The casting call for the next season of The Ultimate Fighter will be open to fighters and would-be warriors in the lightweight and light heavyweight divisions. The casting call has been officially set by the UFC and Spike TV for Charlotte, North Carolina on April 1 from The Omni Charlotte Hotel. The festivities are slated to kick [...]

New York, NY, March 9, 2010 – In anticipation of their world welterweight title clash at UFC 111: ST-PIERRE vs. HARDY, UFC® champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy will be featured on UFC Primetime®, a weekly, three part series premiering Wednesday, March 10 at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Spike TV. In the first episode, Hardy [...]

A welterweight tussle between Paulo Thiago and Martin Kampmann is looking extremely likely to take place during UFC 115. Both fighters have verbally agreed to the match-up according to a recent report on The Las Vegas Sun, with the bout expected to be finalized in the coming days. UFC 115 is loosely expected to take place from [...]

James Toney and the UFC have combined to create a whirlwind of heated debate and speculation following FiveOuncesofPain.com recently revealing the news of the all-time boxing great’s signing to the biggest fight promotion on the planet. During a recent appearance on FightHype.com’s OnTheGrindBoxing radio show, Toney went on to reveal the terms of his newly inked [...]

After weeks of speculation that something funky was going on behind the scenes between Strikeforce and M-1 Global to prevent Fedor Emelianenko from taking part in the upcoming April CBS event, it now appears that the two sides have renegotiated terms for a deal that will see “The Last Emperor” making his return to the [...]

After a series of unfounded rumors speculating that the bout had been scrapped, a heavyweight showdown first reported by FiveOuncesofPain.com between Kimbo Slice and Matt Mitrione is now official, again, for UFC 113. The pair of TUF 10 veterans will duke it out in Vancouver, Canada on May 8. The UFC has finalized the already expected bout on [...]

As recently reported, UFC welterweight Mike Swick announced he’d undergone an MRI to examine damage to his left elbow sustained during his UFC 109 bout with Paulo Thiago and expected an update on the situation during a doctor’s visit planned for early this week. That appointment has now come and gone, and as Swick suspected, [...]

CHICAGO, Ill. (March 8, 2010) – Toby Imada, whose jaw-dropping “Submission of the Year” helped put Bellator Fighting Championships on the map during its debut season, will return to the promotion for its upcoming Season 2 lightweight tournament. Imada’s remarkable submission, an inverted triangle choke of the heavily favored Jorge Masvidal at Bellator V, became an [...]

This past Saturday night was one 24-year old Joseph Benavidez will undoubtedly remember for the rest of his life. Along with “Submission of the Night” honors, a definitive finish over highly touted opponent Miguel Torres, and a likely shot at the WEC Bantamweight Championship, Urijah Faber’s protégé also took home the largest check of the [...]

The curious case of the Brian Bowles stoppage. I don’t know if I’m the only one that tasted something funky in the Kool-Aid this past Saturday evening during the main event of WEC 47 at the conclusion of the second round between Bowles and Dominick Cruz when we returned from commercial break to realize that the [...]

KANSAS CITY (March 8, 2010) – Tyler Stinson, a 24-year-old native of Winfield, Kan., was the unanimous winner of an open tryout sponsored by Bellator Fighting Championships on Saturday, earning him a chance to fight in Bellator’s upcoming nationally-televised event at the Kansas City Power & Light District on April 29th. Stinson was one of 72 [...]

UFC title shots are at best inconsistent and at worst insulting to the intelligence of fans. Without an official ranking system, title fights are arranged based on their potential to attract an audience. Dana White defends this approach as preventing any obligation to put on boring fights. But there’s no denying it removes some credibility [...]

Sengoku 12 is in the books as the event recently unfolded in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. Jorge Santiago managed to hang onto his middleweight title in a rematch with Mamed Khalidov in the main event of the evening, while former UFC fighter Akihiro Gono also ended up in the winner’s circle with a unanimous decision over [...]

WEC 47 is taking place this evening live from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio while airing on the Versus network. Brian Bowles will be making the first defense of the WEC bantamweight crown when he squares off with Dominick Cruz in the main event of the evening, while former 135 pound champ Miguel Torres faces [...]

Sengoku will be hosting it’s first event of 2010 tomorrow evening as “Sengoku Raiden Championships 12” is all set to take place from the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. The event will air via tape-delay on HDNet a week from tomorrow on March 12. Jorge Santiago and Mamed Khalidov will go at it for the Sengoku middleweight [...]

WEC 47 is all set to take place this evening from Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The WEC bantamweight championship will be on the line in the card’s headlining match-up between title-holder Brian Bowles and challenger Dominick Cruz, while Miguel Torres will be facing off with Joseph Benavidez in the co-headliner. A full set of weigh-in results [...]

Rear Naked Radio returns this evening as FiveOuncesofPain.com Managing Editor and RNR co-host Cory Brady joins Richard Hunter and Pugs Moran to discuss tomorrow evening’s WEC 47 card, James Toney signing with the UFC, and all of the other happenings in MMA over the last week. Make sure to check out the show on 1360 AM, or you can catch [...]

FiveOuncesofPain.com Managing Editor Cory Brady recently made an appearance on ESPN Radio’s “Way of the Warrior” to discuss the big news of James Toney signing with the UFC as first reported by 5 Oz. Brady and Way of the Warrior host Eric O’Brien discuss the implications of Toney’s signing along with possible opponents for the MMA [...]

Mike Swick may have earned his nickname based on the speed of his punches but it unfortunately appears as though his return to the Octagon will be anything but “Quick” due to an elbow injury the American Kickboxing Academy staple suffered in his UFC 109 bout with Paulo Thiago. Though the nature of the actual damage [...]

UFC President Dana White has confirmed that the UFC will hold an event on April 17 to counter Strikeforce, according to Figure Four Online. The recent news comes after it was revealed that two of Strikeforce’s biggest draws, Fedor Emelianenko and Herschel Walker, will not be competing on the card. There is a possibility that Strikeforce could [...]