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The fight card for UFC 83 Matt Serra vs Georges St. Pierre 2 (April 19th) that will take place in Canada’s Bell Centre just got bigger.  Added to the card is Ed “Short Fuse” Herman and his Brazilian opponent, Demian Maia. Additionally just added to the card are two new UFC names, Australian fighter Brad Morris who will face off with Cain Velasquez.  The big event has been sold out for over a month now.  UFC 83 will be Canada’s first UFC event and in celebration of this, the card is totally stacked.  Here’s the official card:

• Matt Serra vs. Georges St. Pierre
• Travis Lutter vs. Rich Franklin
• Nate Quarry vs. Kalib Starnes
• Charles McCarthy vs. Michael Bisping
• Mark Bocek vs. Mac Danzig
• Joe Doerksen vs. Jason MacDonald
• Jason Day vs. Alan Belcher
• Rich Clementi vs. Sam Stout
• Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Jonathan Goulet
• Brad Morris vs. Cain Velasquez
• Ed Herman vs. Demian Maia Bet on

Fans from Montreal,  today’s the day to meet Georges St. Pierre and Matt Serra. Both fighters will be available for a meet and greet at the Bell Centre from 1PM – 3PM.  In addition to the meet and greet, tickets for UFC 83 will be available for purchase, before the official sale date of February 8th.  So head over to the Bell Centre today and get an autograph and chat it up a little with the boys.

The UFC is going to make it’s debut in Canada for UFC 83. In January of 2008, the UFC was suppose to make it’s Canadian debut at the Bell Centre, but was canceled. But due to conflicts with the hockey schedule, among other things, the only thing Canadian we got out of the deal was the new UFC Octagon Girl Edith Larente. So now it’s official, UFC 83, will take place at the Bell Centre on April 19th 2008. Tickets goes on presale Sunday, Feb 3rd at Noon EST. As for an official card.. not sure yet. It was rumored by NBCSports that Matt Serra would take on Georges St. Pierre. However, it has yet to be confirmed.

Alot of people hate the Canadian flag that is posted above, how about this one instead?

According to NBCSports.com, Matt Serra and Georges St. Pierre will headline UFC 83 on April 19th 2008 at Montreal’s Bell Centre for the welterweight title.  Serra confirmed to NBC Sports that he will be fighting Georges.  Here’s what NBCSports.com had to say:

“The Long Island native told NBCSports.com’s John Moody that his back has been rapidly improving and is excited about defending the championship, albeit in St. Pierre’s hometown.

The event will be the first that the UFC holds in Canada, and is tentatively scheduled for April 19 at the Bell Centre.”

Serra told Winnipeg Sun,

“Let me tell you about a little movie called Rocky IV. A little Italian guy goes over to Russia to fight a big Russian experiment named Drago.

“Now, a little Italian guy goes to Canada to fight the big Canadian experiment named frickin’ GSP. It’s a monster movie. I want to be in that movie. I want to be Rocky.”

Check out the NBC Sport interview video with Matt Serra.

Going into his UFC 79 fight against Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre was training with Olympians for the Olympic events and boxing WBA world champion fighter. So when Georges was approached by the UFC to fill in for Matt Serra, he knew he was in perfect shape for the fight and took it within 1 months notice. Georges talks about how excellent of a trainer Greg Jackson is, and how he has a lot of loyalty in an “honest partnership”. Now that he was helped by Greg Jacksons camp for his fight, he will help those guys out as they prepare for their own fights.

Hughes humbly talks about his fight with Georges St. Pierre. He discusses how he trained for his fight for Matt Serra, and how Georges came and in didn’t have a hard time at all against Hughes. He admits that he didn’t put a lot of leather on St. Pierre. Hughes talks about Serra’s upcoming fight against St. Pierre and how he won’t last against Georges. Finally Hughes gets a plug in for his new book, “Made in America”.

You can check out the video below:

ESPN recently interviewed Matt Serra to get his take on the Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre fight.  Before getting into the meat and potato’s, Serra had to get a few questions regarding his dislike of Hughes out of the way.  In response to his distaste of Matt Hughes, Serra told ESPN:

“We’re two different types of guys,”… “He’s just not my type of guy. I think he is smug. I know he doesn’t like me, and that’s fine.”

Although one may think that Serra would be rooting for St. Pierre, he’s actually rooting for Hughes.  He’d like to see Hughes, as it would eventually present the opportunity for the two to match up.  However, he think that Georges is overall a better fighter, and Hughes’ only chance is to get St. Pierre down to the ground, where Georges is still a great wrestler.  “It’s interesting, I think Matt Hughes is going to do everything in his power to try and get him down and on the ground” Serra told ESPN. “He’s not going to try and mix it on his feet; that will get him way more tired. If that’s the case, then it’s going to be a very bad night. It will probably go similar to their last fight.”

To read the full article, visit ESPN.com

Men’s Fitness recently did a feature on the upcoming UFC 79 fight between Matt Hughes and Matt Serra.  As we all know, Serra had to drop out of the fight due to injury, leaving Matt Hughes with an open fight.  Stepping in for Serra was Canada’s Georges St. Pierre.  But I digress…

As a part of Men’s Fitness’ feature on Matt Hughes vs Matt Serra, Men’s Fitness reviewed Matt Hughes’ training program.

Leg Press – 45lb on each side: 3 sets of 30, 40 and 50 reps.

Sledgehammer swings – Rep out

Pullups – 3 sets

Hammer Strength Row – 4 sets

Dumbbell Row -4 sets

Shrugs – 4 sets

Get the full workout at the Men’s Fitness website.

Wow! I was out of the country for several days… on the island… before leaving, the news of Matt Serra’s injury just broke… Being back, there’s some interesting news – Georges St. Pierre is filling in for Matt Serra at UFC 79. This is simply an interim world welterweight championship belt, but man is this going to be one hell of a fight. If you remember UFC 65, GSP put on a clinic. He landed a number of strikes, including some superman punches, worked Hughes over on the ground and finished up with some ground and pound in the second round. For those of you who don’t remember, check out the video of the fight from UFC 65.