Chris Cosme here and we’re hot on the heels of an exciting UFC 84: “Ill Will” card last Saturday, but it’s time to get ready for a stacked weekend of even more mixed martial arts action on national television!
Promotions looking to put their respective stamps on the sport — WEC and EliteXC […]

… at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on August 9 that we reported last week was recently made official by the way:

Let’s just hope that the “Texas Crazy Horse” trains some groundwork for this one — he’s going to need it.

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The official weigh-ins for the Elite XC primetime special “Saturday Night Fights” from just OUTSIDE the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., are now in.
And it didn’t go all too smooth.
In particular, the “female face” of mixed martial arts, Gina Carano, failed to make weight on her first attempt.
Normally, she would have one hour to […]

UFC 85: “Bedlam” is scheduled to air LIVE from the O2 Arena in London, England, on pay-per-view (PPV) at 3 p.m. ET TODAY (Saturday, June 7). It will re-air at 10 p.m. ET on PPV later this evening for all those who don’t care for some mid-afternoon mixed martial arts action.
Therefore, if you don’t want […]

Jesse Holland back again for another round of discussion with MMA guru Ariel Helwani at MMARated.com previewing the EliteXC primetime CBS event “Saturday Night Fights” that takes place tomorrow (Saturday, May 31) from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
In addition, we went over the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) blockbuster show set for the […]

“I would love to fight that guy. I’ve tried to fight him ever since I fought in PRIDE and he’s been ducking me. Shogun has been ducking me since the PRIDE days. Shogun’s camp told me that to fight him, I had to fight Cyborg first. I told them I want to fight Shogun, not […]

If a fighter didn’t break his nose last weekend at UFC 84: “Ill Will” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, then he is perhaps in the minority.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) recently issued its medical suspensions for the pay-per-view (PPV) event that took place on Saturday, May 24, revealing that […]

Check ‘em all out after the jump.

Introductions:

Announcers:

Robbie Lawler vs. Scott Smith:

Gina Carano vs. Kaitlin Young:

Brett Rogers vs. John Murphy:

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Elite XC “Saturday Night Fights” is set to go off live from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., this Saturday, May 31 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. To get us prepared for the historic event, we plan to showcase a daily feature for each main card fight leading up to the historic mixed martial […]