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Gegard Mousasi has suffered a shoulder injury from his grappling exhibition with Fedor at M-1: Breakthrough last month in Kansas City which means he is out of DREAM 11′s October 6th super-hulk tournament and his bout with Thierry Sokodjou. Not that many felt the match was a relevant one or there would have been any other outcome other than Soko’s destruction.

Fedor vs Mousasi Grappling Exhibition

UFC has signed a deal with British channel FIVE for highlights of previous UFC events, and showcase up and coming bouts in a show titled “UFC: Main Event”. The first episode will feature Randy Couture vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and other UFC 102 bouts on Monday, September 14, 2009 at midnight. Hopefully this forces US TV execs to take note, and perhaps we can get even more free MMA!

A bout between Matt Hamill and Jon “Bones” Jones has been agreed to by both, though not officially announced. The bout is expected to take place on TUF 10′s season final on Dec. 5 at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas.

Jeremy Horn is “back”! Horn will be facing Clay’s older brother and fighter everyone loves to hate Jason Guida at Arena Rumble in Spokane, WA at Spokane Arena on September 12th. The rest of the card so far:

Jason Guida (17-20) vs. Jeremy Horn (81-19-5)
Trevor Prangley (20-5) vs. Dennis Reed (43-44-1)
Lyle Beerbohm (12-0) vs. Josh Martin (6-3-1)
Brad Imes (12-6) vs. Josh Queen (2-1)
Mike Hanks (2-0) vs. Sidney Silva (7-2)
Justin Grizzard (0-2) vs. Ben McCombs (0-0)
Terry Martin (18-7) vs. Julio Paulino (14-2)

Former World Champion Boxer Ricardo Mayorga has been training with AKA, who has announced that he will be making his MMA debut soon. Nope, not an excerpt from an article by The Onion. True story.

Welterweights Marcus Davis and Ben Saunders have agreed to fight on the UFC 106 card on November 21 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The rest of the cars so far:

Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin (Heavyweight Championship Bout)
Mark Coleman vs. Tito Ortiz
Kenny Florian vs. Clay Guida
Ricardo Almeida vs. Jon Fitch
Dustin Hazelett vs. Karo Parisyan
Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders
Phil Baroni vs. Amir Sadollah

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Randy Couture Announcement at Noon Today!!!
EXACTLY what it says! Stay tuned….in the mean time enjoy these Fedor and Randy pics:

WEC to drop 205# & 185#s!
WEC will be dropping the light Heavyweight (205#s) and Middleweight (185#s) divisions and those divisions and their fighters will be merged into the UFC. It seems BLAF wants the WEC to purely be a showcase for the lighter weight classes. That leaves a few questions: with less fighters how will the WEC maintain it’s schedule and fill it’s cards with LESS fighters? Will it be scouting for more fighters to pick up the slack? Also, what will happen with the fighters in those divisions moved over to the UFC? Will they ALL have UFC contracts or just the big names like Steve Cantwell, Brian Stann, Paulo Filho, Chael Sonnen, etc.? Things that make you go “Hmmmm?”

UFC 90 news: Tibau injured; Aurelio to be replacement!
Gleison Tibau has received a shoulder injury during training and had to pull out of his anticipated match with Hermes Franca on Oct. 25 at UFC 90, which is headlined by Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote, and will take place at the Allstate Arena near Chicago in Rosemont, Ill. . His replacement will be PRIDE veteran Marcus Aurelio who despite losing 4 of his last 6 fights is still someone you better watch out for.

UFC 90 Fight Card
# Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote
# Thiago Alves vs. Diego Sanchez
# Tyson Griffin vs. Sean Sherk
# Spencer Fisher vs. Melvin Guillard
# Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos Santos
# Rich Clementi vs. Gray Maynard
# Thales Leites vs. Goran Reljic
# Marcus Aurelio vs. Hermes Franca
# Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Horwich
# Josh Burkman vs. Pete Sell

Jason Lambert drops down to 185#s!
Jason Lambert will debut at 18#s to take on Jason MacDonald at UFC 88 on Sept. 6 in Atlanta in which has all the makings are a darn exciting fight. Has either guy been in a boring fight, even in their losses?!? Lambert is a BIG man and dropping to 185 should make him one of the bigger, stronger athletes there. Lambert has said that his power has come down with him and is still evident in training. This is the same power that sat Babalu down on his ass.

Amir Sadollah added to UFC 91 card!
TUF fighter Amir Sadollah has been added to UFC 91′s card on Nov. 15 at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Ore. in a fight against TBA who has been fighting quite often since Boxing and MMA has been around. He is the the most busy fighter on Earth.

WAR TBA!!!

Tim Sylvia to be killed at Affliction 3?
MMAnews.com has reported that Tim Sylvia may fight Jerome LeBanner at Affliction 3 in January of February of 2009. The article also mentions that Atencio is trying to get Sergei Kharitonov on board.

Ozzy Osbourne to play at Affliction 2!
Keeping with their theme of having a live musical guest as they did at Affliction: Banned with Megadeth, it seems Ozzy will be playing!! LOL….

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