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By Michael Hatamoto

Strikeforce light heavyweight competitor Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante tested positive for an undisclosed banned substance after his Strikeforce fight against Mike Kyle in May, effectively terminating a potential title matchup with Gegard Mousasi.

The Feijao vs. Mousasi fight … Read More

By FCF Staff

Not long after news surfaced that Josh Thomson will fight lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez for a third time on May 19^th, Strikeforce has announced two more bouts for the promotion’s upcoming San Jose card.

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By FCF Staff

The Ohio Athletic Commission has released the drug test results following Strikeforce’s recent September 10^th “Barnett vs. Kharitonov” card in Cincinnati, which was hosted by the city’s U.S Bank Arena.

The Commission’s Bernie Profato has confirmed … Read More

By FCF Staff

Here are the results from tonight’s Strikeforce “Barnett vs. Kharitonov” event in Cincinnati, which saw Josh Barnett and Daniel Cormier score first round victories to advance to the finals of the promotion’s heavyweight grand-prix final.

In another … Read More

By FCF Staff

All of the competitors for Strikeforce’s “Barnett vs. Kharitonov” event tomorrow night in Cincinnati, Ohio made weight this afternoon, green lighting a card that will feature the semifinals of the promotion’s heavyweight grand-prix.

The tourney semis will … Read More

By FCF Staff

Fresh off his unanimous decision win over Eric Wisely on August 12^th, Pat Healy informed FCF that he was hoping to fight again in September, and Strikeforce has announced that the veteran has gotten his … Read More

By FCF Staff

Strikeforce has announced today that the official weigh-ins and the preliminary bouts for the promotions’ upcoming September 10^th “World Grand Prix Semifinals” event will be broadcast live on HDNet.

The main card, which will be hosted … Read More

By FCF Staff

Bellator has announced a broadcasting deal with Showtime, which will begin with a card headlined by Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire versus Emmanuel Sanchez.

On Tuesday, the ViacomCBS properties announced a multi-year deal which will see Bellator events broadcast … Read More

By FCF Staff

A class-action lawsuit, which was initially launched by several veteran fighters in 2014, has been certified by a judge.

The suit alleges that the UFC is a monopoly and that it operates in an anti-competitive manner to … Read More

By FCF Staff

After having a March 7th bout with Robert Whittaker fall through, Jared Cannonier has turned to social media in an effort to line-up a new opponent for UFC 248. More specifically, the powerful middleweight has called out … Read More

By FCF Staff

Jared Cannonier’s rise up the middleweight ranks continued at UFC Copenhagen, and the powerful fighter’s confident he can take the 185 crown.

Cannonier took on fellow middleweight contender Jack Hermansson on Saturday night, and finished the ground … Read More

By FCF Staff

It doesn’t sound like Darren Till is planning to leave welterweight behind him just yet, but the British fighter admits he needs to thinking about moving up to middleweight.

Till cuts a lot of weight to make … Read More

By FCF Staff

Israel Adesanya moved his MMA record to 16-0 earlier this month, by defeating the legendary Anderson Silva, but clearly Paulo Costa wasn’t impressed by “The Last Style Bender”.

Adesanya faced Silva in the main event of UFC … Read More

By FCF Staff

As speculation continues as to who Robert Whittaker will face in his next title defense, the UFC champ’s relayed he’s not concerned about it.

Whittaker was scheduled to defend the middleweight title against Kelvin Gastelum last weekend … Read More

By FCF Staff

After taking out Derek Brunson at UFC 230, Israel Adesanya is making the case for a bout with middleweight champ, Robert Whittaker.

Adesanya defended several takedown attempts from Brunson on Saturday night, and then finished the contender … Read More

By FCF Staff

Recently there’s been a lot of talk about Georges St-Pierre possibly moving down to lightweight, in search of a third, UFC title. But, according to Dana White, the former welterweight and middleweight champ has some work to … Read More

By FCF Staff

The expectation is that Tyron Woodley will fight Demian Maia next, but the welterweight champ is, and always will be, interested in fighting Georges St-Pierre.

Maia earned a decision win over Jorge Masvidal at UFC 211 earlier … Read More

By FCF Staff

Michael Bisping says injuries will prevent him from facing “Jacare” Souza in the coming weeks, after the latter’s manager relayed they’ll only accept a bout with the middleweight champion next.

Souza was scheduled to fight Luke Rockhold … Read More

By FCF Staff

Recently Chael Sonnen advised Tim Kennedy to “shut up” and move on from his controversial loss to Yoel Yomero in September, and not surprisingly, the comments have apparently angered the middleweight contender.

In a recent episode of … Read More