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The plan was simple, but it was the simplicity of it that made it brilliant. There wasn’t going to be some intricate series of maneuvers for Joe Lauzon to pull off if he defused Melvin Guillard’s striking in their UFC 136 bout earlier this month and got close enough to implement his grappling attack; just [...]

“Hey, how’s it going?” With that greeting, welterweight contender Nick Diaz arrived for the UFC 137 media teleconference Wednesday afternoon. Keeping in line with his reputation, he was 45 minutes late to the call, which also saw his October 29th opponent, BJ Penn, and co-main event combatants Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo speaking with the [...]

CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – Coach Jason “Mayhem” Miller has led his squad to a commanding 4-0 lead on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller, and tempers are beginning to flare on the opposing side. Following Dustin Pague’s win over Louis Gaudinot, Team Bisping’s Diego Brandao gets into it with Team Miller’s Steven Siler. [...]

The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) will partner with innovative digital theatrical distribution company Cinedigm Digital Cinema (NASDAQ:CIDM) for the first ever, live 3D broadcast of a UFC Pay-Per-View event when it brings it Feb. 4, 2012 fight card to upwards of 120 theatres across the nation. The 3D broadcast will be the first of four [...]

Super middleweight Edwin Rodriguez is unbeaten in the ring, and his family has also had its share of victories. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Training in Mexico City in the renowned Romanza Gym, where so many great Mexican fighters have come from, has… News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

In his first blog, Manny Pacquiao says he’s not a fan of his ‘Mexicutioner’ nickname. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Tyson Griffin isn’t a fully-trained chef, but judging by his culinary portfolio, do not be surprised if one day he’s the first active fighter to compete on MasterChef. Griffin takes to Twitter to present his delicacies. Two weeks before his showdown with Bart Palaszewski at UFC 137 he picked up a steak at Whole Foods. [...]

Anthony Mundine of Australia defeated Mexican fighter Rigoberto Alvarez in an unanimous points decision to claim the WBA interim world light middleweight title Wednesday. Mundine (43-4, 25 KOs) rarely looked troubled by Alvarez (27-4, 20 KOs) throughout the 12 rounds, winning the bout 114-113, 117-111, 117-111 on the judges’ scorecards. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read [...]

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Returning UFC welterweight contender Nick Diaz will get his UFC 137 main event after all, as UFC President Dana White announced via twitter Tuesday afternoon that 170-pound champion Georges St-Pierre has been forced to withdraw from his October 29th title defense against Carlos Condit due to a [...]

Manny Pacquiao is a happily married man, but when it comes time to fight, he takes a break from his love life. Pacquiao tells Playboy he and… News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

“Two powerful wrestlers hungry for a win have verbally agreed to fight November 19 at UFC 139 as Danny ‘Last Call’ Castillo will take on Shamar Bailey,” confirmed UFC president Dana White late last night. That lightweight bout completes the UFC 139 fight card, headlined by the matchup between PRIDE legends Dan Henderson and Shogun [...]

Antonio DeMarco literally ate food out of Tijuana Dumpsters to survive. Now he’s a world champion. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

The UFC 139 fight card has received a new welterweight scrap due to an unwell Englishman across the pond. Rising Brit welterweight John Hathaway has been forced to withdraw from November 5th’s UFC 138 event, confirmed UFC president Dana White today. Hathaway’s original opponent, Matt Brown, has verbally agreed to face “The Polish Pistola” Seth [...]

Injuries and illness have prompted changes to the November 5 fight card taking place in Birmingham, England. In heavyweight news, Oli Thompson has been forced to withdraw from the event due to injury. Original opponent Phil De Fries has verbally agreed a matchup against fellow Englishman Rob Broughton, who will return to his home country [...]