Not exactly earth-shattering news at this point, but for the first time news about current UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre defending his belt against Thiago Alves at UFC 100 is coming from the mouth of the big man himself, Dana White, president of the UFC.  Here’s what he told Montreal-based CKAC Sports 730AM:
“I’m pretty confident that UFC 100 will have Georges St. Pierre on the card.  UFC 100 will more than likely have Georges St. Pierre defending his welterweight title.”
Accoding to MMA Weekly, White also confirmed that the promotion’s 100th …

As reported yesterday, UFC 97 set for April in Montreal, Canada has hit a major snag.  According to the Quebec Athletic Commission, the event cannot go on unless the UFC accepts some significant rule changes, most notably doing away with elbows and knees, fighting in a smaller octagon, and stopping the fight whenever a fighter falls to the ground.  Needless to say, that’s the kind of news that will cause Dana to set all kinds of F-bomb records.
So what’s the UFC to do?  There have been talks about cancellation, and …

Besides all of the rumors about matchups let’s do a breakdown of who is not participating in UFC 100 and why?
Brock Lesnar - Brock Lesnar is fighting Frank Mir at UFC 98 for the Heavyweight Championship.  He will most likely be watching it from the crowd with Sable aka Rena Mero at her side…or he may be ice fishing talking to Dana about dropping his cellphone down an ice hole.
Frank Mir - Fighting Brock Lesnar at UFC 98.  He’ll dedicate the fight to his wife and children per usual.
Randy Couture …

It looks like GSP is ready to face Thiago Alves and is just as scared about the fight as I am.
“Thiago Alves, no doubt, is the biggest challenge of my career,” St. Pierre told Sherdog.com in an exclusive video interview. “He has done stuff nobody has done before. It’s going to be a very, very tough fight.” 
Recently Thiago has manhandled Karo Parisyan, Josh Koscheck and Matt Hughes….let’s hope GSP changes his recent run.
One thing everyone needs to keep in mind is Jon Fitch actually stopped Thiago Alves in 2006 at …

“Oh, man. Holy s**t. I’ve told everybody, when people asked me before the B.J. fight, ‘I can’t even think about UFC 100 right now.’ Now we’ve sat down and we’ve talked about it, and I’m guaranteeing you now, UFC 100 is going to kick f**king ass.”
- UFC President Dana White (via MMA Fanhouse)

Expectations couldn’t be higher for UFC’s centennial event, thanks to the legions of rumors already swirling the event still five months away.  Some of the rumored matchups appear to be virtual locks (see Georges St-Pierre v. Thiago Alves), …

The Mandalay Event Center is located in the Mandalay Bay Casino.  Its in the heart of Las Vegas on the strip and will play host to UFC 100.
The arena itself seats 12,000 individuals along with the Octagon, Dana White, Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg.  This will be the first time the UFC has been at the Mandalay Bay Event Center since UFC 86 when Forrest Griffin beat Quinton “Rampage” Jackson for the UFC lightheavyweight belt.

Recently on the Sherdog radio show Thiago Alves indictated that he would in fact face Georges “Rush” St-Pierre or GSP as most people call him.  To me this is a pretty dangerous fight for Georges early.  Thiago Alves will come into UFC 100 weighing somewhere around 195 pounds and posses plenty of ammunition to be troubling for Georges if he can not get the takedowns going early.

We will keep you posted on the matchups for UFC 100 as they come in.

On July 11th 2009 the Ultimate Fighting Championship will be unleashing on Las Vegas, Nevada UFC 100 live from the Mandalay Bay Hotel.  This site is going to focus on all rumors leading up to UFC 100, Current Deals on Tickets and Hotels for that weekend.
 

 
 
July 11th 2009 can not come soon enough.  UFC 100 here we come!  22 weeks and counting.