One of my favorite ring entrances ever by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. This fight is probably what convinced me that Mayweather was the real deal–many people (myself included) thought that the late, great Diego Corrales–then undefeated–would catch Floyd and use his power to pummel him. Didn’t quite work out that way as Mayweather put [...]

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 [...]

Taking a page from the UFC’s playbook, the WWE is pulling out a big gun to counter the 1/11 Ultimate Fight Night event. In recent months, the WWE has featured a different celebrity guest host on ‘Monday Night Raw’ and on this evening they’ve signed former world heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson to do [...]

Dave Meltzer shoots down reports that Lesnar’s people have confirmed a July return to action for the UFC heavyweight champ:
There is nothing to the story of Brock Lesnar on his supposed Facebook account saying he will be fighting in July. It was posted there, but according to people very close to him it’s not true. [...]

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 [...]

Lots of talk of a possible Frank Mir vs. Shane Carwin interim heavyweight title match at UFC 111. Here’s the scoop from Cage Pages:
Frank Mir is coming off of a quick and impressive submission victory against Cheick Kongo at UFC 107. Mir has had his eyes set on a rubber match with Brock Lesnar [...]