Mark Hunt may not have his visa yet, but the Nevada State Athletic Commission granted him a license to fight Junior dos Santos at UFC 160 next weekend. Hunt, who is still stuck in New Zealand awaiting a visa to fly to Las Vegas, told the commission on Friday that he is hopeful his visa [...]
Paul Kelly holds a fairly unique distinction in the UFC, having been released after a Fight of the Night performance at UFC 126. His name will fall into further infamy after Friday, when he was convicted of trafficking heroin in his native United Kingdom. According to The Liverpool Echo, jurors returned a unanimous verdict after [...]
T.J. Grant heard the critics after the announcement that the winner of his UFC 160 bout with Gray Maynard would get the next shot at Benson Henderson’s lightweight championship. Several observers, including this reporter, questioned whether a title shot for Maynard or Grant was the wisest decision, given the top of the lightweight division still [...]
At the UFC on FX 8 weigh-ins, all 26 fighters taking part in Saturday night’s UFC on FX 8 fights will step on the scale Friday afternoon, and we’ll have the live video here at MMAFighting.com. In the main event, former UFC champion Vitor Belfort and former Strikeforce champion Luke Rockhold will have to make [...]
It continues to confuse me when professional athletes fail to recognize the weight their words carry on social media. You already know what happened by now. Thursday morning, UFC lightweight Nate Diaz popped open his Twitter account and fired off a pair of tweets in defense of Pat Healy, who, as silly as sounds, recently [...]
Liz Carmouche has been a trailblazer in her short-but-eventful mixed martial arts career. Carmouche was the first openly lesbian fighter to compete on a major MMA stage and was part of the first women’s fight in UFC history. The San Diego-based fighter will add another first to her resume on July 27 at FOX 8 [...]
Pat Healy forfeited over $130,000 in bonuses earned from his UFC 159 victory against Jim Miller after testing positive for marijuana in a post-fight drug test, leading UFC bantamweight Bryan Caraway to retroactively receive Healy’s $65,000 ‘Submission of the Night’ bonus. Healy’s punishment has drawn widespread criticism across the mixed martial arts community, and on [...]
UFC veteran Brandon Vera (12-6, 1 NC) returns to heavyweight for the first time in five years to take on “Big” Ben Rothwell (32-9) at UFC 164. Vera announced the bout Thursday morning via Twitter. UFC 164 takes place August 31, 2013 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. No additional bouts have [...]
Just a few months ago, in February, boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was fined $900,000 by the Nevada state athletic commission after testing positive for marijuana. That whopping total — the largest fine ever handed out by NSAC — was 30 percent of his $3 million purse. As it turned out, the severity of the [...]
At the UFC on FX 8 press conference, Luke Rockhold, Vitor Belfort, Jacare Souza and Chris Camozzi will discuss UFC on FX 8 and more Thursday. Check out the UFC on FX 8 press conference above. It starts at the 14-minute mark.