http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. Heading into UFC 159, figuring out ways that Chael Sonnen could compete with Jon Jones required an active imagination. The leading idea on how to get ...]]> April 29, 2013 07:34:58 PDT NEWARK, N.J. -- In a night of strange happenings, perhaps the strangest was saved for last. As most thought he would, Jon Jones (18-1) defended hi...]]> April 27, 2013 22:49:49 PDT All the UFC 159 promos can't do away with the most basic question: How did we get here? The first time Chael Sonnen fought Anderson Silva, the orig...]]> April 24, 2013 16:59:05 PDT On July 11, 2012, Chris Weidman defeated top middleweight contender Mark Munoz without so much as absorbing a single significant strike in six and a h...]]> March 07, 2013 03:54:02 PST In 2013, the year of the superfight and new-fashioned division jumping in the UFC, anything is possible. How possible? A simple, timely text can ...]]> March 06, 2013 12:01:31 PST Anderson Silva has surveyed two potential foes up close, only to have things go haywire. First he traveled to Montreal for UFC 154 as a prelude to...]]> January 21, 2013 03:47:11 PST Do we underappreciate Anderson Silva, or does Dana White underestimate our appreciation of Anderson Silva? Can't be both, can it? White has pointed...]]> December 11, 2012 03:52:01 PST In a UFC on FOX prefight media scrum, Dana White confirmed what a lot of people were thinking: that Georges St-Pierre wants to fight Nick Diaz next. A...]]> December 07, 2012 11:42:52 PST The new buzzword in the UFC is absolutely. There absolutely will be women's MMA in the UFC, now that Ronda Rousey has enough depth to make up for...]]> October 31, 2012 10:31:41 PDT As a fighter in the UFC's light heavyweight division, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou didn't amount to much. That was in 2008, when he was fresh off an upset...]]> October 30, 2012 08:49:29 PDT Audacity pays in the UFC. Chael Sonnen is nothing if not audacious. Chael Sonnen is The Man. He is the first No. 1 contender to never appear on y...]]> October 17, 2012 09:39:49 PDT Now that Anderson Silva has done away with Stephan Bonnar, a perfunctory matter that he handled with the usual play-action legerdemain, we can go back...]]> October 15, 2012 09:23:29 PDT All of the questions regarding Jon Jones' chin heading into his 10th, 11th and even tonight's 12th UFC fight were more of a hype-game curiosity. S...]]> September 22, 2012 23:32:34 PDT DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Vitor Belfort is the longest-tenured UFC fighter, an ante-Zuffaian heirloom who was Jon Jones long before there was a Jon Jones....]]> September 19, 2012 08:51:59 PDT Michael McDonald won't be 22 years old until January. There's a chance -- if the cards fall in his favor, and his hand is healthy enough to chin-hunt,...]]> September 17, 2012 03:38:36 PDT