For an MMA Legend like Randy Couture, watching your son enter the UFC’s Octagon for the first time and follow in your footsteps has to be a crowning moment. Ryan Couture, a Strikeforce veteran, made the merge to the UFC a couple of months back and he was forced to do so without his longtime...
In the most recent release of the Forbes top 100 highest paid athletes list there are no MMA fighters on the list of 100 athletes. According to http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/ with the values calculated as of June 2013 the number one earning athlete is Tiger Woods earning $78.1M, $13.1M from salary/winnings and $65M from endorsements. There are...
By Jake Chastain | It is no secret that Vitor Belfort is one of the most skilled, dangerous, and accomplished MMA fighters on the planet. It is also no secret that he has been compiling accolades for his uncanny MMA resume for over a decade. Here is the curious part…his best performances may have not...
“We’ve created, literally, nearly 70 millionaires since we took this thing over, and some of them multimillionaires.” That is what UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta claims the promotion has accomplished in the combat sports world since UFC parent company Zuffa LLC acquired the show over a decade ago at the turn of the millennia. Both Lorenza Fertitta...
Heavyweight fighter Josh Barnett seems to have come full-circle toward the UFC Monday when he spoke with The MMA Hour. Barnett (32-6), who earlier this year rejected a contract offered by the UFC, has talked openly after Strikeforce ended its promotion about his desire to fight in various fight organizations. On Monday, however, Barnett...
Bellator fighter, AJ Matthews, spoke with BJPenn.com’s Fist-Ta-Cuff Radio Sunday night to talk about his participation in Bellator’s upcoming reality television show, “Fight Master.” Matthews (6-2) took break from his recent run in Bellator’s welterweight division to participate in the television show, a six-week ordeal that was shot in Louisiana. AJ said of...
Wednesday night, BJPenn.com Radio was able to talk with famed MMA striking coach, Jason Parillo. Parillo is perhaps best known for his long working relationship and friendship with UFC Hall of Famer, BJ Penn, though he has worked with some of the sport’s top athletes including Tito Ortiz, Jose Aldo, Vitor Belfort and Michael Bisping. ...
SPIKE TV and Bellator MMA are bringing some new MMA programming to the former home of the UFC in the form of this new show, geared around some of the best MMA coaches in the game today.
Wednesday night, UFC lightweight fighter, TJ Grant, spoke with BJPenn.com Radio in the midst of his training for a May 25 fight against former title-contender, Gray Maynard. For Grant (20-5), this will be his fifth fight at 155 lbs, a weight-class in which he has found enormous success. He is 4-0 at lightweight, with one...
Martin Kampman joined BJPenn.com Radio Wednesday night to talk about his next fight in the UFC and where he sits in the welterweight division. After suffering a KO loss in his last fight at the hands of now title-challenger, Johnny Hendricks, Kampmann has taken some time to heal some injuries and reflect on his training....
The UFC will be returning to Boston for the first time since August of 2010 when it hosts an event later this year. UFC President Dana White confirmed the plans following this past weekend’s UFC 158 event in Montreal: “We’ll be going back to Boston this year. We’ll do Boston this year. … I said...
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Ricco Rodriguez was reportedly pulled over and arrested for suspicion of DUI early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, California. According to MMAWeekly, Rodriguez was booked for misdemeanor DUI after failing a breathalyzer test. Law enforcement stated that Rodriquez was cooperative and voluntarily took the breathalyzer test. Several hours after the arrest,...
When the International Olympic Committee announced earlier this month that wrestling will be removed from the Olympics effective in 2020, the entire wrestling and combat sports community blew up social media in a fit of outrage. Numerous petitions have been established to save Olympic wrestling and many former Olympians have also voiced up in an...
In a recent interview with BloodyElbow.com, MMA legend and former UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion, Randy Couture, discussed his acting and television career and his recent departure from the Zuffa organization. A well-covered topic last week, Couture described his departure from Zuffa as a weight lifted from his shoulders. “Being in the organization, you...
UFC officials announced today that Ryan Couture will make his organizational debut against Ultimate Fighter season 9 winner Ross Pearson at UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Mousasi on April 6 in Stockholm, Sweden. The big question as far as Couture is concerned is whether or not his father, UFC Hall of Famer and...
Randy Couture finds himself in a bit of a pickle. According to UFC President Dana White he is no longer allowed to attend any UFC events. He is banned for life for signing with SPIKE TV and Bellator. The catch, is that Randy’s son, Ryan has just signed a deal with the UFC and will...
“I called Ryan Couture and I said, ‘Ryan, this is probably the weirdest conversation you are ever going to have with me. You signed a deal with us to fight in the UFC. I want you here if you want to be here. But I need you to understand this; me and your dad are...
UFC 156 took place last night on Super Saturday and featured a plethora of incredible fights featuring some of the best talent in the world. Headlining the card was Jose Aldo defending his featherweight title against the former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Edgar is coming off of consecutive losses to Benson Henderson and...
It was recently reported that the UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture signed on to coach for the Bellator Fighting Championships’ new reality show that will be featured on Spike TV. At the UFC 156 media day Dana White made it clear he was not surprised, and said Couture isn’t what he seems. He thinks...
Former UFC heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion Randy Couture is set to coach up and coming MMA fighters on Spike TV once again, however it will be for an organization other than the UFC. According to a report by Loretta Hunt of SI.com, Couture has signed a multi-year deal with Spike TV, where he will be...
With UFC 156 just a couple of weeks away (February 2nd) the pressure and anxiety is starting to creep into every fighter’s mind. This is usually about the time that the fighters stop pushing their bodies over the limit each day in training and instead start focusing on tightening up their tools, perfecting their game...
One of the biggest and most frustrating misconceptions about MMA is that it’s nothing more than two combatants beating each other to a pulp in front of a crowd of drunken hillbillies on a Saturday night. As both a media member and martial artist, that is something that I hear almost on a daily...
A sign of things to come? Or a tease from the world’s top mixed martial arts promotion? Either way, former Strikeforce heavyweight Josh Barnett (31-6 MMA, 3-1 SF) is now listed as a fighter on UFC.com. “The Warmaster” is still considered to be one of the top ten heavyweights in the world. He holds notable wins...
By Evan Stoumbelis John “The Magician” Dodson has set his sights on becoming the UFC’s first ever 3 division champion. As the 28-year-old Albuquerque native prepares for his January 26th title fight against Demetrius Johnson he spoke about his quest to be the first ever 3 division champion. “I want to hold all those three...
Three members of the American Kickboxing Academy will be joining Bryan Levick and Mitch Ciccarelli this week on BJPenn.Com Radio, but before they come on Matt Lindland will lead things off and discuss what he’s been up to lately. Lindland is a former Olympic wrestler having represented the United States in 2000 in Greco-Roman...
It was a while back now, that Randy Couture joked that the only way he would come out of retirement is if the UFC were to offer him a fight with Steven Seagal. Clearly, Seagal didn’t take Randy Couture’s remarks as that of a joking manner, as he told the following to Ariel Helwani of...
“I have to wonder what his intentions may have been in saying that. I always thought that Randy was my friend and a gentleman. I’m kind of confused why he would say that, but I’m here, anybody can find me any time and any place. If Randy really wants to fight me, he can fight...
With less than one week left before BJ Penn returns to the Octagon hosts Bryan Levick & Mitch Ciccarelli welcome five fantastic guest to the show on Wednesday night. Kyle Kingsbury will kick things off and with his engaging personality and great sense of humor our listeners are sure to be entertained. The 30-year-old...
