Middleweights Hector Lombard and Jared Hess will meet on June 19th in the 185-pound finals after both fighters earned first-round TKO victories on Friday at Bellator's week 9 event. The event took place at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana and will air tonight on ESPN Deportes.

Lyoto Machida became the new UFC light heavyweight champion on Saturday in Las Vegas, taking out title-holder Rashad Evans with a flurry of punches in the second round of their UFC 98 headliner to capture the 205-pound belt. Matt Hughes, Drew McFedries, Chael Sonnen, and Frankie Edgar also picked up main card victories.

Veteran light heavyweight Vladimir Matyushenko, who has fought in the UFC, Affliction, and the IFL, topped former UFC fighter Jason Lambert via unanimous decision on Saturday in Ontario, California in the main event of Call to Arms I.

Omar De La Cruz and Lyman Good advanced to the Bellator welterweight finals with victories on Friday at Bellator 7 in Chicago. In other action, Eddie Sanchez provided the promotion another highlight reel clip with a ten-second TKO while Kerry Vera and Leslie Smith engaged in an entertaining slugfest.

Previously unbeaten hometown favorite Billy Evangelista lost by disputed, controversial second-round disqualification to Mike Aina Friday in the main event of the inaugural Strikeforce Challengers telecast on SHOWTIME. At the finish, neither fighter was satisfied with the outcome at the Save Mart Center.

Wilson Reis defeated Henry Martinez via unanimous decision in the final bout of the Bellator featherweight tournament opening round, while Lyman Good submitted Hector Urbina in one of three welterweight opening round bouts which took place on Friday at Bellator 2.

Hayato "Mach" Sakurai needed just 27-seconds to knockout Shinya Aoki on Sunday at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan, pinning him in the corner of the ring before unloading a series of knees and punches that forced the referee to halt the DREAM 8 main event.

Jeff Monson and Bobby Lashley were each awarded unanimous decision victories on the MMA portion of Square Ring Promotion's "March Badness" event at the Pensacola Civic Arena in Pensacola, Florida on Saturday.

Masakazu Iminari, Hiroyuki Takaya, Yoshiro Maeda, Abel Cullum, Joe Warren, and Bibiano Fernandes advanced on Sunday at DREAM 7 into the second-round of the promotion's featherweight tournament. Tatsuya Kawajiri, Shinya Aoki, and Mitsuhiro Ishida picked up non-tournament victories.

WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown submitted Leonard Garcia just 1:57 into their WEC 39 headliner to retain the 145-pound title. Ricardo Lamas, Jose Aldo, and Rob McCullough also earned victories on the evening's main card.

Local Mike Easton captured the first-ever UWC bantamweight title on Saturday in Fairfax, Virginia with a third-round submission of late-replacement Justin Robbins. Jamal Patterson submitted Antwain Britt in just 44-seconds in the evening’s co-main event.
Notable fans in the crowd of 6,248 included MMA stars Matt Hughes, Robbie Lawler, and Amir Sadollah, Washington Redskin Chris Cooley, [...]

PRESS RELEASE; Tacoma, Washington – In a stunning upset, Team South Korea defeated the defending 2008 M-1 Challenge Champions Russia Imperial Team (formerly Russia Red Devil) by a score of 3-2 during the 2009 “M-1 Challenge Presented by Affliction” season opener on Saturday night at the Emerald Queen Casino near Tacoma, Washington.
A capacity crowd witnessed [...]

Maximum Fighting Championships put on their twentieth event on Friday in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The event included a lackluster MFC Lightweight Championship bout that saw Antonio McKee defeat Derrick Noble via unanimous decision, earning the position as the first-ever MFC Lightweight Champion.
The first of the co-main events was a welterweight superfight that saw Nick [...]

Middleweight Frank Trigg sealed his main event win over Danny Babcock with a late third-round knockdown, earning a unanimous decision victory in the headlining bout of XCF: Rumble in Racetown, which took place on Saturday in Daytona, Florida.
Despite emerging victorious, Trigg, who has now won four-straight bouts and eight of his last ten, said he [...]

MMA legends Ken Shamrock and Tank Abbott both earned first-round stoppage victories in their bouts on Friday at Wargods: Valentine’s Eve Massacre, which took place at the Selland Arena in Fresno, California.
Despite more than a 150-pound weight disadvantage against Ross Clifton, Shamrock knocked Clifton to the canvas early in the first-round before securing a fight-ending [...]