TUF 12: Jonathan Brookins Ready To Fight Michael Johnson for UFC Contract

His best-known fight is most likely his loss to Jose Aldo, but this season on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, Jonathan Brookins has left no doubt that he’s a winner.  The quiet, introspective lightweight with the nasty late…

His best-known fight is most likely his loss to Jose Aldo, but this season on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, Jonathan Brookins has left no doubt that he’s a winner.  The quiet, introspective lightweight with the nasty lateral drop was the first fighter to secure a spot in the finals on Wednesday […]

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TUF 12: Jonathan Brookins Ready To Fight Michael Johnson for UFC Contract

Roy Nelson’s Contract Issues Affect Brock Lesnar’s Octagon Return

Everyone is sick of the idea that Lesnar and Frank Mir III may face off for the third time in Lesnar’s seven-fight career and Mir’s last six fights. Having half of the UFC’s two top-tier heavyweights’ re…

Everyone is sick of the idea that Lesnar and Frank Mir III may face off for the third time in Lesnar’s seven-fight career and Mir’s last six fights. Having half of the UFC’s two top-tier heavyweights’ recent fights be against each other doesn’t say much about the UFC heavyweight division, doesn’t say much about Frank Mir III, and it doesn’t say […]

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Roy Nelson’s Contract Issues Affect Brock Lesnar’s Octagon Return

Jay Hieron Isn’t Quite Out of Strikeforce Deal, But Says He’s ‘Looking to the Future’

(Clearly not bothering to read the fine print. PicPops: Xtreme Couture)
News about Jay Hieron’s contractual status has a funny way of going public before the legal Is are dotted and Ts crossed. Last year, he had to tell us all to just chill when …


(Clearly not bothering to read the fine print. PicPops: Xtreme Couture)

News about Jay Hieron’s contractual status has a funny way of going public before the legal Is are dotted and Ts crossed. Last year, he had to tell us all to just chill when reports that he’d bailed from the Hindenburg that was Affliction and signed with Strikeforce proved premature. Now, Hieron himself admits he “jumped the gun” in announcing his own departure from Scott Coker’s slowly deflating dingy of an MMA promotion. When Hieron tweeted last week that he’d been officially released from Strikeforce and then proclaimed: “Ya’ll know what I’m about to do!!!!!!!” the truth was, not even Hieron himself actually knew what he was about to do.

Though the Xtreme Couture product told MMA Fighting over the weekend that he’ll “definitely” be fighting again before the end of the year, he isn’t quite free from Strikeforce’s clutches just yet. And the UFC return he seemed to be hinting at on his Twitter? At this point, that sounds more like wishful thinking than a done deal, too.

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16-Year-Old Alexi Argyriou Inks Professional MMA Contract; Compared to Jose Aldo

June was certainly a busy month for mixed martial arts. Busy enough to let an interesting story slip through the cracks.
It came courtesy of the Canadian-based Maximum Fighting Championship, who announced last month they had inked a deal with 16-year-o…

June was certainly a busy month for mixed martial arts. Busy enough to let an interesting story slip through the cracks.
It came courtesy of the Canadian-based Maximum Fighting Championship, who announced last month they had inked a deal with 16-year-old MMA sensation Alexi Argyriou.
That’s not a typo, folks. Argyriou cannot go to a theatre and […]

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16-Year-Old Alexi Argyriou Inks Professional MMA Contract; Compared to Jose Aldo

16-Year-Old Signs Professional MMA Contract; Gets Compared to Jose Aldo

June was certainly a busy month for mixed martial arts. Busy enough to let an interesting story slip through the cracks.
It came courtesy of the Canadian-based Maximum Fighting Championship, who announced last month they had inked a deal with 16-year-o…

June was certainly a busy month for mixed martial arts. Busy enough to let an interesting story slip through the cracks.
It came courtesy of the Canadian-based Maximum Fighting Championship, who announced last month they had inked a deal with 16-year-old MMA sensation Alexi Argyriou.
That’s not a typo, folks. Argyriou cannot go to a theatre and […]

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16-Year-Old Signs Professional MMA Contract; Gets Compared to Jose Aldo

Ricardo Arona Taking a Page Out of James Toney’s Playbook

(Dude, can I finish taking a piss before we talk about this?)
Former PRIDE middleweight champion Ricardo Arona is planning his return to the UFC, even if the promotion hasn’t decided whether or not they want him.
"The Brazilian Tiger" told TA…


(Dude, can I finish taking a piss before we talk about this?)

Former PRIDE middleweight champion Ricardo Arona is planning his return to the UFC, even if the promotion hasn’t decided whether or not they want him.

"The Brazilian Tiger" told TATAME that he is planning another trip to Las Vegas this weekend to attend UFC 116 so he can meet again with Dana White to discuss with the UFC president the prospect of one day fighting in the UFC’s Octagon.

It worked for James Toney, so why not for a guy who was once one of the top competitors at 205 in PRIDE?

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