That’s what Kevin Iole is reporting….
The UFC plans to allow former light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson to fight even though he was formally charged with two felonies on Tuesday for his role in a July 15 traffic incident in Southern California.
Jackson, 30, was charged with one felony count of evading while driving recklessly and …
So sayeth Kevin Iole. The Dana also confirmed what we reported awhile back that UFC 91 would be here in The Rose City:
Though UFC president Dana White had held open the possibility of another fight in Montreal before the end of the year, he dashed Canadian fans’ dreams on Thursday when he said UFC …
MMA Junkie is reporting that the UFC has contacted the Oregon State Athletic Commission about holding UFC 91 at the Rose Garden Arena here in Portland.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is in talks with the Oregon State Athletic Commission to organize an event that could take place Nov. 15 at the Rose Garden Arena …
Boy, those are words you never thought you’d see. Anyway, the former WWE champ turned UFC contender was interviewed in the NY Times always entertaining “Freakonomics” blog. Those of us with triple digit IQs enjoy this blog almost as much as the knuckle draggers of the world enjoy the “Hometown Honeys” section in …
DREAM lightweight GP winner Joachim Hansen needs to quit equivocating and tell us how he *really* feels about the UFC. We’ve emphasized the best line…
I would fight any one of the UFC lightweights, but the problem is that I will never put my foot in the octagon after they (UFC) tried to be funny. …
EliteXC has reportedly canceled their 9/20 show on the University of New Mexico campus. While the usual Dana White nut-huggers will report that this is because they’ve gotten wise and decided to bow down to the superiority of the UFC its more likely caused by the fact that they’re spreading themselves pretty thin with …
Brock Lesnar has been taken to task for his post fight “bullrope lasso”–not sure why that’s bad, but Josh Barnett’s throat slits, Andrei Arlovski’s fangs, Tito’s gravedigging and t-shirts, Eddie Alverez’s backflips, etc. aren’t–but lost amidst this story is a completely classless display by former welterweight champion Matt Hughes. Hughes, who apparently thinks he’s …
Word around the MMA campfire is that Brock Lesnar’s likely next opponent is Cheick Kongo. Kongo is a solid striker, despite being French, and is a physically imposing dude at 6′4″ 240. Then again, so was Heath Herring (except for the being French thing) and you saw how that went down. With …
The UFC’s first appearance in the Twin Cities set a record for total gate at the Target Center:
UFC 87 “Seek and Destroy” drew a gate of $2.2 million and 15,082 in attendance for the debut of the UFC in Minnesota.
The highest gate of the Target Center in Minneapolis watched Georges St. Pierre successfully defend his …
Jordan Breen @ Sherdog has an excellent crackback on the surprising number of people who had issue with Brock Lesnar’s “roping the imaginary bullrope” move after his wall to wall teabagging of Heath Herring at UFC 87. Best line was some crank who responded that he should take some lessons from the two fighters …
