The female bout between Shayna Baszler of Sioux Falls, S.D. and Brazil’s Cristiane Cyborg has been added to the lineup for the second primetime broadcast of CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS, live from the Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif. on Saturday, July 26 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Baszler and Cyborg, who are [...]

Former UFC lightweight champion and current WEC featherweight Jens Pulver, who is coming off of a loss to WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber, will likely return to the cage in October, possibly against Alexandre Franca Nogueira.
The UFC is planning to hold an event in Chicago in October and in Boston in November and will also [...]

EliteXC heavyweight standout Antonio “Big Foot” Silva will face Justin Eilers for the newly created EliteXC Heavyweight Championship at Saturday Night Fights 2 “Unfinished Business” on July 26th at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California.
Eilers (19-6 MMA, 1-3 UFC) is a UFC veteran turned MMA journeyman, who is fairly outmatched in every possible angle against [...]

Infamous Ultimate Fighter 7 outcast Jesse Taylor is rumored to return to the UFC at UFC Fight Night 14, against fellow TUF cast member CB Dolloway.
Brandon Vera, who will meet Reese Andy at UFN 14, confirmed that he did in fact turn down a fight with Lyoto Machida, but was open to fighting Dan [...]

Fans seeking to participate in the most significant sporting event in the recent history of Stockton, Calif. — an exciting evening of mixed martial arts, which includes two EliteXC world title fights — have the opportunity to reserve their seats now.
Tickets, starting at $35 for the Saturday, July 26 fight card at the Stockton Arena [...]

CBS and EliteXC announced today that the next CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS will be broadcast live from the Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif. on Saturday, July 26 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The four-fight broadcast will be highlighted by the highly anticipated rematch between “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler and Scott “Hands [...]

Thomas Denny has agreed to fight Nick Diaz at EliteXC “Unfinished Business” on July 26th, according to Sherdog.com.
The event will be held in Diaz’s hometown of Stockton, California at the Stockton Arena and will air live on CBS at 9pm ET. Two EliteXC titles will be up for grabs at the event as champion Robbie [...]

Nick Diaz, who was recently pulled from a DREAM welterweight title bout in anticipation of an EliteXC lightweight championship rematch against KJ Noons, will not fight Noons on the July 26th EliteXC CBS card according to MMAMania.com. Diaz, however, is still expected to fight at the event ,which will reportedly take place in his hometown [...]

Nick Diaz has been removed by EliteXC from his scheduled bout against Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at DREAM 5 due to “contractual obligations” according to GracieFighter.com.
Diaz was to fight Sakurai for the promotion’s welterweight title at the event, which takes place on July 21st in Osaka, Japan.
“I was happy to be fighting Sakurai and hoping to [...]

Remember that time Nick Diaz and his crew instigated a scuffle with KJNoon’s and his father at that EliteXC show? Seemed like a pretty jerk move, right? Well that wasn’t Nick’s fault, just so you know. In fact, the whole mess was actually KJ Noons’ fault for being such a poser. Seriously:
“And he (Diaz) points [...]

The often-scheduled yet never-fulfilled EliteXC welterweight championship bout between Jake Shields and Drew Fickett has encountered even more trouble, thanks to one Drew Fickett. Fickett, who postponed the June 14 meeting citing an injury which required healing time, recently turned up on the Sherdog.com FightFinder as having competed at a “Rage In The Cage” [...]

While much has been going on in the world of MMA this past week or so, we at MMAFrenzy.com would surely be remiss if we neglected to report some of the MMA news that has slipped through the cracks.
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Though superfluous in nature, it has been announced that Fedor [...]

HONOLULU (June 14, 2008) – On a night fit for a King, not even a post-fight scuffle could ruin the moment for KJ Noons, who retained the EliteXC lightweight title with a devastating 48-second, first-round TKO over Yves Edwards Saturday at the Blaisdell Arena on SHOWTIME.
In the co-feature on a card billed as “Return Of [...]

KJ Noons had little time to celebrate following his dominant 48-second TKO victory over challenger Yves Edwards in the lightweight championship main event of Saturday’s EliteXC “Return of the King” event in Hawaii as lightweight challenger Nick Diaz entered the cage to call Noons out for a future title bout rematch.
Diaz, who defeated Mushin Corbbrey [...]