Instant classic: The UFC 117 conference call with Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen. I’ll have more on this fight, and this loaded card, next week, but the dialogue did not disappoint. Text | Listen
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Mixed Martial Arts returned from a brief break with force, as in Sarah Kaufman’s third-round knockout of Roxanne Modafferi at Friday’s Strikeforce [...]

UFC 117

With an upcoming fight this Sunday August 1 at UFC on Versus 2, all eyes will be on the new kid Jonny “Bones” Jones. He will be fighting an experienced and well respected veteran in Vladimir Matyushenko. “The Janitor” (Matyushenko) feels as though he is being over looked but with Jones’ recent performances, [...]

JON BONES JONES, UFC, VLADIMIR MATYUSHENKO

The image was classic: Dana White sitting ringside at WEC 48 with Jake Shields to his right. His arm around the Strikeforce middleweight champion, White couldn’t contain his glee when he smiled and said to the camera, “He’s mine!”
This was before Strikeforce ended negotiations with Shields, but the handwriting was on the wall once Shields [...]

Jake Shields

In sports, as in literature, there are moments in time that will forever change the course of action heretofore.  Darth Vader revealing that he is Luke Skywalker’s father, Vince McMahon purchasing WCW, and realizing that you are Tyler Durden are all examples of watershed moments. Star Wars, Pro Wrestling, and your life were never the [...]

Jake Shields, MMA, UFC

On Monday July 19, 2010 Jake Shields, the former middleweight champion of StrikeForce, signed with the UFC. Many MMA websites and magazines have him ranked as the number 3 middleweight in the world. The UFC brass, and fans of the UFC should be very excited about such a big acquisition for the organization. Shields is [...]

GSP, Jake Shields, JOSH KOSCHECK, UFC

For once the MMA community has a chance to breathe. UFC 116 put an exclamation point on a loaded June that bled into the July 4 weekend. Come August MMA events ramp up again with five major shows: UFC on Versus 2, UFC 117, Strikeforce: Houston, WEC 50 and UFC 118, when Boston will host [...]

Strikeforce Houston, UFC 117, UFC 118, WEC 50

On January 1, 2010, BJ Penn, Georges St. Pierre, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida, and Brock Lesnar were all UFC champions. Since then BJ Penn has fallen to Frankie Edgar and Lyoto Machida has fallen to a man whom he had previously beaten in Mauricio Rua. Brock Lesnar, Anderson Silva and Georges St. Pierre [...]

ANDERSON SILVA, Brock Lesnar, GSP, UFC