Dave Meltzer from Wrestling Observer is reporting in a recent article that UFC 70 will “most likely” air on Spike TV and not HBO as was initially rumored. Here’s what the article had to say:
“Dana White said that regarding the broadcast of UFC 70 on 4/21 from Manchester, England into the U.S., that nothing is [...]

Earlier today Terry Etim was added to the UFC 70 fight card for a bout against a then unknown fighter. MMAWeekly.com is reporting that Etim’s opponent will be fellow Brit Matt Grice (3-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
Grice handed then 2-0 Dan Marks his first career MMA loss at an Extreme Wars event last June. He also [...]

A recent post by Sam Caplan on his personal blog, Five Ounces of Pain, throws Tito Ortiz’s oppent at UFC 71 into doubt. Originally it was reported Ortiz would be facing Keith Jardine at the May event based on rumors from MMAWeekly but in his recent interview with UFC Prez Dana White, Caplan seems to [...]

Tatame.com is confirming that at UFC 73 on July 7th Anderson “The Spider” Silva (18-4 MMA, 3-0 UFC) will be putting his middleweight belt on the line against Nate Marquardt (25-6-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC).
Silva entered his first fight in the UFC at Fight Night 5 as an underdog in the main event against Chris Leben [...]

Undefeated lightweight Terry Etim (7-0 MMM, 0-0 UFC) will make his UFC debut at UFC 70 in Manchester England, according to the Fight Network. No opponent has been announced.
The native Englishman is still rather new to MMA fighting in the sport for the first time in the middle of 2005 but brings an impressive undefeated [...]

Update: Mir suffered a shoulder injury according to numerous reports. Read more on the injury here.
Frank Mir (9-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC), the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, has been scratched from the UFC Fight Night 9 card where he was to face Antoni Hardonk (5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC). Mir has an undisclosed injury and was [...]

Jason MacDonald (18-8-0, 2-1 UFC) lost to Rich Franklin (21-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) at UFC 68 but is far from giving up. MacDonald’s team was forced to throw in the towel after a Franlin punch to his eye left him blind and unable to continue the fight. His post fight interview with the Edmonton Sun [...]

For those who haven’t heard, or seen, yet UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell appeared on a show called Good Morning Texas to promote his fighitng and more importantly the upcoming movie ‘300′. On the show the champ displayed slurred speech and promted the host ask “You alright?”. Well the truth has finally been revealed [...]

This post has all of the fighter salaries from this past weekends UFC 68 event in Columbus, Ohio. The amounts were released by the Ohio Athletic Commission earlier today and include only base salaries and win bonuses. These do not include other bonuses the UFC pays for special awards or the percentages some fighters earn [...]

UFC 69 tickets are still selling but they are no where near sold out. The Houston Chronicle reports that 1,100 tickets are still available from the first round released to the public. Here’s an except from the article:
“As of late last week, 10,000 tickets had been sold, generating $2.3 million for UFC coffers thus far. [...]

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 [...]

Randy Couture (15-8 MMA, 12-5 UFC) is the new UFC Heavyweight Champion and he already has an opponent in mind: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filpovic (22-4-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC). Cro Cop is a heavyweight who is new to the UFC and who will likely advance to face Couture if he gets past Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC [...]

UFCJunkie.com has broken the news that Hector Ramirez (6-2-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) has been scratched from UFC Fight Night 9 and has been replaced by Seth Petruzelli (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC). Petruzelli will be taking on Wilson Gouveia (7-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC). They report the scratch was due to an undisclosed injury.
Petruzelli competed on the [...]

Two “top contenders” matches have been added to the UFC 71 card in May. Light heavyweight contenders Keith Jardine and Tito Ortiz will be squaring off in the octagon in the May 26th event as will welterweight contenders Karo Parisyan and Josh Burkman, according to rumors from MMAWeekly.com.
The site currently lists the main event for [...]

There were quite a few interesting little news stories from the UFC 68 post-fight press conference and from the fight results that beg some attention:

After his loss, Tim Sylvia was quick to say he had an injury. Turns out he hurt his back and nearly pulled out of the fight because of it. Does this [...]