Dream Stage Entertainment, the owners of the Pride Fighting Championship, have officially announced the two semifinal fights in the Open Weight Grand Prix tournament. The September 10th card will see Wanderlei Silva fight Mirko Cro Cop and Antonio Nogueria will take on Josh Barnett. I like these matchups since we will see a rematch between [...]

As much popularity as the UFC seems to be gaining recently, as far as I can tell, the WFA and more specifically their CEO Jeremy Lappen are drawing just as much attention in the past week. Much of the attention Jeremy Lappen is drawing can be attributed directly to the UFC and how they forced [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released their list of medical suspensions after UFC 61: Bitter Rivals. You can download the official PDF file here.

Sherdog.com mentioned in a recent article that both Kenny Florian and Mark Hominick have turned down offers to fight Sean Sherk for the vacant UFC Lightweight belt. In the most recent episode of Beatdown Radio, Sherdog.com editor Josh Gross discusses these reports. With talk that Sean Sherk is having trouble luring an opponent into the [...]

Well, I’m sure that you’ve all been following all the new UFC vs. Pride articles that are appearing all over the web since UFC 61. Different details and reports are cropping up and I’ve waited to take my time and try to sort everything out and get all the details. First of all, for true [...]

I normally am not one that writes post-fight review articles, but I think this UFC 61 event is going to be an exception to that rule. First of all, I went 9-0 in my predictions which makes me 23-4 over the last 3 UFC fight cards. Not that it means anything; I’m just mentioning it… [...]

All I can say is… Miracles do happen. This is what the MMA community has been wanting for about 2 years. I’m glad UFC President Dana White and Pride FC President Sakikabara were finally able to bury their differences and setup a true “world championship” fight. Zack Arnold has a good article on the benefits, [...]

As I noted a few weeks ago, the next Pride Bushido event will be show on Fox Sports Net on August 27. Dream Stage Entertainment president Nobuyuki Sakakibara reportedly told MMAWeekly.com writer Scott Petersen that, the August 26th Bushido will be aired in the United States during primetime on [Sunday] August 27th… it will be [...]

It’s that time again. Another UFC event is coming up this Saturday, and it’s time for me to do some fight breakdown and predictions. I’ve been lucky and gone 14-4 over the last two UFC events, so don’t start putting money done on my picks yet but maybe its time to take notice of my [...]

As we all know by now, the final four fighters in the Pride Open Weight Grand Prix have been determined. Mirko Cro Cop defeated Yoshida, Josh Barnett submitted Mark Hunt, Wanderlei Silva knockout Fujita, and Antonio Nogueira won a decision over Fabricio Werdum placing these four fighters in the final four of the OWGP. No [...]

Over the past few days, there has been serious speculation that the UFC is close to reaching a deal to broadcast special UFC events on HBO. The Wrestling Observer was the first to break the story and since then both MMAWeekly.com and FightOpinion.com have given their take on the story. According to the report in [...]