Event: UFC 86: “Jackson vs. Griffin”
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
Location: Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Main event:
UFC Light Heavyweight Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin

Main card (Televised):
185 lbs.: Patrick Cote (12-4) vs. Ricardo Almeida (9-2)
155 lbs.: Joe Stevenson (28-8) vs. Gleison Tibau (15-5)
170 lbs.: Josh Koscheck […]

“UFC 82 Countdown” to “Pride of a Champion” debuts tonight (February 25) at 11 p.m. ET on SpikeTV to promote the huge pay-per-view (PPV) event this weekend at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Here’s the show description from UFC.com:
“Brazil’s Anderson Sliva prepares to defend his middleweight title against PRIDE® titleholder Dan Henderson. See how they […]

Exciting welterweights Mike Swick (11-2) and Marcus Davis (14-3) will likely throw leather at UFC 85 in London, England, at the O2 Arena on Saturday, June 7, MMAmania.com learned earlier this afternoon.
Swick and Davis have competed on different seasons of the mixed martial arts reality series, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), which airs on the SpikeTV […]

Props: UFC.com 

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Quoteworthy:
“After my fight [with Sean Sherk] i was suspended for a year,i could not fight in USA,so i got some calls to fight in Canada, england, japan etc … so i ask [UFC matchmaker] Joe Silva to finish my contract with UFC, i told him i need to fight to make money ,told […]

Props: PWBPodcastLive.com
Karo Parisyan talks about his upcoming fight with Thiago Alves at UFC Fight Night 13 on April 2, as well as statements that he is ducking Jon Fitch. The latter point is what really draws his ire.

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Next Saturday night at UFC 82: “Pride of a Champion” Jon Fitch will continue his climb up the welterweight mountain when he takes on Chris Wilson, who will be making his debut inside the Octagon.
Fitch goes into this fight with 14 straight wins, seven of those in the UFC. And he acknowledges that going through […]

“… I’m fighting a wrestler, who in order for him to play into his strong suit, he has to also play into my strength. I’m real good about catching submissions on the way down from takedowns, so that’s something I always look to implement. Anytime anyone takes someone down, no matter how good of a […]

Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1) has expressed his intentions of signing the bout agreement to fight Keith Jardine (13-3-1) at UFC 84 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday May 24.
The latest announcement comes via his personal blog, which has been translated in part thanks to MMAWeekly.com.
Here’s a snip:
“I’m leaving right now […]