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By FCF Staff

The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Strikeforce held a Fighter Summit recently on July 9th and July 10th in Las Vegas, Nevada, and according to a press release from the organizations, a written policy against performance enhancing drugs … Read More

Welterweight Looking to Rebound Against Tyler Stinson Saturday

By Kelsey Mowatt

Although Jordan “Young Gun” Mein failed to record his second Strikeforce win in January and had his six fight winning streak end, the 22 year-old remains confident in his … Read More

By FCF Staff

After failing to come to an agreement on programming fees, as of midnight last night, DirecTV subscribers can no longer watch Viacom owned channels like MTV, Nickelodeon and SPIKE.

According to DirecTV, Viacom is seeking a 30 … Read More

By Kelsey Mowatt

Although many fighters will tell you that their next fight is more important than their last, that was especially true for Shane Roller heading into UFC 148 this past Saturday. Having lost three straight bouts, the 32 … Read More

From Invicta FC

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (July 9, 2012) –After slugging it out in one of the most memorable toe-to-toe wars in women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) history, power striker Leslie “The Peacemaker” Smith (3-2-1) of Pleasant Hill, Calif. will … Read More

Is the UFC doing a disservice to the sport of MMA and sending a dangerous message by not disciplining its fighters who break the law?

By Jesse Heitz

Mixed Martial Arts has made tremendous strides since its inception twenty years … Read More

By Kelsey Mowatt

Recently it was revealed that Claude Patrick will have to wait even longer to kick off his 2012 campaign, as the welterweight has been forced to withdraw from his UFC 149 bout with James Head due to … Read More

By Joshua Molina

The cliché is that styles make fights and no one knows this better right now than Strikeforce superstar KJ Noons.

Noons, a master striker with arguably the best boxing skills in the business, hasn’t been able to … Read More

By FCF Staff

On the same day that the UFC announced that it has signed British middleweight Tom Watson, news has surfaced that undefeated light-heavyweight Jimi Manuwa is also headed to the organization.

The Nigerian-English fighter announced the news via … Read More

By Michael Hatamoto

Renato “Babalu” Sobral is back to training less than 10 days after his submission win at ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors in late June.  The event took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and One FC is … Read More

By Kelsey Mowatt

As 2012 began, Aaron Simpson was armed with a three fight win streak and was working his way back to where he was just two years earlier: the upper echelon of the UFC middleweight division. After after … Read More

“It was pretty horrible. I definitely slipped into a couple solid weeks of depression. I didn’t want to leave my house.”

By Tom Taylor

In a sport as competitive as MMA, making it to the big leagues does not guarantee … Read More

By Jesse Heitz

While watching UFC 147’s main event the other night, in which Rich “Ace” Franklin bested fellow MMA icon, Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva, I was left in a state of contemplation.

While his second fight with Franklin … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator Fighting Championship continues to expand its reach throughout North America, as today the promotion announced that it has signed a deal with Spanish broadcaster mun2, which is part of the Telemundo Communications Group.

According to a … Read More

By Kelsey Mowatt

It’s safe to say that 2012 hasn’t exactly unfolded in the way Bibiano Fernandes probably thought it would, after he completed his 2011 campaign on New Year’s Eve, by winning DREAM’s bantamweight title. Although at the time, … Read More

By FCF Staff

Universal Combat Championship has announced that the promotion’s upcoming June 28th “Unleashed” event has been postponed.

The New Jersey based organization stated in a press release:

There were unforeseen circumstances that caused us to postpone this event … Read More

Frustrated Joe Lauzon Awaiting New Opponent, Comments on Blog

By FCF Staff

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has once again been forced to track down a replacement for an injured fighter, as word has surfaced that Terry Etim can no longer … Read More

By Tom Taylor

Last weekend, ONE FC held its fourth show, entitled “Destiny of Warriors,” from Stadium Negara, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Like its predecessors, this ONE FC card was a great success, due largely to the experience and dedication … Read More

By FCF Staff

While ONE FC has already added DREAM’s bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes to its roster, as many expected would be the case, it appears as though it has also signed DREAM’s lightweight champ Shinya Aoki.

Although ONE FC … Read More

By Kelsey Mowatt

If by handing Hatsu Hioki a unanimous decision loss Ricardo Lamas hasn’t convinced some people that he’s a top contender in the featherweight division, then perhaps the revelation that he did so while being injured, will be … Read More