UFC veterans Roan Carneiro and Yves Edwards helped American Top Team to a perfect 4-0 record at Friday’s “Shine 2: ATT vs. The World” event in Miami Florida. The Ultimate Fighter 6 cast member War Machine was also victorious in weekend action, stopping Mikey Gomez in the main event of Satruday’s XFC 9: Evolution event in Tampa, Florida.

Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled main event title defense at Strikeforce: Destruction on November 21st in San Jose against Yves Edwards after suffering an extensive toe injury in training that will keep him out of action for several months.
Veteran Duane Ludwig (43-5) has been selected to replace [...]

Strikeforce today announced that Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Josh Thomson (16-2) will make his first title defense against Yves Edwards (34-14-1) at Strikeforce “Destruction” on Friday, November 21st at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
The co-main event matchup is a rematch of an August 2004 meeting at UFC 49 that saw Edwards knockout Thomson [...]

KJ Noons def. Yves Edwards via TKO – Round 1, 0:48
Nick Diaz def. Muhsin Corbbrey via TKO – Round 3, 3:59
Murilo “Ninja” Rua def. Tony Bonello via TKO – Round 1, 3:16
Dave “Pee Wee” Herman def. Ron Waterman via TKO – Round 1, 2:19
Rafael Feijao def. Wayne Cole via TKO – Round 1, 2:47
Bubba McDaniel [...]

KJ Noons (160) vs. Yves Edwards (158.5)
Nick Diaz (169) vs. Muhsin Corbbrey (163.5)
Murilo “Ninja” Rua (184) vs. Tony Bonello (185)
Dave “Pee Wee” Herman (243.5) vs. Ron Waterman (263)
Rafael Feijao (205) vs. Wayne Cole (204)
Kala Hose (186) vs. Bubba McDaniel (184.5)
Chris “Red Bull” Willems (141.5) vs. Mark Oshiro (140.5)
Kaleo Kwan (160) vs. Mike Aina (160)
Lolohea Mahe [...]

One night after it replays the history-making, first-ever primetime mixed martial arts event on network television, SHOWTIME will offer an outstanding card on Saturday, June 14, that will feature EliteXC lightweight champion and former Big Island resident, KJ Noons (6-2) of San Diego, Calif., against rejuvenated Yves Edwards (33-13-1) of Coconut Creek, Fla.
Preceding a main [...]

An EliteXC welterweight title bout between Jake Shields (20-4-1) and Drew Fickett (33-5) scheduled for June 14th in Hawaii has again been postponed, this time due to a knee injury suffered by Fickett.
EliteXC Vice President Jared Shaw announced the latest setback in a recent interview with MMA Weekly:
“Obviously the back injury happened (to Shields) and [...]

Rich Franklin, apparently healed from recent surgery on his MCL, will take on Travis Lutter in Montreal on April 19th at UFC 84 according to The Fight Network. The Franklin-Lutter bout was originally scheduled for UFC 82 in March but was pushed back as a result of Franklin’s injury.
The World Cagefighting Organization will host an [...]

Jason Miller def. Tim Kennedy via unanimous decision
Frank Trigg def. Edwin Dewees via submission – Round 1, 1:40
Yves Edwards def. Alonzo Martines via submission – Round 2, 3:04
Krzysztof Soszynski def. Robert Villegas via DQ – Round 2, 3:15
Pete Spratt def. Tristan Yunker via TKO – Round 1, 1:38
Cory Mahon def. Chris Bowles via submission – [...]