This week on Full Contact Fighter TV:

• News of the week (Carlos Newton‘s next possible fight).
• Pancrase highlights featuring FCF 5^th Ranked Middleweight, Ikuhisa Minowa.
• “Ask the President” featuring UFC President Dana White.
• Preview of Tito Ortiz/Vitor Belfort UFC Light Heavyweight Title Fight.
• FCF Classic from UFC 20: Pedro Rizzo vs. Tre Telligman.
• Feature on UCC Bad Boy Pain Peters.

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UFC 36: Worlds Collide

Friday, March 22, 2002
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Las Vegas, Nevada

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is pleased to announce the addition of two more matches to the UFC 36 card. 

In the welterweight division, Sean Sherk will be returning to face Jutaro Nakao. In his UFC debut, at UFC 30, Sherk defeated Tiki Ghosen by submission due to an injury suffered on a slam. Jutaro Nakao knocked out Tony DeSouza at UFC 33 in his debut.

In the middleweight division, 2000 Olympic Silver Medalist Matt Lindland will face off with former welterweight champion Pat Miletich. This will be Miletich’s 185-pound debut. In his last bout at UFC 32, Miletich knocked out Shonie Carter with a roundhouse kick to the head. Lindland last fought at UFC 34, defeating Phil Baroni by decision in an all-out war.

The official card thus far is as follows:

Light Heavyweight Championship Bout

Tito Ortiz (champion) vs. Vitor Belfort

Welterweight Championship Bout

Matt Hughes (champion) vs. Hayato Sakurai

Heavyweight Bouts

Pedro Rizzo vs. TBA

Frank Mir vs. Pete Williams

Light Heavyweight Bout

Elvis Sinosic vs. Evan Tanner

Middleweight Bout

Matt Lindland vs. Pat Miletich

Welterweight Bout

Sean Sherk vs. Jutaro Nakao

Lightweight Bout

Matt Serra vs. Din Thomas

Pedro Rizzo’s opponent will be announced soon.

Ricardo Arona Healed and Back in Training!

By Eduardo Alonso

Last year, Ricardo Arona’s star was on the rise in MMA, with numerous wins at RINGS and a victorious debut in PRIDE, however, his debut at PRIDE 16 took him out of of the game for a while. Arona injured his rib fighting Guy Mezger and has not been able to compete since.

The Abu Dhabi champion was forced to step back from PRIDE 17 and PRIDE 18 due to his injury. He attempted to return to training abit too soon and he felt the injury again, so he decided to take some time off and rest during the holidays. Finally, Arona began to feel healthy again and he had an x-ray done last Friday to check the status of the injury. Fortunately, the results were positive, and the injury is practically healed! With that Ricardo told FCF that he is back in training: “The doctor told me to take easy at first, and then gradually start to get back to full training. I almost don’t feel any pain right now, and the x-ray’s results were very good. I’m already lifting weights and doing some technical training.”

Ricardo Arona is waiting to see how his training develops and also on a contact from DSE to know if he will fight or not at PRIDE 19, but he hopes he will be ready to fight by February 22.