For MMA fans that ran out and purchased the latest in audio visual recording equipment, to ensure that they would be able to watch both the Strikeforce and UFC on April 17th…hope you kept the receipt (of course anyone who is ‘really cool’ has had their own PVR now for years, if you’re still rockin a VCR, our thoughts go out to you). According to a report from MMA Fighting, a source close to the Spike Network, has informed the outlet that the UFC has abandoned its project to hold …

Old school MMA fans will (and should) be damn excited to hear that THQ has announced that UFC legends like Dan Severn, Royce Gracie and Jens Pulver  are going to be included in the PS3 edition of “UFC Undisputed 2010.” (Thanks to MMA Mania for the tip) Now, if your MMA diet is limited to the UFC or its little bro, the WEC, you may think at first glance that Pulver is the only dude of the three that’s recently thrown down. Wrong. Severn, at the young age of 51, …

With the internet still percolating about whether or not Tito Ortiz will in fact fight Chuck Liddell upon the conclusion of the next season of TUF (Mr. Dana White still says he will), “The Iceman” has weighed in on the James Toney situation (if you can’t recall this news already immediately seek out a neurologist). When we say ‘weigh’, we mean that Chuck, like fellow former champ Randy Couture, would also love an opportunity to teach the accomplished boxer that fighting isn’t limited to punches from the waist up.
When asked …

Renato “Babalu” Sobral (35-9), Strikeforce light-heavyweight champ Gegard Mousasi (28-2-1), and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (7-6) will all participate in DREAM’s upcoming light-heavyweight Grand Prix tournament, which is expected to start in May as part of the DREAM 15 event.
DREAM.15 is expected to take place May 30 at an event to be announced. The event is expected to air on HDNet in North America.
Sobral looks to recover from a devastating loss to Mousasi last summer at the “Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg” event, getting knocked out in the first round to lose …

Jeff Mayweather, brother to Floyd Mayweather Sr. and uncle to Floyd Mayweather Jr., recently did an interesting interview with FightHype. Here’s his take on Brock Lesnar and why boxing is so different from MMA:
“You got guys that can do MMA off of the street. You’re not going to have a guy in boxing like a Brock Lesnar. This guy has 5 fights and came out and knocked Frank Mir out dead and Mir has been training in MMA forever. It’s a sport that any person that feels that they are …

The Ultimate Fighting Championship made it official today, former light-heavyweight champs and opposing coaches from season 10 of “The Ultimate Fighter”, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (30-7) and “Suga” Rashad Evans (14-1-1), will headline UFC 114 in May.
“It’s no secret that Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans don’t like each other, and this rivalry has gotten more and more intense in the last few months,” said UFC President Dana White. “I can guarantee you that neither one of these guys wants to lose to each other, this fight is going to be insane.”
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Here’s a great two part interview done by The Telegraph on UFC welterweight number one contender Dan Hardy. The first part has to do with his childhood and how martial arts impacted him while the second has to do with him discussing the pressure of facing UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre.
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Edmonton, Alberta (Canada): The Fight Club (TFC), one of the top fight promotions in Canada, is proud to bring MMA fans “HIGH OCTANE” on Friday, March 19th, live from the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The event will feature several top MMA superstars, including TFC World Welterweight Champion Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford, former TUF finalist Tommy “Farmboy” Speer, TFC World Light Heavyweight Champion Victor Valimaki, and UFC veteran Tim “Thrashing Machine” Hague. Tickets are available through http://www.thefightclub.ca/, or (780) …

Add another UFC fighter to the growing list of people who would like to fight former champion boxer James Toney. Chuck Liddell mentioned that he would “love that fight” with James Toney during a recent interview with MMABay. Here’s the blurb:
“I’m just hoping if they bring him in he’s gonna come in running his mouth about MMA and MMA fighter being bad and I hope they put him against somebody good so they will crush him…
I would love that fight. You would actually see me hit a double and put …

Undefeated top UFC heavyweight challenger Shane Carwin  (11-0) juggles his life between being a father, working full-time as a mechanical engineer for the North Weld County Water District in Lucerne, Colo., and fighting opponents in the octagon.
Carwin spoke to MMAjunkie.com recently about juggling his life between home and the octagon, noting that “fighting is something I’ve chosen to do.”
“I take pride in when people ask me about the whole fighting thing. Are you going to take time off? Are you going to quit your job?’ I take pride in being …

Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy faces an uphill battle on March 27th as he’ll try to wrest the UFC Welterweight Championship away from the division’s dominant kingpin Georges “Rush” St. Pierre, but he may have a leg up on some of St. Pierre’s previous challengers as he has enlisted the help of the last man to beat GSP, Matt Serra, who turned the trick back at UFC 69 in April of 2007.
Here’s Hardy telling the Las Vegas Sun how he came to the United States early to adjust and train with …

There have been a lot of rumors swirling around former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin lately regarding UFC 115 and his possible involvement in the event with either Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell or Randy “The Natural” Couture facing him. Franklin spoke to the Boston Herald about the possibility of facing Couture, as well as looking to make another title run;
“It’s not signed yet, but we’ve been working Randy now for a while. We’ve talked June, then we talked August and now we’re talking June again. I think we’re having problems …

Former UFC veteran and Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral has reached a deal with the DREAM promotion on a multi-fight contract that is set to begin this May as the promotion will commence their Light Heavyweight Grand Prix. According to Sobral’s team, the deal was signed with the blessing of Strikeforce, who could not offer Sobral a fight as quickly as DREAM could.
Sobral has not competed since an August defeat by Gegard Mousasi in just over a minute stripped “Babalu” of the championship gold he had won by …