UFC are billing this weekend’s Heavyweight Title fight between Shane Carwin and Brock Lesnar as the “The Biggest Heavyweight Fight Ever” and you can’t help but disagree. There’s little that makes you think that either of these mammoths is stoppable and Saturday night, they’ll both lay it all on the line for a chance to [...]
With anticipation building for Saturday’s showdown between legendary heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and grappling specialist Fabricio Werdum, check out this latest video from Showtime Sports and catch a glimpse of the two fighters facing off. Stay tuned to Inside Fights for all the latest news and analysis of Strikeforce/M-1′s Fedor versus Werdum.
Yesterday, I sat down with FoxSports to discuss one of the most anticipated fight cards of the year, the main event of UFC 114: “Suga” Rashad Evans vs Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. We’ve wanted these two to go at it for over a year, we’ve finally gotten what we wanted, but who is going to make [...]
Shine Fights is proud to present their third event for fight fans across the globe Saturday night. Live on Pay-Per-View “Worlds Collide” is an explosive event with the promise to capture not only the MMA world but the Sweet Science as well. The main event is no secret, and has garnered a lot of attention [...]
Consider how perfect Rua had to be last time out, how precise and calculated he was. He did everything right and showed very few weaknesses against the champion in their prior meeting, and he still lost. He was able to do what he did by catching Machida off guard with his elite level of attack.
Rest assured that now that Rua has tipped his hand and proven just how dangerous he can be in an Octagon, and just how imposing his will can be, Machida has taken the proper notes. Machida is a chess master, make no mistake about it, and his game plan has been torn down and rebuilt all in the name of never allowing Rua that close to his belt again.
Our own Shawn Smith spoke with FoxSports about his thoughts on this Saturday’s WEC 48 card. The WEC Featherweight Title is on the line as champion Jose Aldo takes on “The California Kid” Urijah Faber. Also, WEC Lightweight Champion, Ben “Smooth” Henderson, takes on “Cowboy” Donald Cerrone in a rematch of 2009′s “Match of the [...]
At first glance, the star power and two titles on the line at UFC 112 tell a very riveting story. On the very same card, the MMA community has the pleasure of seeing two pound-for-pound contenders put their titles on the line. Anderson “The Spider” Silva has shaken the entire Middleweight division with a case [...]
UFC 111 is set for Newark, New Jersey on March 27 and features a welterweight championship between Georges St. Pierre and Dan Hardy. Also on the card is a heavyweight interim title fight between Frank Mir and Shane Carwin. The full main card is set for 10 p.m. ET on Sat. night. Take a look [...]
This year, the WEC replaces the UFC at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, OH.
The main event features Brian Bowles defending his bantamweight title for the first time against Dominick Cruz. This card also features WEC poster boys Miguel Torres and Jens Pulver.
There are a lot of other interesting fights on the card so let’s break it down:
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is set for its debut on Versus next month, March 21, with UFC Live: “Vera vs. Jones”. The event is set for Broomfield, Colorado’s 1stBank Center. The card features a main event between UFC top prospect Jon “Bones” Jones and Brandon “The Truth” Vera. Also on the card, heavyweight prospect [...]
World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) is invading Columbus, Ohio on March 6 with the promotion’s second card of 2010, WEC 47. The card is headlined by a bantamweight championship brawl between champion Brian Bowles and challenger Dominick Cruz. The card also features the return of two mixed martial arts legends, as former longtime WEC 135-pound champion [...]
UFC 109 is set for this Sat. (Feb. 6) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main card in its entirety will be live on pay-per-view, while two of the preliminary fights will make their way onto SpikeTV. The card features a long-overdue, yet still very intriguing match up [...]
Bienvenidos a Miami, fight fans. This weekend Scott Coker offers his latest event, Strikeforce: “Miami” with a balance of pure mixed martial arts and showmanship, featuring a compelling night of fights that has the MMA community buzzing. This event boasts veteran fighters like Nick Diaz, Christiane Santos, and Robbie Lawler. It also has some alluring [...]
UFC 108 was originally set to be a stellar card to take fight fans out of the old year of 2009 and into the new one in dynamic fashion. Rumored bouts for the card included a middleweight championship between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort, along with a heavyweight title fight between Brock Lesnar and Shane [...]
Just four days following a free night of exciting fights on Spike TV, mixed martial arts fans will be treated to even more complimentary action with WEC 44: Brown vs. Aldo on the Versus network this Wednesday night. For years Mike Brown has flown under the radar as an underappreciated competitor, but after two dominant [...]
UFC 103 is an interesting show. For starters, it’s up against the boxing return of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather, absent from the sport since a 2007 victory over Ricky Hatton, is one of the biggest pay per view attractions in the world. He’s been surpassed as the undisputed king of pay per view over the [...]
The UFC invades the pacific northwest for the first time this Saturday as UFC 102 beams live from the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. The local hero Randy Couture (actually from Washington state but coached at Oregon State and started Team Quest in Gresham, OR) will take on the legend Antonio “Minotauro” Rodrigo Nogueira for one last shot at the heavyweight title. For both of these men, a loss here will be a major stumbling block to overcome in getting another title shot.
This guest post was written by Adam Gillespie This Saturday, August 22nd, in Tampa, FL, Art Of Fighting 4 features the return of the “The man who KO’d Kimbo Slice” Seth Petruzelli. Petruzelli has not fought since the bout with Slice that ended in a first-round technical knockout at EliteXC “Heat” in October 2008. Petruzelli [...]
Strikeforce returns this Saturday for the first time since June. They will be live in their home base of San Jose, CA and this time they will be bringing you the biggest female MMA match up in history. Gina Carano, the “Face of women’s MMA”, will take on the most destructive force in women’s MMA Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos for the women’s championship at 145 lbs.
At UFC 101 in Philadelphia, the UFC will present one of it’s biggest fights in history as current UFC middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva battles former UFC light-heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin. This fight will mark the return of Griffin since losing his title at UFC 92 and Anderson Silva’s second fight at 205. After [...]