On October 31st, the mixed martial arts community awaited the verdict in Sean Sherk’s case involving his positive nandrolone test after his championship title fight with Hermes Franca. Instead of a resolution to the deadlocked title picture in the UFC’s lightweight division, the California State Athletic Commission managed to keep the top-tier of the division [...]

Sean Sherk, who is currently in the middle of a lengthy appeals process for a positive steroid test, will remain the UFC’s Lightweight Champion no matter the outcome of his November 13th appeal hearing according to a report by Yahoo! Sports. BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson will now face off in January in England at [...]

Andrei Arlovski was minutes away from winning his second consecutive bout after dropping two tough losses to Tim “The Maniac” Sylvia. Although a boring performance, Arlovski was able to pull out a win over the Brazilian ju-jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum. The coming months would be cast with doubt as to when Arlovski would fight next. [...]

Dana White and Randy Couture both held press conferences on Thursday afternoon. White’s conference was at 4 PM EST and streamed live on Yahoo! Sports. It addressed the newest TV deal that the UFC has signed for the next four years, Brock Lesnar’s signing, and the most anticipated matchup that MMA fans have been waiting [...]

The Canadian Press has a number of quotes from Dana White taken from yesterday’s UFC 77 press conference. During the conference Dana White was questioned about his thoughts on the shocking departure of Randy Couture from the UFC. White admits that he was very shocked, particularly since Couture had signed a new contract [...]

Randy Couture appeared via phone on last night’s edition of Sports Center on ESPN. Audio of the segment is available here. Couture largely repeated his previous statements, however, he did expand his critique of the UFC’s management, saying “I think there are a lot of other fighters maybe a little further down in stature in [...]

In today’s publication of Sportske Novosti, a Croatian sports daily, Dana White confirmed that Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic will make his return to the octagon in 2008. An actual opponent has not been determined yet, but in the eyes of White, the UFC’s Heavyweight division is extremely stacked now so they’re all dangerous opponents. [...]

UFC President Dana White released the following statement on UFC.com earlier today regarding the surprising resignation of former UFC champion Randy Couture:
“I’m not surprised at all by Randy’s decision. I talked to Randy several weeks ago and he said that if he couldn’t fight Fedor, then he has nothing left to prove in the sport [...]

UFC President Dana White on the American dream:
Q. You attended the University of Massachusetts-Boston for two years when you were younger. What was life like for you there?
A. “Here’s the thing with me. I don’t know how many questions you want to ask me about school because I was never a big school guy. I [...]

This past week the UFC held yet another round of contract discussions with highly coveted MMA free agent Fedor Emelianenko in hopes of hammering out a deal to bring him to the UFC. Initial reports were mixed but in a recent interview with CBS White discussed the true status of the drawn out talks. Here’s [...]

The UFC has officially announced the signing of former PRIDE Champion Wanderlei Silva. The deal brings another premiere light heavyweight fighter to the UFC but this one is extra special as Silva has been the subject of rampant rumors over the past months and years and signing brings a sense of closure with his actual [...]

In a very telling article published by TV Week the UFC’s television expansion is discussed including the long talked about deal to put the UFC on HBO.
The UFC will debut a new show next month entitled “UFC Wired”. The show, which will be hosted by Joe Rogan, will feature fights from the UFC past in [...]

UFC President Dana White recently completed an interview with ESPN about a variety of topics. Here are the important points White discussed in the interview:

 The UFC actually booked the Marlon Sims vs. Noah Thomas fight but decided afterwards it wasn’t such a good precedent to set and axed the fight. White publicly said they would [...]

UFC President Dana White seems to have finally got his thoughts about Tito Ortiz off his chest in a recent interview with Yahoo! Sports. Most recent talk about Tito is because his UFC 73 fight against Rashad Evans is prominently featured on UFC 73 promotional materials as well as on UFC.com. To most it appears [...]