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This Sunday in Huntington Beach, California is your chance to be a part of a viewing party for UFC on Versus with The Reverend Turk Vangel and “Razor” Rob McCullough (17-6).
Razor Rob is having a viewing party this Sunday at Beachfront 301 on Main Street in Huntington Beach, ...
MMA
UFC
Rob McCullough
Brandon Vera
Jon Jones
Gabriel Gonzaga
Fighters.com’s third-ranked light heavyweight “Shogun” Mauricio Rua (18-4) is training with Kyokushin karate icon “Brazilian Warrior” Glaube Feitosa, according to Tatame.
Rua told Tatame, “Glaube is a guy who comes from karate and I am very honored to have him in our ...
MMA
Mauricio Rua
Lyoto Machida
UFC
karate
Due to an injury “The Angel of Death” Damacio Page (10-5) has been forced to withdraw from his fight with Antonio Banuelos (17-5) at the WEC 48 pay-per-view next month. Stepping in to replace him will be none other than “Young Guns” Scott Jorgenson (8-2).
WEC 48 will ...
MMA
Scott Smith
WEC
Antonio Silva
Strikeforce light heavyweight champion “Dreamcatcher” Gegard Mousasi (24-2-1), former Strikeforce champ and UFC challenger “Babalu” Renato Sobral (31-9), and “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (7-6) will compete in a light heavyweight tournament to begin at DREAM.15 May30, according to ...
MMA
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Gegard Mousasi
Strikeforce
Renato Sobral
UFC
Brazilian middleweight “Ninja” Murilo Rua (18-10-1), brother of Fighters.com’s third-ranked light heavyweight contender “Shogun” Mauricio Rua (18-4), will fight at DREAM.14 in Seoul April 24, according to Tatame.
Rua told Tatame, “Andre Dida went today to Japan to fight at DREAM.13 ...
MMA
Mauricio Rua
Murilo Rua
Strikeforce heavyweight prospect “Dominator” Bobby Lashley (5-0) has been added to the CBS-televised card in Nashville April 17, according to MMA Junkie.
MMA Junkie reported that no opponent has been chosen and the fight is unlikely to air live on CBS, but could air on taped delay if time ...
MMA
Strikeforce
TUF
Wes Sims
UFC
Brock Lesnar
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker told MMA Junkie, “I can tell you this: If Cesar Gracie says to me, ‘Jose’s training with me, I’m going to get him ready, and I’m going to do it in four or five months,’ and Cesar’s telling me this? That will have a lot of ...
MMA
Jose Canseco
Strikeforce
Cesar Gracie
Scott Smith
Herschel Walker
Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked middleweight “Ely” Paulo Filho (16-1) fill fight Bellator middleweight champion “Shango” Hector Lombard (25-2-1) for the title at Bellator May 20, according to a Tatame report.
Tatame quotes Conan Silveira, Lombard’s jiu-jitsu instructor at American Top ...
MMA
Paulo Filho
Hector Lombard
Chuck Champion
As mixed martial arts become larger certain issues will arise and need to be examined. Fans booing fighters and fights seems to be the latest issue to over take the media. While I am fully against the booing of fighters and fights I see both sides of the equation and will examine them both ...
MMA
Rich Franklin
Anderson Silva
Bellator has called a video press conference for Monday at 3 PM EST that streams live from Bellator.com. This press conference is expected to be when they announce the signing of former UFC lightweight “El Matador” Roger Huerta (20-3-1).
MMA Junkie is reporting that Huerta ...
MMA
Roger Huerta
Eddie Alvarez
Joachim Hansen
Shortly after Fighters.com reported the reports of a verbally agreed to matchup between “Iceman” Chuck Liddell (21-7) and “Ace” Rich Franklin (26-5) at UFC 115 in Vancouver June 12, UFC President Dana White denied the reports.
“Not true! We are doing couture vs franklin not ...
MMA
Rich Franklin
Dana White
UFC
Chuck Liddell
Randy Couture
Mark Coleman
Former staple champions for the UFC, light heavyweight “Iceman” Chuck Liddell (21-7) and one-time middleweight “Ace” Rich Franklin (26-5), will matchup in the main event of UFC 115 in Vancouver June 12, according to a Fighters Only Report and confirmed by MMA Junkie.
Liddell was scheduled ...
MMA
Rich Franklin
Chuck Liddell
UFC
Tito Ortiz
TUF
“It’s the 17th and it’s full steam ahead,” said Strikefore CEO Scott Coker in an MMA Junkie interview Friday. “The 17th was always a good day when we chose it. We still feel the same way, and so does CBS.”
Rumors had surfaced that the date of the second ...
MMA
Strikeforce
Jake Shields
Dan Henderson
Dana White
UFC
Scott Smith
Fighters.com’s eighth-ranked heavyweight “Babyface Assassin” Josh Barnett (20-5) will make his long-awaited return to mixed martial arts at DREAM.13 in Yokohama March 22, DREAM announced Friday.
Barnett hasn’t fought since forcing Dutch kickboxer “Hurricane” Gilbert Yvel (33-13-1) to ...
MMA
Josh Barnett
Gilbert Yvel
Affliction
Fedor Emelianenko
UFC heavyweight “Mexicutioner” Joey Beltran (11-3) will return from his successful Octagon debut versus UFC rookie Chad Corvin (6-0) at UFC 113 in Montreal May 8, the UFC announced.
Beltran became a Fighters.com favorite after stopping Rolles Gracie (3-1) at UFC 109 in Las ...
MMA
UFC
Joey Villasenor
Mostapha Al Turk
Xtreme Fighting Championships
“Terror” Matt Serra (10-6) will host the pre-UFC 111 Fight Club Q&A in Newark March 26, the UFC announced Wednesday.
UFC Fight Club Q&A is a Q&A session held with a UFC fighter before each event. It’s attended by fans who pay to join the UFC Fight Club and media.
Serra ...
MMA
UFC
Matt Serra
Georges St-Pierre
Dan Hardy
Houston Alexander
The Ultimate Fighter 1 finalist “American Psycho” Stephan Bonnar ’s (11-7) appeal to the Combat Sports Authority of New South Wales was denied, according to an MMA Junkie report.
Bonnar had appealed his UFC 110 loss to The Ultimate Fighter 8 light heavyweight “Polish Experiment” ...
MMA
Stephan Bonnar
TUF
Krzysztof Soszynski
UFC
Fighters.com’s fourth-ranked welterweight Paulo Thiago (13-1) will take a step back after stopping ninth-ranked “Quick” Mike Swick (14-3) at UFC 109 in Las Vegas February 6 and matchup versus “Hitman” Martin Kampmann (16-3) at UFC 115 in Vancouver June 12, accoring to a report by The Las ...
MMA
Martin Kampmann
UFC
Paulo Thiago
Mike Swick
Josh Koscheck
Jacob Volkmann
Since the signing of one time heavyweight boxing champ James Toney (0-0) rumors have been swirling about his potential opponent. The one fighter talked about the most was Kimbo Slice (4-1) and we now that he will not be fighting James Toney anytime soon.
Slice had been slated to fight Matt ...
MMA
Kimbo Slice
UFC
Will Ribeiro
Lyoto Machida
Mauricio Rua
Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le (6-1) has publicly called for an immediate rematch versus “Hands of Steel” Scott Smith (16-6) in a video released Monday by Strikeforce.
“I’m hoping to get a rematch with Scott Smith as soon as possible,” stated san shou champion ...
