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Filed under: and his road back from shoulder injury.

* Josh Koscheck will discuss his upcoming fight against Georges St-Pierre at UFC 124 and his coaching stint on The Ultimate Fighter.

* WEC lightweight champion Benson Henderson will discuss a potential title fight against Anthony Pettis.

* Manny Gamburyan will weigh-in on his WEC featherweight title fight on Sept. 30 against Jose Aldo.

* Finally, MMA referee Yves Lavigne will stop by to clear the air on last week's Koscheck-GSP interview controversy.

And of course, we'll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

Download this show and previous episodes of The MMA Hour on iTunes here.

Watch the show below beginning at 1 PM ET.

Tags: Forrest Griffin, Josh Koscheck, MMA News by Ariel Helwani
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Filed under: and his road back from shoulder injury.

* Josh Koscheck will discuss his upcoming fight against Georges St-Pierre at UFC 124 and his coaching stint on The Ultimate Fighter.

* WEC lightweight champion Benson Henderson will discuss a potential title fight against Anthony Pettis.

* Manny Gamburyan will weigh-in on his WEC featherweight title fight on Sept. 30 against Jose Aldo.

* Finally, MMA referee Yves Lavigne will stop by to clear the air on last week's Koscheck-GSP interview controversy.

And of course, we'll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

Download this show and previous episodes of The MMA Hour on iTunes here.

Watch the show below beginning at 1 PM ET.

Tags: Forrest Griffin, Josh Koscheck, MMA News by Ariel Helwani
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Filed under: UFC

MMA referee Yves Lavigne said he wanted to clear the air regarding some inflammatory quotes attributed to him in a Canoe.com story by Vincent Morin recently, so he put it as plainly as he possibly could.

"I did not give him an interview on or off record," Lavigne told Ariel Helwani during Tuesday's episode of "The MMA Hour." "Those are not my quotes. This is not me. Is that enough?"

Lavigne found himself at the center of the controversy after the story quoted him as saying that UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre will dominate Josh Koscheck in their rematch at UFC 124 in Montreal this December, and that Koscheck was scared to exchange punches with Paul Daley in his last fight in Montreal.

But Lavigne, who's a regular at UFC events and may have likely been slated to work the main event bout in his home province of Quebec, insisted that he never spoke with Morin, nor does he have any idea where the quotes came from.

Tags: Georges St. Pierre, Josh Koscheck, MMA News by Ben Fowlkes
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Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, News

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is coming back to Montreal, and the event will be headlined by the most famous Canadian in the sport.

Georges St-Pierre's title defense against Josh Koscheck will take place on Dec. 11 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, UFC president Dana White confirmed with MMA Fighting Monday.

UFC 124 will happen at the end of the 12th season of The Ultimate Fighter, which premieres on Spike TV on Sept. 15. St-Pierre and Koscheck will serve as opposing coaches on the show.

Tags: Georges St. Pierre, Josh Koscheck, MMA News by Ariel Helwani
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Filed under: UFC, Strikeforce, Rankings, Welterweights

If there was any doubt that Jon Fitch is the second-best welterweight in the world, he erased that doubt on Saturday night. By thoroughly dominating Thiago Alves at UFC 117, Fitch firmly established himself as MMA's best welterweight not named Georges St. Pierre.

Unfortunately for Fitch, he was beaten so badly by St. Pierre in their previous fight that there aren't a lot of fans clamoring for a rematch. And if St. Pierre loses to Josh Koscheck in December, it's an open question whether Fitch will even accept a title fight if it's offered to him, since he and Koscheck are friends and training partners.

And so while UFC President Dana White has said Fitch earned the No. 1 contender position with his victory, I'm not so sure that Fitch's next fight will be for the title. I think it's more likely that we're going to see Fitch put into the Octagon with someone else (maybe the Jake Shields-Martin Kampman winner) as he continues his role as the welterweight division's permanent gatekeeper. Fitch is a great fighter, but I view him less as a No. 1 contender than as a guy who's stuck at No. 2.

Find out how I rank the rest of the welterweight division below.

Tags: Georges St. Pierre, Jake Shields, Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck, MMA News, Matt Hughes, Nick Diaz by Michael David Smith
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Filed under: Fighting, FanHouse Exclusive, News

For his actions following a UFC 113 loss in which he punched opponent Josh Koscheck well after the final bell, Paul Daley has been handed a 30-day suspension from the Governing Body of Alcohol Races and Games of Quebec, which oversaw the May 8 event.

Daley and his manager Wad Alameddine were not present at the decision, but accept the punishment, which will not affect his recently announced Sept. 11 Shark Fights bout with Jorge Masvidal.

"Whatever the commission decides is fair," Alameddine told MMA Fighting. "It is fair in my eyes. It's their job to look at these things and analyze the situation and the scenario. Paul and I would have accepted whatever decision the athletic commission came to."

Tags: Josh Koscheck, MMA News by Mike Chiappetta
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by Mike Chiappetta

Filed under: Fighting, MMA Media Watch, UFC, Strikeforce

To watch mixed martial arts now, to witness the slick productions, screaming fans and dynamic fighters, it's hard to believe how far and how fast the sport has come in a single decade.

"If you would've come to me in 1999, and said there's going to be this new sport emerging, and by 2009 it's going to be where it is right now, I would have told you that would be an extremely unlikely and impressive achievement," said Robert Thompson, a noted pop culture expert and professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

As metaphors go, the one that describes the state of MMA as the '00s began is almost too perfect to believe. Because as the calendar turned the page to the year 2000, the sport lay injured and ignored in a Louisiana hospital bed, a victim of its own hand.

During Decade of '00s, MMA Went From Debacle Debut to Miracle Growth originally appeared on MMA Fighting on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:44:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Tags: Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar, Chuck Liddell, Cung Le, Dana White, Fedor Emelianenko, Forrest Griffin, Georges St. Pierre, Gina Carano, Jens Pulver, Josh Koscheck, Ken Shamrock, MMA News, Pedro Rizzo, Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz by MMA Fighting
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Tags: Alberto Crane, Antoni Hardonk, Frank Mir, Gabriel Gonzaga, Georges St. Pierre, Josh Koscheck, Kendall Grove, Patrick Cote, Randy Couture, Roger Huerta by MMACoverage
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Canadian scrapper Georges St. Pierre’s next fight will be a shot at redemption and the welterweight belt.During the post-fight press conference, Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White said St.Pierre will fight the winner of the Matt Serra/Matt Hughes championship fight set for December.

“Of course, I would like to fight Matt Serra because he beat me last time and I’d love to have a rematch,” said St. Pierre who lost his belt to ten-to-one underdog Serra earlier this year.

“I hope Matt Serra wins because I know I’m better than what I showed last time and I want to prove it to everybody.”

Tags: Dana White, Georges St. Pierre, Josh Koscheck, Matt Hughes, Matt Serra, Patrick Cote, Randy Couture, UFC by MMACoverage
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Here is the payout for UFC 74.  If you notice they still make chump change compared to the less attractive boxing.

Randy Couture (defeated Gabriel Gonzaga)

* $250,000 ($250,000 to show, no win bonus)

Gabriel Gonzaga (defeated by Randy Couture)

* $45,000 ($45,000 to show)

Roger Huerta (defeated Alberto Crane)

* $34,000 ($17,000 to show, $17,000 win bonus)

Alberto Crane (defeated by Roger Huerta)

* $4,000 ($4,000 to show)

Georges St. Pierre (defeated Josh Koscheck)

* $140,000 ($70,000 to show, $70,000 win bonus)

Josh Koscheck (defeated by Georges St. Pierre)

Tags: Alberto Crane, Antoni Hardonk, Clay Guida, David Heath, Frank Mir, Gabriel Gonzaga, Georges St. Pierre, Joe Stevenson, Josh Koscheck, Kendall Grove, Kurt Pellegrino, Marcus Aurelio, Patrick Cote, Randy Couture, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Roger Huerta, Ryan Jensen, Thales Leites, UFC 74 by MMACoverage
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