June is packed for the UFC with 3 events while July is “Stacked” with the biggest UFC event of the summer, UFC 73. Bookmaker.com has released their early odds for the main events of UFC 72, The Ultimate Fight 5 Finale, and UFC 73.
As expected Rich Franklin is a -210 favorite over Yushin Okami at [...]

“He has the ability to get your trust right away. He does it on a personal level and a professional level. His reputation is very big in this sport. He could charge a lot of money and guys would still want to work with him, because of who he is, but he’s very sincere [...]

Today the UFC has started to sell tickets for its recently announced UFC 73: Stacked event featuring Sean Sherk vs. Hermes Franca, Anderson Silva vs. Nate Marquardt, and Tito Ortiz faces Rashad Evans. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will also be fighting and Mirko “Cro Cop” is also rumored to be on the card. The PPV event [...]

Today the UFC officially announced yet another event, the long rumored UFC 73. The event will be officially known as ‘UFC 73: Stacked’ and nothing could more accurately describe the event that will go down on July 7th. It is hard to pick the”main event” as there are two title bouts on the card along [...]

The UFC usually isn’t one to spread controversy (they usually leave that up to our MMA sites) but today they posted a link to a phone call Rashad Evans made to Albuquerque ’s KTEG to talk about Ortiz’s recent comments on making Evans his “nappy headed ho” on 7-7-07. Here is what Rashad had to [...]

…or so Tito claims.

I mentioned that Tito Ortiz and Rashad Evans had some sort of an altercation at UFC 69 during our live coverage but thanks to YouTube we can watch the entire thing. The two have no prior history but are set to fight at UFC 73. For those who don’t recognize him, the guy who stands [...]

Various MMA media outlets, most notably MMAWeekly.com, are confirming that Nate Marquardt will indeed face Anderson Silva for the middleweight title at UFC 73 on July 7th. They have signed the contract for the fight, which will be the night’s main event.
Also on the undercard for the event will be a match between Tito [...]

A UFCJunkie.com report indicates the match between Tito Ortiz (15-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) and Rashad Evans (10-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) will no longer be happening at UFC 71 and will instead be moved to UFC 73. This makes UFC 73 looked like an absolutely stacked card with two rumored title defenses as well as this [...]

Even though UFC 71 is still several months away lots of news surrounding the event has been surfacing lately, perhaps most notably the announcement of a match between Tito Ortiz and Rashad Evans (10-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC). Sam Caplan from Five Ounces of Pain and CBSSportsline.com seems to already have his opinion on who will [...]

After Dana White went on the record to tell CBS Sportsline that UFC light heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell would “most likely” face Quinton Jackson at UFC 71 it now looks like the fight may be in doubt.
After appearing very drowsy on a television show the truth came out that Liddell was suffering from pneumonia. Steve [...]

The UFC 71 card has become a lot clearer this week with Tito Ortiz rumored to take on Rashad Evans and Chuck Liddell set to face Quinton “Rampage” Jackson . Today we learned that Ivan Salaverry (12-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC) will face Terry Martin (15-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) in a middleweight bout according to [...]

Sam Caplan has done a superb interview with Dana White for CBS Sportsline and White had lots to say. We first learned of the interview yesterday when news surfaced that Tito Ortiz would be facing Rashad Evans at UFC 71. That was just the beginning with White revealing a lot more in the interview (Part [...]

UFCJunkie.com did some superb digging into what venue will be hosting UFC 71 when it rolls into town on May 26th. The two rumored venues are MGM Grand Garden Arena or the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Here is what they turned up:
“As of now…the location isn’t exactly known. The UFC originally booked the MGM Grand, [...]

A recent post by Sam Caplan on his personal blog, Five Ounces of Pain, throws Tito Ortiz’s oppent at UFC 71 into doubt. Originally it was reported Ortiz would be facing Keith Jardine at the May event based on rumors from MMAWeekly but in his recent interview with UFC Prez Dana White, Caplan seems to [...]