The Ultimate Fighting Championship is taking over Fourth of July weekend in Las Vegas. UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (33-4) returns to the Octagon in the UFC 162 main event on Saturday, July 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to face undefeated No. 1 contender Chris Weidman (9-0). Read More »
Thanks to a whole slew of live UFC events in April, FUEL TV had its highest-rated and most-watched month in the network's 10 year history. During the month of April FUEL TV aired four live UFC Weigh-In and Postfight shows, one live UFC Prelim show and one UFC main card, in addition to shoulder programming such as Countdown shows, etc. Read More »
The test results for UFC on FUEL TV 9 fighters have come back, and one of the fighters will be facing a six month suspension due to marijuana use. UFC featherweight Robbie Peralta was found to have marijuana metabolites in his system following the UFC on FUEL TV 9 event which took place April 6 at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. Read More »
UFC light heavyweight Chael Sonnen has no plans to retire after his UFC 159 dismantling at the hands of Jon Jones according to his appearance on FUEL TV's "UFC Tonight". Sonnen mentioned that he has plans to stay to light heavyweight simply because he has fought pretty much everyone in that division, including his two fights in which he lost to the champion Anderson Silva. However, he did state that he has some unfinished business with the one and only Wanderlei Silva Read More »
It's Tuesday and you know what that means, UFC TONIGHT and UFC ULTIMATE INSIDER return with new episodes on FUEL TV. UFC TONIGHT airs at 10 p.m. ET and UFC ULTIMATE INSIDER airs immediately after at 10:30 p.m. ET. Read More »
Leonard Garcia's loss to Cody McKenzie this past weekend at UFC 159 could mark the end of his time with the promotion. To be honest Leonard did get his fair share of chances to return to the win column, but unfortunately came up short in his last five consecutive fights. Read More »
The broken toe suffered by Jon Jones at UFC 159 should allow a true number one contender to emerge once he's fully healed and returns to action. Read More »
The UFC 159 card has come and past and it'll be three weeks before the next UFC event is upon us. The UFC on FX 8 event will take place on May 18 in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Read More »
We take a look at some of the winners and losers from UFC 159 and put on our UFC matchmaker hats to determine who they should face in their next outing in the octagon. Read More »
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones dismantled Chael Sonnen via TKO in the first round of the UFC 159 main event that took place at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. However, he suffered a broken toe during the round while defending a takedown Read More »
The UFC 159 event took place from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night. Jon Jones successfully defended his UFC light heavyweight title against Chael Sonnen with a first round TKO finish. However, there were three fighters that took home some extra cash for their efforts in the octagon. Read More »
Chael Sonnen did all of the talking, but it was the champion that did all of the damage once the cage door closed. Jon Jones used Chael Sonnen's own game plan against him as he repeatedly took the challenger down and battered him with a brutal ground-and-pound attack forcing a stoppage at 4:33 of the opening round. Read More »
Michael Bisping backed up the war of words, dominating Alan Belcher over most of three rounds. Unfortunately, the fight was stopped due to an incidental eye poke, as Bisping's finger found the eye Belcher, forcing a stoppage of the bout. Bisping was awarded a technical decision with scores of 30-27, 30-27, and 29-28. Read More »
The overhand right. Everybody knows that Roy Nelson possesses one of the best right hands in MMA and it usually only takes one to end a fight in his favor. Cheick Kongo found that out firsthand as he became the latest victim of "Big Country's" right hand, as Nelson put the fight away with his favorite weapon at 2:03 of the opening round. Read More »
It is usually the wrestling of "Mr. Wonderful" that wins fights in the octagon, but tonight it was the improved striking of Phil Davis that allowed him to dominate Vinny Magalhaes on the feet over three rounds of action to earn a lopsided unanimous decision victory. Read More »
Pat Healy made the most of his return to the octagon, taking out the hometown hero Jim Miller by choking him unconscious after a back-and-forth battle of attrition. The rear naked choke came at 4:02 of the third round, marking the seventh straight win for Healy to kick off the main card of UFC 159. Read More »
New Jersey native Nick Catone will not get the chance to fight in front of his home crowd at UFC 159. After being hospitalized due to dehydration, Catone's welterweight bout with James Head has been pulled from the card at the last minute. Read More »
The UFC on FOX 8 card keeps getting deeper and deeper as UFC officials announce more fights. We reported earlier today that the main event and co-main event was announced, and now we have one more fight that's ready to go. TUF 3 Finalist Ed Herman will return to the octagon to take on UFC newcomer Trevor Smith in a middleweight matchup. Read More »
Today's UFC 159 fighter weigh-ins are being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the same location hosting Saturday's fight card headlined with a light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen. Read More »
The UFC on FOX 8 has a main event and co-main event according to UFC officials. UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson will take on John Moraga in the UFC on FOX 8 main event that's set for July 27 at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The co-main event will feature a women's bantamweight fight between Miesha tate and Liz Carmouche. Read More »
The UFC 159 event is set to take place on Saturday, April 27, from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The main event will consist of the UFC light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and challenger Chael Sonnen. Read More »
The UFC 159 event is set to take place on Saturday, April 27, from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The main event will consist of the UFC light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and challenger Chael Sonnen. However, the co-main event will feature a middleweight grudge match between top 10 middleweight Michael Bisping and the always tough Alan Belcher. Belcher has been asking for this fight for quite a while, so it'll be interesting to see if he can rise to the occasion. Read More »
