TUF 11 is set to start March 31 following Fight Night 21 on Spike TV.

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Philip Ferraro, UFC - On March 27th, Frank Mir and Shane Carwin will fight for the interim UFC Heavyweight title in the co-main event of UFC 111 at Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center. If Mir wins, it will be the third time the belt has been strapped to his waist; for Carwin, the first.

UFC fighter Frank Mir is set to take on Shane Carwin at UFC 111 on March 27, and The MMA News will bring you complete live coverage of the event. To get the hype building here’s the pre-fight interview with Mir.

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NEW YORK (March 22, 2010)— This weekend, SHOWTIME will be available in a record 54.4 million households for an ALL ACCESS Free Preview Weekend on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD™ and SHOWTIME On Demand. From Thursday, March 25 through Sunday, March 28, viewers across the country will have the opportunity to sample the premium network’s award-winning programming via linear service, On Demand and in HD, including two live events from SHOWTIME Sports.

The Super Six World Boxing Classic headlines the live sports offering. On Saturday, March 27, the Group Stage 2 showdown between tournament point leader “King” Arthur Abraham and Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell airs live at 10:30 pm ET/PT (delayed on the west coast), immediately following the premium television premiere of “Saw V”.

On Friday, March 26, hard-hitting mixed martial arts (MMA) heavyweight Lavar Johnson, completes his remarkable comeback from a near-fatal shooting when he faces undefeated Lolohea Mahe in the main event of the STRIKEFORCE Challengers telecast featuring five live fights beginning at 11:45 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast).

Inside NASCAR, the newest gem in the SHOWTIME Sports crown, will air a weekly episode featuring highlights and analysis of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race—Food City 500—at Bristol, Tenn., on Thursday at 10 p.m. ET/PT (SHO2), on Saturday at 9 a.m. ET/PT (SHO2) and on Sunday, at 9 a.m. (SHO). This episode will be available at SHOWTIME On Demand for the entire free preview weekend.

Beyond this exciting sports programming, SHOWTIME ALL ACCESS Free Preview Weekend includes a dynamic cross section of programming including the season 2 premiere episodes of SHOWTIME original series Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara as well as hit movies Twilight and The Reader.

Visit the SHOWTIME ALL ACCESS Free Preview Weekend webpage for complete details:
http://www.sho.com/site/freepreview/home.do

More on the Super Six World Boxing Classic
The inaugural Super Six World Boxing Classic is a groundbreaking, six-fighter tournament from SHOWTIME Sports featuring the best of the super middleweight (168-pound) division. The field is comprised of world renowned fighters Abraham, Dirrell, Carl Froch (WBC world champion of England), Andre Ward (WBA world champion of Oakland), Mikkel Kessler of Denmark, and Allan Green of Oklahoma, competing in two-year tournament for the inaugural Super Six World Boxing Classic trophy.

More on March 27th
The Armenia-born Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs) of Berlin, Germany, currently leads the tournament with three points by way of his 12th round knockout of American Jermain Taylor in Group Stage 1. Dirrell (18-1, 13 KOs), the former U.S. Olympic bronze medalist from Flint, Mich., is looking to score his first points of the tournament as he dropped a close 12-round decision to Carl Froch in his Group Stage 1 bout.

More on STRIKEFORCE Challengers
STRIKEFORCE Challengers provides today’s top MMA prospects with an opportunity to get on the fast-track to stardom. Up-and-coming fighters challenge other top prospects in their respective divisions and gain valuable national television exposure as they vie for an opportunity to move up to the higher-profile STRIKEFORCE events.

More on March 26th
Johnson, who just six months ago was fighting for his life after being gunned down at a family barbeque during the July 4 holiday, will enter a new chapter in his incredible recovery when he restarts his professional MMA career in the main event of the STRIKEFORCE Challengers telecast. After being struck down by the gunfire that also led to the death of a cousin, Johnson, a 32-year-old father of two boys, spent one month in hospital care and lost approximately 60 pounds.

For information on all SHOWTIME Sports telecasts, including exclusive behind-the-scenes video and photo galleries from its events and complete information on the Super Six World Boxing Classic, please visit the website at http://www.sports.sho.com

*****Free preview available to digital subscribers in participating systems only. Not all services available in all areas. Previews may contain PG, PG-13, TV-14, TVMA and R rated programming. Programming is subject to change. You must be a digital subscriber to receive Video On Demand and HD. Video On Demand is not available in all areas. If you do not wish to receive the preview in your home, please contact your local service provider. *****

Tickets for the recently announced "UFC 114: Jackson vs. Evans" go on
sale next Thursday, March 25, beginning at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) for
members of the UFC's official fan club.

Additionally, UFC.com newsletter subscribers can purchase tickets next
Friday, March 26 at 1 p.m. ET, and the general public can purchase
tickets on Saturday, March 27 at 1 p.m. ET.

UFC 114 takes place May 29 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and features a main event between former champions and "The Ultimate Fighter 10" coaches Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans.

Teston Shull (308) continued his march up the Powerlifting Watch Lifter Rankings with a 2,353 pound performance on Sunday at the SPF March Madness in Sacramento, California. With the total, Shull moved from sixteenth to twelfth on the rankings.

Westside Barbell's Louie Simmons will hold a training seminar at Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey on Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27.

New York, NY, March 16, 2010 – The second episode of the three part series, UFC Primetime®, features more tough talk between UFC® champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy as they prepare for their world welterweight title clash at UFC 111: ST-PIERRE vs. HARDY. The new episode premieres Wednesday, March 17 at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Spike TV.

Dan Hardy on Georges St-Pierre:

As far as saying I’m not a martial artist…Because he walks out in the Octagon in his pajamas he’s a martial artist and I’m not?

He knows nothing about me…I’ve been doing martial arts my whole life. I’ll brawl…but I think about what I’m doing. I’m a cerebral fighter.

Martial arts is about going to war… and it’s about messing people up. And that’s what I’m going to do.

Dan Hardy on his workout:

My workout is the winning formula. You can’t put muscles here (pointing to his face). And that’s all I’m aiming for… He can jump higher than me. He can lift trucks. It makes no different to me. When I connect on his chin he can lift all he wants…he’s still going down.

Georges St.-Pierre on his training:

I train myself to fight an army of guys. By training myself to fight an army of guys, one man cannot break me.

March 27 I am going to beat Dan Hardy and stay world champion. The war is on now. The war has already started.

Matt Serra on Dan Hardy:

Not a lot of guys give Dan a chance. I know what that feels like. I know what it’s like to prove people wrong. There are a lot of people you are going to give a big F.U. to win when you win the fight.

Nate Marquardt on the fight:

There is going to be a point in this fight when Hardy realizes he shouldn’t be in there with Georges and he is way in over his head. That’s where the fight is going to turn. And it’s going to be all Georges.

“UFC Primetime,” produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®), is a look into the lives of perhaps the world’s best pound for pound fighter, St-Pierre, and Hardy, the man looking to unseat him at the top of the welterweight ladder. As the two prepare for their meeting in late March, Spike TV will present three special weekly installments that will take viewers across the pond to Nottingham, England as Hardy trains with the rest of his Rough House team, and back to North America to Montreal to see how St-Pierre, one of the most beloved athletes in Canada, is preparing for his title defense. “UFC Primetime” delivers an extraordinary amount of access to two of mixed martial arts’ best, as they head into what could be the signature fight of 2010 at UFC 111.

UFC 111 will air live on Pay-Per-View Saturday, March 27 from the Prudential Center, in Newark, NJ at 10:00 PM ET/ 7:00 PM PT.

The month of March is loaded with high-quality MMA fight cards, and with
a number of exciting matchups planned, it's difficult to look forward
to just one.

UFC middleweight contender Nate Quarry (12-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) thinks you'd
best not sleep on his bout with Jorge Rivera (17-7 MMA, 7-5 UFC) at
UFC Fight Night 21 on March 31.

"I think this is really just a fan-favorite kind of fight," Quarry
recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "Both of us
just go in there and throw."

In anticipation of their UFC 111 main-event fight, UFC welterweight
champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy will be featured in
"UFC Primetime," a three-part special that airs on Spike TV.

The first episode debuts on Spike TV tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, while
parts two and three will air in the same timeslot on March 17 and March
24, respectively.

UFC 111 takes place March 27 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and airs on pay-per-view.