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October 25, 2009 UFC 104 Results: UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida defended his belt for the first time Saturday at UFC 104 in Los Angeles Machida managed to successfully defend his belt against Mauricio ”Shogun” Rua in a close unanimous decision. The [+] October 24, 2009 White believes Rogers could knock-out Fedor: UFC president Dana White said on Thursday’s UFC 104 press conference that he feared Brett Rogers could knock-out Fedor Emelianenko, when the two meet. “You know what scares me about the Brett Rogers fight? Brett Rogers might [+] October 24, 2009 Marquardt does not believe Belfort deserves UFC title shot: Nate Marquardt does not believe Vitor Belfort has earned a title shot against Anderson Silva. Reports suggest Anderson Silva will defend his UFC middleweight title against Vitor Belfort at UFC 108. “To be honest, I have no [+] October 24, 2009 UFC 104 Weigh-In Results: UFC 104 main-card fighter Anthony Johnson failed to make his originally contracted weight and weighed in at 176 pounds, five pounds over the 171-pound limit. But his opponent Yoshiyuki Yoshida had agreed prior to the weigh-ins to [+] October 23, 2009 White ponder Filipovic future: UFC president Dana White has refused to rule out a return to the octagon by Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic. Filipovic was rumored to have been considering retirement after his loss to Junior dos Santos at UFC 103. [+] October 23, 2009 Horodecki joins the WEC: Former IFL standout Chris Horodecki has signed a deal to join the WEC. The news of 22-year-old joining the MMA promotion was confirmed by WEC general manager Reed Harris via Twitter on Thursday. Horodecki is expected to [+] October 23, 2009 Escudero to face Dunham at UFN 20: Efrain Escudero looks set to be facing Evan Dunham, and not Nik Lentz, at January’s Ultimate Fight Night 20. There has still not been any word why there was the change in opponent, but MMA Junkie claimed [+] October 23, 2009 UFC 104 Breakdown and Predictions: Everybody always says that they plan on winning. In some circumstances a fight will happen where both fighters actually manage to accomplish a lot of the things that they had planned, resulting in a close decision. [+] October 22, 2009 MMA News and Views- Strikeforce champions, Nate Diaz: Strikeforce apparently is trying to compete directly with the UFC nowadays, or at least so Dana White says.  Come to think of it, if Dana White thinks you’re competing with the UFC, you might as well [+] October 22, 2009 Sylvia agrees New Year’s eve fight: Former UFC champion Tim Sylvia has agreed to make his debut for Japanese MMA promoter DREAM on New Year’s Eve. Sylvia’s agent, Monte Cox, revealed to MMA FanHouse that the former UFC heavyweight champion would prefer a [+]