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Just over two years since his last fight, Mark "The Hammer" Coleman officially retired from mixed martial arts this week. The 48-year-old mixed-style pioneer, a brutal force when he was at his best, will be remembered as one of the most influential h...

In a media scrum this past weekend in Chicago, Dana White casually mentioned how close the world was from getting a battle of colossals. You know, Brock Lesnar versus Fedor Emelianenko -- the heavyweight fight he said was light years from ever happen...

Saturday night in Oklahoma City marks the final chapter for Strikeforce mixed martial arts, ending a turbulent and groundbreaking period in the sport. Moving from regional promotion to one of global significance, Strikeforce offered a compelling m...

It's fight week, and it's flight week. No more Strikeforce after Saturday night. No more wondering if and when we'll be sold on Josh Thomson-Gilbert Melendez IV. No more decagon, and no more second-class citizenry. At long last, the long road ends...

MMA10 ranks the top 10 heavyweight fighters of all time, including Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo "Big Nog" Nogueira and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic.

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Josh Gross counts down the 10 hardest hitters in MMA history.

It took some time and liquidation, but the UFC's heavyweight division is finally made up of beasts. It's to the point that there's a legitimate top pairing (Cain Velasquez versus Junior dos Santos) with a behemoth flexing in the wings (Alistair Overe...

Technically speaking, I was a fan when UFC 24 rolled around. Kevin Randleman's first UFC heavyweight title defense was set to take place a month before I wrote the story that scored my first paycheck as a mixed martial arts reporter. Passionate as...

Hard-hitting heavyweights Travis Browne and Antonio 'Big Foot' Silva will meet Oct. 5 in Minneapolis, UFC announced Friday.

It's been a bit more than five years since Pride Fighting Championships collapsed under the weight of its own shady business dealings. The promotion that had been the gold standard in mixed martial arts throughout the early part of the 21st Centur...

Fedor Emelianenko didn't lament his losses like his fans did, and he didn't smite his chest as the world's greatest fighter back when people argued he was just that. He never talked smack to his opponents, and didn't tweet smiley faces when bad thing...

Fedor Emelianenko retiring after victory against Pedro Rizzo.

If we're talking volume alone, this is the biggest fight weekend that ever labored so hard to raise an eyebrow. And out of all the MMA going on this weekend -- Fedor Emelianenko versus Pedro Rizzo in St. Petersburg (good luck finding a feed) going...

Mixed martial arts spans the globe this weekend. While most of the attention will be placed on UFC cards in Atlantic City and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Bellator also returns with the start of its seventh season in Chester, W.V. Oh, and in St. Peters...

It took 15 months and some monumental forks in the road to arrive at the end point of the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix. No, it didn't go the way people thought it would, nor the way many hoped. There isn't going to be Fedor Emelianenko versus J...

NEW YORK -- For as stacked as the UFC 146 card appears for Memorial Day weekend, it's really two title fights (Urijah Faber/Dominick Cruz and Chael Sonnen/Anderson Silva) and a pack of glitzy non-consequential match-ups (Cung Le/Rich Franklin and For...