And while we’re on the subject of the WEC, here’s a promo for their Hollywood, Florida event on 9/10/08 headlined by Urijah Faber vs. tough Mike Brown. We make fun of Faber’s uncanny resemblance to the late Kerry Von Erich, but he’s a really good guy and lives up to the Zuffa hype as …

Here’s another one of the WEC’s rising stars who’ll be fighting on Sunday’s card–Carlos Condit visiting troops in Afghanistan:

The Washington Post has an excellent profile on Briann Stann, the WEC light heavyweight champion up on their website (the story ran in the 7/31 print edition of the newspaper). Stann is a former Marine, an Iraq veteran and as legit of a badass as you’ll find in the sport. We’ll get back …

Here’s a preview of the WEC card that’ll take place on Sunday in Las Vegas. We’ll be doing live round by round as always…

Urijah Faber will face Mike Brown on a WEC show to be held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL on September 1oth. Brown is no easy out for Faber–he’ll enter the bout with a 19-4 record with his only losses to top tier fighters (DEEP’s Masakazu Imanari, Genki Sudo, Joe Lauzon …

Unlike most states, who are waking up to the 21st century and regulating MMA, the state of Delaware is looking to ban it claiming its no different from ‘Toughman Competitions”:

On Tuesday, state Rep. Robert J. Valihura Jr., R-Beau Tree, introduced legislation that would ban “combative fighting” in Delaware.
House Bill 501, which is being called the …

Fortunately the disdain for MMA expressed by the USA TODAY entertainment columnist doesn’t extend to the sports section. There we find an excellent profile of one of the more unique fighters in the sport, Jens Pulver:

Then, of course, the reader turns the page to learn more about Pulver’s life, to find out how Pulver …

The highest praise an interview can receive is when it changes your perspective on its subject. That’s the case with an excellent interview with Jens Pulver in the Seattle newspaper MMA blog where “Lil’ Evil” talks about the Pacific Northwest, his rough childhood, his devotion to Christianity and his love of video games along …

Frank Shamrock will replace Bill Goldberg in the EliteXC broadcast booth, at least for the promotion’s 5/31 debut on CBS. No indication of this being due to an issue with Goldberg, as the promotion is also replacing Steven Quadros with veteran CBS sportscaster Gus Johnson. Mauro Ranallo, who’s well known to MMA fans …

We’ve mention the forthcoming UFC roster cuts in passing, but Michael Rome at Bloody Elbow has more details:
The UFC will be cutting a lot of fighters in the upcoming months. They have reached a point where they have so many fighters that even upper-mid level guys like Karo Parisyan fought only twice in …