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Conventional wisdom told us the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix might be a win-or-go-home proposition for Josh Barnett. Given the fighter's notoriously frigid relationship with Zuffa, LLC, we suspected all along the only way he might get back i...

It would probably be generous to say that Amir Sadollah's split decision win over Jorge Lopez received mixed reviews this week. Unless by "mixed" you mean that A.) A lot of people thought Lopez should've gotten the nod from the judges and B.) Folk...

Donald Cerrone gets a lot of credit for being exciting. We laud his technical striking skills and proficient ground game, offering as evidence 14 stoppages among his 18 professional wins. We like to say he's a "natural born fighter" -- a complimen...

The mixed martial arts purist in all of us is probably supposed to be a little horrified that Muhammed Lawal reportedly plans to straddle the fence between our sport and professional wrestling. Given the special kind of ridicule many fight fans re...

We've already noted that Dominick Cruz was the only guy to truly capitalize on the new live format of "The Ultimate Fighter" this season. Now, it appears he could become a test case for how the show responds to real, actual drama. UFC President Da...

We've come to expect, even look forward to the passionate postfight ramblings of the Diaz brothers. It wouldn't really feel like a Diaz victory, after all, without copious shout-outs to the homies. It wouldn't feel right without some chest-thumpin...

Leading up to the biggest fight of his life this weekend at the UFC's third live show on Fox, Nate Diaz has had to answer more than a few questions on behalf of his brother. Of course, this will only strike you as odd if you don't know who Nate Di...

Over the last year or so, the UFC welterweight division has unexpectedly become a young man's game. If we'd had to guess back in the halcyon days of, say, UFC 124, it might have seemed a good bet that Georges St. Pierre would've cleaned out his we...

By now, most everything that could be said about Saturday night's UFC 145 main event has been said ad nauseam. We've had more than a year to stew on the rivalry between Jon Jones and Rashad Evans, our collective patience tested through a couple of...

It will shock absolutely no one to learn that Jon Jones is the future. Readers who have encountered even a smattering of MMA-related news during the last couple of years understand this to be true. Unless you've made it a point not to know it, you...

At this point, it's all upside for Alexander Gustafsson. Sorry, my apologies for using one of mainstream sport's more insipid buzzwords here, but there really is no other way to describe the talented 25-year-old Swede. A few days out from his figh...

As he prepares to take on Alexander Gustafsson on Saturday at the UFC's first-ever show in Sweden, Thiago Silva finds himself at an interesting time to return from a drug suspension. Or -- in the interest of accuracy, I guess -- a drug-related sus...

As of Thursday morning, fans, regulatory officials and MMA media were still waiting to hear from Alistair Overeem. A lot of people seem eager to know what the hulking Dutch striker has to say for himself after a recent round of surprise drug tests...

Crowds at WWE live events have been growing more and more unpredictable in recent years. As part of an evolution rooted in the company's popular "attitude era" of the 1990s, professional wrestling fans have taken to intermittently ignoring the bes...

The unknown persons responsible for encouraging Cristiane Santos to take steroids have been eliminated. That's her word: "eliminated." This according to the former Strikeforce women's featherweight champion herself in a video statement released...

Three episodes into the new "live" incarnation of "The Ultimate Fighter", the only truly memorable and unscripted moment so far has come thanks to UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz. As TUF made the jump from SpikeTV to the FX Network earlier...