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One of the best get-out-of-jail free cards is tenure. The longer you've been around, and the more you've dug your heels into a relationship, the more leeway you have to screw up. What happened in the closing moments of Strikeforce's second CBS tele...

Dave Mandel/Sherdog.comWanted: a welterweight champion or another way to get under Strikeforce's skin.Reasons for the UFC to acquire Jake Shields run off the page. He's one of the few remaining 170-pound athletes Georges St. Pierre has not burne...

Reasons for the UFC to acquire Jake Shields run off the page. He's one of the few remaining 170-pound athletes Georges St. Pierre has not burned; he is a highly skilled athlete with impeccable credentials; and his absence would be felt -- to some deg...

Dave Mandel/Sherdog.comDid Dan Henderson make the right choice? All depends on where your interests lie.Dan Henderson's decision to leave Zuffa's Ultimate Fighting Championship this weekend for the different -- not necessarily greener -- pa...

Dan Henderson's decision to leave Zuffa's Ultimate Fighting Championship this weekend for the different -- not necessarily greener -- pastures of the CBS/Showtime Strikeforce umbrella is scheduled to play out over Henderson's contracted four-fight, 1...

Strikeforce describes him as an "MMA superstar," and while that might depend on your definition, there's little doubt that their acquisition of Dan Henderson on Saturday marks the UFC's highest-profile exodus of talent since Andrei Arlovski...

Strikeforce describes him as an "MMA superstar," and while that might depend on your definition, there's little doubt that their acquisition of Dan Henderson on Saturday marks the UFC's highest-profile exodus of talent since Andrei Arlovski in 2008. ...

Cracking the introverted veneer of notoriously press-shy Dana White, Sportsnet.ca recently sat down with the UFC president for some conversation-slash-spin. Best bits: On Dan Henderson: "We offered him a very good contract, that's more than fai...

Cracking the introverted veneer of notoriously press-shy Dana White, Sportsnet.ca recently sat down with the UFC president for some conversation-slash-spin. Best bits: On Dan Henderson: "We offered him a very good contract, that's more than fair...

Josh Hedges/Zuffa/UFCDan Henderson thought crushing Michael Bisping would launch him into a big-bucks UFC contract. Most of the weekend talk surrounded Friday's news that Dan Henderson wasn't seeing eye-to-eye with UFC management on a prope...

Most of the weekend talk surrounded Friday's news that Dan Henderson wasn't seeing eye-to-eye with UFC management on a proper contract negotiation. (Henderson finished his last deal with the Michael Bisping fight and was expected to face Nate Marquar...

On a bad day, nothing less than Mothra would appear to get Anderson Silva out of bed in the morning. The UFC's middleweight champion and manager Ed Soares told MMA Weekly that they take some issue with Vitor Belfort's being chosen as Silva's next con...

AP Photo/Peter MorrisonDan Henderon can fight, but moving tickets has been another story.In at least one aspect, Dan Henderson is a priceless commodity: He's one of the few men to debut in 1997 that's still relevant today. A dozen years log...

In at least one aspect, Dan Henderson is a priceless commodity: He's one of the few men to debut in 1997 that's still relevant today. A dozen years logged in any sport is an admirable feat. And so Henderson is thinking maybe the UFC needs to deliver ...

Los Angeles Times writer Lance Pugmire with the early weekend bombshell: Dana White told Pugmire that he's gotten verbal commitments from both Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort for the two to face off in honor of Silva's middleweight title in Las Vega...

Of all the athletes who promised to re-enact some of their better days Saturday, Vitor Belfort might have been considered the least likely to succeed. A returning Frank Trigg had amassed a tight 7-2 record since leaving the UFC in 2005; Mirko Filipo...