UFC 72: Victory takes place this Saturday afternoon at 3pm EST as the UFC holds their first show in Dublin, Ireland. Headlined by a good matchup between Rich Franklin and Yushin Okami, this fight card seems to lack some of the luster recent UFC events have held. Injuries have shortened the event to only 8 [...]

Remember Johnny Morton’s tough knockout in his MMA debut at the K-1 show? You probably also remember the fact that he refused to take a post fight drug test. Well, we now know why. In order to receive a license to fight, Morton, 35, was required to undergo a pre-fight urinalysis. According to Garcia, Sample [...]

What an excellent, exciting night of MMA fights. The main event was action packed and exciting to watch from start to finish, and every other fight shown on the SpikeTV show was exciting to watch as well. Spencer Fisher vs Sam Stout – This fight definitely lived up to, and probably exceeded most people’s expectations. [...]

The MMA-loaded month of June continues tomorrow night with another UFC Fight Night. There are several very strong fights on this card, and personally I’m looking forward more to this event than the upcoming UFC 72. Main Card Sam Stout vs Spencer Fisher – This rematch of a great battle from UFC 58: UFC vs [...]

As some of you know, long-time MMA HQ reader Amir recently attended UFC 71 in Las Vegas. Well, Amir was kind enough to write up a few thoughts on his UFC experience and send me a few photos. So, here is Amir’s recap and some of the great photos he was able to take. How [...]

KRQE News 13 in Albequerque, New Mexico is reporting that Albequerque native Diego Sanchez will be fighting Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at UFC 74 in August. Diego Sanchez, of course, last fought at UFC 69 where he received his first loss at the hands of Josh Koscheck by decision. A lot of news circulated around Sanchez [...]

** UPDATE ** The following information wasn’t posted by Josh Koscheck. It appears that his MySpace account was broken into and someone else posted the information. Koscheck has since denied and updated his site regarding the post. Regardless, whoever did hack into Koscheck’s site made some very good and valid points and was able to [...]

Reports are now arising that Jens Pulver, one of the coaches on The Ultimate Fighter Season 5, will move to the featherweight division of the WEC after his fight against B.J. Penn this month. Earlier today on the Savage Dog Show on Sherdog.com Radio, Monte Cox reported that Jens will make the move down to [...]

World Extreme Cagefighting made their live television debut on the Versus network last night and overall I thought the show was very good. The production value was excellent and for a first time viewer to the sport, I think that the initial impression was top notch. Pros Pace of the fights – All of the [...]

For those of you who didn’t get to see the K-1 USA: Dynamite show over the weekend, don’t worry; you didn’t miss much. Much was made about the K-1 show ahead of time and all the troubles they had trying to get the fight card off the ground, and overall the show was less than [...]

I know several of you were looking for the recent interview that MMAWeekly.com did with Mauricio “Shogun” Rua regarding his signing with the UFC, so here it is. Shogun Interview – Post UFC 71Uploaded by HLbyColargol

Paulo Filho, the Pride Bushido “legend” and a member of Brazilian’s Top Team, announced yesterday with Tatame magazine that he is close to signing a deal with the WEC. This will be an excellent signing for the WEC and its a great pickup for the organization. Filho, who is currently 14-0, is a submission specialist [...]

There is no denying that over the past three weeks or so, the “mainstream media” finally has turned its attention on the sport of MMA. To be more specific, the UFC itself has been ushered in the mainstream spotlight, not so much MMA in general, but that is beyond the scope of this post. During [...]