World Series of Fighting officials announced on Monday that they have signed a multi-year television deal with NBC Sports Network to air a minimum of six events annually. Their first event aired on the network as a time buy, essentially a tryout to see…
The UFC announced that they will be implementing an official rankings system next month, partnering with their current statistics provider FightMetric to provide fans a list of the top fighters in each division, along with a top pound for pound fighter…
According to a report from Loretta Hunt at SI.com, UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture has signed a multi-year deal with Spike TV where he’ll be involved with multiple projects on the cable network. Per the report, Couture and Spike came to a deal in Dec…
UFC President Dana White told reporters after the post-fight press conference for UFC on Fox 6 that they were very close to brining Fedor Emelianenko to the UFC to take on Brock Lesnar. “We were in deep talks with [Fedor]. We were that close to signi…
One of Anderson Silva’s managers, Jorge “Joinha” Guimaraes, told SporTV that they are looking at a few fighters for Silva’s next opponent. On Luke Rockhold: “All of these are [qualified], but a fight we would like to have [is] against Luke Ro…
Chael Sonnen recently appeared on the Jim Rome show, and revealed that he was one of the countless figures that Lance Armstrong threatened to sue, after he said Lance gave himself cancer on an interview with Pro MMA Radio. “Why are they calling him a…
After his knockout win over Michael Bisping, a very annimated Vitor Belfort told the crowd that he wanted to jump ahead of Chael Sonnen and get his rematch with Jon Jones. At the post-fight press conference, he reiterated that point. “I just told you…
Luke Rockhold told MMAFighting.com that he wants to fight surging Costa Philippou, and then get his shot at Anderson Silva. “I think Costa Philippou makes the most sense right now. He’s coming off a win, and I think he’s a good opponent. Let’s …