The big plan to make pay-per-view super cards featuring both MMA and boxing has apparently already been knocked out … for the time being, anyway.
ESPN.com reports Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions has changed its mind about combining the two sports. Last month Golden Boy and MMA upstart Affliction announced a deal to co-promote […]

Affliction is taking a page from the UFC playbook. The company plans to begin filming a reality television show featuring a MMA tournament.
Sound familiar?
UFC has been doing it since 2005, with The Ultimate Fighter now in its eighth season.
Affliction, along with M-1 Global and Donald Trump, officially announced yesterday that it plans to be begin […]

Tonight was a night many MMA enthusiasts had circled on their calendar. Las Vegas, the longtime home for the UFC, was scheduled to host Affliction ‘Day of Reckoning’. It didn’t get that. Affliction canceled the card, rescheduling it to January and relocating to Anaheim, Calif.
Instead, Sin City was treated to Night of Combat II, a […]

It’s not a “Day of Reckoning,” but it is something.
Even though the Oct. 11 Affliction II card was recently postponed, “Sin City” is still set to host a mixed martial event at the Thomas & Mack Center, which is located on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, on the same date.
A MMA […]

The investigation into Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s arrest last month in California will continue, while the former UFC light heavyweight champion’s arraignment has been postponed.
The news was first reported by Sherdog.com. Other media has been slow to pick up the story.
Jackson, 30, was scheduled for arraignment in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Friday. Police arrested the fighter […]

Dana White provided additional comments on the Quinton “Rampage” Jackson arrest and hospitalization this morning on the Opie & Anthony Show on XM Radio.
Among the odder moments of the nearly 12-minute appearance was White, the UFC president, noting Jackson was “born again” in 2003.
Jackson’s actions (partying in Las Vegas included) over the past few days […]

In a chat with the Las Vegas Sun today UFC Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Marc Ratner, said the company was “still gathering information” on Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s strange behavior over the past several days.
In the two days since the 30-year-old fighter was arrested following a hit and run accident in California the […]

The details of Quinton “Rampage” Jackon’s arrest Tuesday have spread across the globe as both mainstream media and the MMA world are reporting the gritty details of the former UFC light heavyweight champion’s brush with the law.
Yahoo!Sports.com writers Kevin Iole and Dave Meltzer, two of the most connected and influential mainstream journalists covering MMA, wrote […]

Tim “The Maine-iac” Sylvia offered a peak at his strategy for his upcoming fight against Fedor Emelianenko during a conference call on Thursday.
“I don¹t think my game plans have ever been much of a secret,” he said. “Stand up and brawl, defend the takedowns at all costs and try to knock him out.”
The former UFC […]

Self-styled millionaire Donald Trump refused to throw any verbal jabs at the UFC during a 15-minute conference call to hype the upcoming Affliction “Banned” event.
“Dana’s been very respectful of me and I of him,” Trump said on the day White called Affliction promoter Tony Atencio a “T-shirt guy.”
We’re 10 days away from the kind of […]