UPDATE: Sherdog has backed off its initial report and is now claiming that the fight is in the “works.” A lightweight bout featuring top five lightweights Eddie Alvarez and Shinya Aoki is now set to take place on New Year’s Eve in Japan at FEG’s “Dynamaite!!” event, according to a new report by Sherdog. Sherdog, citing Alvarez’s... 

Top lightweight competitor Eddie Alvarez will be one of the cornerstones of the Bellator Fighting Championship’s lightweight division. Alvarez informed the website iGuillotine.com on Tuesday that he has signed a deal with Bellator. “The contract is signed and I got my advance,” he is quoted as telling the site. Bellator will be conducting a 12-week... 

Eddie Alvarez, one of the top ranked lightweight in the world, is set to make his return to action on Jan. 23 in Atlantic City, N.J. at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino as a headliner for Monte Cox’s Extreme Challenge. Alvarez revealed the news recently with the website iGuillotine.com and FiveOuncesOfPain.com confirmed the news on Tuesday afternoon with... 

Bellator Fighting Championships has reportedly secured a television deal with ESPN’s Spanish-speaking channel, ESPN Deportes, to broadcast an MMA program in 2009. The Communications Manager for ESPN Deportes, Santa Brito, confirmed today that the channel was in the early stages of development for MMA programming in 2009. This news comes via a report at... 

K.J. Noons was stripped of the EliteXC lightweight title almost a month ago after not coming to terms with EliteXC on a possible title defense against Nick Diaz. The promotion wanted to schedule Noons vs. Diaz for their October 4 EliteXC “Heat” show on CBS. Noons refused to defend the title against Nick Diaz and cited several reasons, including the... 

While EliteXC officials declined to offer specifics regarding a possible fight to determine a new lightweight champion for the promotion, sources informed FiveOuncesOfPain.com earlier in the week that the company had been considering an option that would involve Nick Diaz and Eddie Alvarez competing for the newly vacant title in a featured bout during a tentative... 

Though not related to the post-UFC 84 frenzy, this could be a fantastic fight set for UFC’s immediate future. According to a report made by MMAJunkie.com today, TUF-vet Mac Danzig and UFC crowd-favorite Clay Guida are set for a bout on UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy.” Danzig is fresh out of TUF Season 6 and has a 2-0 record in the UFC with wins... 

Looks like the winner of TUF 6, Mac Danzig, won’t be waiting too long to debut in the cage as a lightweight according to a report from The Fight Network today: “The Ultimate Fighter” season six winner Mac Danzig will face highly-regarded Canadian Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Mark Bocek at UFC 84 on Saturday, April 19 at the Bell Centre in Montreal.... 

First things first, last night’s finale was simply awesome. The fights between Jon Koppenhaver vs. Jared Rollins and Clay Guida vs. Roger Huerta were so good they could have carried a show by themselves. But to get two matches like that on the same card is simply amazing. I hope Dana White is in the Christmas spirit and gives all four guys a $40,000 match... 

Whether or not Mac Danzig beats Tommy Speer on Saturday that will be the last time you will see the King Of The Cage and Pride Veteran in the 170lb. weight class according to an article on UFC.com. I decided that before I even went on the show. I really have no business fighting the top five guys at 170. I walk around at 170, those guys walk around at 190. So...