"UFC From All Angles: Anderson Silva" premieres Tuesday night, May 14 at 9:30 p.m. ET on FUEL TV. In the half-hour show host Karyn Bryant sits down with long-reigning UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva as he discusses his career, legacy, his relationship with UFC president Dana White and much more. Read More »
Remember us posting the story of Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney stating that former Bellator MMA lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez was making false statements about the promotion and the history that have transpired between the two during this negotiation period? Eddie Alvarez took to his Twitter account this weekend to call the bluff of Rebney by producing the documents he claimed Bellator changed to try and gain his signature. Read More »
The UFC has announced that they will be returning to Indianapolis on Wednesday, August 28. The event will take place at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and will be the first time the UFC has returned to Indianapolis since UFC 119 in 2010. Read More »
Former Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez made some bold statements earlier this week regarding the Bellator MMA promotion that he's currently battling in court. Alvarez told Ariel Helwani on "The MMA Hour" that he believes Viacom and Spike TV are now pretty much running Bellator, not Bjorn Rebney. Read More »
UFC veteran Leonard Garcia was released from the promotion, but it didn't take him long to find a new home according to the Legacy Fighting Championship Twitter account Read More »
We often hear UFC commentator Joe Rogan talk about "UFC Jitters" when fighters are making their UFC debut. It doesn't matter if the fighter is relatively young in the sport, of if he's a bonafide veteran with 15 fights under his belt. Joe Rogan says the "UFC Jitters" are real, and many fighters have talked about them after making their debut in the UFC. Read More »
The main event of XFC 24 was set to pit fast rising lightweight Scott Holtzman (4-0) against the champion Nick Newell (9-0). Newell made his way through the ranks after the XFC signed him following their open fighter tryouts. Holtzman won his way into the promotion as an amateur and has since finished three of his four opponents to capture the number one contender spot for Newell's belt. We learned today that Newell has refused to sign a contract to fight Holtzman. Read More »
At only 28-years-old undefeated New York native Chris Weidman (9-0) will get his shot at immortality on July 6 when he steps into the Octagon with MMA's reigning pound-for-pound king Anderson "The Spider" Silva (33-4) in the UFC 162 main event in Las Vegas. Read More »
This is the sixth episode of Pro UKMMA Now Radio hosted by Jay Cee. This show features an interview with Jack "The Stone" Mason, who will be taking on Collin Reuter in the main event at CWFC Fight Night 8, which takes place at the Mirbeh Sports Hall in Al Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on May 11. Read More »
Former UFC welterweight contender Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Wednesday. The Brit discussed his Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (Wolf's heart) which took him out of his recent scheduled fight with Matt Brown at UFC on Fox 7 and what his MMA and UFC fighting future is looking like. Read More »
With one simple tweet, 38-year-old former UFC interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin has announced his retirement from professional mixed martial arts... Read More »
Lorenzo Fertitta, The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Chairman & CEO, applauded the Connecticut General Assembly’s House of Representatives for passing HB-5277 today by an overwhelming 117-26 vote. The bill would legalize mixed martial arts (MMA) and add Connecticut to the list of 48 states where MMA is currently legal. He said MMA fans must now turn their attention to the Senate and urge the leadership to allow a vote on the bill. Read More »
UFC commentators Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan are a large part of the UFC Pay-Per-View experience. With their combined knowledge and chemistry they often make what they do seem easy. They are generally perceived as the best in the business and that's why they have been calling the biggest fights in the world's premiere MMA organization for many years. What UFC fans normally don't get to see is all the preparation and behind-the-scenes work that is required of Goldy and Rogan leading up to the fights. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) reporter Daniel Theodore recently sat down with UFC veteran Karo Parisyan to discuss his bout with fellow judo specialist Rick Hawn which took place at Bellator 95 last month, his battle with addiction and what his plans for the future are. Read More »
Ronda Rousey has been named No. 29 on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list of the 100 sexiest women in the world. Personally, I would have her at least top 10, if not top 5, but I'm admittedly a bit biased since I've been studying her every move since she was dishing out doctor's visits and arm slings at Tuff-N-Uff. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com talks with Ovince Saint Preux following his win at UFC 159 to get his take on how the fight played out, his nerves going in, those first time "UFC jitters" and generally just how it felt to finally step inside that special cage that every MMA fighter dreams about, the UFC Octagon. Read More »
It is fight week for our Canadian friends at the Maximum Fighting Championship. MFC 37 "True Grit" goes down this Friday night and airs live to over 45 million homes on AXS TV. Tonight we welcome back the boss and one of our favorite figures in the sports, Mark Pavelich. Pavelich has assembled possibly one of the best in MFC history with several big match ups. Read More »
"A lot of people think they're going to ride out the storm with Cain Velasquez, but his storm never ends. ... Cain is the perfect package." Those are the words of UFC color commentator Joe Rogan talking about the UFC heavyweight champion as he prepares to defend his title in a rematch with Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva on May 25 in the UFC 160 main event in Las Vegas. 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 »
Now members of the clergy are getting involved to try and prevent the legalization of mixed martial arts in New York. Seriously? Clergy visited lawmakers Tuesday in Albany to lobby against MMA, calling professional fights public displays of "hate". Read More »
Videographer Cynthia Vance has assembled scenes from some of the most memorable fights and key characters in women's MMA history in this 5-minute video montage that's sure to tug at your heart strings. 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 »
