After Jon Jones choked out Lyoto Machida at UFC 140, Jones's coach Greg Jackson stepped into the Octagon and urged Jones to check on Machida and see if he was OK. Jackson's comment was picked up by microphones and broadcast to fans watching on UFC.tv, and Jackson's phrasing was interpreted by some...
What a stretch it's been for Carlos Condit. First he was going to fight BJ Penn at 137, then he was going to fight Georges St-Pierre for the title. Then St-Pierre got injured and Condit got neither. Then, he was going to wait for his title shot with GSP, until he was moved aside in favor of Diaz....
Two days after he broke the arm of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 140, Frank Mir said that he felt badly for Nogueira's injury, but he expressed pride in his first-round submission finish. And as for the talk that Mir might be pressed into service to fight Brock Lesnar at UFC 141, Mir said he...
Fedor Emelianenko will face former Olympic judo gold medalist Satoshi Ishii on a New Year's Eve match co-promoted by M-1 Global and DREAM in Saitama, Japan. The promotions confirmed the fight's booking in a joint news release on Monday afternoon. It will be the first time Emelianenko fights in...
Alistair Overeem's long-awaited UFC debut as well as a UFC 141 match with pay-per-view powerhouse Brock Lesnar was threatened after Overeem's request for a Nevada fighter's license was debated during the state's athletic commission in a Monday hearing. In a meeting at the Grant Sawyer State...
UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre will undergo surgery Tuesday to fix the damage to his injured right knee. The procedure will be done at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, a renowned facility for sports medicine among professional athletes. It will be performed by Dr....
The result of the Nov. 12 Mackens Semerzier vs. Robert Peralta fight has been changed to a no contest following a Tuesday hearing in California, Semerzier's manager Brian Butler-Au of SuckerPunch Entertainment confirmed with MMAFighting.com. Peralta stopped Semerzier on the undercard of the UFC on...
Early Tuesday at a press conference in Rio, UFC president Dana White announced Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva as coaches on the first-ever international edition of The Ultimate Fighter, which will take place in Brazil. In the past, White said that international editions of TUF would likely air...
UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre underwent successful knee surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles, St-Pierre's coach Firas Zahabi confirmed with MMAFighting.com. "It went great," Zahabi wrote via text message. "The doctor said it could not have gone better." The surgery was performed by Dr....
UFC will make its debut on FX on Jan. 14 when the network airs the UFC 142 prelims, a FUEL TV official confirmed with MMAFighting.com on Tuesday. FUEL TV, who shares the same parent company, FOX, as FX, will broadcast the majority of UFC prelim bouts in 2012, however, the UFC 142 undercard will...
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