French fighter Cyrille Diabaté has signed a four-fight deal with the UFC. The 6’6 fighter, most recently spotted as a trainer for Team Henderson in TUF Season 9, will be competing in the light heavyweight division. Diabaté, who is a WKA and National Kickboxing title holder, holds an MMA record of 15-6-1, with 9 wins [...]

Strikeforce middleweight fighter Jake Shields has confirmed his first title defense will be against Dan Henderson at a still unannounced April Strikeforce show. “I have a date (and) venue, but they told me to hold that back,” Shields recently said on MMAWeekly Radio.  “Hopefully CBS.  I think it’s CBS.  There’s a slight possibility of Showtime [...]

WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson will make his first official title defense in late April, taking part in a highly-anticipated rematch with Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. Some still question Henderson’s fighting skills, but that doesn’t distract him as he looks forward to fighting on the first WEC pay-per-view event.  At just 26 years old, he continues [...]

Since you guys are talking about Akiyama and he’s fighting Wand next, I felt this was relevant.  Before GSP was accused of greasing during his 2nd fight with BJ Penn, there was a huge scandal involving Akiyama in his 2006 K1 Dynamite fight with Sakuraba. As a huge Saku fan, I was disgusted with Akiyama [...]

Roy “Big Country” Nelson (14-4) will next step inside the UFC Octagon on March 31 at UFC Fight Night 21 against Stevan Struve. Nelson, The Ultimate Fighter 10 winner and former IFL heavyweight champion, will take on the young and talented Struve.  Prior to his stint on TUF 10, Nelson had a five-fight IFL win [...]

It’s been over 16 months since Kelly Kobold has stepped into the cage, and she’s still ranked in 5th place in the Unified Women’s Rankings in the 145 lb. Featherweight division. This is partially due to the lack of depth in that weight class, and partially due to Kobold’s stunning record. Kobold holds 16 wins, [...]

For me, the underlying theme of UFC 110 was old school vs. new school: rising stars working to prove that they are not just young up-and-comers, but actual prospects (or at least top-tier fighters) in their divisions, versus the stars of old trying to prove that they still got it and are still relevant in their divisions. Does experience [...]

UFC 110 is in the books and it was a tough one for picks considering the highest score at the playground was 73. Our camp has been entrenched at 19th place out of 25 for this season and UFC 110 didn’t help to change that. Here are the results from this weekends picks. UFC 110 [...]

UFC 110 will be held in the Arco Arena in Sydney, Australia and the live broadcast of the event will be airing on Saturday Feb 20, at 10:00 pm est.  This card has recently been afflicted by injuries but still has many interesting fights with title implications. Antonio Nogueira vs Cain Velasquez : This is [...]

One day away from UFC 110, Sinosic suffered a shoulder injury during training forcing him to pull out of the fight and consequently the bout has been scrapped.  Not too big of a loss for most of us, but it was a big hit to the aussie fans. On top of that, Rothwell has pulled [...]

Strikeforce signed Vitor “Shaloin” Riberio in late 2009, but the Brazilian fighter still hasn’t seen action inside the cage just yet. “I really, really try to push for information but it’s not so easily,” Ribeiro noted to MMAJunkie.com.  “I hope I can fight in April.  I don’t know what card.  I think the CBS show [...]

Most elite fighters eventually find their way to the UFC, WEC or Strikeforce at some time in their careers, though the biggest challenge often is staying in one of these premier organizations.  MMA HQ today had a chance to chat with Sean “The Destroyer” Loeffler (17-4), who is a solid fighter that began his career [...]

For those of you who haven’t watched the presser yet, here’s what was said. Silva: “We’re going to have a great show and I’m going to kick your ass.” <everyone laughs> Bisping: “Best line ever, I think it’s funny, I haven’t said two words to the guy, but a lot of animosity has seemed to [...]