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Former EliteXC heavyweight champ “Junior” Antonio Silva (13-1) won his sixth straight when he tapped out “Big” Jim York (9-2) at 3:51 of round one at Sengoku Tenth Battle in Tokyo Tuesday night.

It was Silva’s second first-round stoppage in two tries at Sengoku; and, there are whispers Silva and eighth-ranked “Babyface Assassin” Josh Barnett (20-5) are on a collision course.

Read More About Antonio Silva, Dan Hornbuckle Victorious at Sengoku Tenth Battle…

Canadian middleweight and former UFC and WEC fighter “El Dirte” Joe Doerksen (42-12) will take on Takenori Sato (2-5-2) at Sengoku Tenth Battle in Tokyo 23 September, World Victory Road announced Tuesday.

Doerksen tapped “Blade” Gregory Babene (5-4) at CFC 2 in Winnipeg 22 May.

Sato fought to a draw for the middleweight King of Pancrase title versus Izuru Takeuchi (25-10-5) at Pancrase in Tokyo 8 August.

Read More About Joe Doerksen v Takenori Sato, Nick Thompson v Dan Hornbuckle Announced at Sengoku 10…

M-1 Global officially announced Thursday an already rumored, but little anticipated matchup between “King Mo” Muhammed Lawal (3-0) and forty-three year old former UFC champion “Predator” Don Frye (20-7-1) at Breakthrough in Los Angeles 28 August.

Also announced was a middleweight matchup between “Goat” Nick Thompson (38-11-1) and Frenchman “Psycho” Karl Amoussou (11-1-1).

Ostentatious former NCAA wrestling champion “King Mo” won a unanimous decision over Pancrase veteran Ryo Kawamura (9-3-2) at Sengoku Seventh Battle in Tokyo last March. He’ll fight for the first time in his home nation at Breakthrough.

Read More About Mo Lawal v Don Frye Officially Announced For M-1…

Fighters.com’s September Welterweight Rankings was denied a potential breakout match-up in Atlanta 6 September when “The Heat” Karo Parisyan (18-5) bailed on his fight versus ninth-ranked “Zenko” Yoshiyuki Yoshida (10-2) with a back injury…or something.

Yoshida has stoppages of Katsuya Inoue (16-6-3) and Akira Kikuchi (16-4); but, few this side of the Pacific (besides you and I) know how impressive that is.

A good showing versus physically and technically tough Parisyan would’ve put him on North American radar too.

Fighters.com has developing information that another anticipated fight, between sixth-ranked “Terror” Matt Serra (9-5) and seventh-ranked Matt Hughes (42-7), is unlikely to ever happen.  More on that as it develops.

Fighters.com’s Welterweight Champion “Rush” Georges St. Pierre (17-2) will fight Fighters.com’s Lightweight Champion “Prodigy” B.J. Penn (13-4-1) in Las Vegas 31 January.

Read More About Fighters.com’s September Welterweight Rankings…

After Fighters.com’s Welterweight Champion “Rush” Georges St. Pierre (17-2) defended his title from then top contender Jon Fitch (17-3) in Minneapolis 9 August, who better to challenge him next than…Fighters.com’s Lightweight Champion “Prodigy” B.J. Penn (13-4-1)?

On the gutsy unanimous decision loss, Fitch dropped three ranks to fifth in August’s rankings.  However, to those who’ve called Fitch St. Pierre’s “toughest challenge”, Fighters.com reminds them that sixth-ranked “Terror” Matt Serra (9-5) knocked St. Pierre out in the first round in Houston 7 April, 2007.

In fact, it was obvious in the stand-up exchanges between St. Pierre and Fitch that the 2007 knockout remains in the forefront of St. Pierre’s mind as St. Pierre was more cautious than he had been in previous fights.

But, rather than St. Pierre match-up versus Penn, Fighters.com would rather sanction a title fight between St. Pierre and the winner of the match-up between Fighters.com’s new top contender “Pitbull” Thiago Alves (15-3) and seventh-ranked “Nightmare” Diego Sanchez (18-2) to be fought in Chicago 25 October.

Read More About Fighters.com’s August Welterweight Rankings…

“Ruthless” Robbie Lawler (18-4) TKO’d “Hands of Steel” Scott Smith (13-5) at 2:35 of round two to retain his EliteXC Middleweight Championship.

Nick Diaz (18-7) TKO’d “Wildman” Thomas Denny (26-17) at :30 of round two.

Jake Shields (21-4-1) defeats “The Goat” Nick Thompson (36-10-1) by guillotine submission at 1:03 of the first round for the EliteXC Welterweight Championship.

“Big Foot” Antonio Silva (11-1) TKO’d Justin Eilers (20-8-1) at :19 of round two for the EliteXC Heavyweight Championship.

“Feijao” Rafael Cavalcante TKO’d “Gladiator” Travis Galbraith (15-6) at 3:01 of round one.

Wilson Reis (5-0) won a unanimous decision over Bryan Caraway (10-3).

Carl Seumanutafa (4-0) KO’d Mike Cook (5-2) by slam at 1:21 of round one.

Drew Montgomery (5-3) TKO’d Brandon Tarns (1-2) by doctor stoppage at 4:23 of round three.

Fighters.com caught eighth-ranked welterweight Jake Shields (20-4-1) on his way to a date in San Jose Thursday night and asked him about his upcoming EliteXC title fight versus ninth-ranked “Goat” Nick Thompson (36-9-1).

Fighters.com’s ninth-ranked welterweight “The Goat” Nick Thompson (36-9-1) talked to his attorney, then confirmed to Fighters.com Cesar Gracie’s (0-1) announcement that Thompson will fight eighth-ranked Jake Shields (20-4-1) for the first EliteXC Welterweight Championship 26 July on CBS.

Thompson told Fighters.com, “It is true, it is signed, and I am stoked!

“I have a six-fight deal with EliteXC.  It is non-exclusive and they recognize my pre-existing relationship with Sengoku.”

Thompson’s last two victories have been versus “Pitbull” Fabricio Monteiro (16-7) by unanimous decision and “Maicon” Michael Costa (9-4) by submission in Sengoku, a Japan-based promotion.

Read More About Thompson: “I am stoked [to fight Jake Shields]!”, Denny: “I’m wilder [than Nick Diaz]“…

Fighters.com’s eighth- and ninth-ranked welterweights,  Jake Shields (20-4-1) and “The Goat” Nick Thompson (36-9-1) respectively, will challenge for the first EliteXC Welterweight Championship 26 July on CBS, according to Cesar Gracie (0-1), Shields’s manager and trainer.

Shields responded to Fighters.com’s request for confirmation Tuesday, “I signed and I think [Thompson] did as well.”

Thompson also responded to Fighters.com Tuesday, saying “I can neither confirm nor deny the report at this time.”

Gracie also announced at his website that his student Nick Diaz (17-7) will fight “Wildman” Thomas Denny (26-16) on the same card.

Shields was originally signed to fight Drew Fickett (34-5) for the first EliteXC welterweight title.

Read More About Gracie: Shields and Thompson to Fight For EliteXC Title…

Third-ranked “Pitbull” Thiago Alves (15-3) is the big mover in Fighters.coms’s June Welterweight Rankings after, of course, crashing knee-first into the side of seventh-ranked Matt Hughes’s (42-7) cranium in London 7 June.

Alves established himself as the top contender to the winner between Fighters.com’s Welterweight Champion “Rush” Georges St. Pierre (16-2) and second-ranked Jon Fitch (17-2), to be fought in Minneapolis 9 August.

Hughes finds himself at a crossroads as confidants close to H.I.T. Squad have confided to Fighters.com that Hughes didn’t prepare for his tussle with “Pitbull” with the determination that’s marked his storied career.

The day after Alves finished Hughes, ninth-ranked “The Goat” Nick Thompson (36-9-1) finished hard-punching “Maicon” Michael Costa (9-4) in Tokyo.

Thompson is negotiating to fight eighth-ranked Jake Shields (20-4-1) for the EliteXC title, but tells Fighters.com, “I would really like the fight but I am not willing to fight below my value in order to make it happen.”

Read More About Fighters.com’s June Welterweight Rankings…