arrest since 2007. from FightLinker.com