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Marquardt to UFC The King comes home
August 6, 2005 Spike TV Las Vegas, Nevada www.Pancrase.US
Pancrase champ Nate "The Great" Marquardt has just signed a multi-fight agreement with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As might be expected, the 7-times King of Pancrase is very happy to be fighting on his home turf for the first time in many years. Marquardt has long hoped to show American fans what has made him a superstar in Japan.
At just 26 years old, Marquardt has been training and fighting in Japan since 1999. During that period, Marquardt has been consistently ranked among the top-ten middleweight fighters in the world. Following in the footsteps of former Pancrase greats Bas Rutten and Ken Shamrock, he eventually went on to surpass their formidable accomplishments by doing the impossible, winning the King of Pancrase title seven times. Even more impressive, all of Marquardt's Pancrase fights were under the closed fist, UFC-like rules, adopted by Pancrase in 1999.
Marquardt's UFC debut takes place on "Ultimate Fight Night", a Spike TV network special program, shown live on August 6, 2005, from Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight will be a main event, middleweight bout against
AMC Pankration fighter Ivan
Salaverry (11-3).
subject to change
(6/6/05)
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