UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell recently completed a photo shoot for an upcoming edition of Sports Illustrated, according to the Boston Herald.
Here’s a snip from the article:
“SI plans to feature Liddell in its ‘Players’ section in the near future, recreating some of his workouts for one of the magazine’s weekly features.”
And a snip from […]

Randy Couture and “a plethora of mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters and celebrities” will gather at the Drexel Gateway Theater in Columbus on Friday, March 2, for the Ohio premiere of, “Fighter, a documentary.”
Here’s a snip about the film from MMAClassics.com:
“‘FIGHTER, a documentary’, looks back to capture a slice of sports history as Randy “The […]

Former contestant from season three of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) and two-time loser in the Octagon, Danny Abbadi, is recruiting pals and strangers alike to accompany him to SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.
According to a recent MySpace bulletin, Abbadi will take you on a tour of the facility for free. However, admission and sodas are not […]

Tito Ortiz (15-5) — who was rumored to be fighting in Manchester, England, at UFC 70 on April 21 — could now find himself on the UFC 71 undercard against either Rashad Evans (10-0) or Keith Jardine (12-2-1), according to Dave Meltzer at WrestlingObserver.com.
UFC 71 is tentatively scheduled for May 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada, […]

Even though this site is dedicated to UFC news, I need to briefly touch on PRIDE 33, which took place last night in Las Vegas, Nevada.
That’s because it was one of the most exciting shows I have seen in a very, very long time. And, it has some UFC-related implications.
(Sorry for the delayed postings here […]

For UFC 68 — and hopefully future events — UFCmania is proud to introduce our resident handicapper, Desert Dog.
Desert Dog runs a popular UFC betting site over at ufcbetting.blogspot.com. He is a successful poker player who parlayed that betting success into the Octagon.
Desert Dog — a long time fan of mixed martial arts — has […]

I’ll just let the staggering numbers below speak for themselves.
From Dave Meltzer’s WrestlingObserver.com newsletter:
UFC did about 5,225,000 in domestic buys with a total gross revenue for PPV events of $222,766,000. The 10 live PPV shows did over $40 million. Their PPV number of $222 million is a record, beating boxings record year in 1999 of […]

By Jesse Holland
Special to UFCmania.com
On Friday at the NBC studios in New York, I had the opportunity to attend a live taping of the Dr. Keith Ablow show, a sort of decaf Dr. Phil that plays on the FOX channel weekdays at 10 a.m.
While I normally prefer my daytime television to be a bit trashier, […]

President of PRIDE USA, Ed Fishman, has challenged UFC President Dana White and his organization with a $40 million bet that the top PRIDE fighters can beat the top UFC fighters in a “winner take all” tournament, according to MMAWeekly.com.
Here’s a snip:
“… Fishman made a public challenge to the UFC to pit each organization’s #1 […]

Today on “Bubba the Love Sponge” — a Sirius radio program — UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell mapped out perhaps the most ambitious fight schedule in the history of the sport.
“The Iceman” has dominated the UFC 205-pound division for nearly three years. He’s also nearing the end of his career. And if he plans […]