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From the Bell Centre in Montreal, UFC 83 features match-after-match of highly anticipated returns, rematches and redemption!

Matt “The Terror” Serra takes on a vengeful Georges “Rush” St. Pierre - plus a nation of angry Canadians! Rich Franklin returns against Travis Lutter in a make or break fight for the former champ. “Ace” lost twice to Anderson Silva and looks to rebound against “The Serial Killer”.

Michael “The Count” Bisping also makes his middleweight debut against Charles McCarthy.

Also in action are UFC stars Nate Quarry, Kalib Starnes, Ed Herman, Jason MacDonald and the pay-per-view debut of TUF 6 winner Mac Danzig.

And don’t sleep on the undercard - three of them earned huge bonuses including fight of the night, knockout and submission of the night.

Main Card:
Georges St. Pierre (16-2) vs. Matt Serra (9-5)
Rich Franklin (22-3) vs. Travis Lutter (9-4)
Kalib Starnes (8-2-1) vs. Nate Quarry (9-2)
Michael Bisping (15-1) vs. Charles McCarthy (10-4)
Mac Danzig (17-4-1) vs. Mark Bocek (5-1)

Undercard:
Jason MacDonald (19-9) vs. Joe Doerksen (39-11)
Alan Belcher (12-4) vs. Jason Day (15-5)
Sam Stout (13-3-1) vs. Rich Clementi (30-12-1)
Jonathan Goulet (21-9) vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (11-4)
Cain Velasquez (2-0) vs. Brad Morris (10-2)
Ed Herman (14-5) vs. Demian Maia (6-0)

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Starnes talks about his departure from the UFC.

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Jason “Dooms” Day came through with a big win in his UFC debut at UFC 83: “St. Pierre vs. Serra 2,” dominating Alan “The Talent” Belcher to score a standing technical knockout victory in the first round back on April 19.

He landed his four-fight contract with the UFC after his controversial split decision win over UFC veteran David “The Crow” Loiseau at a Hardcore Championship Fighting card back in February. Many felt that Loiseau won the fight and subsequently he (Loiseau) should have had the fight with Belcher instead of Jason. Day said he scored two victories that night.

Here’s a snip:

“One of the sweetest victories I’ve had was letting everyone know that I do belong there … a lot of people said I didn’t belong and that David won that fight … but coming out and dominating Alan Belcher in every aspect, I don’t think anybody has any questions, it wasn’t left to the judges…it was like getting two victories in one.”

For those who missed this fight because it was not aired Day looked calm, collected and very dominant in his debut. Belcher took him down early and Day worked effective elbows from the rubber guard. In fact, the “Master of the Rubber Guard,” Eddie Bravo, was so impressed that Jason had learned the technique just one month out from his fight and put it to use so effectively that he sought him out after the fight.

Here’s a snip:

“He came up to me in the hotel, and of course I know who Eddie Bravo is, but I hadn’t seen a picture, and he was like ‘that was a sick use of the rubber guard dude’ and I said thanks, I thought it was just a fan, and then he told me he was going to send me his DVDs and I was like ‘oh shit that’s Eddie Bravo’ … that was one of the highlights of my trip out there was Eddie Bravo telling me I used his rubber guard to perfection.”

When asked about his thoughts on the Kalib Starnes vs. Nate Quarry fiasco, he had this to say:

“I was warming up with him all week and he looked like he had a good head on his shoulders … he looked ready to go … I didn’t know what he was thinking, if Nate Quarry was running at me doing what he was doing to Kalib, I would be punching him in the face looking for the knockout.”

Jason Day is ready for whatever the UFC throws at him. For now he is satisfied with building houses for his parent’s company up in Lethbridge, Alberta. And though he did take Monday off, his father was calling him wondering when he was coming back to work.

To hear the entire audio interview click here.

Sean McManus is the Director of Media Relations for MMACanada.net. For more information on the MMA scene up in Canada check out MMACanada.net.

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We’re not going to get them, according to the Quebec Boxing Council.

The official sanctioning body for the region has declared them confidential, which is not uncommon for major pay-per-view (PPV) events that take place outside of the United States.

In fact, Texas, New Jersey and Colorado, among other states often don’t reveal fighter salaries like Nevada, California, Ohio and Florida.

However, remember that UFC President Dana White revealed in the post-fight press conference that Demian Maia (Submission of the Night), Jason MacDonald (Knockout of the Night), as well as Jonathan Goulet and Kuniyoshi Hironaka (Fight of the Night), all earned $75,000 bonuses each for their efforts.

And not one of those fights was aired during the PPV telecast. Ho Hum.

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FightTicker is reporting that Travis Lutter has informed them that he has been released from his contract by the UFC.

The 34 year old TUF veteran, suffered a second round TKO loss to Rich Franklin at UFC 83.

Lutter leaves the UFC on a two fight losing streek and an overall UFC record or 2-4.

Lutter has confirmed the news on his MySpace page:

Friday afternnon I was told by my manager that UFC matchmaker Joe Silza had left my him a message on his phone that I had been released from my UFC contract because of my 2 losses in a row.

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FightTicker is reporting that Travis Lutter has informed them that he has been released from his contract by the UFC.

The 34 year old TUF veteran, suffered a second round TKO loss to Rich Franklin at UFC 83.

Lutter leaves the UFC on a two fight losing streek and an overall UFC record or 2-4.

Lutter has confirmed the news on his MySpace page:

Friday afternnon I was told by my manager that UFC matchmaker Joe Silza had left my him a message on his phone that I had been released from my UFC contract because of my 2 losses in a row.

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Quoteworthy:

“… I got caught – I haven’t watched the fight yet but some of my buddies told me I got caught with a pretty good punch about 18 seconds in…. I thought I had him. I was really surprised when he was able to roll out. It’s pretty rare for somebody to get out. It’s just one of those things. Golf clap for Rich for getting out…. I was probably a half-inch, maybe even a quarter-inch, from breaking Rich Franklin’s arm. If we played that fight again I think I’ve got a real good shot at beating him. How close was I to getting my arm raised in both those fights? Sometimes luck is … And, I’m not saying that Rich got lucky. I don’t want people sending me hate mail saying I was saying Rich got lucky. I’m just saying I got unlucky.”

The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 4 middleweight winner, Travis Lutter, talks about his technical knockout loss to UFC 83: “Serra vs. St. Pierre 2″ on April 19. In addition to discussing the loss, “The Serial Killer” goes in to details about all the unnecessary hate mail he receives for his past two losing performances.

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