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Kenny Florian’s brother Keith has accused UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn of dirty tricks during his recent title defence.Penn submitted Kenny Florian in the fourth round of the UFC 101 fight but Keith says his brother was eye-poked at one point."There are a lot of things that happened during the fight that you may or you may not have seen. Kenny got...

Saturday night’s re-run of UFC 100 drew more viewers than the live broadcast of Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg, it was reported today.Spike TV, which broadcast the UFC 100 re-run, said that the program “drew more men aged 18-34 than anything else on television on Saturday, August 15th.”  “Airing from 10:00pm-12:30am ET/PT, the telecast...

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira expects the UFC to soon announce the arrival of his twin brother, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira.No, we haven’t accidentally written the same name twice. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the brothers, who were both signed to PRIDE FC, it probably looks confusing. It get worse. Rodrigo is nicknamed ‘Minatouro’ while...

Mark ’The Hammer’ Coleman will face Tito Ortiz at UFC 106 which takes place on November 21st in Las Vegas, Nevada.A source close to Coleman told Fighters Only the veteran fighter and former light-heavyweight champion agreed to the match and date earlier today.The fight had already been widely speculated on messageboards since Ortiz dropped hints in...

Affliction vice-president Tom Atencio says that Josh Barnett has “apologised” to him in the wake of Affliction Entertainment’s collapse as an MMA promoter."I've spoken with him since and he apologized and, like I said, I even told him it would have been nice to have known ahead of time so I could have at least prepared,” Atencio told MMA...

Light-heavyweight Jake O’Brien has been released from his contract with the UFC after losing to Jon Jones at UFC 100.O’Brien was finished in the second round of the fight with a guillotine choke to take his UFC record to to 3-3.His management at MMA Agents confirmed his departure from the UFC to FiveOuncesOfPain.com earlier today.Prior to Jones, his only...

Cristiana ‘Cyborg’ Santos says she expected Gina Carano to provide a tougher test in their Strikeforce women’s title fight on Saturday night."I expected a tougher fight. I was actually ready for five rounds,” she told GracieMag.com “It was the fight everyone had been waiting for. Everyone wanted to know who the best in the world...

UFC light-heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida has proved that karate is as essential as jiu jitsu, Muay Thai and boxing for mixed martial artists after beating fifteen athletes in a row during his glorious career. Machida is scheduled to make his first title defense at UFC 104 in October against Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and hasn’t given any...

Gina Carano’s coach Randy Couture thinks “she did some great things” against Cristiana ‘Cyborg’ Santos in their Strikeforce women’s title fight on Saturday night.His opinion runs contrary to the views expressed by most fans after the fight, which ended with Santos triumphant via TKO at 4:49 of the first round. Carano took a...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has confirmed the card for UFC 102: Couture vs. Nogueira, which takes place in Portland, Oregon on August 29th.Aside from the main event, the card will also feature light-heavyweight contenders Keith Jardine and thiago Silva, former heavyweight title challenger Gabriel Gonzaga and middleweight title contenders Nate Marquardt and...