Bellator Fighting Championship's first-ever heavyweight tournament final
will feature an old-school feel as striker meets grappler.

Division I wrestling champion Cole Konrad and British slugger Neil Grove each punched their tickets to the bracket's final bouts with main card wins at Thursday's Bellator 29 event.

The Bellator 29 fight card took place at the Rave-Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisc. The event aired on FOX Sports Net.

The fight card is set for this month's WEC 51 event.

WEC officials today confirmed the 11-bout lineup, which is headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Jose Aldo and challenger Manny Gamburyan.

A spokesperson later confirmed to MMAjunkie.com that five bouts, including a potential slugfest between featherweights Mark Hominick and Leonard Garcia slugfest, are part of the Sept. 30 Versus broadcast.

A heavyweight bout between undefeated Jon Madsen and veteran fighter Gilbert Yvel is now official for UFC 121's preliminary card.

With the addition, the Oct. 23 fight card is now set with a total of 11 bouts.

As MMAjunkie.com first reported, Madsen initially was slated to fight recent UFC castoff Todd Duffee. However, Yvel agreed to replace the injured fighter in August.

The fight card for World Victory Road's upcoming Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 event is taking shape with the addition of a fight between lightweights Leonardo Santos and Maximo Blanco.

WVR officials today announced that fight, as well as the pairings for the quarterfinal round of their Asian bantamweight tourney.

Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 takes place Oct. 30 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and airs via HDNet in North America.

The fight card for Thursday's Bellator 28 event is complete with the addition of five preliminary-card bouts.

Bellator 28 takes place at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans, and the night's main card airs on FOX Sports Net.

Featured in the "Local Main Event" is a lightweight bout between Louisiana native and EliteXC vet J.C. Pennington and Tonny Canales.

The fight card for Thursday's Bellator 27 event is set with 10 bouts, four of which are part of the night's FOX Sports Net-televised main card.

The organization recently announced a champion Joe Soto vs. Joe Warren featherweight title fight and two opening-round bantamweight-tourney bouts.

A third bantamweight-tourney bout between Bryan Goldsby and Ed West is the fourth and final addition to the televised card.

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In the opening bout of last nights “Strikeforce: Houston” Showtime broadcast, former WWE star Bobby Lashley suffered a TKO loss to Chad Griggs. Lashley suffered a cut under his left eye earlier in the fight and appeared exhausted after the loss.

Lashley was then taken to hospital on a stretcher where he was kept overnight and treated for dehydration according to PWTorch.com.

Lashley was said to be “extremely dehydrated” after his fight against Chad Griggs on the “Showtime: Houston” fight card. At the hospital, Lashley was treated with multiple IV bags to pump fluids back into his system.

Shortly after his loss to Griggs, Lashley left the Toyota Center on a stretcher. He was taken to a local hospital where it was believed that he was being treated for a severe laceration around his left eye.

“Bobby Lashley actually went to the hospital and I think he went to get his eye stitched up,” Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said at the post-show press conference when asked about Lashley’s status.

Fellow wrestling star “Booker T” say’s his friend has a lot more work to do as a mixed martial artist.

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There's no timetable for Strikeforce's return to CBS, but there's at least "good" dialogue between the fight promotion and television network.

That's a better state of affairs than four months ago, when the promotion reeled from a night of lackluster title fights and a post-event brawl that made the promotion front-page bad news.

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker recently told MMAjunkie.com that he's hopeful for a third network-televised fight card.

LAS VEGAS - It took AMP Energy to make it happen, but Zuffa, LLC will finally bring a fight card to Phoenix.

WEC and AMP Energy officials announced at Wednesday night's WEC 50 event
that the Phoenix area had been declared the winner of AMP Energy's
two-month long contest, "Hometown Takedown."

Phoenix edged out finalists Milwaukee and Nashville, Tenn., in the
voting-based contest, which allowed fans to select from a list of 30
cities and determine where the WEC will visit in December.

LAS VEGAS - It took AMP Energy to make it happen, but Zuffa, LLC will finally bring a fight card to Phoenix.

WEC and AMP Energy officials announced at Wednesday night's WEC 50 event
that the Phoenix area had been declared the winner of AMP Energy's
two-month long contest, "Hometown Takedown."

Phoenix edged out finalists Milwaukee and Nashville, Tenn., in the
voting-based contest, which allowed fans to select from a list of 30
cities and determine where the WEC will visit in December.