The latest MMAHQ.net rankings are out for November 6 through November 20. HEAVYWEIGHT 1. Fedor Emelianenko 2. Randy Couture 3. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 4. Josh Barnett 5. Tim Sylvia 6. Gabriel Gonzaga 7. Mirko Filipovic 8. Andrei Arlovski 9. Aleksander Emelianenko 10. Cheick Kongo LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT 1. Quinton Jackson 2. Dan Henderson 3. Mauricio Rua [...]

The WEC has finally announced the next opponent for Middleweight champion Paulo Filho. MMA veteran Chael Sonnen will face Filho at the next WEC show on December 12 in Las Vegas. Sonnen is a UFC veteran and has most recently spent most of his time in BodogFIGHT. “Chael matches well with Paulo Filho, who is [...]

Strikeforce has finally found a broadcast partner for their much anticipated four-man, middleweight tournament this Friday night in San Jose, CA. This card will mark the first MMA tournament competition in the state of California and also feature a heavyweight title fight between former UFC fighter Paul Buentello and former PrideFC star Alistair Overeem. Also [...]

Rumors have been flying all day regarding the possibility of Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou possibly fighting for the UFC and making his debut at UFC 79. It appears that there is truth to the rumor and Ryoto Machida will be Sokoudjou’s first opponent on December 29th in Las Vegas. According to Brazillian website Worldfight, the UFC [...]

Brian Knapp at TheFightNetwork is reporting that Nick Diaz will undergo plastic surgery “to repair the considerable scar tissue that has developed around his eyes.” According to Diaz’s training partner, Kit Cope, “‘He didn’t get hit with anything hard. It’s just that he’s got some gnarly cuts. There were a couple of fights [in his [...]

EliteXC: Renegade was a pretty solid, exciting fight card and ProElite is doing a good job improving their show with each event. There still are plenty of quirks that could easily be fixed (i.e. not having Bill Goldberg on the announcing team, and not letting Jared Shaw hang off the fighters like some kind of [...]

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MMAHaven.com is reporting that Frank Trigg is expected to sign with HDNet Fights to face Edwin Dewees on the upcoming December 15 fight card in Dallas, TX. For a while, the general consensus was that Trigg was close to signing a deal with the WEC to face current WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho on the [...]

You all know I’m a big fan of former UFC Middleweight champion Evan Tanner and I’ve followed his career both in the UFC and most recently away from the UFC. Tanner recently made a failed attempt to return to the UFC after his “fighter foundation” project went south. Tanner moved down to California, bought a [...]

EliteXC holds their next event this Saturday night in Corpus Cristi, Texas. The event will be broadcast on Showtime and feature a lightweight title fight between Nick Diaz and KJ Noons as the main event. Let’s quickly take a look at the fights that will be shown on the televised portion of the card. Nick [...]

** BREAKING NEWS ** ** BREAKING NEWS ** You will never be able to believe this, but against all odds, David Terrell has been scratched from the UFC 78 fight card because of, get this, an injury! I know, I could hardly believe it either. I mean David Terrell is injured before an upcoming fight [...]

Everyone’s favorite bald journalist has an interesting article up today at Yahoo Sports. According to Kevin Iole, Dana White has announced that the UFC will not be stripping Sean Sherk of his lightweight title belt, regardless of the final outcome of Sherk’s appeal before the California State Athletic Commission. Sean Sherk is going to remain [...]

Round5MMA has finally officially announced their first series of MMA figurines available for pre-order. Series 1 includes UFC stars Matt Hughes, Quinton Jackson, Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture. The figurines are available for pre-order today and are guaranteed to be delivered by Christmas. To see the official “trailier” click through to the rest of the [...]

EliteXC held a media conference call yesterday afternoon for their upcoming fight card scheduled on November 10 in Texas. On the call, EliteXC President Gary Shaw announced that the promotion will now officially add three new weightclasses. The new weightclasses will be 140 lbs, 150 lbs, and 160 lbs in addition to the existing 170 [...]