Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show interviewed former UFC referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy on their last show. Here’s some snips from the interview:
ON WHY HE QUIT REFEREEING:
“I quit refereeing because I was disappointed in some of the things that were happening in the sport.”
ON WHETHER HE WILL MAKE A [...]

Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show interviewed the #1 UFC Light Heavyweight contender, Forrest Griffin on their last show (volume 132). Forrest speaks out on his experience as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter, his upcoming title fight against Rampage Jackson and a few other interesting things.
ON HIS UPCOMING [...]

Former UFC referee “Big” John McCarthy recently dished out his thoughts on varying commission rules, boxing vs. MMA, and most notably, his no-holds-barred take on the UFC’s “anti-Affliction” programming:
“I mean, look at that fight. You got your middleweight champion (Anderson Silva), you’re moving up to light-heavyweight to fight James Irvin. What good does that do [...]

“I would love to fight that guy. I’ve tried to fight him ever since I fought in PRIDE and he’s been ducking me. Shogun has been ducking me since the PRIDE days. Shogun’s camp told me that to fight him, I had to fight Cyborg first. I told them I want to fight Shogun, not [...]

In case there was any doubt that the Kaitlin Young/Gina Carano fight was also unnecessarily stopped this past Saturday night at EliteXC “Primetime”, here are some words from Kaitlin Young regarding the decision:
“My left cheek and area surrounding the eye are looking pretty ugly today, but there was no major damage. Though it may have [...]

Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show interviewed top UFC welterweight contender, Jon Fitch on their last show (volume 113). Jon is obviously very interested in this weekend’s Serra/GSP fight, since he will likely be facing the winner. Here are some excerpts from the show.
ON GETTING A TITLE SHOT NEXT
“The [...]

You may recall a couple of weeks ago when UFC middleweight Pete “Drago” Sell made some disparaging remarks about the mental toughness of one Georges St. Pierre:
“GSP is an awesome athlete. He has all the tools to dominate but he is a mental midget — his mentality is very weak. …I don’t like the way [...]

In some cut ups from MMA Madness, Matt Serra dishes out his classic brand of sentiment on the upcoming bout with GSP, arch rival Matt Hughes, and, of course, the hostile Canadian crowd.
Serra on Serra:
“I am the MMA version of The Cinderella Man, except my fight didn’t go the distance…”
On GSP and Hughes:
“Afterward he made [...]

“I’ve been thinking about it. It’s going to depend on the scenario. I have a lot of training partners at 185 and my weight class is 170. I would never get into the way of one of my training partners. I would never fight somebody I train with. But if one day, I have the [...]

Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show interviewed top UFC middleweight Chris Leben on their last show and, as we know, he’s always got something interesting to say. Here are some excerpts from the show:
CALLING OUT YUSHIN OKAMI AND MICHAEL BISPING
“We’re talking to Joe (Silva – UFC Match Maker), and [...]

Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show interviewed mma legend Bas Rutten on their last show, and he had some interesting comments on his prodigy, Kimbo Slice. It seems Bas doesn’t think Kimbo is ready for the big time.
“…throwing him (Kimbo) up against a submission specialist is going to be [...]

“One that would be big for my heart and soul would be Josh Koscheck. The number one question that everyone always asks me is, ‘When are you going to kick that Josh Koscheck’s ass?’ So hopefully, maybe in June or July, we can go ahead and set that fight up.”

UFC welterweight Diego Sanchez tells MMA [...]

“It’s not a retirement. It’s a resignation from the UFC organization.”
In an interview with The Fight Network Randy Couture clarifies that he has resigned from the UFC but has not retired, leaving the door open for a possible return to MMA competition in another promotion.

UFC President Dana White on the American dream:
Q. You attended the University of Massachusetts-Boston for two years when you were younger. What was life like for you there?
A. “Here’s the thing with me. I don’t know how many questions you want to ask me about school because I was never a big school guy. I [...]

After months of expecting a Tito Ortiz–Rashad Evans rematch to headline UFC 78, it was announced a few days ago that instead, Michael Bisping would be facing Evans in the main bout. Ortiz claims to have declined a rematch with Evans because he is currently injured and wishes to take some time off to [...]