On this week’s UFC TONIGHT SPECIAL EDITION: TITO ORTIZ FIGHTER’S CUT, the UFC Hall of Famerrelivestwo of his biggest fights. First, The People’s Champ talks through his fight at UFC 51 where he faced Vitor Belfort. “This was one of the most memorable fights for me. Everything was on the line. I knew I had to push the pressure as much as possible and wait for him to make a small mistake.” Read More »
Take a walk down memory lane and relive some of the most awkward moment's in mixed martial arts history. Like an adolescent child experiences growing pains, so has MMA had it's fair share of awkward moments. It would be practically impossible to collect all of those moments, but these 25 will at the very least bring a smile to your face. Read More »
Former UFC light heavyweight champ and UFC Hall of Fame member Tito Ortiz has retired from active competition and is now managing fighters such as Invicta FC featherweight Cris Cyborg. Read More »
UFC President Dana White spoke with media at the after the UFC on FUEL TV 7 post-fight press conference. He touched on all types of topics from Dominick Cruz's return, Tito Ortiz announcing Cyborg to Invicta, Bellator ratings, and more. Read More »
Former Strikeforce women's featherweight champ Cris Cyborg (10-1, 1 NC) has signed a multi-fight contract with Invicta Fighting Championships and will face fellow Brazilian Ediane "India" Gomes (10-2) at Invicta FC 5 on April 5 in Kansas City. Read More »
Tito Ortiz, UFC Hall of Famer and manager of Cris Cyborg, was a guest Friday night on Inside MMA on AXStv and explained why it is now very unlikely fans are going to get to see the super fight we've all been waiting for between his client and Ronda Rousey. Read More »
Following Thursday's UFC 156 press conference Dana White spent approximately 45 minutes answering various questions from a small group of media members in this pre-fight scrum. White discusses such topics as Randy Couture now working with Spike and Bellator, Rampage Jackson leaving the UFC, Ronda Rousey and much much more. And if 45 minutes of White wasn't enough for you, we've also included a couple of interviews in which he discusses Alistair Overeem, the Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar super fight and more. Read More »
Matt Hughes got one. Chuck Liddell got one. Tito Ortiz did not get one. I'm talking about jobs with the UFC after fighting. Both Liddell and Hughes received positions with the company that seem to have come from a sense of loyalty they both showed to the organization and to boss Dana White over the years. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com recently caught up with "The People's Champ" Tito Ortiz, who has been busy trying to negotiate a UFC deal for his client, Cris Cyborg. Ortiz discussed the proposed bout between Cyborg and current UFC women's bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey, and the difficulty he sees with Cyborg cutting down to 135 pounds. Read More »
If you recall when Chuck Liddell retired he was given his new position of Vice President of Business Development with the UFC. But anytime anyone asked him about his job description, he gave vague answers like, "help promote the sport" or be an "ambassador" for the sport -- stuff like that. In a new interview with SI.com, UFC President Dana White gave a little more insight into what exactly "The Iceman's" duties require -- and if you think ol' Chucky boy is sitting in an office somewhere answering phone calls or setting up appearances, think again. Read More »
UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz may be retired from the sport of MMA, but he's already taken the plunge back in the sport as a MMA manager .Ortiz was on the "UFC Tonight" on Tuesday night and spoke about why he got into managing, his future role in MMA, and the highly anticipated potential bout between Ronda Rousey and Cyborg Santos. Read More »
UFC Unrestricted is behind the scenes look at UFC 148 and the controlled chaos the UFC deals with. It airs on Fuel TV November 10th at 1 p.m. ET Read More »
The original UFC bad boy David "Tank" Abbott shares his opinion on modern day MMA, his old buddy Tito Ortiz, Frank Shamrock, and reveals if he will ever return to the MMA cage. Read More »
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira has asked Dana White to fight Forrest Griffin at UFC 155 via his Twitter account. Read More »
Some of the top stories from our MMA friends this week include: Tito Ortiz saying Jon Jones should thank him, MMA in politics, BAMMA 10 results and review, TUF 16 thoughts, Road FC 9 results, which Street Fighter characters could transition to MMA and MMA matchmaking. Read More »
Kelvin Hunt highlights some of the best posts and top articles from the Pro MMA Now (www.prommanow.com) staff this week. We know people are busy, so here are a few things you may have overlooked. Read More »
Watch as this 6-year-old Arm FC (Armenian Fighting Championship) fighter pays a special tribute to UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz after his first round guillotine choke submission win. Say what you want about having kids this young doing MMA (no punches to the head), but you have to admit his cage top celebration and homage to Tito is pretty damn cute. Read More »
UFC Hall of Famer Tito Oritz is not happy. His final fight inside the Octagon was a rubber match against Forrest Griffin at UFC 148. It was a close fight, Tito dropped Forrest a couple times, but in the end the judges awarded Forrest the decision. After the fight however, it came out that Forrest is yet another fighter that has received a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Read More »
We try to bring you as much news and original content as possible each week here at ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com), but let’s face it, especially as MMA continues to grow, we can’t cover every single story every week — there just isn’t enough manpower or time to make that happen. As an MMA fan, here are some of the mixed martial arts news stories from around the web you should know about for the week of July 7-14: Read More »
What’s going on? Dr. Rhadi Ferguson here and as usual, I’m going to give it to you “straight, with no chaser.” If you are looking for a UFC recap of Saturday….well….this ain’t it! However, if you want to know what ... Read More »
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz fought his final fight on Saturday night coming out on the losing end of a unanimous decision against Forrest Griffin. However, Ortiz was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame early Saturday afternoon just hours before going to war with Griffin for the final time. Read More »
Kelvin Hunt highlights some of the best posts and top articles from the Pro MMA Now (www.prommanow.com) staff this week. We know people are busy, so here are a few things you may have overlooked. Read More »
