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Getting to know Ilir Latifi before his debut at UFC on Fuel TV 9|

Mousasi (34-3-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) won for the fourth straight time and is unbeaten in his past seven fights. Latifi (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC), meanwhile, had a three-fight win streak snapped with the loss.|

“We helped each other out because we were both having fights at the same time,” Latifi said. “We are always trying to help each other out before our fights.”|

Latifi (7-2 with one no-contest) has had 10 fights to Mousasi’s 38. And unlike Mousasi, Latifi — while he said he’s in shape — wasn’t training for a bout. On the plus side, Latifi only has to worry about a three-round fight instead of the standard five rounds for a main event. The bout duration was lowered due to the short notice for the fight.|

Not even if Latifi had a matter of days to prepare for Saturday’s UFC on Fuel TV 9.|

“I don’t live a glamorous life,” Latifi said.|

LONDON – With a full training camp under his belt, Ilir Latifi looked fantastic in earning a first-round submission win over Cyrille Diabate.Filed under: News, UFC Tagged: UFC Fight Night 37|

Round 1: Latifi takes the center of the cage. Both fighters being careful early. They switch stances. Latifi inches forward. Latifi shoots in and secures a takedown. Latifi applies a d’arce choke but lets it go. Latifi works in Diabate’s half guard. Latifi applies a d’arce choke. Diabate works to get free but can not. Latifi locks it down and forces Diabate to tap out with a neck crank.|

Latifi’s resume is not empty. He was a Swedish national wrestling champ. While he may not have fought in Strikeforce, Dream and Pride or other top leagues like Mousasi, Latifi did train with the Rashad Evans and the Blackzillians.|

Running with a somewhat depleted field despite it being Spa, one of the finest circuits anywhere in the world, Carlin dominated qualifying for Rounds 4 and 6 of the 2013 British F3 International Series. Nicholas Latifi claimed pole for the first time on the challenging Belgian circuit and will start first in both races. In 2nd for both races was team-mate Jordan King, while in 3rd was Jann Mardenborough, the youngster making it an all-Carlin top three when the chequered flag finally fell at the end of 30 very hot, humid minutes. The National Class pole for both rounds went to Sun Zheng (CF Motorsport) by a considerable margin.|

This office recently learned that defense counsel for former defense contractor Alexander Latifi and his company, Axion Corporation, intended to file accusations against former U.S. Attorney Alice Martin and two current assistant U.S. attorneys, as well as two U.S. Army criminal investigators and a prosecution witness, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said.|

Latifi continually wound up and threw big punches, but Mousasi stayed out of range and calmly walked him down and threw jabs and low leg kicks. Latifi gestured to Mousasi with 20 seconds left in the round, telling him to fire away. He got the crowd behind him, but it did little more than that.|

“I haven’t had time to talk to him about that,” Latifi said.|

STOCKHOLM – Without original opponent Alexander Gustafsson (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) off the card with a training cut, Gegard Mousasi (33-3-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) now will face Gustafsson teammate Ilir Latifi (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC on FUEL TV 9 main event.|

Iran moved level on points with Spain at the top of Group D following their 4-2 victory over Uruguay at the Maracanazinho on Tuesday afternoon.|

"We learnt from our two previous matches, when we carried on attacking despite being in the lead and let our rivals back into the game,"|