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Tuesday, Oct 13

UFC Coming to Australia in Early 2010 — Whether Australia Likes It or Not

UFC fighters use a brutal combination of martial arts, boxing, kick boxing and wrestling inside a cage called the octagon. Competitors are permitted to pin an opponent to the floor and punch or elbow them into unconsciousness in a move known as "pound and ground". [Ed. note: LMFAO @ these noo...

Monday, Mar 23

A Pleasant Escape to an Alternate Reality

Since the UFC is making fighters sign over the rights to their video game images in perpetuity or else face the wrath, that’s money that will be going straight into the UFC coffers. They won’t even have to offer the fighters a split of it when they make a new game in 2011 that brings in even more...

Friday, Nov 14

UFC 91 Weigh-In Report: Strange New World

Randy Couture (220) vs. Brock Lesnar (265) Kenny Florian (156) vs. Joe Stevenson (156) Demian Maia (185) vs. Nate Quarry (185) Tamdan McCrory (170) vs. Dustin Hazelett (170) Aaron Riley (156) vs. Jorge Gurgel (155) Mark Bocek (155) vs. Alvin Robinson (155)

MMA Live is Actually at a Live MMA Event

Check out MMA Live pretending to be College Gameday here as they preview the Randy Couture-Brock Lesnar bout. They may be missing the drunk, screaming, college students in the background, but they’ve got the headsets, dammit. After the jump, the crew looks at Kenny Florian-Joe Stevenson...

Friday, Aug 29

Friday Link Dump

Rashad Evans can’t even escape Chuck Liddell at the movies. (Yahoo! Sports) Talking Shamrock, Kimbo, Noons and more on the radio. (MMA Rated) Ryan Schultz to get another shot at Sengoku 5. (MMA Mania) “Day of Reckoning” official website. (Affliction)

Tuesday, Aug 5

UFC 87: The New Guys

Lowdown: Like Ryan Thomas, Jones will make his Octagon debut by filling in for someone else on very short notice; he’ll be replacing the injured Tomasz Drwal against the also-undefeated Andre Gusmao. Jones was a wrestling champion in high school and college, and at 21 years old, he’s the y...

Thursday, Jul 24

Fight of the Day: Lawler vs. Smith 1

If you can’t put in that kind of time-commitment, just check out this 98-second clip of a recent EliteXC open-workout featuring Smith, Lawler, Jake Shields, and Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos. (Props to MMA Mania.)

Thursday, Jun 19

Exclusive Video: In The Gym With Diego Sanchez and Evan Tanner

CagePotato.com got a chance to catch up with both “Ultimate Fighter” season one winner Diego Sanchez and former UFC middleweight champ Evan Tanner as they prepare for their respective bouts on the “Ultimate Fighter Finale” this Saturday night. Check out the above clip to hear Evan Tanner...

Wednesday, May 14

Gary Shaw Knows Women

In a conference call held yesterday with Gina Carano and Kaitlin Young, EliteXC boss Gary Shaw announced that he intends to create the league’s first women’s title, with the winner of the Carano/Young scrap on May 31st likely fighting for the 140-pound belt sometime this fall; other tit...

Tuesday, May 13

Gina Carano: “Serious Crush”

Related: MMAPayout reports that ESPN is launching an online MMA news show this Thursday, which will be hosted by Kenny Florian for the first two weeks. Said MMAPayout: “The program’s launch was apparently delayed by the UFC’s insistence that it be exclusive to the UFC.” Here’s Gina Carano...

Saturday, Mar 15

Dream 1 Briefs

MMA Weekly has a choice quote from Cro Cop: “A lot of fighters refuse to fight me these days, but he had courage and he accepted,” said Filipovic afterward from center ring. “For my next fight, I will need a stronger opponent, so anyone is welcome.”

Monday, Feb 4

TV Deals To Give MMA Wider Exposure

The 29th event will feature battles such as Ryan “The Lion” Schultz vs. John Gunderson, Matt Horwich vs. Ryan McGivern, and Fabiano Scherner vs. Roy Nelson. The April 4th show is not set just yet. (”Ma, the telly has men fighting and bleeding on it!”) Not much going on today, but we do have some MMA...

Thursday, Dec 13

‘UFC All Access: Wanderlei Silva’ Buried on MTV2

I guess it wasn’t enough that the UFC refused to film Wanderlei Silva training at Xtreme Couture for his “All Access” special — it now looks like the show won’t even be broadcast on Spike, or during a time when most people are awake. UFC.com now lists the special as debuting on 12/27 at 1 a.m. ET/PT...

Friday, Nov 30

Din Thomas Beats Them Charges Like Rocky

Assistant State Attorney Jeff] Hendricks said several things factored into the decision, including an exception to the “prohibited competitions” statute for training. He said if the fighter or participants were students of Thomas’ school, and the purpose of the school is to teach mar...

Monday, Nov 29

Friday Link Dump: UFC 88 Edition

11 craziest Ann Coulter moments. (Screen Junkies) (Photo courtesy of Combat Lifestyle.) - Do some UFC 88 pre-partying with Randy Couture. (Xtreme Couture) - Mario Sperry betting on a Palhares victory, literally. (Tatame) - Stone Cold Steve Austin breaks down Kimbo Slice-Ken Shamrock. (Yo...

Rashad Evans Explains the Nipple Twist

When Rashad Evans was shown twisting his nipples directly before his UFC 88 fight with Chuck Liddell, we wondered if the Greg Jackson camp knew something we didn’t; after all, Evans’s teammate Georges St. Pierre did the same thing before his title defense against Jon Fitch last month. Turn...

Exclusive Interview: Chuck Liddell

Do you feel that fighters in the UFC are underpaid? Compared to… Tim Sylvia made $800,000 in a loss on the first Affliction card. But how did they do? Did they make money? Who’s your pick for top pound-for-pound fighter: Anderson Silva or Fedor Emelianenko? Are those my only two choices?