In case you missed Dana White’s BIG announcement yesterday on ESPNews’ “The Hot List,” you can check it out right here.
Essentially, is was the official announcement that Matt Hughes would defend the UFC Welterweight Championship against Georges St. Pierre at UFC 63 on September 23.
We didn’t need ESPN to tell us that obvious fact.
Dana White [...]

As we eagerly await the LIVE announcement by Dana White on ESPN, here are some UFC tid bits recently published in the Calgary Sun:
–We’ll definitely see Georges St. Pierre fight Matt Hughes for his welterweight title, most likely on September 28
–Wanderlei Silva may not be the only PRIDE product to fight in the UFC. Look [...]

Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar Part II has finally arrived.
The two light heavyweights will attempt to once again capture lightening in a bottle on August 26 as the under card of UFC 62: “Liddell vs. Sobral.” Their first match was an epic war — hands down one of the best fights in 2005.
Hopefully, this much [...]

UFC Hall of Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture, Dean “The Boogeyman” Lister, Brandon “The Truth” Vera and Kendall “Da Spyder” Grove recently visited about 150 Marines at Camp Pendleton in Southern California.
Not surprisingly, a fight broke out.
The fighters weren’t on hand for an exhibition, just a meet and greet with the soldiers, who clamored for [...]

The recent success of the UFC on Pay-Per-View, which is now averaging more than 400,000 buys per event, is raising the eyebrows of big-whig corporate television executives across the nation.
In particular, those who work for cable titan HBO. Oh wait, “It’s Not TV, It’s HBO!”
Seems like the UFC is out punching “Boxing After Dark” in [...]

Still smarting from their showdown with loudmouth Bill O’Reilly, Dana White and Rich Franklin were once again out defending the integrity of the UFC.
This time, however, it appears that Newsday paints a much more balanced picture.
Here’s a snip:

The UFC has evolved and so has its fighters. Gone are the days of no rules, no weight [...]

From rags to riches.
Seems like everyone these days wants to get on the back of the UFC and ride the MMA organization all the way to the promise land.
Even the total sports network is getting in on the action lately. Yep, none other than ESPN.
That wasn’t the case back in 2001, when the fledgling company [...]

Over the weekend, searches for the UFC and its fighters soared into the top five overall according to the Yahoo! Buzz score.
Here’s a snip:

The UFC has kicked traditional boxing to the curb in terms of buzz, and we see no signs of it slowing down.

Sure, the massive spike was due mainly in part to UFC [...]

The day has finally arrived: UFC 61: “Bitter Rivals” is just hours from now.
Only Tito Ortiz had a little trouble making weight before eventually doing so, according to UFC.com.
Here’s the final results:
Tim Sylvia (258.5) vs. Andrei Arlovski (234)
Tito Ortiz (206) vs. Ken Shamrock (206)
Josh Burkman (169) vs. Josh Neer (170)
Dan Christison (264.5) vs. Frank Mir [...]

Tito “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz today sat down with Newsday and discussed his upcoming rematch with Ken “The Most Dangerous Man in the World” Shamrock at UFC 61: “Bitter Rivals” tomorrow night in Las Vegas.
And he lets it all hang out. Tito’s prediction for the fight? Here it is:

I guarantee that it will [...]