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lenbiasyayo
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forgot to make a thread, but Dynamite's on HDNet right now.

DREAM Featherweight Championship bout: Bibiano Fernandes vs. Hiroyuki Takaya
DREAM Lightweight bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Josh Thomson
DREAM Welterweight bout: Hayato Sakurai vs. Jason High
K-1 MAX bout: Akiyo Nishiura vs. Tetsuya Yamato
DREAM Welterweight Championship bout: Marius Žaromskis vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
DREAM Heavyweight bout: Jérôme Le Banner vs. Satoshi Ishii
DREAM Interim Heavyweight Championship bout: Alistair Overeem vs. Todd Duffee
DREAM/K-1 Special Rules bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Yuichiro Nagashima
K-1 bout: Gegard Mousasi vs. Kyotaro
DREAM Heavyweight bout: Sergei Kharitonov vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
DREAM Openweight bout: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Hiroshi Izumi
DREAM Featherweight bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Kazuhisa Watanabe
DREAM Featherweight bout: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Caol Uno
DREAM Welterweight bout: Andy Ologun vs. Katsuaki Furuki
 
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Dana White: Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields set for UFC 129 headliner


As expected UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre (21-2 MMA, 15-2 UFC) next defends his title against Jake Shields (26-4-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) in the headliner of April's UFC 129 event in Toronto.

UFC president Dana White confirmed the long-rumored bout with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) over the weekend.

As previously reported, the event also is expected to feature UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture (19-10 MMA, 16-7 UFC) vs. former champ Lyoto Machida (16-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC).

UFC 129 is slated for April 30 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The night's main card airs on pay-per-view.

The show is expected to break attendance and gate records for the UFC and North American MMA.

Having St-Piere, a French-Canadian, on the card certainly will help. The champ recently posted his fifth consecutive title defense with a lopsided unanimous-decision win over Josh Koscheck at UFC 124. The fighter, who many consider the world's top-ranked pound-for-pound competitor, essentially would clean out the welterweight division with a win over Shields. It'd also mark his ninth straight win and 15th victory in his past 16 fights.

Shields, a former EliteXC welterweight champion and Strikeforce middleweight titleholder, recently made his UFC debut and edged Martin Kampmann via split decision at UFC 121. The Cesar Gracie product owns a staggering 15-fight win streak with wins over notables such as Dan Henderson, Jason "Mayhem" Miller, Robbie Lawler, Paul Daley, Nick Thompson, Mike Pyle, Carlos Condit and Yushin Okami.
 
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UFC announced a shitload of fights today and I don't feel like pasting all the articles so...

GSP vs. Jake Shields - UFC 129
Chael Sonnen vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama - UFC 128
Ben Henderson vs. Mark Bocek - UFC 129
Immortal Matt Brown vs. Mark Scanlon - UFC On Versus 3
John Hathaway vs. Kris McCray - UFC Fight Night 24
Ricardo Romero vs. Kyle Kingsbury - UFC 126
Donald Cerrone vs. Paul Kelly - UFC 126
Jon Madsen vs. Mike Russow - UFC Fight Night 24
 
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Strikeforce Targets Fedor vs. Bigfoot, Arlovski vs. Kharitonov for Feb. 12th Event

"The Last Emperor" is returning – finally.

Fedor Emelianenko (31-2 MMA, 1-1 SF) meets Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva (14-2 MMA, 1-1 SF) in the opening round of an eight-man Strikeforce heavyweight tournament scheduled to begin Feb. 12 at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J.

In a second quarterfinal fight, former heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski (15-8 MMA, 0-2 SF) meets Sergei Kharitonov (16-4 MMA, 0-0 SF).

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) learned of the news from sources close to the fighters who are earmarked for the tournament. Sherdog.com first reported the tournament earlier today.

A third quarterfinal matchup between Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1 MMA, 3-0 SF) and Brett Rogers (11-2 MMA, 2-2 SF) reported as in the works for a March 5 event in Columbus, Ohio, is said to be off, sources said, though Werdum recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio he plans to compete at the spring event.

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker declined to comment on the reported fights, though he said an "important announcement" about the tournament is due by Tuesday.

Emelianenko's return marks the apparent end of contentious contract negotiations between Strikeforce, Showtime and M-1 Global, the parent company responsible for managing the Russian heavyweight. This past month, as heavy rumors circled about an Emelianenko vs. Silva matchup at a Strikeforce card set for Jan. 29, officials from Strikeforce and M-1 Global said negotiations still were ongoing and a deal was not finalized.

However, the officials were optimistic that a deal was closer than ever.

"We are really hoping that we can finalize things as soon as possible," M-1 representative Evgeni Kogan then told MMAjunkie.com. "We have been steadily working toward an agreement. And I think we are closer to it now than we have been in the past."

Emelianenko has not competed since he suffered a shocking submission loss to Werdum at "Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum" earlier this year. A rematch between the two appeared to be in the works before Werdum underwent surgery for a damaged elbow and was put on the bench until early next year. Emelianenko previously had flirted with the possibility of retirement, but the loss to Werdum ultimately stoked his competitive fires.

In an August interview with M-1 Global's website, he hinted that a new contract with Strikeforce could last for up to four to six fights, though the terms of Emelianenko's new deal could not be verified.
 
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