MMA News and Notes 10/25
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~ Former Abu Dhabi world champion Dean Lister signed a multi-fight deal last night with Maximum Fighting Championships and immediately agreed to meet Leites at MFC 23: “Unstoppable” on Friday, December 4 at the River Cree Resort and Casino. The bout will be the main event of the fight card broadcast live throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico on HDNet Fights.
~ A UFC 106 bout has been struck from the night’s main card; welterweight Jon Fitch (19-3 MMA, 10-1 UFC) says opponent Ricardo Almeida (11-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) “blew out his knee” and was forced out of the event. Fitch made the announcement via Facebook and said he’ll get a “bigger fight instead,” – one “lots of you have been waiting for” – possibly on a later card. UFC 106 takes place Nov. 21 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and airs on pay-per-view.
~ The full weigh-in results for DREAM.12 included:
* Alistair Overeem (115.0 kg/253.0 lbs.) vs. James Thompson (126.0 kg/277.2 lbs.)
* Eddie Alvarez (69.8 kg/153.6 lbs.) vs. Katsunori Kikuno (70.0 kg/154.0 lbs.)
* Champ Marius Zaromskis (76.0 kg/ 167.2 lbs.) vs. Myeon Ho Bae (welterweight non-title fight) (75.8 kg/166.8 lbs.)
* Zelg Galesic (85.0 kg/ 187 lbs.) vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (84.0 kg/184.8 lbs.)
* Tokimitsu Ishizawa (83.3 kg/183.3 lbs.) vs. Katsuyori Shibata (83.3 kg/183.3 lbs.)
* Tarec Saffiedine (83.0 kg/ 182.6 lbs.) vs. Dong Sik Yoon (84.0 kg/184.8 lbs.)
* Chase Beebe (63.0 kg/138.6 lbs.) vs. Yoshiro Maeda (62.8 kg/138.2 lbs.)
* Kuniyoshi Hironaka (70.0 kg/154.0 lbs.) vs. Won Sik Park (70.0 kg/154.0 lbs.)*
* Keisuke Fujiwara (62.8 kg/138.2 lbs.) vs. Tomoya Miyashita (63.0 kg/138.6 lbs.)
* – Park missed the contracted weight by 1.0 kg/2.2 lbs. on his first attempt, but hit the mark on his second trip to the scale
~ A bout between rising middleweight contenders Wilson Gouveia (12-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Alan Belcher (14-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) is set for UFC 107: Penn vs. Sanchez. Both men will look to rebound from losses their last time out in the Octagon.
~ UFC veteran Matt ‘Suave’ Horwich defeated fellow Octagon veteran Jason ‘The Punisher’ Lambert via split decision last night in the main event of Aggression MMA 1 that took place in Edmonton, Alberta. Lambert has now lost 5 straight fights while Horwich snapped a three fight losing streak.
Source: Gerweck.net
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