Tonight Elite XC will continue to promote it’s upcoming October 4 event on CBS when Gina “Conviction” Carano (6-0) gets a guest spot on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”
She’s set to compete for the fourth time under the Elite XC banner this Saturday night when she takes on Kelly Kobald during the main [...]

Former Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert “El Nino” Melendez (14-2) made it clear at last weekend’s “Strikeforce at the Mansion II” event that he has plans to win back the 155-pound title he lost to Josh Thomson back in June.
The loss to “The Punk” was only the second in a 16-fight career for the Cesar Gracie-trained [...]

“So the UFC decided to let me go because of my statements after the death of Evan Tanner. They tried to make it look like I was insensitive towards Evan and that that was the reason I was being cut. In all honesty my bulletin regarding Evan was bashing the UFC and the way they [...]

Phil “The New York Badass” Baroni (13-10) was scheduled for a welterweight bout at this Friday’s Strikeforce: “Payback” card in Denver, Colo., against an unannounced opponent.
No longer.
Baroni has been forced to withdraw because of a cut sustained in a unanimous decision win over Mexican fighter Olaf Alfonso last Friday night a Palace Fighting Championships (PFC) [...]

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Former Pride FC middleweight and welterweight champion and current top UFC middleweight contender Dan Henderson will sign autographs and meet with fans this upcoming weekend in Tampa and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to promote the One More Round clothing line.
The best cutman in the business, “Stitch” Duran, will join Henderson at the two Nordstrom locations [...]

The field of fighters scheduled to compete on the Elite XC: “Heat” card will all be present for the official weigh in event at the the BankAtlantic Chairman’s Club in the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., this Friday, October 3.
It’s expected that the first fighter will tip the scale no later than 4 p.m. ET.
Here [...]

This is going to be so good:

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Props: Sherdog.com
Quoteworthy:
“This fight should happen. A lot has been said by both sides, and I don’t plan on talking without walking. I plan on fighting. I would love to be the nail in his coffin…. Matt Hughes is a one trick pony, but he’s very good at that one trick. Top position is his thing, [...]

WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres earned his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt over the weekend from Carlson Gracie Jr. — son of the late Carlson Gracie Sr. who was “Angel’s” mentor before he died in 2006.
The ceremony was “low-key,” according to MMAFighting.com, which had an insider, Jay Valko, present at Torres Martial Arts Academy in Hammond, [...]