Bloody Elbow brings you live results from Shine Fights' troubled 2010 Lightweight Grand Prix, which features such fan favorites as Charles "Krazy Horse" Bennett, Rich Crunkilton and Drew Fickett. Coverage begins at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
Shine Fights struggles to continue against all odds.
UFC/PRIDE veteran Marcus “Maximus” Aurelio sustained an injury while training for this weekend’s Shine Fights Lightweight Grand Prix and been forced to vacate his spot in the tourney. Taking his place will be fellow submission specialist Shannon Gugerty.
"The Ultimate Fighter 8" veteran Eliot Marshall (8-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) has been released from the UFC following his loss to Vladimir Matyushenko at UFC on Versus 1 this past Sunday.
For many fans, the UFC's debut on Versus went as expected. The ferocious and powerful Jon Jones, a fighter who once shared a wrestling room turned proving ground at Iowa Central Community College with another familiar name in Cain Velasquez, took down the fading Brandon Vera in the early moments of their epic tilt on Sunday night and put the pressure solely on Vera to prove his words had meaning.
The BloodyElbow.com staff offer their predictions for the very first UFC show on Versus with Brandon Vera vs. Jon Jones as the main event.
The card will be headlined by a light heavyweight battle between rising prospect Jon Jones and long-time UFC veteran Brandon Vera, but it'll also spotlight a potentially crucial heavyweight showdown between the surging Junior Dos Santos and the formidable Gabriel Gonzaga.
