Dan Hardy: Anthony Johnson Can Come in at Whatever Weight He Wants

Fans who look forward to Dan Hardy’s pre-fight trash talk will have to get used to disappointment as he prepares to face Anthony Johnson at UFC Fight Night 24 in Seattle this Saturday night.

As Hardy told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA …

Fans who look forward to Dan Hardy‘s pre-fight trash talk will have to get used to disappointment as he prepares to face Anthony Johnson at UFC Fight Night 24 in Seattle this Saturday night.

As Hardy told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, not only does he like “Rumble” too much to come up with anything bad to say about him, he also doesn’t think it would do any good.

Anthony Johnson and Dan Hardy Plan to Swing Until Someone Drops

Filed under: UFC, NewsIf you like a good old-fashioned throwdown, make sure you’re on the couch on Saturday night when Dan Hardy and Anthony Johnson get set to do work in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 24.

Considered two of the UFC welterweight …

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If you like a good old-fashioned throwdown, make sure you’re on the couch on Saturday night when Dan Hardy and Anthony Johnson get set to do work in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 24.

Considered two of the UFC welterweight division’s biggest punchers, the two virtually guaranteed that every moment of the fight would be filled with stand-up action, until one of them is no longer able to stand.

“I’m not planning to go to the ground with Anthony,” Hardy told MMA Fighting during a teleconference. “I’m planning to send him down on his own.”

UFC Fight Night 24: Ortiz vs. Nogueira Fight Card

Filed under: UFCThe UFC announced Wednesday UFC Fight Night 24, the promotion’s Seattle debut on March 26 at the KeyArena.

Headlined by a light heavyweight matchup between ex-UFC champ Tito Ortiz vs. PRIDE veteran Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, the main ca…

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The UFC announced Wednesday UFC Fight Night 24, the promotion’s Seattle debut on March 26 at the KeyArena.

Headlined by a light heavyweight matchup between ex-UFC champ Tito Ortiz vs. PRIDE veteran Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, the main card airs live on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET.

Check out the current fight card below.

Garcia Vs. Phan the Sequel and Edgar Vs. Maynard the Epic Trilogy are Scheduled

MMAWeekly is reporting that Leonard Garcia and Nam Phan will meet again at UFC Fight Night 24 on March 26th in Seattle. Many fans and analysts feel the judges made a bad decision which awarded the “Bad Boy” a win over Phan at The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale in early December. With Dana […]

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MMAWeekly is reporting that Leonard Garcia and Nam Phan will meet again at UFC Fight Night 24 on March 26th in Seattle. Many fans and analysts feel the judges made a bad decision which awarded the “Bad Boy” a win over Phan at The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale in early December. With Dana White giving Nam Phan his win bonus, there were rumblings of a necessary rematch.

Another controversial fight, in which White awarded both fighters their win bonus was Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard for the Lightweight Championship at UFC 125. The fight marked the second time the two met in the Octagon and now a third meeting is expected to take place at UFC 130 in Las Vegas. The rubber-match is tentatively scheduled and will depend upon if Frankie Edgar, who was given six months for medical clearance, can be cleared before then. Both Edgar and Maynard were medically suspended until at least February 16th; whereby it was noted, Maynard would be cleared and Edgar could be medically cleared as early as that date.

Wild-Ass UFC Booking Roundup: Miller vs. Shalorus, Faber vs. Wineland, Bruce Leroy, Kid Yamamoto + More

("This big horsemeat-eating motherf*cker is next.")
There’s been a veritable orgy of UFC fight-bookings happening over the last couple days, and we might as well throw them all at you in one lump sum. We’ll start with one that might…


("This big horsemeat-eating motherf*cker is next.")

There’s been a veritable orgy of UFC fight-bookings happening over the last couple days, and we might as well throw them all at you in one lump sum. We’ll start with one that might not be the biggest of the bunch, but definitely struck us as the strangest…

Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus – UFC 128:
When Dana White proclaimed that Miller’s impressive kneebar submission win over Charles Oliveira at UFC 124 put him in the mix of  lightweight contenders, nobody figured that would mean that he’d be paired with an Octagon newcomer in his next bout. But this is the UFC, and sometimes the organization’s MMA math just doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. The Sparta, New Jersey native will attempt to increase his winning streak to seven when he takes on  (7-0-2) WEC veteran Shalorus at UFC 128 in his backyard in New Jersey.

Dan Miller vs. David Branch – UFC 128:
Considering that his brother is on the card and they can save on cornermen hotel rooms and plane tickets, it’s a no-brainer that the UFC would have another local fighter like Miller on the card for UFC 128. The fact that they now have to pay Chuck Liddell’s seven-figure salary,  bar and strip club tabs has not been lost on the accounting department who have undoubtedly suggested some cost cutting measures that will be implemented in 2011. Wait until you see the beat-up budget ex-strippers they bring in to replace Arianny and Chandella.

Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub – UFC 128:
It turned out that reports earlier this week that a rumored bout between Schaub and Stephan Struve had been verbally agreed to by both fighters were incorrect. Instead, Schaub will look to climb over former PRIDE wrecking machine, Cro Cop on his way to a top five opponent in 2011.

Filipovic will attempt to prolong his rapidly shortening career by defeating the up-and-coming fighter who is riding a three-fight winning streak which includes a "W" over Gabriel Gonzaga — the last man to put Cro Cop to sleep prior to Frank Mir turning his lights out in his last outing at UFC 119.

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Tito Ortiz Signs Bout Agreement to Face Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Filed under: UFC, NewsTito Ortiz has made a ritual out of signing his bout agreements on camera, and he did just that recently.

Ortiz shot a video last Wednesday while signing the agreement to fight Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and posted it online. In do…

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Tito Ortiz has made a ritual out of signing his bout agreements on camera, and he did just that recently.

Ortiz shot a video last Wednesday while signing the agreement to fight Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and posted it online. In doing so, Ortiz confirmed that the fight will take place on March 26 in Seattle, Wash. The light heavyweight bout is expected to headline UFC Fight Night 24 on Spike TV.