The Next Great Fighter - TNGF

The numbers are something out of a video game or a movie or someone's imagination. In amateur kickboxing, Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson was 37-0. As a pro kickboxer, 20-0. As a professional mixed martial artist, he's 5-0 so far. That's 62 straight fights without a loss.



But it's no facade, and his record is no product of fishy matchmaking. In fact, despite his newness on the MMA scene, he's…

Following yesterday's monumental announcement of a 10-year media partnership with ESPN Star Sports, ONE FC unveiled several more interesting news items on a press conference in Singapore.

On the business side of things, the promotion made a huge announcement that government entities from Singapore will be backing them, with Cui…

LAS VEGAS – Nick Diaz is hardly Georges St. Pierre’s favorite person, but St. Pierre, the UFC’s injured welterweight champion, will be rooting vigorously Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center for Diaz to defeat Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC 143.

St. Pierre was supposed to be fighting Diaz for the belt on Saturday, just as he was supposed to fight the ex-Strikeforce champion in October at UFC 137. Each time, though, injuries forced him to pull…

Jon Jones is so confident that he will remain light-heavyweight champion by the end of this year that he has requested a fight at heavyweight in 2012.

Jones is a dominant force on the 205lb scene, already destroying Mauricio Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson and Lyoto Machida. Next up is Rashad Evans in April, another man he is a huge favourite to…

Olympic dreams derailed by injury during qualifier bout

Written By Garry Smits, Jacksonville.com

No one would tell Blanche Wingo anything.

All she knew is that her…

As reported by the Las Vegas News Journal, Alistair Overeem will appear in court on February 21st to face a charge of misdemeanor battery stemming from from an incident at Wynn Las Vegas over New Year's weekend.

If convicted, the heavyweight title challenger faces a max of six months in jail and not more than a $1,000 fine.

A…

After making history in June 2009 as the first female MMA referee to oversee a UFC fight, Kim Winslow drew controversy earlier this month for her handling of the Muhammad Lawal vs. Lorenz Larkin match at Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine. Last week, CagePotato had the chance to chat with Winslow, who spoke to us about her life inside and…

Lyoto Machida has put himself forward as Dan Henderson's next fight, if Rashad Evans beats Phil Davis at UFC on Fox 2 this weekend.

The light-heavyweight title picture is fairly clear. If Evans beats Davis, he will be next for champion Jon Jones. However, if the relatively inexperienced Davis wins, Henderson will almost certainly fight next for the…

Chael Sonnen has confessed he did not know he was in the third round of the fight against Michael Bisping, because the Brit hit him so hard, and he insists Bisping could beat Anderson Silva.

Sonnen took a unanimous decision at UFC on Fox 2, but the margins of victory were razor-thin. The American even confessed to Bisping that he thought the Brit…

On Saturday night, three of the top 10 middleweights were in action, and a fourth had a chance to break into the top-10.

Michael Bisping, Chael Sonnen and Demian Maia were the three in the original top-10, and Chris Weidman was the fourth one who, with a win, broke into the top-10.

Sonnen cemented himself as the No. 2…