The UFC 79: Nemesis weigh-ins went as expected as all 20 fighters for tomorrow’s year-end UFC event made weight in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
The normally low-key event featured a near-brawl between rivals Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva. After both made weight Liddell took several moments to re-dress – a move [...]

Today the UFC officially announced the full lineup for UFC 79: Nemesis. The December 29th card features 10 bouts, 5 of which are guaranteed to be shown on the PPV broadcast.
Main Card

Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre (Interim Welterweight Championship Bout)
Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva
Lyoto Machida vs Rameau Sokoudjou
Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
Soa Palalei vs. [...]

Let me preface this by saying that I want to see the rubber match between Matt Hughes and George St. Pierre just as much as the next guy. But to be completely honest, I’d rather see the originally planned Serra vs. Hughes match like we were promised. Why do I want to see it so [...]

Georges St. Pierre has agreed to fill in for Matt Serra and will fight Matt Hughes on December 29th for the Interim Welterweight Championship in the headline bout of UFC 79 the UFC announced on Saturday. St. Pierre was expected to take on the winner of the Serra-Hughes title match in early-2008 in Montreal but [...]

Mark Bocek will face Doug Evans at UFC 79. Evans confirmed the bout to MMAFrenzy.com earlier today.
The most-recent issue of Men’s Fitness features an extended cover with UFC Champion Matt Serra and challenger Matt Hughes as well as a “UFC Workout”.
Luke Cummo has announced on MySpace that he will be an injury backup for UFC [...]

The UFC’s sister organization, World Extreme Cagefighting, will return on December 12th for its first show in more than three months. The stacked card is rumored to include:

WEC Featherweight Championship: Urijah Faber vs. Jeff Curran
WEC Light Heavyweight Championship: Doug Marshall vs. Ariel Gandulla
WEC Middleweight Championship: Paulo Filho vs. TBD (possibly Frank Trigg)
WEC Lightweight Championship: [...]

Caution: This post contains spoilers from the sixth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra
Episode 6, AKA the Dan Barrera episode, immediately begins with fight selections and this week it’s Team Serra’s turn to choose the participants for the weekly elimination bout. This week’s fight proves to be a pivotal [...]

Caution: This post contains spoilers from the fifth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra
Episode 5 starts off by focusing on the tainted relationship between former friends now turned enemies, Mac Danzig and Blake Bowman. Danzig is not impressed with Bowman’s loss to Richie Hightower last week and questions why [...]

Caution: This post contains spoilers from the fourth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 6: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra
Gather around boys and girls, it’s that time of the week again for your TUF Season 6, episode recap. Episode 4 proceeds with Matt Hughes reacting to Billy Miles’ upset loss to John Kolosci last week [...]

In the revolving door of dates for the welterweight title fight between Matt Serra and Matt Hughes we have yet another date for the title bout: New Years Eve. In a recent forum posting on his official site Hughes said the following:
I have been told that it willl be in Las Vegas on New Years [...]

B.J. Penn fought less than 2 days ago but he already has his eyes on his next opponent: Matt Hughes. If the welterweight match does happen it will be third fight between the pair of fighters.
Penn, who has fought in the UFC at both the lightweight and middleweight classes, defeated Hughes at UFC 46 in [...]

Dana White recently appeared on The Scott Ferrall Show on Sirius radio and delivered the confirmation we all wanted: Matt Serra will face Matt Hughes on the finale of The Ultimate Fighter 6 this fall. Why is this so big? The title bout will be free on Spike TV.
Before the announcement there were mixed rumors [...]

- There are rumors floating that a U.K. version of The Ultimate Fighter is in the works. A quick search also reveals that versions for Mexico with the UFC and Japan for Pride may also be in the works. I like the shows but how sustainable is this model. Eventually the UFC will run out [...]

I have already mentioned both in my live coverage and UFC 70 results that Matt Serra and Matt Hughes would be coaching The Ultimate Fighter 6 but I think I should dedicate a post acclimating new fans to this rivalry as well as their histories in the UFC.
Matt Serra (6-4 UFC) is probably the most [...]

The UFC has “reached a deal” with HBO to show fights on the network this summer, albeit with a different broadcasting crew than the UFC traditionally uses. UFC 72 in June has already been announced for Spike TV so we are probably looking UFC 73 and beyond before we see an event on HBO.
Dana White [...]