Multiple sources have confirmed that Diego Sanchez is out of his fight at UFC 90 against Thiago Alves. Sanchez pulled out of the fight due to torn rib cartilage and will be replaced on the Oct. 25 fight card at the Allstate Arena by fellow TUF 1 alum Josh Koscheck. Koshcheck had been scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night 16: “UFC Fight for the Troops”... 

MMAmania is reporting that SpikeTV will air UFC 84: Ill Will (Penn vs Sherk) at the same time CBS runs their second installment of Saturday Night Fights (Lawler vs Smith II) on July 26th.This comes one week after UFC will run counter programming in the form of Anderson Silva vs James Irvin to battle Affliction: Banned on PPV. I’m someone that says competition... 

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Below is video of Tito Ortiz following his unanimous decision loss to Lyoto Machida at UFC 84. Yes, you can actually see what all the fuss was regarding Ortiz’s behavior just prior to the start of the UFC 84 post-fight press conference: I wanted to give a special hat tip to “Mr. Sunshine” Steve Cofield, as I found the video through his blog.... 

I’ve been perusing various MMA blogs, websites, and forums over the past few days and am beginning to see a common theme regarding Lyoto Machida. Either you love him and his style or you hate him and his style. There doesn’t seem to be any in-between. You think he’s boring? That’s fine. You think he’s fun to watch? That’s all... 

MMA Weekly is reporting that the UFC gathered a total of $3.7 million at the live gate last night for UFC 84: “Ill Will”.  UFC President Dana White reported the figure at the post-event press conference at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.  The event was headlined by a UFC Lightweight Title fight featuring former champ Sean Sherk against... 

FiveOuncesOfPain.com was informed by Rear Naked Radio, a weekly MMA show heard every Saturday from 7-9 p.m. CT on Live 105.3 FM in Dallas, that former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz was offered a contract by the UFC in the days leading up to last night’s fight against Lyoto Machida. While listening to the initial portion of an audio clip forwarded... 

While there were no fight of the year candidates and the presence of several lulls during some of the fights, UFC 84 was still an excellent show that was full of drama and excitement.I will have a rundown of all the fights later in this piece, but as usual, I will first break the show down from a production standpoint. First, I noticed a tremendous improvement... 

Thanks to our friends at Rear Naked Radio, we have received permission to run video of an interview they conducted with Tito Ortiz immediately after all of the post-UFC 84 press conference drama. Ortiz’s girlfriend, Jenna Jameson, was also very vocal as well as the two gave their side of the story. I want to remind everyone to check out Rear Naked Radio... 

According to Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports, it appears there was a lot of drama between Tito Ortiz and the UFC during the post-UFC 84 press conference: The 33-year-old former UFC light heavyweight champion showed up, uninvited, with UFC official Jennifer Wenk asking him to leave and not cause a scene. Ortiz at first refused, but after some pleading, got up and... 

The UFC was in a generous mood on Saturday night, awarding a total of $300,000 in bonuses to four fighters. The four fighters receiving the $75,000 bonuses are: Wanderlei Silva Rousimar Palhares Goran Reljic Wilson Gouveia Silva received the “Knockout of the Night” bonus award for dropping Keith Jardine at 0:36 of round 1. Palhares received the... 

Here are the quick results for UFC 84. I will have my usual breakdown a little later today: B.J. Penn def. Sean Sherk via TKO (referee’s decision) at 5:00 of Round 3 Wanderlei Silva def. Keith Jardine via KO at 0:36 of Round 1 Goran Reljic def. Wilson Gouveia via TKO at 3:15 of Round 2 Lyoto Machida def. Tito Ortiz via unanimous decision Thiago Silva... 

Let me first start off by saying this was a great night of fights. Knockouts, slick submissions, some better production values from the UFC in terms of hyping the big three fights, and a conclusive ending to a great main event title fight. Solid A- in my book. Let’s get to it.. Where does B.J. Penn go from here? A welterweight clash with St. Pierre? I... 

I’ll be attending a family function today but I submitted a few stories via time-release delay. Before I took off, I wanted to leave some pre-UFC 84 rantings for you. – Steve Cofield posted on his Mr. Sunshine blog two different versions of Friday’s weigh-in. The live version was recorded for YouTube and shows Tito Ortiz dressing down and revealing... 

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Tito Ortiz was on Sportscenter this afternoon and had a number of things to talk about including Dana White (of course), the UFC stiffing the fighters, his opponent Lyoto Machida and hinted at a possible future fight with Randy Couture.  Read More →

All 22 fighters set to appear at UFC 84: “Ill Will” successfully made weight at today pre-fight weigh-in held at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV.  There was a lot of excitement surrounding many of the card’s bigger fights.  However as usual, Tito Ortiz went on to steal the show with his wardrobe, which contained some choice words... 

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