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The UFC returns to Las Vegas, Nevada for a heavyweight main event at UFC 160. The UFC heavyweight championship is up for grabs as Cain Velasquez steps inside the Octagon looking to retain his title against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. In the co-main event former champ Junior dos Santos will square of...
We are just under 24 hours away from UFC 160. The weigh-ins took place today, and the tension was visible in many of the staredowns. The staredown between heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and challenger Antonio Silva oozed barely controlled aggression, while co-main event partners Junior Dos S...
The fighters taking part in tomorrow’s UFC 160 event took to the scale today at the official fighter weigh-ins. Today’s weigh-ins took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.. The main event is a heavyweight title belt between champion Cain Velasquez taking on challenger Antonio...
Earlier in the week I got a chance to chat with UFC lightweight Gray Maynard, about his upcoming fight against TJ Grant at UFC 160 in Las Vegas. Gray feels confident coming into this fight against the Canadian Grant after having a fantastic training camp leading up this weekend; “I was in the bay...
The fighters taking part in tomorrow’s UFC 160 event will take to the scale today at the official fighter weigh-ins. Today’s weigh-ins take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main event features a battle for the heavyweight championship between Cain Velasquez and Antoni...
The UFC’s return to Milwaukee, WI appears to have had another fight added with reports of a featherweight bout pitting “The Diamond” against “New Breed.” While the UFC has not confirmed the bout, both Koch and Poirier have confirmed the fight via their Twitter accounts following an announcement f...
UFC President Dana White stated yesterday in a media event for UFC 160 in Las Vegas that the light heavyweight champ Jon Jones could be out six weeks or six months. However today a tweet came out from fellow light heavyweight fighter Alexander Gustafsson that led fans and media to think otherwise...
There’s no question that Rory MacDonald has been turning heads ever since he first arrived on the MMA scene. He was not an overnight sensation, but it certainly didn’t take long for “The Waterboy” to re-invent himself, and so evolved Rory MacDonald version 2.0. He would now be known as “Ares” the...
Let’s be honest: Every now and then it’s fun to get down into the nitty-gritty statistics and see if we can’t perform some MMAth. It helps us analyze future fights and make predictions based on previous history. Fans of all sports do it, so why can’t we? It can help us look for potential trends […]
For this episode of Beyond the Cage we cover some hot topics in MMA for Headlines in Round 1. In Round 2 we breakdown the main card from UFC on FX 8 and in Round 3 we pick the main card fights for UFC 160 on Saturday. Listen Below!
Josh Barnett was on the MMA Hour last week and was asked about his future. He hasn’t fought in almost a year and has been quiet about his fighting career as of late. Ariel Helwani asked him about his future and what his future plans were? “I’ve been a top 10 fighter longer than anybody […]
This Saturday night heavyweights will collide inside the UFC’s Octagon at UFC 160. In the main event UFC heavyweight champ will look to retain his title against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. Junior dos Santos will take on Mark Hunt in the co-main event. In anticipation of the epic night, the UFC premi...
It has been a long-time coming, but former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett has signed a multi-fight deal with the organization. On Tuesday MMAJunkie.com dropped the news on the heavyweight signing. Barnett has been fighting in professional MMA since 1997 and won the UFC heavyweight champion...
The UFC has beefed up it’s UFC 161 main card by adding a heavyweight tilt to the PPV portion of the show, as Roy Nelson will take on Stipe Miocic. UFC President Dana White announced the match-up to MMAJunkie.com on Tuesday. Miocic was expected to take Australian fighter Soa Palelei, who is now le...
The much anticipated EA UFC game was displayed (sort of) at Tuesday’s “Xbox reveal” event in Redmond, Washington, home of Microsoft. EA Sports’ Andrew Wilson unveiled the new “Ignite” game engine which will bring players a brand new feel for the companies new and existing franchises. During the ...
It was rumored on Saturday night that UFC interim bantamweight champion Renan Barao had been injured in training and would be out of his scheduled UFC 161 bout with Eddie Wineland. On Tuesday officials made it clear that he would be unable to compete in Winnipeg on June 15. With under a month to ...