ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) reporter Joe Gugelman and photographer Krisyn Adamakis are on scene at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for today's UFC 146 Fight Club Q&A with UFC bantamweight contender and coach of this season's The Ultimate Fighter Live on FX, Urijah Faber a.k.a. "The California Kid". Read More »
Welcome to ProMMAnow's UFC 146 pick 'em contest sponsored by RYU (www.respectyouruniverse.com). UFC 146 takes place Saturday May 26th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and features a main card consisting of all heavyweights with UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos making his first title defense against former two-time heavyweight champ Frank Mir in the main event. Read More »
The UFC 146 main event will feature Junior dos Santos aiming to defend his UFC Heavyweight Title for the first time against former UFC champion Frank Mir. It's a bout that was put together when Mir agreed to replace Alistair Overeem when Overeem was pulled from the bout due to an abnormal drug test. Read More »
Roy "Big Country" Nelson took time out following his open workout Wednesday at the MGM Grand to talk with ProMMAnow.com and other members of the media regarding his thoughts on TRT and steroids in MMA. Nelson also discussed potentially dropping to light heavyweight and how he felt about the last minute change in opponents for UFC 146. Nelson will now face Dave Herman as part of the UFC 146 main card on Saturday. Read More »
There are four competitors left competing in the Ultimate Fighter Live tournament, however, all but two of them who were eliminated from the tournament before the semifinals will get a chance to compete once again for the UFC (barring injury suspension) at the Ultimate Fighter Live Finale which airs on FX on June 1st. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com reporter Joe Gugelman put on his photographer's hat today at the UFC 146 pre-fight press conference held in the lobby of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. UFC 146 features an all-heavyweight main card headlined by Junior Dos Santos vs. Frank Mir which will air live on Pay-Per-View on Saturday. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com caught up with Mir at the UFC 146 open workouts on Wednesday and asked him about certain statements Dos Santos had made about Mir not being a man, that he lacked heart and had a tendency to give up during fights. Read More »
There have been several fights added to the UFC on FUEL TV 4 event that's set for July 11th, 2012, in San Jose, California. The event will be headlined by a middleweight fight between top middleweights Mark Munoz and Chris Weidman. Read More »
Today's UFC 146 pre-fight press conference takes place at the MGM lobby in Las Vegas and will stream LIVE on ProMMAnow.com at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT). Heavyweight headliners Junior Dos Santos and Frank Mir, co-headliners Cain Velasquez and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva, and other main card participants are expected to attend. Read More »
The UFC 146 co-main event will feature a heavyweight bout between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez and former EliteXC Heavyweight Champion Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. This is an important bout not only because it's the co-main event, but because a win here for either fighter would be huge for their careers. Read More »
UFC President Dana White recently told the LA times that UFC will begin to do their own drug testing for performance enhancing drugs (PED's). The need for extra testing of UFC athletes has been continually in the news after Alistair Overeem’s removal from UFC 146 after a high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio showed up from a random drug test. Overeem’s subsequent removal caused an avalanche of changes for the UFC 146 card. Read More »
Fans and media members came out to see UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos at Wednesday's open workout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Dos Santos did a light workout hitting mitts and working heavy combinations, then took some time to answer questions from reporters. Read More »
The all heavyweight main card at UFC 146 will feature a bout between two quickly rising heavyweight prospects in Shane del Rosario and Stipe Miocic. Both fighters are undefeated and have decorated backgrounds with Rosario being a former kickboxing champion, and Miocic a former Golden Gloves winner and national wrestling champion at Cleveland State University. The winner of this fight is looking to shed the "prospect" tag and announce themselves as legit threats to be on the lookout for. Read More »
The UFC has announced three featherweight matches for UFC on FOX 4 which takes place August 4th in Los Angeles, California. In each of the three announced matches, each featherweight fighter is looking to get back in the win column and rebound from a previous loss. Josh Grispi vs Pablo Garza, Nam Phan vs Cole Miller, and Manny Gamburyan vs Michihiro Omigawa have all been added to the UFC on FOX 4 event. Read More »
After a two and a half year layoff due to injuries and medical conditions, welterweight Mike "Quick" Swick (14–4) will return to action at UFC on FOX 4. The Ultimate Fighter season one competitor has been so long removed from action that many fans had began to wonder if his MMA career was over Read More »
ProMMAnow.com reporter Dan "The Wolfman" Theodore stopped by American Kickboxing Academy this past week to do some training and caught up with UFC light heavyweight fighter Kyle Kingsbury, who will be fighting newcomer Glover Teixeira this Saturday at UFC 146 in Las Vegas. Read More »
Returning to the UFC Octagon for his third time this weekend will be heavyweight Dave Herman. Herman will face TUF 10 winner Roy "Big Country" Nelson as part of the UFC 146 Pay-Per-View main card taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. ProMMAnow.com talks with Herman about getting the call to fight on short notice and if he did anything special to prepare for Nelson's ground game. Herman also discusses his loss to Stefan Struve in his last fight, and much more. Read More »
A new fight has been added to the UFC 149 card, Claude Patrick (14-2) will face James Head (8-2) in a welterweight match-up in July. The fight was announced by UFC officials today. UFC 149 will take place on July 21st at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Alberta, Canada. The event will be headlined by a featherweight title bout between current champ Jose Aldo and challenger Erik Koch. The main card will air on PPV with the prelims expected to air on FX and Facebook. Read More »
The UFC 146 event will feature all heavyweights on the main card and in this preview we will be previewing the Stefan Struve vs. Lavar Johnson match that's set to take place on Saturday night in Las Vegas. It's an interesting matchup between a relatively young guy in Struve against an older fighter in Johnson that's really hitting his stride late in his career. A win here will be big for either fighter in the pecking order of the fluid heavyweight division. Let's see how this one breaks down. Read More »
The "UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir" event will be upon us this Saturday night with an all heavyweight lineup on the main card for the first time in UFC history. It hasn't been easy to keep that piece of history in place due to the many injuries that plagued fighters on this card. Let's get to the interesting parts of the card. Read More »
Former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz has received a 12 month suspension by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) after testing positive for marijuana metabolites following his bout with Carlos Condit at UFC 143 on Feb. 4, 2012. Read More »
The ACL injury to UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz set off a domino effect to the UFC 148 card. Urijah Faber and Cruz were supposed to setting their trilogy at the event, but now it was announced that Renan Barao will replace Cruz and fight Faber for the UFC Interim Bantamweight title instead. The official UFC Twitter account released the information that Menjivar will now be facing Mike Easton at UFC 148. Read More »
