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UFC Fight Night 24 Medical Suspensions – All Fighters Handed Minimum Sentences

The Washington State Department of Licensing and Regulation released the list of medical suspensions following last Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 24 (aka UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis) event.
All twenty-four fighters from the event were issued with at least a mandatory seven day suspension for precautionary reasons, up to an indefinite suspension for UFC bantamweight […]

The Washington State Department of Licensing and Regulation released the list of medical suspensions following last Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 24 (aka UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis) event.

All twenty-four fighters from the event were issued with at least a mandatory seven day suspension for precautionary reasons, up to an indefinite suspension for UFC bantamweight Michael McDonald.

UFC Fight Night 24 took place at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington on March 26. Spike TV carried the main event live on their network, while fans were treated with five free prelim bouts on the UFC’s Facebook page.

Headliners Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis and opponent Antonio Rogerio Nogueira were both issued with minimum seven day sentences. The same sentence was imposed on co-headliners Anthony “Rumble” Johnson and Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy.

MMAjunkie.com had the full list of medical suspensions, which are as follows:

Phil Davis: suspended seven days
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: suspended seven days
Dan Hardy: suspended seven days
Anthony Johnson: suspended seven days
Amir Sadollah: suspended seven days
DaMarques Johnson: suspended 30 days
Leonard Garcia: suspended seven days
Chan Sung Jung: suspended seven days
Jon Madsen: suspended 30 days (likely as the result of a severely swollen eye)
Mike Russow: suspended seven days
Alex Caceres: suspended seven days
Mackens Semerzier: suspended seven days
Kris McCray: suspended 42 days
John Hathaway: suspended seven days
Edwin Figueroa: suspended seven days
Michael McDonald: indefinite medical suspension
Christian Morecraft: suspended seven days
Sean McCorkle: suspended seven days
T.J. Waldburger: suspended 30 days
Johny Hendricks: suspended seven days
Aaron Simpson: suspended seven days
Mario Miranda: suspended 30 days
Nik Lentz: suspended 42 days
Waylon Lowe: suspended seven days

Chan Sung Jung Wins Submission of the Night with “Twister”

Okay, so granted, the feature attractions for last night’s UFC Fight Night card in Seattle probably didn’t wear out the edges of many seats, as both Phil Davis and Anthony Johnson utilized their wrestling to score conservative wins over “Minotoro” Nogueira and Dan Hardy respectively. Not exactly thrilling stuff, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do […]

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Okay, so granted, the feature attractions for last night’s UFC Fight Night card in Seattle probably didn’t wear out the edges of many seats, as both Phil Davis and Anthony Johnson utilized their wrestling to score conservative wins over “Minotoro” Nogueira and Dan Hardy respectively. Not exactly thrilling stuff, but hey, sometimes ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.

Thankfully the undercard had several ‘holy eff’ moments, including, yup, Chan Sung Jung’s freakin awesome submission win over Leonard Garcia, which came via a “Twister.” How bad ass was that? Of course, “The Korean Zombie” won Submission of the Night and an extra 55 large for utilizing the rarely seen technique, which guess what? Apparently he learned by watching it on the world-wide-web thingy. In an interview posted up at MMA Weekly, Jung had this to say about his latest addition to the MMA highlight reel, hall of fame.

“Yes, it was something I actually saw a long time ago on the internet; it’s one of Eddie Bravo’s moves. It was something I practiced because it just looks fun, so I do it quite a bit in practice. I always told people that I was going to try it sometime in competition; that I wanted to do it in the UFC, and I was finally able to.”

We are all forever in your debt Mr. Jung. Looks like someone’s going to be moving a few more of those Korean Zombie t-shirts no?

UFC Fight Night 24 Fighters Earn $55K “Fight Night” Bonuses

UFC President Dana White handed out “Fight Night” bonuses to Chan Sung Jung (aka the “Korean Zombie”), Johny Hendricks, Michael McDonald and Edwin Figueroa for their work Saturday night as part of the UFC Fight Night 24 event.
Fighters earned $55,000 for their performances with the “Submission of the Night” going to Jung, the “Knockout of […]

Fighters earned $55,000 for their performances with the “Submission of the Night” going to Jung, the “Knockout of the Night” to Johny Hendricks, and “Fight of the Night” to McDonald and Figueroa.

UFC Fight Night 24 (aka UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis) took place at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. The main card aired on Spike TV, while five preliminary bouts were streamed live on the internet on the promotions Facebook page.

The event set a record for “UFC Fight Night” events in both gate revenue and attendance. The Seattle event brought in a live gate of $1,182,850, with a reported 14,212 fans in attendance. The next highest attendance for a “Fight Night” event was UFC Fight Night 18 which took place in Nashville, Tennessee back in April 2009. That event drew an attendance of 10,267 with a live gate of $626,077.

The “Korean Zombie” faced Leonard Garcia in a rematch of their “Fight of the Year” bout from last April. Both fighters seemed to have learned something from the last fight and were more technical, but it was Jung who used a Twister submission to end the fight with one second left on the clock in the second round. The Korean became the first fighter to successfully use the submission at a UFC event and was probably a big factor in securing the “Submission of the Night” bonus.

Hendricks took little time in stopping his opponent, T.J. Waldburger, by ending the fight at 1:35 of the first round by TKO. Unfortunately for fans, the bout was not replayed during the Spike TV broadcast.

Luckily, fans got to see McDonald and Figueroa slug it out for three rounds via the Facebook stream in the “Fight of the Night” winner. Figueroa took the fight less than two weeks ago after McDonald’s original opponent backed out due to injury. Both men pushed the pace for three rounds, but it was McDonald who got the better of his opponent, despite Figueroa’s ‘don’t quit’ attitude which prevented him from finishing the fight. McDonald would earn scores of 30-27 from all judges to win a unanimous decision.

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Bellator XXXVII Weigh-In Results

Bellator Fighting Championships continues with it’s fourth season Saturday night with Bellator 38, from Harrah’s Casino Tunica Event Center in Robinsonville, MS. This weekends event features the quarterfinal bouts of Bellator’s light heavyweight tournament.
Fighters hit the scales this evening at the Event Center Lobby in the Casino, with all eight light heavyweights hitting the […]

Fighters hit the scales this evening at the Event Center Lobby in the Casino, with all eight light heavyweights hitting the mark for their respective bouts. Saturday’s winners will move on to next months semi-finals for a shot at become the first Bellator light heavyweight champion and the $100,000 payday.

Bellator 38 will air live on MTV2 beginning at 7PM EST.

Participants include fourth degree BJJ black belt Daniel Gracie, undefeated Tim Carpenter, as well as D.J. Linderman, Raphael Davis, Richard Hale, Nik Fekete, Chris Davis, and Christian M’Pumbu.

The full Bellator 38 weigh-in results are as follows:

Main Card (MTV2)

Light Heavyweight Quarterfinal Fight: Tim Carpenter (205) vs. Daniel Gracie (205)
Light Heavyweight Quarterfinal Fight: D.J. Linderman (205.6) vs. Raphael Davis (205.2)
Light Heavyweight Quarterfinal Fight: Richard Hale (204.6) vs. Nik Fekete (205.4)
Light Heavyweight Quarterfinal Fight: Chris Davis (204.4) vs. Christian M’Pumbu (200.6)

Local Feature Bouts

Local Feature Fight: Jimmy Van Horn (154) vs. Austin Lyons (155.6)
Local Feature Fight: Jake Underwood (151.6) vs. Tim Galluzzi (150.4)*
Local Feature Fight: Will Penn (250.4) vs. Blagoi Ivanov (251)
Local Feature Fight: Brian Albin (205.2) vs. Cody Donovan (205.4)
Local Feature Fight: Amaechi Oselukwue (183.8) vs. Abe Wilson (186.6)*

* – both fighters given two extra hours to make weight

UFC Fight Night 24 Weigh-In Results

A total of twenty-four fighters will be hitting the scales this evening in Seattle, Washington for tomorrows UFC Fight Night 24 (aka UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis) event.
The Key Arena will host today’s weigh-ins, as well as Saturday’s live event. Fans can watch the four fight main card for free on Spike TV […]

A total of twenty-four fighters will be hitting the scales this evening in Seattle, Washington for tomorrows UFC Fight Night 24 (aka UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis) event.

The Key Arena will host today’s weigh-ins, as well as Saturday’s live event. Fans can watch the four fight main card for free on Spike TV and will also feature five prelim bouts on Facebook.

You can watch the live video stream at UFC.tv beginning at 7PM EST (4PM PST).

The main event sees a light heavyweight clash between Brazlian Antonio Rogerio “Lil’Nog” Nogueira and undefeated Phil “Mr Wonderful” Davis. While welterweights Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy takes on Anthony “Rumble” Johnson in the co-main event.

The full UFC Fight Night 24 weigh-in results are as follows:

Main Card

Light Heavyweight bout: Antônio Rogério Nogueira (206) vs. Phil Davis (206)
Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy (171) vs. Anthony Johnson (171)
Welterweight bout: DaMarques Johnson (171) vs. Amir Sadollah (170)
Featherweight bout: Leonard Garcia (145) vs. Chan Sung Jung (146)

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Heavyweight bout: Jon Madsen (261) vs. Mike Russow (256)
Featherweight bout: Alex Caceres (146) vs. Mackens Semerzier (146)
Welterweight bout: John Hathaway (171) vs. Kris McCray (170)
Bantamweight bout: Edwin Figueroa (136) vs. Michael McDonald (135)
Heavyweight bout: Sean McCorkle (266) vs. Christian Morecraft (265)

Preliminary Card

Middleweight bout: Johny Hendricks (170) vs. T.J. Waldburger (170)
Welterweight bout: Mario Miranda (185) vs. Aaron Simpson (185)
Lightweight bout: Nik Lentz (155) vs. Waylon Lowe (156)

Phil Baroni Looking For One Last Run Tonight At Titan FC 17

(Photo and weigh-in results courtesy of BJinMMA.com, check out more weigh-in photos at the link)
“The New York Bad Ass” Phil Baroni (13-13) set the tone for his next fight by walking into the Titan Fighting Championship 17 weigh-ins thirty minutes late. This will be his first fight since being released from the UFC, and […]

(Photo and weigh-in results courtesy of BJinMMA.com, check out more weigh-in photos at the link)

“The New York Bad Ass” Phil Baroni (13-13) set the tone for his next fight by walking into the Titan Fighting Championship 17 weigh-ins thirty minutes late. This will be his first fight since being released from the UFC, and in a recent interview with BloodyElbow.com, Baroni noted that it was “now or never” for him.

Baroni is set to meet Nick Nolte (3-2) on the live broadcast portion of the Titan FC ~~debut~~ card on HDNet. “The New York Bad Ass” is feeling the pressure of trying to succeed at the age of 34, against younger opponents and is looking to put together one last run to become a contender once again.

“Time is of the essence. It’s now or never. I have to stay in shape, be ready and fight as often as possible. I love doing this and there’s nothing I’d rather be doing. I see the writing on the wall. It’s really now or never. I want to keep doing this and I want to be successful at it. I always said it’s better to burn out than fade away, so I don’t want to just fade away. I want to burn out, I want to get another run with a bunch of fights and be a contender again…”

“I feel great right now. I see Dan Henderson looking the best he’s ever looked at 40 and it inspires me. I want to keep going. There’s nothing I’d rather do. I love to train and I love to fight. I love to perform and I love everything that goes along with the sport. I want to do it as long as I can. I’m hoping I can do it as long as Dan Henderson and that’s six years from now and that’s a long time.”

Titan FC 17 takes place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas and airs on HDNet live beginning at 10PM EST (7PM PST). Also featured on the card is former WWE star Bobby Lashley, who meets Bellator vet John Ott, and former “TUF 10″ alumni Abe Wagner.

Titan Fighting Championship 17 weigh-in results

Heavyweight bout: Bobby Lashley (252) vs. John Ott (215)
Heavyweight bout: Abe Wagner (265) vs. Aaron Rosa (235)
Welterweight bout: Travis Sveum (170) vs. Jonas De Almedia (170)
Anthony Gutierrez (140) vs. Jon Hollis (139)
Lightweight bout: Nathan Schut (155) vs. James Krause (155)
Lightweight bout: Aaron Derrow (154) vs. Alonzo Martinez (156)
Catchweight (150 lbs) bout: Eric Marriott (150) vs. Willian DeSousa (152)
Middleweight bout: Nick Nolte (184) vs. Phil Baroni (183)