Although the tickets for UFC 100 sold out in record time you can still watch UFC 100 at the viewing party at Mandalay Bay Beach on a the huge, Closed Circuit LED screen for tickets priced at $50. Tickets for the viewing party go on sale at 12 noon PT today, May 1st.

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Here are some details as reported by UFC.com

Las Vegas, NV (USA) – With the mega-card UFC® 100 already sold out, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® organization will hold a closed-circuit screening of this historic pay-per-view at Mandalay Bay Beach Saturday, July 11. Don’t miss your chance to watch all the action on a LED Video Wall under the stars at the UFC 100 viewing party.

For ticket sales and information visit UFC.com. UFC President Dana White commented “I started hearing about UFC 100 around UFC 90. I am blown away by how excited fans were for this event,” said UFC President Dana White. “So I made sure to stack this card with the greatest fights and greatest fighters in the world, and keep ticket prices consistent with our other big events. Once again, our fans responded with a record sellout. This is another great milestone for the UFC, and July 11 is going to be an amazing event.”

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UFC 100 will not just be a pay per view, it’s going to be a celebration of The Ultimate Fighters 100th fight. Yeah, duh, I know.

Prior to the July 11th event at Mandalay Bay in Nevada, UFC will premiere UFC Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights starting on July 5th. Fans can vote on which fights they think deserve to be in the 100 Greatest Fights. That starts on May 1st at http://ultimate100.spike.com/. That show will start airing on July 5th at 9pm EST and will continue every evening that week, with the exception of Friday July 10th.

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Here is the current fight card as published on UFC.com.

Main Card

• Brock Lesnar Vs. Frank Mir (for the Hw Title)
• Georges St. Pierre Vs. Thiago Alves
• Dan Henderson Vs. Michale Bisping
• Yoshihiro Akiyama Vs. Alan Belcher

Preliminary Card

• Jon Jones Vs. Jake O’Brien
• Dong Hyun Kim Vs. Jonathan Goulet
• CB Dollaway Vs. Tom Lawlor
• Matt Grice Vs. Shannon Gugerty

Here is a video of Brock Lesnar’s first professional MMA fight vs. Min Soo Kim at Dynamite 2007 where he completely dominated his opponent. Yes, I know this is an old video, but it’s always fun to see an MMA fighter in his first fight. I’m not sure what Kim’s weight is, but he looks to be outweighed by at least 50 pounds. Lesnar’s rematch with Mir should be interesting…whenever that happens. He still has a lot of training and learning to do.

Coming a year a a few months since his first and last loss in UFC, heavyweight Brock Lesnar will face the man that made his first fight in the UFC a loss. Frank Mir is the number 1 contender after beating Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

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Kimbo Slice has got a lot of flack since his debut in to professional MMA. As a headliner at Elite XC events with very few pro MMA fights under his belt, he drew a lot of verbal abuse from other MMA fighters and fans. I’ve even said a few words about him here, but after reading a segment in the latest Tapout Magazine, I feel that perhaps I was wrong to judge and talk badly about the man.

You have to think about it this way. On Youtube Kimbo Slice was a bad-ass street fighter for quite a few years before being picked up in the MMA circuit. Elite XC more or less saw this guy and their eyes lit up green. They knew that a lot of people watched the viral Youtube videos and if they watched the videos then they would surely like to see how he faired in the ring in an MMA match. So they offer him a contract and you could almost say they exploited him in a way. They offer him a contract in hopes of making money. Of course Kimbo is not going to turn down a contract where he can potentially make money doing something that he’s pretty good at. Most MMA fighters have to work their way up through the circuits, but when a promoter sees money making potential, they jump on it before the next guy does.

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Frank Mir has overcome quite a bit since his motorcycle accident some four years ago. His “Re-start” was one that had a few bumps in the road. This year has been great for Mir, though. With his victory over UFC newcomer and current Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar and his win over Nogueira this past Saturday Mir looks at the Heavyweight Championship while holding the interim Heavyweight title.

Both Mir and Lesnar are cocky and confident fighters. Mir being the more skilled fighter with many more fights under his belt and a defeat already over Lesnar. Lesnar being the bigger, overwhelming fighters that is dedicated to everything that he does. Mir has the skill while Lesnar has the size, but Mir’s no 220 pounder and is much more in his prime than Randy Couture. Standing the same height as Lesnar with only 15 or 20 lbs less than Lesnar this will be interesting.

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Former WWE star and collegiate wrestler, Bobby Lashley has been training to be an MMA fighter since his departure from professional wrestling. He signed with the American Fight League right before they went in to "Hiatus" but was loaned out for his debut MMA fight to Mixed Fight Alliance for the "There Will Be Blood" event.

Lashley fought another MMA rookie, Josh Franklin. Lashley shot in quickly in the first round and began a vicious ground and pound cutting Franklin. The ref stopped the fight and doctors checked the would and deemed it to serious to allow him to continue. Lashley won his debut by TKO in 41 seconds.

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Wow, November is over all ready and the end of 2008 is right around the corner. Where the hell does the time go? We’ve seen some exciting fights this year and it can only get better…or can it? To me it seems that some promotions are shooting for "Super Fights" to draw cash instead of singing matches with people that deserve a title match. That’s nothing really new though, is it? Anyway, I have a few things and link of interest here for this end of the month wind-down.

First up, we saw an UFC and MMA Veteran lose his title to an MMA/UFC rookie with the Brock Lesnar Vs. Randy Couture fight. With the huge difference in weight between these tow fighters there has been a lot of people questioning if there should be a weigh class within the Heavyweight class. MMAWeekly.com presented this question to the Nevada Stats Athletic Commission. Their response was "This already exists", referring to the Super-Heavyweight class. Not really the answer they were shooting for, though. You can read what other SAC’s said at MMAWeekly.com.

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So holy crap. If you haven’t heard the news anywhere else than you obviously were not interested in the outcome of the fights that took place Saturday night. I honestly should have posted something about this yesterday but I have a bit of a cold. So lets see what went on.

Starting with the main event. Brock Lesnar came out hungry and proved that he’s not just a hyped up former WWE cash draw. While I like Randy Couture I just had a feeling that Brock’s size and (real) wrestling background was going to be an issue. When you pit two wrestlers up against each other and one weights about 40 more pounds than the other size is certainly going to be a factor. Brock defended Coutrure’s take downs well and Randy’s in ring stand up experience worked well to keep Lesnar at bay. All it took was a big right from Lesnar in the second round that stunned randy very briefly and sent him to the ground. Brock capitalized on this and made quick to jump on the downed Couture and start hammering away with fast, short and powerful hammer fists and punches. Couture tried hard to cover up and defend himself but the fists were coming in too fast for him to break away and make an attempt on a good defensive maneuver. The ref stopped the fight and Lesnar became the UFC Heavyweight Champion in only his 3rd fight in the UFC. This win doesn’t come without conversation of people arguing that Lesnar should have earned his spot for the title shot like so many others before him as opposed to being tossed in because it would be a huge crowd and money draw. Either way, there is nothing you can do now besides see what happens next. He may lose in his first defense of the title and have to work his way back up that way.

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In case you missed this back in September, ESPN aired this segment with UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture and UFC newcomer Brock Lesnar on their upcoming UFC 91 fight.. Less than two weeks away we should see if this is a fight wroth paying for or if we’ll be kicking ourselves in the ass the next day. Check it out…