I very rarely make any type of personal or political posts on this site, because I want to keep it strictly a source of MMA insight. But, I’m making an exception this one time. You’ve, of course, noticed the badge I’m displaying in the top left corner of MMA HQ. October is National Breast Cancer [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Nick Diaz at UFC 65: Update
I reported earlier in the week that Nick Diaz would be fighting at UFC 65 in November. Well, it now looks like his previously unnamed opponent will be American Top Team fighter, Graison Tibau. Tibau is a BJJ specialist with an MMA record of 11-3. I don’t have much information about Tibau. As is the [...]
Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett Arrested
I just came across this little nugget of humor. Actually kidnapping, assault, and battery aren’t humorous, but I’ll make an excepting in Krazy Horse’s case. Man, $650,000 for bond? What on earth did he do? You can see this is old news from late July, early August. But still good anyways. Ahh, Krazy Horse. Why [...]
Frank Shamrock vs. Phil Baroni
Yesterday onn his personal website, frankshamrock.com, Frank Shamrock announced that he will fight Phil Baroni at December 8 in California. “I just signed to fight Phil Baroni on December 8, which is my birthday. I’ll be 34 years old, and I figure the greatest birthday present in the world I can give myself is knocking [...]
UFC 64 Adds Three More Fights
The Ultimate Fighting Championships added three more fights to their upcoming UFC 64 fight card. Jon Fitch vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka Keith Jardine vs. Mike Nickels Clayton Guida vs. Justin James I’m excited to finally see Jon Fitch on the PPV televised card. Fitch, in my opinion, is going to end up being one of the [...]
IFL Announces two new Superfights
The International Fight League has announced two new Superfight matchups for their World Team Championship semifinals this November. The semifinals will feature Bas Rutten’s Anacondas vs. Matt Lindland’s Wolfpack, and Pat Miletich’s Silverbacks vs. Carlos Newton’s Dragons. Following the team events, the two superfights will feature Daniel Gracie vs. Allan Goes and Mark Kerr vs. [...]
UFC Fight Night – Ortiz vs Shamrock III Card
The full fight card for the October 10 UFC Fight Night card in Florida has been released. Fight Card for Ortiz vs. Shamrock 3 – The Final Chapter Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock Kendall Grove vs. Chris Price Ed Herman vs. Jason MacDonald Seth Petruzelli vs. Matt Hamill Thales Leites vs. Nate Marquardt Tony DeSouza [...]
Nick Diaz at UFC 65 in November
You know how I love to keep up with the latest Nick Diaz news; well here is some more. GracieFighter.com is reporting that Nick Diaz will be fighting in the UFC in November, which means at UFC 65. Nick Diaz returns to the UFC in November. We will soon be naming his opponent. UFC 65 [...]
UFC 63: Hughes vs. Penn Recap
Well, UFC 63 is in the books and overall I thought the event was excellent. We now have an undeniable Welterweight champion and a valid number one contender waiting to rematch him in Georges St. Pierre. I’m going to take a minute and recap a few fights and their highlights. Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn [...]
Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell II at UFC 66
What has generally been assumed has finally been made official. Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell will have their rematch at UFC 66 on December 30. The announcement was made tonight at the weigh-ins for tomorrow nights UFC 63. During a meet-and-greet autograph session prior to the UFC 63 weigh-ins on Friday afternoon in Anaheim, California, [...]
Our Thoughts for Joe “Diesel” Riggs
Source: Cindy Ortiz Joe Riggs had to pull out of UFN 7 (Shamrock VS Ortiz) and some MMA message boards have comments posted that are quite insensitive surrounding his decision. Joe buried his baby girl last month and his wife was rushed into emergency surgery this evening, according to one of his friends who posted [...]
Yves Edwards released by UFC
MMAWeekly.com’s radio show broke the new yesterday that Yves Edwards has been released from the UFC. I’m still trying to get more details on the story, but it appears that Edwards is no longer under UFC contract. Yves was rumored to be fighting Justin James at the upcoming UFC 64, but has been somewhat disappointing [...]
Jeremy Horn Retires
Looks like Jeremy Horn is calling it quits after his recent loss to Matt Lindland. Here is the story from GracieFighter.com: Jeremy Horn has retired from MMA fighting. Well at least temporarily. After an astounding 98 fights and a record of 78-15-5, Horn has walked away from competition and will be taking at least a [...]
UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn Predictions
Once again, another UFC Pay-Per-View event is upon us. This saturday night UFC 63: Hughes vs. Penn II will take place, and the fight card is looking like one of the best the UFC has had in quite a while. Only one fighter has had to pull out of the card so far, and all [...]
ICON signs Frank Trigg
I mentioned a short while ago that Frank Trigg would be coming out of his short “retirement” to fight again. Trigg will return to MMA and fight Jayson Miller on the ICON Sport: Unstoppable card which will take place in Hawaii. This will be a title fight for the ICON Middleweight belt which Miller recently [...]






