I have listed the major MMA events for the next month. I have bolded my choices. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Any fight cards they are looking forward to? I am really excited for the UFC 126. The fight card is great. Vitor Belfort will be the new Middleweight champ. Griffin/Franklin will be a slugfest. And the future Light Heavyweight Champ, Jon Jones, will be giving Ryan Bader his first loss. Fedor will be fighting later in the month. Can't wait. He is going to smash Bigfoot Silva.


*Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg
Date: January 29, 2011
Venue: HP Pavilion
Location: San Jose, California

Main Bouts (On Showtime):
-Nick Diaz (23-7; #7 Welterweight)* vs. Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos (18-13)
-Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (13-2) vs. Robbie Lawler (18-6)
-Herschel Walker (1-0) vs. Scott Carson (4-1)
-Roger Gracie (3-0) vs. Trevor Prangley (23-6-1)

*UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort
Date: February 5, 2011
Venue: Mandalay Bay Event Center
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Main Bouts (On Pay-Per-View):
-Anderson Silva (27-4; #1 Middleweight)* vs. Vitor Belfort (19-8)†
-Forrest Griffin (17-6; #5 Light Heavyweight)* vs. Rich Franklin (28-5)
-Carlos Eduardo Rocha (9-0) vs. Jake Ellenberger (22-5)
-Ryan Bader (12-0; #6 Light Heavyweight) vs. Jon Jones (11-1; #7 Light Heavyweight)
-Miguel Torres (38-3) vs. Antonio Banuelos (18-6)

Preliminary Bouts (On Spike TV):
-Paul Kelly (11-3) vs. Donald Cerrone (13-3)
-Chad Mendes (9-0) vs. Michihiro Omigawa (12-8-1)

Preliminary Bouts (Non-Televised):
-Gabe Ruediger (17-6) vs. Paul Taylor (10-6-1)
-Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto (18-3) vs. Demetrious Johnson (7-1)
-Kenny Robertson (10-0) vs. Mike Pierce (11-3)
-Kyle Kingsbury (9-2) vs. Ricardo Romero (11-1)

*Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Antonio Silva
Date: February 12, 2011
Venue: IZON Center
Location: East Rutherford, New Jersey

-Fedor Emelianenko (32-2; #3 Heavyweight)* vs. Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (15-2)
-Andrei Arlovski vs. Sergei Kharitonov
-Shane Del Rosario vs. Lamar Johnson
-Valentijn Overeem vs. Ray Sefo

*UFC 127 Penn vs. Fitch
Date: February 27, 2011
Venue: Acer Arena
Location: Sydney, Australia

Main Bouts:
-Jon Fitch (23-3; #2 Welterweight)* vs. B.J. Penn (16-7-1)
-Michael Bisping (20-3; #9 Middleweight)* vs. Jorge Rivera (19-7)
-George Sotiropoulos (14-2) vs. Dennis Siver (17-7)
-Carlos Condit (26-5; #9 Welterweight)* vs. Chris Lytle (30-17-5)
-Chris Camozzi (14-3) vs. Kyle Noke (18-4-1)

Preliminary Bouts:
-Ross Pearson (11-4) vs. Spencer Fisher (24-6)
-James Te Huna (12-4) and Alexander Gustafsson (10-1)
-Riki Fukuda (17-4) vs. Nick Ring (10-0)
-Mark Hunt (5-7) vs. Chris Tuchscherer (21-3)
-Maciej Jewtuszko (8-0) vs. Curt Warburton (6-2)
-Tom Blackledge (10-6) vs. Anthony Perosh (10-6)
-Tiequan Zhang (12-1) vs. Jason Reinhardt (20-1)

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Dustin