Articles in the ‘UFC’ Category

Welterweight star Nick Diaz may want to get another chance for taking on the man who won over him in the Ultimate Fighting Championship this past Saturday, but it turns out the drug test has scratched him off that possibility.
The tests done for the UFC 143 show last Saturday in Las Vegas showed Diaz [...]

Jon “Bones” Jones, who is set to fight against Shogun Rua at the UFC 128, finds it strange that the MMA odds-makers have seemingly set their bets on him.
The 205-pound Mauricio a.k.a. “Shogun” Rua holds a record of having twice the experience as Jones has, and holds a belt in UFC light heavyweight division. [...]

The world of the Ultimate Fighting Championship was shaken in late 2009 when Brock Lesnar announced that he was pulling out of the heavyweight championship due to an initially mysterious illness. The infection was later revealed to be mononucleosis, and although UFC organizers had initially hoped to get UFC 108 on again, a subsequent diagnosis [...]

When Zuffa, LLC, the company owned by the Fertitta brothers, purchased UFC in 2001, a lot of fans were excited about what this could mean for the troubled sport. Disappointment set in in the years immediately following as, contrary to expectations, Zuffa brought almost no changes to the game. Ratings and [...]

First of all, it doesn’t get much better than UFC, so whenever anyone expresses disappointment in a recent UFC event, you have to think of it in relative terms. UFC 115 comes out after a season that included some of the best UFC events in recent memory. Measured against, say, UFC 100, [...]