Maximum Fighting Championships put on their twentieth event on Friday in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The event included a lackluster MFC Lightweight Championship bout that saw Antonio McKee defeat Derrick Noble via unanimous decision, earning the position as the first-ever MFC Lightweight Champion.
The first of the co-main events was a welterweight superfight that saw Nick [...]

Denis Kang won his second-straight bout on Saturday night, stopping UFC veteran Marvin Eastman with a right hook followed by strikes just 48-seconds into their main event bout at Raw Combat “Redemption” in Calgary, Canada.
Kang improved his record to 31-10-1 in the victory, while Eastman fell to 15-9-1.
Also victorious at the event were Tim Hague [...]

Leonard Garcia has agreed to a September 10th featherweight bout against former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver at WEC 36. [MMA Junkie]
Anderson Silva will likely face Patrick Cote in a middleweight title bout at UFC 88 in Atlanta. [MMA Weekly]
A long-rumored bout between welterweight contenders Thiago Alves and Diego Sanchez has been moved from UFC [...]

Fedor Emelianenko’s manager, Vadim Finkelstein, has announced that the top-ranked heavyweight plans on fighting two more times in 2008. The first bout will be at an October Affliction-promoted event and the second will come in December at a New Year’s Eve event in Japan.
UFC veteran Joe Jordan will take on Ryan Ford in the main [...]

Maximum Fighting Championship owner and president Mark Pavelich has issued a press release discussing the removal of Drew Fickett from a July 25th MFC title bout against Ryan Ford as well as Fickett’s actions since he agreed to fight for Strikeforce on one day’s notice this past Friday:
I would like to take this opportunity to [...]

Wanderlei Silva, Rousimar Palhares, Goran Reljic, and Wilson Gouveia took home $75,000 bonuses for their efforts at UFC 84. Silva won “Knockout of the Night” for his 36-second KO win over Keith Jardine. Palhares was awarded “Submission of the Night” for his slick armbar win over veteran Ivan Salaverry. Reljic and Gouveia took home [...]

Seven-time UFC veteran Pete “The Secret Weapon” Spratt will take on undefeated welterweight Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford in the main event of Maximum Fighting Championships 15: Rags to Riches the promotion has announced. The event will be held at the River Cree Resort in Edmonton, Canada on Friday, February 22nd.
Spratt (16-10 MMA, 3-4 UFC) [...]