MMA News

Chris Taylor - October 21, 2012

A key featherweight match-up between Erik “New Breed” Koch (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) and Ricardo Lamas (12-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC) is set to go down at UFC 155 in Las Vegas.

Chris Taylor - October 21, 2012

UFC president Dana White once stated that Canada was the new mecca of MMA, due to the sports popularity north of the border. In fact, most of the North American records for an event were set at UFC 129: “St. Pierre vs. Shields”, when the UFC invaded the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

The Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen fight is reportedly being targeted to take place in New Jersey on April 27, 2013, according to the folks at MMA Weekly.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

Daniel Cormier says he and Jon Jones have interacted regarding a possible future UFC bout. A contest between Daniel Cormier and UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones has already been bounced around by plenty of fans and media and looks to be a tremendous scrap on paper. Although Cormier is stuck in Strikeforce, he has but “one last fight” on his contract before being moved to the UFC.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

A bantamweight bout between T.J. Dillashaw (6-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and Mike Easton (13-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) has been verbally agreed to for December’s “UFC on FOX 5: Henderson vs. Diaz” event in Seattle.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

A featherweight match-up between Hacran Dias (21-1-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and Chad Mendes (12-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) has been added to the UFC on FX 6 card set for this December.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

It was recently announced that a fight between featherweights Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier (12-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) and Jonathan Brookins (13-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC) will take place at the “TUF 16 Finale”, set for December 15th at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chris Taylor - October 20, 2012

After witnessing Vitor Belfort nearly finish Jon Jones by throwing a up a submission attempt from his back at UFC 152, Vinny Magalhaes believes he can properly instruct Chael Sonnen on how to defeat the current UFC light heavyweight champion when the two collide in April of next year.

BJPENN.COM News - October 20, 2012

“The Natural Born Killer” Carlos Condit currently holds UFC gold as the UFC interim welterweight champion of the world. In order to drop the “interim” and become the true king of the UFC’s welterweight division he must get past Georges St-Pierre at UFC 154. GSP will have home court advantage but according to this video interview with UFC.com Condit isn’t concerned with fighting in front of the Montreal crowd.

BJPENN.COM News - October 20, 2012

Jeremy Stephens is in a new kind of fight, one that’s taking place in the court room instead of a cage. Out to prove his innocence Stephens recently released the following interview to discuss what he is going through:

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

“The show is coming up, it’s on FX and it’s coming to a living room near you. I would also like to mention to the media, and I really hope they report this, this show is the single biggest and toughest tournament that we have in this sport. This isn’t a four-man tournament that gets spread over the course of a year. This is a 32-man tournament that will take place over five and a half weeks and to be aired over 10 of the most successful ratings FX has ever seen. This is a tournament that is tougher than the Olympic games, it’s tougher than the NFL playoffs, it’s tougher than any tournament in sports and that storyline constantly gets missed. This is no more reality TV than the NFL playoffs or the Olympics were. It’s real and it’s on TV. The bottom line is, this is a tournament. This is a tournament so tough that great fighters like Josh Koscheck, Gray Maynard, Stephan Bonnar and Chris Leben couldn’t even win it. It’s so tough, that world champions Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans came through it. I happen to know the talent that has been selected for this show, this will put all of those seasons to shame and there is a world champion, if not more than one, that’s in these young men. Write this down, the toughest tournament in mixed martial arts is coming to FX.” During Wednesday’s UFC tele-conference to promote season 17 of “The Ultimate Fighter” the Chael Sonnen hype machine turned it’s attention to the UFC’s reality series by proclaiming it the toughest tournament/athletic competition in the world.

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

Georges St-Pierre vs Ivan Menjivar UCC 7 Bad Boyz January 25, 2002 (Montréal, Québec) Even UFC welterweight champion GSP started somewhere and in this throwback video we show you exactly where that was.

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

Are you a fan of UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva? Check out this highlight, narrated by the infamous Christopher Walken.

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

This week sees both coaches up the intensity in training; with George giving the Australian’s conditioning work in the sand dunes and Ross taking Team UK through the training session from hell.

BJPENN.COM News - October 19, 2012

The poster prank war continues and the coaches begin engaging in some mind games with each other. The fighters are starting to get restless in the house and Ben Alloway sets up a Wasabi challenge to ease their boredom.