Nick Diaz and Scott Smith will square off on Saturday, June 6, in a special 180-pound showdown during the live SHOWTIME telecast of Strikeforce: “Lawler vs. Shields” from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo.

Bellator Fighting Championships continues its 12 week nationwide world championship series with its sixth event taking place at the Central Pavilion Arena at Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, Texas on May 8, 2009.

Bellator Fighting Championships announced today a lineup of highly anticipated fights taking place at Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on May 1, 2009. Dayton will host the first round of Bellator’s Semi-Final match-ups, with a $50,000 prize for each winner, which will send two Lightweights to the Bellator world championship final bout in June.

One of the most dominating up-and-coming fighters in the world has signed on with the Maximum Fighting Championship.

Former WWE star Bobby “The Dominator” Lashley will step into the MFC ring on Friday, May 15 at MFC 21: Hard Knocks…

Four of the most popular and accomplished champions in mixed martial arts, Dan Henderson, Cung Le, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Matt Serra, have partnered with Round 5, the leading producer of MMA collectibles, to create figurines that will be included in an expanded Series 4, it was announced today by Barron Lau, Round 5 CEO and co-founder and Damon Lau, president and co-founder.

Kim Couture will take a major step up in competition when she squares off with fearsome submission expert Miesha Tate at SHO MMA: Strikeforce Challengers at Fresno, California’s Save Mart Center on Friday, May 15. In addition, Aaron Rosa will face Anthony Ruiz in a light heavyweight fight.

But on Wednesday, April 29 at Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan, Team England will make its much anticipated debut during the 2009 "M-1 Challenge presented by Affliction."

The long anticipated welterweight championship battle between champion Georges St. Pierre and challenger BJ Penn proved to be as compelling to audiences two months after it took place, as Spike TV’s replay of UFC 94 was the #1 program among Men 18-34 in all of television during its time period on Saturday, April 11.

Tickets for UFC 100 are SOLD OUT. The historic UFC 100 event, with three blockbuster fights already confirmed, received a massive response from UFC Fight Club and Newsletter members, creating a sellout in record time.

Bellator Fighting Championships announced the exclusive launch of its English-language broadcast on Bellator.com beginning today, bringing Bellator’s explosive and exciting events directly to its English speaking fans.

Ken Shamrock and Wargods Promotion have decided to halt their plans of co promoting and putting on cage fighting events together. Each company has decided that they need to concentrate their efforts on new upcoming projects that have developed on both sides which are very time consuming.

In celebration of UFC 100, Spike TV will present a 5-part special, “UFC’s Ultimate 100: Greatest Fights” highlighting the best 100 bouts in UFC history, as voted on by the fans.

The winner of Saturdays bout between Gilbert Melendez and Rodrigo Damm will be crowned the Interim Strikeforce Lightweight Champion and be granted a shot at title-holder Josh Thomson when the injured fighter is ready to return to action, Strikeforce has officially announced.

For the UFC’s historic UFC 100 event on Saturday, July 11th in Las Vegas a stacked card featuring the best of the best in mixed martial arts is not only expected, but required. On Wednesday, Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Georges St-Pierre vs. Thiago Alves, and Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping were confirmed for the event.

Unlike most television series which suffer ratings decline as they get older, the ratings for “The Ultimate Fighter” are like fine wine, getting better with age. The season nine premiere of TUF 9 on April 1 was the most watched debut since season 5.