The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighter salaries for this past Saturday’s Pride 33: The Second Coming event. Wanderlei Silva: $150,000 Dan Henderson: $50,000 Mauricio Rua: $50,000 Takanori Gomi: $20,000 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: $20,000 Nick Diaz: $15,000 Joachim Hansen: $15,000 Hayato Sakurai: $10,000 Frank Trigg: $10,000 Kazuo Misaki: $10,000 Sergei Kharitonov: $10,000 Alistair [...]

Well, another Pride Fighting Championships event is in the books, and I must say that Pride 33 was all-around the best MMA event I have seen in several years. Other promotions should take notes from Pride; this is how an event should take place. We saw a total of 9 fights in a little over [...]

Renzo Gracie’s New York Wolfpack easily defeated Igor Zinoviev’s Chicago Red Bears 4-1 Friday night at the IFL event in Atlanta, and took sole posession of first place in the IFL with the team victory. Matt Lindland’s Portlan Wolfpack also defeated Carlos Newton’s Toronto Dragons 3-2. The evenings superfight saw Robbie Lawler defeated Eduardo Pamplona [...]

Zuffa has announced the full fight card for the World Extreme Cagefighting event scheduled for March 24 in Las Vegas. WEC 26 will include three title fights, one each in the bantamweight, featherweight, and welterweight divisions. In the featherweight division, WEC champion Urijah Faber will faced undefeated Dominic Cruz. The vacant WEC bantamweight title will [...]

Forest Griffin confirmed on his myspace.com blog that he will be fighting Ryoto Machida at UFC 70 in Manchester, England this April. Griffin is, of course, coming off a loss to Keith Jardin at UFC 66 while Ryoto Machida is coming off a victory over Sam Hoger at UFC 67. In the Heavyweight division, the [...]

I don’t normally due full previews of Pride Fighting Championships events, but seeing as how their next event is this Friday Saturday in Las Vegas, I thought I’d give a little preview. Plus, there are some really excellent fights on this card and several well-known fighters to the American crowd. Wanderlei Silva vs Dan Henderson [...]

The International Fight League released their expanded television schedule today for their shows on Fox Sports Net (FSN). Weekly, Friday night shows begin this Friday with the January 19th event in Oakland between the Condors and the Tiger Sharks. The IFL is also going to be airing their “IFL Battleground” series on MyNetworkTV beginning March [...]

Ever since the EliteXC premiered last Saturday night, the MMA community has been talking about the not infamous main event fight between Renzo Gracie and Frank Shamrock. If for some reason you haven’t yet heard about this fight, Renzo Gracie won the fight after Frank Shamrock was disqualified for illegal knee strikes to the head. [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission handed down rulings today and have suspended three fighters including Thiago Alves and Kevin Randleman. Thiago Alves last fought at UFC 66 when he defeated Tony DeSouza by KO in the 2nd round. After the fight, Alves tested positive for the diuretic Spironolactone. Today the NSAC suspended Alves for 8 [...]

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic’s next fight will be at UFC 70 in Manchester, England and we now know who his opponent will be – Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga. Gonzaga is 3-0 in the UFC, and you may remember that after his last victory against Carmelo Marrero at UFC 66, Gonzaga was thought to be next in [...]

The International Fight League has released the fight card for their February 23rd event to be held at The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Atlanta, GA. The event will be headlined with a superfight between Robbie Lawler and Eduardo Pamplona. Here is the fight card: Dragons (Toronto) vs. Wolfpack (Portland) (IFL Record, Overall) 155 lb: [...]

We all have heard about the “bad blood” between Diego Sanchez and Josh Koscheck, both of whom were contestants on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter. Sanchez and Koscheck will get their chance to settle the score at UFC 69 in Houston, Texas and most of the MMA world is eagerly awaiting that matchup. Too [...]

UFCJunkie.com is reporting that Frank Mir will once again fight in the UFC at UFC Fight Night 9 against Antoni Hardonk. Since returning to the UFC in February of 2006, Mir lost his first fight back to Marcio Cruz, barely defeated Dan Christison, and was KO’d by Brandon Vera at UFC 65. For those who [...]

Just a little Nick Diaz love to get everyone warmed up for his upcoming fight with PrideFC lightweight champion Takanori Gomi on February 24 at Pride 33: The Second Coming. Nick Diaz highlightUploaded by prodigalson379

Elite XC debut show is in the books and the Showtime fight card ended in controversy. Frank Shamrock was disqualified two minutes into the second round for multiple knee strikes to the head of Renzo Gracie. Now, I do not have Showtime and have not yet seen the main card fights, but from all accounts [...]