Former WWE Wrestler Dave Batista Says He Will Fight in Strikeforce ?

Dave Batista, real name David Michael Bautista Jr., was a 6-time world heavyweight champion as a professional wrestler in the WWE. Batista's contract with the WWE recently expired, and he has now told TMZ that he will soon be making his MMA debut for Strikeforce.

UPDATE: Luke Thomas of Bloody Elbow, via his MMANation Twitter, reported the following quote from Strikeforce -- "The report is not correct. Batista is not signed." Additionally, the MMAjunkie talked to Strikeforce spokesperson Mike Afromowitz and wrote this:

Afromowitz declined to comment on anything beyond the denial of a signed deal. But additional sources told MMAjunkie.com officials have had informal talks with Bautista and may eventually offer a contract.

It looks like Dave Batista wants to attempt to follow in the footsteps of UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and Strikeforce's Bobby Lashley, both who made successful transitions from pro wrestling to MMA. Lesnar and Lashley were both successful collegiate wrestlers, though, while Batista has a bodybuilding background and is 41 years old. Nevertheless, assuming Batista isn't just angling for a Strikeforce contract by saying this, he might just be making his










Strikeforce debut later this year in the heavyweight division, but it won't be against Fedor Emelianenko, who Batista says he wants no part of.

It has been rumored Dave Batista would be fighting in an exhibition MMA bout for charity. It looks like he may have expanded upon that idea once he started training, and now wants to compete on a professional level. Surely MMA message boards will be on fire today with some mad pro wrestling hate once this news disseminates.

McGee's wins TUF 11 title ? The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale

Few fighters in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship know what it’s like to scrape themselves off the deck and win an important bout as much as Chris Leben. And Leben, who stopped Aaron Simpson in the second round of his fight Saturday on “The Ultimate Fighter Finale” at the Palms Casino, knew the men sitting on each side of him had done just as much.
To Leben’s right was light heavyweight Matt Hamill, who made it to the UFC despite being deaf. Hamill, who won a majority decision over Keith Jardine in the co-main event that earned each man a $25,000 bonus for Fight of the Night, had a series of maladies bothering him on Saturday.
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He had a sore on his back that he said is a Staph infection. He broke his left hand early in the first round. He was poked in the eye. And he said he had a series of other injuries. “What wasn’t hurt?” Hamill said, joking, after arguably the most significant win of his career.
To Leben’s left was Court McGee, who won the TUF 11 title by tapping out Kris McCray with a rear naked choke in the second roundMcGee broke up Saturday as he accepted “The Ultimate Fighter” plaque from UFC president Dana White in the cage. Asked later about his emotions, McGee said it was because of the struggle he had to get to the top.
“That was seven years all in one minute right there,” McGee said of the moment when he broke down and cried. “I dedicate that fight to anyone who’s struggling. If you came from where I came from to get to where I’m at today, you’d have done the same thing.”
Leben shook his head knowingly as McGee spoke. Leben’s got enough personal demons to fill a set of encyclopedias.
He said all fighters are wired differently than the average person and said that’s what makes them good at what they do.
“Fighters are like strippers: They ain’t paying their way through college,” Leben said. “If you don’t understand what that means, you have to realize that there is always something underlying with all of us. Nobody in their right mind, no normal, sane person, goes ‘[expletive] college, screw my guidance counselor. I’m going to put all my chips in one basket to become a cage fighter so I can get the crap kicked out of me in front of other people.’ Obviously, there is something wrong going on there.
“This guy (McGee) right here is the perfect example. It’s that obsessive energy that we have that makes us different. It’s that obsessive energy that, yeah, makes me cause a lot of problems for myself in my life. But look, look at where he’s at now, willing to do whatever it is. Most fighters I know do whatever they do 110 percent.
For me, it’s all or nothing,” he said. “It’s either full throttle or nothing. Either I’m eating ice cream and candy or I’m dieting 100 percent. I’m yin and yang. If I go out and have a drink, I’m going to go out and get [expletive] trashed. I know that. That’s why I’m not going to do that tonight. It’s the same thing in the ring and it’s that type of personality that makes all of us up here in front of you, it’s what got us here. We all have something like that in us.”
The win for Hamill was probably the biggest of his career. He’s coming off a victory over the highly regarded Jon Jones, but that came by disqualification in a fight in which he was being handled fairly easily.
On Saturday, Hamill pushed the pace and outslugged Jardine in a back-and-forth bloody fight in which guts and desire played as big of a role as talent. Hamill got inadvertently poked in the eye in the second round by Jardine and went to the mat in pain.
But he wasn’t about to give in.
“I fought my heart out,” Hamill said. “He poked me in the eye and I thought I was going to be blind as well as deaf. That’s two major handicaps. Bottom line is, I wasn’t giving up. I was going to go all out.”
Jardine went all out in an attempt to break a three-fight losing skein. He came at Hamill hard, but never landed the huge fight-changing punch he needed.
The loss was his fourth in a row and the fifth in his last six fights. White and UFC matchmaker Joe Silva are going to have a very difficult discussion in the next several days about Jardine’s future with the promotion.
He laid it all on the line on Saturday, but he came up short again.
But the theme of the night was overcoming odds. Leben did it, overcoming a broken home, a drinking problem and an arm’s length of other woes. Hamill did it, getting past deafness to become one of the top mixed martial arts fighters in the world.
And McGee, who was declared clinically dead, rallied from his addiction to black tar heroin, among other things, to make something of himself as a fighter. Even once he qualified for the show, he did so with next-to-no money in his pocket.
“I was only making about $100 more a month than I had to spend in bills,” he said.
McGee lost a controversial first-round fight to Nick Ring, but got back into the competition when Rich Attonito broke his hand and had to withdraw. He progressively got better each time out.
Like Hamill, he’s going to become an inspirational figure for those who are down and seemingly out.
“There’s nothing too much to overcome if you really want it enough and care enough,” McGee said. “I’m the perfect example of that. I was as low as a human being could get, not that low ago, and look where I am right now. Incredible.”

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The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale Preview & fight card

The Ultimate Fighter 11” Middleweight Final
Court McGee vs. Kris McCray

Keith Jardine vs. Matt Hamill
Aaron Simpson vs. Chris Leben
Spencer Fisher vs. Dennis Siver
John Gunderson vs. Mark Holst
James McSweeney vs. Travis Browne
Kyle Noke vs. Josh Bryant
Jamie Yager vs. Rich Attonito
Brad Tavares vs. Seth Baczynski
Chris Camozzi vs. James Hammortree

The avalanche of quality MMA continues with this Saturday’s “The Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale,” which features an eclectic mix of established stars, fresh faces and maybe even a superstar in the making.

Hitting our optic nerves from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, the main card features everything from a leg-kicking techno Viking to a Lifetime movie of the week turned professional face-puncher. No matter what you’re looking for from a night of dudes hitting each other on free television, this card has you covered.

All that’s left from now ‘til then is to get your knowledge right, and there is no better way to do that than with a fresh lineup of analysis, prognostication and occasional -- failed -- hilarity.  

UFC on Versus 2 officially headed to San Diego, poor ticket sales ?

As expected UFC on Versus 2 will move from Salt Lake City to San Diego, Ultimate Fighting Championship officials today announced.

  by (www.mmajunkie.com) passed along news of the possible move within the past hour, though the reason wasn't immediately known.

However, in a press release distributed by the UFC, company president Dana White cited poor ticket sales as the reason.

"Our television ratings in Salt Lake City have always been strong, and when we finally found the opportunity to bring a UFC event there with a great card, I was very surprised and disappointed in ticket sales," he stated. "As a result, for the first time in UFC history, I decided to pull the plug and move this Aug. 1 event to the San Diego Sports Arena."

However, Bill Colbert of the Pete Suazo Utah Athletic Commission could only speculate on the reason.

"They didn't give a particular reason," he said. "I imagine that it has to do with the demographics and ticket sales. Having an event on Sunday may work for a (NBA's Utah) Jazz game, but it's not going to work for an MMA event. "

"It's not the best news we've had in a while."

Nearly half of Utah's residents are members of the Mormon Church, which traditionally uses Sundays (on which UFC on Versus 2 falls) as its worship day.

Regardless, Colbert is hopeful the organization will consider a future show in the state.

"(UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs) Marc (Ratner) said he's committed to working with us in the future," he said. "I hope they don't look at Sunday sales being a negative on Utah. I try to keep it positive, and we'll keep talking to him and encourage him to come back here.

"[It] is unfortunate and sad. We'd hope to see them back, hopefully on a Saturday. Wherever it moves to, it will be highly watched in Utah homes."

Fans who purchased tickets tickets for the show, which was slated for EnergySolutions Arena, can get refunds at their point of purchase. Tickets bought at a Smith's Tix outlet or the EnergySolutions Arena Box Office must be returned to the same location for a refund. All phone and Internet purchases through Smith's Tix will be automatically refunded to the credit card used on the transaction. The per-order handling fee is nonrefundable.

Tickets for the 19,000-seat San Diego Sports Arena go on sale to UFC Fight Club members on Thursday (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT), UFC.com newsletter subscribers on Friday (4 p.m. ET) and the general public on Saturday (1 p.m. ET). They range from $40 to $250.

UFC on Versus 2, which is the second of two UFC events contractually slated to air on Versus in 2010, features fights such as Jon Jones vs. Vladimir Matyushenko, Mark Munoz vs. Yushin Okami, and Takanori Gomi vs. Joe Stevenson.
 
The UFC's lone San Diego event came in 2006, when the organization hosted UFC Fight Night 7 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

For the more on UFC on Versus 2, including the official fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

Chuck Liddell potential retirement after ufc 115 fight againest Rich Framklin ?

According to UFC President Dana White, longtime UFC fighter Chuck Liddell, who suffered a first-round TKO loss to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the co-main event of Saturday's UFC 97 event, is retired from fighting.

"He's a huge superstar, and we could still sell lots of tickets (with Liddell)," White said. "But I don't care about that. I care about him. I care about his health, and it's over, man. It's over."

The loss to Rua was Liddell's fourth in his past five fights and the third to come via knockout in that span. Although Liddell said he retooled his training camp, and though some of those new skills were on display on Saturday at Montreal's Bell Centre, Liddell still suffered the career-ending loss.

Much of the buildup for UFC 97 focused on Liddell's potential retirement.
eported last week, White had been adamant that a loss for 39-year-old Liddell would mean retirement. "And he did. He kept his word. He was in great shape. He came out guns slinging like he does, but that was it. If that (fight) was a toe-to-toe war and he got flashed (knocked down) a couple times and it went to decision, he'd still be retiring too. He'd still be retiring."

White said the decision is all the easier when considering all that the former UFC light-heavyweight champion has accomplished. White continually states that Liddell is the highest earner in MMA history and the biggest star the sport has ever seen.

"I don't want him to fight anymore," White said. "He [expletive] doesn't have anything to prove. Nothing to prove. He doesn't have to prove anything to me or the rest of world. He has [expletive] loads of money. There's no reason for it. ... I don't care how much he draws. I don't want to see him get hurt."

Liddell attended the post-UFC 97 press conference, a rarity for high-profile stars who suffer losses in their fights. White said it's just the type of person Liddell is. But maybe Liddell just wanted to say goodbye – without officially saying goodbye.

When asked if he had entered the cage for the final time, Liddell was at first noncommittal but later admitted it was probably true.

"Yeah, that's probably the case," Liddell said. "I'm not going to make any decisions until I go home to talk to everybody, talk to my people and my friends. ... But it's probably safe to say (I'm retired)."

The news will likely hit the MMA world hard. Despite his 1-4 record since his final title defense over Tito Ortiz at UFC 66, Liddell remains a fan favorite, a proven par-per-view draw, and an international icon for the sport.

"Fight fans love guys who are real fighters, and you will never in your [expletive] life meet a more real fighter than this guy," White said. "He didn't want to stop. He didn't want to quit. He wanted to take another run at the title. He loves to fight."

Liddell retires with a 21-7 record, including a 16-6 mark in the UFC. His 16 wins in the organizations remain a UFC record.

Liddell, who turned pro in 1998, made his MMA and UFC debut at UFC 17. He won the UFC's light-heavyweight title in 2005 and made four consecutive title defenses before losing the belt to Quinton Jackson in 2007.

According to White, Liddell will remain with the organization, though an exact role has not been determined. However, White said Liddell will likely be involved in the organization's public relations, including the push for MMA legislation in the few remaining U.S. states where the sport is not currently regulated.

"He'll always have a home here," White said. ESPNMMA.com

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UFC 115 , Watch - KO highlight video ( Chuck Liddell vs Rich Franklin )

But Liddell, who went from fighting for purses of less than $1,000 to earning paydays in excess of $1 million, couldn’t bring himself to retire so easily.
“I just love to fight,” Liddell said, repeatedly, before the bout.
So, he struck a deal with White: He’d clean up the lifestyle issues that concerned his friend and one-time manager and get himself into the kind of shape he’d been in when he was in his heyday. In return, White agreed to give him another chance.
And, indeed, Liddell’s body looked fit and trim, much more like that of a 25-year-old than a 40-year-old.
He also went out with his style of fight, stalking Franklin and gunning for the knockout with every shot he threw.
“He follows big when he thinks he has you hurt,” Franklin said. “But I was never as badly hurt as he thought I was.”
Liddell was doing well in the bout and likely would have won the first round on the scorecards if it was completed. Not only did he land several good punches, but he was throwing high kicks, which he hadn’t in years, and he mixed in some wrestling.
But his lust for the knockout, in a way, cost him the fight on Saturday.
He missed a big right hand and he swung so hard that his momentum carried him forward into Franklin. Franklin fired a right hook that had everything he could muster on it. The blow landed on Liddell’s mouth and badly split his lip, almost down to the chin.
Liddell was out instantly, but Franklin landed a shot before referee Herb Dean could get in to stop it.
“Chuck Liddell came in fantastic shape; he worked hard for this thing and I think him and Rich Franklin tonight fought the type of fights that made them both famous and made them both world champions,” White said in tribute to his friend, who was taken to a local hospital to be examined. “Those two went at it, nonstop, toe-to-toe. It was a fun fight.”
The fight had major stakes for both men. Franklin was coming off a knockout loss to Vitor Belfort at UFC 103 in September and was a loser in two of his last three.
While most of the pre-fight attention was focused on Liddell and whether he could get it back together to, as he said, make a final run at the UFC light heavyweight title, the bout had significant implications for Franklin as well.
The light heavyweight division is one of the UFC’s deepest. If Franklin had lost to Liddell, it would have been his third defeat in four outings and retirement might have been in the offing.
Franklin didn’t want to acknowledge it, but he conceded after the bout that he understood he was walking a high-wire as well.
“It maybe was somewhere in the back of my mind, but I really try to push that stuff out,” Franklin said. “What happened to me in my last fight will not predict what will happen to me in my next fight. I really believe that. On any given night, Chuck and I could do this 100 times and there would be several different outcomes.
“This happened to be my night, and last fight it wasn’t. But you can’t help but think that, ‘Well, if I drop three of four, where would that leave me?’ Any time you put your back against the wall in a no-win situation, where ‘if I don’t win this, it’s over,’ you take your mind off the important thing and that’s focusing on my performance.”
Franklin fought more than half of the fight with a broken left arm, suffered when he successfully blocked a high kick from Liddell about two minutes into the match.
He wasn’t planning to quit, he said, but he knew it would help his cause if he could do something to end the fight quickly. When the bout ended, he beamed devilishly, because he knew he didn’t have to figure a way to win the bout without his left arm.
“I was just happy the fight was over because I knew my arm was broken,” Franklin said, explaining his grin. “I definitely wasn’t going to quit. I’ve broken bones before and continued fighting, but there was part of me that was trying to figure what kind of strategy I was going to use to win a fight with a broken left arm.”
Franklin pulled it out and so his career will continue forward, but Liddell will be left to move on to other things. White, who said, “I love Chuck Liddell,” said his friend would have a job for life with the UFC.
But the man who was one of the most significant fighters in UFC history and who helped the company achieve the soaring popularity it now enjoys wanted that job to be swapping punches, at least a bit longer.
He goes out, though, on his own terms, having fought the best of his era and beaten nearly all of them. He finishes with a 21-8 record and a spot in the UFC Hall of Fame.
Six of Liddell’s eight losses came against men who held a UFC title at one point in their careers (Jackson, twice; Couture, Evans, Rua and Franklin) and who themselves are among the best fighters in the sport’s brief history.
Franklin called the victory “bittersweet” because he didn’t want to become known as the man who retired Liddell.
The former middleweight champion scored the knockout, but it wasn’t really Franklin who retired Chuck Liddell.
It was the calendar. Liddell got old and his chin betrayed him.
He went down, though, the way he fought his entire career, firing big punches and bringing the fans from their seats.
Few have ever done it better.
Franklin’s left arm was grotesquely swollen and appeared it may be broken after he blocked a kick from Liddell.
But Franklin, the former middleweight champ, didn’t seem to mind, beaming after knocking out one of the UFC’s legendary stars.
Liddell hadn’t fought since being knocked out by Mauricio “Shogun” Rua 14 months ago in Montreal at UFC 97. It was the third time he had been knocked out, and Liddell took the time off to allow himself to recuperate.
He was scoring well on Saturday and dictating the pace of the fight. He likely would have won the first round on the judges’ cards if the round finished, and he looked to apply some late damage when he was caught.
On the undercard, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic won his heavyweight battle with Pat Barry, who made no secret of his admiration for the PRIDE veteran. Filipovic forced a submission with a rear naked choke with 30 seconds left in the fight.
Barry made many fans before the fight by admitting his admiration for Filipovic, but in the first round he went after his idol and knocked him down twice and was in control of the fight.
But Barry’s conditioning seemed to fail him and Filipovic picked up the pace in the second, stopping Barry’s onslaught and forcing him into a defensive mode.
In the third, Filipovic took over and was catching Barry with fast combinations, forcing Barry to retreat. With about a minute left, a combination from Filipovic knocked Barry down. Filipovic landed a series of hard punches on the ground and referee Yves Lavigne seemed on the verge of stopping it.
But Barry turned away from Filipovic, who took advantage and slapped the fight-ending choke on Barry.
Canadian Rory MacDonald, at 20 years old the UFC’s youngest fighter, got a hero’s welcome from the raucous GM Place crowd and then performed brilliantly through the first two rounds against former World Extreme Cagefighting welterweight champion Carlos Condit.
But Condit took over in the third round and began to rock MacDonald with hard punches. In the final seconds of the fight, MacDonald was on his back and Condit was pounding him with blows. With just 10 seconds left in the fight, referee Kevin Dornan jumped in to stop it.
Two of the judges had MacDonald up 20-18 at the time of the stop. The third had it a draw, 19-19. If the judges would have scored the fight 10-8 for Condit, as it appeared they might, the fight would have wound up a majority draw.
MacDonald didn’t complain about the stoppage.
“I was confused,” he said. “I was taking some good shots. I was lost. I just couldn’t find my rhythm.”
Ben Rothwell managed to control Gilbert Yvel in most of all three rounds and won a unanimous decision over the Dutchman in an entertaining heavyweight bout.
Martin Kampmann moved closer to a bout for the No. 1 contender position in the UFC’s welterweight division with a solid victory over Paulo Thiago. Kampmann was brilliant in neutralizing Thiago’s punching power and controlling him on the ground.
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filopovic took an early beating to come back and choke out Pat Barry in the third round at UFC 115.
Pat Barry came out against his hero, the legendary Mirko "Cro Cop" Filopovic looking to land hard shots. He did about 30 seconds in, dropped Cro Cop with a right hand. Barry then went to the leg kick. And back for more. Cro Cop came in swinging and missing and Barry landed to the inside of the same leg. Cro Cop attempted a hook kick. Barry landed another hard right and again dropped Mirko.
Cro Cop's face began to swell horribly. The announcers speculated that his jaw was broken. Cro Cop threw Pat Barry and got a take down. Then he landed a combination of punches that set the crowd on fire. Then they traded hugs! Then back to exchanging blows. Barry ended with a high kick that just missed.
Mirko looked really bad going into round two. He threw two big left high kicks to open. Then he landed with a kick to the body. And he surged forward behind a punching combination. This is a proud man! Barry with more leg kicks. They tied up and Mirko attacked Barry's thighs with hammer fists then threw Barry down briefly. More knees to the bodies preceded a ref restart. Cro Cop advanced behind double jabs. Then a side kick landed for the Croation. Barry slipped on a high kick and Mirko locked on a front choke. Then he put Barry down on his back. Barry managed to hold Mirko close, but Filopovic worked for better position and attained mount. Then he got Barry's back and worked for a rear naked choke! Barry flipped over but Cro Cop held dominant position to the end of the round. Great come back for Filopovic.
A bruised Pat Barry looked at a shattered Mirko Filopovic across the cage to start round three. They hugged a gain then got to business. Cro Cop fired combinations. Then he landed an axe kick! Cro Cop ducked a right hand and got body hooks. Barry timed a high kick and kicked his leg out from under him, dropping Cro Cop on his ass. Barry pinged with leg kicks. Barry tagged him with a left. Cro Cop answered with an uppercut. And another followed by a combination of hooks. Then they clinched near the cage where they traded standing elbows. Cro Cop landed more. The ref restarted them again . Cro Cop landed hard and poured it on. Then he dropped Barry and pounded away. Cro Cop whaled away and looked at the ref asking for a stoppage. Not getting it, he went for the rear naked choke and got the finish.

UFC 115 weigh in & fight card

Today's proceedings begin at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT).




Weighing in today are UFC 115 headliners and "The Ultimate Fighter 11" coaches Rich Franklin and Chuck Liddell, co-main-event fighters Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic and Pat Barry, and the rest of the card's fighters. They'll return to GM Place on Saturday for the Spike TV (two preliminary-card fights) and pay-per-view (main card) fights.



Be sure to check out MMAjunkie.com later today for a complete weigh-in photo gallery and images of all 22 competitors.



The official results include:



MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)



Rich Franklin () vs. Chuck Liddell ()

Patrick Barry () vs. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic ()

Martin Kampmann () vs. Paulo Thiago ()

Ben Rothwell () vs. Gilbert Yvel ()

Carlos Condit () vs. Rory MacDonald ()

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)



Mac Danzig () vs. Matt Wiman ()

Evan Dunham () vs. Tyson Griffin ()

PRELIMINARY CARD (Not televised)

David Loiseau () vs. Mario Miranda ()

Peter Sobotta () vs. James Wilks ()

Ricardo Funch () vs. Claude Patrick ()

Jesse Lennox () vs. Mike Pyle ()

I found this rumor articale on the web today . Is this True ? ( RUMOR )Fedor is Retiring Fedor will run for senate and may retire at the end of his Strikeforce contract

Huge news. Massive. Just received an email from a very reliable source from Russia that Fedor will be running for a congress seat in Russia for the pro-Kremlin party 'United Russia'. The party is dominant in the country and holds around 80% of the seats in the senate and Fedor will be representing his region. That's a fact. Just wait for the official announcement which will probably come at the end of this week if not in the next few hours. Now the accompanied rumor is that after Fedor fulfills the last two fights in his Strikeforce contract, he will retire from MMA.
I know all of this sounds bonkers. Trust me, even I can't believe I'm writing a 'Fedor retirement' article on a Thursday night. You're skeptical, I know. Keep in mind that we did break the news that the winner of Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley will be the new TUF 12 coach. We even got it right when we broke the news that Shaquille O'Neal is an unlockable character in UFC Undisputed 2010.
Once the news breaks (and I'm absolutely sure it will, perhaps within hours), remember where you read it from first.
Update: Remember that one time when I said the official announcement will come in the next few hours? Check out the English translation of the M-1 Global press release:

The regional political council of the party "United Russia" approved the list of candidates for internal party elections - the primaries. In the list of 58 candidates. No less than 10 000 United Russia vote will determine the best, and who will receive the first place in the party list in the upcoming October elections in the Belgorod Regional Duma.
The list of early voting have 24 newcomers who have never participated in elections to the legislature. One of the achievements was the inclusion in the list not only members of United Russia, but also simply to party supporters and even non-party candidates. This is for example the managing director Combine KMA Ruda Vladimir Tom and CEO JBK-1 Yuri Selivanov. They are not only members of the party, but also by working in obldume fourth convocation, not included in the United Russia Duma faction.Fedor Emelianenko Book & DVD Combo
Among the most notable candidates, in addition to the deputies (Anatolia Zelikow, Victor Filatov, Vadim Cage, Valeria Skruga, Ivan Kulabuhova, Vladimir Kulikovsky) - a famous athlete Fedor Emelianenko, the new director of Belarusian State Technological University Sergey Glagolev (by the way, non-partisan), director of the Institute of Public and municipal government BSU Alexander Mamatov.

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Watch Miguel Cotto Vs Yuri Foreman Live Video Stream Online & Highlights & fight card Results

Cotto (35-2, 28 knockouts) answered all of those questions with Saturday night's ninth round, technical knockout victory over Foreman (28-1, eight KOs), before 20,727 in the first-ever boxing show at the new Yankee Stadium.
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Cotto dropped Foreman with a left hand to the body 42 seconds into the ninth round, after which referee Arthur Mercante Jr. stepped in and waved an end to the bout.

"I came to win the fight, and my goal was to put pressure on him all along. After the fourth round, which Foreman may have won, I went to the corner and Manny Steward told me to stay focused," said Cotto. "Even when he went down, I thought, 'I still have to fight.'"

Foreman had already injured his right leg twice in the eighth round, going down twice in pain after twisting and apparently re-injuring a leg on which he wore a knee brace.

A towel from the direction of Foreman's corner had been thrown into the ring, but Mercante overruled it, saying that it came from a source other than Foreman's trainer, Joe Grier.

"I heard that someone was yelling, 'Stop the fight, stop the fight,' and then, the towel was thrown in. At that moment, I didn't know who threw the towel in, although I have a pretty good idea who did it now," said Mercante.

"When I resumed the fight, I called time to let both guys rest," said Mercante. "Yuri was always game to fight. Both men showed the mark of champions in a great fight tonight."

But the towel was thrown in by Grier, responding to Foreman's wife, Leyla Leidecker, who pleaded for him to stop the fight.

"I saw the replay on the screen, and I saw the towel come in," said Cotto, who earned $2 million plus upside to Foreman's $750,000.

"And I thought, 'Fight's over, this is wrong. The fight should be stopped,'" said Cotto. "But hey, he was hurt, working on one leg, and I still kept on fighting. This is a world title fight."

But as a result, the fight continued into the ninth, where Cotto ended things.

"I was surprised. I thought that the corner would have stopped the fight, but there were a lot of bad decisions going on in there," said Manny Steward, Cotto's trainer.

"I knew where the towel came from, and it came right from their corner. The fight was over, and it was wrong to have continued," said Steward. "But I thought that Miguel Cotto fought the perfect fight -- good jab, good right hand. I was very pleased with his effort."


Foreman said he wanted to continue despite injuring his knee.

"I was there the entire fight. The brace is for an old injury. I was making side-to-side movements, however, and it just gave out. I felt a sharp pain and that's why I went down," said Foreman.

"Arthur Mercante let me try to work it out. I'm a world champion, or a former world champion," said Foreman. "I would have never quit. I did not want the fight to be stopped."

Cotto also improved to 8-0, with three knockouts in bouts in New York, including a mark of 6-0 at Madison Square Garden, with four of those contests taking place on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
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At Madison Square Garden, Cotto defeated former world champions Clottey, Shane Mosley, Paulie Malignaggi and Zab Judah, the latter, by 11th-round knockout.

Foreman-Cotto brought a fight to a Yankee Stadium for the first time since 1976, when Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton at the former venue by 15-round decision.

Cotto, who stood 5-foot-7 to Foreman's 5-11, crowded the taller man throughout the fight.

Cotto will now weigh his options on whether to move up into the higher weight class and defend his crown, or to return to welterweight for other opportunities.

"I have to wait and see," said Cotto. "What's better, to go back down or to stay here. But I'm always ready to fight the big fights."

Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman fought tonight amongst lively crowd. Cotto was the most favorite among the crowd though Foreman also had some supporters for himself. As Foreman entered he had to endure some boo’s which clearly showed that Cotto’s supporters clearly outnumbered Foreman’s. The fate of the game seemed to be decided at that moment and it came out with Cotto winning by TKO in Round 9.
In the third round a cut opened up above Foreman’s eye and it did not seem to bode well for him. In the fourth round Foreman started mounting an offense at Cotto’s bloodying face. Cotto came back and dominated the second half of the round. The fifth round was another close round. Cotto seemed to be punching harder in that round and in the seventh round Foreman slipped and fell which seemed like a knee injury. He kept fighting but he fell again. Withstanding the trouble staying on his feet Foreman kept fighting. Cotto kept his advantage and landed a nice uppercut. Foreman still continued which showed his great stamina. Though Foreman could not do any footwork and falling down again and again, the ref did not allow the fight to end. He cleared the ring and continued the fight as Foreman insisted not to quit. The fight restarted and the round went to Cotto. At the beginning of the ninth round, Cotto threw a right and a left body shot which put Foreman on one knee. The fight was stopped and ruled a TKO by Cotto at ninth round.

Miguel Cotto's record in New York



Waklimi Young, UD 4, Hammerstein Ballroom, April 28, 2001

Muhammad Abdullaev, TKO 9, Madison Square Garden, June 11, 2005
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Paulie Malignaggi, UD 12, Madison Square Garden, June 10, 2006

Zab Judah, TKO 11, Madison Square Garden, June 9, 2007

Shane Mosley, UD 12, Madison Square Garden, Nov. 10, 2007

Michael Jennings, TKO 5, Madison Square Garden, February 21, 2009

Joshua Clottey, SD 12, Madison Square Garden, June 13, 2009

Yuri Foreman TKO 9 , Yankee Stadium, June 5, 2010






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Miguel Cotto
Birthplace: Caguas, Puerto Rico
Resides: Caguas, Puerto Rico
Age: 29
Height: 5'7"
Reach: 67"
Current World Ttiles Held: None
Former World Titles Held: WBO Light Welterweight (140 lbs.), WBA, WBO Welterweight (147 lbs.)
Professional Record: 34-2, 27 KOs
Record in World Title Fights: 14-2, 11 KOs
Record in Fights Going 12 Rounds: 4-1
Record at 154 lbs.: None
Notable Wins: UD12 Shane Mosley , UD12 Paulie Malignaggi, TKO6 Randall Bailey
Notable Losses: TKO12 Manny Pacquiao , TKO11 Antonio Margarito

Yuri Foreman
Birthplace: Gomel, Belarus
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Age: 29
Height: 5'11"
Reach: 72"
Current World Ttiles Held: WBA Light Middleweight (154 lbs.)
Former World Titles Held: None
Professional Record: 28-0, 8 KOs
Record in World Title Fights: 1-0
Record in Fights Going 12 Rounds: 1-0
Record at 154 lbs.: 26-0, 8 KOs