As we previously wrote about UFC 97 was having some problems and may be moved or cancelled.
According to CorrusSports the show is not being moved and will remain at the Bell Centre. This comes as a sigh of relief as a move or cancellation of this event couldve resulted in UFC 100 being moved out to a later date.
The UFC 97 card has been finalized and the two larger matchups are Mauricio Shogun Rua against Chuck the Iceman Liddell and Anderson Silva defending his Middleweight Title against Thales Leites. …

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 …

“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), …