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UFC 115: Main Card Review and Fighter Report Cards

The UFC’s debut show in Vancouver is now in the books and by all accounts it was a big success. 
The event was a sellout, the crowd electric the whole night, and the fighters delivered some great action in the octagon throughout the night.&…

The UFC’s debut show in Vancouver is now in the books and by all accounts it was a big success. 
The event was a sellout, the crowd electric the whole night, and the fighters delivered some great action in the octagon throughout the night. 
The night will be forever remembered for the likely end to the […]

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UFC 115: Main Card Review and Fighter Report Cards

UFC 115 Results: After the Dust Settles

UFC 115 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the locale’s inaugural event, will go down as the sleeper card of the summer, having gone under most casual fans’ radar for the lack of star power beyond headliners Liddell and Franklin.
Wit…

UFC 115 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the locale’s inaugural event, will go down as the sleeper card of the summer, having gone under most casual fans’ radar for the lack of star power beyond headliners Liddell and Franklin.
With so many high profile cards spanning from the end of spring and continuing throughout […]

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UFC 115 Results: After the Dust Settles

UFC 115: Rich Franklin Scores First Round Knockout of Chuck Liddell

The UFC took over Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for UFC 115 live on pay-per-view.
GM Place, where the event was held, sold out in record time and the fans in attendance were given a main event finish that will go in the books as one of …

The UFC took over Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for UFC 115 live on pay-per-view.
GM Place, where the event was held, sold out in record time and the fans in attendance were given a main event finish that will go in the books as one of the best ever.
The main event of the evening featured two of […]

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UFC 115: Rich Franklin Scores First Round Knockout of Chuck Liddell

A Five-Round War for UFC 115: The Theater Experience

Filed under: UFCHaving experienced the UFC from the cheap seats as a fan, from sports bars, from restaurants with my face covered in wing sauce, from living rooms and from the (relative) comfort of press row, it was time Saturday to check off another b…

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Pat Barry and Mirko Cro CopHaving experienced the UFC from the cheap seats as a fan, from sports bars, from restaurants with my face covered in wing sauce, from living rooms and from the (relative) comfort of press row, it was time Saturday to check off another box: the UFC theater experience.

UFC 115 marked the promotion’s second card partnering with Fathom Events to show pay-per-views in movie theaters. The partnership was announced in February and UFC 111 in March kicked off the experiment. The UFC has said that fans’ reaction to watching their Octagon action on the silver screen the first time around was “a great experience and better than they had expected.”

I wanted to put that statement to the test, but I knew after a day that had already seen my butt in the same theater’s seats for “The A-Team,” plus a pre-fight meal of wings and fries, that I might very well be in for a five-round war.

Randy Couture Would Love To See Shaquille O’Neal Take On Hong Man Choi

Former UFC heavyweight champ and MMA legend Randy Couture (18-10) was in Vancouver this past weekend to help promote Saturday’s UFC 115 event.
In his rounds speaking to the press, Couture answered a few questions from The Province newspaper in Vancouver.
Most surprising celebrity who has been a fan?
“I guess, probably the one that caught my attention […]

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Former UFC heavyweight champ and MMA legend Randy Couture (18-10) was in Vancouver this past weekend to help promote Saturday’s UFC 115 event.

In his rounds speaking to the press, Couture answered a few questions from The Province newspaper in Vancouver.

Most surprising celebrity who has been a fan?

“I guess, probably the one that caught my attention the most, and maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise, was Shaquille O’Neal. I met him during the season of the first Ultimate Fighter and when I fought Tito [Ortiz, at UFC 44 in Las Vegas on Sept. 26, 2003] … well, when I walk in the cage and stand there, waiting for all the introductions and nonsense to get over with and the fight to start, I’ll pick out somebody on the far side and make eye contact with them. It passes that minute or so for me. That night, it happened to be Shaquille. He’s so damn big. So I winked at him and smiled and I guessed it freaked him out. I’ve talked to him a couple of times since then and he’s a great big, huge, funny guy and he’s expressed interest in fighting.”

How would he do?

“I think he’s a tremendous athlete. He’d probably do well. It’d be interesting to see him and Hongman Choi [the 7-foot-2 South Korean MMA star] hook it up. A couple of 7-footers out there, slinging leather. The ring would suddenly look very small with those two in it.”

UFC 115 Results: Chuck Liddell Is Okay Following Knockout (Hospital Picture)

For anyone who saw Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell get brutally knocked out by Rich Franklin at 115, he is at the hospital and doing okay.
A lot of fans are worried and expressing concern for the legendary fighter.
Liddell’s girlfriend Hei…

For anyone who saw Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell get brutally knocked out by Rich Franklin at 115, he is at the hospital and doing okay.
A lot of fans are worried and expressing concern for the legendary fighter.
Liddell’s girlfriend Heidi Northcott want’s everyone to know that Chuck is okay, he’s just a little banged up.
Northcott posted […]

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UFC 115 Results: Chuck Liddell Is Okay Following Knockout (Hospital Picture)