Miami, FL (USA): Shine Fights is excited to announce the official signing of a bout between former Bodog Welterweight Champion Nick “The Goat” Thompson (38-12-1) and Brazilian veteran Eduardo Pamplona (12-2). The bout will take place on the main card at “Worlds Collide: Mayorga vs. Thomas,” which will be held at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, [...]

This little gem of a public service announcement was released a little over a month ago, but my guess is that many of you may have missed it. Check out Nate “The Rock” Quarry speaking about the value of fighter sponsorship in mixed martial arts and the implications it can have on their loved ones in [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. (March 11, 2010) – Bellator Fighting Championships made two more noteworthy additions to its upcoming Season 2 middleweight tournament today with the signings of 9-1-1 Bellator Season 1 tournament finalist Jared Hess and 18-4 MMA veteran Sean “The Destroyer” Loeffler. Hess and Loeffler are the fourth and fifth confirmed participants in the eight-man middleweight [...]

Jorge “El Conqustador” Rivera recently put together one of the more amusing hype videos in recent memory to promote his upcoming showdown with Nate “The Rock” Quarry. The pair of heavy handed middleweights will slug it out during UFC Fight Night 21 on March 31 from Charlotte, North Carolina. Check out Rivera as he speaks on [...]

The Combat Sports Authority of New South Wales has come to the decision that Stephan Bonnar’s appeal over a defeat suffered due to a cut at the hands, or head, of Krzystztof Soszynski will not be overturned according to a recent report at MMAJunkie.com. Bonnar faced Soszynski during UFC 110 and mid-way through the final round [...]

Georges St-Pierre and Dan Hardy will be featured this evening on Spike TV’s UFC Primetime. Tonight’s episode will be the first of a three part series to promote the pair’s upcoming clash for GSP’s welterweight tile at UFC 111. UFC 111 is set to take place on Saturday, March 27 from the Prudential Center, in Newark, NJ. Check [...]

The results are in for WEC 47, and it’s not looking good. The latest event from WEC, which took place on March 6, saw it’s rating suffer a 42% decline from the promotion’s previous effort. WEC 47 drew a total of 373,000 viewers compared to the 640,000 brought in from the prior event, WEC 46, according to [...]

The casting call for the next season of The Ultimate Fighter will be open to fighters and would-be warriors in the lightweight and light heavyweight divisions. The casting call has been officially set by the UFC and Spike TV for Charlotte, North Carolina on April 1 from The Omni Charlotte Hotel. The festivities are slated to kick [...]

New York, NY, March 9, 2010 – In anticipation of their world welterweight title clash at UFC 111: ST-PIERRE vs. HARDY, UFC® champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy will be featured on UFC Primetime®, a weekly, three part series premiering Wednesday, March 10 at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Spike TV. In the first episode, Hardy [...]

A welterweight tussle between Paulo Thiago and Martin Kampmann is looking extremely likely to take place during UFC 115. Both fighters have verbally agreed to the match-up according to a recent report on The Las Vegas Sun, with the bout expected to be finalized in the coming days. UFC 115 is loosely expected to take place from [...]

James Toney and the UFC have combined to create a whirlwind of heated debate and speculation following FiveOuncesofPain.com recently revealing the news of the all-time boxing great’s signing to the biggest fight promotion on the planet. During a recent appearance on FightHype.com’s OnTheGrindBoxing radio show, Toney went on to reveal the terms of his newly inked [...]

After weeks of speculation that something funky was going on behind the scenes between Strikeforce and M-1 Global to prevent Fedor Emelianenko from taking part in the upcoming April CBS event, it now appears that the two sides have renegotiated terms for a deal that will see “The Last Emperor” making his return to the [...]

After a series of unfounded rumors speculating that the bout had been scrapped, a heavyweight showdown first reported by FiveOuncesofPain.com between Kimbo Slice and Matt Mitrione is now official, again, for UFC 113. The pair of TUF 10 veterans will duke it out in Vancouver, Canada on May 8. The UFC has finalized the already expected bout on [...]

As recently reported, UFC welterweight Mike Swick announced he’d undergone an MRI to examine damage to his left elbow sustained during his UFC 109 bout with Paulo Thiago and expected an update on the situation during a doctor’s visit planned for early this week. That appointment has now come and gone, and as Swick suspected, [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. (March 8, 2010) – Toby Imada, whose jaw-dropping “Submission of the Year” helped put Bellator Fighting Championships on the map during its debut season, will return to the promotion for its upcoming Season 2 lightweight tournament. Imada’s remarkable submission, an inverted triangle choke of the heavily favored Jorge Masvidal at Bellator V, became an [...]

This past Saturday night was one 24-year old Joseph Benavidez will undoubtedly remember for the rest of his life. Along with “Submission of the Night” honors, a definitive finish over highly touted opponent Miguel Torres, and a likely shot at the WEC Bantamweight Championship, Urijah Faber’s protégé also took home the largest check of the [...]

The curious case of the Brian Bowles stoppage. I don’t know if I’m the only one that tasted something funky in the Kool-Aid this past Saturday evening during the main event of WEC 47 at the conclusion of the second round between Bowles and Dominick Cruz when we returned from commercial break to realize that the [...]

KANSAS CITY (March 8, 2010) – Tyler Stinson, a 24-year-old native of Winfield, Kan., was the unanimous winner of an open tryout sponsored by Bellator Fighting Championships on Saturday, earning him a chance to fight in Bellator’s upcoming nationally-televised event at the Kansas City Power & Light District on April 29th. Stinson was one of 72 [...]

UFC title shots are at best inconsistent and at worst insulting to the intelligence of fans. Without an official ranking system, title fights are arranged based on their potential to attract an audience. Dana White defends this approach as preventing any obligation to put on boring fights. But there’s no denying it removes some credibility [...]

Sengoku 12 is in the books as the event recently unfolded in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. Jorge Santiago managed to hang onto his middleweight title in a rematch with Mamed Khalidov in the main event of the evening, while former UFC fighter Akihiro Gono also ended up in the winner’s circle with a unanimous decision over [...]