Yahoo Sport’s Kevin Iole is reporting that Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC, is taking legal action over what it alleges is the misuse of its trade secrets and intellectual property by rival promotion Bellator. Zuffa argues that fighter agent Ken Pavia passed along confidential Zuffa documents to Bellator after being asked to [...]
The UFC has revealed more details of the forthcoming International Fan Expo that will be taking place at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, England on October 15th and October 16. The UFC expects to attract over 100 leading vendors for the event, with the expo area covering around 20,000 gross square meters. There will [...]
With anticipation growing for the UFC’s debut in President Dana White’s former stomping grounds of Boston, Massachusetts the organization has announced some of the fighters that will be in attendance at the Boston Fan Expo. Taking place in conjunction with UFC 118, the likes of Anderson Silva, Chuck Liddell, Shogun Rua and Forrest Griffin are [...]
World Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva will take a break from preparing for his upcoming title defense against Chael Sonnen at UFC117 to attend ESPN’s X Games 16. “The Spider” will be in attendance at the LA Coliseum on Thursday 29th July for the Moto X Freestyle Final, Women’s Super X Final and Men’s Super X [...]
MMA’s first referee, John McCarthy, will make his return to the Octagon this Sunday at UFC on Versus 2 in San Diego. It has been two and a half years since the last time he officiated a fight for UFC (the last being the main event of the “The Ultimate Fighter Season 6” finale, Roger [...]
Photo: Ray Kasprowicz // Ultravista.com Ryan Couture, son of legendary MMA fighter Randy Couture, will begin his professional career August 13th against Lucas Stark at Strikeforce Challengers 10 on Showtime. The match is set to be a 182-pound catchweight bout according to reports from MMAJunkie. The younger Couture trains with his father’s Xtreme Couture camp [...]
Photo: BrianStann.com With less than a week to go before Brian Stann makes his debut at 185Ibs at UFC on Versus 2 against Mike Massenzio, the former WEC Light Heavyweight Champion is feeling the benefits of the dropping the weight telling me that he “feels great, faster than I was previously” while still be able [...]
UFC Veteran Phil Baroni has been removed from his scheduled middleweight fight with John Salter at UFC 118 due to a collarbone injury. Sources close to the fight confirmed the news earlier today to MMAWeekly and now John Salter (5-1) will be looking for a replacement opponent when the UFC makes its debut in Boston [...]
In this edition of MMAthletics, Herschel Walker talks about his journey into MMA, and the crew gets a VIP look at EA’s MMA and much more. Check out this week’s episode “after the jump”
The power bomb that Sarah Kaufman pulled off on Roxanne Modafferi that knocked the latter out at Strikeforce Challengers 9 was insane. It’s rare when you see this move end a match, but here’s the spectacular finish to their Strikeforce Womens Welterweight Title fight. Thanks to CagePotato for the tip!
MMA Junkie is reporting that light heavyweight prospect Phil Davis will now be fighting Rodney Wallace at UFC 117, replacing the injured Stanislav Nedkov.The original fight has apparently been removed from the UFC website although there has been no official announcement from the organization.The fight against Wallace was to have been Nedkov’s debut in the [...]
MMA Junkie is reporting that Tito Ortiz will fight Matt Hamill at UFC 121. While many expected Californian native Ortiz to make his return from injury at the Honda Center in Anaheim the choice of opponent is a surprise given the history between the two fighters. Ortiz coached Hamill on The Ultimate Fighter 3 and [...]
The Fight Club returns wih TFC 11: Full Force headlined by a TFC Light Heavyweight Championship rematch between Champion Martin “The Stress” Desilets and UFC veteran Victor “The Matrix” Valimaki.
It is being widely reported that Quinton Jackson has verbally agreed to face Lyoto Machida in November. If the fight is made it will end an unusual standoff between the UFC and one its leading stars, with Jackson saying that he wasn’t interested in fighting Machida despite UFC President Dana White making it clear that [...]
Check out this official video preview of UFC 117 which focuses on Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen for the Middleweight World Title, Roy Nelson vs. Junior Dos Santos in a World Heavyweight Title Contender Final Eliminator and Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida.
UFC President Dana White had a stark warning for boxing, once again saying that if the sport doesn’t reform itself it will ‘die’. Amongst other things he talked about was the unwillingness of anyone to invest in growing the sport, the decline of the amateur game in America, the lack of quality fights on free [...]
MMAJunkie is reporting that Chris Horodecki and Ed Ratcliff will meet at WEC 51, with Ratcliff mentioning the lightweight matchup on his Twitter account. Should the two meet on September 30th at Broomsfield’s 1stbank Centre then both fighters will be looking to make a positive mpression after treading water in the WEC, with Horodecki losing [...]
The UFC 121 continues to develop one of the strongest line-ups of the year with MMAWeekly reporting that Paulo Thiago vs. Diego Sanchez will be fighting on October 23rd in an event that will also featured the promotional debut of Jake Shields and the eagerly anticipated World Heavyweight Title match between Cain Velasquez and Brock [...]
Photo Credit: MMAWeekly.com After a few months of speculation, we finally know the date and time of the second fight between Georges St. Pierre and Josh Koscheck: the two will meet for the UFC welterweight championship on December 11 at UFC 123, MMAWeekly reports. The Ultimate Fighter finale is currently scheduled for December 4th and [...]
Chris Camozzi and Dong Yi Yang have signed the dotted lines on the contract and will go head-to-head in the octagon October 23rd at UFC 121, reports MMA Torch. Undefeated in nine fights, Dong Yi Yang (9 Wins, 0 Losses) will be trying to stretch his winning streak to ten when he steps into the [...]