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This is what makes fighters a different breed than the rest: Seven weeks after being sedated and cut open for an appendectomy, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua went back into the gym and prepared for a fight that was already the most important of his life. In...

If someone could be bothered to construct one of those fancy USA Today-type graphs, you could chart a pretty clear ascendancy of effectiveness in the UFC career of Mauricio Rua. In his debut against Forrest Griffin -- the barely perceptible startin...

Dave Mandel/Sherdog.comThe UFC chose to keep Kimbo Slice aligned with Matt Mitrione for the promotion's May 8 event.On Monday, the UFC reaffirmed Kimbo Slice's appearance against Matt Mitrione on May 8. The announcement ends speculation that Sli...

On Monday, the UFC reaffirmed Kimbo Slice's appearance against Matt Mitrione on May 8. The announcement ends speculation that Slice was being considered as a possible opponent for James Toney scheduled as an emergency fight card to combat Strikeforce...

"The Ultimate Fighter 10," easily the most insincere, labored and puzzling season of a series that began as a good idea -- "Big Brother" with headlocks -- came to its merciful conclusion Wednesday, but not before viewers were treated to another jaw s...

With a proper training camp, time to prepare and a healthy athletic base, the heavyweight division is still the sloppiest in mixed martial arts. Absent any of those things, it can produce a prizefight so bad you will begin to believe in the theory of...

Being a reality television series producer can mean a handful of things: A certain percentage of dinner-party guests are going to look at you as if you have leprosy, for one. Two, you're going to be elated when a subject utters the phrase, "There's c...

I don't fish and can barely remember the rowboat expeditions I took as a kid, but I know the look: the oxygen-starved vacant stare and the flapping mouth. Matt Mitrione and Scott Junk are two indisputably tough guys, but they looked like dying ...

I don't fish and can barely remember the rowboat expeditions I took as a kid, but I know the look: the oxygen-starved vacant stare and the flapping mouth. Matt Mitrione and Scott Junk are two indisputably tough guys, but they looked like dying car...

Like any fine art, "The Ultimate Fighter" frequently flirts with obscenity. Is the act of peeing in one's own food to dissuade others from eating it not a commentary on the self-sabotage of the human condition? Likewise, is Wes Sims complaining that ...