UFC President Dana White accidentally missed his scheduled meeting with UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture according to an interview White completed with Steve Cofield following UFC 78. The meeting was believed to have been scheduled for today, November 20th, but was supposed to have been last Tuesday. All is not lost however. White and Couture [...]

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: [...]

Dana White and Randy Couture both held press conferences on Thursday afternoon. White’s conference was at 4 PM EST and streamed live on Yahoo! Sports. It addressed the newest TV deal that the UFC has signed for the next four years, Brock Lesnar’s signing, and the most anticipated matchup that MMA fans have been waiting [...]

UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture will hold a press conference on Thursday at 4:30pm ET in Las Vegas at Xtreme Couture to discuss his shocking resignation from the UFC earlier this month. Couture is expected to explain his reasons for leaving the promotion and will also answer questions from the media.
The press conference will [...]

The Canadian Press has a number of quotes from Dana White taken from yesterday’s UFC 77 press conference. During the conference Dana White was questioned about his thoughts on the shocking departure of Randy Couture from the UFC. White admits that he was very shocked, particularly since Couture had signed a new contract [...]

Earlier this week Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reported that Couture’s salary, which has become the focus of discussion since his resignation from the UFC, was estimated to be worth $13-15 million. Couture’s agent, Matt Walker, tells Sherdog that the reported salary was “extremely innaccurate”:
“When I first read the story on Yahoo! I actually [...]

“It’s not a retirement. It’s a resignation from the UFC organization.”
In an interview with The Fight Network Randy Couture clarifies that he has resigned from the UFC but has not retired, leaving the door open for a possible return to MMA competition in another promotion.

Some news surfaced today that Mark Cuban had confirmed that he was in discussions regarding a possible business deal with the M-1 MixFight Championship, the promotion that signed Fedor Emelianenko earlier this week. Many fans are taking this news as an indication that he is the possible purchaser of the M-1 MixFight promotion from the [...]

Randy Couture appeared via phone on last night’s edition of Sports Center on ESPN. Audio of the segment is available here. Couture largely repeated his previous statements, however, he did expand his critique of the UFC’s management, saying “I think there are a lot of other fighters maybe a little further down in stature in [...]

October 10, 2007 may be remembered as a historic day in the business of mixed martial-arts. Randy Couture has resigned from the UFC in a move that could prove to have lasting and far reaching effects. Couture’s resignation seems to be the first fruit of the growing tension between the UFC’s management and it’s top [...]

Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture has released an official statement on his resignation via his official website, TheNatural.tv:
“Randy is very excited to embark on a promising career in acting, as well as spending more time with his wife and family. He’s currently shooting a lead role in Universal’s “The Scorpion King – The Rise [...]

UFC President Dana White released the following statement on UFC.com earlier today regarding the surprising resignation of former UFC champion Randy Couture:
“I’m not surprised at all by Randy’s decision. I talked to Randy several weeks ago and he said that if he couldn’t fight Fedor, then he has nothing left to prove in the sport [...]

UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture has quit the UFC according to The Fight Network, citing the promotion’s inability to sign top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko as his primary reason for walking away from the UFC and vacating his heavyweight title:
At the height of its power and popularity, the Ultimate Fighting Championship today lost the man many [...]

In an MMA News exclusive, the first ever UFC Heavyweight Champion, Mark ‘the Hammer” Coleman restates his desires to fight current UFC Heavyweight Champion, Randy ‘the Natural” Couture. Coleman has not seen any MMA action since losing to Fedor Emelianenko in a rematch back in December 2006 at PRIDE 32 – The Real Deal. [...]