A total of eight women’s bouts are now booked for BlackEye Promotions 5: “Breast Cancer Beatdown” on October 1st in Fletcher, North Carolina. The card is headlined by a previously announced matchup between Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi and Barb “Little Warrior” Honchak.

Muay Thai star Charmaine “Not So Sweet” Tweet takes on fellow Canadian Anna Barone in a featured bout on the October card. Tweet stepped in after Erin “Steel” Toughill withdrew due to injury. In other action, Sofie Bagherdai returns after a three-year absence from MMA to face Ivana Coleman.

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Former UFC welterweight title challenger Jon Fitch will return to the Octagon at UFC 141 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The American Kickboxing Academy star faces fellow wrestler Johny Hendricks on the December 30th card. Verbal agreements are in place for the fight, which was first reported by ESPN.

Fitch has not fought since late February when he battled former two-division UFC champion B.J. Penn to a Majority Draw. A planned UFC 132 rematch between the two was cancelled after Fitch withdrew due to injury. Hendricks has won back-to-back fights since suffering his lone defeat in December.

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The semi-final matchups in the inaugural Jewels Featherweight Queen tournament are now set. A drawing held following tonight’s Jewels: “16th Ring” event in Tokyo, Japan determined the second-round pairings for the tournament, which concludes at Jewels: “17th Ring” on December 17th.

In semi-final one, unbeaten rising star Naho “Sugi Rock” Sugiyama faces 2010 Jewels 48kg Rough Stone Grand Prix Champion Kikuyo Ishikawa. Veterans Misaki Takimoto and Yukiko Seki square off in semi-final two. The tournament will determine the first Jewels Featherweight Queen Champion.

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Leading all-female promotion Jewels began its inaugural Featherweight Queen tournament at Jewels: “16th Ring” from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. Tonight’s card featured a non-title bout between Jewels Lightweight Queen Champion Ayaka Hamasaki and teen prodigy Mizuki Inoue.

In the tournament, Naho “Sugi Rock” Sugiyama faced Ayumi “Edge” Saito, Yasuko “Ikuko” Tamada took on Kikuyo Ishikawa, Misaki Takimoto battled Miyoko Kusaka and Sachiko “Sachi” Yamamoto clashed with Yukiko Seki. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for all fights on tonight’s Jewels card.

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Strikeforce came to the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio tonight for the second round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. The stacked card was headlined by a grand prix semi-final bout between former UFC champ Josh “The Warmaster” Barnett and one-time PRIDE star Sergei Kharitonov.

The second semi-final matchup in the heavyweight tournament saw Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva take on wrestling standout Daniel Cormier. The Strikeforce Middleweight Championship was on the line when Ronaldo “Jacaré” Souza faced Luke Rockhold. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for the card.

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Antonio Rogerio “Minotoro” Nogueira will join his twin brother, Rodrigo, on the upcoming UFC 140 card. Nogueira will battle “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz on December 10th at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. UFC officials confirmed the bout on Friday night.

Nogueira and Ortiz were originally scheduled to face each other in March, but Ortiz was forced to withdraw after suffering a cut in training. Nogueira won his first two fights in the Octagon after making his long-awaited UFC debut, but has dropped two straight. Ortiz is 1-1 so far this year.

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Bellator veteran Jessica Penne scored a significant upset this evening in her shoot boxing debut in Tokyo, Japan. Penne earned a Majority Decision win over promotional postergirl Rena Kubota after a pair of extension rounds in a razor-thin bout at Shoot Boxing: “Act.4” at the famed Korakuen Hall.

After three back-and-forth rounds where both fighters landed solid strikes, Kubota looked to take control in the first extension round, but the bout was again ruled a Draw. In the fifth and final round, Penne earned a Shoot Point for a high-arc throw and that was just enough to win on two scorecards.

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Standout boxer Holly “Hottie” Holm picked up her second mixed martial arts win tonight at Fresquez Productions: “Clash In The Cage” in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Holm stopped former Strikeforce title challenger Jan “Cuddles” Finney with a kick to the body in the later stages of the third and final round.

Widely seen as the top pound-for-pound female boxer in the world, Holm debuted in MMA with a second-round TKO victory in March and took a big step up in competition against Finney tonight. Keeping the fight on the feet, Holm was able to outstrike the veteran before finishing her off with the kick.

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