The inaugural UFC featherweight champ, Jose Aldo (18-1 Professional, 8-0 WEC) is out of his UFC 125: Resolution showdown with top contender, Josh Grispi (14-1 Professional, 4-0 WEC). It is unknown what injury that the UFC featherweight champ suffered during a training session. UFC 125: Resolution is scheduled for January 1st, 2011 in Las Vegas, [...]

UFC, WEC

The MMA world received a jolt of adrenaline when the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced plans to merge with World Extreme Cagefighting in January 2011. UFC president Dana White first informed MMAFighting.com before a formal announcement was made to reporters over a conference call, creating an explosion of feedback on Twitter and through cyberspace, much of [...]

Merge, UFC, WEC

This past weekend was great for MMA. We saw three large organizations make headlines throughout the MMA media world, including MMABadAss.com. Thursday night, the Bellator Fighting Championships held an event, Friday night Shine Fights brought back the tournament style old school MMA structure , and on Saturday Shark Fights put their event on PPV for [...]

Bellator, SHARK FIGHTS, SHINE FIGHTS, UFC, WEC, ZUFFA

We had the fantastic opportunity to meet-up with Children’s Body Image Foundation (CBIF) President, Lane Andrews Jr. at the 2010 Arnold Fitness Expo. We briefly discussed all of the achievements that the CBIF has managed to accomplish in 2009 and into 2010. If you are not familiar with this organization, let us first give you [...]

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At WEC 47 we witnessed the birth of new stars, another step back for one of its brightest and a farewell to Mixed Martial Arts’ finest ambassador. From what Jens Pulver told The MMA Hour, perhaps he’ll never truly retire. He told the show he prefers to “fade away.” There’s no doubt from where I [...]

Jens Pulver, Little Evil, WEC

WEC 47 was held at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio  – Saturday night, March 6th in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival. WEC 47 featured some of the greatest lightweight MMA fighters in the world including the current WEC bantamweight champ Brian Bowles, bantamweight contender Dominick Cruz, former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres, Joseph Benavidez, [...]

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Come out this weekend to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio to meet some of your favorite MMA stars from the UFC & WEC. The following MMA stars will be making appearances throughout the Arnold Sports Festival weekend. Admission is only ten dollars. This is a once in a life time opportunity to meet [...]

Arnold Sports Festival, MMA, UFC, WEC