Author: John Morgan [kingofabuelos]

The unlikely winner of DREAM’s 2009 “Super Hulk” open-weight
tournament, Ikuhisa Minowa (44-30-8), will return to action at the
upcoming DREAM.13 event in March.

DREAM officials recently announced the addition of Minowa to the card
while simultaneously awarding him a belt for the “Super Hulk” title.

An opponent for Minowa has yet to be determined for the March 22 event in Yokohama, Japan.

Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal is chomping at the bit to
make a fight with Gegard Mousasi at the second
installment of “Strikeforce on CBS,” which is expected for April.
 
All in good time, Mousasi assures.
 
“[Lawal] is confident,” Mousasi recently told MMAjunkie.com. “But I’m more than happy to show him he’s going to
pay in the cage. I’m just more motivated to beat him, just because he
likes himself so much. I think he’s in front of the mirror 24 hours (a
day).”

Respect isn’t a two-way street for Wanderlei Silva (32-10-1 MMA, 2-5 UFC) and Michael Bisping (18-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC).
 
Silva, who makes his middleweight debut this weekend when he meets
Bisping in the co-main event of “UFC 110: Nogueira vs. Velasquez,”
promised his pre-fight potshots are over but then fired another one in
Bisping’s direction at today’s pre-event press conference in
Sydney, Australia.
 
“We’re going to have a great show,” Silva said before glancing at his opponent. “And I’m going to kick your ass.”

The main event of this weekend’s “UFC 110: Nogueira vs. Velasquez” card is
based on a great storyline of “young buck meets grizzled veteran.”

But at today’s pre-event press conference in Sydney, Australia, UFC
president Dana White confirmed what many MMA observers had already
suspected: an immediate title shot might hinge on the bout as well.

Despite an upcoming interim heavyweight title fight between top
contenders Shane Carwin and Frank Mir at UFC 111 in March, White acknowledged that the
winner of the featured contest between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and
Cain Velasquez at UFC 110 might be next for returning UFC heavyweight champ Brock
Lesnar.

MMA pioneer Ken Shamrock has suffered another loss.

While the UFC Hall-of-Famer has found it difficult to pick up a victory
in the cage over the past few years, today “The World’s Most Dangerous
Man” was defeated in a court of law.

According to an official UFC statement, the promotion’s parent company,
Zuffa, LLC, was today awarded a victory in a Las Vegas court in a
contract violation claim filed in April 2008 by Shamrock.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s traditional pre-event press conference for this weekend’s “UFC 110: Nogueira vs. Velasquez” event takes place today, and you can watch a live video stream of the presser on MMAjunkie.com.

Today’s press conference takes place at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia, and the UFC-provided stream begins in North America at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT).

Taking part in today’s event are UFC president Dana White, UFC 110 headliners Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Cain Velasquez, as well as Wanderlei Silva, Michael Bisping, Joe Stevenson and Australia’s own George Sotiropoulos.