After missing out on another shot at the lightweight title with a dominating loss to Gray Maynard at UFC 118, UFC President Dana White said he believes Kenny Florian chokes in his biggest fights:

“I hate to say this because I don’t want to take anything away from Gray Maynard, but I think Kenny is just one of those guys who chokes in big fights”

James Toney’s UFC career is over after suffering a first-round submission to Randy Couture at Saturday’s UFC 118, and according to UFC President Dana White, the lopsided, yet unsurprising loss also ended the UFC’s experiment with bringing boxers into the Octagon.

UFC President Dana White will give welterweight Thiago Alves one final chance to stay at 170-pounds, despite saying after UFC 117 earlier this month that Alves needed move up to middleweight after failing to make weight for a unanimous decision loss to fellow contender Jon Fitch.

After Saturday’s UFC 117, UFC President Dana White said he expects Thiago Alves to move up from 170-pounds to the 185-pound middleweight division after failing to make weight and dropping a unanimous decision in his anticipated rematch with fellow contender Jon Fitch.

Headlined by Anderson Silva’s stunning comeback to retain the middleweight title with a fifth-round submission of Chael Sonnen, Saturday’s UFC 117 will likely rank as one of the best cards of the year.

Post-UFC 117 interviews with Dana White and many of UFC 117′s winners, including Junior dos Santos and Matt Hughes, are after the jump.

UFC President Dana White said Thursday that he has no interest in signing former top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko following his 69-second loss to UFC castaway Fabricio Werdum on Saturday at “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum”.

The hall of fame UFC career of former light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell is officially over following his knockout loss to Rich Franklin at UFC 115, as UFC President Dana White said at Thursday’s UFC 116 pre-fight press conference that he’d release Liddell should he insist on fighting again.

“I’m not a fan of the UFC,” top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko said today when asked whether his June 26 showdown with fellow Strikeforce contender Fabricio Werdum was more important than the July 3 UFC 116 headliner between UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin. “I believe our fight is more important.”

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UFC on Versus 2, the UFC’s August 1 Versus-televised card headlined by Jon Jones vs. Vladimir Matyushenko, has been officially moved from Salt Lake City to San Diego, the UFC today announced, with UFC President Dana White saying in a press release that poor ticket sales were to blame for the move.