Michael Bisping is excited about fighting brawler Chris Leben at UFC 85. According to Senenta Sports:

“I think at middleweight, I’m at my weight, and that’s where I’m gonna have a lot of success,” Bisping told setantasports.com.
“I’m going for the belt, that’s what I want, I want to be the first English UFC champion.
“I haven’t [...]

Keiji Mutoh aka “The Great Muta” beat Shinsuke Nakamura with a moonsault in Osaka, Japan today to regain the IWGP title. It’s his 4th title reign and the 49th time that the venerable title has changed hands. I’ll try to find some video footage. For those of you not up on Japanese [...]

The website MMARated.com is reporting that Chuck Liddell has suffered an as of yet unspecified injury and is out of the main event at UFC 85. No independent confirmation or word from the UFC on this as of yet…

MMARated.com has learned that Chuck Liddell recently injured himself and will not be fighting Rashad Evans [...]

UFC heavyweight Brandon “The Truth” Vera visited The Philippines recently to promote his upcoming fight at UFC 85 against Fabrico Werdum. He was also plugging the UFC’s new TV deal in that country on a new sports channel called “Balls”. Love that name.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) fans had a good [...]

The other, far prettier face of Elite XC (sorry, Kimbo) is Gina Carano and she’ll have her hands full on the promotion’s 5/31 CBS debut against Kaitlin Young. She’s a former Hook n Shoot champion with a solid Muay Thai background. Check her out in this video from a BoDog Fight appearance:

The Las Vegas Business Press has an article about the lawsuit filed by Nobuyuki Sakakibara and other former PRIDE execs against UFC owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta:
It was touted to be a mixed martial arts merger like that of the National Football League and American Football League. Japan-based Pride fighting was brought under the same [...]

7′3″ Korean kicboxer/MMA fighter Hong-Man Choi is reporting to boot camp next Monday to begin a two year compulsory military stint. The “Techno Goliath” will be assigned to non-combat duty:
The South Korean Army is about to acquire its own “Goliath.”
According to his representatives, colossal combat sports star Choi Hong-man will begin his 26-month service [...]

Maybe I should listen to Bossman Jim when he tells me something. He said that the match between Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle at Sunday’s TNA PPV had the potential to be a paradigm shift in the wrestling industry. The match was fought “MMA style” in Kurt Angle’s words, though I thought it [...]

The Las Vegas Review Journal has an article about the almost certain negative crowd reaction faced by Matt Serra at Saturday’s UFC card. Serra isn’t the most liked guy in the sport as it is and he’ll be defending his welterweight title against the very popular Georges St.Pierre. In front of the fastest [...]

EliteXC has announced that Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano and “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler have all signed long term deals with the company. Only real surprise is Carano, whom I’d heard was thinking about hanging up her gloves to concentrate on other opportunities (like the American Gladiators). The bossman of this fine website, Jim Murphy, [...]