Finishes galore at UFC 129: Menjivar takes his turn with 90-second pummeling of Valencia

The undercard fighters are setting some standard for the stars at UFC 129 to live up to. After three awesome finishes to begin UFC 129, Ivan Menjivar kept pace by smashing Charlie Valencia's nose and finishing the fight via TKO just seconds later. After nearly seven years away, Menjivar made a triumphant return to the UFC with a bantamweight win at 1:30 of the first round.

The 5-foot-6 Menjivar fought all over the world since a UFC 48 loss to Matt Serra. That fight was at 155 pounds, but at just 5-foot-6 Menjivar was fighting way out of his true weight class. Along the way, Menjivar faced much bigger fighters like Hideo Tokoro, Joe Lauzon, Caol Uno and Bart Palaszewski. Back in 2002, he even faced the current UFC 170-pound champion Georges St-Pierre.

He was the bigger fighter tonight and that was evident the first time he and Valencia clinched. Menjivar (23-8, 1-1 UFC) got his left arm free and landed a huge elbow across the face of the Californian. Valencia (12-8, 0-1 UFC) went down immediately where Menjivar unloaded 13 more shots. Referee Big John McCarthy and UFC color analyst said they thought Valencia's nose was broken.

Patrick edges Roberts to close out Facebook stream

Claude Patrick tested himself against an excellent jiu-jitsu practitioner and showed he can grapple with the best of them. The Canadian used a well-rounded attack to outpoint Daniel Roberts, 29-28 on three scorecards, to win fight No. 5 at UFC 129.

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Build a Horex VR6 in 46 Seconds


Development of the Horex VR6 street bike continues at the German company, with this latest teaser video hitting YouTube (we suspect it will put a sizable dent in the Royal Wedding viewership, at least it did for us). Using a time-lapse video technique, we see the Horex engineers assembling one of their Horex VR6 prototype motorcycles in just 46 seconds (less if you don’t want to count the end branding). As the name implies, Horex ...

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Jose Aldo Likely Meets Chad Mendes at UFC 133 in Philadelphia

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TORONTO - Following his first UFC featherweight title defense at UFC 129 on Saturday, Jose Aldo has his next likely opponent already lined up.

UFC president Dana White said at Saturday's post-fight press conference at Rogers Centre in Toronto that Aldo, who beat Mark Hominick by unanimous decision in the UFC 129 co-main event, will face Chad Mendes at UFC 133 in Philadelphia on Aug. 6.

"That's a curveball for me right now, (but) I think we're looking at Jose possibly fighting Philly," White said.

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UFC 129 Weigh-In Results

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TORONTO -- In a taste of the madness that is to come on Saturday night, around 8,000 fans turned out to the Ricoh Coliseum just to watch the UFC 129 participants step on a scale. At UFC 129, there will be over 55,000 at Rogers Centre to watch two championship matches and the possible last fight of a legend.

Among the night's biggest fights, everyone made weight. Champion Georges St. Pierre came in comfortably at 169.5 pounds, but his challenger Jake Shields came in even lighter, 169 for the welterweight title bout.

"Don't blink," St. Pierre said afterward.

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UFC 129 Main Event Breakdown: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jake Shields

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TORONTO -- Every once in a while in the fight game, you get a perfectly timed intersection of careers that leads to the two best meeting at their best. We don't always know it at the time, however. It's impossible to know the apex of an athlete's career until he retires and everything can be judged objectively. But it would be hard to imagine that either UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre or challenger Jake Shields isn't at the top of their game right now.

Between the two, they are a combined 29-1 over their last 30 fights. Since the start of 2005, each has fought 15 times; Shields is unbeaten, St. Pierre lost just once, and later avenged the defeat by dominating Matt Serra in a rematch.

The UFC 129 main event fight clearly features two athletes at the top of their game, and the result could change the way history is viewed.

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UFC May Return to Denver on Sept. 24

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The UFC may be planning its first trip to Colorado since March 2010 with a Sept. 24 event in Denver - though official word is still mum.

The promotion on Thursday announced a fight between UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes and Diego Sanchez for this fall. Later Thursday, Hughes said on his website the fight will take place on that date in the Colorado capital city.

On Friday, Marc Ratner, the UFC's vice president of regulatory affairs, could not confirm the date - but did tell MMA Fighting a return to Denver would be for an event at the Pepsi Center and not at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colo., north of Denver.

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