(PRESS RELEASE) -- – With the return of UFC® superstar Tito Ortiz engaged in a rematch with former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin and two of the welterweight class’ most exciting knockout artists, Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson ... Read More
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The rise to power of Arizona Combat Sports as one of the top mixed martial arts gyms in the country was slow and steady. This was no overnight emergence. ... Read More
On a night in which the Ultimate Fighting Championship went head-to-head with one of boxing’s biggest stars, one of the most feared punchers in mixed martial arts returned to form. ... Read More
The UFC heads to Texas tonight for its hundredth-something
broadcast. And since there’s all the chance in the world the audience
in the arena will be armed, it had better be good.
Already, local news has gotten cranky about their presence, with
Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw getting his diapers
in a sailor's knot over it. Cowlishaw passed on a ringside seat
offered by UFC brass in order to watch a college football game on
television. If only some kind of recording device were available. ... Read More
As if Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t hate the UFC enough as is, he can expect this Saturday’s UFC 103 event to take a big chunk out of his pay-per-view bonus ... Read More
Even if you excuse his dynamic debut performance at UFC 13 -- all hands, no effort -- as the product of subpar opposition, Vitor Belfort is still a sharp, tight stand-up artist who can end fights faster than IV sedation.
The ticks of the clock are Belfort’s biggest issues: as the fight wears, he fades mentally, and instructs his body to do the same physically. Whether that’s been corrected at Xtreme Couture hasn’t been discovered. Rich Franklin will prompt him for an answer. ... Read More