FC 97 is set for April 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The main card will air live on pay-per-view.

Middleweight champion Anderson Silva vs. challenger Thales Leites will headline UFC 97.

The event will also feature 11 other bouts.

The Televised Main Fight Card:

* Middleweight champion Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites
* Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
* Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann
* Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk
* Luis Cane vs. Steve Cantwell

Prelim Fights:

* Mike Ciesnolevicz vs. Eliot Marshall
* Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Denis Kang
* Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry
* Ed Herman vs. David Loiseau
* David Bielkheden vs. Mark Bocek
* Ryo Chonan vs. T.J. Grant
* Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman

Jenna Jameson gave birth to Two of Tito’s kids today. Lets hope for her sake she had a C-section. Jenna Jameson gave birth to twin sons Monday morning, according to US magazine. MMA fighter Tito Ortiz, Jameson’s boyfriend of two years, is the babies’ father. “She’s very excited to be a mom,” a source told the magazine. “She’s been taking it easy and even had to be in a wheelchair during one of Tito’s events in Las Vegas. I hope she is doing O.K.. If she had them both naturally her porn days are definitely over. It will now be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

UFC 94 MMA fight video of Nate Diaz vs. Clay Guida. This Ultimate Fighting Championship match was held Jan 31, 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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2. Cage Potato: Gary Shaw thinks Kimbo is MMA’s best heavyweight striker (among other things)
3. MMA Payout: UFC sends cease and desist to Ortiz
4. MMA Rated: Trump to announce Arlovski signing tomorrow
5. Stuff.co.nz: George Lucas’ daughter is pursuing MMA
6. Bloody Elbow: MMA in the U.S. is far from its peak

1. Bas Rutten: Bas says the Kimbo Vs. Thompson fight should have been stopped in the second round
2. Five Ounces of Pain: Donald Trump to announce partnership with Affliction at June 5 press conference
3. MMA Payout: EliteXC Saturday Night Fights final rating - 6.51 million viewers for the last twenty minutes of the broadcast
4. MMA Mania: Judge scores 10-9 for Kimbo in second round
5. MMA Weekly: CBS responds to critics of MMA debut
6. Cage Potato: Is the UFC’s counter-programming strategy working?
7. Bloody Elbow: Be careful what you wish for
8. NY Times: Ending in EliteXC’s main event raises fans’ suspicions
9. Watch Kalib Run: Media Hypocrisy about MMA

1. Five Ounces of Pain: NJACB legal counsel Nick Lembo explains stoppages on EliteXC - Primetime
2. MMA Madness: Hughes will fight Serra after Alves
3. Cage Potato: EliteXC has the lights, WEC has the fights
4. Watch Kalib Run: Thoughts on EliteXC’s primetime debut according to a fan of Kalib’s marathon running
5. Bloody Elbow: Where should EliteXC go from here?
6. MMA Junkie: UFC 84 fighters test clean
7. Sherdog: Xtreme Couture launches training facility in Toronto
8. Boston Herald: Tito Ortiz wants to start his own MMA organization

Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia has left the UFC and signed a non-exclusive deal with Adrenaline MMA - formerly known as M-1 Global.

Adrenaline MMA is a new up and coming organization run by Sylvia’s manager; Monte Cox. Cox was on this weeks episode of “Inside MMA” on HDNet and mentioned that he’s excited about identifying up-and-coming fighters by giving them a chance to perform on a big stage.

Sylvia said that the signing being non-exclusive is a huge deal to him and will allow him to fight six or seven times a year.

The amount of match ups that are now possible with Sylvia is very intriguing. From Fedor Emelianenko, Aleksander Emelianenko, Josh Barnett, Mirko Filipovic, and Mark Hunt, all the way to Hong Man Choi; 2008 should be a very interesting year for Sylvia’s career.

Featherweight WEC fighter Leonard Garcia was arrested for drug trafficking earlier this week along with 12 other members of the same cocaine ring.

NewsChannel 11 has learned one of those arrested is mixed martial arts fighter Leonard Garcia. He was arrested Tuesday in allege connection with the cocaine ring. Garica is currently ranked sixth in the featherweight class in MMA. He has fought in UFC and Ultimate Fighting championships.

If convicted, three of those arrested could face up to 40 years in prison and up to a $2 million fine. The others could face up to life in prison and up to a $ 4 million fine.

Garcia has an 11-3 MMA record and has fought in both the UFC and WEC. He had great potential in the WEC and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of turn his career takes because of this arrest.

Source: KBCD, NewsChannel 11