Former WEC and UFC Middleweight prospect Jake Rosholt’s second fight after being released from the UFC following his UFC 106 loss to Kendall Grove will take place as part of a King of the Cage event on April 16th in Detroit, MI and will pit him against MMA veteran Jeremy Horn according to a Twitter posting from Rosholt announcing the bout.
Rosholt, a four-time All-American wrestler from Oklahoma State, was considered to be a coup for the WEC when they signed him back in 2008 with a perfect 4-0 record. He …

Even though he is set to face Frank Mir as part of a double-main event at UFC 111 next month for the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship, Shane Carwin has to be feeling like a bit of a forgotten man as he has been inactive since a UFC 96 win over Gabriel Gonzaga a year ago, while Mir spends the majority of his time talking about current UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar.
Carwin heard Mir’s most recent comments about Lesnar, with Mir hoping that he “breaks Lesnar’s neck” and that he would …

After dropping consecutive bouts in the UFC’s Welterweight division to Paulo Thiago and Martin Kampmann at UFC 106 and UFC 108 respectively, Jacob “Christmas” Volkmann will attempt to change his fortunes by dropping down to Lightweight to take on highly touted 155-pound Nova Uniao-trained Ronnys Torres at UFC Fight Night 21 on March 31st in Charlotte, NC.
Torres has also had some trouble in the UFC thus far, dropping his debut fight to Melvin Guillard via unanimous decision during the Spike TV preliminary card at UFC 109 last month. The bout …

Late last week, HBO, which is not only a premium channel on your cable dial but also a major distributor of pay-per-view programming, announced that it had attained at least 1.25 million pay-per-view buys for the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight, generating about $70 million in gross revenue.

For Floyd Mayweather’s “comeback” fight against Juan Manuel Marquez a couple of months ago, they declared a little over a million buys, producing roughly $52 million. The fight between Mayweather and Ricky Hatton did 920,000 buys. When Pacquiao fought Oscar De La Hoya, there were 1.2 million buyers announced…

Following their rematch at UFC 106, could a third Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin match be signed?

Watch the press conference that followed Saturday night’s UFC 106 PPV in full.

Forrest Griffin rallied to score a split decision over Tito Ortiz in a battle of former light-heavyweight champions at UFC 106 on Saturday night.

As in their first fight, the 34-year-old Ortiz used his takedowns to build an early lead but faded and had nothing left in the third round.

The judges scored Ortiz’s comeback fight 28-29, 30-27, 29-28 for Griffin.

“I think we’ll have to do a third (fight),” said Griffin, revealing he had broken his foot in training.

“Forrest was the better man tonight, I’ve got to…

It’s been well over a year since the UFC has seen Tito Ortiz. Despite losing two of his last three fights, and drawing even on the other one, Ortiz took a leave from the UFC amidst constant bickering with Dana White. In 2009, the pair made amends and Ortiz signed a six-fight deal that will bring one of the biggest fan favorites back to the octagon.

Profiling Forrest Griffin ahead of UFC 106 tonight as he looks to bounce back from his defeat to Anderson Silva at UFC 101.

Profiling ‘The Huntington Beach Bad Boy’ Tito Ortiz ahead of his return to the UFC tonight against Forrest Griffin at UFC 106.

Everyone’s excited to see the twin brother of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (aka Minotauro) in action, but all that hype is staved off by the punching power of a viscious Luis Arthur Cane. While the lesser Nogueira is a medal winning boxer at the South American Games and the Pan-Am Games, this will be his first UFC fight.

BetUS.com’s Nick Meyer previews Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni at UFC 106.

Watch Friday night’s UFC 106 weigh-in live as it happens. If you miss the live showing, it will be streamed continuously at this link!