Best of Mixed Martial Arts

By Charttopper Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal (5-0) told FiveOuncesOfPain.com that his next opponent Mike Whitehead (24-7) wasn’t interested in cutting down to 205 pounds for their December bout at the “Strikeforce: Evolution” show. FiveOuncesofPain: So what made you sign with Strikeforce. I know the UFC kind of had you on their radar as well, but what made you make the ultimate decision to take the road you did? Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal (5-0) told FiveOuncesOfPain.com that his next opponent Mike Whitehead (24-7) wasn’t interested in cutting down to 205 pounds for their December bout at the “Strikeforce: Evolution” show. In an interview with Lawal, the undefeated fighter talks about needing to keep busy by fighting as often as possible, fighting in Japan,...   [read the full post]

By Charttopper In an interview with Lawal, the undefeated fighter talks about needing to keep busy by fighting as often as possible, fighting in Japan, and feeling that he won’t get any respect until he fights in the UFC. King Mo: He’s solid. He’s a solid veteran, He’s solid pretty much everywhere and doesn’t make many mistakes. He used to wrestle at heavyweight back in college. I was wrestling freestyle at the time so I didn’t know him, but I knew of him. King Mo: Yeah, and the thing is that we’re fighting at heavyweight because he didn’t want to make the cut to 205. He’s like 245 or 250 right now. I’ll fight him anywhere. He wanted to fight at heavyweight, I’m like… whatever.   [read the full post]

By E. Spencer Kyte Nothing like a nice show of class to validate the boo birds. The Lunatik" himself has said that part of the cause of his various antics is an inability to deal with the pressure and attention that came from being on The Ultimate Fighter, and that he just wants to be like everyone else .

By Gary Herman The UFC took the emphatic position that Chuck Liddell would never fight in the UFC again. “If there’s a chance of me fighting Chuck Liddell again, I would love it,” Ortiz said during the pre-fight UFC 106 press conference. A returning Chuck Liddell may be the only option for Jan. 2.

By Mitch Ciccarelli Should Koscheck still remain in the top five or should the other fighters who have been winning take his spot? It’s ok to dislike a certain fighter and it’s perfectly fine to let your readers know you are not a fan of certain fighters but it is not ok to spend a majority of your article insultin...

By Jesse Motiff Talk first began after the Randy Couture-Brock Lesnar title fight for the Heavyweight Championship. Many saw Lesnar having an unfair advantage over Couture due to a 60-pound weight differential. Fighters like Lesnar, Shane Carwin, and Cain Velasquez would fight in the super-heavywei...

By Zach Arnold “We talk to everybody. We’re never going to say no, we like MMA and you know like I said, Strikeforce put on a great show for us tonight and we’re very happy with Strikeforce but we’re not going to close the door on anybody.” The result? Not many “real” MMA fans watched the show.

By Leland Roling What many fans seem to forget is just how amazing Fedor Emelianenko is as a fighter. He's one of the first fighters in history to be equally great at nearly all aspects of mixed martial arts. He can grapple both offensively and defensively with some of the best jiu-jitsu fighters in the world w...

By Leland Roling Lightweight bout: Ousmane Thomas Diagne (1-0) vs. Merritt Warren (2-3): Diagne will look to bring his Sanshou style of fighting into the cage against a submission fighter in Warren. Diagne is a student under Cung Le, another Sanshou style fighter who made the transition to MMA. Pick your...

By Ed J Pickle McNasty III Total Wins = 305Wins by Knockout = 88 (29%)Wins By Submission = 116 (38%)Wins by Decision = 101 (33%) Light Heavyweight: (Frank Shamrock, Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Chuck Liddell, Quinton Jackson, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Wanderlei Silva, Dan Hen...

It was billed as the biggest fight in the history of The Ultimate Fighter and one fighter was less than impressive. And that fighter was Roy “Big Country” Nelson. As predicted, Roy Nelson took out Kimbo Slice. But it was not all that impressive. He was fighting a guy that has next-to-no MMA train...

By Mitch Ciccarelli When YouTube street-fighting sensation Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson burst onto the MMA scene in late 2007 he brought with him a ton of hype and attention from mainstream media. Elite XC promoter Gary Shaw hand-fed the bare-knuckle brawler lower tier opponents such as Bo Cantrell and out...

By Mitch Ciccarelli So it came to everyone’s surprise when it was announced that Slice would be earning an opportunity to enter the UFC—the premier MMA organization in the world—by competing on an all-heavyweight season of the hit reality series The Ultimate Fighter.

By Brent Brookhouse Luke Thomas: According to our rankings with USA Today, Nelson is ranked 20th in the world among professional heavyweights. Nelson's talents? He's strong, mostly durable, by Kimbo's standards a phenomenal grappler and has meaningful experience. And Kimbo Slice? He punches really hard....

Dos Anjos got the takedown and throwing some punches. Some more punches are getting in. Both trading elbows on the ground. Dos Anjos trying to throw but Emerson defending well. Now dos Anjos moving to body punches. Dos Anjos backed off, Emerson was about to get up and Dos Anjos tackled him down. He...

By Luke Thomas Leland Roling: While Tuchscherer is a huge, powerful wrestler who can smother Gonzaga from the top, Gonzaga is a much more dynamic striker in the stand-up game, and he has solid jiu-jitsu submission skills on the floor to put Tuchscherer in danger. I have to go with the more complete fighte...

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By Luke Thomas The great irony in watching Dana White six months talk about how Kimbo Slice is bad for MMA is that now he’s Kimbo’s biggest pusher in the business. All the guys who tried to work with Kimbo Slice to make him into something in MMA (I’m looking at you, Bas Rutten) have to be shaking their heads and...

As the title indicates, this is a simulation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, featuring many of the sports top stars such as Rashad Evans, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Chuck Liddell. Every fighter is rendered beautifully in the game, ...

 TX McFedries picks up a huge victory and Pokam takes a devastating defeat that could really hurt his UFC career. I didn't get this one right. Matt Hughes v. Matt Serra: This fight went exactly like I thought it would. Serra landed some good shots ... Minute-by-minute: UFC 98 weigh-ins ESPN

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You also have to look at the fights between Luis Cane and Sokodjou and Keith Jardine and Brandon Vera, to see that the UFC have tried to stack the main card with some good fights. The former might very well impress more than the latter in this instance ...

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 NY He taunted Bisping most of the match and lost by decision to the fan favorite. UFC 90: Silva vs. Cote - the name says it all. While neither UFC 88 nor UFC 89 matched up to the spectacle of UFC 87, Anderson Silva promised to bring the noise for UFC 90. ... For the Love of Chuck Liddell Bleacher Report

Could Jon Fitch take the UFC Welterweight title from Georges St. Pierre? The main event of this DVD was hardly a classic, but it was a good fight that cemented GSP’s status as the number one welterweight in the world. Controlling the ground well, ...

I think we start talking about how dominant Lyoto MAchida is once he fights someone who seriously gets his hands on Machida. The only fighter to do that so far is Tito Ortiz, and he is not nearly the fighter some of these guys are. ... The Verbal Submission 03.10.09: Rampage Rolls, Shamrock is Old ... 411...

By rss@youtube.com (dadirrtywhyteboi) OVERALL Show Rating:7.75/10 Lightweight Bout "Razor" Rob McCollough(17-5-0) def Marcus "The Wrecking Ball" Hicks(8-2-0) via Majority Decision dadirrtywhyteboi's ScoreCard:29-29 Judges ScoreCard:29-29,30-27,29-28 McCollugh Featherweight Bout Jose Aldo Jr(14-1-0) def Chr...

Roach, one of boxing's most prolific trainers, recently prepared Andrei Arlovski for his "Affliction: Day of Reckoning" bout with Fedor Emelianenko. Nogueira is currently one of MMA's better strikers in the heavyweight division and trained boxing ...

By Steve Cofield Kahne -- all 5 feet 8 inches and 150 pounds -- spent an hour with mixed martial arts stars Forrest Griffin and Wanderlei Silva to film a segment for Sunday's race, which will telecast on Fox (Ch. 5). I held back a little with Wanderlei," Kahne, 28, joked of the simulated fight he had with the Las V...

And it shows a clip from UFC 84 with a cornerman doing the same thing to Sean Sherk in between rounds against BJ Penn. In his letter, Friend describes the rubbing technique - "placing the left hand on the front of the chest while the right hand moves ...

By Leland Roling Leland's Prediction: Diego Sanchez via unanimous decision Leland's Prediction: Demian Maia via submission, Round 2 Joe's Prediction: Nate Marquardt via unanimous decision. Joe's Prediction: Evan Dunham via submission round 3.

 OH - Presented on Ultimate Knockout 6 are 35 knockouts that occurred in the slightly longer than a year period between UFC 62: Liddell vs. Sobral (August 26 ...

By MMAmania MMA mania provides the most up-to-the-minute Ultimate Fighting Championship® news, event details and fight analysis. The blog also lets UFC fans discuss your thoughts and insights on the best MMA organization in the world. ... of Micheal Bisping on this upcoming season of TUF. Bisping vs. Law...

By Adam Wagner Back in 2006, Karo Parisyan was on a collision course with a welterweight title shot. “The Heat” was riding a five-fight win streak, including wins over Matt Serra, Nick Diaz and Chris Lytle. He was practically a shoe-in. But first, the UFC said he’d have to get past a young up-and-coming figh...

Great groundwork is the hallmark of the fight between Jason MacDonald vs. Demian Maia. MacDonald has been slowly rising in the ranks in the world of UFC and is currently running on a no loss streak. You'll enjoy the skill and action in ... Lastly, "UFC.com Featurettes" are a series of interviews wi...

By littlenicky2355 1. Fedor - Fedor is a great fighter, and i have hated on him in the past, but this weekend he has proved that he is the top dog once again. Honestly, if he ends up fighting Barnett (who will never be in the UFC), there will be no one left for him to fight. With the UFC, there are so many great matchups. V...

By Jeremy Botter Fedor is far more polished in every other aspect of mixed martial arts than Arlovski. If this were a boxing match, then I would likely pick Arlovksi to win, but it’s not. In the game of mixed martial arts, there is no fighter more complete than Fedor Emelianenko, and Andrei Arlovsi is going to f...

By Dave Sholler With the loss to Henderson, Franklin continues his “almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” campaign. Given the fact that he’s been beaten twice by middleweight champion Anderson Silva, Franklin is unlikely to return to the 185-pound division. Add his light heavyweight los...

By Jerret Anderson Rich Franklin: Hard to call Franklin a loser being that it was a close fight. But I think this is the beginning of Franklin becoming a gatekeeper type fighter like Tito Ortiz. He can't fight Silva again and I don't see him being able to fight and beat the top 3 or 4 fighters in the LHW division.

By Pat Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski The main event of the evening is a hotly anticipated showdown between two of the top Heavyweights in the world. Fedor Emelianenko, former RINGS Champion and PRIDE Champion and current WAMMA Heavyweight Champion will attempt to defend his #1 Heavywe...

He beat one of the all-time greats of the game [Randy Couture] to win the title. Let's go out and settle this." During his postfight interview, ... UFC 92: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir Go to War Tonight ringsidereport.com UFC 92 ROUNDTABLE REVIEWS: Hyden, Ennis, Penick rate and review ......

Jackson on the same night after "Rampage" had produced a stirring but tiring victory over UFC's Chuck Liddell in the PRIDE middleweight grand prix. ... Analyzing Silva-Jackson III Sherdog.com International Herald Tribune - Las Vegas Review - Journal

By Adam Wagner He didn’t get it in his majority decision win over Josh Burkman (18-8) at UFC Fight Night 12. He looked significantly better, but not great, four and a half months later when he outpointed the surging Marcus Davis (15-4) at UFC 85 to earn the unanimous decision.

With EliteXC having gone belly up, Cage Rage is no more, and from their ashes, a new mixed martial arts promotion has arisen here in Britain, Ultimate Challenge UK, who presented their first show, Bad Breed, at The Troxy in London, shown live here in Britain this past Saturday on Nuts TV.

By Luke Thomas Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown Jens Pulver vs. Leonard Garcia Rob McCullough vs. Donald Cerrone Michael Rome: Avellan via Submission, Round 1. Nick Thomas: Aldo by experience and KO. Mike Fagan: Aldo by TKO. Chris Nelson: Dias via Submission, Round 1.

By Steve Cofield You'd think that the MMA media paid $500 for their ringside seats by the way they went after UFC president Dana White and his middleweight champ Anderson Silva for what appeared to be showboating for two rounds of fighting in the UFC 90 main event. Patrick Cote suffered a fluke knee inju...

Anderson Silva over James Irvin by first-round TKO. In the other big fight of the night, it means one thing if you pick Irvin -- you are not good at life. This is the easiest fight to pick, ever. Now, I understand why you may be hesitant. Irvin isn’t the type of fighter that throws down with Kimbo...

By MMA Junkie UFC Fight Night 13 will likely take place in Denver, Colo. (the home of the UFC’s first-ever event). The show will air live on Spike TV and serve as a lead-in for “The Ultimate Fighter 7,” which features Forrest Griffin and UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson as coaches.

By Kris Karkoski Let me preface this by saying that I want to see the rubber match between Matt Hughes and George St. Pierre just as much as the next guy. But to be completely honest, I’d rather see the originally planned Serra vs. Hughes match like we were promised. Why do I want to see it so badly? It’s simple- the t...

By Vince Chan Episode two of The Ultimate Fighter 3 suffered its largest week-to-week ratings drop in the series' history. Episode three sought to prove that the blip was not a downward trend by having a great lead-in show, UFC unleashed. UFC unleashed showcased five classic fights of the legendary, Ro...