The official Ultimate Fighter 5 website will go live tomorrow, March 16th. Today, Spike TV launched their show site for the upcoming installment of the popular reality series. Spike’s site features loads of photos of the new fighters as well as backrounds and MMA records. Although there is light content on the site so far [...]

Update: UFC 72 is now believed to be on June 16th in Belfast, Ireland.
In a recent Sherdog.com interview with Jorge Gurgel, The Ultimate Fighter 2 competitor talked about two upcoming UFC events. In the video Gurgel says he will either be making his return “on June 30th at UFC Ireland”. Gurgel continues saying “maybe that [...]

Cage Rage is producing quite a bit of UFC news this week. The most recent news surrounds current CRC lightweight champion Abdul Mohamed (12-4-2 MMA). According to a report on the Cage Rage website, Mohamed has declined a contract to come to the UFC.
After declining the contract Mohamed is now set to face former UFC [...]

UFC officials have confirmed UFC 70 will air for free on Spike but it will be shown on a tape delay, not at 2 p.m. when the event will be happening during prime-time in England. This presents a predicament in an age of lightning quick information sharing as the results will be posted and fully [...]

Yesterday UFC vet Gilbert Aldana passed away yesterday in a tragic boating accident according to UFC.com. He was 29.
Aldana died in his native Arizona after attempting to retrieve a shirt that had fallen off the boat and into the water. A friend attempted rescue and was unsuccessful. A search is underway for his body which [...]

New UFC Heavyweight Champ Randy Couture has been making the rounds on major TV recently, first appearing on ESPN and now on Fox News show “Your World with Neil Cavuto”.
You can check out the video clip here.
Not the best MMA or UFC interview in history (far from it actually) but bigger than what the interview [...]

Sam Caplan has done a superb interview with Dana White for CBS Sportsline and White had lots to say. We first learned of the interview yesterday when news surfaced that Tito Ortiz would be facing Rashad Evans at UFC 71. That was just the beginning with White revealing a lot more in the interview (Part [...]

UFC vice president of government and regulatory affairs Marc Ratner went on the record to the Washington Times about possible locations for future UFC events. Here is what Ratner had to say:
“Coming to Washington, that is certainly a possibility, certainly under consideration. We don’t have enough dates to go around to satisfy the demand. You [...]

But that is exactly what Hermes Franca (18-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC), a Brazilian native, did. From last March through this January Franca fought an impressive 8 times over the 10 month span winning all 8 fights. In his UFC fights over the span Franca first fought at UFC 61 topping Joe Jordan by submission then [...]

Althoguh we would all love to see Dana White face Tito Ortiz in a full on UFC match we will be treated to the next best thing: A boxing match between the UFC President and arguably the organizations most well known fighter.
MMAFever.com has the AP story on the fight which was just recently approved [...]

At Pride 33 Nick Diaz (15-6 MMA, 6-4 UFC) literally shocked nearly anyone who follows MMA when he beat Takanori Gomi at PRIDE Fighting Championships’ Pride 33: The Second Coming event in February. Now, according to reports, Diaz flunked a required drug test after the win testing positive for marijuana. All other fighters passed [...]

Hot into my mailbox, Chuck Liddell is on the cover of April’s issue of Men’s Fitness. The UFC light-heavyweight champ discusses his win over Tito Ortiz at UFC 66 along with UFC generalities as why people choose to fight and how 80% have college education.
The piece is yet another example of UFC hitting the mainstream [...]

The Columbus Dispatch has the beat on ticket sales for tomorrows UFC 68 event. $2.8 million. That number is more than any other event at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Ever.
The ticket sales figure tops The Rolling Stones and a duo of Billy Joel and Elton John. If that doesn’t tell everyone that the UFC [...]

Pennsylvania was one of the biggest draw states that had yet to lift the ban on MMA events. Well the wait is over. MMA Weekly is reporting that Pennsylvania has voted to lift the ban on MMA events and will begin to write regulations meaning MMA events in the state are on the horizon.
The [...]

It has long been rumored and hinted that UFC President Dana White, along with even the most-casual MMA fan, wanted to see UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell do toe-to-toe with rival Wanderlei Silva. The rumors of their matchup now mean next-to-nothing as Silva was knocked out by Dan Henderson at Pride 33 over the [...]