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The UFC heavyweight division has changed immeasurably over the past few years and, looking back, it’s an improvement. Anyone who had to sit through Sylvia vs. Monson at UFC 65 or Sylvia vs. Arlovski 3 at UFC 61 will surely attest to this. It’s great to see that the UFC has choices at heavyweight in [...]

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Croatian fighter Goran Reljic has been cut from the UFC after his decision loss to Krzysztof Soszynski during UFC 122 in Germany last weekend. The BJJ brown belt and protege of Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic will have plenty of future fight options available, with Strikeforce, Bellator, and other MMA organizations likely chomping at the bit [...]

Bantamweight fighter and former top contender Roxanne Modafferi (pictured left) has been released from Strikeforce, following a loss to Sarah Kaufman this past July and to Marloes Coenen in November 2009. It’s worth noting Modafferi did have two notable victories outside of Strikeforce between these two bouts, defeating Molly “the Maulinator” Helsel by rear naked [...]

Last Thursday, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White announced the inevitable merger of the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) and UFC brands. With the merger, the bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight divisions currently run by the WEC will be amalgamated into the UFC. For the most part, fans, media and fighters have rejoiced. This means more [...]

A superfight between Manny Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn’t expected any time soon, but Pacquaio is in the gym (maybe not enough, according to his camp) as he prepares for a fight against Antonio Margarito. Here is a video of Pacquaio hitting mits (courtesy of InsideFighting and FightNews: Conditioning coach Alex Ariza has been [...]

The UFC sent out this promotional poster to get their fans into the Halloween spirit, ironic perhaps that the scariest thing from the UFC’s point of view has to be Marquart’s recent comments on Tapout Radio. The middleweight spoke about his upcoming bout with Yushin Okami and admitted that it could turn into a slower [...]

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The latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter started out with Koscheck and friends giving Michael Johnson all kinds of heat as he was getting worked on by his chiropractor. This was followed by more trash talking by Team Koscheck at the house, which was getting under everyone’s skin. Koscheck picked Marc Stevens to fight Cody [...]

UFC welterweight contender Jake Shields will “probably” earn a title shot against the winner of Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck II if he beats Martin Kampmann next weekend. “If Jake Shields should win against Martin Kampmann, it will probably be him next,” UFC President Dana White said during a UFC 124 press conference. Shields [...]

As UFC legends BJ Penn and Matt Hughes prepare for their third time in the octagon together this November at UFC 123, the MMA community is anxious to see if the UFC’s most famous farmboy will be able to overcome the skilled Hawaiian. Here is a quick little look: In their first two matchups, Penn [...]

MMA striker Robbie Lawler will meet 13-year veteran Matt Lindland during a Strikeforce event on Dec. 5 on Showtime live in St. Louis.  Strikeforce’s second trip to St. Louis in 2010 shows the organization’s growing trust in the midwest MMA fight scene — and rewarded the city with a return to the Scottrade Center. Both [...]

Even though it was the shortest fight of the entire card, the Mike Brown vs. Cole Province fight wasn’t shown on Versus due to arena football. Versus has offered the fight available online for free: Former featherweight champion Brown dropped Province, and then proceeded to jump on top and reign down ground and pound. I [...]

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem reached the finals of the K-1 World Grand Prix after completely demolishing Ben Edwards. Here is video from the K-1 fight in Seoul, Korea: After enduring an early onslaught from Edwards that yielded little damage, Overeem quickly went to work.

As we prepare for WEC 51 tomorrow night from Broomfield, Colorado, here is a Heavy.com WEC 51 open workout video. The show will be live on VERSUS and features a main event fight between WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and #1 contender Manny Gamburyan. The open workout includes footage from Miguel Torres, Gamburyan, Aldo, Jamie [...]

Aaron Simpson and Mark Muñoz may be long-time friends, but both fighters will put that aside when they face off in Auburn Hills, Michigan on November 20th at UFC 123. “I’ve known him since I was a senior in college. I wrestled him in college my senior year at Oklahoma State,” Simpson recalled. (This was [...]

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Bellator’s bantamweight tournament got quite interesting last night. Apex MMA’s Ed “Wild” West looked phenomenal in his fight against wrestler Jose Vega. Although West was never able to sink a submission, it wasn’t for lack of trying. He worked submission attempt after submission attempt, going for triangle chokes, armbars, a kimura and a rear naked [...]

The second episode of Season 12′s TUF begins with the spotlight on Jeff Lentz (who apparently is into smoking and drinking), and tall tale teller Alex Caceres (aka Bruce Leeroy). An interesting team strategy emerges when GSP and coach Greg Jackson decide to put together a fake list of fighters they want to pick, with [...]