By Matt Boone on January 21, 2007 at 7:44 PM EST

The following is an article from www.MMANEWS.com:

Dennis Silver Signs 3 Fight Deal With UFC

The following is from Outsider-Club.de:

Dennis Siver (OC Fight Team) - one of the best german MMA welterweights - will soon fight at the UFC! Untiring training, the good fights in the past and the nearly 2 years ufc negotiations of OC manager Bodo Elsbeck were successful - the UFC management offered now a 3 fight deal! Dennis already signed the contracts and will make his UFC debut end of april! (more infos shortly)! - Dennis Siver was born on the 13th of January 1979 and he has experience in Martial Arts since 13 years (Judo, BJJ, Kickboxing - German Kick Boxing Champion 1997 - WAKO). 1990 he changed to MMA and has now a respectable mma pro fight record of 10-3-0. Dennis Siver trained in his home club "Kiboju Mannheim" and fought for the OC FIGHT TEAM already at the big european MMA events like EVT (Sweden/Denmark), MFN (Germany), WFC (Slovenia) and Cage Warriors (England). - We wish much success to the first German UFC fighter!


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UFC.com Adds "Kiss of Death" Video To Promote Herring's Debut

UFC.com added a video of the infamous "Kiss of Death" scenerio which occured in a K-1 MMA bout where Japanese star Yoshihiro Nakao kissed Heath Herring on the lips during a staredown, and Herring knocked him unconscious with a punch - forcing him to be carried out on a stretcher.

Herring debuts on UFC Fight Night live on Spike TV next Thursday night against undefeated heavyweight Jake O'Brien, and I guess this was the best video footage UFC could get to promote the octagon debut of "The Texas Crazy Horse".

You can check out the video mentioned above on the UFC website by visiting UFC.com's multimedia section.


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Nick Diaz Drops Down In Weight, Signs Deal With PRIDE

The following is a new blurb posted on GracieFighter.com:

Nick Diaz - Pride Fighter

Nick Diaz has signed to fight in Pride and will be a participant on the February 24th show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Diaz will be dropping down from the welterweight division to fight in Pride's 160lbs weight class. His opponent will be named within the next couple of days.