Team Palooka sponsoring competitor for Facebook bout Every fighter growing has one goal in their sporting life: to make it to the UFC®. Regardless of whom they fight and where, that is the dream that drives them. Brazilian featherweight Felipe ... Read More »

On Friday, 22-year-old rising welterweight and Wanderlei Silva protege Jorge "Lil' Monster" Lopez will look for his tenth straight win at Tachi Palace Fights 10. Lopez spoke with ProMMAnow.com. Read More »

Chute Boxe fighter Maiquel Falcao (25-3) has signed a four fight deal with the UFC, and will make his debut at UFC 123 against Gerald Harris (17-2). Read More »

When Alexandre Ferreira left his comfortable home at the luta livre-based Brazilian Top Team in 2008, he thought his MMA career was over. He hadn’t trained for eight months, and the five-foot-seven, 205-pound bull of a fighter was ready to call it quits after a decade in the sport. Read More »

Cris “Cyborg” Santos finally has an opponent for Strikeforce’s ‘Shamrock vs Diaz’ card. “Cyborg” will face Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano in the lone female bout on the April 11th card in San Jose, CA. PRO MMA (promma.info) received this official ... Read More »

“The Axe Murderer” has decided to make the transition to middleweight. The former PRIDE FC Middleweight Champion returned to the UFC in 2007 at light heavyweight, but after going 1-2 in what is arguably the UFC’s toughest division, Wanderlei Silva ... Read More »

Shogun’s striking is looking sharp as he prepares for his fight with Mark Coleman. Shogun talks about the bad blood between himself and “The Hammer.” He will face Coleman on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at UFC 93 in a light ... Read More »

The third and youngest Rua brother is set to follow in the footsteps of his siblings. Twenty-two year old Marcos Rua, the younger brother of Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua and Murilo ‘Ninja’ Rua, is set to make his MMA debut in ... Read More »

Top rivalries in MMA tend to be associated with Gracie-Sakuraba, Emelianenko-Nogueria, Chute Boxe-Brazilian Top Team and so on. The aforementioned competitors touch on just a handful of feuds that helped revolutionize and drive the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. However, ... Read More »

It has been reported that Osmar Fernandes Dias, an instructor at the famed Chute Boxe Academy, was shot three times while leaving the academy early Tuesday morning in Curitiba, Brazil. Dias’ trained some of the best fighters to ever come ... Read More »

by: Matt De La Rosa Don’t expect Fabricio Werdum to become a heavyweight gatekeeper or stepping stone in the UFC. MMAWeekly has reported Werdum’s contract negotiations with the UFC have ceased. After a knockout loss to Junior Dos Santos at ... Read More »

by:  Cory Brady Many of you hardcore mma fan’s out there may recall Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett telling a wild tale about getting mercilessly jumped at the hands of Chute Boxe after the PRIDE Shockwave 2005 event. According to Krazy ... Read More »

After being rumored for the last two days it’s official.  Vitor Belfort has signed with the MMA start up promotion Affliction.  Vitor has been fighting at 205, but has asked to fight at 185 if possible for Affliction.  Also, they ... Read More »