After July 11th, 2009 the world of MMA will never be the same. You will have the largest purchased PPV in UFC history…sorry UFC 92.
Beyond that though the largest audience in MMA history is going to be able to see the future of the sport in nearly every division! Let’s start from the bottom and work our way up in terms of who is involved and who to pay attention to.

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Jim Miller - Jim will be bringing into UFC 100 a 13 and 2 record with his …

UFC 100 is fast approaching (Nearly 8 weeks away) and this fight card is stacked topped to bottom. We have already covered Paulo Thiago vs. Jon Fitch and the much anticipated matchup of Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher so let’s get to it with Jon Bones Jones against Jake O’Brien.
Jon Bones Jones burst on the scene at 20 disposing of Andre Gusmao at UFC 87 Seek and Destroy and he has not looked back. At UFC 94 he then took on Stephan Bonnar and beat him handidly showing …

Things have been quiet around the Road to UFC 100 blog lately, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been some exciting news regarding the UFC’s centennial event set to take place on July 11, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Here are some the things that you NEED to know:
Book Your Hotel!
If you haven’t booked your hotel yet, then what the hell are you waiting for?!?  A while back, we put together a list of some of the best hotel deals going on for the …

Looks like Rampage Jackson is going to need surgery on both his jaw and his forearm following his unanimous decision victory over Keith Jardine at UFC 96. He will  sit on the sidelines, get healed up and most likely take on the winner of Rashad Evans and Lyoto Machida later in the year for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.
Evans vs. Machida  is a very intriguing matchup simply based on the fact that both fighters are undefeated.  While Rashad is the faster of the two fighters, Machida is very elusive …

Looks like Yoshihiro won’t be sitting on the sidelines much longer as he looks to take on Alan the talent Belcher at UFC 100.
Yoshihiro is 12-1 and should be able to dispatch of the bipolar Belcher very easily. The current UFC 100 card at this point is as follows
Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping
Georges St-Pierre vs. Thiago Alves
Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar
Alan Belcher vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
What a card, 2 title fights, another main event worthy fight and the debut of one of the world’s best middleweights.

Dana White has been a busy boy lately. Finalizing cards for UFC 97, Two live Fight Nights, UFC 98 and UFC 99 is nearly finalized. So let’s get down to it and see which fighters are not fighting in UFC 100 on July 11th.
First up the Fight Night coming April 1st…seriously its happening despite it being April Fools Day.

Main Event is Carlos Condit making his UFC debut after his WEC belt was thrown in the trash can against Martin Kampmann. Kampmann has only had one fight at …

The betting odds are out on UFC 96, slated to take place on March 7, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio.  The card features the undefeated Shane Carwin against MMA vet and odds-on favorite Gabriel Gonzaga (-175) in a heavyweight scrap.  And, of course, the on-the-whole-a-very-unsexy card will be headlining the top light heavyweight contender Quinton “Rampage” Jackson against former Ultimate Fighter Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine.
Rampage comes into the fight a near 3 to 1 favorite at -295, while the moneyline on Jardine currently stands at +235.  With a win …

BJ Penn according to Sherdog has no desire to fight until late July or Early August so he can spend time with his family. This rules him out of UFC 99 leaving the current headliner there Wanderlei Silva against Rich Franklin.
We are still negotiating the fight,” the elder Penn said. “No date [is] scheduled, but we are thinking late July or early August.”

Personally I’m ok with this because it ups our chances to see Baby J in action at UFC 100 against Kenny Florian and it also buys us …

Michael Bisping is finally going to get his shot at fighting a top 5 fighter in the division of 185 pounds…against felllow Ultimate Fighter Coach Dan Henderson.
UFC President Dana White today confirmed the long-rumored match up in an interview with Setanta.com.
This is going to be a pretty interesting matchup because Bisping has had problems with wrestlers before…Matt Hamil and Rashad Evans so let’s hope he shores that part up of his game.

In the video below Thiago Alves recounts his road to the welterweight title shot he will receive at UFC 100 against Georges St-Pierre.

Seven Fight win streak….5 knockouts and 2 decisions. Pretty Impressive for the Pitbull.