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Newsbits WBC - Fatal Femmes Fighting - Nam Pham - New MMA Orgs. - Warriors Realm - WEC
- Boxing: Maskaev - Peter at MSG on Feb. 2, 2008 The president of the WBC, José Sulaimán, announced last week that the fight for the undisputed WBC heavyweight world championship between the world champion Oleg Maskaev and the interim world champion Samuel Peter, will be held at the Madison Saquare Garden of New York on February 2nd, 2008 as per the official statement by Don King Productions.
The promotion rights for this fight was won by Don king Productions, with an offer of $3,107,000.00 dollars of which 55% will be for Maskaev and 45% for Samuel Peter.
This title bout had been scheduled for October 6th, at the Madison Square Garden, but it was postponed due to Oleg Maskaev´s injury, who had been inactive during the prior 10 months. The WBC elected Samuel Peter as interim champion, after his two victories over James Toney in final eliminations bouts and defended his title on a decision victory over Jameel McCline, who had been approved as a voluntary challenger to save the date an unfreeze the title.
The winner and undisputed WBC heavyweight champion must defend next against the WBC Emeritus Champion Vitali Klitschko, which shall be ratified at the 45th Convention to be held in Manila Philippines from November 11th o the 17th coming, concluded the President José Sulaimán. - Press Release issued by the WBC (with a little editing from us).
- Fatal Femmes Fighting (MMA Event) The next Fatal Femmes Fighting event is scheduled for November 3rd (2007) at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. The main event for the night will feature a world lightweight title bout between champion Roxanne Modafferi and challenger Vanessa Porto. For more info, visit:
www.fatalfemmesfighting.com. - Nam Phan Check out some recent updates to (King of the Cage & StrikeForce veteran) Nam Phan's website at:
- New MMA Organizations (WVR, M-1 Global) Last week, World Victory Road in Japan announced the formation of a new mixed martial arts organization that is yet to be named - Their hope is to fill the void the PRIDE FC left.
Yesterday (Monday), Sibling Entertainment Group Holding Inc. announced that Sibling Theatricals Inc. (a subsidiary of Sibling Entertainment Group Inc.) along with Garlin Holdings Limited have formed Sibling Sports, LLC which will create a new mixed martial arts organization called M-1 Global. The new organization has signed PRIDE Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko to a two year, six fight deal with an extension option. Also, promoter & manager extraordinaire Monte Cox has been named President and CEO of M-1 Global. For more info, visit: www.m-1global.com.
- Warriors Realm (MMA Event) The next Warriors Realm Reality Fighting event - "Australia vs. Brazil" is scheduled for November 9th (2007) at the Southport RSL in Southport, Queensland, Australia. For more info, visit: www.warriorsrealmrealityfighting.com.
- World Extreme Cagefighting (MMA Event) The WEC's next show is scheduled for December 12th (2007) and will feature a featherweight title bout between champion Urijah Faber and challenger Jeff Curran. The event will be televised live on the VERSUS channel beginning at 6pm ET. For more info, visit: www.wec.tv.
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