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Serati, 10-2, is 35 and a native of Milan, Italy. Much like fellow countryman and current UFC middleweight Alessio Sakara, Serati has a background in boxing. He only decided to leave boxing for MMA just two years ago and debuted in May of 2006 at an event called the “New Generation Tournament” in Italy. Facing Alfredo Achilli, Serati was victorious by way of TKO at 0:26 of round 1.

Following his debut, Serati spent most of his time competing on the regional UK circuit and proceeded to reel off five consecutive wins before suffering his first career defeat against former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort during Cage Rage 21 in April of 2007. Facing the more experienced Belfort, Serati was TKO’d at 3:37 of round 1.

Following the loss to Belfort, he went 1-1 in his next two fights before beginning a four fight win streak that would ultimately earn him a spot in the UFC’s light heavyweight division.

Drwal, a native of Poland, made his his UFC debut at UFC 75 in London last September, where he lost to Thiago Silva via second round TKO. He has not fought since losing to Silva but boasts a 14-2 lifetime MMA record.

UFC 93 is scheduled from to emanate from the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland and will be headlined by a light heavyweight matchup featuring Rich Franklin and Dan Henderson. Additional matchups includes Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Mark Coleman, Denis Kang vs. Alan Belcher, Andre Gusmao vs. Antonio Mendes, Rousimar Palhares vs. Jeremy Horn, and Marcus Davis vs. Chris Lytle.

The story was originally broken by MMAjunkie.com.

“It has always been my dream to fight for the best promotion in the world and now it has become a reality,” Serati is quoted as saying by the UFC. “I feel very excited to bring my skills to the UFC. This means everything to me and everything to my country.”

Serati, 10-2, is 35 and a native of Milan, Italy. Much like fellow countryman and current UFC middleweight Alessio Sakara, Serati has a background in boxing. He only decided to leave boxing for MMA just two years ago and debuted in May of 2006 at an event called the “New Generation Tournament” in Italy. Facing Alfredo Achilli, Serati was victorious by way of TKO at 0:26 of round 1.

Following his debut, Serati spent most of his time competing on the regional UK circuit and proceeded to reel off five consecutive wins before suffering his first career defeat against former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort during Cage Rage 21 in April of 2007. Facing the more experienced Belfort, Serati was TKO’d at 3:37 of round 1.

Following the loss to Belfort, he went 1-1 in his next two fights before beginning a four fight win streak that would ultimately earn him a spot in the UFC’s light heavyweight division.

A debut date and opponent have yet to be determined.

I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a few key people from PRIDE over the last year and learned a lot of interesting things that answered a lot of questions. Unfortunately, none of them wanted to go on the record.

That is, until now.

Hardcore fans know the name Turi Altavilla as the former Vice President of Production and Marketing in PRIDE’s U.S. office in Los Angeles.

A tell-all interview with Altavilla is now available on CBSSports.com.

Altavilla is now a Vice President with EliteXC and recently expressed an interest in going on the record about a great many topics pertaining to PRIDE.

I’ve done a lot of interviews for CBSSports.com this year and enjoyed them all. However, few come close to this interview in regard to major revelations.

It’s an explosive interview that I think PRIDE fans will find illuminating. For example, here’s an excerpt of Altavilla being asked to point to a reason for the downfall of PRIDE:

Q: I wanted to ask you some questions about Pride because you got to see the promotion from the inside. Can you pinpoint a top reason as to why the promotion fell from grace, so to speak?

TA: I don’t think it can be just one reason (but) I can tell you what my perspective was … I saw things from a different perspective in the U.S. I think what was happening in Japan has been talked about over and over again. The way that I pictured things was that Japan was the main engine of our airplane and when that main engine failed we should have had the auxiliary engine ready. That auxiliary engine should have been the U.S.

For years I had been pushing and pushing along with Jerry Millen. There were so many things that we wanted to do that we were not just able to do because it was either not a priority or we wouldn’t get the response in the time we needed them. I don’t think the group that Pride had heading the U.S. office — the two Japanese that were heading the office in Los Angeles — I just don’t think they were the right people. I don’t think we were able to develop and push Pride in the U.S. the way that we should have…

At one point during the interview, Altavilla even revealed that a meeting took place between Spike TV and PRIDE executives following the first season of The Ultimate Fighter:

Q: Reality TV really changed the game for the UFC. Did Pride ever make a strong pitch to do a reality TV show?

TA: There were conversations with Spike that I was not involved in. After season one there was a meeting between Pride and Spike. Unfortunately, the duo that went on behalf of Pride to go to that meeting didn’t have any television background, marketing background, or even an MMA background. They went and took that meeting and obviously nothing happened.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Click here to read the interview in its entirety.