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 [...]

“Tito’s whole take on this is killing me [referring to Tito's match with Dana White]. It’s hilarious. When he first pulled out, he said, ‘I don’t want to risk getting hurt, and that Dana was almost a pro boxer.’ It sounds to me like he didn’t want to look like a p—-.I thought the whole [...]

Q: What do you think of Rashad as a fighter? He’s obviously improved a lot since he first came into the UFC in The Ultimate Fighter?
A: I think he’s a really good fighter. He has great wrestling base, his boxing skills have gotten a lot better, but I haven’t really seen his ground game 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 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.

There is some UFC on TV tonight for those who don’t already know. The one worth watching will be the second episode of The Ultimate Fighter 5 which will air at 10:00 on Spike TV and another lightweight will be sent packing.
Also tonight the UFC will be airing a special entitled “Bad Blood: Dana vs. [...]

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 [...]

Well it looks like we have finally received the complete answer regarding Tito Ortiz’s no-show for his match with UFC President Dana White. From Tito’s MySpace Blog:

Only doing business!!!!!!!!!!!
So, everyone is giving me shit for the Dana fight… No one knows what really went on.
Let me tell my side of what real went on. Me [...]

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz has backed out of a proposed bout against UFC president Dana White.
From the LA Times:
“…one organization source said Ortiz was seeking more compensation for an unofficial event that was so intriguing to mixed-martial arts fans that cable network Spike TV had planned to air preview and fight shows [...]

Today was supposed to be the hyped match between Tito Ortiz and UFC President Dana White however Ortiz decided not to show up for weigh-ins yesterday and the fight has been canceled, at least for now. Here’s the details from the Fight Network:
“On March 5, the NSAC had voted 3-1 to allow the exhibition bout. [...]

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 [...]