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Stephane Patry — the founder of Canada’s original and most successful professional mixed martial arts organization — has resigned his position as president of TKO Championship Fighting.
Patry was instrumental in bringing 44 shows to the Montreal region under the banner. However, according to a report on Sportsnet.ca, the Montreal native has decided to call [...]
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MMACanada.net recently caught up with Patrick Cote in Montreal, Quebec, while he was in the midst of preparing for his middleweight title fight against Anderson “The Spider” Silva at UFC 90: “Silva vs. Cote” at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., on October 25.
Shortly after this video was taken, which shows “The Predator” sparring and [...]
Roger Huerta was recently in Toronto, Canada, putting on a seminar at Victory Fight Club.
“El Matador,” of course, is fresh off his first loss inside the Octagon against Kenny Florian last month at UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy” — a tough unanimous decision defeat that put his immediate title shot hopes on temporary hold.
Glenn Dextras [...]
Xtreme Couture Toronto and MMACanada.net have teamed up to present a all-day training session and autograph session with former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck “Iceman” Liddell in Toronto, Canada, on October 19, coinciding with UFC 89: “Bisping vs. Leben” event the day prior.
Chuck is coming off arguably the toughest loss of his career at the [...]
Wanderlei Silva will now join the ranks of those forever immortalized in plastic.
Round 5 — the MMA industry’s fastest growing worldwide collectible figure company — has landed the the exclusive rights to produce the “Wandy” collectible. And that likely means we won’t see a Jakks Pacific doll of “The Axe Murderer” anytime [...]
Sources close to Wanderlei Silva (32-8-1) have indicated that the explosive (and long-rumored) third showdown between “The Axe Murderer” and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (28-7) is indeed set, according to MMACanada.net.
The blockbuster light heavyweight match up will co-headline UFC 91: “Couture vs. Lesnar” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 15.
Bout [...]
Over the weekend, The Fight Network announced that it has landed exclusive rights to air the one hour under card portion of the July 19 Affliction: “Banned” pay-per-view (PPV) event on its network. The Fight Network’s president and CEO, George Burger, made the announcement at a press conference held at the MMA Expo in Toronto, [...]
Former UFC champion Randy Couture ventured north of the border to Toronto this past weekend to promote the opening of the seventh installment of his namesake gym, Xtreme Couture, and the first of its kind in Canada.
Xtreme Couture in Toronto is massive — 33,000 sq. ft. and boasts a full health club, yoga and [...]
Former Hardcore Championship Fighting (HCF) co-owner Dave Houshiar is back in business with a co-promotion between Alberta-based Legacy Fighting Championships and his own Raw Combat company, according to MMACanada.net.
This news was released by the Fight Network awhile back; however there was some confusion regarding the particulars, so we went straight to the source and interviewed [...]


















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