Georges St. Pierre:

He wanted to face a top contender, not any other welterweight.
No excuses for loss vs. Serra. Saw sports psychologist who told him that the best team/fighter doesn’t always win, it’s whoever fights the best.
Feels he is newer, better and will show it versus Josh Koscheck.
Feels that fighting not as a champion again is [...]

UFC 74 fighters will tip the scales at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Friday August 24th, the day before promotion invades the same venue with a stacked lineup of fights headlined by a heavyweight title bout between Randy “The Natural” Couture and Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga.
The weigh-ins are, as always, free and open to the [...]

In a lead up to UFC 74 Spike TV will air a Randy Couture marathon entitled “Couture: 100% Natural”. The series of shows will air on Thursday August 23. Here is a list of the shows included in the marathon according to a press release from Spike TV:
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM, ET/PT
UFC UNLEASHEDAfter losing a [...]

Thales Leites will be stepping in for Travis Lutter to face Ryan Jensen at UFC 74 according to multiple reports. Lutter was forced to withdraw from the bout yesterday after aggravating an injury in his neck.
Leites is a Brazilian mixed martial artist with an 11-1 MMA record. After fighting successfully in a number of other [...]

According to a MySpace post by Travis Lutter the Ultimate Fighter 4 winner has aggravated an injury and will be unable to fight Ryan Jensen at UFC 74 as originally planned. Here is the post Lutter made yesterday:

UFC 74 injured.
Saturday July 28th I was training and reagrivated a old injury. After giving my neck a [...]

The next episode of “UFC All Access”, hosted by Rachelle Leah, will feature current UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture. Although no specific date has been announced for the show it will air in the week leading up to his title fight at UFC 74 against Gabriel Gonzaga on August 25th.
In the past the show has [...]

The UFC 74 fight card is unofficially complete as the UFC has announced that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir will face Antoni Hardonk at UFC 74. The event features a heavyweight title fight between current champion Randy “The Natural” Couture and challenger Gabriel Gonzaga as well as a top contender bout between Josh Koscheck [...]

Roger Huerta will face undefeated mixed martial artists Alberto Crane at UFC 74 in August.
Huerta boasts a stellar 20-1-1 MMA record and a spotless 4-0 record in the UFC. Currently in the midst of a 14 fight win streak, Huerta defeated Jason Dent, John Halverson, and Leonard Garcia in his first 3 UFC fights. In [...]

Sherdog has clarified their earlier rumor that B.J. Penn would face Diego Sanchez at UFC 74 and it now appears that “The Prodigy” does not know when his next UFC fight will be or who it will be against.
The news throws out yet another opponent for Sanchez who has been rumored to be fighting at [...]

Diego Sanchez appears to have finally found an opponent for his UFC 74 fight. The top welterweight will face “The Prodigy” B.J. Penn in a main card fight on the August 25th UFC card according to Sherdog.
Sanchez has been reported to be on the August PPV card for months although his opponent had previously been [...]

One of the longest rumored fighters expected to fight at UFC 74 was Tim Sylvia but it now appears that the former UFC heavyweight champion will not be back fighting until October at the earliest. Here is the quick note Sylvia posted on his website:
I’m back in training and things are looking good. Hoping to [...]

Renato “Babalu” Sobral will look to avoid a third straight UFC loss August 25th when he faces David Heath at UFC 74.
Sobral has dropped consecutive fights for just the second time in his career in his last 2 UFC fights. “Babalu” was defeated by Chuck Liddell with a quick KO in the first round of [...]

The Ultimate Fighter 4 winner Travis Lutter will return to the octagon in August at UFC 74. His opponent will be UFC newcomer Ryan Jensen.
Lutter is perhaps most well known for something he failed to do rather than a career accomplishment: make weight. Lutter failed to make weight for his UFC 67 matchup against Anderson [...]

According to a post made by Patrick Cote on a popular MMA forum the Canadian mixed martial artist announced will be facing The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Kendall Grove at UFC 74 on August 25th.
Cote is just 1-4 in the UFC so far in his career but has faced some top competition. Cote made his [...]

I have beeb flooded with emails asking when tickets for the now-officially announced UFC 74 would be going on sale and I now have an answer. Tickets for the event, headlined by a heavyweight title match between Randy Couture and Gabriel Gonzaga, will go on starting on Thursday July 5th.
Tickets will be priced at $800, [...]