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It wasn’t for lack of trying, but Jon Jones just couldn’t get a spectacular finish against Rashad Evans. Jones repeatedly landed punches, kicks and elbows, but Evans’ defensive tactics kept the fight standing and kept the fighters at a distance from each other throughout. In the end, the former light-heavyweight champion was no threat at [...]

Nick Diaz, former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, WEC and IFC Welterweight Champion, was tested positive for marijuana metabolites.

The test was conducted for last Saturday’s UFC 143 show in Las Vegas by the Nevada Athletic Commission.

Diaz who was close to having a bout [...]

The early numbers for UFC 141 are in, and Brock Lesnar appears to have cemented his legacy as MMA’s unquestioned pay-per-view king. All last week the mixed martial arts community was buzzing to see the reception that would greet UFC 141. Could Lesnar’s absurd drawing power overcome a publicly overlooked shift to Friday night? The [...]

Jon Jones is more than just the UFC light heavyweight champion. He’s the best fighter in the entire sport of mixed martial arts. At 24, he’s run roughshod over a division stocked full of the sport’s best. This year alone he’s absolutely wrecked some of the best the light heavyweight division has to offer. Ryan [...]

Three rounds are in the books for the main event of UFC 135 – a light heavyweight championship bout between Jon “Bones” Jones and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. This is the first time Jones has ventured into the championship rounds, though he has dominated the fight thus far. The referee overseeing the action is Josh Rosenthal. For more analysis [...]

Even since Floyd Mayweather, Jr. followed his dad and uncles into the boxing ring, he has been a natural performer. He went 84-6 as an amateur before winning a bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics.

Since turning professional, he has won all 42 of his fights, 26 by knockout. He started out as a Super Featherweight and has gone up [...]

A few weeks ago we heard a rumor floating around MMA circles that Brock Lesnar’s recovery from his second bout with diverticulitis might not be going as well as was being reported. While the UFC has targeted a late 2011/early 2012 return for the former heavyweight champion, we had been tipped off that it might not happen that quickly, or even at all.

Apparently that wasn’t just idle gossip. [...]

Fox Sports and Zuffa LLC, UFC’s parent company, has signed a 7-year deal, reportedly, worth nearly $700M. UFC currently shows fights and other related programs on Spike TV.

Starting January 2012, the UFC will air four live fights broadcast on FOX per year, while 32 other fights and the production of ”The Ultimate Fighter’ will air on FX. [...]

Gina Carano, the face of women’s mixed martial arts fighting is finally ready to return to the cage.

Carano was set to make her comeback last month against Sarah D’Alelio, but Carano was pulled from the card after Strikeforce announced she had failed her pre-fight…

“No Holds Barred: The Complete History of Mixed Martial Arts in America” is the definitive American history of MMA and its rapid rise in the sports and entertainment world. Armed with a recorder and a press pass to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, author Clyde Gentry III set out to tell the story of MMA in the late 1990s…