MMA News & Rumors

Former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir and former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres are both heading to the Boston gym to work with the man regarded as having one of the best ‘Muay Thai for MMA’ systems in the sport. (Fighters Only)

"For those people, I feel sorry I had to shut their mouths," he said. "I heard some bull---- radio people say that Nogueira is done, that he's an old guy. Those people have never been athletes and they don't how it is to be one. I hurt my knee and had to train so I didn't want to make it more serious. I fought hurt, and then people talk s---? I feel sorry for them." (Fanhouse)

"I think it's ridiculous," White told Mike Chiappetta on the Inside The Ultimate Fighter podcast. "People think we're anti-competition? We're anti-dumb competition. Doing stupid things like this, putting a 50-year-old guy in the Octagon for the first time, and then going out there putting out press releases like it's a big deal because you signed a 50-year-old Herschel Walker? Are you serious?" (Fanhouse)


"Look for pressure," said Woodley, a St. Louis native and resident. "I train to break guys in conditioning, so you won't see much space to get room and breathe. I'm constantly going, gnawing away, working the opponent. In every area I want to be a threat, even if I'm on my back." (MMA Junkie)

Kim Couture and Kerry Vera have verbally agreed to meet in a 135-pound women’s bout for Strikeforce, sources from both fighter’s camps have confirmed. Bout agreements are expected to be signed shortly. (Sherdog)


Ariel Helwani: How has your life changed since you knocked out Tim Hague last month?
Todd Duffee: My life hasn't changed by any means. I think, you know, my future has changed. I think it's opened a lot of doors for me. Yeah, I go places like CVS, and people are noticing me, and things like that. But that's not a life-changer so to speak, that's just five seconds of your day to shake someone's hand or take a picture maybe. I'm still the same guy. I still got the same bankroll. You know, I'm still doing the same things. I'm back here in the gym right now. I did go to Aruba [recently] to corner Carmelo [Marrero] for the Vengeance tournament. But my life hasn't changed, I wouldn't say. I think it's just my future is a little brighter, and I kind of hit some people's radar, maybe. (Fanhouse)

“Often things can get on top of you but I cannot say that I don’t love this sport,” he told Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. “Its hard for me to decide now but I think that I will do these last two fights for UFC. This [fighting] thing is stronger than me. Sometimes the mind says yes but the heart says no.” (Fighters Only)