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UFC fighters are fiercely competitive and know they could be cut, bruised or placed in submission holds that can render them temporarily unconscious. But mention "fighter pay" to them and they become consumed with fear, flight instincts taking over.

With a self-professed desire to be one of the biggest sporting leagues in the world, the UFC is unique among that group in that it doesn't necessarily have to be bothered with regulatory protocol. The NBA, NFL, and MLB staff, train, pay and penalize ...

With MMA's growth come increasing opportunities to make your home as unappealing as possible to the opposite sex: On the heels of recent licensing deals with toy makers, the UFC announced Monday that it had signed an exclusive distribution deal with ...

Saturday's Strikeforce main event between Frank Shamrock and Nick Diaz isn't for a title. It doesn't even take place in a real weight class. And yet, it'll be a must-see event for MMA fans.

Unless you're a huge MMA fan, you probably didn't notice that the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended a welterweight fighter named Nick Diaz last week for flunking a drug test. It got buried under the avalanche of news about Ryan Braun, but th...

Samsung Next Level Player of the Week nominees include CC Sabathia, Homare Sawa, Abby Wambach and Dominick Cruz

The Rogers Centre, formerly known as Skydome, will host its first mixed martial arts event on Saturday, when UFC 129 "St. Pierre vs. Shields" lands in Toronto. Organizers expect a crowd of some 55,000, which would shatter the North American attendanc...

A fact sheet compiled by the Chicago Sun-Times and picked up by USA Today's Sergio Non reveals some interesting statistics on the social networking aptitude of various sports clubs: The NBA is first in Facebook followers with 2.5 million. Second? The...

With a self-professed desire to be one of the biggest sporting leagues in the world, the UFC is unique among that group in that it doesn't necessarily have to be bothered with regulatory protocol. The NBA, NFL, and MLB staff, train, pay and pena...

With MMA's growth come increasing opportunities to make your home as unappealing as possible to the opposite sex: On the heels of recent licensing deals with toy makers, the UFC announced Monday that it had signed an exclusive distribution deal ...

Josh Hedges/Zuffa/UFCTim Sylvia, bottom, is turning the lights out on someone else for once.The popularity -- and correlating distractions -- of mixed martial arts has made securing fighters for interviews slightly more difficult than a few years ago...

The popularity -- and correlating distractions -- of mixed martial arts has made securing fighters for interviews slightly more difficult than a few years ago. They're pushed and pulled in a lot of different directions, and a Web site request for com...

ESPN.com ranks the Top 10 video highlights for May 19th, 2009

Unfairly dwarfed by announcements of ex-MLB whistle-blowers potentially getting into heaps of cranial trouble in bizarre mismatches, Saturday's Sengoku 8 card -- which aired stateside on HDNet from the Yoyogi National No. 2 Gymnasium in Tokyo -- wa...

ESPN.com ranks the Top 10 video highlights for January 29th, 2009

ESPN.com ranks the Top 10 video highlights for February 2nd, 2009