Well well well.. What a majority of people thought to be a ‘gift’ from the gods, a fight between Alistair Overeem and Aleksander Emelianenko, was swiftly debunked by Alistair himself through his twitter, The two are not meeting in Poland, it was a lie concocted up by the Media, he is in fact fighting in K-1, and not A.E.

From The Reem’s Twitter

“For the record: I will fight in the K-1 and not against Alexander E. I read something on the web and I’m not fighting him.”

And that settles it, The Reem has spoken.

Frankie Edgar vs. B.J. Penn
(Edgar via unanimous decision 50-45, 50-45, 50-45)

Randy Couture vs. James Toney
(Couture via arm triangle choke 3:19 Rd. 1)

Demian Maia vs. Mario Miranda
(Maia via unanimous decision 30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Kenny Florian vs. Gray Maynard
(Maynard via unanimous decision 30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

Nate Diaz vs. Marcus Davis
(Diaz via guillotine choke at 4:02 of Rd. 3)

Joe Lauzon vs. Gabe Ruediger
(Lauzon via armbar at 2:01 Rd. 1)

Andre Winner vs. Nik Lentz
(Lentz via unanimous decision 30-27, 29-28, 30-27)

Dan Miller vs. John Salter
(Dan Miller via anaconda choke at 1:53 Rd. 2)

Nick Osipczak vs. Greg Soto
(Soto via unanimous decision 29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Mike Pierce vs. Amilcar Alves
(Pierce via cross body armbar at 3:11 Rd. 3)

DEEP Bantamweight Title Fight (3×5 mins)
11. Masakazu Imanari vs. Tomoya Miyashita /// Imanari – Decision (5-0)

DEEP Middleweight Title Fight (3×5 mins)
10. Riki Fukuda vs. Ryuta Sakurai /// Fukuda – TKO (Round 2 – 0:32)

Single Fights (2×5 mins)
09. MW: Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. RYO /// Draw
08. MW: Rikuhei Fujii vs. Hiroki /// Fujii – TKO (Round 1 – 3:52)
07. WW: Yoshitomo Watanabe vs. Dong Hyun Kim /// Watanabe – Decision (3-0)
06. LW: Yasuaki Kishimoto vs. Yuki Ito /// Kishimoto – Decision (3-0)
05. BW: Seiji Akao vs. Ryosuke Komori /// Akao – Decision (3-0)
04. BW: Tatsumitsu Wada vs. Masato Kobayashi /// Wada – Submission: RNC (Round 1 – 4:08)
03. FlyW: Hirotaka Miyakawa vs. Takeshi Kasugai /// Miyakawa – TKO (Round 1 – 4:49)
02. FW: Katsunori Tsuda vs. Brent Fryia /// Tsuda – TKO (Round 1 – 4:28)
01. BW: Takeshi Numajiri vs. Hiroyuki Kobayashi /// Numajiri – Decision (3-0)

Imanari vs. Miyashita:

Fukuda vs. Sakurai:

Kahenara vs. Ryo:

Rumors poured in earlier this afternoon about a possible match-up between Japanese MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba and MMA’s class clown Jason “Mayhem” Miller at DREAM 16 on September 25. The rumor ended up becoming a reality when confirmed by DREAM President Keiichi Sasahara. Sakuraba, is coming off of a Decision loss in May against DREAM title contender Ralek Gracie at DREAM 14, while Mayhem is coming off of a win in April of this year in Strikeforce against fellow middleweight Tim Stout by stoppage. Another fight for the September 25th DREAM.16 is now “rumored”. Tapology.com reports that Joe Warren vs. Michihiro Omigawa is expected to take place at the event.

Norifumi “KID” Yamamoto vs. Hideo Tokoro, Marlon Sandro vs. Kazuyuki Miyata, Maxi vs. X are some of the other rumored fights for the event.

PPV
Champion Frankie Edgar (154) vs. B.J. Penn (154) For UFC LW Title
Randy Couture (220) vs. James Toney (237)
Kenny Florian (156) vs. Gray Maynard (165)
Marcus Davis (170) vs. Nate Diaz (171)
Demian Maia (184) vs. Mario Miranda (185)

Spike TV
Joe Lauzon (156) vs. Gabe Ruediger (155)
Nik Lentz (155) vs. Andre Winner (154)

Untelevised Preliminary card
Dan Miller (185) vs. John Salter (185)
Nich Osipczak (171) vs. Greg Soto (170)
Amilcar Alves (171) vs. Mike Pierce (171)

UFC 118 weigh-ins are scheduled to take place at the TD Garden in Boston, with the first fighters hitting the scales right around 7PM Eastern Standard Time. UFC 118 is headlined by a rematch between BJ Penn and Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar along with a heavyweight bout between boxing champion James Toney and UFC Hall of Famer, Randy Couture.

The complete UFC 118 card is as follows:

Main card (PPV)
Lightweight Championship bout: Frankie Edgar (c) vs. B.J. Penn
Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. James Toney
Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Mario Miranda
Lightweight bout: Kenny Florian vs. Gray Maynard
Welterweight bout: Nate Diaz vs. Marcus Davis

Preliminary card (Spike TV)
Lightweight bout: Joe Lauzon vs. Gabe Ruediger
Lightweight bout: Andre Winner vs. Nik Lentz

Preliminary card
Middleweight bout: Dan Miller vs. John Salter
Welterweight bout: Nick Osipczak vs. Greg Soto
Welterweight bout: Mike Pierce vs. Amilcar Alves

REMOVED

Rafael Cavalcante def. Muhammed Lawal via third-round TKO
Ronaldo Souza def. Tim Kennedy via unanimous decision
KJ Noons def. Jorge Gurgel by second-round KO
Chad Griggs def. Bobby Lashley by second-round TKO
Daniel Cormier def. Jason Riley via submission (strikes)
Andre Galvao def. Jorge Patino via third-round TKO
Vinicius Magalhaes def. Rocky Long via unanimous decision
Adam Schindler def. Kier Gooch via first-round submission (rear-naked choke)
Reynaldo Trujillo def. Jose Santibanez via first-round TKO
Chad Robichaux def. Humberto DeLeon via split decision
Arteneus Young def. Chad Cook via unanimous decision

Tomasz Adamek (42-1, 27 KOs) defeated Michael Grant (46-4, 34 KOs) by unanimous decision at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Adamek was able to control the first half the fight fairly easy with left hooks and body work. Grant started landing more clean jabs in the later rounds and even staggered Adamek a few times with right hands. Grant had Adamek on the run in the final round of the bout, but Adamek was able to survive.

Scores were 117-111, 118-110, 118-111. Bloodyfists scorecard was 116-112 for Adamek.

Adamek moves into title contention against any of the three heavyweight champs. Although Adamek did win this fight, he didn’t quite convince me that he would be a challenge to the Klitschko brothers. Grant is a slower, less active version of the brothers and he was able to take Adamek’s punches well. The small ring may have played a factor but Adamek’s performance tonight was only okay. Perhaps this was good preparation and I’m wrong. Grant does suffer a loss but in the process proved that he’s still competitive in today’s thin heavyweight division. This shouldn’t be the end for Grant as he showed a lot of heart and determination.

- Pedro Rodriguez