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UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez will defend his title Saturday at UFC 160 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas against Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva, whom he defeated in their first meeting last May at UFC 146. In the co-main-event, former heavyweight ...

These are the heavyweight power rankings.

John Candido of FightMetric breaks down select bouts from UFC on FX and UFC 147 cards.

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Glover Teixeira's greatest enemy to date has been access. For the last few years, visa problems have kept him out of the UFC. Before he defeated Kyle Kingsbury at UFC 146 to point a sudden "I'm coming" finger at Jon Jones, the last time he'd fough...

The only thing we know for sure is that Brock Lesnar didn't show up at UFC 146 by accident. To hear promoters tell it, dislodging Lesnar from the friendly confines of his home in Alexandria, Minn., is akin to moving heaven and earth. The former UF...

Former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture insists he does not want to get near reigning champ Junior dos Santos after seeing him obliterate Frank Mir at UFC 146. More »...

Heavyweight Frank Mir applied for and received a therapeutic use exemption for testosterone replacement therapy prior to his May 26 bout in Las Vegas against UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.

Rich Franklin is 37 years old. He is the former UFC middleweight champion who, when he signed on to fight Cung Le at UFC 148, expressed road-weary relief to be headed back home to 185 pounds. It had been too long, and Franklin never felt comfortable ...

At the end of April, prospects Rory MacDonald and Michael McDonald did work at UFC 145 in Atlanta. MacDonald's work was a showcase fight with an outmatched Che Mills, while bantamweight McDonald's was an eye-opening win over Miguel Torres. Today,...

Frank Mir was 22 years old when he made his Octagon debut at UFC 34. It was Mir's third pro MMA fight, and in it the fresh-faced Brazilian jiu-jitsu purple belt took just a minute, five seconds to tap out (and injure, from the look of it) two-time...

UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir was an Ultimate Fighting Championship event held on May 26, 2012, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The main event was a heavyweight championship bout between reigning champion Junior dos Santos and challenger Fr...

Josh Gross rates the performances of UFC 146 fighters.

It appears that UFC president Dana White won't have to look far to find the next opponent for heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.

LAS VEGAS -- The UFC looked to place its biggest division center stage Saturday, loading its UFC 146 card with five heavyweight fights. If the card told us anything, it's that two of those heavies sit significantly higher than the rest. Ju...

UFC 146

Junior dos Santos defended his UFC heavyweight title for the first time by stopping Frank Mir in two lopsided rounds.