In celebration of their new line of UFC trading cards, Topps will be selling special limited edition cards at the UFC 100 Fan Expo, Topps posted on their blog.
The special three card set will feature Chuck Liddell, Georges St. Pierre, and Brock Lesnar. The first 75 fans to purchase these cards will also get an autographed UFC Round 1 card of Octagon girl Arianny.
The Topps booth will be a busy one during the expo. Arianny will make an appearence on Saturday, July 11, at 2:15pm with the lucky 75 fans, and announcer Bruce Buffer will stop by Friday, July 10, at 12:00pm to sign autographs and take pictures.
Topps will also be distributing sample packs of their new trading cards, 2009 Topps UFC.
The UFC 100 Fan Expo will take place July 10 and 11 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
At the start of the 2009 "M-1 Challenge Presented by Affliction" season, USA West's playoff fortunes were hardly a lock due to being placed in a loaded Group B that includes South Korea, Brazil, and the defending '08 M-1 Challenge Champions, Fedor Emelianenko's Team Imperial.
But thanks to a deep roster, USA West is currently 2-0 and just one win away from clinching a semifinal berth. With a win in Saturday's best-of-five series vs. Imperial, USA West can claim its first-ever Group title.
The 15-bout event will emanate from the Olympic Hall in Seoul and will be available live on Internet PPV courtesy of www.M-1Global.com starting at 5 p.m. (local Seoul time). Additional team matchups include Finland vs. Bulgaria and host country South Korea vs. Brazil Naja with every bout being finalized after all 30 fighters made weight Friday morning at the Lotte World Hotel.
Complete weigh-in results are available below:
Bulgaria vs. Finland -
1. Lightweight (-70 kg/154 lbs.) - Yanko Yanev (BUL - 69.1 kg/152.02 lbs.) vs. Niko Puhakka (FIN - 69.9 kg/153.78 lbs.) 2. Welterweight (-76 kg/167.2 lbs.) - Ivan Ivanov (BUL - 75.75 kg/151.5 lbs.) vs. Janne Tulirinta (FIN - 75.9 kg/166.98 lbs.) 3. Middleweight (-84 kg/184.8 lbs.) - Rosen Dmitirov (BUL - 83.65 kg/184.03 lbs.) vs. Mikko Suvanto (FIN - 83.65 kg/184.03 lbs.) 4. Light Heavyweight (-93 kg/204.6 lbs.) - Emil Samoilov (BUL - 92 kg/202.4 lbs.) vs. Marcus Vanttinen (FIN - 92.7 kg/203.95 lbs.) 5. Heavyweight (+93 kg/+ 204.6 lbs.) - Nikola Dipchkov (BUL - 95.6 kg/210.32 lbs.) vs. Toni Valtonen (FIN - 100.3 kg/220.66 lbs.)
During a recent interview, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson revealed that he will face Rashad Evans in his hometown of Mephis, TN, for UFC 107, GroundNPound.com reported.
Marc Ratner confirmed that UFC 107 will take place in Tennessee in early December, but would not confirm that Evans and Jackson would be on the card.
Kimbo Slice fans can mark their calenders. The Ultimate Fighter 10 will debut on Spike TV on September 16, GroundNPound.com reported.
Coaches Rashad Evans and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson will coach a cast of 16 heavyweights, including Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, Roy Nelson, and Wes Sims.
The full list of contestants, from GroundNPound.com, are as follows:
o Tim Blackledge o Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson o Zak Jensen o Marcus Jones o Scott Junk o Jon Madsen o Matt Mitrione o Roy Nelson o Brendan Schaub o Darril Schoonover o Wes Shivers o Wes Sims o Abe Wagner o Mike Wessel o Justin Wren o Jim York
Adding to the list of festivities occurring at the UFC 100 Fan Expo, the UFC and Maxim will announce a new Octagon Girl, CageToday.com reported.
Attendees of the two day expo will be able to vote on the next ring girl, and the announcement will be made Saturday, June 11, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Fans looking to participate in the voting will need to preregister at Maxim.com. Participants must be 18 years old or older.
Joe Soto sees big things happening for him in the future. He's only 22 and has already claimed the Bellator featherweight championship after winning its inaugural tournament, and boasts a perfect professional record (7-0).
The only thing that has stopped him, though, is his eyes.
Soto fought the entire Bellator tournament with fogged vision, after his eyes over-healed from Lasik eye surgery and developed some scar tissue.
He wasn't blind like the Marvel superhero Daredevil and didn't have sonar vision, but he did concede it wasn't the greatest experience in the world.
Multiple sites, including MMAJunkie, MMAWeekly and Sherdog, are reporting that Javier Vasquez and LC Davis will fight on the HDNet portion of the Affliction: Triology cards.
The story was first reported by Sherdog.
Vasquez (13-2) is coming off of a debacle at the "Ultimate Chaos" card, when his fight with Din Thomas was a late scratch for multiple reasons.
Davis (13-2) lost in his last fight in Japan, after embarking on a four-fight win streak.
Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole reported yesterday that Antoni Hardonk stopped a robbery when returning from a training session.
Iole reports that Hardonk was approached by three males, who asked Hardonk for money for cigarettes. Hardonk checked his wallet, didn't have anything to give the men, before a one of the attackers pulled out a knife.
Hardonk, who also was a bodyguard and club bouncer, remained calm and stood his ground and the men thought better of the situation and fled.
Later, Hardonk stopped the same three men from stealing another man's wallet.
Kazuo Misaki, who has a pleaded guilty to a crime in Tokyo for interfering with the duties of a public officie, will still fight on Aug. 2 Sengoku Ninth Battle event for free, MMAJunkie is reporting.
Misaki (21-9-2) is fighting Kazuhiro Nakamura, but will receive no pay and will not receive a title shot at Jorge Santiago.
Misaki was pulled over on March 19 for driving while talking on a cell phone, which is illegal in Japan. He tried to flee the scene and injuried a police officer's wrist, when the officer hit his wrist into Misaki's driver-side mirror.
Nakamura can still fighting for a title shot, if he defeats the former PRIDE welterweight grand prix winner.
Rumina Sato. Fredson Paixao. Joe Stevenson. Vinicius Magalhaes. Jeff Glover. Ulysses Gomez. Bill Cooper. To those in the grappling world, the names represent the best of the best. To have them in the same hall together at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center is electrifying enough. To see them competing against each other in four Superfights that cap off the largest Submission Grappling tournament in history is something that could only be held at the UFC® Fan Expo™ on Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11th, just hours before the lights go down for the biggest event in mixed martial arts history, UFC 100.
In the headline Superfight on Friday, July 10th, mixed martial arts pioneer Rumina “Moon Wolf” Sato faces Ulysses “Useless” Gomez. Also in action on Friday, July 10th, against an opponent to be determined, will be The Ultimate Fighter 8’s Vinicius Magalhaes. On Saturday, July 11th, the action continues with a match pitting four-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion and WEC contender Fredson Paixao against 22-time Grapplers Quest champ Jeff “Pipelayer” Glover, and an intriguing showdown between UFC lightweight contender Joe “Daddy” Stevenson and Bill “The Grill” Cooper. The Superfight doubleheaders on both days begin at 1pm.
“For fans of the ground game, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the world’s premier grapplers in one place competing against each other,” said UFC President Dana White.
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