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Kimbo Slice, a one-time homeless man, one-time strip club bouncer, one-time backyard, back-alley brawler turned Internet sensation/big money mixed martial artist isn’t a problem. Only in America, right? He’s said to be a great guy, a boot-strap success story who deserves everything coming to him. I’ve watched him maul “Adryan” a half dozen times alone. You have, or will, too. Kimbo Slice being a street fighter, rather than a Brazilian jiu-jitsu or Muay Thai master, isn’t a problem either. No, he isn’t the best and brightest in MMA. He’d probably get whipped in a second by the sport’s elite, as...

Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the Mandalay Bay Event Center promises to be the promotion’s mega-event of the year. Georges St-Pierre and Matt Hughes battle it out for the interim welterweight title, former champions Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva finally get the opportunity to get it on, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou makes his UFC debut against top contender Lyoto Machida, and several undercard fights promise impending fireworks. UFC WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT:GEORGES ST-PIERRE VS. MATT HUGHES Former champions collide for the third time as Georges St-Pierre battles Matt Hughes for the interim UFC welterweight championship. St-Pierre has a 14-2...

The latest and strongest EliteXC, airing Saturday on Showtime, features a study in the dichotomy of MMA. On one end of the spectrum you have several quality bouts featuring up-and-coming talent, and then of course there is the MMA debut of Kimbo Slice. While the possibility of Nick Diaz (Pictures) and YouTube's fistic patriarch striking up a conversation on the evils of Yellow 5 intrigues me to no end, we can always take solace in the fights should such a meeting of the minds fail to materialize. Headlining is Diaz against Karl James Noons (Pictures) for the vacant EliteXC lightweight...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 3 -- The first chapter of the IFL Grand Prix had few surprises. At the Sears Centre just outside of Chicago, 4,107 fans watched the favorites prevail in every match. In fact, almost everything played out as expected. It wasn't pretty, but Vladimir Matyushenko won his first title belt with a unanimous decision over a very game Alex Schoenauer. "The Janitor" spent the first round of their light heavyweight bout in his most comfortable place -- on the ground. He easily took down Schoenauer and controlled his hands while pounding on his head. Schoenauer hung tough,...

MMAWeekly.com is live on location in Cincinnati bringing you all the action, as it happen, from Ultimate Fighting Championship 77, which features middleweight champion Anderson Silva attempting to defend his belt from the man we took it from one year ago, Rich Franklin. RESULTS: Anderson Silva def. Rich Franklin by TKO (Strikes) at 1:07, R2 Tim Sylvia def. Brandon Vera by Unanimous Decision, R3 Alvin Robinson def. Jorge Gurgel by Unanimous Decision, R3 Stephan Bonnar def. Eric Schafer by TKO (Strikes) at 2:47, R2 Alan Belcher def. Kalib Starnes by TKO (Doctor Stoppage) at 1:39, R2 Yushin Okami def. Jason...

With little interest at age 44 of fighting anyone other than the man regarded as the best mixed martial artist in the world, UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture announced his retirement Thursday. Couture, a five-time champion and UFC Hall of Famer, had hoped to land a bout with Fedor Emelianenko, the top-rated fighter in the Yahoo! Sports MMA poll of the world's best fighters. But when reports surfaced Wednesday that Emelianenko had spurned the UFC to sign with the Russian-based M-1 Mix Fight organization, Couture opted to retire. The story was broken by Brian Knapp of The Fight Network, which...

“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.” -Muhammad Ali Randy Couture once again showed why he is one of the greatest champions the world will ever see as he dominated Gabriel Gonzaga on his way to a 3rd round referee’s stoppage at UFC 74, retaining his UFC heavyweight title. Entering his 15th championship fight in the UFC, Randy Couture really had nothing left to prove except that he can still be a dominant champion after moving back up to the heavyweight division in...

Finally. After the long lay off I'm finally in full on excitement mode for UFC 74. 73 was ok, but this one is serious business. Couture's all access show was awesome, so let's hope the all access curse was broken with Jackson and that curse is off to the Tapout show. Sherdog's MMA round table was excellent Everyone made weight. One note was that Gonzaga weighed in at 252 and Couture at 228 or so. Gonzaga was 240 or so for the CroCop fight, so for his sake I hope he's got some gas in the tank. Picks rock so...

Well folks, we are finally here. Easy to talk about this PPV Fight Card Sherdog had a great breakdown on their MMA Round table show. Roundtable w/ Heath Herring Sherk taking on Franca is an interesting Bout. Tons of press on Sherk for this fight. If you didn't see his All Access show, you missed out. My favorite article about Sherk so far has been in CityPages of all places. Ballad of the Muscle Shark I actually grabbed the print copy of this while picking up fine tasty beverages. My jaw dropped seeing Sherk on the cover. Big Nog's Debut...

Among mixed martial arts followers during the sport's darkest period lived a maxim: If they can watch it, they will. "They" were likely you, the guy or gal who'd heard of Royce Gracie and maybe even saw UFC photos on a tattered VHS slipcover. The stars of the late 1990s, more cult heroes than celebrities, probably needed six months to sign as many autographs as UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell will this Memorial weekend. Through no fault of their own, great, charismatic mixed martial artists toiled in obscurity, dreaming of nothing more than earning enough money to … train...

Eulogies were written for Buster Douglas before he ever stepped off the plane in Tokyo in 1990. A mid-card athlete with several KO losses on his record against mediocre competition, his résumé didn't seem to hint he could be a threat to America's bogeyman, the in-prime and seemingly indefatigable Mike Tyson. Ten rounds later, a concussed Tyson was scrambling for his mouthpiece and getting consoled by an uncomfortably emotional referee, who seemed to be hugging the dazed ex-champ more to alleviate his own shock than Tyson's. As a 42-1 betting prospect, Douglas was likely the most successful underdog in the...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has officially announced the main portion of the UFC 73 event scheduled for July 7th at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif. Entitled “Stacked” the moniker couldn’t be more appropriate. UFC 73 is the most talent-laden fight card in recent memory, not only for the UFC, but any promotion. Not only does UFC 73 feature two title fights – Anderson Silva defending his UFC Middleweight Championship against Nate Marquardt and Sean Sherk defending his lightweight belt from Hermes Franca – but UFC drawing card Tito Ortiz and light heavyweight contender Rashad Evans will battle it out...

The De La Hoya-Mayweather fight feels like a trip down memory lane, back to the days when boxing still mattered and people asked questions like "Where are we watching the big fight this weekend?" Before May 5, most every group of pals will force the one guy with the biggest TV to host a pay-per-view party, either by guilting him into it or by going through the charade of pretending someone else with a much crummier TV is hosting, knowing full well the buddy with the giant plasma will step up in the end. Sounds just like the old days,...

This is what the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather fight, one of the most important events in recent sports history, really means: It's boxing's last stand. Boxing is fighting for its life, and in some ways the largest obstacle to its rebirth is its greatest competitor -- the worst league ever invented, the UFC. Which means it is good vs. evil, Halle Berry vs. Courtney Love, true sport against the mosh pit of sweat and bloodied skull fractures known as ultimate fighting. De La Hoya and Mayweather can single-handedly save their sport from deteriorating into dust while simultaneously stopping the...

(CP) - Upsets are in vogue in the UFC these days but, not surprisingly, light-heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell doesn't see the trend continuing when he takes on Quinton (Rampage) Jackson at UFC 71 on May 26 in Las Vegas. In the UFC's three most recent cards, Randy Couture toppled heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (UFC 68), Matt Serra took the welterweight title from Montreal's Georges St. Pierre (UFC 69) and Brazilian Gabriel Gonzaga knocked out Mirko (Cro Cop) Filipovic (UFC 70). Will normal service resume when The Iceman faces off against Jackson at the MGM Grand? "I've been getting that question...

There seems to be a trend here, a trend that Nick Diaz resurrected. Lately, it seems that the underdogs in the grand world of mixed martial arts have a much better chance of winning their fights than ever before. Now, I know that those underdogs have always had the same exact chance of winning as they do today, but there has just been a wave of humongous upsets in the sport and they have occurred at a much more frequent rate than ever before. Back on Feb. 24, former UFC pitbull Nick Diaz recovered from a clean knockdown to steamroll...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Randy Couture started the wave. Matt Serra carried it through UFC 69. And now Gabriel Gonzaga picks up where they left off by crushing the #2 heavyweight in the world, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, stunning him with a devastating high kick to win by knockout at UFC 70 in the United Kingdom on Saturday night. Stepping into the Octagon, Gabriel Gonzaga seemed very confident in his skills and looked ready to compete with Cro Cop from the opening of the round. Just about everybody counted Gonzaga out of this bout before it even started, but he...

The Octagon skips across the pond for just the second time in UFC history. That first trip was a memorable one. We saw the impressive UFC debuts of Genki Sudo and Mark Weir (you may recall the lightning fast KO of Eugene Jackson). Then an overconfident Frank Mir was torn apart by a heavy-hearted and -fisted Ian Freeman (battling at home for his ailing father who unknowingly passed away before the bout). And in the rematch of their infamous welterweight title bout, Matt Hughes and Carlos Newton fought for nearly 20 minutes before Hughes finished "The Ronin" with strikes. Could...

UFC 70: NATIONS COLLIDE MIRKO “CRO COP” vs. GABRIEL GONZAGA MICHAEL BISPING vs. ELVIS SINOSIC ANDREI ARLOVSKI vs. FABRICIO WERDUM DAVID HEATH vs. LYOTO MACHIDA ASSUERIO SILVA vs. CHEICK KONGO MATT GRICE vs. TERRY ETIM JUNIOR ASSUNCAO vs. DAVID LEE VICTOR VALIMAKI vs. ALESSIO SAKARA DENNIS SIVER vs. JESS LIAUDIN EDILBERTO CROCOTA vs. PAUL TAYLOR LIVE FROM MEN ARENA SATURDAY, APRIL 21 Las Vegas - The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) organization announced today the full fight card for UFC 70: NATIONS COLLIDE live from Manchester, England at MEN Arena Saturday, April 21, 2007. Headlining UFC 70 is Croatian superstar Mirko...

HOUSTON, Texas, April 7 -- Matt Serra was the proverbial snowball and UFC welterweight ace Georges St. Pierre was supposed to be Hell if you listened to most mixed martial arts fans and pundits in the weeks leading up to their championship match. Serra defied the odds and sent the Toyota Center crowd of more than 15,000 into a state of disbelief when he knocked out St. Pierre with a barrage of punches and elbows from the mount at 3:25 of the first round. The 25-year-old Canadian looked stiff from the start, throwing one punch at a time while Serra...