Mixed Martial Arts
The following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events by month.
January
1/19 – UFC 80: Rapid Fire
1/23 – UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman
1/25 – ShoXC 4
February
2/1 – Strikeforce: Young Guns II
2/2 – UFC 81: Breaking Point
2/13 – WEC 32: Condit vs. Prater
2/16 – EliteXC: Street Certified
2/23 – Strikeforce: At The Dome
2/29 – IFL: Las Vegas (Start of 2008 IFL season)
March
3/1 – UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
3/5 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 1 (Sengoku Raiden Championship's first event)
3/15 – DREAM.1 (DREAM's first event)
3/21 – ShoXC 5
3/26 – WEC 33: Marshall vs. Stann
3/29 – Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le
April
4/2 – UFC Fight Night: Florian vs Lauzon
4/4 – IFL: New Blood, New Battles 2
4/5 – ShoXC 6
4/11 YAMMA Pit Fighting 1 (YAMMA Pit Fighting's first and only event)
4/19 – UFC 83: Serra vs. St-Pierre 2
4/29 – DREAM.2
May
5/11 – DREAM.3
5/16 – IFL: Connecticut (Last IFL event; 2008 Season never completely finished)
5/18 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 2
5/24 – UFC 84: Ill Will
5/31 – EliteXC: Primetime
June
6/1 – WEC 34: Faber vs. Pulver
6/7 – UFC 85: Bedlam
6/8 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 3
6/14 – EliteXC: Return of the King
6/15 – DREAM.4
6/21 – The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale
6/27 – Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson
July
7/5 – UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin
7/19 – UFC: Silva vs. Irvin
7/19 – Affliction: Banned (Affliction's first event)
7/21 – DREAM.5
7/26 – EliteXC: Unfinished Business
August
8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura
8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy
8/15 – ShoXC 7
8/24 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4
September
9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough
9/13 – Strikeforce: Young Guns III
9/17 – UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer
9/20 – Strikeforce: At The Mansion II
9/23 – DREAM.6
9/26 – ShoXC 8
9/28 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5
October
10/3 – Strikeforce: Payback
10/4 – EliteXC: Heat
10/10 – ShoXC 9 (Last EliteXC event)
10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben
10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté
November
11/1 – World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6
11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown
11/15 – UFC 91: Couture vs. Lesnar
11/21 – Strikeforce: Destruction
December
12/3 – WEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia
12/10 – UFC: Fight for the Troops
12/13 – The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir Finale
12/27 – UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
12/31 – Dynamite!! 2008 (Event featured ten DREAM MMA bouts and eight K-1 kickboxing bouts)
Read more about this topic: 2008 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words mixed, martial and/or arts:
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it ... and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied ... and it is all one.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)
“Lie lightly on her, turf and dew:
She put so little weight on you.”
—Marcus Valerius Martial (c. 40–104)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)