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Breaking news comes tonight as UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva is willing to step up and save an event for his company by facing Stephan Bonnar in the main event at UFC 153. After yesterday’s news came that both Featherweight champ and Light Heavyweight Quinton Jackson would be unable to fight due to injury, 145 lb. title challenger Frankie Edgar was ultimately pulled off the card altogether. Rumors swirled earlier today that perhaps Chael Sonnen would face Wanderlei Silva in the event’s main

A long term dynamic develops in every sport that sticks around for a while. A section of the fan base will inevitably compare the play of today to their heroes from yesteryear.  Whether it is the baseball fan that longs for the day where they didn’t have to worry about someone using performance enhancing drugs after every home run, or the football fan that yearns for the era of hard hitting and less complaining in the NFL. One thing is a common factor; this group wishes things would go back to

Allistair Overeem claims he will be fighting in December. According to a post on his Twitter account:

I’ll be fighting again in December and mark my words, I’ll be back.. to get the belt, sooner rather later.
— Alistair Overeem (@Alistairovereem) June 18, 2012

Overeem is currently serving a 9-month suspension for testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone. the suspension was retroactive to March 27, the day of the test. That means Overeem’s suspension will expire in late December. If the

The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced today that more than 50 UFC and Strikeforce stars are scheduled to appear at the UFC Fan Expo on Friday, July 6 and Saturday, July 7 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Fans will have the chance to meet their favorite stars during autograph sessions, Q&A sessions, meet and greets, training and development seminars and other special events. The UFC Fan Expo is coinciding with UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen II.
Fighters scheduled for the UFC Fan

UFC President Dana White said that former Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar requested to have a “sit-down” with him over a potential return to UFC after UFC 146. Unfortunately, according to White: “The meeting that we had didn’t really go very well. It wasn’t a great meeting. It was probably one of the worst meetings we’ve ever had with Brock Lesnar. I honestly have not talked to him since, so I don’t know where we are at. So, all the stuff you are seeing on the Internet is

Barring any injuries, Junior dos Santos vs. Cain Velasquez II is rumored to headline UFC 152 from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. The September 22nd card is beginning to shape up nicely as Rory MacDonald is set to face the returning BJ Penn in a Welterweight showdown as well.
Both dos Santos and Velasquez have obviously proved their mettle in the UFC Octagon, with JDS undefeated and Velasquez’s only blemish being a KO loss to dos Santos for the belt last November. The two top-ranked Heavyweights

News broke today that Brock Lesnar indeed may return to the UFC after showing his face ringside at UFC 146. The much-discussed former UFC champion recently made another foray into the world of WWE after suffering a TKO loss to Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. Many thought that Lesnar was indeed finished with MMA, as diverticulitis and two vicious knockouts in a row began to take their toll. However, today it appears that is not the case.
Soon after UFC 146, rumors swirled about Dana White meeting with Lesnar.

 
In what was something of a surprise last night, former UFC Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was on hand at UFC 146, sitting ringside This may have hinted at a possible return for the well-known former titleholder who recently returned to the WWE Seen most recently being knocked out in the first round by Alistair Overeem last December, he retired after and was seemingly finished with his short, mercurial MMA career.
However, this may not be the case, as Dana White hinted at courtesy of a report via

UFC 146 has finally occurred and the results did not fail to deliver in the slightest way. The action came out of the gate smoking, and did not stop until the final bell. Each fight came out and ended with a convincing, action-packed finish that fans were expecting of an all-Heavyweight card.
First off, Stefan “Skyscraper” Struve extended his winning streak with an excellent first round submission of Lavar “Big” Johnson. After weathering some great shots from the heavy-handed