Just wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a happy new year for 2008. Thanks to everyone who visited the site in 2007 and contributed to the site with articles, comments, and ideas. As you can see, for the new year I have slightly redesigned the layout of the site. The new look-and-feel should [...]

It’s really amazing to see the size difference between Fedor and Choi. Hong Man Choi is such a huge physical presence, it’s neat to watch. Not that he brings much competition for Fedor. By the way, word on the streets of Japan is that Fedor’s next fight will be against a whole school bus full [...]

Season 2 at MMAPlayground.com just finished with UFC 79 and we had a pretty decent season as an MMA HQ fight camp. As a group we had a 61% winning percentage with a combined record of 602-338. With 15 members in the fight camp we ranked 32nd overall in the middleweight division (11-20 camp members). [...]

Here are the official fighter salaries from UFC 79: Nemesis as released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. The total disclosed payout was $1,199,000 – the largest total payout reported by the UFC to date. Chuck Liddell – $500,000 Georges St. Pierre – $160,000 Wanderlei Silva – $150,000 Matt Hughes – $100,000 Lyoto Machida – [...]

I know some of you either watched the Yarennoka even live this morning on HDNet and many of you are planning on watching it later on one of the many HDNet replays, so I won’t spoil the results for you. Then again, I know there are plenty of you who don’t have HDNet (such as [...]

Now that UFC 79 is over, I think we all are feeling a bit of emotional drain after all the hype and buildup leading up to the main event fights. Overall, UFC 79 was an excellent fight card with the exception of the Sanchez – Palelei fight, which had no business ever being on a [...]

UFC 79 hysteria is in full swing right now. Steve Cofield has a bunch of audio from the pre-fight press conference held yesterday. Yahoo! Sports has some video from the press conference. You can view the weigh-ins live at 7pm EST (4pm PST) at UFC.com, NBCSports.com, Yahoo! Sports, and FoxSports.com.

For those of you MMA fans who were die-hard PrideFC followers, the New Years Eve Yarennoka fight card almost feels like one last gasp of breath. This event is a sort of co-promotion between former Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE) employees, K-1, and the new M-1 promotion. The show will take place in Japan’s Saitama Super [...]

The UFC has saved one of their best fight cards for last, as they will close out 2007 with a bang at UFC 79. Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva, Lyoto Machida and Rameau Sokoudjou are all fighting on what should be a great way to cap off a great year of [...]

First and foremost, I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you all will spend the day with friends and family enjoying yourselves. It’s been a long, strange, exciting year for mixed martial arts and in the spirit of giving, I’d like to give out a few MMA-related gifts for Christmas. This is [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the official fighter payout numbers from WEC 31: Faber vs Curran that was held on December 12 in Las Vegas. Jens Pulver: $60,000 Paulo Filho: $56,000 Urijah Faber: $40,000 John Alessio: $26,000 Chael Sonnen: $25,000 Charles Valencia: $12,000 Jeff Curran: $10,000 Doug Marshall: $10,000 Bryan Baker: $8,000 Alex [...]

Greg Savage at Sherdog.com is reporting that Michael Bisping’s first opponent in the middleweight division will be Charles McCarthy. Sources close to American Top Team confirmed to Sherdog.com that the fight will take place in London, England on March 8. Not quite sure which UFC event this will be, considering UFC 82 is already scheduled [...]

Get ready UFC fans, it appears that Tim “the Maine-iac” Sylvia will once again be fighting for the UFC Heavyweight title. Sylvia will fight for the belt for the ninth time; this time against Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueria. According to Sylvia’s manager Monte Cox, Tim signed the contract, and we haven’t heard anything else about it [...]

Former UFC referee Jon McCarthy was a guest on TSN’s “Off the Record” show recently where he fielded some questions about the UFC. [Source: MMAMania.com]

Chute Boxe Brazil has long been considered one of the premier Mixed Martial Arts teams in the world. Known for their superior Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and vicious standing knees, Chute Boxe fighters have always enjoyed great success in MMA. Recent months have not been as kind to Chute Boxe however. Earlier this year, Wanderlei Silva, perhaps [...]