March 10th, 2010

UFC middleweight contender Aaron Simpson has slugger Chris
Leben on his plate at UFC 114 in May, but for now, "A-Train" will be
focused on a few plates in Arizona: namely, those with nothing on them.
Simpson will be available for pictures and autographs for fans willing
to donate items to the United Food Bank's Gustavo Dantas Jiu-Jitsu Food
Drive.
Simpson will be available on Saturday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to noon MT local time at Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz., as part of
the two-day Fifth Annual Arizona International Open of Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu.


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March 10th, 2010

The opinions on 47-year-old former pro footballer Herschel Walker's recent MMA debut range from "amazing" to "disgraceful."
Count Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker among those who believe the Heisman
Trophy winner was a good thing for the California-based promotion -
even if he was admittedly unsure at first.
"I think the networks, at first, were apprehensive about Herschel, and
so was I, honestly," Coker recently told MMAjunkie.com. "I was very apprehensive, but getting to know
Herschel, and seeing his commitment to training at AKA and just who
he is as a person and a martial artist, it was an honor to have him
come fight for us."


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March 10th, 2010
The hottest ticket in New Jersey just got hotter, as it has been announced that Playboy cover model and UFC All-Access host Rachelle Leah will be returning to her old gig as Octagon Girl for one night only on Saturday, March 27th at UFC 111 in Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center.
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March 10th, 2010

Take a look at a recent UFC 111 event poster. See anything missing?
Dan Hardy, one half of the pay-per-view event's main draw, is missing the tattoos sprawled across his stomach. His trademark red Mohawk is gone. By contrast, his opponent, welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, retains a lone Chinese character tattoo on his chest.
Did "The Outlaw" get censored?


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March 10th, 2010

As far as wins go, Krzysztof Soszynski's UFC 110 victory over Stephan
Bonnar certainly won't go down as one of "The Polish Experiment's" most
memorable.
A third-round clash of heads that went unseen by the match referee left Soszynski a
TKO winner, and an appeal to the overseeing commission by Bonnar went
unheeded.
Today, Soszynski told MMAjunkie.com that the
unfortunate finish shouldn't take away from the performance he turned
in that February night in Australia, and he doesn't expect a rematch would go any differently should the two tangle again.


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March 10th, 2010

As far as wins go, Krzysztof Soszynski's UFC 110 victory over Stephan
Bonnar certainly won't go down as one of "The Polish Experiment's" most
memorable.
A third-round clash of heads that went unseen by the match referee left Soszynski a
TKO winner, and an appeal to the overseeing commission by Bonnar went
unheeded.
Today, Soszynski told MMAjunkie.com that the
unfortunate finish shouldn't take away from the performance he turned
in that February night in Australia, and he wouldn't expect a rematch
to go any differently should the two tangle again.


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March 10th, 2010

This month's UFC 111 event in Newark, N.J., is already a sellout.
That's the word from UFC president Dana White, who posted the news on his Twitter account this afternoon.
UFC 111 takes place March 27 at the Prudential Center with two two pay-per-view title fights: UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre vs. top contender Dan Hardy and Shane Carwin vs. Frank Mir for an interim heavyweight title.


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March 10th, 2010

The Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., plays host to the official UFC 111 fighter weigh-ins on Friday, March 26.
The weigh-ins take place on the eve of UFC 111, which is also hosted by the Prudential Center.
Doors to the weigh-ins, which feature UFC UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Dan Hardy, open to the public at 3 p.m. ET (noon ET PT), and the first fighter hits the scale at 4 p.m. ET.


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March 10th, 2010

This past weekend's WEC 47 event on Versus scored a 0.46 household rating and 373,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com today confirmed.
The ratings were down sharply - 42 percent in all - compared to World Extreme Cagefighting's prior show, WEC 46 (640,000 viewers), which took place in January and benefited from proven draw Urijah Faber and a main-event title-unification bout between Benson Henderson and Jamie Varner.
WEC 45, which took place this past December, drew 330,000 viewers.


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March 10th, 2010

MMAjunkie.com Radio today returns to its normal timeslot and welcomes to the show Dan Hardy, who headlines the March 27 UFC 111 event against UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.
Also joining the show is heavyweight Paul Buentello, who meets Cheick Kongo in a March 31 televised main-card bout at UFC on Versus 1.
MMAjunkie.com Radio begins at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's Race & Sports Book. Listen to
and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at
www.mmajunkie.com/radio.


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