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Fedor Emelianenko has expressed disappointment at the news that Josh Barnett has been refused a licence for next week’s Affliction event after failing a California State Athletic Commission drug test.“I feel disappointed about this situation, but I will fight anyone who Affliction puts in front of me,” he said at a Moscow press conference earlier...

Josh Barnett has issued a statement regarding the California State Athletic Commission drug test that the body says he has failed.CSAC confirmed yesterday that Barnett had provided a sample which, when tested, contained traces of an anabolic steroid.Writing in his MySpace blog yesterday, Barnett said, "Many of you are wondering what's happening. What I can say...

Vitor Belfort has been negotiating with Affliction to face the WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction "Trilogy", according to his manager.TheBrazilianNinja - Fighters Only correspondent in Brazil - spoke to Vitor's manager Fabiano Farah today. He said that "this fight would be an important challenge in the career of Vitor. He has...

The California State Athletic Commission has released a statement on the banning of Josh Barnett after a test for performance enhancing and prohibited drugs cam back positive.Barnett tested positive for 2a-methyl-5a-androstan-3a-ol-17-one, an anabolic steroid more commonly known as Drostanolone Propionate, the same substance that Hermes Franca tested positive for in...

Josh Barnett is rumoured to have failed a test for performance-enhancing substances just over a week away from his scheduled fight with Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction 3: Trilogy.It was reported last night by Sherdog that the California State Athletic Commission is going to refuse Barnett a licence to fight.“I took my test three weeks ago. I would have thought...

Affliction vice-president Tom Atencio says he is talking to three fighters about replacing Josh Barnett as an opponent for Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction: Trilogy.Barnett has been denied a license to fight by the California State Athletic Commission after testing positive for something identified only as “a banned substance”.Vitor Belfort, Bobby Lashley,...

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair “The Demolition Man” Overeem has re-injured his hand and will not be able to defend his title against Fabricio “Vai Cavalo” Werdum at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on Saturday, August 15.The Dutch heavyweight hurt his hand earlier this year in an altercation at a Dutch nightclub which left...

Mike Bisping and Paul Kelly have been added to the card for UFC 105, which takes place in Manchester later this year.The Wolfslair fighters are local to the city of Manchester, where the event will take place in November, and should draw considerable support to the arena.News of their addition to the card comes from a source close to the fighters, who has also...

Rumours of the death of early UFC star Kimo Leopoldo are completely unfounded, it has been established.A notorious troll posting on The Underground forum at MMA.tv earlier today managed to fool many MMA media outlets and even roped in mainstream sites such as TMZ with a post about Kimo having died of a heart attack in Costa Rica last night.Despite a simple Google...

UFC 100 drew a live gate of $5,128,490, according to figures released today by Nevada State Athletic Commission head Keith Kizer.That makes it the second highest gate in the company’s history, beaten only by the UFC 66 event which saw a heavily-hyped rematch between Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell.There were 9,793 tickets sold for UFC 100 with a further 1,078...