Mike Easton retained the UWC bantamweight title on Saturday at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia with a first-round submission of Josh Ferguson in the main event on UWC's Capital Punishment. UFC veteran War Machine submitted Reshad Woods in the evening's co-headliner.

Mere hours after it was learned that Thiago Taveres had been forced out of his Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale matchup against Melvin Guillard due to an elbow injury, Gleison Tibau has been tapped to square off with Guillard in a lightweight contest on June 20th in Las Vegas.

Continue reading after the jump for complete results from Bellator's third event, which took place on Friday in Norman, Oklahoma and featured the opening round of the promotion's middleweight tournament, a welterweight tourney bout, and six non-tournament bouts.

Anderson Silva defeated Thales Leites via unanimous decision in the UFC 97 main event on Saturday in Montreal, Canada in a fight that will be remembered as one of the most uneventful in UFC history. In the co-headliner, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua likely retired Chuck Liddell with a first-round knockout.

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com's live coverage of UFC 97: Redemption, which takes place today at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The event features Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites and Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua on its 12-bout card.

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.

WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres retained the 135-pound title on Sunday in Chicago, edging challenger Takeya Mizugaki via unanimous decision in the evening's headliner.

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.

Jorge Masvidal, Eddie Alvarez, and Tony Imada advanced to the second round of the Bellator FC lightweight tournament on Friday with victories at the promotion's debut event in Hollywood, Florida.

Former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit was defeated in his anticipated UFC debut, dropping a split decision to Martin Kampmann in the UFN 18 main event.

The UFC officially announced on Wednesday an exhibition bout between Bruce Buffer and Joe Rogan has been added to the UFC Fan Expo. Also, the promotion has greenlight construction of a stadium in Russia.

When former NFL running back Herbert "Whisper" Goodman left the Mladhost Sports Hall in Bourgas on Saturday night, he did so under the impression that he had suffered his sixth career loss. However, Goodman was informed a few short hours later by M-1 Challenge officials that the decision had been overturned and that he had recorded his ninth career victory courtesy of a second round knockout over ex-UFC veteran Jordan Radev.

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.

Quinton Jackson topped Keith Jardine via unanimous decision in the UFC 96 main event and Shane Carwin, Matt Brown, Matt Hamill, and Gray Maynard also picked up main card victories.