ABC Professional and Amateur MMA Rules Committee
The deadline to submit your comments to the committee is FAST APPROACHING. Only one month (Read More)

How to lose $55 million dollars in two years
When the IFL repeatedly announced in 10Q SEC filings that they were losing millions of dollars, (Read More)

Without Zuffa’s aggression, nobody has momentum
The promotion will headline their second big show (this time at the Thomas & Mack Center) with (Read More)

Take your rules and shove them
Congratulations to Dana White for giving a simple and solid “No” to the idea of adopting the evil, (Read More)

Ultimately, Does Lesnar Want it Enough?
Not to win against Heath Herring, mind you. In point of fact, Lesnar is the oddsmakers’ favorite in (Read More)

For others, the “brand” may not work
Reportedly, the ratings on CBS’ second telecast of Elite XC were down 43% from its May 31 (Read More)

Q&A: Howard Davis Jr. To Appear on ESPN2 on August 15
Former 1976 Olympic gold medalist Howard Davis Jr. will be Brian Kenny’s in-studio guest on ESPN2 (Read More)

Winky Wright Criticizes Boxing Politics, Praises UFC
Concerns are growing that Mixed Martial Arts fighting is on the way to surpassing professional (Read More)

Rampage Jackson’s reported money problems
That quote, courtesy of Josh Gross in Sports Illustrated quoting an anonymous friend of Quinton (Read More)

Fedor vs. Arlovski the best Affliction has to work with
After Affliction’s debut event on July 19th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, the discussion revolved around (Read More)

KID’s play - his DREAM turns into a nightmare
All of us have rough moments in our life. Sometimes, you have a bad day or a bad week at work. (Read More)

Affliction MMA: Right Idea, Wrong Price Tag
Give Affliction VP Tom Atencio some credit. He put his money where his mouth is and ponied up (Read More)

Treading dangerous waters
This week should have been time to celebrate two really good MMA shows (presented by both (Read More)

UFC back on WOWOW — not much of a wow factor
A month after Zuffa LLC purchased the assets of PRIDE and held a press conference in Roppongi (Read More)

UFC Fight Night (Silva vs. Irvin) event preview
When Dana White gets a chance to sit down in front of the media tomorrow to discuss Saturday’s UFC (Read More)

Affliction: Banned event preview
This Saturday night, Affliction will makes its official entry into the world of promoting MMA at the Honda (Read More)

‘Rampage’ on the streets of O.C.
Rampage was arrested in Costa Mesa, CA. after a wild police chase, caused allegedly in part because (Read More)

Empty platitudes get MMA critics nowhere
It seems everywhere you turn these days, there’s a negative story about boxing and MMA in the sports press. (Read More)

UFC’s Lousy Build-up to July 19th
It must be great to be the king of MMA, especially when your castle is in Las Vegas and nothing (Read More)

Has Affliction Successfully Marketed?
I have to give credit to the PR staff of Affliction. Never in my entire life have I received as many (Read More)

Are pro-wrestling fans ‘graduating’ to MMA?
On this web site in June of 2008, we discussed an interesting topic regarding the ongoing (Read More)

War room for Japanese MMA NYE 2008
Around this time each year, K-1 has to start planning what they want to book for their annual (Read More)

Affliction: Playing The Trump Card, Or Drawing Dead?
I still think that to placate Donald Trump’s ego, Affliction MMA will eventually (Read More)

The pros and cons of booking Urijah Faber vs. Kid Yamamoto
Quietly after his dominating win over Jens Pulver in front of 12,000 fans at Arco Arena in (Read More)

Under the Bus: Separating Fact From Fiction
Larry Goldberg, the publisher of this website (and a very attractive website it has become, Larry), (Read More)

Learning From MMA’s Money Losers
With the dominant success of UFC as MMA’s industry leader and everyone else falling by the way-side (Read More)

Things Just Got a lot More Serious for Both UFC & Dana White
Last Wednesday’s announcement that Lorenzo Fertitta would be stepping away from his role as (Read More)

Diaz-Noon post-fight brawl exposes..
By Zach Arnold With the explosive growth of Mixed Martial Arts over the last decade, an influx (Read More)

All weighted down — MMA’s newest trend
By Zach Arnold In 2007, it seemed impossible to miss a week’s worth of MMA coverage without finding a fighter who failed a state athletic commission drug test. In the past few weeks of 2008, it seems as if MMA’s newest trend of bad behavior on display features high-profile fighters failing to make weight for [...] (Read More)

Floyd To UFC: A Master Stroke
By Charles Jay FLOYD TO UFC: WOULD IT BE A MASTER STROKE? I heard two things that I don’t necessarily believe this past week. One of (Read More)

MMA in NY - ‘Steam’ Should Be Enough
By Charles Jay Commentary on MMA history….as it’s happening “STEAM” SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR MMA PASSAGE IN N.Y. I do admire the efforts of the UFC in gathering support for the sport of mixed martial arts to be legalized in the state of New York. It has been an incredible display of organization. The lobbying effort is gathering [...] (Read More)

CBS To KO Elite XC Before Opening Bell?
By Charles Jay The new mixed martial arts series on CBS seems to have gotten off to a rocky start. The ending may be unceremonious indeed. Can you say, “Four strikes…or less, and you’re out?” And to think these guys haven’t even seen any ratings points yet. Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of CBS Corporation, has basically dressed [...] (Read More)

TapouT Taps Into This Weekends WCF
By MMAMemories.com The folks with the TapouT Crew have been one of the great MMA success stories.. They started out selling T-shirts and grew to the point where they have become one of the most recognizable clothing lines in combat sports. TapouT is a big UFC sponsor and is also the subject of a reality shows [...] (Read More)

UFC 81 Preview: BROCK LESNAR - To Face Mir
BROCK LESNAR He’s conquered wrestling; can he do the same in MMA? By MMAMemories.com Brock Lesnar’s athletic background dictates that he doesn’t think there’s anything he can’t do. A former pro wrestling star, he’s now cast his lot in MMA, and has the opportunity to make a big impact on Saturday when he faces off against former UFC [...] (Read More)

UFC 81 Preview: FRANK MIR, To Face Lesnar
MMA veteran gears for showdown against wrestler Lesnar By MMAMemories.com You might think that Frank Mir was almost born to be an MMA star. He started in mixed martial arts at an early age, studying Kenpo Karate because his father ran a school for it in the city of Las Vegas. It is fair to say that [...] (Read More)