Tickets for UFC 71 will be going on sale this Monday, March 26th, to UFC Fight Club members at 1 pm EST. Two days later on Wednesday March 28th tickets will be available for subscribers to the UFC’s email subscribers but for those who aren’t the presale password is “RAMPAGE”. Finally on Friday March 30th [...]

According to Mad Squabbles Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has inked a 2-fight deal with the UFC and PRIDE. No details are available and even after trying to dig up something I came up empty handed so if this deal is indeed done expect more to come out soon.
Rua is regarded as one of the top light [...]

Although very unofficially, the UFC has released that UFC 71 will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 26th. The details were released on UFC.com under the “Location” section for the UFC 71: Liddell vs. Jackson event. Despite no official announcement of the fight yet, UFC.com has also put [...]

The back-and-forth match rumors surrounding a Chuck Liddell and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson rematch have been confiremed and the match will be taking place at UFC 71 on May 26th according to Jackson’s trainer Juanito Ibarra through Grag Jackson of Sherdog.com.
The match was thrown into questionable status for a variety of reasons including Chuck Liddell having [...]

Update: UFC 72 will be in Ireland after all on June 16th with UFC 73 on July 7th
After we speculated UFC 72 would be in Ireland we have learned more about the plans for UFC events this summer. It is now believed the UFC will have a UFC Fight Night event in Ireland on June [...]

A UFCJunkie.com report indicates the match between Tito Ortiz (15-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) and Rashad Evans (10-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) will no longer be happening at UFC 71 and will instead be moved to UFC 73. This makes UFC 73 looked like an absolutely stacked card with two rumored title defenses as well as this [...]

Even though UFC 71 is still several months away lots of news surrounding the event has been surfacing lately, perhaps most notably the announcement of a match between Tito Ortiz and Rashad Evans (10-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC). Sam Caplan from Five Ounces of Pain and CBSSportsline.com seems to already have his opinion on who will [...]

After Dana White went on the record to tell CBS Sportsline that UFC light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell would “most likely” face Quinton Jackson at UFC 71 it now looks like the fight may be in doubt.
After appearing very drowsy on a television show the truth came out that Liddell was suffering from pneumonia. Steve [...]

The UFC 71 card has become a lot clearer this week with Tito Ortiz rumored to take on Rashad Evans and Chuck Liddell set to face Quinton “Rampage” Jackson . Today we learned that Ivan Salaverry (12-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC) will face Terry Martin (15-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) in a middleweight bout according to [...]

Sam Caplan has done a superb interview with Dana White for CBS Sportsline and White had lots to say. We first learned of the interview yesterday when news surfaced that Tito Ortiz would be facing Rashad Evans at UFC 71. That was just the beginning with White revealing a lot more in the interview (Part [...]

UFCJunkie.com did some superb digging into what venue will be hosting UFC 71 when it rolls into town on May 26th. The two rumored venues are MGM Grand Garden Arena or the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Here is what they turned up:
“As of now…the location isn’t exactly known. The UFC originally booked the MGM Grand, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]