Brent Brookhouse Archives: 05/2011

As discussed yesterday, Jon Jones will now not have the surgery on his hand which was the reason for pulling out of the planned UFC…

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones had originally pulled out of his UFC 133 bout with Rashad Evans due to a hand surgery. The move…

I woke up Sunday morning with a tremendous sense of relief. I followed up the non-stop coverage of UFC 129 with non-stop coverage of Manny…

In an unusual move the UFC announced a last minute media conference call. With about 30 minutes notice the speculation began to fly among media…

Anthony Ferguson continues to share his thoughts on the goings on during his stint on this season of The Ultimate Fighter over at SB Nation…

New York Assemblyman Bob Reilly is back in the MMA news once again. As if wanting to prove just exactly how unwilling he is to ever…

This past Saturday saw “Sugar” Shane Mosley give a lackluster effort against top pound-for-pound boxer Manny Pacquiao in their Showtime pay-per-view main event. But there…

Jim Miller’s new lot in life may be testing the mettle of former WEC lightweights. After destroying Kamal Shalorus at UFC 128 many were calling…

I would kill for there to be major MMA this weekend. UFC 129 could not feel like it was further in the past and UFC…

One of the big “selling points” on Nick Diaz’s potential boxing career has been the fact that he has sparred with WBA super middleweight champ…

After his stunningly quick KO win over Terry Martin in his last fight with MFC, Douglas Lima became a free agent. Lima had gone from…

UFC 130 just took a huge hit as the third fight between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard has been cancelled after both men suffered injuries.…

Roy Nelson is a multi-tasker. While preparing for his May 28 fight with Frank Mir at UFC 130, he is also trying to come up with…

This weekend saw the combat sports world turn its attention fully to boxing for one of the few weekends a year. There is plenty of…

Another day, another conversation with Jeff Lacy’s manager, Joey Gilbert, regarding Lacy’s planned boxing match with Nick Diaz. Gilbert contacted me wanting to clear up…

I had the chance to talk to Jeff Lacy’s manager, Joey Gilbert, about the deal between Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz and former world super…

This is a bit of a follow up on an older piece I did in an attempt to show the pay structure in boxing vs. MMA and…

I doubt it has gone unnoticed that Bloody Elbow is doing a bit of coverage of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley fight on Showtime…

Remember last week? I do. It was a week where we actually had an MMA event to talk about and get ready for. Now we’re…

If we’ve learned anything over the past few years it is that Canada is the place for the UFC to go if they want to…