Two more fights have been added to the UFC 135 card on September 24th in Denver, Colorado. The lighter weight classes will be on display when Diego “The Gun” Nunes faces Manny “The Anvil” Gamburyan at 145, and Cole “The Triangle” Escovedo takes on Takeya Mizugaki at 135 pounds.

Both fights were announced by the promotion today. All four fighters will be looking to rebound from recent setbacks. Nunes looked to be one win away from a UFC Featherweight Championship bout before falling to current top contender Kenny “KenFlo” Florian in a UFC 131 battle last month.

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Carina “Beauty But The Beast” Damm picked up another quick submission win in Brazil on Thursday night, as she defeated late replacement opponent Sheila “Amazon” at Iron Man Championship 10. Damm had been set to face Valentina Shevchenko, but her opponent was changed earlier this week.

As a veteran of 23 professional mixed martial arts fights, Damm has drawn criticism for continuing to face inexperienced and overmatched opponents in bouts in her native Brazil. Four of her last six opponents in the country have been MMA debutants, including in last night’s brief bout in Salinopolis.

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Amanda “Powerhouse” Lucas will travel to Japan for her next mixed martial arts bout and she now has an opponent. The adopted daughter of Star Wars creator George Lucas faces Japanese veteran Hikaru Shinohara at DEEP: “55 Impact” on August 26th in Tokyo, Japan, in a bout announced today.

The 30-year-old Lucas has already received considerable attention from major sports media in Japan after her participation on the August card was first announced. She has not competed since late 2009, but her opponent may also experience ring rust as she returns after nearly three years away.

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Former WEC champions Urijah Faber and Brian Bowles have agreed to face off at UFC 139, which is believed to be targeted for November 19th at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. The UFC announced plans for the bout today. Faber is coming off of a decision loss to Dominick Cruz at UFC 132.

Despite lingering hand issues, Bowles brings momentum into the bout with Faber and has won two straight fights since losing his WEC title to Cruz last March. Faber had looked to capture Cruz’s new UFC title in their rematch earlier this month, but he was unable to defeat Cruz for a second time.

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UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick “The Dominator” Cruz will make the next defence of his title on free television. Cruz will face Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson at UFC Live 6, which is set for October 1st at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. NBC Sports first reported on the bout today.

Cruz is coming off of a close but Unanimous Decision victory over former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber at UFC 132. With the win, he avenged the lone defeat of his career. Johnson recently earned a razor-thin and contentious Unanimous Decision over Miguel Torres at UFC 130.

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Female standouts Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi and Aisling “Ais The Bash” Daly have verbally agreed to square off in a 125-pound bout at BlackEye Promotions 5, which is expected to take place on October 1st in Fletcher, North Carolina. Bout agreements have not yet been distributed.

MMARising.com confirmed plans for the fight with multiple sources earlier today. Daly is coming off of arguably her biggest win to date, in a June upset of Jessica “Evil” Eye for the NAAFS 125-pound women’s title. Modafferi has suffered a pair of razor-thin decision setbacks in bouts earlier this year.

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A women’s bout between Olympic silver medallist Sara McMann and fellow wrestler Tonya Evinger is in the works for Titan Fighting Championship 19 on July 29th in Kansas City, Kansas. MMARising.com confirmed plans for the fight with a source close to the promotion after Evinger announced it.

McMann has won both of her professional mixed martial arts bouts to date in quick fashion after initially struggling to find opponents. She will take a big step up in competition to face Evinger, however, and the fighters will have just over a week to prepare for next Friday’s event, which airs on HDNet.

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Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem will no longer compete in the second round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. Overeem was removed from the tournament today due to what is being officially attributed to a toe injury. He has been replaced by Daniel Cormier.

The semi-finals of the tournament are scheduled for September 10th and Overeem expressed in interviews earlier today that he would not be ready to compete in time. As first reported by Tatame.com, he was then removed from the tournament, but is believed to still be under Strikeforce contract.

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