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Hermes Franca has left the Armory, a team in which he served as trainer. He is ready to open his own academy in West Palm Beach, Fla. called Team Hermes Franca set to open in November. He is currently preparing for a grappling match at the North American Grappling Association event in Miami on...

Wanderlei Silva is one of the most popular mixed martial artists on the planet, and for good reason. Few fighters embody the concept of fighting spirit as well as the warrior from Brazil. The former Pride champion and future Hall of Famer doesn’t duck any tough questions from readers in our...

Karo Parisyan was prepared to face fellow judoka Hector Lombard until it came to light that visa issues would keep the Cuban fighter out of the country. He will now instead face former Pride fighter Ryo Chonan in a welterweight match-up at Ultimate Fighting Championship 78 in Newark, N.J. News...

Anyone eager to start promoting in the ever-expanding world of mixed martial arts will certainly run into obstacles. In fact, separating yourself from the already saturated field of promotions is next to impossible unless your organization has deep pockets and a television deal. HDNet Fights...

Meeting with the media Tuesday in metropolitan Tokyo, Fight Entertainment Group president Sadaharu Tanigawa released the full main card lineup for Oct. 28's HERO'S card at the Jang Chung Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea. In an interesting and surely appealing decision, FEG opted to put together...

WEC Middleweight champ, Paulo Filho is now an official member of Team Link. Team Link operates out of Ludlow, Massachusetts and is home to UFC Heavyweight, Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga. Filho made the announcement in an exclusive interview with Brazilian publication, Portal do Vale Tudo. Since...

Earlier today MMANews.com spoke with Strikeforce Middleweight Cung Le and he confirmed that he will be fighting on the November 16th Strikeforce card at the HP Pavillion in San Jose, CA. Who his opponent will be has yet to be determined but Cung made mention of the fact that Frank Shamrock...

here is the link: http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Xtreme-Couture-Fighters-Talk-About-Randy-Quitting-UFC.html

Ken Shamrock is a UFC Hall-of-Famer and one of the original fighters who helped grow MMA as a sport and UFC as a promotion. Since leaving UFC, Shamrock has devoted his energies to coaching the Nevada Lions of the IFL and has also watched as the next generation of Shamrocks -- including his son...

COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 13, 2007 -- More than 250 mixed martial arts athletes from all walks of life – and varying skill levels – made their way to L.A. Boxing in Costa Mesa, Calif., yesterday for the first of three 2008 IFL Draft sessions, doing their best to make strong impressions to the...

DAVIE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cage Fighting Championships (CFC) Spokesperson Crawford Grimsley announced today, “The CFC will put up a $3,000,000 purse to bring the Couture vs Emelianenko fight to Pay-Per-View. $1,000,000 will be guaranteed to each fighter while the winner takes home an...

The formation of World Victory Road Inc. and the Japanese MMA Association were formally announced Monday in Tokyo at a much-anticipated news conference. The Japanese MMA Association has been devised to give mixed martial arts in Japan a legitimate, credible sanctioning body that will foster...

The shocking news of Randy Couture’s exit from the Ultimate Fighting Championship hit like a tidal wave on Thursday. MMAWeekly caught up with Ron Frazier, one of the head trainers at Xtreme Couture, after the news hit to get his comments on Randy’s monumental decision. “I wasn’t really...

Josh Barnett, ranked as the No.3 heavyweight mixed martial artist in the world by MMAWeekly.com, had a very busy year in 2006. Fighting seven times in that span, he amassed a 5-2 record against some of the top competition in the world. Unfortunately, in 2007, he has yet to fight once...

Mixed martial arts is one of the hottest properties in all of sports. And the Ultimate Fighting Championship rules the roost. Many other promoters have stepped up to challenge the American juggernaut, most opting to sign the biggest name fighters they can lay their hands on and start chipping...

Taking how ESPN positioned the dispute between Couture and White/UFC Management, I wonder if there is far more to this new "M-1" organization than people understand, far more money. http://evilmaster.proelite.com/62695 When I see this clip, it is pretty obvious that they are giving Dana White...

Nick Diaz, new contract in hand, will square off with KJ Noons for the EliteXC 160-pound championship in the main event of Elite XC “Renegade” on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Corpus Christi, Texas, according to ProElite.com. EliteXC announced Thursday it had come to terms on an exclusive, long-term...

White's reaction could determine MMA's future By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports October 11, 2007 Dana White may be the man most responsible for the meteoric growth of the UFC. It has a national television contract, it does ever-larger pay-per-view sales, it routinely sells out major venues and...

I was able to get in touch with EliteXC live events president Gary Shaw soon after the news broke that the promotion had signed Kimbo Slice to a long-term contract. Gary was kind of enough to give me a few minutes. Below is the transcript of the impromptu interview... Sam Caplan: I just wanted...

PROELITE AND MARK BURNETT TO PRODUCE PRIMETIME CELEBRITY MMA REALITY SERIES NFL Great, Herschel Walker and MLB Star, Jose Conseco Sign Up To Show the World Their Martial Arts ‘Chops’ Los Angeles – (Oct. 11, 2007) –Which professional athletes are really the toughest in the world? Stay...