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Affliction’s Oct. 11th show is postponed!
Affliction “Day of Reckoning” event has been postponed and rescheduled for January 17th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Fedor to fight in January at Affliction!
On the newly scheduled Affliction show, Fedor Emelianenko will headline against a yet to be determined opponent. Apparently, his chip fracture that he sustained in his fight with Tim Sylvia will not be a factor and then man just wants to fight.

Affliction’s Atencio to make major announcement on Saturday!
Tom Atencio will make a major announcement from the MGM Grand Hotel on Saturday. Because the Joel Casamayor and Marquez fight is taking place there and the show is run by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Productions, rumors have already started that the announcement will be a pairing between the two.

Machida fight at UFC 89 canceled!
Lyoto Machida himself told Tatame magazine that he is out of UFC 89 on October 18th, in what was to be an exciting matchup against Thiago Silva. After Thiago Silva had pulled out of the fight due to injury, the UFC continued to look for an opponent for him, and it appears they couldn’t.

“It’s sad because I was focused, training hard and prepared, but this kind of things happen.”

What is not known is when he will be fighting again. The 205# weight class is stacked and there are plenty of good matchups around. Rashad’s KO of Liddell tosses him into the picture as well.

Roger Gracie to fight Travis Wiuff at Sengoku 5!
World Victory Road announced today that they have added the Roger Gracie vs. Travis Wiuff bout to the upcoming Sengoku 5 card, on Sept. 28 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. This is only Roger’s 3rd fight in MMA, but BIG things are expected from the grappling great. His first 2 fights ended by 1st round submission against Yuki Kondo and Ron Waterman. Wiuff who averages an insane 9 fights per year, is coming of his 3 fights in one night to win the Yamma tournament, and most recently KOing Fujita in one round.

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Official TUF 8 Cast!
Well, it’s official. UFC and Spike TV, in conjunction with Sports Illustrated have revealed the cast for the 8th installment of the hit TV series ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ dubbed “Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir”. The new season will kick off on September 17th on Spike TV following the broadcast of UFC Fight Night 15 and will air each subsequent Wednesday night at 10:00pm ET/PT.

This season will feature both Light Heavyweights (205#s) and Lightweights (155#s), preliminary bouts will be held during the first two episodes to pair down the field from 32 to 16. The two finalists in each weight class will meet in “The Ultimate Fighter 8” Live Finale on Dec. 13 in Las Vegas live on Spike TV.

UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir will be the 2 opposing coaches and will fight at the UFC’s end-of-the-year show in December. Assisting Nog will be Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida. Helping out Frank Mir will be Abu Dhabi 2007 Absolute Winner Robert Drysdale (by beating Marcelo Garcia) and Rafael Alejarra.

The cast this year has an international flavor with contestants from not only the expected nations like Brazil and the US, but Israel, Russia and Nova Scotia. In addition, after each episode Spike.com users will get exclusive extended footage from each episode and an exclusive video leak of the upcoming episode.

OK guys! WHO IS GONNA WIN?!?!? Give us the scoop on a fighter you think will win! So far the buzz is that these guys are the monsters: Junie Browning, Efrain Escudero, Ryan Jimmo, Vinicius Magalhaes, & Shane Primm.

Lightweight Cast! (155#s)

Jose Aguilar
Grapplers Edge
Las Cruces, NM

Fernando Bernstein
San Clemente, CA

Junie Allen Browning
Four Seasons Martial Arts
Lexington, KY

Rolando Delgado
Westside Fight Team
North Little Rock, AR

Joseph Duarte
Unleashed Training Facility / Alliance MMA
San Diego, CA

Efrain Escudero
Southwest Martial Arts
Tempe, AZ

Brandon Garner
Team ROC
Raleigh, NC

David Kaplan
Lloyd Irvin Team
Camp Springs, MD

Eric Magee
South Shore Sport
Rockland, MA

Brian McLaughlin
Team Gracie Tampa
Tampa, FL

Wesley Murch
Trojan Gym
Bristol, UK

Shane Nelson
B.J. Penn’s MMA
Hilo, HI

Phillipe Nover
Team Renzo Gracie (Pictures)
Brooklyn, NY

Ido Pariente
Tel Aviv, Israel

John Polakowski
The Pit
San Luis Obispo, CA

George Roop
Ultima MMA
Tucson, AZ

Light Heavyweight Cast! (205#s)

Ryan Bader
Arizona Combat Sports
Chandler, AZ

Antwain Britt
Bombsquad MMA
Virginia Beach, VA

Jules Bruchez
Ronan Dojo
Lafayette, LA

Charles Diaz
SD Fight Club
San Diego, CA

Lance Evans
TKO MMA
Niagara Falls, NY

Karen Grigoryan
RusFighters Sport Club
Russia

Jason Guida
Hellhouse Gym
Chicago, IL

Ryan Jimmo
Titans MMA
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Kyle Kingsbury
American Kickboxing Academy
Sunnyvale, CA

Tom Lawlor
American Top Team
Oviedo, FL

Ryan Lopez
Oklahoma City, OK

Vinicius Magalhaes
Team Quest
Temecula, CA

Eliot Marshall
Eastern Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Boulder, CO

Sean O’Connell
Salt Lake City, UT

Shane Primm
Team Gracie Tampa
Tampa, FL

Krzysztof Soszynski
Team Quest
Temecula, CA

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[1]. 1up.com has some great images of the new UFC game. Pretty stellar stuff.

Check out their page for some more images.

[2]. A big congrats goes out to Lloyd Irvin triangle machine Ryan Hall who received his brown belt on 06/16. Ryan was terrorizing BJJers of all belts as a purple and is noted for his inverted guard, and 100s of wins by triangle in competition.

[3]. Tito Ortiz came on MMA.tv and had this to say about Dana White:

“Dana is going to get a SLAP!!! This weekend. I will be front row and walk up and slap him! just watch when I get kick out, you will know why. THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dana is my BITCH!!!!”

[4]. The UFC has offered two matches to Wanderlei Silva for UFC 88: Lyoto Machida or Thiago Silva, supposedly with Thiago Silva being the most likely opponent.

[5]. Metal band Megadeth will be playing live at Affliction: Banned on July 19th at Honda Center in Anaheim.

[6]. Update on the DREAM.5 Lightweight GP 2008 Final Round:

Date: July 21st, 2008
Place: Osaka Jo Hall in Osaka, Japan

Featherweight Fight:
Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Joseph Benavidez

Welterweight Title Fight:
Nick Diaz vs Mach Sakurai

Middleweight Bouts:
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs TBA
Denis Kang vs TBA

Lightweight GP Final 4:
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Eddie Alvarez
Caol Uno vs. Shinya Aoki

Superfights:
Marcio Corletta vs TBA
Jon Olav Einemo vs TBA
Sergei Kharitonov vs TBA
Mark Hunt vs TBA

Rumored Superfight:
Mirko Cro Cop vs Jerome Le Banner