First off all you don't make weight. Second of all you put on a stupid ass wig. Then thirdly you have the nerve to push your opponent for no good reason. Those three strikes got UFC lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov thrown out of the UFC 160 weigh-ins Friday afternoon at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. UFC Hype Man and event coordinator Burt Watson is a helluva nice guy, but don't be actin' a fool on his stage -- even if you are 19-0. Nurmagomedov is set to face Abel Trujillo as part of the UFC 160 prelims on FX Saturday night. Read More »

Transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox has made it very clear her goal is to one day fight for Invicta Fighting Championships. If that day ever happens and she signs with Invicta, one person that won't be there to watch is her manager Brett Atchley. Read More »

Fallon Fox makes her return to the cage for the first time since it was publicly revealed she is a transgender fighter who was born as a man but now lives and fights as a woman. Championship Fighting Alliance 11 aka "The Fallon Fox Show" takes place this evening at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Fla. and airs LIVE on AXStv starting at 9 p.m. ET. Read More »

"Little" Patricia Vidonic will take her second short-notice fight in under a month when she takes on Alida Gray at "SCS 17: Mayhem" on Saturday, June 1 at Sugar Creek Casino in Hinton, Okla. Gray, who is making her pro debut, does not seem intimidated by the veteran and in fact sees her as a bit of a stepping stone toward her goal of fighting for Invicta. Read More »

Fighter weigh-ins for UFC 160 are being held today at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the same location that will host Saturday's fight card headlined with a heavyweight championship bout between current title-holder Cain Velasquez and number one contender Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. Read More »

"You might as well have gone into a cave and poked a stick at a hibernating bear." That's how Inside the Cage Radio host Greg DeLong described Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp's response when she learned there was a manager using intimidation, manipulation and alleged sexual misconduct toward the promotion's female fighters. Read More »

No. 3 ranked UFC lightweight Gray Maynard will face No. 5 ranked T.J. Grant Saturday night at UFC 160 in Las Vegas. The winner of the bout has been promised a title shot against reigning champion Benson Henderson. Maynard was a guest on MMA Tonight (102.5 FM The Game - Nashville) Wednesday evening and discussed the upcoming fight with Grant and shared his thoughts on a potential title shot should he win. Read More »

Josh Barnett a.k.a. "The Warmaster" is once again a UFC fighter. After months of deliberation the former UFC heavyweight champion has signed a multi-fight agreement with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Read More »

The man of the hour, 36-year-old veteran Vitor Belfort (23-10), who just got done knocking out his second straight top-10 middleweight in the last five months, has issued an apology for the way he reacted to questions about TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) at the UFC on FX 8 post-fight press conference Saturday night. Read More »

After having two of his four straight wins inside the UFC overturned due to testing positive for marijuana within the last year, Matt Riddle was released from the organization in February. Riddle then signed with Texas-based promotion Legacy Fighting Championships, but his contract has since been bought out by Bellator MMA. Riddle will now take part in Bellator's Season 9 Welterweight Tournament this Fall. Read More »

Nerds, geeks, video game heads, you will get an update on the next edition of the UFC video game on Tuesday. May 21 is not only the day Microsoft unveils plans for their next-gen XBOX, but a first look at the new UFC game is also expected. Read More »

After Nick Newell announced his departure from the XFC and would not be defending his lightweight title against Scott Holtzman at XFC 24 next month, the organization scrambled to find a "worthy" replacement to bring in for an immediate title fight. Read More »

Following Vitor Belfort's devastating knockout of Luke Rockhold in the UFC on FX 8 main event Saturday night, the fighters gathered for the traditional post-fight press conference at Arena Jaraguá in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil. Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza who made a very impressive UFC debut, was also in attendance, as was Gleison Tibau and others. Read More »

UFC lightweight Nate Diaz was already on a bit of thin ice having lost his last two fights in a row, so when he broke the UFC's Code of Conduct this past week by calling Byan Caraway a "Fag", UFC president Dana White said Diaz would either be fined, suspended or released by the promotion. Fortunately for Diaz he gets to keep his job -- at least for now. Read More »

Michael "The Voice" Schiavello sits down for an hour-long one-on-one interview with UFC president Dana White and asks him every question you could ever want to know. He even asked the one question I had always wanted to ask --- and that was whatever happened to that gangster movie based in Boston he was going to make. Read More »

Former UFC light heavyweight champ and former No. 1 middleweight contender Vitor Belfort may have just earned himself another title shot with a brutal knockout of former Strikeforce 185-pound champ Luke Rockhold who was making his UFC debut. Read More »

"UFC on FX 8: Belfort vs. Rockhold" takes place today at Arena Jaragua in Jaragua Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The event is headlined with a 185-pound match-up between former UFC light heavyweight champ Vitor Belfort and former Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold. Read More »

Following their shoving match at Friday's UFC on FX 8 weigh-ins, Luke Rockhold responded to comments from Vitor Belfort that he is scared. "I'm scared? Yeah. I got no words for that," Rockhold stated. "You know what, I became champion, I stayed champion and Belfort's going to find that out tomorrow night." Read More »

Now there's no need to get into a Theological debate. Can't we just enjoy the fact a 36-year-old former UFC light heavyweight champion believes God is on his side in this fight? Why the Big Man forsook him in the Jon Jones and Anderson Silva fights we don't know. Nor do we need to know.... mysterious ways and all that. Read More »

Thanks to UFC officials intervening Vitor Belfort and Luke Rockhold did NOT fight at Friday's UFC on FX 8 weigh-ins in Brazil. However, that will not be the case tomorrow when these two middleweights face off in the main event LIVE on FX. Read More »

Fighter weigh-ins for UFC on FX 8 took place today at Arena Jaragua in Jaragua Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, the same venue playing host to Saturday's fight card headlined with a 185-pound match-up between former Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold and former UFC light heavyweight champ Vitor Belfort. Read More »

Nate Diaz did not approve of Pat Healy having his $130,000 bonus money taken away for testing positive for marijuana. And he certainly didn't like the fact that the bonus money was awarded to pot-hater Bryan Caraway. However, Nate went a bit far in expressing his discontent with the following tweets... Read More »