Big surprise with a Randy Couture/Mark Coleman main event, huh? No less than Dana White and the UFC are predicting a pitiful buyrate for UFC 109–as in 380 thousand. If this is the case–and there’s no real reason to expect that the Dana is giving a lowball number–this will be the 5th PPV [...]

Over at Sports Untapped, they take Tito to task and link to our article. As a bonus, they get in a good ‘Bullwinkle’ reference:
Wow. Talk about harsh. Tito waited until after UFC 109 to get his ‘revenge’ with his heckling and bird lobbing, a plot worthy of Boris and Natasha’s ongoing battle [...]

Just posted–we look at Tito Ortiz and wonder where he fits in to the UFC picture circa 2010:
Tito Ortiz’s Tired Act @ The Savage Science

Brock Lesnar is almost completely recovered from his career threatening intestinal condition and could possibly return to action as early as May:
Brock Lesnar’s recovery from a serious intestinal condition is proceeding better than expected. So much better than expected that the UFC heavyweight champion is talking about a possible May return to action. [...]

Zach Arnold at MMA Memories has a very good piece about Dana White’s recent tirade against the MMA media (as well as some of his older tirades):
The issue with White wanting to control the media speaks volumes about the pressure he has put himself under. At a time when the company is running too many [...]

The UFC has cut loose a couple of their divas octagon girls. MMA Madness gives us the story:
MMAMADNESS.com has learned that both Natasha Wicks and Logan Stanton have been cut from the UFC as ring girls. Stanton’s contract expired after UFC 107 and the UFC chose not to renew it. Wicks was cut before [...]

Though they’re kind of late to the party, Sherdog has a good article on the Hoelzer Reich situation that elucidates several of the points that we made in our coverage:
In September, a producer from HBO’s “Real Sports” contacted me about the show doing a piece on MMA and skinheads.
Specifically, it was to be a [...]

A couple of reports out today indicate that Brock Lesnar is recovering from his bout with diverticulitis and could be back in action as soon as July 2010. Here’s what Bloody Elbow says about the whole thing, quoting a couple of other sources:
MMA Weekly talks to Greg Nelson, Lesnar’s head coach:
Greg Nelson, a two-time [...]

Maggie Hendericks at Cagewriter is reporting that Hoelzer Reich will no longer be welcome in the UFC or WEC:
World Extreme Cagefighting general manager Reed Harris told Cagewriter that Zuffa fighters will no longer be allowed to wear Hoelzer Reich clothing in their fights. (Zuffa owns botht the UFC and WEC.)
Donald Cerrone was probably the highest [...]

James ‘Lights Out’ Toney rips The Dana a new one:
Tell Dana White he can suck my [expletive]. That’s why he calls out them bum ass fighters. He called out Roy Jones and Floyd Mayweather, but they ain’t calling James Toney out because they don’t want to see me. They have the same excuse that I [...]