Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem and Bellator lightweight title-holder Eddie Alvarez were among the winners on Sunday at DREAM 12 in Osaka, Japan.

Overeem submitted James Thompson with a guillotine choke in under a minute in the DREAM 12 main event, while Alvarez used an arm-triangle choke to defeat Katsunori Kikuno in the second-round of their featured matchup.

All eighteen fighters scheduled to compete at tomorrow’s DREAM 12 event in Osaka, Japan hit the scales earlier today to weigh-in for their bouts. Lightweight Won Sik Park was the long fighter on the card who failed to make weight on their first attempt, with notables Alistair Overeem, James Thompson, Eddie Alvarez, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Chase Beebe all hitting their marks.

All twenty fighters slated to participate in bouts at Sengoku Seventh Battle made weight earlier today in Japan. The event takes place overnight (HDNet - 3am ET/midnight PT) at the National Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

– Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson are likely to rematch at the UFC’s year-end pay-per-view event on December 27th in Las Vegas. In their first meeting Rua defeated Jackson via first-round KO at PRIDE Total Elimination 2005 in April 2005.
– Georges St-Pierre and Jon Fitch were each awarded [...]

I understand the title I chose for this write up seems insulting and that to the more casual viewer, last nights inaugural batch of network MMA was pretty darn satisfying. However for the true (and yes, judgmental) MMA hardcores out there the night had a serious wreak of disappointment. Why? Because something just didn’t feel [...]

Though the face of EliteXC, Kimbo Slice, emerged victorious last night, it was controversy that reigned supreme in front on 8,033 fans at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey for EliteXC “Primetime”, the sport’s first-ever network television card.
In the main event, former internet street fighter turned mixed martial artist Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson was [...]

Kimbo Slice def. James Thompson via TKO – Round 3, 0:38
Robbie Lawler vs. Scott Smith – No Contest*
EliteXC Middleweight Championship
Gina Carano def. Kaitlin Young via TKO (cut) – Round 2, 5:00
Joey Villasenor def. Phil Baroni via TKO – Round 1, 1:11
Brett Rogers def. Jon Murphy via TKO – Round 1, 1:01
Chris [...]

Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson (-600) vs. James Thompson (+400)
Robbie Lawler (-250) vs. Scott Smith ( +200)
Gina Carano (-340) vs. Kaitlin Young (+260)
Phil Baroni (-105) vs. Joey Villasenor  (-125)
Brett Rogers (-280) vs. Jon Murphy (+220)
Carlton Haselrig (-200) vs. Carlos Moreno (+160)

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Fighters hit the scales earlier today in Newark, New Jersey for EliteXC “Primtime”. The network television event takes place tomorrow, May 31st, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey and the main card will air live on CBS beginning at 9pm ET.
MMAFrenzy.com will have live results of the main card beginning at 9pm ET [...]

CBS and EliteXC today announced the lineup for the first “CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS,” to be broadcast live from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Saturday, May 31 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“In terms of recognition and perception, I believe May 31 is the biggest and single most important MMA [...]

Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson will meet James “The Colossus” Thompson in the main event of the first ever mixed martial arts show to air on network television reports NBCSports.com. The inaugural rendition of “CBS-EliteXC Saturday Night Fights” had Slice tapped to headline the May 31 card, but until now an opponent had not [...]