There was a fantastic turnout at CBS Media Day for the historic Saturday, May 31 primetime EliteXC telecast on CBS (9 p.m.-11 p.m. ET/PT). The announce team for “CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS’’ was announced, fighters demonstrated the rules of mixed martial arts and press had the opportunity to ask CBS and EliteXC executives, promoters, [...]

Popular former-UFC fighter Nick Diaz will clash with Hayato “Mach” Sakurai for the first-ever DREAM welterweight championship at DREAM 5 on July 21st in Osaka, Japan.
Diaz (16-7) defeated Katsuya Inoue via technical knockout at DREAM 3 this past Saturday in a welterweight championship eliminator. The bout remained close throughout much of the opening frame but [...]

Caol Uno def. Mitsuhiro Ishida via submission – Round 2
Lightweight Grand Prix Bout
Eddie Alvarez def. Joachim Hansen via unanimous decision
Lightweight Grand Prix Bout
Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Luiz Firmino via unanimous decision
Lightweight Grand Prix Bout
Jason Miller def. Katsuyori Shibata via TKO – Round 1
Middleweight Grand Prix Bout
Nick Diaz def. Katsuya Inoue via TKO – Round 1
DREAM Middleweight [...]

Nick Diaz will compete in DREAM 3 against Katsuya Inoue after all, despite some earlier hang ups.
From Sherdog:
“It was off, then on, then off again … now it’s back on,” said Diaz’s trainer, Cesar Gracie. “I won’t really believe it until he is on the plane tomorrow morning heading to Japan.”
“Tonight we will be pulling [...]

In what seems to be an unfortunate trend for Nick Diaz, the EliteXC lightweight has been restricted from competing as scheduled at this Sunday’s DREAM 3 event in Saitama, Japan:
“Gary Shaw phoned Diaz’s manager Cesar Gracie early Tuesday with the news that the league was killing the fighter’s appearance on the May 11 Dream card. [...]

An EliteXC welterweight title bout between Jake Shields (20-4-1) and Drew Fickett (33-5) scheduled for June 14th in Hawaii has again been postponed, this time due to a knee injury suffered by Fickett.
EliteXC Vice President Jared Shaw announced the latest setback in a recent interview with MMA Weekly:
“Obviously the back injury happened (to Shields) and [...]

Sean Sherk and BJ Penn have both passed early random drug tests for their upcoming UFC 84 bout.
Rich Franklin’s manager, Monte Cox, has stated that Franklin would indeed make the move to light-heavyweight if the UFC requested.
The lightweight match up between Roger Huerta and Kenny Florian has been confirmed to take place on August 9 [...]

Nick Diaz will face Muhsin Corbbrey at the June 14th EliteXC show in Honolulu, HI, according to MMA Weekly. Diaz was tapped to appear last month at the Strikeforce/EliteXC co-promoted event against Jae Suk Lin, but ran into some trouble with the CSAC regarding his well documented marijuana use and long story short, was [...]

Chris Fries and The JDH of Tagg Radio’s The Lights Out Show were at this past Saturday’s Strikeforce event and got some very eye opening interviews from Joe Villasenor, Gilbert Melendez Jake Shields, Drew Fickett, Cung Le, Nick Diaz and Gary Shaw.
Nick Diaz on being pulled from the Strikeforce/EliteXC card:
“They (Calif. State Athletic Comm.) want [...]

Some of you may have noticed that Nick Diaz was not listed on the Strikeforce/EliteXC fight card that was posted the other day, and now there is a bit of a story building around that. Originally, it was reported that Diaz was taken off of the card by the CSAC due to “undisclosed reasons”, then [...]

UFC veteran Melvin Guillard will venture outside of the octagon following back-to-back losses to Joe Stevenson and Rich Clementi to take on Eric Regan in the main event of Rage in the Cage 105 on March 7th.
Eric Schafer, a UFC veteran who remains under contract with the promotion, defeated Ryan Antle via submission in the [...]

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 [...]

2 UFC veterans may soon be headlining an Elite XC event. At least if Nick Diaz gets his way. Diaz recently called out Frank Shamrock in an entry on GracieFighter saying he thinks he would “whoop his ass”.
Diaz made his UFC debut with a win at UFC 44 and followed it up with an upset [...]

As most UFC fans know, Nate Diaz will be competing this weekend on The Ultimate Fighter 5 finale against Manny Gamburyan for a 6-figure UFC contract. One person who will not be at the finale, at least in an official role, is Nate’s brother Nick Diaz who was barred by the Nevada State Athletic Commission [...]