It was a banner night for Great Britain on Nov. 14 as the Ultimate Fighting Championship staged UFC 105 in front of its biggest U.K. crowd to date. ... Read More
Ortiz’s recent performances displayed a fighter far removed from the kind of dominating, aggressive cage-wrestling he used to great success early on; he blamed back issues, corrected by a new and less invasive surgery. But even if Ortiz reverts to old form, he’ll be a 2002 fighter in 2009: up against athletes who can stuff his takedown, shut him down on the ground, and pester him standing. Aggressive wrestlers will always have a chance -- even fresh off the college mat -- but it’s not as good a guarantee as it used to be.
UFC President Dana White and Cain Velasquez met with UFC Fight Club members Friday in Las Vegas and discussed a variety of topics. White said the following: ... Read More
A rematch more than three years in the making moved one step closer to being realized, as former UFC light heavyweight champions Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin tipped the scales.
Sporting a black right eye, Ortiz checked in at 204 pounds for his showdown with Griffin (205) ... Read More
For a fight that was not supposed to rest atop the marquee, the rematch between former light heavyweight champions Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin at UFC 106 this Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center ... Read More
On Sending Out Wedding Invites: “The thing you find with weddings is it’s kind of like a landslide. Once you invite one person from one clique, you really have to invite the whole clique. So it’s hard. We tried to have a wedding with about 30 people (in Savannah, Ga.). It ended up being about 50 when it was all said and done. (We invited) a bunch of guys from Hardcore (Gym) and what not. It's in their neck of the woods. I invited a lot of my friends from Vegas in hopes they wouldn't make the trek all the way back East.”
On His Honeymoon Cut Short: “We did the honeymoon. We were actually up in King's Canyon and as we were coming down the mountain -- we can't get any signal up there -- my phone starts dinging like a machine gun and it's Dana texting, 'Call me. Call me. Call me. Call me.' Did I do something wrong? And it was just the Tito fight and I was like, 'Oh that's all? Nevermind.'” ... Read More
We begin this week with Coach Rashad Evans and Matt Mitrione having a little powwow over the physical fallout from Mitrione’s fight last week. ... Read More
The thing about promoting conflict resolution through violence: your talent pool is going to take a beating.
Since October, an alarming number of the UFC’s box office attractions have been sidelined due to injury or illness. Anderson Silva had bone spurs removed from his elbow; Georges St. Pierre’s injured groin kept him out of the gym; Shane Carwin is suffering MCL strain; Lyoto Machida needed hand surgery following his last bout; Quinton Jackson is in Hollywood exile; most alarmingly, Brock Lesnar -- the UFC’s single biggest draw, and a peer of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather as the biggest draws on pay per view -- collapsed in Canada. Dana White tells TMZ.com that Lesnar may need “major surgery” to correct an ambiguous intestinal disorder. ... Read More
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) comes to Virginia for the first time in its history on Monday, January 11th for another hard-hitting edition of UFC® Fight Night™ Live on Spike TV. ... Read More
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