Archive for the ‘Rumors’ Category

Sometime Friday night, if you weren’t completely distracted by the exciting Bellator knockouts or blinded with anticipation by tonight’s Jon Jones/Rashad Evans fight, you might have noticed a tweet by Dana White. The long wait is over regarding the UFC 146 situation created by Alistair Overeem’s failed drug test. Junior Dos Santos will now face [...]

Dan Henderson is in a beautiful place in his career. At 41 years old, he’s sitting on top of the MMA world in a sense. His credentials speak for themselves and his current 7-1 streak in Strikeforce and the UFC hints that he might be peaking right now. Because of that, Henderson finds himself sitting [...]

Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney just told Sherdog that one of his top stars and middleweight champion, Hector Lombard has officially received an offer to fight in the UFC. He will now review the contract offered to Lombard and Bellator has the opportunity to match the details to retain Lombard’s services. “We’ve got the 60 pages [...]

According to a recent article from MMAMania, current Light Heavyweight Champ Jon Jones would consider fighting JDS for the Heavyweight belt if given the opportunity. Keep in mind this is completely hypothetical, however the thought of these two guys fighting is worth writing up. Also, we should remember it wasn’t that long ago when UFC [...]

Here we go again. Another low to mid-level fighter is mouthing off to a top tier star trying to further his career on the coattails of a much better guy. No, I’m not talking about Dan Hardy again. Jason “Mayhem” Miller has been trying to initiate a war of words on Twitter with Chael Sonnen. [...]

We are certainly above creating some buzz by posting highly unfounded and vague pictures that may or may not indicate anything at all. So for all the fans out there who are interested, here’s Mark Hunt’s most recent tweet from this morning…

In a major news story, heavyweight challenger Alistair Overeem has failed a drug test following a press conference for UFC 146 last week, according to MMA Junkie. According to the report, NSAC official, Keith Kizer dropped the news that Overeem’s T/E ratio was elevated, over 10 to 1. Overeem is no stranger to the NSAC. [...]

As if the UFC lightweight division wasn’t crowded enough, we may have yet another fighter enter the fray. Former LW contender, Diego Sanchez, is now strongly suggesting that he’ll step back down to 155 pounds for his next fight. He told MMA Junkie Radio that his drop in weight stemmed from his injured shoulder and the [...]

In a short video interview with FightHub.TV, Dan Hardy, British welterweight and loser of his past 4 fights, says he’d love to fight Nick Diaz. And no, it’s not April Fool’s Day yet, but obviously this is some kind of joke, I just don’t know what it is yet. Here’s a transcript of what he [...]

In a recent interview with Tatame.com, Cesar Gracie goes on record on who he thinks his fighter Gilbert Melendez should fight next. Here’s an excerpt: “Melendez’s situation is complex right now. We still don’t have an opponent, date or place set. They said he could fight in San Jose but it’ll probably change. They mentioned [...]