MMA and UFC Updates

Below is a summary of tweets from February 7th, 2012 @themmadigest: Hitler reacts to UFC 143 decsion between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit: http://t.co/dsVbeWja – 07 Feb 12 16:39 @themmadigest: UFC middleweight @MayhemMiller on what he learned from the Bisping fight and his partnership with @Airwalk_online: http://t.co/5aPCKwU4 – 07 Feb…

Jason Mayhem Miller on his partnership with Airwalk

    Tell us about your partnership with Airwalk   Let’s not even call it a partnership, shall we? Let’s call it a brotherhood. A brotherhood of the travelling pants, if you will. Because now I’m working with Airwalk, and Airwalk selected me, even though they have all the choices…

Elite XC Uprising weighin Pics

Photos: TOM CASINO/EliteXC

All 24 fighters who will compete in Saturday’s EliteXC “Uprising” cage fight card in Honolulu made weight at Friday’s weigh-in. The MMA card in Hawaii  will mark the initial collaboration between EliteXC, ICON Sport, Rumble On The Rock (ROTC) and SHOWTIME.

Robbie Lawler (left) and “Ninja” Rua pose after Friday’s weigh-in. EliteXC middleweight champion Rua will defend against Lawler, the ICON Sport middleweight kingpin, in Saturday’s pick ‘em main event on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast).

Highly regarded Nick Diaz (left) makes his EliteXC and SHOWTIME debut against local favorite Mike Aina in one of the televised bouts.

Unbeaten women’s superstar Gina Carano (left), who made MMA history in February on SHOWTIME, faces a stern test when she meets Tonya Evinger.

Top-10 welterweight Jake Shields (left) returns to the network to face Renato “Charuto” Verissimo.

Joey Villasenor (left) faces Riki Fukuda in one of the televised bouts.

In one of the undercard fights that will be streamed live on the Internet at ProElite.com following the SHOWTIME portion of the show, Tyson Nam (left) faces Albert “Always Bad” Manners.

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