Watch Bruce Buffer On Poker and Anderson Silva on RawVegas.tv

Seems like UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer’s a big fan of poker, and he’s also one of only four people to have his own official poker room in Las Vegas. Very cool.

WSOP main event competitor and ultra popular poker player Phil Hellmuth shows us he’s a fan of MMA when he enters the event dressed as a mixed martial artist. The eleven time winner came in with eleven ring girls, and was announced by Bruce Buffer. Talk about style. (Image courtesy of Las Vegas Sun)

UFC lightweight fighter Kenny Florian (14-4) will provide the color commentary for the upcoming WEC 49: Varner vs. Shalorus event in coming up later this month.

WEC 49 is set for June 20th in the promotions first ever visit event in Canada. The show will go down at the Rexall Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and feature a main event bout between Jamie Varner and Kamal Shalorus.

Florian is no stranger when it comes to the media side of the sport as he currently serves as one of the analysts for ESPN’s “MMA Live” program. The former lightweight contender has also filled in for Joe Rogan in the past, taking up his duties alongside Mike Goldberg for UFC 83 and UFN 19. He’s also filled in for Frank Mir at WEC 41.

Former UFC heavyweight champ, Mir had been behind the mic but the WEC promotion declined to renew his contract earlier in the year. This will be the third straight event with a different color commentator behind the microphone. Goldberg and Rogan handled the duties at WEC 48, while Stephan Bonnar filled in at WEC 47.

“Lil Evil” Jens Pulver had been considered for the role but was released by Zuffa and passed over for Florian.

Also making an appearance in the WEC cage will be UFC announcer Bruce Buffer who steps in for Joe Martinez, the regular WEC announcer, who left the WEC for other opportunities.

HT: MMAFighting.com

UFC lightweight fighter Kenny Florian (14-4) will provide the color commentary for the upcoming WEC 49: Varner vs. Shalorus event in coming up later this month.

WEC 49 is set for June 20th in the promotions first ever visit event in Canada. The show will go down at the Rexall Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and feature a main event bout between Jamie Varner and Kamal Shalorus.

Florian is no stranger when it comes to the media side of the sport as he currently serves as one of the analysts for ESPN’s “MMA Live” program. The former lightweight contender has also filled in for Joe Rogan in the past, taking up his duties alongside Mike Goldberg for UFC 83 and UFN 19. He’s also filled in for Frank Mir at WEC 41.

Former UFC heavyweight champ, Mir had been behind the mic but the WEC promotion declined to renew his contract earlier in the year. This will be the third straight event with a different color commentator behind the microphone. Goldberg and Rogan handled the duties at WEC 48, while Stephan Bonnar filled in at WEC 47.

“Lil Evil” Jens Pulver had been considered for the role but was released by Zuffa and passed over for Florian.

Also making an appearance in the WEC cage will be UFC announcer Bruce Buffer who steps in for Joe Martinez, the regular WEC announcer, who left the WEC for other opportunities.

HT: MMAFighting.com

Through a chorus of boos, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira gave his victory speech to the gathered audience at the MGM Grand Garden Arena last night as part of UFC 114. “Little Nog” had just been given the split decision win (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) over Jason Brilz in a close fight that shocked the crowd when octagon announcer Bruce Buffer read the judges decision.

Well maybe the crowd wasn’t too far off as FightMetric.com scored the bout in favor of Brilz. As you can see below the bout was a close one with Fight Metric scoring it a draw under the ‘ten-point must system’ but giving the nod to Brilz.

Fight Metric provides a non-biased comprehensive mma evaluation system designed to focus analysis only on the techniques and situations that truly matter in ending fights.

Fight Metric also has the breakdown of the Jackson vs. Evans fight available for fans to view, just click the link HERE.

Veteran UFC announcer Bruce Buffer has been tapped for a return trip to a
World Extreme Cagefighting broadcast.

MMAjunkie.com has learned that Buffer has agreed to
handle announcing duties at June's "WEC 49: Varner vs. Shalorus" event.

While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Buffer's contract with the WEC
does not appear to be long-term in nature at this time and instead
applies only to the June event.

UFC president Dana White is expecting a successful pay-per-view debut for the UFC’s sister organisation, the WEC, this Saturday April 24 at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.

The outspoken promoter threw his weight behind the event while hosting a media conference call on Tuesday.

“The place is going to be sold out, packed, great energy, believe me, thank God this card is happening,” White said. “What I’m happy about, I know for a fact these guys are going to go up and perform on Saturday night. They always do, they always have… these guys deserve to be on pay-per-view.”

WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber will be headlined by WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo as he defends his belt for the first time against former champion and fan favourite Urijah ‘The California Kid” Faber. Aldo (16-1-0), a Brazilian jiu jitsu black-belt and former professional nak muay, rocketed to MMA prominence last year after racking up six consecutive TKO victories on his way to capturing the featherweight crown. Faber (23-3-0) comes into the bout fresh off a big win over Raphael Assuncao at WEC 46.

The UFC boss has also added a touch of familiarity to the broadcast by slotting in UFC commentators Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan along with the veteran voice of the Octagon, Bruce Buffer.

“We’re the pay-per-view team,” added White.

The full WEC 48 fight card includes:

Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber (WEC Featherweight Title)

Benson Henderson vs. Donald Cerrone (WEC Lightweight Title)

Mike Thomas Brown vs. Manny Gamburyan

Anthony Njokuani vs. Shane Roller

Antonio Banuelos vs. Scott Jorgensen

Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung

Alex Karalexis vs. Anthony Pettis

Demetrious Johnson vs. Brad Pickett

Chad Mendes vs. Anthony Morrison

Takeya Mizugaki vs. Rani Yahya

Tyler Toner vs. Brandon Visher

A immediate rematch of last Saturday’s UFC 112 lightweight title bout between Frankie Edgar and B.J. Penn is looking likely, according to a short video posted by Penn on his official website.

“The UFC called us yesterday, and there’s probably a rematch in the works with Frankie Edgar,” Penn said, “(It’s) still tentative, but it looks like they want to do the fight again.”

The former title holder was handed his first lightweight defeat in over eight years by Edgar, an 8 to 1 underdog going in to the match. Although all three judges awarded the bout in favour of the younger, faster challenger, the contest was certainly tight enough to warrant an immediate rematch. The newly minted champion agrees.

“If anybody’s earned a rematch, it’s B.J.,” Edgar told Bruce Buffer. “He’s a legend at 155. I’m ready for it if that’s definitely going to happen. I’m the champion. I don’t get to pick who I fight; they tell me who I fight.”

One possibility for the bout is an Aug. 28 event currently planned for Boston.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - It was undoubtedly one of the oddest moments in UFC
history.

At Wednesday night's UFC Fight Night 21 at Bojangles Coliseum in
Charlotte, N.C., as emcee Bruce Buffer began the introductions for the
evening's co-main event, a power failure saw the cage lights go dark.

After a brief delay, Roy Nelson returned to the cage and earned a
first-round knockout of Stefan Struve. Following the win, Nelson said
the outage was no accident - it was a sign.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - It was undoubtedly one of the oddest moments in UFC
history.

At Wednesday night's UFC Fight Night 21 at Bojangles Coliseum in
Charlotte, N.C., as emcee Bruce Buffer began the introductions for the
evening's co-main event, a power failure saw the cage lights go dark.

After a brief delay, Roy Nelson returned to the cage and earned a
first-round knockout of Stefan Struve. Following the win, Nelson said
the outage was no accident - it was a sign.