Brent Brookhouse Archives: 12/2011

Andre Ward and Carl Froch will bring the Super Six World Boxing Classic to its conclusion tonight after what feels like a decade. The ambitious…

Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos won the Strikeforce women’s featherweight championship all the way back in August of 2009 against Gina Carano. What seemed like a star…

Moments ago on the Strikeforce media call to announce the new Showtime deal, it was announced that Strikeforce will be doing away with the heavyweight…

Just moments ago, prior to a media call with Showtime Sports executive VP Stephen Espinoza, UFC president Dana White and Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, it…

Earlier this week we shared a report that former UFC fighter Junie Browning was the subject of a manhunt after a brawl in Phuket. The…

UFC 141 takes place December 30, 2011 and is headlined by a heavyweight bout between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem. What the UFC is calling…

There was a fascinating paper that ran in Social Psychology Quarterly titled “Managing Emotional Manhood: Fighting and Fostering Fear in Mixed Martial Arts.” The paper…

Lionsgate has premiered the new trailer for The Expendables 2. Former multi-time UFC champion Randy Couture returns to his role from the first film in…

Fabricio Werdum wasn’t exactly the most talked about heavyweight on the planet after getting knocked out in Junior dos Santos’ UFC debut and then sent…

Randy Couture knows a little something about fighting Brock Lesnar. At UFC 91, Lesnar pounded out Couture with strikes in the second round. Couture talked…

The Junie Browning saga continues. After a stint on The Ultimate Fighter and a win on the Finale show of that season, Browning lost to…

Yesterday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission granted Alistair Overeem a conditional license to fight Brock Lesnar at UFC 141. This license was granted despite a…

Today at the UFC press conference for the next Rio card, Dana White announced that Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva were set to be the…

When Frank Mir shattered Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s arm at UFC 140, it seemed like it was going to be a very long time before Nogueira…

Early on in the Nevada State Athletic Commission meeting today we got an ominous sign that something may be up with Alistair Overeem’s licensing status.…

We’ll have live updates from the Nevada State Athletic Commission meeting at 6 p.m. ET. The rumors surrounding Alistair Overeem will be put to rest…

Fight Hub TV does a great job of getting interesting video interviews with fighters and, in the spirit of the season, they caught up with…

Sherdog’s Jordan Breen was able to sit down with Frank Mir following his UFC 140 arm breaking submission victory over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and talk…

Late Saturday night we reported on rumors circulating backstage at UFC 140 that Alistair Overeem might be pulled from the UFC 141 card on December…

In the UFC 140 post-event discussions, we’ve had several people talk about Jon Jones’ status as an elite fighter. Yesterday, I claimed that Jones is…