On Friday the Florida-based Xtreme Fighting Championships organization returns with another HDNet-televised event, “XFC 15: Tribute.” It’s the organization’s first show since XFC 14, an October card headlined by former WEC champion Jamie Varner and Nate Jolly, a well-rounded prospect looking for a signature career win. In this week’s edition of HDNet Fights Video Vault, [...]
Strikeforce’s future still remains unclear, but if things indeed are “business as usual,” welterweight veteran Bobby Voelker could be a part of the promotion for five more fights. Voelker’s management team, the Missouri-based Elite MMA Management, today confirmed their client has signed a five-fight contract extension with the promotion. “This will be a great opportunity [...]
MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes into the studio MMAjunkie.com editor-in-chief Dann Stupp to give a state-of-the-union address on the day of the 2011 World MMA Awards. Additionally “Judo” Jim Wallhead calls in to discuss his BAMMA 8 bout, Cody Gibson previews his Tachi Palace Fights 11 contest, and noted trainer Marc Fiore stops by the studio [...]
Onetime UFC vet Maiquel Falcao has returned home from the hospital and is now resting at home. And while initial reports suggested “Big Rig” had suffered a heart attack, Falcao now says his hospitalization was simply the result of some overtraining, and he expects a quick return to action. In fact, the recent Bellator signee [...]
In an interview Monday with MMAjunkie.com, Eric Prindle openly questioned whether Thiago Santos committed an intentional foul that forced a premature end to their bout in the finals of Bellator’s season-five heavyweight tournament. But referee Greg Franklin said he saw nothing intentional about the south-of-the-border kick Santos landed on Prindle in the first round of [...]
If it was good enough for UFC 133, it’s good enough for FOX. According to ESPN, UFC officials have booked Rashad Evans and Phil Davis for a headlining slot in the promotion’s sophomore effort on network television. The two top light heavyweights, who were expected to meet at this past August’s UFC 133 before Davis [...]
The UFC returns to Omaha, Neb., for the second time in company history for a Feb. 15 event set for a FUEL TV broadcast. MMAjunkie.com on Tuesday first reported the card, “UFC on FUEL TV 1: Ellenberger vs. Sanchez,” which features a welterweight headliner between Jake Ellenberger and Diego Sanchez in a three-round affair. UFC [...]
Filed under: UFC, News, UFC on FOX A light-heavyweight match pitting former division champion Rashad Evans and rising contender Phil Davis will take place at the upcoming UFC on FOX 2 show in January, sources told MMA Fighting on Wednesday, confirming an overnight report from ESPN. Late on Tuesday night, UFC president Dana White told [...]
Filed under: UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator With season 14 of The Ultimate Fighter drawing to a close and the big finale fight between the coaches drawing near, now seemed like as good a time as any to go head-to-head with my buddy and colleague Michael David Smith over a few of the more pertinent questions of [...]
Filed under: UFC, News Surging welterweight contender Jake Ellenberger will attempt to capture his sixth straight octagon win and thrust himself into the No. 1 contender debate on February 15, and he’ll need a win over Diego Sanchez to do it. The UFC confirmed the two will square off in the first installment of the [...]