Just to lighten everyones day up…

It appears that the International Fight League has done what the Ultimate Fighting Championship wasn’t able to: sign a television deal with HBO. The IFL announced today that HBO Latin America will begin showing IFL content in 2008. The HBO deal will bring IFL programming to a spanish language audience covering Latin America, Brazil and [...]

Michael Bisping officially announced today via UFC.com that he will be dropping down from the UFC’s light heavyweight division to their middleweight division. “Even though I’ve never fought at middleweight, I’ve gone back and forth with the decision to go down pretty much my whole career,” Bisping said. “Even from my very first pro fight [...]

As we once again near the end of another year, it’s time to start thinking about the yearly MMA “awards” that will be given out. This is the first year, MMA HQ is going to list our own awards selections and I’m looking for input from our faithful readers. In the comments section of this [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighter salary information from last Saturday nights Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale event. Roger Huerta — $38,000 Mac Danzig — $16,000 Jon Koppenhaver — $16,000 George Sotiropoulos — $16,000 Ben Saunders — $16,000 Troy Mandaloniz — $16,000 Matt Arroyo — $16,000 Roman Mitichyan — $16,000 Jonathan Goulet — [...]

After a full three month layoff, World Extreme Cagefighting is putting on another show this Wednesday night in Las Vegas and this fight card is worth the weight. Three WEC title belts will be on the line as the Featherweight, Middleweight, and Light Heavyweight titles all go up for grabs. The WEC returns with what [...]

With no fanfare at all, the UFC has finally stripped Sean Sherk of his UFC Lightweight belt after the final ruling by the California State Athletic Commission in Sherk’s steroid case. This is perhaps the first smart move the UFC has made the whole Sherk ordeal. With all the hype for “huge announcements” during last [...]

The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 finale provided quite and overall exciting show last night. Mac Danzig came away the winner of TUF 6 after easily defeating Tommy Speer by decision, while Roger Huerta won the main event in a hard-fought battle against Clay Guida. Roger Huerta vs Clay Guida – This fight lived up to [...]

Apparently Chuck Liddell has moved on from Xyience to bigger and better things… But selling computer ads??? Come on Chuck; get back in the gym. (Video after the jump).

Rumors first started circulating yesterday that long-time UFC referee “Big” Jon McCarthy would announce his retirement from active refereeing this Friday night. McCarthy scheduled a media call for Friday afternoon to make an, as of yet, undisclosed announcement. Well, it appears that everyone’s favorite “MMA reporter” [read: UFC schill] Kevin Iole may have blown this [...]

The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Serra vs Team Hughes wraps up this Saturday night in Las Vegas as Mac Danzig and Tommy Speer will face off for the TUF 6 “crown”. The fight card will feature the contestants from the TUF 6 season and be headlined by a lightweight battle between Roger Huerta and Clay [...]

After months and months of trying, the UFC has finally managed to enter New York’s fabled Madison Square Garden. Oh, don’t be mistaken. Mixed Martial Arts competitions are still illegal in the state of New York. Instead, the UFC is going to be showing UFC 79 live at Madison Square Garden on their bigscreens. For [...]

Sean Sherk and Kazuhiro Nakamura both went before the California State Athletic Commission today to have the final hearing in their drug-suspension cases. Nakamura’s appeal was completely denied and his 90-day suspension and fine of $500 were upheld by the commission. UFC lightweight champion, Sean Sherk’s suspension was reduced from a full year to six [...]