Despite being bloodied in the opening seconds of the fight, top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko did what most predicted he would, scoring a second-round knockout of previously undefeated Brett Rogers on Saturday in the main event of Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers.

In the evening’s co-headliner, Jake Shields was crowned Strikeforce’s middleweight champion with a unanimous decision victory over Jason “Mayhem” Miller.

All 20 fighters who will be in action at tomorrow’s CBS-televised Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers event in Hoffman Estates, Illinois successfully made weight today for their bouts.

Top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko tipped the scale at 232 pounds, while his main event opponent, Brett Rogers, came in 32 pounds heavier at 264 pounds.

Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem, who has yet to fight again for the promotion since winning the title in November 2007, returned to MMA action overseas over the weekend, dominating Tony Sylvester at Ultimate Glory 11 in Amsterdam, Netherlands before finishing the fight with a guillotine choke in just 83-seconds. Overeem will fight again this weekend at DREAM 12 against James Thomson before he’s expected to return to Strikeforce to defend the title.

Read about the latest Strikeforce news after the jump, including additions to “Fedor vs. Rogers”, the main card for Strikeforce Challengers 5, and more.

The UFC has released eight welterweight competitors from the most-recent season of The Ultimate Fighter. All of the fighters lost on the finale of The Ultimate Fighter 6 in December.
TUF 6 Fighters Released From The UFC

Richie Hightower
John Kolosci
Dorian Price
Paul Georgieff
Dan Barrera
Billy Miles
Blake Bowman

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the official fighter salaries for The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale.
Keep in mind that the numbers listed below are strictly the reported salaries and do not include sponsor payments, fees, and bonuses. All of the winning fighter’s salaries are composed half of a base salary and half of [...]

Roger Huerta def. Clay Guida via submission – Round 3, 0:51
Mac Danzig def. Tommy Speer via submission – Round 1, 2:01
John Koppenhaver def. Jared Rollins via TKO – Round 3, 2:01
George Sotiropoulos def. Billy Miles via submission – Round 1, 1:36
Ben Saunders def. Dan Barrera via unanimous decision
Troy Mandaloniz def. Richie Hightower via TKO – [...]

MMAFrenzy.com once again provided live, round-by-round coverage of the UFC’s latest event: The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale.
The full card for the event included:
Main Card

Roger Huerta vs. Clay Guida
Tommy Speer vs. Mac Danzig
Jared Rollins vs. John Koppenhaver
Billy Miles vs. George Sotiropoulos
Ben Saunders vs. Dan Barrera

Preliminary Bouts

Troy Mandaloniz vs. Richie Hightower
Matt Arroyo vs. John Kolosci
Roman Mitichyan vs. [...]

The Ultimate Fighter Season 6 has finally come to an end and we now have the finalized fight card for the Ultimate Fighter Finale on Saturday night from the Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada. The featured main event is a barn burner. Clay “The Carpenter” Guida will be taking on Roger Huerta in Huerta’s first [...]

Clay Guida (155) vs. Roger Huerta (155)
Tommy Speer (170) vs. Mac Danzig (168.5)
Ben Saunders (169) vs. Dan Barrera (170)
Jared Rollins (169) vs. Jon Koppenhaver (170)
Billy Miles (170) vs. George Sotiropoulos (169)
Troy Mandaloniz (170) vs. Richie Hightower (170)
Matt Arroyo (169) vs. John Kolosci (170)
Roman Mitichyan (170) vs. Dorian Price (170)
Paul Georgieff (170) vs. Jonathan Goulet (170)

Main Card

Roger Huerta vs. Clay Guida
Tommy Speer vs. Mac Danzig (Welterweight Competition Finals)
Jared Rollins vs. John Koppenhaver
Billy Miles vs. George Sotiropoulos
Ben Saunders vs. Dan Barrera

Preliminary Bouts

Troy Mandaloniz vs. Richie Hightower
Matt Arroyo vs. John Kolosci
Roman Mitichyan vs. Dorian Price
Paul Georgieff vs. Jonathan Goulet

MMAFrenzy.com has confirmed that Matt Arroyo will take on John Kolosci this Saturday at The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale in Las Vegas. The event airs live on Spike TV beginning at 9pm and includes a main event bout between lightweights Clay Guida and Roger Huerta as well as the finals of the welterweight tournament.
Arroyo (2-1 [...]

Caution: This post contains spoilers from the ninth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra
In this episode the quarterfinal matchups are to be determined by Matt Serra who earned the right by his team winning six of the opening eight bouts. There is a lot of talk by Serra about matching [...]

Caution: This post contains spoilers from the third episode of The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra.
We’ll start this week’s recap with fight selections. This week it was Team Hughes’ turn to call the match and they selected Billy Miles to take on Team Serra’s John Kolosci, who is known to be [...]