Strikeforce will follow up its successful June event, which featured Josh Thomson’s victory over Gilbert Melendez for the lightweight title, with “Strikeforce At The Mansion II” on September 20. This will be the San Jose-based mixed martial arts company’s second event at the world famous Playboy Mansion.
The first show aired live from the Mansion last […]

With still more than two months before the event, tickets have already gone on sale for Elite XC’s third installment of “Saturday Night Fights on CBS,” which is scheduled for the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., on October 4.
The early release of the tickets is more than likely related to the poor ticket sales […]

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Despite low ratings for last Saturday’s “Unfinished Business” event on CBS, Elite XC has still managed to work its way onto another television network, teaming up with cable sports giant, Fox Sports Network (FSN).
This deal has actually been in the works for a while now.
The plan is for FSN to air four one-hour long mixed […]

UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy” is set to storm Minnesota for the first time ever in little more than a week at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
And the promotion intends to make a big splash, coordinating a high-profile media event in the Mall of America — the largest retail and entertainment complex in the nation […]

Earlier today, MMAmania.com got the nod to sit in on the media conference call for UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy.” Fielding questions on the call were UFC Welterweight Champion Georges “Rush” St. Pierre and his opponent Jon Fitch, as well as heavyweights Brock Lesnar and Heath “The Texas Crazy Horse” Herring.
The call went pretty much […]

(Thanks to MMAmania reader “Roy” for the assist.)

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Matt Lindland and Vitor Belfort will duke it out for the first-ever middleweight title under the Affliction MMA banner — possibly the WAMMA belt — at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 11, according to Tatame.com.
Here’s a snip from “The Phenom:”
“I’ll come back in October 11th to fight Matt Lindland […]

Maybe Randy’s not so crazy after all.
UFC lightweight contender, Roger Huerta, who is set to battle Kenny Florian at UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy,” appears to be joining the steadily growing ranks of disgruntled fighters who feel the UFC has evolved in every aspect except fighter compensation.
Often perceived as the UFC’s “Golden Boy,” Huerta explains […]

The official weigh-in event for UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy” is set for Friday, August 8 at 5 p.m. ET in Minneapolis, Minn., at the Target Center concourse area in. It will air LIVE online via streaming video on UFC.com at this time.
Of course, MMAmania.com will provide up-to-the-minute coverage of the UFC 87 weigh-in, as […]