Watch UFC 102 PPV Live | The Natural vs Minotauro

Both are legendary former champions and both are looking to make another run at the UFC title.

Randy Couture is a former UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight champion. He is one of only two UFC fighters to have held a championship title in two different divisions – heavyweight and light heavyweight.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is a former PRIDE Heavyweight and UFC Interim Heavyweight champion. He is the first and only fighter to have held Championship titles in both the Pride Fighting Championship promotion and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

It will be the clinch and ground-and-pound fighter against the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tactician.

Witness UFC 102 live on Pay-Per-View from the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.

Watch UFC 102 online as Randy Couture meets Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira on Saturday, August 29, 2009. Fight time is at 10 PM ET.

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Other mixed martial arts matches of the UFC 102 can also be seen live direct from your computer.

Keith Jardine Vs. Thiago Silva
Chris Leben Vs. Jake Rosholt
Nate Marquardt Vs. Demian Maia
Brandon Vera Vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Ed Herman Vs. Aaron Simpson
Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Chris Tuchscherer
Justin McCully Vs. Mike Russow
Tim Hague Vs. Todd Duffee
Nick Catone Vs. Mark Munoz
Marcus Aurelio Vs. Evan Dunham

Watch them live online now…

DREAM 10 Welterweight Grand Prix at Saitama, Japan

DREAM brings another exciting MMA extravaganza as it features matches on Monday, July 20, to determine who will be crowned the inaugural DREAM welterweight champion.

The MMA event will feature semifinal matches to determine the final match on the same night. The Dream 10 Welterweight Grand Prix will happen at Saitama Super Arena at Saitama, Japan and will feature a clash between two submission experts and the return of former PRIDE and WEC standout Paulo Filho.

Jason High (7-1) will battle Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu phenom Andre Galvao (3-0). High is coming of from a victory over Yuya Shirai in their opening round bout at DREAM 8. Galvao, the 2005 and 2008 World Jiu-Jitsu gold medalist and one of the best sport grapplers in the world, recently defeated WEC veteran John Alessio.

Other main event will feature Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs Marius Zaromskis.

Who will break into the spotlight in Japan as elite fighters? Find out on MMA’s Dream 10 Welterweight GP Final.

FIGHT CARD

Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Marius Zaromskis (WW GP)
Jason High vs. Andre Galvao (WW GP)
Shinya Aoki vs. Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro
Melvin Manhoef vs. Paulo Filho
Katsunori Kikuno vs. Andre “Dida” Amade

Brock Lesnar will defend his crown against Frank Mir

The big guns are lined up this coming July 11 at Mandalay Bay Events Center, Nevada. UFC titles will be at stake. Who will steal the lights out of Las Vegas?

The Ultimate Fighting Championship brings the biggest event in mixed martial arts history in UFC 100 as two championships will be on the line in heavyweight and welterweight in PPV live.

UFC heavyweight titleholder Brock Lesnar defends his crown against rival Frank Mir in their highly-anticipated grudge match.

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UFC welterweight champion Georges “Rush” St-Pierre puts his belt on the line as he goes up against Brazilian knockout artist Thiago “Pitbull” Alves.

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Other UFC 100 matches will also include:

Jon Fitch vs Paulo Thiago
Dan Henderson vs Michael Bisping
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs Alan Belcher
Mark Coleman vs Stephan Bonnar
Dong Hyun Kim vs TJ Grant
Jon Jones vs Jake O’Brien
Mac Danzig vs Jim Miller
CB Dollaway vs Tom Lawlor
Shannon Gugerty vs Matt Grice

Who will own the limelight in the biggest event in mixed martial arts history? The UFC 100 will give us the answer live from Las Vegas, Nevada this July 11, 2009 7PM PT / 10PM ET. It is Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir and Georges St-Pierre vs Thiago Alves.

MMA M-1 Challenge | South Korea vs Brazil

Can Team South Korea defend its home turf against Team Brazil in the M-1 Challenge event to take place in Seoul?

Host South Korea, which is currently third in the M-1 Challenge’s Group B division, will slug it out against Team Brazil on Friday, July 4, 2009. The host team will be led by middleweight sensation Jae Young Kim. South Korea currently has a 1-1 team record and 3-7 individual record.

Kim, who upset Mikhail Zayats in the 2009 M-1 Challenge opener last February will take on Leandro Silva who successfully debuted in the M-1 Challenge by beating Dmitry Samoilov in Sao Paulo.

Can Brazil unseat Group B leader USA West and make their post-season hopes alive by beating the host South Korea?

South Korea vs Brazil

Lightweight (-70 kg/154 lbs.)
Nam Yui Chul (KOR) vs. Hacran Dias (BRA)

Welterweight (-76 kg/167.2 lbs.)
Do Hyung Kim (KOR) vs. Eduardo Pamplona (BRA)

Middleweight (-84 kg/184.8 lbs.)
Jae Young Kim (KOR) vs. Leandro Silva (BRA)

Light Heavyweight (-93 kg/204.6 lbs.)
Doo Hee Lee (KOR) vs. Alexander Machado (BRA)

Heavyweight (+93 kg/+ 204.6 lbs.)
Hae Joon Yang (KOR) vs. Joaquim Ferreira (BRA)

The Ultimate Fighter Finale | Clay Guida vs Diego Sanchez

The main event of the ninth finale of The Ultimate Fighter will feature a bout of non-stop and back-and-forth action between Diego “Nightmare” Sanchez against Clay “The Carpenter” Guida.

The bullying style of Diego Sanchez will sure make this main event very exciting as he is looking for a knockout at all times and has enough power to score dramatic, single-strike stoppages. The “Nightmare” undoubtedly possesses the scariest ground-and-pound game in the lightweight division.

What makes this fight really exciting is that Clay Guida is no different from Sanchez as well. We expect “The Carpenter” to be very aggressive in order to be effective. He is know to throw those Tasmanian Devil-style crazy punches on the feet and as annoying as it can be driving his opponent crazy.

So who is going to win? Find out and witness the mixed martial arts match online as Clay Guida tries to annoy Diego Sanchez in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at The Pearl in Las Vegas, NV.

UFC 99 | Wanderlei Silva vs Rich Franklin

It’s the ‘Ace’ vs the ‘Axe Murderer’ in UFC 99. It’s the battle between two of the game’s most revered superstars and the question looms on who will emerge victorious in this true fight fan’s dream mixed martial arts match.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship brings the UFC 99 for the first time in Germany. One of the main attraction in this match will be Wanderlei Cesar Silva. A Brazilian, Wanderlei Silva is a former PRIDE champion and has competed in this Japan’s PRIDE Fighting Championships as well as in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. His aggressive style is rooted in street brawling and refined with his skills in Muay Thai and kickboxing.

Watch Wanderlei Silva vs Rich Franklin in UFC 99 as they battle it out in the world’s premier combat sport on Saturday, June 13, 2009 03:00 PM ET at Lanxess Arena , Cologne, Germany.

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UFC 98 | Light Heavyweight Championship Bout | PPV Live

Both undefeated, light heavyweight stars “Sugar” Rashad Evans and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida will meet to determine the best 205-pound fighter on the planet.

Interestingly, one will remain unscathed while the other one will have to deal with a first time loss.

Who will it be? Will it be the champion Evans or the challenger Machida?

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On the other fight card, former UFC welterweight champions Matt Hughes and Matt Serra finally meet to settle their long-standing grudge.

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Watch the action-packed UFC 98 featuring Rashad Evans vs Lyoto Machida live on Pay-Per-View from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fight night will be on Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:00 PM EDT / 07:00 PM PDT.

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A champion in any sport has a huge target on their back, but when you fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the biggest and baddest men on the planet are gunning for you at all times; title shot or not.  In the fifteen year, 97 event history of the UFC only 11 fighters have defended their title more than once.  This list of elite fighters have justly earned their place in UFC history, as many critics and followers of the sport believe that one is not truly a champion until he has successfully defended his belt.  Those that have done it more than once are unquestionably the cream of the crop.  So who is the Greatest of All Time?

The following is the list of UFC fighters with multiple successful title defenses.  You decide who the best of the best is.  If the main criteria is the number of consecutive successful defenses; Anderson Silva is incontestably the king.  If total number of defenses is your measuring stick, Matt Hughes would get the nod.  And if the caliber of the champ’s competition is also a consideration; I think most will argue for Silva.

1. Matt Hughes (WW) – Title Defenses: 7
Matt Hughes was and is a UFC legend.  He defended his title a total of seven times during two separate stints as the UFC Welterweight champion.  During his first term as champ, he defended five consecutive times against the likes of Gil Castillo and Frank Trigg (lol).  I’m having fun here, but on a serious note, Matt Hughes has beaten a load of quality fighters over his illustrious career, however, looking at his list of challengers it surely doesn’t compare to Anderson Silva’s.

2. Anderson Silva (MW) – Title Defenses: 6
After his last defense he is now the sole record holder for consecutive title defenses in the UFC.  Despite all the unmerited criticism he garnered from UFC 97, he is still the UFC Middleweight champ and pound-for-pound king. The next time someone has the balls to get in the cage with him and try to IMPOSE their will on him, I bet he will continue to dominate. (read Anderson is the CHAMP!)  His streak of defenses and the challengers he has beaten is nothing less than remarkable!

3. Tito Ortiz (LHW) – Title Defenses: 5
UGH!!  It pains me to have to put the “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” on this list, but the facts are the facts.  Tito defended his Light Heavyweight title from 2000 to 2002, until Randy Couture took it away from him.  This is when Randy gave the Bad Boy some well deserved corporal punishment in the form of a humiliating spanking…HA HA!!

4. Chuck Liddell (LHW) – Title Defenses: 4
The “Iceman” has one of the most impressive title defense streaks.  Including his win over Randy Couture to gain the title, he won and defended the title with five consecutive TKO wins.  Randy, Tito, Jeremy Horn and Renato Sobral all fell victim to the dynamite hands of Chuck during his reign as champion.

5. Pat Miletich (WW) – Title Defenses: 4
Miletich made his official UFC debut at UFC 16 and won the very first UFC Lightweight Tournament.  In 2001, the UFC changed the weight class limits, creating the Welterweight.  At UFC 17: Ultimate Brazil, Pat defeated Mikey Burnett and became the first UFC Welterweight champion.  He went on to defend the Welterweight belt four times before losing it to Carlos Newton by submission at UFC 31.

6. Frank Shamrock (LHW) – Title Defenses: 4
“The Legend” was the Light Heavyweight champ from 1997 to 1999, until he forfeited his title due to retirement.  The talent he faced was so so, but Shamrock’s wins were in impressive fashion – all by submission, TKO or KO in the first round, except for the beating he put on Tito, which ended by strikes in the fourth round.

7. Randy Couture (HW) – Title Defenses: 3
Randy “The Natural” Couture, possibly the most popular mixed martial artist of all time, has won the Heavyweight championship on four separate occasions (1 interim title), and has successfully defended it a total of three times.  He also won the Light Heavyweight belt twice, but has never successfully defended it.  While his win-loss record may not be as stellar as some of the UFC’s other great champions, to some he is the greatest of all time for his achievements in two weight classes at a more advanced age.

8. The following fighters have all defended their respective titles 2 times:
a. Tim Sylvia (HW) (read Tim Sylvia and the Willy Nilly Freak Show)
b. George St. Pierre (WW)
c. Rich Franklin (MW)
d. Andrei Arlovski (HW)

9. Royce Gracie (open) – Won 3 UFC Tournaments
Royce Gracie and the Gracie Jiu Jitsu family, for whom we owe much of everything to, was also a great champion.  He won the UFC 1, 2, and 4 tournaments, which were night long, weight- classless events.  It was not until UFC 16 that the title and belt system was implemented.  Royce was also a great mixed martial artist, who many consider one of the greatest.

I think most will agree that this list of fighters is quite impressive; however, not all challengers were top contenders.   Regardless of who the competition was, it is a feat in and of itself to win more than one or two fights in a row in the National Football League (NFL) of mixed martial arts and even more so while wearing a belt.

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