MMA: Mixed martial arts

The UFC is portraying the UFC 97 fight between Chuck Liddell and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua as, potentially, the final fight for The Iceman in the UFC.UFC 97 Video: Shogun Rua-Chuck Liddell: Final Fight for the Iceman? originally appeared on Fanhouse MMA Blog on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:49:00 EST . Pl...

A big weekend in MMA is behind us and a big weekend in MMA is ahead of us, so now is a good time for the very first FanHouse mixed martial arts podcast. I was pleased to be joined by Ariel Helwani of Versus.com for our first installment. We had a great discussion about Saturday night's Strikeforce e...

About 15 seconds into Saturday night's Strikeforce MMA fight between Hitomi Akano and Cristiane "Cris Cyborg" Santos, Akano had Cyborg in position for a judo throw. But while Akano is a skilled judo practitioner, it didn't matter. ...

Emelianenko is widely regarded as the greatest competitor in the short history of the burgeoning sport of mixed martial arts, but in America, that makes him more a mystery than a star. Emelianenko has never competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, by far the most popular MMA prom...

Filed under: UFCIt's the biggest fight in UFC history, or so we've been told a million times in the last couple of months. Randy Couture will return to the Octagon and defend the heavyweight title against Brock Lesnar at UFC 91 in an event that has the hard-core fans and the casual fans alike i...

For those who didn't catch our week-long dedication to Fedor Emelianenko, this series of articles should serve as a primer for the fight from one fighter's point-of-view and on Couture's career as well as answer why, at the ripe old age of 45, he is still considered among the best fighters...

That Q&A comes from one of a bunch of videos in which Mickey's asks interesting questions to MMA fighters. Much like Fight Linker, I think these are great videos, and I'll be posting a few of them. Another one with Tito, ...

It was the best moment of Evans' young career, a powerful right-handed strike directly on the chin in the second round. That right hand firmly establishes the undefeated Evans as one of the up-and-coming stars of the UFC, and potentially a light heavyweight title contender.

I spoke to UFC President Dana White today at an event to promote UFC 90, and with the Olympics going on, I asked him what he thinks of the possibility that mixed martial arts will one day be an Olympic sport. He thinks it can happen. ...

By Michael David Smith That means that basically all of EliteXC's most talented fighters will fight that night. And that will make the show a good barometer for where EliteXC is: If the show does well, it tells us that fans view EliteXC as an organization with enough talented fighters that it doesn't need Kimbo to...

Elite XC returns from its trip to network television tomorrow night with a card from Honolulu on Showtime. The main event will feature lightweight champion K.J. Noons against the veteran Yves Edwards. That match will be preceded by an undercard featuring Nick Diaz vs. Muhsin Corbbrey, Muril...

As you can see in the above picture of James Thompson, the stoppage didn't come completely out of nowhere. His ear is in awful shape. I don't think the context of the fight to that point called for a stoppage but Slice's punches and strikes were doing damage. Thompson's, on the other hand, weren...

By Josh Alper Filed under: Fighting, MMA, MMA/BoxingIt's funny how things work. On the same day that MDS writes a guide for people covering the world of mixed martial arts, one of the country's most venerable newspapers features an article about it on the front page. The New York Times makes a couple of er...

By Josh Alper On top of that, you've got Tito Ortiz fighting his last fight for UFC and blasting Dana White, UFC's president, on his way out the door. If Ortiz wins, it would be one hell of a post-fight speech and, should he lose, expect some gloating from White.

By Michael David Smith Filed under: Fighting, MMA, MMA/BoxingIn my UFC 84 preview video, I noted that Wanderlei Silva has accomplished much more in the sport of mixed martial arts than his UFC 84 opponent, Keith Jardine, and yet I think Jardine is going to beat Silva Saturday night.

By Michael David Smith Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post has written a column that is ostensibly about the CBS network's decision to broadcast mixed martial arts but is in reality about his own ignorance. It's a column I would simply dismiss and move on if it were written for a community college media studie...