Joe Riggs’ (25-9 MMA, 2-3 UFC) 25-9 mixed martial arts records look impressive but his 2-3 UFC record failed to impress. “Diesel was dealt losses by Matt Hughes, Mike Swick, and Diego Sanchez while posting wins against Nick Diaz and Jason Von Flue.
Riggs’ suffered the death of his son but after taking just a few [...]

Sherdog.com has a piece up called “Nine Who Need to Hang Up the Gloves” which, as its name implies, is a rundown of 9 fighters (plus one bonus) who should give up MMA. I don’t necessarily agree with all of the picks but think they’re worth reporting. In random order:

“Tank” Abbott
Dan Severn
Elvis Sinosic
Mark Coleman
Kevin Randleman
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Today the UFC announced their season 6 tryouts for The Ultimate Fighter. The show played a large role in taking MMA to where it is today. Here’s the release from UFC.com:
UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter® season 6 welterweight fighter tryouts will be held at the Palms Hotel and Casino, Tuesday, April 10th beginning at 8am PT. [...]

The official Ultimate Fighter 5 website will go live tomorrow, March 16th. Today, Spike TV launched their show site for the upcoming installment of the popular reality series. Spike’s site features loads of photos of the new fighters as well as backrounds and MMA records. Although there is light content on the site so far [...]

Update: UFC 72 is now believed to be on June 16th in Belfast, Ireland.
In a recent Sherdog.com interview with Jorge Gurgel, The Ultimate Fighter 2 competitor talked about two upcoming UFC events. In the video Gurgel says he will either be making his return “on June 30th at UFC Ireland”. Gurgel continues saying “maybe that [...]

Today the UFC announced they would be releasing more UFC 70:  ‘Nations Collide’ tickets due to “stunning public demand”. We first hinted at a ticket increase Thursday and now the UFC has officially released more tickets. No definite number was announced but early reports said the number could be in the thousands. Here’s an excerpt [...]

New UFC Heavyweight Champ Randy Couture has been making the rounds on major TV recently, first appearing on ESPN and now on Fox News show “Your World with Neil Cavuto”.
You can check out the video clip here.
Not the best MMA or UFC interview in history (far from it actually) but bigger than what the interview [...]

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 [...]

UFC vice president of government and regulatory affairs Marc Ratner went on the record to the Washington Times about possible locations for future UFC events. Here is what Ratner had to say:
“Coming to Washington, that is certainly a possibility, certainly under consideration. We don’t have enough dates to go around to satisfy the demand. You [...]

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, [...]

The Columbus Dispatch has the beat on ticket sales for tomorrows UFC 68 event. $2.8 million. That number is more than any other event at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Ever.
The ticket sales figure tops The Rolling Stones and a duo of Billy Joel and Elton John. If that doesn’t tell everyone that the UFC [...]

Pennsylvania was one of the biggest draw states that had yet to lift the ban on MMA events. Well the wait is over. MMA Weekly is reporting that Pennsylvania has voted to lift the ban on MMA events and will begin to write regulations meaning MMA events in the state are on the horizon.
The [...]