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Chuck Liddell and Rich Franklin have agreed to meet at UFC 115 in June, MMA Fighting has learned. Several Internet reports surfaced over the past 24 hours stating that the light heavyweight fight would take place at the rumored UFN 22 in April, but as MMA Junkie first reported, the plan is for the fight to take place June 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The organization has yet to officially announce the fight or why Tito Ortiz will not be facing Liddell after all.

Dan Hardy is squarely focused on his upcoming title fight against Georges St-Pierre at UFC 111, and that's why he he has no time to worry about his old nemesis, Marcus Davis, recently tweeting that he hoped Hardy died of AIDS.

When asked about Davis' controversial comments on Friday's edition of the SiriusXM Fight Club, Hardy simply brushed them off.

To move closer to Strikeforce's base operations, Miesha Tate will soon leave her longtime Victory Athletics camp in Olympia, Wash. and head farther south to San Jose, Calif.

Tate, who faces Zoila Frausto in a 135-pound bout at the next Strikeforce Challengers event on March 26, hasn't found a new gym yet, but one possibility is the American Kickboxing Academy.

Four new fights have been added to next month's World Extreme Cagefighting event, with the promotion announcing Friday that Chan Sung Jung vs. Cub Swanson, Tyler Toner vs. Brandon Visher, Brad Pickett vs. Demetrious Johnson. and Takeya Mizugaki vs. Rani Yahya will be on the WEC 48 fight card.

Jung is a 22-year-old making his WEC debut. Although most of his wins have come by submission, he's also an excellent striker who has kickboxed professionally; if the video above looks familiar it's because we discussed it here once before. He's a great addition to the WEC's featherweight division, and he'll get a tough first test in Swanson.

Former boxing champion Ray Mercer, who scored a nine-second knockout in his MMA pro debut last June against Tim Sylvia, will make his follow-up appearance against undefeated Ron Sparks at King of the Cage on April 16 in Detroit, Mich.

The event, the promotion's third live card on HDNet, is headlined by Jake Rosholt taking on Jeremy Horn. Also on the card are Joe Doerksen vs. Chad Herrick, David Shepherd vs. Dom O'Grady and Bobby Green vs. Daron Cruikshank.

Is Georges St. Pierre the best pound-for-pound fighter in mixed martial arts? He's not No. 1 on my own subjective list. But a couple of different pieces of objective analysis make a pretty strong case that St. Pierre has dominated the welterweight division to a greater extent than any other fighter has dominated any division.

Two of the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in mixed martial arts were in the cage Saturday night at WEC 47. They just weren't the two we thought they were beforehand.

Prior to WEC 47, a lot of people had bantamweights Brian Bowles and Miguel Torres in their top 10 pound-for-pound lists. (Bowles was No. 7 on my list and Torres fell just outside the top 10.) But after Dominick Cruz beat Bowles and Joseph Benavidez beat Torres, the two WEC 47 winners are both on my list of the Top 10 fighters in mixed martial arts, which is below.

Chuck Liddell appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night to talk about his famous naked workout video, which was part of a Reebok marketing campaign that has given Liddell a new level of exposure.