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If we learned anything about Nick Diaz from the epic oratory performance he put on at UFC 158, it's that he's not going to lie to us. Diaz can be called a lot of things, but "liar" certainly isn't one of them. If anything, the American ambassador...

I was once a big proponent of a superfight between Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre. Now, after waiting 11 months for St-Pierre to return from a torn ACL and watching him vanquish a game Carlos Condit on Saturday at UFC 154 to finally take th...

Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones are already in midseason form. With two weeks to go before they don their team colors and become rival coaches on season 17 of "The Ultimate Fighter", both the UFC light heavyweight champion and his out-of-the-blue chall...

Even during a year where injury and adversity have been the norm in mixed martial arts, this past weekend felt like an especially hectic one for the UFC. If the August cancelation of UFC 151 represented rock bottom for the organization's ongoing s...

Despite his arrest late Thursday on an undisclosed felony warrant, UFC brass said lightweight Jeremy Stephens will still fight Yves Edwards on Friday night at UFC on FX 5.

In the 27 years since it was first used as an officiating tool by the doomed United States Football League during its 1985 season, instant replay has become so commonplace in professional sports as to barely be noticeable anymore. Replay has long ...

In professional sports, it is often said it pays to have a very short memory. Perhaps that explains why nobody seemed particularly excited about rehashing the recent past on Tuesday as the principals of UFC 152 gathered for a conference call in su...

Vitor Belfort has always been an all-or-nothing kind of guy. Even by the volatile standards of mixed martial arts -- a sport where nearly everyone eventually gets a slice of humble pie -- Belfort's ride has been a special kind of roller coaster. O...

From the deafening silence that descended over MMA's favorite social media platforms Thursday morning, you could tell something big was about to happen. You just didn't know it would be quite this weird. Even as the UFC hastily (and cryptically...

After nearly six months of radio silence, the mixed martial arts community finally received a dispatch from Nick Diaz late last week. The message itself came secondhand but -- just as we suspected all along -- it confirmed two things. First, the f...

The only thing we know for sure is that Brock Lesnar didn't show up at UFC 146 by accident. To hear promoters tell it, dislodging Lesnar from the friendly confines of his home in Alexandria, Minn., is akin to moving heaven and earth. The former UF...

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...

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...

Hands down, the most frustrating thing about discussing a potential superfight between Jon Jones and Anderson Silva is that -- for whatever reason -- the two people least interested in making it happen are Jones and Silva themselves. The mere ide...

The lesson here is a fairly simple one: Never say never. There was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed like fans had a better chance of hitting the lottery than ever seeing Nate Marquardt fight in the UFC again. Marquardt, we all recall, w...

The marching orders for Nick Diaz's second tour of duty in the Octagon were clear from the start. Before the start, actually. "The problem with Nick Diaz is, Nick won't play the game," explained Dana White last January, five full months prior to D...