Here are the fighter salaries from last nights UFC Fight Night Live show. Luke Cummo — $32,000 Nate Diaz — $30,000 Thiago Alves — $28,000 Kenny Florian — $22,000 Chris Leben — $20,000 Nate Quarry — $20,000 Dustin Hazelett — $16,000 Din Thomas — $16,000 Gray Maynard — $16,000 Cole Miller — $16,000 Terry Martin [...]

Hot on the heels of UFC Fight Night 11 this past Wednesday, UFC 76: Liddell vs Jardine takes place this Saturday night in Anaheim, CA. Chuck Liddell makes his first appearance since losing the UFC Light Heavyweight belt to Quinton Jackson at UFC 71. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua makes his UFC debut at UFC 76 and [...]

Well, this will be the first time I’ve ever done one of these “live blog” events here at MMA HQ, so we’ll see how it goes. So if you guys like it, let me know; if its garbage, let me know that too. Let’s get the night started.

The UFC returns Wednesday night with another strong Fight Night card headlined by Kenny Florian and Din Thomas. Thomas was originally scheduled to fight Spencer Fisher; unfortunately Fisher had to withdraw from the fight due to a staph infection in his knee. This Fight Night also features the returns of Nate Quarry and Thiago Alves [...]

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EliteXC will hold their first co-promotion event with newly acquired ICON Sport this Saturday night in Honolulu, Hawaii. The main event features another one of these “unification” bouts between ICON middleweight champion Robbie Lawler and EliteXC middleweight champion Murilo Rua. This card also features the return of Nick Diaz after a six-month suspension due to [...]

Loretta Hunt at TheFightNetwork.com is reporting that Joe Riggs has left World Extreme Cagefighting and signed a contract with Strikeforce. Riggs will reportedly make his Strikeforce debut on September 29 in Los Angeles where he will fight current Stikeforce champion Eugene “The Wolf” Jackson for the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship belt. Both Jackson and Riggs are [...]

If you can understand Croatian, here is the video interview. What can I say, I’m very disappointed. I broke a rib already in the first round, so I was breathing heavily, I also got two knees in the groin, which hurt my stamina. I feel bad, I fought bad, maybe I’m getting older,” he tried [...]

You asked for more guests and Inside the Cage has delivered! Joining Matt Cava and Sam Caplan this week were EliteXC play-by-play announcer and Fight Network Radio host Mauro Ranallo and UFC lightweight contender Frankie Edgar. [audio:ICR_090807.mp3] Both segments were great. Mauro was especially in rare form today as we discussed a number of topics [...]

We ended up with 11 guys in the fight camp for UFC 75 and, needless to say, it wasn’t a very good event overall for the MMA HQ crew. We had some guys mop up in the wagering department but not too many high scorers. Here are the top 3 point leaders for UFC 75: [...]

UFC 75 is in the books and overall the fight card was a decent one. Some good fights, a LOT of commercials, and some questionable decisions all equal another UFC event. Quinton Jackson vs Dan Henderson – This fight was everything it should have been as a fight between two champions. If you are a [...]

Much has been made about the current state of contract negotiations between Fedor Emelianenko and the UFC. Fedor’s management team has been meeting off and on with the UFC brass over the past two weeks and no official announcement regarding the negotiation’s status has been made. With UFC 75 just around the corner tomorrow night, [...]

Here are the official fighter salary numbers from last nights WEC 30 event. Rob McCullough: $24,000 John Alessio: $22,000 Miguel Torres: $20,000 Rich Crunkilton: $10,000 Chase Beebe: $10,000 Brian Stann: $10,000 Marcus Hicks: $8,000 Donald Cerrone: $6,000 Bryan Baker: $6,000 Rani Yahya: $6,000 Blas Avena: $6,000 Jeff Bedard: $4,000 Ian McCall: $4,000 Jesse Forbes: $4,000 [...]

WEC 30 proved to be an excellent night of fights with both title holders retaining their belts at the end of the evening. “Razor” Rob McCullough made easy work of challenger Rich Crunkilton in the first round. Both guys were throwing heavy punches from the opening bell as McCullough staggered Crunkilton and then Crunkilton returned [...]