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“I think [Marquardt is] great. It’s a great fight for me, a great test and a match that will help build me. He’s a real well-rounded fighter, good at everything. A really aggressive fighter. I believe the winner of this match will become a candidate for Anderson (Silva). I’ll train like I always do. [...]

Each of the eighteen mixed martial artists set to compete on tomorrow night’s Bellator V card at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio, tipped the scales today for the official fighter weigh-ins.
The event is set to showcase the two remaining semifinal match ups from the promotion’s lightweight tournament. Perhaps the favorite to take the title, [...]

Despite earlier published reports that Ed Herman had been tapped to replace an injured Yushin Okami at UFC 98, MMAmania.com can now exclusively confirm that former WEC middleweight contender Chael Sonnen will be Dan Miller’s new opponent for the “Evans vs. Machida” event on May 23.
“Thunder” was forced to withdraw from the card after tearing [...]

After a one week hiatus, Bellator Fighting Championships 12-part weekly tournament series is set to return to the ESPN Deportes airwaves for event number five this Friday, May 1, at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio.
As always, the action will air via tape delay 24 hours later on the Spanish version of The Worldwide Leader [...]

***Update: MMAmania.com has exclusively learned that Chael Sonnen, not Ed Herman will replace Yushin Okami. For more information, click here.
With just a little over a month to recover from his April 18 win over David Loiseau at UFC 97, The Ultimate Fighter 3 runner-up Ed Herman will fill in for Yushin Okami at UFC 98 [...]

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Fresh off his win over Matt Horwich at UFC Fight Night 18, newly minted welterweight Ricardo Almeida (10-3) was our featured guest on MMAmania.com’s exclusive presentation of Pro MMA Radio.
“Cachorrao” broke down his unanimous decision victory over “Suave,” the self-imposed three-year layoff to open the Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Hamilton, N.J., and why he’s [...]

Catch the entire interview when it airs on HDNet tomorrow evening (May 1) at 9pm ET.

Of course I want to fight in a real fight, especially in Japan. We are now in the process of negotiations with Dream and other companies, other organizations, but we have not reached any concrete decision yet. Regarding this exhibition match (with Shinya Aoki), I was ready to show myself to the Japanese fans — [...]