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Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos needed to accomplish two things on Friday at Invicta FC: defeat Fiona Muxlow and look like a reasonable facsimile of her old self while doing it. Not necessarily in that order. At least not in terms of degree of difficul...

At the risk of sounding overdramatic, it's fair to say Ryan Bader will be at a crossroads in February, when he travels to Japan to take on Quinton Jackson at UFC 144. Prior to this year, the 28-year-old "Ultimate Fighter" winner and former Arizona...

When last Rich Franklin fought in the UFC, the light heavyweight title was still securely fastened around the waist of Mauricio Rua, Dan Henderson was still training for his Strikeforce championship bid against Rafael Cavalcante and Rashad Evans had ...

Saturday night in Denver, it was UFC play-by-play man Mike Goldberg's turn to hand out the superlatives. "A talent like never seen before in UFC history!" Goldberg declared, in the familiar cadence so inexorably linked now with action in the Octag...

The last time the UFC trekked to Japan, Tito Ortiz won the company's vacant light heavyweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Wanderlei Silva in the main event. That was April 2000 and the win touched a run of five successful title de...

Dana White said on Saturday he thinks the tide might finally be changing for Rashad Evans. After years of being one of the light heavyweight division's most successful yet seemingly least popular fighters, Evans might -- in the wake of his thoroug...

On paper and aside from an admittedly compelling main event, UFC 133 doesn't figure to be one of the fight promotion's more stacked efforts of 2011. When the UFC treks to Philadelphia on Saturday, it will be with a lineup beset by numerous injuries a...

During the last 14 months, Rashad Evans has become the poster child for how not to manage a career in the UFC. As a result, when Evans meets Tito Ortiz in their makeshift main event Saturday in Philadelphia, stakes will be high and consequences ma...

What a strange month it's been for Tito Ortiz. The former UFC light heavyweight champion appeared to already have one foot out the door leading up to his expected going away party against Ryan Bader at UFC 132. Ortiz went into that bout as a 4-1 u...

"Bad stuff happens every day." That's the phrase Dana White used earlier this month to describe his life as the most powerful man in MMA. Except of course, the colorful UFC president didn't use the word "stuff," exactly, and since he made the stat...