Jake Shields, the current Strikeforce middleweight champion, will appear on the eleventh season of The Ultimate Fighter to feature middleweights….  as an assistant coach to Chuck Liddell, not as a fighter.
Shields, a top 10 middleweight, is rumored to be fighting Dan Henderson in April as part of Strikeforce’s next prime time television event on […]

Who: Matt Hughes, BJ Penn
When: September 23, 2006
Where: Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, California
Breakdown: Gunning for redemption against the man who defeated him last, Matt Hughes (43-7) was not only looking to successfully defend his welterweight crown, the Illinois native was also attempting to prove to himself that his first bout against “The Prodigy” was merely […]

Dan Hardy and Marcus Davis are becoming the next Matt Serra and Matt Hughes with constant personal attacks on each other.  There is so much shit talking the UFC put together a 10 minutes clip.
Uh oh, Freddy Roach is coaching Hardy.  I’ll take Davis by KO in the first.
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Dana White, Lyoto Machida, Matt Hughes, Frank Edgar, Chael Sonnen, and more answer questions from the media after the fight. I have also included a little bonus feature of Machida knocking out Evans in case you were wondering why Evans was absent from the UFC 98 post fight media conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrUrEc7TL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE4XrEN9f98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Xew25_MOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9GG_KzEG84

UFC 98 was a great night of fights drawing 12,606 spectators and a $3.4 million live gate.  These numbers do not reflect PPV or Sponsorship sales.
Four fighters received a handsome bonus for their extraordinary efforts.
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT

Matt Hughes - $60,000
Matt Serra - $60,000

Matt Hughes and Matt Serra finally met in the ring to work out […]

 
Although the “Redempition” name was used for UFC 97, the Ultimate Fighting Championship definitely redeemed themselves with UFC 98 with excellent matchups resulting in stellar fights, including the main event where Machida ended the night with a bang, literally, and you could hear the echoes of media and fans around the world start to debate […]

This picture says it all.  Machida is clinching his jaw and Rashad is going with the death stare.  This is going to be good.
As usual, all twenty-two fighters made weight Friday for Saturday’s UFC 98 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.  Since Mike Pyle was a last minute replacement, he was […]

If you are like most MMA fans, you can never really get enough hype, so in case you missed it last night, here is Spike TV’s “Countdown to UFC 98″.   Let’s just hope UFC 98 lives up to the billing this time.
As a reminder, “MMA CITY” will be hosting a live UFC 98 chat before, […]

Finally, UFC 98 is upon us.  If you are like me, it seems like an eternity since we had a top level match-up like Evans vs. Machida.
To get you thinking about your picks for this weekend, here is a teaser of Countdown to UFC 98 on Spike featuring Evans-Machida and the entertaining trash talkers Serra […]

MMA Weekly is reporting that on July 10 during the UFC Fan Expo at Manadalay Bay, two more UFC greats will be named the sixth and seventh members of the UFC Hall of Fame.  The induction will take place immediately after Dana White’s keynote address scheduled to begin at 5:30 pm PST.  Current UFC Hall […]