MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show two fighters from Saturday’s UFC 132 event: Shane Roller and Brad Tavares. Tuff-N-Uff promoter Jeff Meyer and some of his fighters also stop by the studio to discuss Friday’s event in Las Vegas. MMAjunkie.com Radio airs from 12-2 p.m. ET (9-11 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay [...]
ProElite Inc., a mixed-martial-arts company that formerly promoted events under the EliteXC banner, is under new ownership and has announced an Aug. 27 event in Hawaii. As MMAjunkie.com reported earlier this year, Stratus Media Group assumed control of the company. With the recent hiring of former Strikeforce matchmaker Rich Chou and former SuperBrawl/ICON Sport owner [...]
Tito Ortiz isn’t ready to call it a wrap on his illustrious career, but it’s hard to ignore the subtext as he heads into Saturday’s UFC 132 event. The former champ and MMA superstar is winless in his past five fights, and at 36 years old, Ortiz knows time isn’t on his side. And while [...]
Sometimes translation can muddy the truth, and other times, it can provide a refreshing transparency. South Korean welterweight Dong Hyun-Kim makes no bones about the fact that he wants a title shot and he feels he’s ready to fight reigning champ Georges St-Pierre. When that happens, of course, is not up to him. He’d like [...]
LAS VEGAS – The traditional pre-event press conference for this week’s UFC 132 show takes place today, and you can watch a live video stream of the festivities here on MMAjunkie.com. Today’s event takes place at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas with UFC president Dana White, Dominick Cruz, Urijah Faber, Chris [...]
Filed under: UFC LAS VEGAS — Before you ever see one of Dominick Cruz‘s workouts, you hear it. More to the point, you hear Mike Easton, who is a little like MMA’s version of the magical talking mirror in “Snow White.” Only instead of telling you who’s the fairest in the kingdom, Easton tells Cruz [...]
Four years ago, Dominick Cruz left his neck exposed and paid for it dearly. On Saturday, he will finally have a chance at redemption — a chance to avenge the lone loss on an otherwise perfect record
Many have tapped it the biggest bantamweight fight in MMA history. Whether or not that’s true, UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz knows he’s entering unchartered territory when he headlines Saturday’s UFC 132 event against rival Urijah Faber. As he told MMAjunkie.com, simply being part of Thursday’s open workouts and answering questions from the media reminded [...]
Maybe it’s because he’s had a hard camp and is dying to vent, or maybe he just feels it’s time to pipe up. Or maybe his manager wants him to do it. Whatever the reason, Carlos Condit has reached his threshold for sitting back and waiting patiently. Today during an appearance on MMAjunkie.com Radio, he [...]
Filed under: UFC, MMA Fighting Exclusive, News, Videos LAS VEGAS — Watch below as Urijah Faber talks about his UFC 132 title fight against Dominick Cruz, how important this fight is to him, his relationship with Cruz, his “No Shirt Nation” and Rosie O’Donnell. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments