Mike Fagan Archives: 07/2011

We’re less than three weeks out from UFC 133, and it looks like the docket is still being finalized. Here are the three big issues:…

The UFC 133 nightmare will not end. I heard rumors that another body was pulling off the card earlier today, and it turns out the…

Sometimes BloodyElbow.com just isn’t enough of an MMA fix. Fortunately for you, dear reader, we have a cornucopia of methods to supplement your fix. First,…

The UFC is hosting a special conference call at 12:15 p.m. ET to discuss the changes made to the UFC 133 main event. UFC President Dana…

And now for something completely different. Nate Marquardt is no longer under suspension. Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission executive director Greg Sirb told MMA Weekly that it was…

Purse information from UFC 132 once again highlighted the disparity in pay between guys like Tito Ortiz and Wanderlei Silva compared to bantamweight headliners Dominick Cruz…

The typical UFC trailer is a paint-by-numbers affair: take one part sludge metal (sorry metal dorks) nu-metal (aged ten years), mix with copious amounts of brutal strikes…

Chael Sonnen’s back in the news. Which means Chael Sonnen’s mouth is back in the news as well. He’s been active on Twitter over the…

That was quick. Earlier today an MMA Junkie report nixed the rumored fight between Chael Sonnen and Lyoto Machida. Now, UFC.com that Sonnen will instead fight Brian Stann.…

Earlier this week, Fighters Only reported that a fight between former light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida and controversial middleweight Chael Sonnen was “all but a done deal.”…

All this time, I had been under the impression that Nate Marquardt had applied for a therapeutic use exemption from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission…

UFC 132 drew an attendance of 12,947 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for a total gate of $2.3 million. The UFC has…

The last we heard from ProElite, Gus Johnson was pumping undue hyperbole into his headset after Seth Petruzelli did what no Miami street brawler could…

From everyone here at Bloody Elbow, happy Fourth of July. Two hundred thirty-five years ago, a handful of the most influential men wrote a letter…

SO I BURIED AN AXE MURDERER “If my fans don’t want me, Dana [White] won’t put me there. The boss is the fans. And the…

It’s not like the image of Wanderlei Silva crumpling to the canvas is a new one for MMA fans. It’s happened three times since 2006,…

We just couldn’t escape a UFC event without some semblance of judging controversy, could we? Most people seem to agree with both of the close…

Tito Ortiz had a lot of problems coming into UFC 132. He hadn’t won a fight since 2006. His long-time girlfriend, Jenna Jameson, had engaged…

Everyone expected Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber to put on a good title fight in UFC 132’s main event. Instead, Cruz and Faber spent five…

On a night where two light heavyweight legends took divergent career paths, it was the bantamweight at the top of the card that stole the…