Former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell will reportedly not retire despite the wishes of Dana White, with rumors swirling that he could return to action this fall, possibly for a bout against Rich Franklin.

The anticipated showdown between TUF 10 coaches Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans is expected to headline UFC 107 on December 19 in Las Vegas.

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Dana White announced on Thursday UFC Undisputed 2009, Bellator's middleweight tournament participants made weight on Thursday, TJ Grant and Rory Markham are set to square off at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale, KJ Noons is in talks to resume his MMA career with Strikeforce, and more...

Jon Fitch has signed a five-fight extension with the UFC, Bellator has announced the complete lineups for its first three events, Kendall Grove and Matt Riddle vs. Dan Cramer have been added to UFC 101, and more...

A rumored bout between Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson and former EliteXC title-holder KJ Noons has been scrapped from Strikeforce’s April 11th event in San Jose after Noons turned down the matchup to remain focused on his boxing career.
“Josh Thomson will fight [on April 11th]. We offered it to K.J. Noons, (but) it looks like [...]

Former EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons, who was stripped of the 160-pound title late last month for refusing to fight top contender Nick Diaz, has declared himself as a free agent in a recent interview with MMA Weekly .
“So they stripped me Friday, and they told me I had a deadline Monday, so I went [...]

KJ Noons has been stripped of the EliteXC lightweight title for refusing to defend the championship against top 160-pound contender Nick Diaz.
“We are stripping KJ of his championship belt for refusing to defend against Diaz,”EliteXC Head of Fight Operations Jeremy Lappen said. “It’s a very unfortunate situation but we cannot have belt-holders who refuse to [...]

The camp of EliteXC lightweight contender Nick Diaz on Saturday issued a public response through GracieFighter.com, the official website for the Cesar Gracie camp with whom Diaz trains, on the statement EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons issued on Friday about issues with EliteXC and declining a proposed title defense against Diaz.
“Elite XC creates a new [...]

EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons, who last week declined a proposed title defense against top contender Nick Diaz, has issued the following statement commenting on his recent public feud with EliteXC:
Noons vs Diaz or Noons vs EliteXC?
It is not about being scared to fight Diaz, who I previously defeated, it is about the fight I [...]

EliteXC vice president Jared Shaw has informed MMA Junkie that a rumored rematch between EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons and Nick Diaz is “definitely not happening” on October 4th, EliteXC’s next scheduled nationally-televised event on CBS.
EliteXC this week set a 24-hour deadline for Noons to accept the bout against Diaz but the deadline passed and [...]

EliteXC, the promotion that seems to be perpetually hanging by a thread, has reportedly been chomping at the bit to get lightweight champion KJ Noons back in the cage against everyone’s favorite challenger, Nick Diaz. EliteXC really needs to make a big ratings splash with their October show, and what better way to do [...]

Nick Diaz, who was recently pulled from a DREAM welterweight title bout in anticipation of an EliteXC lightweight championship rematch against KJ Noons, will not fight Noons on the July 26th EliteXC CBS card according to MMAMania.com. Diaz, however, is still expected to fight at the event ,which will reportedly take place in his hometown [...]

Nick Diaz has been removed by EliteXC from his scheduled bout against Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at DREAM 5 due to “contractual obligations” according to GracieFighter.com.
Diaz was to fight Sakurai for the promotion’s welterweight title at the event, which takes place on July 21st in Osaka, Japan.
“I was happy to be fighting Sakurai and hoping to [...]

Remember that time Nick Diaz and his crew instigated a scuffle with KJNoon’s and his father at that EliteXC show? Seemed like a pretty jerk move, right? Well that wasn’t Nick’s fault, just so you know. In fact, the whole mess was actually KJ Noons’ fault for being such a poser. Seriously:
“And he (Diaz) points [...]

KJ Noons had little time to celebrate following his dominant 48-second TKO victory over challenger Yves Edwards in the lightweight championship main event of Saturday’s EliteXC “Return of the King” event in Hawaii as lightweight challenger Nick Diaz entered the cage to call Noons out for a future title bout rematch.
Diaz, who defeated Mushin Corbbrey [...]