For those of you who have read MMA HQ for any period of time, you realize my opinion of Frank Mir has changed drastically over the past year. I went from being one of the biggest Frank Mir fans around, to more or less blacklisting him. The Las Vegas Review Journal has an interesting article [...]

In addition to the already “official” fights of Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz and Andre Arlovski vs. Marcio Cruz, the UFC has officially announced a third fight for UFC 66: Forrest Griffin vs. Keith Jardine. Griffin last fought Stephan Bonnar at UFC 62 while Jardine last fought Wilson Gouveia at the Ultimate Fighter 3 finale. [...]

Randy Harris and Joe Rogan have teamed up and put together a special auction to raise money for the Ryan Bennett Memorial Fund to help Bennett’s family. You can find the aution on eBay right now. I’ve posted the text from the eBay listing below. You are bidding on a trip of a lifetime with [...]

BREAKING NEWS: MMAWeekly has learned that Vitor Belfort and Pawel Nastula tested positive for banned substances after their respective fights on Pride’s “Real Deal” card this past Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has confirmed that Nastula tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone, while Belfort tested positive for 4-hydroxytestosterone, [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released their list of medical suspensions from last Saturdays Pride 32: The Real Deal Event. You can download the full PDF here.

It really is pretty sad the ups and downs people go through in their personal lives. Evan Tanner posted this photo to his Myspace.com blog. Evan says the photos are from a “training session” away from the gym. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen a training session that included beer instead of [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighters salaries from this past weekends Pride event. Official live gate numbers and revenue were not reported as of yet. There also were no reported fighter bonuses for winning their respective fight. Fedor Emelianenko – $100,000 Mark Coleman – $70,000 Kevin Randleman – $40,000 Mauricio Rua – [...]

Pride Fighting Championships first US event is in the books and overall I think it was a very good night of MMA. Here are a few of my thoughts. First of all, that is NOT EVEN CLOSE to what I thought Pride’s female ring announcer looked like. I have heard her announcing on the Japan [...]

Sure looks like Sherk got the better end of the deal, even if he is “only a one dimensional fighter” in Kenny’s opinion.

Pride Fighting Championship makes their US debut this Saturday when they hold their “Real Deal” event in Las Vegas. This is a bid deal for MMA in the US, but will it make an impact on the overall MMA scene here in the states? Pride will have to change their rules for this event and [...]

GracieFighter.com is reporting that Matt Lindlad has been offered a contract by the UFC to return and fight Anderson Silva for the Middleweight title. Inside sources have informed us that the UFC has contacted Matt Lindland to face their new Middleweight Champion, Anderson Silva. Lindland’s takedown skills and ability to take out top strikers have [...]

The UFC has released the fighter salary amounts for UFC 64: Unstoppable. The total fighter payroll disclosed by Zuffa, LLC was $209,000. Fighter bonuses and other payments do not need by be made public, and Zuffa has never in their history offered those numbers to the public. (Not that they should. No other corporation reveals [...]

A few days before UFC 64, Matt Huges made the following post on his personal website blog: Sunday, October 8, 2006 Tomorrow I’m going to New York, Chuck and I will be on ESPN. Fly back tomorrow night. This week I’ll spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning with my brother getting crops out and also [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the list of results and medical suspensions from UFC 64. Looks like Franklin is suspended until April 2007 unless he can clear his nasal fracture first. No listing of any rib injuries though. You can download the file here (pdf).

Another night of UFC fights is in the books, and overall I think it was a good show for the UFC. Despite the various technical problems with the PPV broadcast that many viewers seemed to experience, UFC 64 gave us two good title fights. Wow. Just Wow. I was very surprised when this fight was [...]