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Former middleweight contender Mike Swick talks about his move to the welterweight division and his upcoming fight with Josh Burkman during the main event at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23 from The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
It should be a solid scrap.
For the rest of the fight [...]

The official line up for UFC Fight Night 12: “Swick vs. Burkman” is set for Wednesday, January 23 at 9 p.m. ET from The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to UFC.com.
Former top middleweight contender, Mike Swick, will make his long-awaited welterweight debut against Josh Burkman during the main event [...]

UFC Fight Night 12 tickets are set to go on sale this week for the SpikeTV special event that takes place live from the The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 23, 2008.
Here are the details:
UFC Fight Club Presale: Thursday, December 12 at 1 p.m. ET
Newsletter Presale: Friday, December [...]

“I do what I have to do and I don’t really change anything. I don’t really care; I do my own thing. I’m a fighter that shows that. Some fighters say, ‘Oh, I want to end it in the second,’ but not me. I’m gonna lay it out there in the first three minutes. People [...]

Corey Hill (1-0) will make his Octagon debut against Joe Veres (4-2) at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23. Ken Pavia — the manager for Veres — confirmed the booking in a recent post on the UnderGround Forum.
Hill has not competed since his stint on season five of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), losing to [...]

Mike Swick (10-2) is in talks to make his long-awaited welterweight debut against Josh Burkman (9-4) at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23, according to MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) sources.
No official bout agreements have been signed; however, the match up is more or less a “done deal” from what we hear.
This will be the first fight [...]

After four losses in his first four fights inside the Octagon Canadian middleweight Patrick Cote (11-4) will look to make it three in a row when he battles Drew McFedries (6-2) at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23.
It’s a 185-pound clash that pits two hard-hitting bangers up against one another — both have knockouts [...]

MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) learned this afternoon that season five winner of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), Nate Diaz (7-2), will return to the Octagon against Alvin Robinson (9-2) at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23.
The Caesar Gracie Jiu Jitsu-trained Diaz is fresh off a submission win (guillotine) over Junior Assuncao at UFC Fight Night 11 in [...]

Get ready for some slick Brazilian jiu-jistu.
MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) just learned that lightweight grapplers Kurt Pellegrino (10-3) and Alberto Crane (8-1) will go at it on January 23 at UFC Fight Night 12. It’s a showdown that pits two of the top jiu-jitsu fighters in the division against one another.
Pellegrino dropped a unanimous decision to Joe [...]

Thiago Tavares (13-1) will fight Michihiro Omigawa (4-5) at UFC Fight Night 12 on January 23, 2008, according to Sherdog.com.
Up until his first loss to Tyson Griffin at UFC 76: “Knockout” in September (a fantastic clash that produced the “Fight of the Night”), Tavares was on the fast-track to top contender status in the lightweight [...]