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Winning the heavyweight belt proved to be a cakewalk for Junior dos Santos. Now for the historically hard part: defending the title.

Josh Gross rates the performances of Strikeforce GP/Bellator 69 fighters.

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was arrested early Saturday morning in Binghamton, N.Y., on suspicion of drunken driving.

Writing about mixed martial arts, it's sometimes easy to come off like a hagiographer. This little engine that could, surviving, thriving, making it to the top of mountain and all that. There are days -- unfortunately more and more frequent -- ...

Josh Gross rates the performances of Bellator 68 fighters.

If your first thought after learning that Dominick Cruz tore an anterior cruciate ligament was anything like mine, then you've wondered whether or not a fighter who made his name off speed and movement is in danger of stumbling back to the pack. I...

Josh Gross rates the performances of Invicta FC fighters.

Mixed martial arts is filled to the brim with great stories. Not the least of which is the amazing tale of the sport itself. During the course of this fight week, UFC's third on network TV, we were often reminded of two of its most harrowing: Lav...

No matter how stunning Johny Hendricks' 12-second knockout of Jon Fitch was in December, stopping the second best welterweight on the planet won't mean much if the southpaw can't also defeat Josh Koscheck on Saturday. "I have to win this fight to ...

Josh Gross rates the performances of Invicta FC fighters.

Is there a place in mixed martial arts for an all-female promotion? A "league of their own," as it were? Shannon Knapp and Janet Martin believe the answer is "yes," and their quest begins Saturday in Kansas City, Kan., with the debut of Invicta Fi...

Hey, remember when Jon Jones beat Rashad Evans? In case the mega-fight slipped your mind already, which isn't altogether implausible thanks to mixed martial arts' wacky news cycle, that happened Saturday. For instance: On Tuesday, three major p...

Josh Gross rates the performances of Bellator 66/UFC 145 fighters.

For as dominant as Jon Jones appeared to be Saturday night while earning a lopsided unanimous decision against Rashad Evans, the challenger had a glimmer of hope to win the fight. And if Evans goes home to cry like he joked he would during the UFC 14...

Eddie Alvarez, perhaps for the first time in his career, appears to be in a tenuous position. The 28-year-old Philadelphian, a nine-year mixed martial arts veteran, is ranked outside the top 10 of the lightweight division for the first time in thr...

You'd guess by now Jon Jones knows everything he could wish to know about Rashad Evans. Not so. There's never enough intel -- not for Jones, especially when he's days away from a fight the UFC light heavyweight champion has pondered over for fa...