Something has to be done. The first UFC on FOX event was set off with a huge main event of Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight Championship and became the most watched MMA event in U.S. history with 5.7 million average viewers. Fast forward to January, with the main event of Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis, and ratings take a slight di […]
MMA is about much more than the action in the cage. The best fighters, or at least the most popular ones, understand that what happens outside the Octagon is just as important as anything that takes place within. Fighters are entertainers. As we've learned, they are competing for ever-tightening entertainment budgets, not just with boxers and other athl […]
MMA veteran Stefan Struve will no longer get to fight Mark Hunt at UFC 146, since the latter has been pulled out of the fight card due to a knee injury (torn meniscus). Lavar Johnson - who defeated Pat Barry on May 5 - will be Hunt's replacement, but he'll only have a week to prepare for his May 26 showdown against Struve. […]