Ever since the collapse of ProElite and EliteXC, managers such as Monte Cox have reviewed their fighters’ contracts and contacted EliteXC officials about a possible breach of contract with ProElite closing its doors. The contract for EliteXC’s fighters basically states that if EliteXC is unable to fulfill its payment obligations that the fighters... 

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... 

MMA Junkie spoke with K.J. Noons on Sunday to get his reaction to being stripped of EliteXC’s 160 lbs. title. Noons indicated that he’d been given a deadline of today, the 22nd of September, to make a decision whether or not he wants to fight again under the EliteXC banner. “We were given until Monday, and we’re figuring it all out today.... 

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... 

The UFC issued its standard set of awards following last night’s UFC Fight Night 15 show in Omaha, Nebraska at the Omaha Civic Center. The amount of the bonuses for the Spike TV event was $30,000 per award with Nate Diaz, Josh Neer, Alessio Sakara, and Wilson Gouveia. Diaz won a split decision over Neer in the main event of the show but both fighters were... 

GracieFighter.com, a website owned and operated by Cesar Gracie, the trainer for Nick Diaz, has issued a point-by-point response to a recent statement released by K.J. Noons regarding his recent fallout with EliteXC and his decision not to accept a title defense vs. Diaz during the promotion’s next show on CBS on Oct. 4. In a week of explosive statements,... 

K.J. Noons sent out a mass email yesterday to a lot of the major MMA websites to tell his side of the story regarding the canceled Nick Diaz fight on CBS on October 4. According to Noons his decision to not fight Nick Diaz has nothing to do with Diaz himself and everything to do with the way EliteXC has treated him. He is not a happy camper and it’s pretty... 

It looks as if we won’t be seeing that K.J. Noons vs. Nick Diaz rematch on the October EliteXC card after all. There has been a lot of jabbering between the two sides in the past couple of days and according to MMA Rated, the bout is now officially off of the October 4 EliteXC card on CBS: It was hoped that both sides would reach some sort of agreement... 

Jared Shaw is apparently on the media warpath today, going to great lengths to trash K.J. Noons’ management team and drag their names through the mud. Earlier today he talked to MMA Weekly regarding the matter and now he’s got more to say to MMA Junkie: “I’m sitting here and I’m drinking from a carton of milk right now,” Shaw... 

MMA Weekly spoke with EliteXC vice president Jared Shaw and it looks like the long-awaited K.J. Noons vs. Nick Diaz title rematch could be in jeopardy. The promotion wanted to include the fight as part of their October show on CBS but it appears that Noons’ management has no interest in the bout: According to EliteXC vice president Jared Shaw, the promotion... 

In a new submission on the website GracieFighter.com, an accusation is made that Nick Diaz still has not received payment from DREAM following his first round submission over Katsuya Inoue at DREAM.3 on May 11. GracieFighter.com, which is owned and operated by Diaz’s trainer, Cesar Gracie, indicates that Diaz’s most recent wins at “Return of... 

Last night was the second installment of EliteXC on CBS and it proved to be a good showing for the EliteXC brand. Every fight was exciting, every fight had a finish, they crowned two new champions, and one champion defended his title for the first time. Who knows how the show will be received by the general public because it had little to no hype behind it, but... 

One of the feature matches at the previous DREAM 5 card was set to have Hayato “Mach” Sakurai take on Nick Diaz. Due to Diaz’s upcoming fight with Thomas “Wildman” Denny on Saturday’s EliteXC show, the Diaz - Sakurai fight was taken off the show. Diaz hopes the fight was merely postponed and not canceled. I want the Sakurai... 

Gary Herman from 15rounds.com has a good article with some interesting post-show notes from this past Saturday’s Strikeforce card at the Playboy Mansion. It looks like Daniel Puder is campaigning for a future match with Bob Sapp. Sapp is not under contract to Strikeforce but is apparently open to the idea of fighting Puder and a match could happen if Strikeforce... 

Probably the biggest news coming out of tonight’s Strikeforce event at the Playboy Mansion is the news that UFC outcast, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, has just signed a contract with Strikeforce. He announced it during the main event of tonight’s card. As for the fights themselves, they were pretty mediocre. Gilbert Melendez pretty much dominated... 

Our pal, Steve Cofield, aka Mr. Sunshine, had Chuck Liddell’s trainer, John Hackleman, as a guest on his show. Hackleman said he believed Keith Jardine won the fight vs. Liddell at UFC 76 and gave his reasons as to why he felt Liddell lost. He said that he doesn’t believe in any way that Liddell is done. In fact, he said they are trying to Shogun... 

As I alluded to earlier there really isn’t much in the way of actual news taking place in MMA right now so I thought I would give a public response to a question that was e-mailed to me over the weekend. In response to my unedited interview with Gareb Shamus that’s now available on the site, I was asked about whether I thought Kurt Angle is serious...