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 [...]

Here’s the Showtime Sports recap of last weekend’s EliteXC event:

Cruiserweight turned heavyweight David Haye speaks to the UK Sun about his MMA plans. He’s hoping to become a MMA fighter after his boxing career is over. Specifically, he said that he wasn’t going to ‘just show up for a paycheck’ as he suggests that Ray Mercer did against Kimbo Slice:
“I would take [...]

Strike another state off of the list of those stuck in the dark ages. MMA became legal in Tennessee today:
Mixed Martial Arts is getting more and more popular and now it’s legal in Tennessee.
Gov. Phil Bredesen on Tuesday signed a bill that will pave the way for professional matches to be held in the [...]

Today’s Las Vegas Sun has an article about Hard 8, a rock band who is seeking stardom through an unusual path. They sent a demo to the UFC who liked their music so much they asked them to record a number of songs for use on their programming:

Hard 8 hopes that hooking up with [...]

The Affliction: Banned matchup between Syliva and Fedor will be for the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts–WAMMA for short–unified heavyweight title. Never heard of WAMMA? That’s because its a new creation of Monte Cox:
When Tim Sylvia meets Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction: Banned on July 19 in Anaheim, Calif., it will be for [...]

Hawaii’s two major newspapers are giving extensive coverage to the EliteXC: Return of the King card to be held at Honolulu’s Blaisdell Center Arena. The card features a number of fighters from the islands including headliner and lightweight champion KJ Noons who grew up on Kaiula, Kona.
From the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
Instead of fighting on [...]

World cruiserweight boxing champ David Haye is planning a move up to heavyweight later this year and is enlisting a familiar name to help make the transition:
Londoner Haye is the undisputed world cruiserweight king, after his knockout win over Welshman Enzo Maccarinelli in March. But he plans to step up to heavyweight permanently in November.
Haye, [...]

The UK newspaper ‘The Sun‘ is understandably pleased with Michael Bisping’s performance at UFC 85. They also report that ‘The Count’ wants to fight Chris Leben at the UFC’s next UK show scheduled for this October:
After the fight, Bisping revealed the victory had been the best of his UFC career so far, claiming [...]

The Las Vegas Sun has a decent preview of UFC 84 in today’s paper. They list 5 ’subplots’ and they’re pretty much on the money. The start with the ‘ill will’ between BJ Penn and Sean Sherk:

Sean Sherk sees tonight’s title fight as a big step in rebuilding his reputation among mixed martial [...]