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Results from UFC Fight Night: Auckland
Te Huna vs Marquardt


Main card (UFC Fight Pass at 5 a.m. Eastern Time)
Nate Marquardt def. James Te Huna by way of Submission (Armbar) 4:34 of Round 1
Jared Rosholt def. Soa Palelei by way of Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Charles Oliveira def. Hatsu Hioki by way of Submission (Peruvian Necktie) 4:32 of Round 2
Robert Whittaker vs. Mike Rhodes by way of Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time)
Jake Matthews def. Dashon Johnson by way of Submission (Triangle Choke) 3:16 of Round 3
Richie Vaculik def. Roldan Sangcha-an by way of Unanimous Decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Vik Grujic def. Chris Indich by way of TKO (Strikes) 4:55 of Round 1
Neil Magny def. Rodrigo Goiana de Lima by way of TKO (Strikes) 2:32 of Round 2
Dan Hooker def. Ian Entwistle by way of TKO (Elbows) 3:34 of Round 1
Gian Villante def. Sean O Connell by way of Split Decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)

UFC Fight Night 34 results: Kyung Ho Kang def. Shunichi Shimizu via submission (arm-triangle choke) - Round 3, 3:53

UFC Fight Night 34 results: Kyung Ho Kang def. Shunichi Shimizu via submission (arm-triangle choke) - Round 3, 3:53 
UFC Fight Night 34 results: Kiichi Kunimoto def. Luiz Dutra via disqualification (illegal elbows) - Round 1, 2:57

 

Kunimoto (16-5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) ran his winning streak to five fights. Dutra (11-3-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had a four-fight winning streak snapped.
Up-to-the-minute UFC Fight Night 34 results include:

• Kiichi Kunimoto def. Luiz Dutra via disqualification (illegal elbows) – Round 1, 2:57
• Kyung Ho Kang def. Shunichi Shimizu via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 3, 3:53
• Max Holloway def. Will Chope via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 2:27
• Katsunori Kikuno def. Quinn Mulhern via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
• Royston Wee def. David Galera via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
• Mairbek Taisumov def. Tae Hyun Bang via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
• Dustin Kimura def. Jon Delos Reyes via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 2:13
• Russell Doane def Leandro Issa via submission (triangle choke) – Round 2, 4:59

UFC Fight Night 32 bonuses and awards: Vitor Belfort knockout earns $50K

UFC Fight Night 32 bonuses and awards: Vitor Belfort knockout earns $50K

UFC Fight Night 32: "Belfort vs. Henderson" at the Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil, has officially wrapped, which means it's time for those select fighters who went above and beyond in their respective fights to get a little extra grease for their efforts.

To the tune of $50,000 each.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) dished out its standard post-fight monetary bonuses to four of the 22 fighters on the card. And it's probably no surprise who's heading home with a second sack of simoleons.

Indeed, the fact that Vitor Belfort became the first man in history to stop Dan Henderson via strikes in the main event cemented his "Knockout of the Night" award. The fact that it was another impressive head kick was just icing.

Elsewhere, the evening's preliminary card produced the other two bonuses for the night, as Adriano Martins' armbar tapout of Daron Cruickshank earned him "Submission of the Night" while the crazy back-and-forth three minute war between Omari Akhmedov and Thiago Perpetuo earned them "Fight of the Night' honors.

Here are the UFC Fight Night 32 bonuses:

Knockout of the Night -- Vitor Belfort

Submission of the Night -- Adriano Martins

Fight of the Night -- Omari Akhmedov vs. Thiago Perpetuo

Again, each fighter received $50,000 extra for their performances in addition to their respective base salaries, which we will pass along as soon as that information becomes available.

UFC Fight Night 32's main event is over. Although scheduled for five rounds, it needed just 77 seconds. Get the details, and check out the finishing gif, here

Warning: Don't read if you don't want any spoilers

So how bout it guys. We saw some incredible finishes. We also saw Knee's being the end of it all for some guys. What do you think was the best knee you saw on the card? If you need a reminder, we have the finishes shared on our other page, MMA Maniacs!

I was super impressed with Brandon Thatch! His knee had Thiago tapping out long before the ref stopped it and other punchers were thrown. If you watch it, Thatch kneed him, and he crumpled to the ground tapping Thatch's leg, but the ref didn't see it and Thatch hit him couple times before Thiago started tapping with his other hand on the mat where the ref could see. Super impressive, screwed me in fantasy points though because i had the fight ending in round 1 by tko, lol. Seriously though, Thatch threw a perfect stepping knee, which isn't the easiest to land so solid. -Pride


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Only one word could describe the epic night of fights that unraveled in Goiania, Brazil - QUICK! Find out what UFC President Dana White's reaction was to the madness and what he expects from the country in the near future:

Watch the UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2 weigh-in live Today at 4 pm ET/1 pm PT.

Watch the UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2 weigh-in live Today at 4 pm ET/1 pm PT.

UFC Fight Night 25 bonuses

Jake Ellenberger, T.J. Waldburger, Lance Benoist, Matt Riddle each earned $55,000 fight-night bonuses for their performances at Saturday's UFC Fight Night 25 event.

Ellenberger earned the night's "Knockout of the Night" award, Waldburger picked up the "Submission of the Night" bonus, and Benoist and Riddle took home "Fight of the Night" honors.

MMAjunkie.com(www.mmajunkie.com) learned of the bonus winners and award amounts at UFC Fight Night 25's post-fight press conference.

UFC Fight Night 25 took place at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The night's main card aired on Spike TV while the prelims streamed on Facebook.

Ellenberger received his award for a quick, 53-second TKO destruction of Jake Shields in the night's main event. Ellenberger unloaded a knee to the body and one to the head before a series of follow-up punches forced the referee's intervention.

Waldburger used a slick transition to submit promotional newcomer Mike Stumpf on the night's preliminary card. Although he looked to secure a tight armbar, Stumpf freed himself, and Waldburger then smoothly transitioned to a triangle choke to force the first-round tap-out.

Newcomer Benoist and Riddle also competed on the prelims in a competitive fight. Riddle rallied strong in the third round, but Benoist had built a lead and earned the judges' nod via 29-28 scores across the board

"UFC Main Events" special debuts Nov. 7 on Spike TV, counters Strikeforce event

Going head to head with Strikeforce's CBS debut and its headliner between Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Spike TV debuts its "UFC Main Events: Couture vs. Nogueira" special on Nov. 7.

Spike TV Vice President of Sports and Specials, Brian J. Diamond.

The two-hour special features four major bouts from 2009, including Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102, that have never previously aired on free television.

The special airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Other bouts featured on the special include Vitor Belfort vs. Rich Franklin from UFC 103, as well as B.J. Penn vs. Kenny Florian and Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin from UFC 101.

"We always get calls from the UFC about some great programming they want us to air all the time," Diamond said. "And we love it. The fans love it."

The special is the latest counter-programming move for the UFC, which often airs fights (both taped and live) to go head to head with a rival organization's offering. Strikeforce is a frequent target, and the now-defunct Affliction Entertainment also dealt with the UFC's counter-programming.

The same night as "UFC Main Event," Strikeforce holds its first-ever CBS-televised event. The show takes place near Chicago at the Sears Center with Emelianenko vs. Rogers, Jason "Mayhem" Miller vs. Jake Shields (for the organization's vacant middleweight title) and two other bouts.

Diamond, though, said this latest offering is just one of many in the works.

"We have some more stuff planned that we'll announce in the next few weeks that will take place by the end of the year," he said.

For the latest on "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.

Joe Lauzon / Jeremy Stephens UFC Fight Night 17

Joe Lauzon proved a capable headliner his second time out, as he submitted Jeremy Stephens with a slick armbar at 4:43 into the second round of their lightweight main event bout at UFC Fight Night ...
Lauzon, Velasquez dominate at UFN
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Archive Joe Lauzon proved a capable headliner his second time out. Lauzon submitted Jeremy Stephens with a slick armbar at 4:43 into the second round of their lightweight main event bout at UFC Fight Night 17 on Saturday at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla.



Stephens (14-4), who had replaced trainer Hermes Franca after the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt tore the anterior crucial ligament in his right knee less than two weeks out, was deemed a much larger threat to Lauzon on his feet, although he never really got the opportunity to show it.



Lauzon, 24, stifled the hard-hitting Stephens with two unconventional leglock drops to the canvas, then controlled the striker with superior positioning at practically every turn of the mostly grounded contest.



The Bridgewater, Mass., native went for two key armbar attempts from mount in the first and second rounds. On the first try, Stephens negotiated free and rained down heavy leather, but Lauzon weathered the onslaught.



Lauzon's second stab didn't fail though. After absorbing a Stephens' elbow that opened a gash along his hairline, Lauzon reversed and wasted little time mounting his foe's chest and pitching off the side with the appendage again. This time, Lauzon rolled with Stephens to keep the hold intact for the finish.



The performance proved much more impressive than Lauzon's ill-fated bout with No. 1 lightweight contender Kenny Florian 10 months ago.



"I knew we were getting close to the end of the round … so I was trying, trying, trying," said Lauzon, who moves up to 18-4 with five Octagon victories in tow. "When I fought Kenny, I was a little bit star-struck by the whole thing. It felt way better being in the main event this time. [The experience] helped me a ton."



Velasquez continues to progress


As expected, Cain Velasquez was victorious over promotional newcomer Denis Stojnic with a TKO stoppage from strikes 2:34 into the second round, though the finish was underwhelming in light of the heavyweight's hype going into his fifth career fight.



Viewers got a taste of things to come as Velasquez pinned the tough, but slow-to-respond Dutchman against the fence early and unloaded with punches and knees from the Thai plum. Though Stojnic's chin showed a sturdy resolve, his return fire was too far and in-between to ever put Velasquez in jeopardy.



Stojnic (5-2) found his back against the wall quickly again in the second round, and began to swing for the fences. Velasquez, 26, used the opening to ride Stojnic to the mat and easily wiggled free from a guillotine choke attempt, then softened Stojnic with punches in side control until the Dutchman turtled to find relief. When referee Jorge Ortiz saw no fight in Stojnic, he called it quits, much to Velasquez and the crowd's dismay.



"I could have finished him a lot better. I didn't, so I just have to try and relax out here. That's why I need more ring time," said Velasquez, who trains with the American Kickboxing Academy.



Neer dominates Danzig


Josh Neer, on the other hand, was a man on a mission from the opening bell, waging a relentless campaign until he submitted Mac Danzig with a tight triangle choke at 3:36 into the second round.



The Des Moines, Iowa lightweight caught Danzig (18-6-1) with a right in the bout's first minute, but "The Ultimate Fighter 6" winner battled back nicely and found his timing with combinations, cutting Neer over his left eye in the ensuing melee.



Neer would not be denied, however. The fearless 25 year old snagged the armbar and tried to transition to an oma plata before Danzig slipped out to his feet.



Grounding Danzig again in the second set, Neer rained down elbows with bad intentions, but Danzig eventually maneuvered to top position. From his back, Neer latched on the fight-ending choke and never looked back.



"I felt like I got headbutted in the first round and that's why I was kind of mad because the ref didn't call it," said Neer. "I felt like I got headbutted and that's why my eye split open."



Neer (25-7-1), who rebounded publicly from a New Year's Eve run-in with authorities for driving while intoxicated and fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run, is now victorious in four of his last five outings.



A stiff right hook from Anthony Johnson signaled the beginning of the end for American Top Team's Luigi Fioravanti, who stumbled to the canvas with his aggressor in hot pursuit. Johnson coaxed out the stoppage with follow-up shots on a turtled Fioravanti at 4:39 in the first round of their welterweight tilt.



Johnson and Fioravanti traded outside leg kicks and the occasional punch for the first four minutes, but the former Marine couldn't seem to negotiate Johnson's favorable height and reach advantage.



Though another reputable victory for the uber-athletic 24-year-old, Johnson, a junior collegiate wrestling champion, was not satisfied with his efforts.



"I'm happy I got a win, but I could have done so much better," said Johnson, who improves to 7-2. "I came out sloppy, but I'll get better."



Miller, Pellegrino come up big in prelims


Three-time NCAA national champion wrestler Jake Rosholt had a tough go against IFL middleweight ace Dan Miller.



After getting blasted with a knee to start their tilt, Rosholt quickly found himself in danger as Miller (11-1, 1 NC) locked on a modified guillotine on the heels of a takedown attempt. Just 63 seconds into the battle of future stars, Rosholt (5-1), was handed his first career defeat as he submitted to the slick technique.



Miller is now 3-0 in the Octagon.



Kurt Pellegrino rallied after dropping the first frame on Sherdog.com's scorecard to submit Robert Emerson at 3:14 of the second stanza.



Having tasted Emerson's jab a few times in the first period, Pellegrino (13-4) struck from a different range in the second round, and was successful early with a well-executed punching combination. The fighters exchanged strikes on the feet and scrambled for position on the floor, where Pellegrino found an opening to secure a tapout-inducing rear-naked choke.



The loss for Emerson (8-7, 1 NC) was his first in four bouts for the promotion.



Matt Hughes-trained lightweight Matt Veach (11-0) kept his undefeated record intact with a technical knockout of Matt Grice to end a furious first round of action.



Grice, 9-2, dominated at the beginning of the bout with a flurry of punches and some vicious ground-and-pound. Showing an iron chin, Veach weathered the storm and connected with a crisp right hook that sent his opponent reeling to the canvas. Veach followed his fallen foe to the floor, where he put a stamp on his victory with follow-up punches until referee Troy Waugh saved Grice at 4:35 of Round 1.



American Top Team's Gleison Tibau made quick work of seasoned veteran Rich Clementi with an easy first-round tapout via guillotine choke.



Setting the tone early with a straight left that stunned Clementi (32-14-1), Tibau dominated the Team Voodoo lightweight on the floor before securing a fight-ending guillotine at 4:35 of the first. Tibau (16-6) ended a two-fight losing streak with the impressive win.



Nick Catone made good on his Octagon debut with a second-round submission of Derek Downey.



Catone (6-0) greeted Downey with an elbow in the opening frame that raised an alien-like bulge on the head of the Utah-based middleweight. Downey (10-4) pushed on despite his lumps, but was forced to call it quits after a keylock extended his arm at 1:15 of Round 2.



In the evening's opening bout, welterweight prospect Matt Riddle (2-0) outpointed ATT product Steve Bruno (12-5) en route to a win by unanimous decision. All three judges scored the contest 29-28 for the Arizona Combat Sports fighter.

JIM MILLER FIGHTING FROM THE TOWN , WHICH I LIVE AT SPARTA NJ

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to compete against one another. We all know the names: Florian, Stevenson, Huerta, Fisher, Guida and the man high atop the smoldering volcano (literally) BJ Penn. Amid the fray lie sleeping giants who speak mostly with their Octagon prowess and not through the media. Jim Miller is a fighter adherent to this creed, and with a pivotal upcoming bout with “Handsome” Matt Wiman and a brother in the UFC practicing the same mantra, Miller is poised to upset the natural order of things.

“I fight because I love to fight,” said Miller. “I’m not here to be a superstar. If people like the way I fight and their fans of mine great. If somebody’s expecting me to talk crap and do stupid stuff just to get attention then they’re probably not going to be a fan of mine; I just want to have fun doing it.”

Jim Miller is a product of self-determination, leaving the hype to those who enjoy watching his brand of combative entertainment. As a smaller guy who loved playing sports like baseball, football and wrestling, Miller was looking for the sport that would cement the ferocity of his athleticism in his own mind. After dropping out of baseball, where he was an outfielder, and realizing he was too small for football after the midget league level, Miller continued to wrestle through high school and into Virginia Tech, finding some solace in it.

“By the time I got to high school I was still quite small, so playing football was kind of out of it because guys were 60-70 pounds bigger than me,” he said. “I was still 100 pounds, so I just stuck to wrestling and focused my efforts on that. I didn’t go there (Virginia Tech) to wrestle, and then after like a month or so I couldn’t stay away, so I ended up walking on pretty late and had some injuries and stuff like that and I ended up wrestling varsity for them. I did all right, beat some pretty tough guys, lost to some guys I should have beat, lost to some really good guys. It was late in the year my freshman year. I really just didn’t agree with the coaches and stuff so I only wrestled one year. The coach was kind of just an a**hole.”

It was after two years of school that Jim Miller was at a crossroads. With both Miller and his brother Dan working with their father, a pivotal decision was made that would soon reap the deeply personal reward each was seeking.

“The first time we ever saw a UFC, we were at wrestling camp over the summer and one of our coaches brought the tape of it and we watched it back in one of the rooms at night. It was the first time I ever saw mixed martial arts and always had it in my head, ‘oh I’m going to do that’ and all this stuff. I had gone to school for two years and then got out and I was working with my father and Dan, and we were just bored. All we had done was wrestle - we never did any other martial arts and then it was just like we need to do jiu-jitsu or something, we need to get into MMA. So one day we looked up a school and went down and started training.”

The Millers’ curiosity and focus once training began opened the doors to a combat lifestyle sooner than both the Millers and their trainer expected.

“We walked in with the plan to fight professionally. Of course when we got in there, our trainer at the time was like all right give me year and a half, give me two years of solid training and we’ll let you get into the ring. Two months later he had booked us a fight so we were fighting six months after we started training jiu-jitsu and really hadn’t done any striking training up to that point so then it was like, ‘oh crap we got to learn how to fight (laughs).’”

Miller went on to win his first five fights as a professional, capturing the featherweight title in the smaller feeder organization, Reality Fighting Championships. His next test was a unification bout against future fellow UFC lightweight and New Jersey native Frankie Edgar, who was Reality Fighting Championships’ lightweight Title holder. The result, Miller’s first loss, but a new training partner and friend emerged out of the melee.

“He was a tough kid and I knew he was tough,” said Miller. “I had some problems with my training leading up to the fight, but what are you going to do? Got into the ring and we had a tough fight. He definitely beat me every round; he won it. But now I get to train with him a couple of days a week - we do straight strength and conditioning with Martin Rooney and he’ll come up and train up by
us on Sundays and we try to get down and train at Ricardo (Almeida)’s once a week or just as often as we can. He’s a great kid, tough as hell, and he’s a great training partner.”

After the loss, Miller went on to build a seven fight win streak (with two wins over Edgar training partner Chris Liguori and WEC lightweight Bart Palaszewski) which he carried into the UFC, where he defeated French fighter David Baron this past October in Birmingham, UK. Now facing his toughest competitor yet in “Handsome” Matt Wiman after an injury forced Edgar out of this week’s fight, Miller is anxious about the possibilities this fight will bring.

“We’re both well rounded. This fight can go anywhere and neither of us is outmatched or completely screwed if the fight stays on its feet or if it goes to the ground. I think its just going to be a great fight because either one of us could take the other out.”

With Jim Miller and brother Dan aiding in the training, the two have nearly identical records of 1 loss after 12-13 fights total. The future is bright, and when the dust clears, the perceived sleeping giant will wake to fully realize the pre-determined destiny his town of birth Sparta, New Jersey suggests, that of world-recognized gladiator.