Last night, Zuffa and Co. entered into Washington D.C.’s Verizon Center with a decent free card on Versus network and showed the capital and the rest of MMA why smaller weight classes are always exciting and that Dominick Cruz is easily becoming the most dominant bantamweight fighter of all time.
UFC 135 packed the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado with the third highest attended UFC event (16,344) this year for a live gate of two million. The small 10 bout card produced a handful of highlight reel finishes, capped off with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson tapping out for only the second time in his career.
The fraternity of Ultimate Fighter season winners lost another member this week as the season three winner Kendall Grove was released following his UFC 130 loss to Tim Boetsch. The release of Grove marks the third season winner to be released, following in the footsteps of Travis Lutter (TUF 4) and Efrain Escudero (TUF 8).
