WEC lightweight contender Shane Roller forced former PRIDE champ and current UFC 155-pounder Takanori Gomi to tap to a rear naked choke in their featured grappling superfight at this weekend’s UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas, while WEC featherweight Fredson Paixao and grappling veterans Jeff Glover, Bill Cooper, and Penny Thomas were also victorious.

Four grappling superfights featuring the likes of Caol Uno, Hermes Franca, Javier Vazquez, and Fredson Paixao will take place at the UFC Fan Expo on May 28 and 29 in Las Vegas, the UFC today announced.

The second annual UFC Fan Expo, which coincides with “UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans,” includes many UFC, WEC, former PRIDE, and Hall of Fame fighters, exhibits from more than 200 companies, and MMA training sessions.

Approximately 10% of the UFC has been sold to Sheik Tahnoon, the son of the former UAE president and founder of the Abu Dhabi Combat Club, Strikeforce is in talks with free-agent lightweight Roger Huerta and heavyweight Josh Barnett and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson received three years probation for his July 2008 hit-and-run.

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The UFC has likely released Hermes Franca, Chris Wilson, Marcus Aurelio, and Justin McCully following their recent losses, as MMA Survival notes that all four have been removed from UFC.com.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on Monday released the medical suspensions for Saturday’s UFC 103 event in Dallas, with heavyweight Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic suspended indefinitely following his co-main event loss to Junior dos Santos.

Rich Franklin, Martin Kampmann, Frank Trigg, Hermes Franca, Cole Miller, and Steve Lopez were all suspended until October 20 after suffering knockout losses on the card.

In the UFC 103 headlining bout between former UFC champions Rich Franklin and Vitor Belfort, Belfort made good on his return to the UFC. The Brazilian rocked Franklin with a right, then dropped him with a left before forcing Yves Lavigne to call a stop to the contest with more punches to the downed Franklin. [...]

It’s prediction time again here at MMAFrenzy.com, and I’m going to channel my inner “Carnac the Magnificent” and try to tell you what’s on the other side of tonight’s UFC 103 fights and some of the other staff from the site have joined in as well.

Fighters weighed-in today at the Dallas Convention Center Arena for UFC 103 which will take place Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Pay-per-view headliner Rich Franklin made weight for the 195 catch weight bout weighing in at 195 pounds on the nose. Co-headliner Vitor Belfort missed weight by a quarter of pound and has two hours to lose the additional weight.

The UFC officially announced its long-rumored UFC 103 event on Tuesday, confirming that the pay-per-view event will take place on September 19 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas as expected.

Four previously-reported fights were added to the event’s official lineup, as Tyson Griffin vs. Hermes Franca, Josh Koscheck vs. Frank Trigg, Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller, and Mike Swick vs. Martin Kampmann were all formally announced.

Lightweights Tyson Griffin and Hermes Franca have agreed to square off at UFC 103 on September 19 in Dallas, Texas with bout agreements for the 155-pound contest expected to be finalized soon.

Griffin (13-2) enters the matchup off an April victory over Rafael dos Anjos, while Franca was last in action in October, defeating Marcus Aurelio.

Hermes Franca has been forced to withdraw from his headlining bout at UFC Fight Night 17 against Joe Lauzon after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee. Franca announced the injury and withdrawal late last night on The Underground. UFN 17 takes place on February 7h at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida [...]

Another bout has been added to the rumored lineup for UFC Fight Night 17 on February 7th at The Pearl in Las Vegas as “The Ultimate Fighter 5″ semi-finalist Joe Lauzon takes on former lightweight challenger Hermes Franca. MMAMania.com first reported the potential lightweight main card bout yesterday. After defeating former UFC lightweight champion Jens [...]

UFC lightweight Hermes Franca was arrested early this morning in Jupiter, Florida on charges of DUI. Franca, who last night attended WEC 36 in Hollywood, Florida, was arrested at 2:38am on suspicion of DUI and has been released from custody. It was reportedly his first offense. He was last in action on October 25th at [...]

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva remained undefeated in the UFC on Saturday night, October 25th, defeating challenger Patrick Cote, though it was a finish nobody hoped for and no one saw coming. The matchup headlined UFC 90 “Silva vs. Cote” at the sold-out Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois just outside of Chicago. After a close [...]

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of UFC 90 "Silva vs. Cote", which takes place this evening, October 25th, at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois. UFC 90 is headlined by a middleweight title clash as 185-pound king Anderson Silva battles challenger Patrick Cote. Josh Koscheck vs. Thiago Alves and Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos Santos [...]