MMA HQ - Mixed Martial Arts News and Analysis

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 help [...]

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 [...]

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).

Points [...]

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 - $60,000
Eddie Sanchez - $46,000
Rameau Sokoudjou - [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Should Zuffa move the 205 and 185 [...]