Halt Couture, St. Pierre's standstill and more

...still miles away from the kind of suffocating, upper-tier attack of a Jon Fitch or Thiago Alves. That's the kind of competition he should have to face and beat in order to...

Brits party Hardy on home turf

Home-cage advantage or not, the Brits proved they've come a long way in the MMA game in a short time on Saturday at the Manchester Evening News Arena.

11 July 2009: Georges St-Pierre of Canada is visibly exhausted after his bout against Thiago Alves of Brazil in the UFC 100 event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas...

The UFC can't win 'em all, right?

...at all. 3. Fan favorite, George St. Pierre injured his groin in his dominating performance over Thiago Alves at UFC 100. GSP will be out of commission until at least early next year. 4...

UFC 103: Belfort, Daley issue statements, more

Of all the athletes who promised to re-enact some of their better days Saturday, Vitor Belfort might have been considered the least likely to succeed....

Venus survives opening-round scare in New York

NEW YORK -- Venus Williams has been more regular than the No. 7 train at the National Tennis Center. In 10 previous runs through the U.S. Ope...

Couture, Nogueira decidedly unhostile

...trick. He'll shoot.) There's also talking-head footage available of co-headliners Keith Jardine and Thiago Silva, but for whatever reason, no one seems particularly interested in the fight or its outcome. Jardine...

ZOOM Gallery: UFC 100

Hi-resolution photo gallery of UFC 100

Silva shines, blazes past Griffin in one

Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. Just ask Anderson Silva, who blazed past Forrest Griffin at UFC 101.

Penn talks past and future

...for Penn, and a survival rate of three rounds is off from both Jon Fitch and Thiago Alves, who each lasted five. Penn's Aug. 8 lightweight opponent, Kenny Florian, has some hubris of...

Pound-for-pound rankings reaction

...offensively.) I have to consider that Georges St. Pierre's depth of competition -- Jon Fitch and Thiago Alves are, relative to their division, far more foreboding than either Patrick Cote or Thales Leites -- and...

MMA's 10 best pound-for-pound fighters

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