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: [...]

Making an appearance at Saturday nights Battle Cage Extreme III event in Atlantic City was current UFC lightweight champion Sean “The Muscle Shark” Sherk. I was lucky enough to grab some face time with the champ and ask him a few questions about a potential bout with B.J. Penn, the Randy Couture situation, and [...]

Hermes Franca, who tested positive for steroids following his UFC 73 title match against Sean Sherk, has had his appeal denied. Franca received a one year suspension as well as a $2500 fine as a result of the test. The appeal was seeking a reduced punishment but the initial suspension, which runs until July 5, 2008, was [...]

The much-anticipated appearance of UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk in front of the California State Athletic Comission was expected to take place today but Sherk has filed for an extension delaying the hearing until October according to Sherdog. The hearing was meant to confirm or overturn Sherk’s fine and suspension he received after testing positive [...]

Sean Sherk has released the following brief statement regarding his positive drug test at UFC 73 and the appeal he has filed with the California State Athletic Commission:
“At the present time I cannot explain the positive drug test in Sacramento California. I know I have never used any steroids or any other banned substances, I [...]

UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk and challenger Hermes Franca have both filed appeals with the California State Athletic Commission. The appeals are challenging their positive drug tests following their Lightweight Championship bout at UFC 73 on July 7th and the subsequent year suspensions both received.
Sherk is seeking to overturn his positive anabolic steroid test for [...]

UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk, who successfully defended his belt on July 7th at UFC 73, has tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone according to published reports. Sherk has been fined $2,500, the maximum amount allowed in California. He has also been suspended from competition in California until July 6, 2008.
Nandrolone levels in the [...]

Champion Sean Sherk defeats Hermes Franca via unanimous decision to retain the UFC Lightweight ChampionshipRound 1: Franca lands a knee to open the fight and follows up with a guillotine choke but Sherk escapes. Sherk controls the fight from the ground for the majority of the round but Franca defends well. MMAFrenzy.com scores the round [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Lots of UFC card rumors popping up over the weekend. Here’s some updates on the fight cards for UFC 71, 73, and 74:

Jeremy Stephens will make his UFC debut against Din Thomas at UFC 71.

Jorge Gurgel will face Jamie Varner at UFC 73 on July 7th.
Sean Sherk will no longer defend his title against [...]

Well one of the final pieces of the logistical puzzle for UFC 72 has fallen into place with The Fight Network confirming through various sources that UFC 72 will be held at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Ireland. Here’s an excerpt from the story:
“Back in January, The Fight Network explored rumours of UFC events spreading [...]

According to Sam Caplan, Dana White informally offered boxer Floyd Mayweather big money to take on UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk, likely under MMA rules. Here’s a clip from the post on the offer which was announced on the radio program “Bubba the Love Sponge”: