Author: John Morgan [kingofabuelos]

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has been rapidly adding several
fights to its multiple upcoming cards, but today a matchup from “UFC
Fight Night 21: Florian vs. Gomi” was removed from the event.

MMAjunkie.com has learned that a contest matching
lightweights Cole Miller (16-4 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Andre Winner (10-3
MMA, 1-1 UFC) has been scratched.

Sources close to the event said Miller is injured and unable to
make the fight. It is unknown at this time if the bout has been
rescheduled for a later date.

If you’ve never checked out the live webcam stream of MMAjunkie.com Radio, today might be the day you want to give it a try.

WEC ringcard girl Brittney Palmer joins the crew in-studio as a guest co-host today, while Strikeforce Challenger VI’s Karl Amoussou and Topps’ executive Jeremy Fullerton will also call in as guests during the show. Amoussou will discuss his fight with Trevor Prangley just hours before the pair appears on Showtime, while Fullerton will discuss his company’s latest UFC-themed series of trading cards.

MMAjunkie.com Radio begins at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino’s Race & Sports Book. Listen to
and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – All 24 fighters for Friday’s Showtime-broadcast
“Strikeforce Challengers VI: Kaufman vs. Hashi” event officially made
weight for the show on Thursday evening.

MMAjunkie.com was on scene for the ceremonies and captured images of all 24
competitors as they hit the scale at the Hilton San Jose in San Jose,
Calif. The San Jose Civic Auditorium plays host to Friday night’s fight
card.

Check out the images, which include main-event fighters Sarah
Kaufman and Takayo Hashi, who will compete for Strikeforce’s first ever
women’s welterweight (135-pound) title, as well as South African
veteran Trevor Prangley and his opponent, Frenchman Karl Amoussou.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – MMAjunkie.com was on scene for today’s “Strikeforce Challengers VI: Kaufman vs. Hashi” official fighter weigh-ins in San Jose, Calif.

Today’s weigh-in ceremonies took place at the Hilton San Jose (in the
Almaden Ballroom). Friday night’s Showtime-broadcast fight card takes
place at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.

All 24 fighters successfully made weight for the show, though as is typical in California, it took some early contract planning.

As the WEC prepares to offer two star-studded cards in the span of just
seven weeks, the promotion’s general manager, Reed Harris, believes his
organization has primed itself for success at both events.

With strong ticket sales for March’s “WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz” event
and a “booming” pre-sale for April’s blockbuster “WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber”
card, Harris believes company records may soon be falling.

And while the promotion, along with the remainder of the Versus
channel’s programming, remains on the outs with DirecTV and has met
with some criticism for its choice to price WEC 48 as a $44.99
pay-per-view event, Harris says his company will deliver.

As 2009 neared a close, Sengoku Raiden Championships middleweight champion Jorge Santiago was on an astounding run.

With nine consecutive wins over the likes of Kazuo Misaki, Kazuhiro
Nakamura, Trevor Prangley and Jeremy Horn, Santiago slowly found
himself creeping into many MMA observers’ top-10 lists.

But this past November, Polish powerhouse Mamed Khalidov put an end to Santiago’s successful run. Now the American Top
Team product is ready to extract revenge – and he wouldn’t mind a
return trip to Strikeforce, either.