Veteran cutman, Jacob “Stitch” Duran has tonight revealed that heavyweight legend, Mirko Cro Cop had already made his mind up to retire from the sport of mixed martial arts prior to his UFC 137 clash with Roy Nelson this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Continue Reading
Malki Kawa, the manager of UFC welterweight contender Carlos Condit, has revealed his man is not angry with the Las Vegas based promotion for missing out on his title shot, but the same can’t be said for his Team Jackson stable mate and current title holder, Georges St. Pierre. … Continue Reading
UFC light heavyweight returnee, Brandon Vera and newcomer to the featherweight division, Bart Palaszewski have both picked up six month medical suspensions from the Nevada State Athletic Commission following an exciting night of action at UFC 137. … Continue Reading
Today’s major rumour has pitted UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva and former light heavyweight champion, Vitor Belfort as coaches on the promotions first international edition of “the Ultimate Fighter” reality show, although it appears things might not be as simple as that. … Continue Reading
Former two-division UFC champion, B.J. Penn has today issued his first statement since Saturday night when he declared his retirement in the middle of the octagon following his fight with Nick Diaz at UFC 137. … Continue Reading
“Ultimate Fighter” season ten cast member, Matt Mitrione has been speaking for the first time since his UFC 137 loss to Cheick Kongo this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, apologising to his fans for what he describes as an over cautious performance. … Continue Reading
UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva has today revealed that stories of him hanging up his gloves following his next four fights have been greatly exaggerated and that he plans to keep fighting for another six or seven years. … Continue Reading
The last man to hold the Strikeforce welterweight title and the next man to challenge for the UFC version of the belt, Nick Diaz was the highest earner coming out of UFC 137 this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, pocketing a whopping $200,000 for his efforts. … Continue Reading
World renowned MMA coach, Cesar Gracie gives his thoughts to the waiting media scrum post UFC 137 in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend, going as far as to almost say welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre is a faker after he ran past him earlier in the day. … Continue Reading
A featherweight bout between “Ultimate Fighter” season nine winner, Ross Pearson and Brazilian veteran, Junior Assuncao is reportedly in the works for the UFC 141 card on December 30th in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Continue Reading
UFC featherweight contender, Bart Palaszewski has been giving his thoughts on his spectacular UFC 137 knockout win over Tyson Griffin this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, explaining as far as he’s concerned the Xtreme Couture trained fighter didn’t respect him enough, something that was evident by his failure to make weight. … Continue Reading
Check out UFC heavyweight number one contender, Junior dos Santos going through his paces ahead of his UFC on FOX showdown with Cain Velasquez on November 12th in Anaheim, California. … Continue Reading
He wanted a fifth fight this year and it appears as if he’s got it. Former WEC title contender, Donald Cerrone will take on “Ultimate Fighter” season five winner, Nate Diaz at UFC 141 on December 30th in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Continue Reading
In true Terminator style former two-division UFC champion, B.J. Penn has declared to one of his coaches that he will be back (presumably inside the octagon) once he’s had time to clear his head despite announcing his retirement from competition just minutes before. … Continue Reading
UFC middleweight trash talker, Chael Sonnen just doesn’t seem to be able to let it go as if you thought he would) as he claims current 185 pound champion, Anderson Silva disrespected Brazilian’s in general by not accepting the challenge issued to him almost a month ago. … Continue Reading
Nothing like setting yourself a lofty goal following a big win. Bellator welterweight champion, Ben Askren gives his thoughts on his split decision win over Jay Hieron this past weekend, as well as saying his long-term aim is to be considered the best fighter in the world. … Continue Reading
Normally when you turn up to a post-fight press conference just an hour removed from perhaps the biggest win of your career you’d be as happy as a pig in… well you know the rest. Not if you’re Nick Diaz though who took the opportunity to complain about having to face his good friend, B.J. Penn amongst other things. … Continue Reading
Renowned MMA coach, Greg Jackson gives his thoughts on his student and UFC lightweight, Donald Cerrone zeroing in on a title shot following last nights UFC 137 win over German heavy hitter, Dennis Siver. … Continue Reading
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Sometimes an opportunity arises that is simply too good to pass up on. But chances inherently contain a measure of risk; the question then becomes one of risk versus reward. Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping was recently presented with such a dilemma; take the path of least resistance to the UFC gold, or throw himself headfirst [...]
The UFC returns to FOX this weekend as ‘UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis‘ goes down at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois with three cracking main card fights to get the pulse racing. In the main event, Rashad Evans and Phil Davis do battle to see who’s next for UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon [...]
‘The Cage’ is back for another stacked episode on Sports Tonight Live! Bret ‘Hollywood’ Freeman and MMABay’s own Brad Wharton are joined in the studio by veteran mixed martial artist Danielle ‘The Curse’ West and 17-year-old prodigy Lisa ‘Lights Out’ McCallum. The team discuss women’s MMA, UFC on Fox 2 and Ian ‘M16′ Butlin calls [...]
We’re just days away from the ‘UFC on FOX 2: Evans vs. Davis‘ fight card that lands on our screens on Saturday, January 28th live from the United Centre in Chicago, Illinois as Britain’s own Michael Bisping enters the biggest fight of his life in the co-main event of the evening. Before we look at [...]
With just two weeks until his first trip into the cage in 2012, top UK prospect Iain ‘Badman’ Martell sat down for a chat with MMABay Radio’s Brad Wharton. After a blistering start to his pro career in 2011, Martell is looking to make 2012 his year, and discussed his training at Kaobon, his upcoming [...]
The MMABay Radio team is back for another mid-week show as we round up all the news stories form the past couple of days from around the mixed martial arts world. This week the team discusses this past Friday night’s UFC on FX: Guillard vs. Miller event from Nashville, Tennessee, reviews this Saturday night’s UFC on [...]
There was action aplenty last night as ‘UFC on FX 1: Guillard vs. Miller‘ marked a successful debut on FX for the UFC and the fans in attendance in Nashville, Tennessee were left satisfied by a string of stunning finishes. MMABay takes a look back at the night’s action and gives you a sneak peek [...]
