According to UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta, former UFC heavyweight champions Frank Mir (16-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) and Cain Velasquez (9-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) are on a collision course, while familiar foes and former light heavyweight champs Forrest Griffin (18-7 MMA, 9-5 UFC) and Tito Ortiz are in line for a trilogy…
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According to UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta, former UFC heavyweight champions Frank Mir (16-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) and Cain Velasquez (9-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) are on a collision course, while familiar foes and former light heavyweight champs Forrest Griffin (18-7 MMA, 9-5 UFC) and Tito Ortiz are in line for a trilogy…
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Dan Henderson is looking to fight in April or May and is willing to fight at heavyweight if he needs to.
Henderson's shot at the light-heavyweight title has been put on hold due to the long awaited bout between Rashad Evans and Jon Jones on April 21. Henderson is willing to…
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UFC Heavyweight Champ Junior Dos Santos looks to make his first title defense since knocking out Cain Velasquez on UFC on FOX 1, last November. His adversary, Alistair Overeem, who impressed many with his complete domination of former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar…
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For the second time in his MMA career, Nick Diaz has tested positive for marijuana.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission earlier confirmed that someone from this past Saturday’s UFC 143 event in Las Vegas has tested…
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Ronda Rousey has been making her rounds in the media. Check out this video of Ronda telling the audience, "Literally I could kill every single person in this room with my bare-hands if I had them one on one."…
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The No. 1 contender to the UFC middleweight title, Chael Sonnen, did not take kindly to 185-pound UFC champion Anderson Silva saying his adversary needs to train, not talk on the most recent episode of UFC Tonight.
Sonnen responded on his Twitter last night, stating that:
When I want your advice I'll beat it out of you,…
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Fighting a guy like Jon Jones, you can't really hang your hat on any sort of predictions.
A guy like Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson (32-9 MMA, 7-3 UFC) is a little different story, according to Ryan Bader (13-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC), who spoke to MMAjunkie.com Radio about his impending fight against the former champ in the co-main event of UFC…
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It appears Carlos Condit feels there is some value in making his dominance over Nick Diaz a convincing, at least in the general public’s eyes.
The new UFC interim welterweight champion has accepted the challenge from Diaz for a rematch following his decision victory on Saturday, according to some tweets by the organization’s president Dana…
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UFC contender Donald Cerrone is set to face UFC veteran Yves Edwards in a lightweight battle on May 15th in Fairfax, VA.
Cerrone and Edwards will join UFC Middleweight's Tom Lawlor and Jason MacDonald as well as Light Heavyweight's Thiago Silva and Igor Pokrajac on the UFC on FX 3…
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Fight fans who have watched Strikeforce fighter Ronda Rousey do her thing in the cage have certainly felt compelled to give her a hand for her efforts to this point in her combat sports career. Harmless enough, but what you don't want to do is give her an arm.
If you do, she's likely to break it -- out of habit if for no other reason.
Rousey has taken the women's mixed…
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Jon Jones' long-awaited UFC light heavyweight title defense against Rashad Evans is booked, and it couldn't have been better positioned on the calendar.
Thanks to a judicious call by Zuffa to postpone a pay-per-view card in Montreal slated for the end of March,…
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Written by J Sladky, TNGF.com
Just three days after defeating Nick Diaz for the UFC welterweight interim belt, Carlos Condit has agreed to a rematch, promotion president Dana White said late Tuesday night.
"The rumor is true," White Tweeted. "Carlos did accept…
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Jade Bryce is a 26-year-old model from Austin, Texas, who has been recruited as a ring girl for Bellator’s fourth season. At 5’3″, Jade describes herself as a “travel size model,” but there’s a big heart in that compact frame — she donates part of her modeling income to the socially conscious non-profit organizations …
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Josh Koscheck has ruled out the possibility of fighting good friend Jon Fitch despite splitting from American Kickboxing Academy, insisting he would rather 'quit' the sport than fight his good friend.
Koscheck called time on his partnership with his team AKA, who he has been with for nearly eight years, following his victory over Mike Pierce at UFC 143…
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Carlos Condit's camp have seemingly ruled out a rematch between the Natural Born Killer and Nick Diaz, insisting Georges St-Pierre is next on Condit's hitlist.
Condit produced a tactical masterclass to out-strike Diaz at UFC 143, claiming the interim welterweight title in the process. He can now expect a showdown with St-Pierre, although that bout is unlikely to…
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Seriously, there's a limit to how far we all should go just to talk about awesome fights, so let's cut the "war" talk out already.
We easily have the ability to tell others to not be surprised if one of two men involved in a fight cuts the other open, just as we all have the ability to say a fight will be a back-and-forth affair or that a fight might be a barn-burner, or even that a fight will be something from out of a video game and a bout that ranks among the…

There really does not need to be any more danger involved in mixed martial arts. Whatever complaints one might have about the sport, it’s hard to make the case that “they’re not putting their bodies on the line enough” could be one of them. And if you don’t believe that, we suggest you re-watch this kick to the face.
Point is, a big part of MMA’s appeal is the danger of it – plenty dangerous enough that it doesn’t need any outside factors making it more so. At a…
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MMA fans have waited for the rematch between current middleweight champion Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen for quite some time, but it seems like the wait is finally coming to an end.
At the UFC 143 post-fight press conference, Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White confirmed both men have verbally agreed to meet in June. The bout will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and I'm sure it'll be a huge success for the UFC.
Sonnen became the…
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Critics of the strategy that Carlos Condit used to win last week don't appreciate the finer points of fighting, his coach says.
"There's still a large contingent of people, that they just want to see these guys almost die, or the other guy almost die and come back, and sometimes fights are like that," says Greg Jackson, one of the best-known trainers of athletes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. "But sometimes you get technical masterpieces too, and to hate a…
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