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Dana White has opted not to speak with the recently retired light heavyweight fighter Stephan Bonnar since the fighter's positive test results were revealed.

MONTREAL -- Francis Carmont is a 2013 sleeper. Not many people are talking too loudly about him, but the hulking 185-pound Frenchman has that sense of pending noise -- sort of like a French Glover Teixeira. After all, here's another fighter in his 30...

Marijuana isn't a performance-enhancing drug, you say? Try running that nonsense by any guitarist in a jam band. All that noodling is backlit by something, brother. In MMA, though, marijuana doesn't enhance fight night performance. In fact, it pr...

Recently retired light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar and heavyweight Dave Herman failed their respective UFC 153 postfight drug tests, a source told ESPN.com on Friday.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson has asked promotion president Dana White for a bout with highly touted Glover Teixeira. Jackson made his request Sunday, several hours after Teixeira called him out at UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro...

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 to disagreeing with his finicky taste in opponents. We can, and we will. Why not UFC light ...

Dana White likened Anderson Silva to Mike Tyson and Michael Jordan following his latest win at UFC 153, and predicted that the Brazilian's own desire to astonish people will lead him into a super-fight with Jon Jones. More »...

Josh Gross rates the performances of UFC 153 fighters.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira says he is still hungry following a win over Dave Herman at UFC 153 and does not intend on retiring from mixed martial arts any time soon.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- It's obvious Stephan Bonnar was blithely ignorant of Anderson Silva's plans for him. The American light heavyweight thought he was going to Brazil for a fair fight. In reality, Silva was using him as an unwitting victim in a new...

Josh Gross and Chad Dundas analyze the fallout from UFC 153.

Fabio Maldonado's choice of entrance music was a fitting one. Walking to the Octagon to the iconic theme music of the "Rocky" movies, he would channel the spirit of Sylvester Stallone's fictional slugger for his bout with Glover Teixeira. Teixeira...

As expected, middleweight champion Anderson Silva had no difficulty making the 205-pound limit Friday for his bout at UFC 153.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mixed martial arts fighters approach superstar status, a shift is taking place in their relationship with the media. Middleweight king Anderson Silva, who returns once more to 205 pounds in this weekend's UFC 153 main event again...

Editor's note: Anderson Silva's story is published on ESPN.com courtesy of the UFC. I'm happy to be two days away from fighting Stephan Bonnar here in Rio in the main event of UFC 153. I didn't think I would be fighting again in 2012, but when my ...

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva has reiterated he has no interest in a proposed super fight against light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.